Ingesting animal components contained in SCP-2606 with the aid of 
an implement, such as a fork or straw, prevents the manifestation of 
telepathic effects. Physical contact must occur simultaneously 
between SCP-2606, the animal component, and the subject for 
telepathic potential to manifest. In addition, if tissues or bodily fluids 
from multiple animals are consumed simultaneously by the human 
subject from SCP-2606, the human subject will manifest telepathic 
effects for only one of the present animal species. Testing has 
tentatively concluded that physically larger animal species are 
dominant over smaller ones, in terms of manifestation priority. 


Discovery: Prior to recovery, SCP-2606 was in the possession of a 
Mr. Lawrence Salk of , ,USA. Mr. Salk was willingly admitted to 
a mental health care facility on his family's recommendation after he 
developed psychosomatic skin irritation and began experiencing 
what he believed to be auditory hallucinations. Embedded 
Foundation agents conducted an interview with Mr. Salk upon his 
admittance into psychiatric care, where he remains as of this writing. 


Interview Log 
Interviewer: Agent Graham 
Interviewee: Mr. Salk 


<Begin Log> 


(Agent Graham enters Mr. Salk's hospital room. Mr. Salk 
is seated on the bed, itching at his arms.) 


Agent Graham: Hello, Mr. Salk. 


Mr. Salk: Huh? 


Agent Graham: | said hello, Lawrence. I'm Doctor 
Graham. Do you know where you are right now? 


Mr. Salk: Uh... yeah. Yeah, of course. I'm at the 
hospital. My wife took me here this morning. 


Agent Graham: Yes, you're at the hospital. Your wife 
told me you said you were hearing things? 


(Mr. Salk does not answer.) 
Agent Graham: Are you hearing them now, Lawrence? 


Mr. Salk: What? Oh, uh... I'm sorry, doctor. They're... 
it's just very distracting. 


Agent Graham: What are they saying to you? 


Mr. Salk: | don't know. They're always whispering. | keep 
trying to listen hard, but even when | hear them, | can't 
understand it. It sounds kind of like chewing. A lot of 
chewing. 


Agent Graham: Alright. 


Mr. Salk: That's the thing, too, is that there's so many of 
them. It sounds like there's a whole crowd of them in 
there, so they're quiet, but it's still just... overwhelming. 
That's not... normal, is it? As normal as any of this is, | 
mean. 


Agent Graham: Don't worry about that, Lawrence. We'll 
do everything we can regardless. Your wife also told me 
that you developed some skin problems. 


(Mr. Salk does not answer.) 
Agent Graham: Lawrence? 
Mr. Salk: What? I'm sorry. Repeat the question, please? 


Agent Graham: You developed skin problems. 


Agitation, irritation? 


Mr. Salk: Oh, yeah, yeah. It's like | feel something 
crawling on me constantly. It's the worst part, to be 
honest. 


Agent Graham: Now, your wife told me that this came 
upon you all of a sudden, is that right? Just earlier 
today? 


Mr. Salk: Yes. 


Agent Graham: No previous symptoms? No family 
history of similar conditions? 


Mr. Salk: No, no! | just sat down in my chair and took a 
drink from that glass | found the other day, and all of a 
sudden | started hearing things. 


Agent Graham: Glass? 


Mr. Salk: What? Oh, | was cleaning the attic the other 
day and | found this drinking glass up there. Why, do 
you- 


Agent Graham: Can you tell me more about it? 


Mr. Salk: Uh, sure. It was weird. It looked like it had little 
bugs in it. | mean, not in it in it, but like... inside the glass 
itself, trapped in there. It was weird, but | liked it. It was 
unique, you know? 


Agent Graham: | see. Go on. 


Mr. Salk: So | took it down and washed it out pretty 
good, and then a few days later | put some beer into it 
and took a drink, and then right after | started hearing 
voices. | mean, almost immediately, too. You don't think 
that's related, do you? The glass wasn't toxic or 
anything, was it? 


Agent Graham: Excuse me for a moment, Lawrence. | 


have to make a call. 


<End Log> 


Test Log 

All tests were conducted using a different Class D subject unless 
otherwise noted. Subjects were instructed to ingest the contents of 
SCP-2606, after which they were presented with a captive living 
specimen of the animal species they had ingested. Subjects were 
then instructed to describe the mental activity of the specimen. 


Contents: Five hairs from a black rat (Rattus rattus), 300 mL of 
water 

Result: Feelings of cautious curiosity, described by the subject as 
"dulled" in comparison to his own emotional capacity. 

Note: Subjecting the specimen to various stimuli produced the 
expected emotional responses (fear, happiness, sadness, etc.), 
which the subject was able to detect. Subject confirmed that all 
emotional responses were "vague" in comparison to human 
emotions. 


