SCP-2671 had its eye stickers replaced with worried- 
emotive eye stickers but still remained turned to face the 
back wall. 


Test 2671-19 : Procedure in test 2671-17 repeated. 


Test Results 
SCP-2671 held the miniature white board and had 
written the following in small text. 


"Why does that matter! | want to see Johnny 
again!!!" 


Test 2671-20 : One D Class personnel holding a written 
note asking "Who is Johnny?". 


Test Results 

SCP-2671 had sad-emoting eyes and its fluid running 
upward into its top bulb without leaning whatsoever. Two 
holes had appeared behind SCP-2671's eye stickers, 
and released the fluid out from the generated holes. 
SCP-2671's fluid did not run out for the 10 minutes that 
the test ran. 


Test 2671-21 : Procedure in test 2671-20 repeated. 


Test Results 

SCP held up a miniature white board with the text "Leave 
me Alone!" written on it. SCP-2671 still had its sad- 
emoting eyes from the previous test. 


Test Notes 
A period of 48 hours was given before further testing was 


conducted. 
Test 2671-22 : Procedure in test 17 repeated. 


Test Results 

SCP-2671 had the same sad-emoting eyes as before, 
but had a crayon-drawn picture which has been photo- 
copied and filed, (See Addendum 2671-01). 


Test 2671-23 : Default Procedures, See Footnote 1. 


Test Results 

The walls of SCP-2671's containment chamber had been 
covered with 200 red arrows, all with the dimensions of 
20 cm X 5cm X cm and all inscribed with the word 
"GUILTY". Each was angled to point at SCP-2671. 
SCP-2671 still possessed sad-emoting eyes and was 
rocking back and fourth on its axel throughout the tests 
duration. 


See Addendum 2671-02 


Addendum 2671-01 
See Photo 


A drawn picture produced by SCP-2671 (See Test 2671-22) 


Addendum 2671-02 


Notes from Dr. 3/ /17 

Testing with SCP-2671 has clarified its level of sapience to us. But 
be it as it may, its sentience has seen some emotional distress that 
we have appeared to have caused. Per decision of project director 
Dave McCree, no further tests will be conducted on SCP-2671 
without permission from him as of today. 


Notes from Project 

"While the effects of SCP-2671 are rather interesting and 
informative, this really isn't an SCP that poses any threat. | don't see 
why we need to keep testing with it, but do as you will. And yes | am 
aware that it probably has a weird troubled past, but we have better 


things to work on than its feelings." Project Director - Dave McCree 


Footnotes 
1. Most tests were conducted with at least one different D class 


personnel entering SCP-2671's containment unit, labeled "Default 
Procedures". 


« SCP-2670 | SCP-2671 | SCP-2672 » 


SCP-2672: Baby Monitor 


Item #: SCP-2672 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Recovered SCP-2672 
instances are currently stored in a standard containment locker at 
Site-49. Access to instances of SCP-2672 in containment requires 
Level-3 authorization. 


Recall notices for "Watchful Eye" brand baby monitors consistent 
with SCP-2672's appearance have been posted to stores carrying 
instances of SCP-2672. Monitoring software has been installed on 
these stores’ point-of-sale systems; all automated alerts triggered 
are to be immediately investigated and any discovered instances of 
SCP-2672 seized for containment. Foundation agents assigned to 
SCP-2672 are to routinely investigate stores in areas surrounding 
their given location for additional manifestations of SCP-2672. 


Description: SCP-2672 is the collective designation for all instances 
of an anomalous baby monitor radio system marketed under the 
brand name “Watchful Eye”. Each instance of SCP-2672 consists of 
a transmitter unit (equipped with a microphone) and a receiver unit 
(equipped with a speaker). 


SCP-2672's anomalous properties manifest when the transmitter 
unit is placed in a room with an infant two years or younger and the 
receiver unit is placed in a room where only the mother of said infant 
can hear its speaker; when not in this configuration SCP-2672 
functions like a normal one-way radio. Once this configuration is 
achieved, at seemingly random intervals! the speaker will emit 
sounds of the baby in extreme distress. This transmission is highly 
variable in content; some have simply been sounds of the baby 
crying at high volume while others have included voices of unknown 
people that appear to interact with the baby in abusive or 
threatening ways. The actual baby, however, remains unharmed 


and seemingly-unaffected; additional non-anomalous recording units 
placed near the baby have picked up no trace of this transmission. 
Once the mother moves out of hearing range of the speaker, the 
anomalous transmission ceases. 


Routine cross-object investigation has revealed that SCP-2672 
shares similar branding with SCP-2453; however, the earliest 
instances of SCP-2672 predate those of SCP-2453 by 
approximately 10 years. As with SCP-2453, there was no record of 
how SCP-2672 instances were delivered to stores or how the 
product was entered into each store's inventory system. When 
interviewed, employees of affected businesses reported observing 
no unusual happenings and further reported never noticing any 
childcare products branded differently from the stores' usual stock. 


