Addendum: On / /20 , an SCP-1987 individual escaped Site 732 
while under the influence of alcohol and assaulted patrons of a 
tavern in O , resulting in three fatalities before a civilian shot and 
killed it. The body was acquired by Foundation personnel and 
returned to the custody of SCP-1987's representative at Site 732's 
gate. During the following Valthing, the individual was convicted by 
the assembly and sentenced to Helviti (Old Norse: Hel's 
punishment), which consisted of being dismembered, emasculated, 
and burned alive. Following the individual's execution, the assembly 
dug up a section of a mound and exhumed what is assumed to be 
the skeletal remains of the individual, added them to the burning 
pyre, and delivered the ashes to the Foundation the following night 
with the request that they be taken and scattered in the Atlantic 
Ocean. An analysis of the ashes indicated no anomalous properties 
and the request was carried out after a sample was preserved and 
archived; the individual so disposed of has not been seen again 
within Site 732. 


« SCP-1986 | SCP-1987 | SCP-1988 » 


SCP-1988: Respiration 


Item #: SCP-1988 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: As SCP-1988 is spread by 
residence relocation, agents embedded in real estate firms in 
Chicago, IL; Dover, DE; and Portland, ME are to artificially alter the 
market such that it becomes an unfavorable decision to relocate out 
of the city. A budget is to be allocated for the purpose of advertising 
a telephone hotline in these cities for civilians to report faulty 
hardware, appliances, and installations in their houses. In addition, 
satellites are to monitor these cities for abnormal increases in 
carbon dioxide emissions. 


When an infected house is discovered, the occupants are to be 
relocated to a new house that was constructed after 1961 1971. 
Occupants are to be given vouchers on newly manufactured energy- 
efficient appliances under the artifice of a government program. The 
old property is then to be claimed and redeveloped for civilian use. 
No part of the redeveloped property is to have been constructed 
before 1961 1971. 


Description: SCP-1988 is a communicable infection of 
bioarchitectural nature that affects houses built before 1961 1971. It 
is largely geographically confined to Chicago, Illinois and its 
suburbs, but outbreaks have been reported in Dover, Delaware and 
Portland, Maine. It is spread by relocation from an infected house to 
an uninfected house by the house's occupants. Whether or not the 
occupants themselves are the causative factor is not possible to 
determine. 


SCP-1988 affects a house in three stages. Stage one typically 
begins within 120 days of a house being occupied. In stage one, the 
house acquires noticeable drafts or cold spots. Doors and windows 
in general may become difficult to open or close, and they may 


occasionally open and close by themselves. Metal doors and 
windows begin to cyclically heat up and cool down. Wooden doors 
and windows alternate between decreasing and increasing in size; 
this would normally occur on a seasonal scale with annually 
changing temperature and pressure, however, each cycle takes 
place in a matter of hours. Eventually the cycles of the doors and 
windows synchronize across the whole house. This leads to stage 
two. 


In stage two, electrical appliances and plumbing begin to 
malfunction. Short circuits and burnt fuses are common. Heat- 
transfer appliances, such as refrigerators and ovens, will begin to 
reverse or otherwise change the direction in which they transfer 
heat. Drains and faucets may become clogged with no discernible 
physical explanation. At this stage, the occupants of the house will 
definitely become aware of the house's abnormal behavior. In 
virtually all cases, they will decide to relocate to another residence in 
one of the other two affected cities. The relocation of the occupants 
leads to stage three. 


In stage three, the insulation, wiring, and plumbing of the house are 
gradually transfigured by an unidentified process of structural decay 
into a highly complex system of living, functional biological organs 
resembling the lungs, bronchial tubes, and alveoli of various 
mammalian species!. Faucets, drains, and electrical outlets become 
trachea-like organs to interface with the house's rooms; electrical 
devices that are plugged into outlets are ejected in the process. 
Although the organs are not visible without opening the walls, the 
house now demonstrably breathes, increasing and decreasing in 
size by roughly 5cm per cycle. The interior of the house fills with 
carbon dioxide periodically, which is then released through the 
autonomously operative windows and doors and replaced with 
oxygen from outside. This leads to buildup of greenhouses gases, 
which in turn spurs the rapid growth of additional plant life. However, 
the dramatic rate of increase in plant life surrounding infected 
houses does not appear to be fully explained by the rate of carbon 
dioxide production. 


The progression of SCP-1988 symptoms has been found to be 
somewhat dependent on the occupants' knowledge of the house's 


abnormal behavior. If an occupant is unaware or unable to 
remember that there is anything out of the ordinary, the symptoms 
will not move past stage two, and with time they will regress and 
cease. This was discovered when an elderly man with Alzheimer's 
Syndrome returned to his infected house in Chicago after initially 
leaving to relocate to Dover, and the symptoms of SCP-1988 
infection had been completely eradicated. Initial point of infection 
was traced to a house in Park Ridge, IL which was the childhood 
home of , but no connection has been established. Neither 
the causative factor behind SCP-1988, nor the reason why only 
Chicago, Dover and Portland are affected, is yet known. 