Contents: 20 mL of blood from a Eurasian tree sparrow (Passer 
montanus) 

Result: A feeling of extreme dread that did not subside until the 
specimen was removed from the subject's presence. 


Contents: 10 grams of little brown bat meat (Myotis /ucifugus) 
Result: Physical sensations occurring in bursts of ten to fifty 
approximately once every five minutes, described by the subject as 
an extremely painful "piercing" felt in the entirety of the body 
simultaneously. 

Note: The same Class D subject participated in both this and the 
previous test in order to determine whether the effects of SCP-2606 
were repeatable. Following this test, the subject was able to detect 
the thoughts of both M. lucifugus and P. montanus. 


Contents: 10 grams of common toad meat (Bufo bufo) 

Result: A series of staccato bass vibrations that increased in 
frequency and intensity as the specimen was approached by what it 
perceived as predators or prey. 


Contents: One American cockroach (Periplaneta americana), 
deceased 

Result: A constant physical sensation that did not vary in intensity 
based on the specimen's external stimuli. Subject described the 
sensation as "like someone grabbed my brain in both hands and 
shook it". 

Note: Exposure to greater numbers of P. americana caused the 
sensation to proportionately increase in intensity. 


Contents: One northern yellow sac spider (Cheiracanthium mildei), 
deceased 

Result: A visualization of blue-white lines striking across "the inside 
of (the subject's) head" and remaining present for inconsistent 
lengths of time? before fading. Subject claimed that this visualization 
could not be suppressed and was extremely prominent and 
distracting. Visualization subsided when the specimen was removed 
from the subject's presence. 

Note: Several days after his participation in SCP-2606 testing, 
Personnel D-62115 complained of reoccurring visualizations 
identical to those reported during his SCP-2606 test, and was 
administered antipsychotic medication. 


Contents: One black carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus), 
deceased 

Result: Subject reported that the thoughts of worker ants were 
audible to her as constant low-pitched drones, estimated at 115 dB, 
and that queen ants produced no mental activity. 


Contents: One mayfly (Ephemera danica), deceased 
Result: Loud sobbing and hyperventilation, ending when the 
specimen expired. 


Contents: Three proglottids from a beef tapeworm (Taenia 
saginata), deceased 

Result: When exposed to a number of living proglottids outside of a 
host, subject reported three audible notes reminiscent of a marimba, 
occurring seemingly at random. When exposed to a human host of 
T. saginata, subject reported a melodious series of marimba-like 
notes ranging through the entire musical scale. 


Contents: One juvenile common octopus (Octopus vulgaris), living 


Result: Audible notes described by the subject as similar to "when 
you blow over the top of a bottle", arranged in palindromic 
sequences of sixteen. Individual notes were frequently accompanied 
by between one and eight "echoes". Subject claimed that each note 
was accompanied by a vivid color, some of which he was unable to 
adequately describe. 


Contents: 400 mL of purified water 

Result: A large number of voices# whispering in a language the 
subject claimed to be unable to understand, described by the 
subject as "grumbling" and "unhappy sounding". Subject quickly 
developed extreme agitation, as well as a constant psychosomatic 
feeling that insects were crawling on his skin. 

Note: Examination revealed that SCP-2606 had not been 
adequately decontaminated since the previous test, and that dust 
had been allowed to aggregate in its interior. Greater care is to be 
taken in the future to clean SCP-2606 between tests. 


Footnotes 

1. Animals feared by the subject that pose a realistic danger to 
human life (ex. bears, crocodiles, sharks) do not activate 
SCP-2606's effects. 

2. Frog species commonly regarded as "toads" are more likely to 
activate SCP-2606's effects. 

3. Between 1 second and 3 hours. 

4. The subject estimated approximately voices were audible. 


« SCP-2605 | SCP-2606 | SCP-2607 » 


SCP-2607: Herpes ERPlex 


Item #: SCP-2607 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: The Foundation has made 
large anonymous donations to sexually transmitted disease 
awareness and prevention programs in a number of countries with 
documented SCP-2607 outbreaks; the patents to the antiviral drugs 
acyclovir and valacyclovir have been purchased by Foundation front 
companies, and these drugs have been substantially reduced in 
price to aid in SCP-2607 containment efforts. Efforts have been 
made in several countries to ban or regulate the practice of "phone 
sex", especially in a high-volume commercialized form; these efforts 
have largely been unsuccessful, and in some cases merely caused 
these "phone sex" telephone lines to move their operations to 
jurisdictions which are more difficult for the Foundation to monitor. 


Individuals identified as carriers of any strain of SCP-2607 are to be 
detained and questioned about their sexual history to identify other 
possible carriers, then treated with a targeted antiviral drug 
developed as part of the SCP-2607 containment initiative. Medical 
records of herpes simplex cases are to be regularly cross- 
referenced with employees and habitual users of "phone sex" 
telephone lines, and with users of sexual role-playing websites; any 
pattern indicative of a possible SCP-2607 outbreak is to be 
investigated as soon as possible. 


