Testing on milk showed it to be cow’s milk, 1% fat content, with no 
anomalous properties. Cereal proved to be identical to Cereal 
recipe and also proved unremarkable. Class D personnel compelled 
to ingest cereal and milk showed no adverse effects. No samples 
could be taken from SCP-1404 itself, as objects appear to be 
unbreakable even at a molecular level. The actual age of the objects 
is unknown, though based on their style and apparent method of 
manufacture, they are no more than fifty (50) years old. Objects 
maintain a temperature of 18°C and contents a temperature of 3°C, 
regardless of any heat applied. Both are seemingly unaffected by 
the laws of thermodynamics. The contents of SCP-1404 show no 
sign of putrefaction, even over the course of several weeks. If 
separated from SCP-1404, both cereal and milk lose any anomalous 
characteristics. 


SCP-1404 does not appear to be sentient. Attempts to communicate 
with SCP-1404, including verbal address to both bowl and spoon, 
radio wave transmission, written messages submerged in milk, and 
addition of cereal letters have met with no results. 


SCP-1404 was discovered in the apartment of B C in ; 
after his suicide by gunshot wound to the head on / /200 . Officers 
arriving on the scene found C __’s body in proximity to SCP-1404 
and believed it to be an unusual suicide note. When the stories of a 
“cereal suicide note” began circulating in the local press, Agent 

, undercover as a P.D. homicide detective was dispatched 
to verify the presence of an anomalous object. 


C  ’s apartment was completely devoid of furniture of any kind. 
The toilet and kitchen counters were destroyed in a means 
consistent with a sledgehammer found on the scene. The only sign 
of habitation was a sleeping bag and a bucket containing urine and 
feces. The object was on a window sill in its standard orientation. 
Agent remarked in his report that upon picking up the bowl, he 
felt it “slightly tugging” in his hand towards the window sill. 
SCP-1404 was confiscated and brought to Site-23. It is unknown 
how long SCP-1404 was inC _ ’s possession, by what means he 
acquired it, and why he did not discard the object. 


If left unobserved by human eyes for more than twenty four (24) 
hours, SCP-1404 will migrate to the nearest table in a populated 
area, as seen with its arrival in Staff Cafeteria Bon //200 after the 
object bored through its steel container and the wall of Storage Area 
8. For this reason, containment in a Storage Area is unadvised due 
to possible damage to the facility and the potential for compromise 
of the containment of other SCPs. 


Test Log 1404-A 


Test 1404-A-01: SCP-1404 placed in center of a maze. 
Researcher: Dr. 

Test Record: SCP-1404 navigated maze successfully 
with zero errors. 


Test 1404-A-02: Spoon submerged in Polymer 
Researcher: Dr. 

Test Record: Spoon remained motionless for approx 
three (3) hours until it was observed “wiggling.” Over the 
next four (4) hours it had freed itself and proceeded 
towards table containing bowl. 


Test 1404-A-03: Sealed in Level 4 Containment Unit 
Researcher: Dr. 

Test Record: SCP-1404 moved to the wall of its 
enclosure and began rubbing at the wall. Wall began to 
show signs of wear after six (6) hours with no damage to 
SCP-1404. Test concluded to avoid damage to facility. 


Test 1404-A-04: Table suspended via high tension 
cables 14 m in the air in the middle of a 20x20x20m area 
Researcher: Dr. 

Test Record: SCP-1404 moved to the wall of 
containment area. Both objects tilted ninety (90) degrees 
and began to ascend wall. When reaching ceiling, both 
objects reoriented to that plane and began to slide 
across ceiling. Once over the table, SCP-1404 dropped 
6m to table surface and came to rest at standard 
orientation. 


Test 1404-A-05: Tungsten table placed in furnace set to 
3200°C. 

Researcher: Dr. 

Test Record: SCP-1404 entered furnace without 
damage. Once reaching standard position, SCP-1404 
began to fill with milk. Table extracted. SCP-1404 
temperature: 18°C. Milk temperature: 3°C. 


Test Log 1404-B 


Substance Resuit 

Water Bowl tips and spills 
contents, rights itself, and 
proceeds toward table. 

1% Milk Bowl tips and spills 
contents, rights itself, and 
proceeds toward table. 

Wet Cement (to capacity) | Bowl tips and spills contents 
with zero adhesion to 
surface, rights itself, and 
proceeds toward table. 

30kg Weight Bowl tips and spills 
contents, rights itself, and 
proceeds toward table. 

Polymer Bowl tips and spills contents 
with zero adhesion to 
surface, rights itself, and 
proceeds toward table. 


200 kg Weight (placed atop Bowl tips, lifting weight with 


rising end until weight slides 
off. Bowl rights itself and 
proceeds toward table. 