Addendum: On / /20 , roughly ten years after initial 
documentation of SCP-1988, a change in the parameters of the 
anomaly was noted. SCP-1988 now affects not only houses built 
before 1961, but houses built in the ten years after such a date as 
well. 


Footnotes 
1. Found to correspond to any mammalian species that had lived in 
the house prior to the onset of stage three. 


« SCP-1987 | SCP-1988 | SCP-1989 » 


SCP-1989: The LaserDisc Player 


Item #: SCP-1989 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Outside scheduled 
experimentation times, SCP-1989 is kept in Storage Containment 
Unit A-29 at Sector-19. Experimentation may only be performed with 
prior permission from a member of Level 3 personnel, and the tray 
must be emptied of all testing materials before returning to storage. 
Testing of materials altered by SCP-1989 with other SCP objects is 
to be approved on a case by case basis. 


Description: SCP-1989 is a Pioneer LD-V4200 single-sided 
LaserDisc player, capable of playing both CAV (Standard Play) and 
CLV (Extended Play) LaserDiscs. SCP-1989 was acquired at the 
Clemson, South Carolina home of film critic Derwent Masterson III 
on 05/11/1992 as part of the liquidation of his assets following his 
suicide; background intelligence and subsequent investigation 
revealed that the device was a birthday gift (see Addendum 1989- 
C). Initial inspection revealed internal congruence with other models 
of the same product line, with one exception: a non-standard disc 
tray different in shape but not material from the original design. 


When powered on, inserted with a film disc and connected to a 
compatible television, SCP-1989 appears to operate normally, 
playing the portion of the film recorded on the film disc correctly and 
without incident. However, due to each side of a LaserDisc only 
containing up to sixty (60) minutes of possible recording space, most 
feature-length films require the playback of both sides, and 
sometimes multiple discs. SCP-1989 is a single-sided model player; 
manual inversion and reinsertion of the disc is required during every 
complete viewing. When any disc previously inserted into SCP-1989 
is removed, inverted, and reinserted, the content of the film is 
changed: when play resumes, the image on the screen is also 
inverted, and gravity within the filmed environment adjusts 


accordingly. Within the first few seconds of playback, any unsecured 
objects, scenery or characters appear to collide with the new bottom 
of the scene, whether it be the ceiling or open sky.! 


At no point, however, is the narrative broken: characters still present 
attempt to act out their recorded scenes and delivered lines even 
though the environment around them has drastically changed; in the 
event of an outside scene where actors have fallen into the sky, 
camera angles continue to change as if following unseen events, 
until the scene changes. Characters and objects in subsequent 
scenes appear to have recovered from the initial inversion, though 
the events on-screen continue to be hampered by the change in 
gravity, and characters who sustain fatal injuries from the inversion 
or descend into the sky do not reappear for the remainder of 
playback. 


Addendum 1989-A - Testing Logs: 
Test Log 23 


Testing Material No.: 1989-TM0023 
Testing Material Content:: Murder on the 
Orient Express (1974), dir. Sidney Lumet 
Inversion Timestamp: 00:47:25 
Transcript: 


(Exterior shot of Orient Express train stranded 
in snowadrift with two train workers outside, 
facing camera: image is inverted. At 00:47:27, 
the two train workers lift up from the ground 
and hurtle towards open sky. Large metallic, 
screeching sound as train falls from track, 
followed by large quantities of snow and 
debris.) 


(Cut to interior of train dining car: train appears 
to be in upside-down freefall, accompanied by 
sounds of smashing glass, rushing winds and 
rattling metal; characters Hercule Poirot, 
Director Bianchi, and conductor Pierre Michele 
on ceiling, clinging to wall railings. Character 


Dr. Constantine is unconscious, appearing to 
have suffered blunt force trauma from the light 
fitting directly above him at time of flipping. 
Poirot is crawling forward on hands and knees 
in an effort to approach Pierre, clutching a 
notebook and a piece of paper.) 


Poirot (shouting to be heard over the din): 
"Excellent, Pierre! And could you summon to 
me the passengers to me here one by one in 
this order with the exception of Princess 
Dragomiroff, who is not only of royal blood but 
is also much older than she says not to look!" 


(Pierre attempts to grab the piece of paper 
proffered by Poirot, misses, loses his grip on 
the railing and smashes through glass window 
of dining car, falling out of view. Poirot appears 
to not notice, and continues to address thin 
air.) 


Poirot: "And Pierre, since you are here 
already, we can conveniently start by 
questioning you! Your full name is Pierre Paul 
Michele?" 