Samples of SCP-2607-1 and -2 are stored in Bio Site-66's cryogenic 
storage facility; research proposals involving exposure of D-Class 
personnel to SCP-2607 must be approved by Site-66's Ethics 
Committee liaison, and all experimental subjects must be treated 
with the targeted SCP-2607 antiviral at the conclusion of the 
experiment. 


Description: SCP-2607 is the collective designation for two strains 


SCP-293: Obsession 


Item #: SCP-293 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: Any items affected by SCP-293 
are to be contained in an opaque container, and kept sealed when 
not undergoing testing. Any items found to be affecting staff or 
subjects not undergoing testing are to be immediately destroyed. 
Any anomalous activity by SCP-293 affected items is to be reported 
to Site Command as soon as possible. 


Anyone interacting with items affected by SCP-293 must do so only 
in 30 minute shifts, with one week of time separating each 
interaction. This includes physical handling, observation (both 
physical and via camera or other recording device), testing, and any 
other activities that bring an SCP-293 affected item into contact with 
human beings. 


All staff working with SCP-293 affected items must submit to a 
psychological evaluation three times per week, to begin two weeks 
before interaction, and extending for three weeks after the end of 
interaction. Staff must also submit to any additional test as ordered 
by Site Command. Anyone found to be affected by SCP-293 will be 
placed in quarantine, and the item causing the effect is to be 
immediately destroyed. 


Any items used to interact with SCP-293 affected items are to be 
disposed of after one week. 


Description: SCP-293 is currently held to be some form of 
intangible force or presence. Questions have been raised regarding 
a possible intelligence behind SCP-293 in light of subject’s 
reactions; however, these are still unfounded. SCP-293 is most 
visible in its effect on human behavior, and is only detectable in very 
advanced cases as a very slight auditory disturbance. This lack of 


of the herpes simplex virus with similar anomalous means of 
transmission, designated SCP-2607-1 and -2. Both strains of 
SCP-2607 cause similar symptoms to HSV-2, the herpes simplex 
strain which causes most cases of genital herpes; blisters appear on 
the genitalia within approximately 7 days of initial exposure, and 
heal over the next several weeks. SCP-2607 strains can be 
transmitted via sexual activity, as with non-anomalous varieties of 
herpes simplex, but each can also be transmitted by certain non- 
physical sexual activities. 


SCP-2607-1's primary anomalous mode of transmission is through 
"phone sex"—sexual role-playing or descriptions of hypothetical 
sexual activity transmitted via telephone. For SCP-2607-1 to be 
transmitted, the infected and uninfected participants must describe a 
scenario in which, were the sexual activity occurring physically, it 
would be possible to transmit herpes simplex; descriptions of proper 
condom use reduce transmission rate by approximately 30%. 
Research has shown that SCP-2607-1 can also be transmitted via 
in-person sexual role-playing (i.e. "phone sex" without the 
telephone); in-person sexual role-playing reduces the transmission 
rate by approximately 50%. SCP-2607-1 cannot be transmitted 
through recorded speech or through text-based erotic role-playing; 
the infected and uninfected participants must share a direct audio 
connection. 


SCP-2607-2's primary anomalous mode of transmission is through 
online erotic role-playing. Similarly to SCP-2607-1, both the infected 
and uninfected participants must describe a scenario which could 
lead to transmission of non-anomalous herpes simplex. Unlike 
SCP-2607-1, the responses need not be immediate; successful 
transmission has been observed with a lag between successive 
messages of as long as three weeks. SCP-2607-2 can also be 
transmitted via SMS-based erotic role-playing ("sexting") and via 
telephone, although the rate of transmission is reduced by 
approximately 75%. Erotic role-playing not mediated by some 
electronic medium (in-person, or via written or printed descriptions) 
cannot transmit SCP-2607-2. 


SCP-2607-1 was first identified by the Foundation in 1983, when a 
number of individuals reporting herpes simplex infections without 


prior sexual activity were found to have called the same "phone sex" 
line; records from the "phone sex" line indicated that each of these 
individuals had engaged in sexual role-playing with the same 
operator, Ms. Pickering, then a student at the University of 

Ms. Pickering was detained and interviewed; she claims to have 
only had a single sexual partner, a fellow student named "Simeon 
Plesko" whom she met at a party. Ms. Pickering only engaged in 
sexual intercourse with this individual once, and said that he "left 
[her] flat before [she] woke up and never called [her] back." 
University of records contain no mention of a student by this 
name; Simeon Plesko has been classified as Person of Interest 
2607-A.