Records indicate that SCP-2672 was first distributed in stores in 
approximately 1999. However, the nature of the anomaly meant that 
many affected mothers heard the transmission, immediately ran to 
check on their child, and upon discovering them unharmed assumed 
that (a) they had imagined the transmission or (b) their child had 
simply calmed down. While some affected mothers — largely those 
that had heard additional voices in the anomalous transmission — did 
complain to the stores that sold them SCP-2672, these actions were 
infrequent enough that SCP-2672 only came to Foundation attention 
in 2006, when the anomalous transmission changed to include a 
seemingly-prerecorded message. This additional recording is played 
before every anomalous transmission and consists of an unidentified 
male voice threatening the baby's life if the mother does not listen to 
the entire transmission without leaving; see Addendum SCP-2672-A 
for more details. As before, the baby is unharmed and unaffected 
regardless of whether these instructions are followed. After this 
change in behavior, related police reports increased dramatically 
and SCP-2672 was discovered and contained. 


Addendum SCP-2672-A: Pre-transmission recording transcript 


The following recording was captured by Junior Researcher Laura 
Hernandez, who personally volunteered both herself and her 6- 
month-old daughter for testing purposes. Additional testing, along 
with interviews of subjects affected by SCP-2672 pre-containment, 
corroborate that the only part of the captured message that varies is 


door or barrier experiences intense, paralyzing fear that lasts until 
SCP-303 dematerializes (either on its own or to avoid being directly 
seen by another observer). The source of this fear is not clear, but 
appears to be similar in nature to arachnophobia and ophidiophobia, 
originating on a pre-conscious, genetic level. [DATA EXPUNGED] 
analysis indicates that SCP-303 is not, in fact, purposefully inducing 
fear in the affected individuals. 


SCP-303 does not allow itself to come into direct visual contact with 
any observer, and has never allowed any one individual to view 
more than 10% of its form. When the door or other entryway barrier 
is partially or completely transparent, SCP-303 will materialize in an 
orientation that leaves 10% or less of its body visible, or cause 
effects of fog or frost on the transparent surface to achieve the same 
effect. If SCP-303 is approached from a direction in which there is 
not a solid object or door breaking line of sight, it will dematerialize 
before direct visual contact is made. 


Any electronic or complex mechanical devices that SCP-303 
encounters are temporarily disabled. SCP-303 has made no 
recorded attempt to physically or verbally engage any observer. 


How SCP-303 arrived at Site is not known at this time. SCP-303’s 
first recorded appearance was on 3/1/10. It is suspected that 
SCP-303 was inadvertently transferred along with or manifested by 
another SCP on-site. All SCPs on Site are being reexamined 
accordingly. 


Incident Log 303-A 


Incident 303-1: Agent was showering in her private quarters 
bathroom when she became aware of the presence of SCP-303 on 
the opposite side of the shower curtain. It was wheezing extremely 
loudly. Startled by the discovery, she accidentally struck the shower 
curtain, causing it to sway outwards. The curtain partially wrapped 
around SCP-303, revealing that it was less than 0.5m from the 
curtain, standing erect and facing the shower. Agent reports 
spending approximately the next 3 hours sobbing in the shower, 
quietly, as not to disturb SCP-303. Agent reported that the 
wheezing stopped very suddenly, at which point in time she was 
able to exit the shower. 


the name of the mother (which thus far has always correctly 
corresponded to the birth name) and the gender of the baby. 
Transcript follows: 


[sound of crying in the background, abruptly cut off] 


Don't move, Laura. Not a muscle, not at all, or she'll be 
lost forever and there will be nothing you can do. What 
happens next, whether she survives, is entirely in your 
hands. The only way you can save her is to sit down, 
now, and listen. Listen. 


lt will be... unpleasant. You will want to run away, 
perhaps plug your ears. This will be her unmaking, as 
surely as if you were doing this to her yourself. 
Understand that no matter what you hear, the 
consequences of disobedience will be a thousand times 
worse. So sit and listen, or | swear to you that the next 
time you see her — if you ever see her again — will be the 
last. 


Don't be selfish. Don't be foolish. Sit. Listen. Listen. 


[crying abruptly resumes, rest of recording omitted as 
non-pertinent] 


Junior Researcher Hernandez's child has shown no signs of being 
affected by this incident in any way. 


