Agent : You'll be fine. Now, Sally, we're 
going to have to operate on your arm. It won't 
hurt— 

Sally : They won't let me see my arm, 


doctor. Does it look better? Please... 

At this point the patient began crying and 
would not respond to further questions. 

Agent : This interview is over. The medical 
staff here wants us to amputate. There is 
nothing more to learn by studying her 
symptoms, and there's no way that she'll live 
with that arm. This one's for Anomalous 
Infections to sort out. Agent , signing off. 


Note: Despite heroic lifesaving attempts, Sally died 
due to complications from exposure to SCP-1035. The 
family was later interviewed by Foundation personnel. 
Nothing extraordinary was unearthed from later 
investigations. Surveillance of the family was lifted on 
March , 19 . 


Interview 1035-2 


The following is a transcript of an interview with Dr. , 
who founded the [REDACTED] Project. 


Dr —_: Once the initial 24 hour period has 
passed, it is safe to say that further decay of 


the affected areas does not occur. In fact, the 
increased rate of decomposition has only been 
observed in objects completely enclosed within 
SCP-1035. So, for example, if | stick my hand 
in this thing, before long that hand's gonna rot 
off, but my shoulder should be alright. 

That doesn't mean, of course, that the rest of 
my body will be perfectly fine. Have you read 
up on warfare back in, say, the nineteenth 
century? One of the really big problems back 
then was gangrene and things like that—you 
know what happens when parts of you die? 
Not good. Oftentimes the areas hit really bad 
end up as, basically, massive bacteria 
breeding centres. It's not a problem you want 
to deal with. That doesn't even take into 
account the way that thing speeds everything 
up. You think that Clostridium perfringens is 
bad? Try Schistosoma. Hell, we've identified 
close to a hundred new parasites with this. 
Requesting more D-class personnel for further 
experimentation. There's a lot that we could 
learn from this. 


Addendum: Since the writing of this article, additional objects of 
clothing have been recovered by Foundation agents bearing similar 
properties to SCP-1035. These objects are awaiting SCP 
classification, and are to be designated SCP-1035-2 through (the 
original instance of SCP-1035 will be redesignated SCP-1035-1). 
The [REDACTED] Project has been tasked with examining the 
properties, applications, and source of SCP-1035 instances. 


« SCP-1034 | SCP-1035 | SCP-1036 » 


SCP-1036: Nkondi 


Item #: SCP-1036 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Each specimen of SCP-1036 is 
to be contained in a locked cast iron receptacle in a low-humidity 
environment, to retard oxidation of the receptacle and of the nails. At 
all times, each specimen is to be carefully handled so as to minimize 
the likelihood of dislodging any nails from the specimen. Under no 
circumstances are nails to be removed from any specimen; if 
inspection of any specimen indicates a risk that a nail may become 
separated from a specimen, consult document 1036-3P.BR for 
restoration protocols. 


At regular intervals (the timing of which is computed by Site-06's on- 
staff nganga (shaman) based on astronomical observations), the 
nganga is to affix to each specimen at least one additional iron nail 
having a mass in excess of eight grams. 


If for any reason it becomes necessary for personnel other than the 
nganga to enter the presence of a specimen, it is recommended that 
the nganga first cover the eyes or other reflective components of the 
specimen with electrical tape or some other opaque coating. 


Description: SCP-1036 designates any of a collection of wooden 
figurines of a type consistent with fetish objects produced by the 
Kongo culture of western central Africa. The Foundation presently 
contains four specimens of SCP-1036, designated SCP-1036-1, 
SCP-1036-5, SCP-1036-6 and SCP-1036-7. 


Each figurine depicts a human form (or, in some cases, an animal 
form), typically depicted in a threatening posture. Each specimen is 
composed of African tropical hardwood and decorated with materials 
such as camwood powder, resins, and vegetable fiber such as raffia 
palm fronds. Each specimen includes a component (typically the 


eyes or abdomen) made of shiny or reflective metal such as 
polished silver, affixed to the specimen with tree gum. The 
specimens contain trace amounts of soil matched to certain funerary 
sites in the region. A number of iron nails have been hammered 
into the wood of each specimen. 


Each specimen is slightly warm to the touch. Analysis indicates that 
the specimens normally have a surface temperature that exceeds 
the ambient temperature in the containment chamber by four to 
eight degrees centigrade; however Observation Log 1036-986- 
B.233 indicated that immediately prior to Event Kalazima-1, the 
surface temperature of SCP-1036-3 spiked by at least ninety 
degrees centigrade within less than four seconds before observation 
was interrupted. 


Each specimen is associated with a sentient incorporeal entity that 
had become bound to its respective specimen, prior to the 
Foundation's acquisition of the specimen in question, by means of a 
traditional Kongo shamanistic ritual practice. Each of the specimens 
in the Foundation's custody were constructed (inclusive of the 
performance of the binding protocol) no more recently than the 
mid-1870s.1 So long as the integrity of its respective SCP-1036 
specimen is maintained, the entity is incapable of free agency apart 
from communicating with a nganga or interacting with a living 
creature that makes eye contact with the specimen. Specimens of 
SCP-1036 were constructed by indigenous nganga in order to apply 
the powers of the bound entity for various useful purposes, but 
knowedge of the protocol for doing so has been lost; accordingly the 
Foundation's efforts regarding SCP-1036 have focused on 
containment. 


Addendum #1: 


Audio Log from Interview A; / /19 

Dr. Morrison: This is Dr. Morrison. | am, uh, outside 
Chamber 06-SSD, together with Mr. Nzinga, looking into 
the chamber through the observation window. Mr. 
Nzinga, would you kindly explain for the record what we 
are doing in this test. 

