the NBA playoffs on 6/13/1994. 
Mr. Hinds: Motherfff... 


Mr. Hinds glances anxiously at the corner of the room 
where a specimen of SCP-3180 appears to be on the 
verge of falling asleep. 


Mr. Hinds: Sorry, honey. 


Mr. Hinds: But can you believe it? He didn't put Pippen 
in! 


Mr. Hinds looks at SCP-3180 for approximately ten 
seconds. 


Mr. Hinds: No, Jordan's retired. Pippen's the main man 
now. 


Mr. Hinds turns back towards the television. 


Mr. Hinds: | don't even want to watch the end of this. 
Jesus Christ, my thousand bucks is down the drain now. 


Mr. Hinds: | know you hate it when | gamble. | just 
thought... 


Mr. Hinds: Eh, never mind. I'll make it up to you. 


SCP-3180 begins to snore. The television plays out the 
remaining seconds of the game. 


Mr. Hinds: Oh my God! It's in! It's in! Kukoc! Kukoc's the 
man! Honey! It's in! We're rich! 


Mr. Hinds squeals for approximately five seconds then 
runs to SCP-3180 and attempts to pick it up. Startled, 
SCP-3180 scurries away. 


Mr. Hinds: Fine, be like that. 


Mr. Hinds puts on his jacket. 


Mr. Hinds: I'm gonna go collect our winnings. No more 
renting! How'd you like a house....with a backyard? 


Mr. Hinds heads out the door with a smirk on his face. 


Affected persons will almost always suffer through a period of 
depression after the administration of amnestics. At this stage, it is 
typical for subjects to speak of "empty spaces and "gaping holes" in 
their person; many report feeling as if they are constantly on the 
verge of identifying and verbalizing what these holes are, though 
none so far have been able to overcome the effect of the amnestics. 
Rage spells driven by triggers connected to SCP-3180 are common. 


It is conjectured that the loss of SCP-3180 is processed on an 
unconscious level. The period of depression usually lasts between 
six months and two years, with approximately 11-14% of subjects 
suffering bouts lasting longer than five years. 


Surveillance equipment recorded the following exchange 
between Ms. Kayla Liddell and her mother on 8/7/2014. 
Ms. Liddell was bedridden for over a year at the time of 
this conversation. 


Mrs. Liddell Hi Sweetie! | brought you some lunch. 
Here and afterwards, Mrs. Liddell speaks in a tone of 
overexaggerated excitement. Upon seeing no reaction 
from her daughter, Mrs. Liddell puts down a tray of food 
on a bedside table. 


Mrs. Liddell: Why don't you go outside today? It's 
beautiful out there. 


Ms. Liddell does not answer. 


Mrs. Liddell: Come on, sweetie. | just know you'd enjoy 
it. 


Ms. Liddell: I'd rather stay right here. 


Mrs. Liddell: But you don't do anything! You just lie 


there, staring at the ceiling all day. 


A fifteen second pause ensues as Mrs. Liddell looks at 
her daughter. 


Mrs. Liddell: Well, | made you a nice salad. See? 
Mrs. Liddell points to one of the dishes on the tray. 


Mrs. Liddell: | bought all the ingredients at a farmer's 
market this morning. Tomatoes, avocado, a few carrots, 
and the lettuce has just been picked! 


Ms. Liddell jerks upright. 
Ms. Liddell: Are you fucking kidding me? 


They stare at each other for approximately seven 
seconds. Ms. Liddell then proceeds to take the salad 
bowl and throw it against the opposite wall. 


Ms. Liddell: How many times do | have to tell you? | 
never want to see a carrot again, you dumb bitch! 


Ms. Liddell takes a pillow and wraps it around her face, 
emitting a sequence of muffled screams. Her mother 
says nothing. Approximately 45 seconds pass as Ms. 
Liddell bursts into tears, screams, and quiets down in 
rapid succession. 


Ms. Liddell: I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. 


Ms. Liddell: Whenever | hear anything about carrots, | 
just go crazy. | don't know why. 


Ms. Liddell: What the hell is wrong with me!? 


It was initially believed that SCP-3180 exerts a hypnotic effect that 
lingers after administration of amnestics. However, experiments 
conducted by the Psychological Division did not support this 
hypothesis. In particular, a treatment group of 38 persons affected 
by SCP-3180 was compared to a control group of 94 subjects who 


had memories of a long-term partner erased by amnestics. No 
measurable differences between the two groups were found, either 
in frequency, severity, of expression of the ensuing depression. 


In spite of the apparent harm resulting from the procedure, the 
Ethics Committee recommends all persons affected by SCP-3180 
be put through amnestic treatment immediately upon discovery. 


SCP-3181: Lemme Get It Boneless 


For the sake of clarity, "boneless" and its derivatives will 
be used in this document only in relation to things within 
SCP-3181, and should not be understood as 
synonymous with a lack of bones. 