Log 1404-01 


Repeating Phrases (By 


cee Gems 


HE SKY WILL BURN 08/10/20 


WE ARE COMING 06/02/201 


« SCP-1403 | SCP-1404 | SCP-1405 » 


SCP-1405: A Large Prehistoric Sloth 


Item #: SCP-1405 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1405 is to be housed ina 
standard large-animal high-security enclosure at Bio-Research Site 
13. Enclosure climate control should emulate the average conditions 
of spring or early summer in midwestern North America, as well as 
an appropriate day/night cycle. The enclosure is to be planted with 
vegetation consistent with a North American deciduous woodland, 
including several large trees to allow SCP-1405 to graze as it 
presumably would in the wild. Plant materials should be 
supplemented daily with 25 kg of fresh, high-quality hay anda 
source of clean water. Weekly treats consisting of 5 kg of plastic or 
silk imitation plant material may also be provided as rewards for 
good behavior. 


SCP-1405 is to be monitored at all times by a series of closed-circuit 
cameras. Personnel interactions are currently allowed only for 
feeding and cleaning duties to prevent causing distress to the 
subject. All other access must be approved by Dr. Haury, the onsite 
veterinarian. 


Update to Containment Procedures: While SCP-1405 itself is 
considered a low risk subject, following Incident 13-1405a (see 
Incident Report below) the subject is to be immediately relocated to 
a high security containment area to reduce the risk of a breach by 
external forces. Onsite security presence at Bio-Site 13 is to be 
increased immediately at both SCP-1405’s containment area and 
the site perimeter. Additional security cameras are to be installed on 
the exterior walls of the containment area, and the security feed is to 
be monitored at all times (see updates to protocols for Low-Security 
Containment Facilities.) Any change in SCP-1405’s behavior should 
be logged and immediately reported to Agent McComb or the 
security chief on duty. 


Description: SCP-1405 is a life-size, museum-quality model of an 
extinct giant ground sloth of the genus Megalonyx. The subject 
stands 2.9 m tall at the shoulder when resting on its hind legs, and 
weighs in excess of 350 kg. 


In its inactive (or camouflage) state, SCP-1405 appears to be a 
normal model: X-ray scans indicate it is composed primarily of 
plastic resin on an internal metal scaffolding. 


The subject's anomalous properties become evident only when it is 
left undisturbed for a variable period of time (usually 6 to 8 hours, 
with a range of 45 minutes to 4 weeks). If undisturbed, SCP-1405 
will enter its active state and begin moving around its enclosure, 
despite the fact that its body has no apparent musculature, internal 
organ structure, or even moveable joints. Hairs recovered from the 
enclosure during cleaning are primarily synthetic fiber, but a very 
small number (<1%) are mammalian hairs with mitochondrial DNA 
similar to that of extant sloth lineages. 


The subject's active state behavior is comparable both to extant 
species of sloth and to other large herbivores. Most of its time is 
spent browsing on the vegetation in its enclosure, but it has also 
been observed sleeping in a ground nest constructed in a secluded 
area, scratching and rubbing on trees, and playing with various 
objects. Examination of high-definition video footage indicates 
muscles moving under a flexible hide and breathing movements in 
the chest, suggesting that the subject undergoes considerable 
morphological change between active and inactive states. 


SCP-1405 consumes plant material at a rate consistent with other 
mammalian herbivores of its size, but does not excrete. It greatly 
prefers an herbivorous diet, but will also consume meat, wood, 
plastics, plaster, and bite-sized pieces of metal. How it metabolizes 
food is unknown, and in its inactive state, it does not appear to need 
food, oxygen, or sleep. It has also exhibited a fondness for 
decorative imitation plant material, which appears to have been its 
primary diet before being placed in Foundation custody. 


If startled, SCP-1405 will instantly revert to its inactive state, 
“posing” by sitting on its hind legs with one forearm raised. It 
appears able to maintain this state indefinitely, and will not react to 


any stimuli, including physical trauma. SCP-1405 retains memories 
of events during its inactive state: after the removal of tissue 
samples and other traumatic tests, it remained inactive much longer 
and behaved in a nervous, agitated manner after returning to its 
active state. While agitated the subject may become destructive, 
and has caused significant damage to its enclosure attempting to 
breach containment. For this reason, unnecessary human exposure 
has been suspended. When allowed to remain active, damage 
caused in the inactive state will heal at approximately 3 times the 
normal rate. 


Recovery Log: SCP-1405 was discovered on display in a large 
diorama at the Museum of Natural History in 1992, in the pose 
it maintains while inactive. Museum inventory indicates that the 
original sculpture was created in 1978 by Alicia Mayberry, an artist 
routinely employed by the museum. None of the artist’s other works 
exhibit anomalous properties. 