(No answer is heard, but Poirot continues as if 
there was.) 


Poirot: "Two male saints' names! You must be 
greatly blessed!" 


[REDACTED] 
Test Log 26 


Testing Material No.: 1989-TM0026 

Testing Material Content:: Die Hard (1988), dir. 
John McTiernan 

Inversion Timestamp: first disc, 00:41:55 
Transcript: 


(Interior shot of elevator shaft. John McClane 
is on top of an ascending elevator in heroic 
pose: image and gravity inverted. McClane is 
now beneath the elevator clinging to cable, still 
moving along previous trajectory, top of 
elevator shaft fast approaching. Unable to 
maintain grip, McClane falls ten feet and is 
crushed by arriving elevator. ) 


(Cut to thirty seconds of camera filming empty 
corridors, lingering on a shot of a topless 
centrefold affixed to a utility box at 
approximately half-way.) 


[REDACTED] 
Test Log 45 


Testing Material No.: 1989-TM0045 

Testing Material Content:: Star Wars (1977), 
dir. George Lucas 

Inversion Timestamp: 00:57:08 

Transcript: 


(Exterior shot of the Death Star in space, 
orbiting planet Alderaan: image inverted. Cut 
to interior shot of Death Star bridge, Princess 
Leia being led to Grand Moff Tarkin under 
armed guard, accompanied by Darth Vader. 
No change.) 


[REDACTED] 
Test Log 57 


Testing Material No.: 1989-TM0057 
Testing Material Content:: The Poseidon 
Aaventure (1972), dir. Robert Neame 
Inversion Timestamp: 00:29:29 
Transcript: 


(Interior shot of SS Poseidon ballroom - ship 
has capsized, with the majority of passengers 
on the ballroom's ceiling. A few remain on the 
floor, clinging to the bolted-down tables and 
chairs, most of them appearing to be about to 
let go. Image and gravity inverted. Passengers 
about to die are suddenly the right way up 
again; passengers on the ballroom ceiling, 
including most major characters, fall fifty feet 
to their deaths. Right-way-up passengers look 
at each other, bewildered, and appear to feign 
death - keeling over one by one, in the order 
that they would have fallen. 


(Cut to exterior of ship, angled underneath; SS 
Poseidon is the right way up, surrounded by 
an ocean of falling water.) 


[REDACTED] 


Addendum 1989-B - Acquisition Investigation Exhibit 
1989-22c1: 

Excerpt from Derwent Masterson's film review column in The 
Greenville News, printed 29/10/1992: 


"...debate about whether film is an art form is nonsense: 
films are meant to be enjoyed for their exciting content, 
the thrills of their car chases and the beauty of their 
actresses... narrative in film is inconsequential. You 
could turn the finest film topsy-turvy and you won't find 
one shred of art or entertainment beyond what the 
writers intend, no narrative imperative: the story is there 
to entertain, it isn't real." 


Addendum 1989-C - Acquisition Investigation Exhibit 
1989-45c4: 

Note retrieved amongst gift-wrapping paper in waste basket of 
Masterson home: 


Carter 


| hope this gives you a change of perspective. Enjoy, my 
friend. 


Happy birthday, 
Derwent 


Footnotes 
1. Whether this effect and that observed inSCP-2251are variations 
of the same phenomena is currently under investigation. 


« SCP-1988 | SCP-1989 | SCP-1990 » 


SCP-1990: Mediocre Wish Granter 


Item #: SCP-1990 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1990 requires no specific 
containment procedures at this time, and is to be kept in a standard 
storage locker in Research Area-20. 


Standard humanoid testing areas are required for the testing of 
SCP-1990. All of these testing areas must require a bed of any size. 
As such, testing chamber 2-B is now the standard testing area for 
SCP-1990. 


Description: SCP-1990 is a small, plush stuffed tiger. The name 
"Sarah" has been written in faded marker on the care and cleaning 
instructions tag. 


SCP-1990 was discovered by Dr. , during a routine info sweep 
of local towns near Foundation Site-14. Newspapers had reported a 
strange incident in which a man and a woman had died from 
suffocation, the cause of which was found to be burial under a large 
pile of 1925-issue Deutschmarks. The couple had earlier reported 
that they were having money issues. Upon discovery of SCP-1990, 
Dr. found a young girl approximately 7 years of age in the 
house where the incident occurred. The young girl was ina 
distressed state and was holding SCP-1990. 


SCP-1990's anomalous effects occur specifically when a subject is 
holding it before they go to sleep. The subject holding SCP-1990 
must think of something they desire in the form of a wish, and then 
fall asleep for approximately 8 hours. Upon awakening, a mediocre 
version of the wished item or concept will occur. More advanced 
wishes start the moment the subject wakes up, while some wishes 
have been reported as not being fulfilled until later in the day.