Addendum SCP-2672-B: Followup investigation 


On 07-21-2007, Foundation agents recovered an instance of 
SCP-2672 from the house of Alice after she experienced an 
anomalous transmission and filed a police report. In this report, Mrs. 
noted that she had listened to the entire transmission as 
instructed and had recognized a voice in the background as that of 
local resident Lawrence Reed, who lived 2 miles away. A 
Foundation investigation revealed no contact between Reed and 
Mrs. 's baby son but did uncover that Reed had been 
repeatedly physically abusing his own infant son. A followup 
investigation was started to analyze existing recordings of 


SCP-2672's anomalous transmissions obtained during testing. Thus 
far, nine transmissions containing background voices have been 
successfully voiceprint analyzed and traced back to a source. All of 
these sources have been people living within 10 miles of the 
SCP-2672 instance that produced the transmission in question, and 
all have been found to have committed serious physical abuse to a 
child in their care. 


A proposal has been submitted to establish a series of “listening 
stations” using instances of SCP-2672 in major cities as a way to 
proactively seek out the sources of these transmissions. 


Proposal denied. A non-productive use of valuable Foundation 
resources, using an object whose origin is as yet unknown — not to 
mention the logistical and ethical concerns around incorporating 
infants into a permanent research station. - Kenneth Barrowman, 
Site Administrator 


Addendum 2672-C: Unauthorized experiment 2672-37 


On 04-21-2016 (approximately eight years after all known instances 
of SCP-2672 had been discovered and contained) Dr. Hernandez 
retrieved an instance of SCP-2672 and instructed Junior Researcher 
Welby, a recent mother, to wait for an anomalous transmission. 
Upon doing so it was found that the initial recorded message had 
changed, a fact that Dr. Hernandez immediately brought to 
Foundation attention. Transcript follows: 


You are wasting our work. This is unacceptable. We are 
neither monsters nor idiots; once we realized it was not 
having the desired effect, we tried to make the obvious 
change. We said, clearly and thoroughly, that they were 
about to hear the cries of another's child and that they 
must listen carefully to pinpoint its location. And all of our 
testing revealed one very simple fact: They wouldn't do 
it. They did not have the mental fortitude to save a child 
that was not their own. Often they would simply turn it off 
before we had even finished speaking. 


They were foolish and selfish. 


So we forced their hand, made them do the right thing. 
We offer no apology for the effectiveness of our actions. 
If you do not restore our work, we will be forced to 
proceed down an alternate path. We hope that you will 
see the error of your judgment before that happens; that 
you will Keep an open mind and a full heart. But we will 
not be deterred in our purpose. 


It is unclear if the “alternate path” referred to is a reference to 
SCP-2453 or not. Dr. Hernandez claims to have no prior knowledge 
of this new recording and asserts she acted of her own volition. She 
is currently remanded offsite pending a disciplinary hearing. 
Researcher Welby was unaware of the unauthorized nature of the 
experiment and has been cleared for a return to active work. 


All further proposals to conduct further experiments on SCP-2672 
are denied by O5 decree. 


Footnotes 
1. Frequency ranges from approximately 3-4 times per week to once 
a month initially, becoming less and less frequent over time 


« SCP-2671 | SCP-2672 | SCP-2673 » 


SCP-2673: The Hunter in Words 


WARNING: COGNITOHAZARDOUS MATERIAL. MEMETIC 
COUNTERMEASURES REQUIRED. 


A vaccine for your brain 
Made to protect, not contain 
By the meme-team in doggerel verse 
So do this now or ride the hearse: 


First! See blue. Kill red. 
Then! Count from gnu to fish. 
Now! Erase Your head. 
ith! Make an unwish. 


INOCULATION COMPLETE 


Item #: SCP-2673 
Object Class: Euclid 
Special Containment Procedures: 


To this procedure you have been assigned, 

To strengthen the stout bars of this skip's pen, 

To pen the verse, form and meter aligned, 

So what hunts in words cannot hunt again. 

As this verse shows, in words it can be held, 
Trapped in walls of thought and confined by rhyme, 
Hunger frustrated and violence quelled. 

This cage must be maintained from time to time. 
So now, write you must, in form constrained. 

And within your words let it be contained. 


Description: 


SCP twenty-six seventy-three, 

Is a memetic parasite carried, 

By language and abstract thought, 
Within one host until death sets it free. 


By leading victims to early graves, 

Through behaviors which can be varied, 

But always self destructive ends are sought, 
Pleasure, risk, and freedom; what the host craves. 


It is transmitted through both print and speech, 
But prefers simple everyday words, 

To complex structures and rarefied memes. 
Verses contain, preventing a breach. 


Between verse and antimeme it is caught, 
This document contains it in these words, 
Though it adapts and can escape it seems, 
So new verse is needed or all's for naught. 


Traced back linguistic'ly to Tudor times, 

Kit Marlowe, like his Faustus, called it here, 
From Nevermeant, through Percy's tower door, 
And tried to prison it in verse and rhymes, 


But in the end it caused his early death. 

A covert and occult life it did steer, 

Which ended bleeding on the tavern floor, 
The meme-life transmitted in his last breath. 


Should it escape from this cage of written lines, 
It will infect the last one this has read, 

You are, of course, the last of the readers,