Item #: SCP-3181 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3181 has been purchased 
by the Foundation and its exterior remodeled such that its SEP 
index is 0.1, minimizing public interest.! Remote surveillance is 
performed from an office building that shares SCP-3181's parking 
lot. 


Description: SCP-3181 is a small building in the business district of 

, Oklahoma. Within the confines of SCP-3181, the concept of 
"poneless" is distinct from the lack of bones: something can be 
boneless despite possessing bones, and the lack of bones is 
irrelevant to whether something is boneless. Furthermore, any 
object, event, location, information, etc. can be sensically described 
as "boneless" or "not boneless". Standard anti-cognitohazard 
precautions do not affect SCP-3181's anomalous property, 
indicating that this is not a perception-altering anomaly, but instead 
some other phenomenon.2 No unusual physical phenomena have 
been detected in or near SCP-3181. 


Almost all humans possess an intuitive understanding of 
bonelessness while inside SCP-3181; however, they will define the 
term with its conventional definition (lacking in bones), despite the 
two properties objectively having no correlation. As a result, the 
actual meaning of "boneless" is unknown. Subjects experience a 
level of cognitive dissonance that prevents them from carrying this to 
its logical conclusion; for example, while a subject might identify an 
animal as boneless, and believe that bonelessness implies the lack 


of bones, they will interact with the animal as though they believe it 
to possess bones. Objective assessment of the situation can only be 
performed outside of SCP-3181, though this prevents the 
recognition of bonelessness. 


When provided with the same information about something, 98% of 
subjects will agree on whether it is boneless, provided they are 
given enough information to make the judgment, and the thing is 
inside SCP-3181. Visual information alone is sufficient to identify 
bonelessness in 65% of cases (or 40% when color information is 
withheld), while a further 20% can be confirmed boneless via touch; 
in all remaining cases, some combination of the two is necessary. 


Relatively intelligent animals can usually be classically conditioned 
to differentially respond to boneless stimuli. Additionally, an artificial 
neural network has been trained to differentiate between boneless 
and non-boneless images with a 71% success rate, though it will 
only perform better than chance while it is inside SCP-3181. 


The following generalizations have been made about bonelessness: 


« Any two things that are mostly identical will either both be 
boneless or both be non-boneless. The probability of two 
things sharing the same bonelessness status decreases as 
differences accrue between them. 

¢ All non-boneless things (except for food products) have a 
similar boneless counterpart, which can be conceptualized 
and often created. The reverse is not true — several boneless 
things are dissimilar from all Known non-boneless things. 

¢ A subject's ability to render something boneless is 
proportional to their will to accomplish to task, and only weakly 
proportional to their skill at the acts necessary to do so. 

* Somewhere between 10% and 40% of all things are boneless, 

depending on how "things" are quantified.3 

Boneless things are considerably more desirable than 

comparable non-boneless things. Canines are unique in 

preferring non-boneless things. 

* Ordained priests of any Christian denomination are always 

boneless. Other humans are almost never boneless. 

Things that appear angry, insufficiently clothed, or internet- 

connected are more likely to be boneless. 


« Temperature is irrelevant to bonelessness unless it results in 
an obvious qualitative change. 
¢ Food products are never boneless. 


While other hypotheses have been made about bonelessness, the 
statistical methods necessary to evaluate these hypotheses have 
not been agreed upon; those present in this document are those that 
are understood as true by consensus of SCP-3181's research team, 
or that are considered relevant enough to include provisionally. 
Appendix A (Download PDF - 218.0 MB) contains a list of all things 
for which bonelessness status is known. 


SCP-3181 developed its anomalous property in January of 2018; 
while unusual references to bonelessness in SCP-3181 date back to 
January 17, the overall low frequency of these reports suggests that 
the anomaly could have manifested earlier. SCP-3181 came to the 
Foundation's attention after SCP-3181 began to receive negative 
reviews in several online aggregators, with customers complaining 
that employees refused to serve them boneless food. 


A thorough examination of SCP-3181 found no abnormalities that 
could account for its anomalous property. Despite SCP-3181 serving 
as a fried chicken restaurant immediately prior to containment, none 
of the garbage cans contained any bones. 


Footnotes 

1. In practice, objects with an SEP index of 0.5 or lower are almost 
never consciously noticed unless the observer has received 
specialized awareness training or is already interested in the object. 
2. SCP-3181 has been tentatively described as a Intersemantic 
Complexity Zone, though this classification is not yet sufficiently 
well-characterized to contribute to understanding SCP-3181. 

3. Notably, almost none of the physical objects present inside 
SCP-3181 at time of recovery were boneless. 


perspective. This girl is confirmed as Dr. _'s daughter 
who is [DATA EXPUNGED] years old. Tension in the 
room escalates after this photo once more and the 
guards on duty step in again. Due to the nature of the 
photos being drawn only two more, one from each 
doctor, are requested. 