SCP-1405 was displayed for twelve years, and exhibited no 
anomalous properties during this time. It came to the Foundation’s 
attention when Agent McComb, embedded in the Police 
Department, responded to reports of repeated vandalism at the 

Museum of Natural History. In May of 1992 the doors of the 
museum were found smashed open, as though impacted by a large 
object travelling at considerable speed. SCP-1405 itself also 
exhibited considerable damage, including a number of long, jagged 
cuts to its back and face, large bald patches, and several broken 
claws and teeth. It was repaired and returned to display. 


Dried patches of a clear, sticky liquid, reported by police as some 
type of glue, were found on the door, in the museum foyer and near 
the subject’s diorama. No testing on the liquid was conducted, but 
examination of crime scene photographs indicate that the spatter 
pattern is consistent with blood spatter from a large, wounded 
animal. 


Approximately once per three months thereafter, museum 
employees found all decorative vegetation in SCP-1405’s area 
stripped bare. SCP-1405 itself appeared to undergo rapid 
deterioration of claws and teeth, and would consistently lose large 
patches of hair despite repeated restorations. Agent McComb 


contacted the Foundation, and SCP-1405 was removed from display 
and placed in a standard containment facility at Site-19. Surveillance 
cameras first observed it entering its active state three weeks later, 
whereupon it was reclassified as a living organism and transported 
to Bio-Site 13. 


Addendum A: Dr. Haury has noted that the recurring damage to 
SCP-1405 while on display as a museum piece (hair loss, tooth and 
nail degradation, etc.) are consistent with symptoms of chronic 
malnutrition and insufficient living space in large mammals, and its 
active state behavior is often consistent with zoo and circus animals 
subjected to long-term abuse. These symptoms have not been 
observed since the current containment protocols were adopted. 


Addendum B: Plans to gradually acclimatize SCP-1405 to human 
interaction approved as of May 2011, when the subject was 
observed returning to its active state only ten minutes after cleaning 
personnel exited the enclosure. SCP-1405 has since returned to 
active state with a researcher present in the enclosure several 
times, provided the researcher remains still and silent, and recently 
remained active while cleaning personnel were present. It is hoped 
that acclimatizing SCP-1405 to human presence will allow further 
research into its active state functions, as well as a potential insight 
into the behavior of a prehistoric species. 


Document 1405-1: Additional notes from Dr. Haury, attending 
veterinarian 


The current containment procedure for SCP-1405 gives 
the impression that the subject is some kind of statue 
that comes to life. Personally, | no longer believe this to 
be accurate. The events that brought SCP-1405 to our 
attention, as well as its ability to massively alter its 
physiology between animate and inanimate states, 
suggest to me that we do not have a magical sculpture of 
a Sloth: what we have is another entity entirely, which 
found a sculpture of a sloth to be a convenient hiding 
place. This hypothesis does raise the question of why it 
chose to be a sloth, and if it could be persuaded to enter 
and animate similar objects. Perhaps an object that 
doesn't eat 200 kg of hay a week. —Dr Haury 


Incident 13-1405a Log: At 0125 hours on December 13, 2012, the 
north-facing exterior wall of SCP-1405’s containment chamber was 
impacted at considerable speed by an unobserved object. The 
object was of sufficient mass and travelling at speeds high enough 
to crush the exterior cinder block and distend the interior steel wall, 
although the containment cell was not breached. The external walls 
showed multiple deep scratch marks in a pattern comparable to a 
bear or other large predator’s claws. 


Perimeter security cameras did not record any object or person 
entering the facility compound. A vertical tear in the southwest 
section of perimeter fence was found following the incident: the 
fencing appears to have been cut with a knife or similar sharp 
object. An external camera near SCP-1405’s containment chamber 
recorded the impact and damage to the building, but the object 
causing the damage is not visible in the footage. This camera and 
the cameras in SCP-1405’s enclosure recorded scraping and 
clawing sounds which continued for four minutes following the 
impact. 


For approximately 24 hours prior to the incident, SCP-1405 
exhibited signs of considerable distress, pacing constantly and 
refusing to eat or drink. It was observed staring intently at the north 
wall of its enclosure and emitting whining and growling vocalizations. 
2 hours prior to the incident, the subject entered its inactive state 
without apparent provocation, situated with its back to the south wall 
and its paws raised to cover its face and head, in the only known 
deviation from its normal inactive pose. The subject remained 
inactive in this position for two weeks following the incident, and 
behaved in an agitated manner for several weeks after becoming 
active again. 


« SCP-1404 | SCP-1405 | SCP-1406 » 


SCP-1406: An Old Entity 


Item #: SCP-1406 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Site-121 has been established 
in and around the building above SCP-1406, surrounded by a 
barbed-wire fence monitored through several CCTV cameras 
installed around the perimeter. A cover story regarding restoration of 
the building by a land-owner has been circulated. 


Description: SCP-1406 is a medium-sized structure located ina 
heavily damaged building in _, France. The structure consists 
primarily of brick and sheets of steel, and is affixed with a wooden 
door.