Dr. draws the third photo from SCP-404-A. This 
photo contains an image of the same girl from the 
second drawing, nude again, in a new pose. Dr. 
reluctantly confirms this is in fact his own daughter. Both 
Doctors are calmed down by this event however both 
appear to be extremely uncomfortable and express 
repeated desires for this test to end. 


Dr. draws the final photo for this test which after 
developing appears to be Dr. wearing an evening 
dress. 


The test is immediately ended by the administering personnel and 
both Doctors placed on notice until the results of this test can be 
confirmed. A lapse of a full day's time was allowed to pass before 
either Doctor was confronted about the previous day's test results. 
Neither Doctor claims to have any memory of participating in any 
test nor any inappropriate behavior with either each other or any of 
the subjects from the photos. All photos were filed in SCP-404-B 
and both Doctors have been restricted access from SCP-404 from 
here forward. Continued observation of the Doctors from this test 
show a 6% increase in productivity; this may or may not be related 
to the loss of the memories exposed in this test. 


Document #404-5: - -  : Subject for this test is a deceased 
Class-D personnel who expired while engaged in testing of SCP- 
The body of the subject was manipulated by two members of staff in 
conjunction with medical implements to draw a series of photos from 
SCP-404-A. 


First photo drawn develops into a view of SCP- __ at rest. 
It is assumed this is what the subject saw as the testing 
of SCP- was commencing. 


SCP-3182: The Grocery Store 


SCP-3182 in an inactive state. 


Item #: SCP-3182 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Undercover personnel 
stationed outside of SCP-3182 are to remove any individuals 
attempting to gain access. A cover story involving unstable 
construction is to be disseminated as justification for this. Past 
witnesses to a Deimos Event are to be tracked down and 
administered amnestics as appropriate for their level of exposure. 
Due to the relative isolation of the town of Denton, difficulty in 
locating these individuals is not expected. 


No Foundation personnel are to enter SCP-3182 during a Deimos 
Event. Any testing during a Deimos Event must be approved by at 
least one member of Level 3 personnel. 


If any personnel report hearing a soft gurgling sound, they are to be 
vacated from SCP-3182 immediately. 


Description: SCP-3182 is a dilapidated grocery store in the town of 
Denton, Missouri, which is host to a range of anomalous 
phenomena from 19:52 to 20:52 each day (hereafter referred to asa 
Deimos Event). The anomalous properties of SCP-3182 appear to 
have first manifested shortly after its initial closure. Said closure took 
place due to a combination of an ongoing poor economic situation in 
the town and negative publicity brought about by the suicide of a 
seventeen year old part-time worker. 


During a Deimos Event, no outside sources of visible light are able 
to penetrate SCP-3182. Additionally, individuals will find themselves 
unable to enter or exit the building, claiming when questioned that 
no entrances or exits exist. Video recordings of their time around 
SCP-3182 show that this is not the case, suggesting SCP-3182 


instead has an effect on the perceptions of those that come into 
contact with it. 


Individuals present inside SCP-3182 during a Deimos Event are 
known to be anomalously affected in a number of ways, including: 


* Sudden and irregular bouts of extreme distress or melancholy. 

¢ Development of severe resentment towards the town of 

Denton, Missouri. 

Recollection of memories determined to belong to former 

regular customers at SCP-3182. 

¢ Paranoia regarding a vague approaching danger, and a need 
to do something about it. 

¢ Astrong desire to leave SCP-3182, even though this is not 
possible. 


A number of adverse physical effects, including nausea, severe 
injuries, and death have also been recorded. There appear to be an 
as-of-yet not understood set of criteria for these occurring to an 
individual. 


The anomalous effects of SCP-3182 appear to be centered around 
Aisle 3 of the store. In this area, along with the previously mentioned 
phenomena, manifestations including disembodied moaning and 
screaming, the appearance of indistinct humanoid figures, and the 
sounds of something heavy being dragged along the floor have 
been reported. 


Investigation into SCP-3182 is ongoing. 
Exploration Log 3182-1 


Subject: D-123449 
Supervising Researcher: Dr. Gradian 


D-132449 is ordered to remain within SCP-3182's former 
break room for the duration of the Deimos Event. 
D-123449 is equipped with a camera and an earpiece, 
allowing two-way communication between him and a 
supervising researcher. 


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(D-132449 is in the break room, sat down at a 
chair.) 


D-132449: So — one hour, right? Just sat 
here? That's all? 


Dr. Gradian: That's all. 


D-132449: (laughs) Easiest test you boys have 
ever had me do. Appreciate it. 


(Pause.) 


Dr. Gradian: No problem. Please keep me 
informed about any mental effects SCP-3182 
is having on you. 


D-132449: Like what? 
Dr. Gradian: You were briefed on this. 


D-132449: Yeah, yeah, | remember. | start 
getting worried, | let you know.