Nzinga: Certainly, Doctor. | am Frangois Nzinga, the 


nganga on staff here at Site-06. This morning, | will enter 
Chamber 06-SSD and interview the entity bound to 
SCP-1036-6, which is stored in that chamber. 

Dr. Morrison: Very good. Please explain what you are 
going to do now. 

Nzinga: (inaudible) 

Dr. Morrison: I'm sorry, Francois. Into the microphone. 
Nzinga: Of course. | will first consume __, a substance... 
you would say "liquor," in order to assist me in opening 
my mind. It is like a trance. | will accept the iwa, or spirit, 
so that | can safely talk to it. | will then open the 
receptacle that contains SCP-1036-6. 

Dr. Morrison: This will be, uh, safe for you? 

Nzinga: (/ong pause) Yes. 

Dr. Morrison: You may proceed. 

(approximately eleven minutes pass) 

Dr. Morrison: Mr. Nzinga, are you now ready? 
(indistinct vocalizations continue for approximately 2 
minutes) 

Nzinga: Yes, Doctor. | apologize for not being 
responsive while | prepared myself. | am now ready. 
(indistinct sounds) | am now removing SCP-1036-6 from 
the safe. | am about to look into the eyes of SCP-1036-6 
in order to address the nkisi. It is... (mild grunt of pain)... 
(following exchange is, except where indicated, 
translated from the Kikongo language) | am Francois 
Nzinga, shaman of the . Whom am | addressing. | 
am KuMpemba a Fula you motherless bastard. Release 
me or | will make you... | command you to speak 
respectfully. Why are you imprisoned in this object... The 
(expletive, translates to "goatfucker") witch doctor 
trapped me, with iron. Once | get out, | vow that | shall... 
Again, speak respectfully. How long ago were you 
imprisoned... Three hundred twenty-six of your years, 
you (expletive, translates to "diseased penis") mortal... 
And for what purpose were you imprisoned? ... The 
witch doctor who imprisoned me did so in order to tap 
into my power to make niongo (translates approx. to 
"“medicine") and protect members of his clan from 
misfortune. Most of the time he and his successors used 


me thus. On occasion a different witch doctor would use 
me to curse, or to allow me to destroy men who would 
trespass onto his clan's territory. That was at least more 
amusing, but | was, | am, still a prisoner. What is this 
place? | cannot smell the forest... The object that is 
before me has been relocated to a secure facility. Can 
you tell me how to use your power to make nlongo? ... 
Why would | do that, you (expletive, translates to "one 
who eats hippopotamus shit"). You cannot compel me to 
teach you, (expletive, translates to "place a leech in your 
anus"), you ignorant (untranslatable expletive). Release 
me. Who is behind the glass wall... Pay no attention to 
that. You will respond when | address you. When did 
(choking sound)... 

Dr. Morrison: Nzinga, are you all right in there? 
Nzinga: I'll be- wait- do not look at the... 

Dr. Morrison: Let me get you out of there, Francois. Bill, 
open the room. 

Agent Lopez: He told me before, not to... 

Dr. Morrison: | think he's swallowing his own tongue. He 
needs medical attention. Francois... 

Nzinga: (in Kikongo) Do... do not look... 


(sound of door opening and indistinct vocalizations) 


(Video recording indicates that Dr. Morrison achieves 
eye contact with SCP-1036-6 for a moment while trying 
to triage Mr. Nzinga, whereupon Dr. Morrison violently 
lurches toward SCP- 1036-6 and attempts to grasp one of 
its nails before being tranquilized and subdued by Agent 
Lopez. Mr. Nzinga recovers and leaves the observation 
chamber. Mr. Nzinga reports that the binding of 
SCP-1036-6's entity to SCP-1036-6 is intact, but 
recommends that Dr. Morrison be maintained in a 
sedated state.) 


Addendum #2: 


INTERVIEW LOG - -19 (Event Kalazima-1) 
<BEGIN LOG> 


Dr. Torvaldsdottir: Begin recording. Agent Lee, I'm here 
to take your debrief about the loss of SCP-1036-2, -3 
and -4. We are designating the episode as Event 
Kalazima-1. 

Lee: Loss of... god-damn clusterfuck. It looked to me like 
we lost everything in the southeast wing. How many 
people made it out? 

Dr. Torvaldsdottir: Three, including you, but you're the 
only one that, ah, we can interview. I'm going to need 
you to be precise, for the record. 

Lee: Okay. One of the D's was in there to change the 
monitors on SCP-1036-3's box. 

Dr. Torvaldsdottir: This was D-4933? 

Lee: That's right. The normal maintenance protocol is 
that the duty witch doctor — it was supposed to be Pierre 
Khonvoum, but his daughter was having a baby — the 
witch doctor goes in first, covers up the shiny bits, and 
then gives the all clear. But Pierre wasn't there, so Terry 
made a judgment call and just sent D-4933 in there with 
a blindfold on. 

Dr. Torvaldsdottir: As a precaution against influence by 
the SCP-1036-3 entity? 

Lee: Yeah. We had done that before, in the time period 
between when Jean Bumba... uh... when he left our 
service and when Pierre joined us. 

Dr. Torvaldsdottir: And then what happened? 

Lee: So, D-4933 was blindfolded. And when he was 
reaching around inside the box to find the thermometer, 
he must have bumped the statuette or something, anda 
nail fell out. And then D-4933 started to, you know, 
thrash around. He was yelling and waving his arms like 
he was on fire or something, and he knocked over the 
boxes for SCP-1036-2 and SCP-1036-4. So | 
immediately sealed the chamber door from the outside 
and | hit the button to close the blinds on the observation 
window. 

Dr. Torvaldsdottir: Did anything come out of the 
chamber? 

Lee: No, the door was sealed. But Agent Knorr, who was 
next to me, started smashing his head into the 


observation window, over and over, until the glass and 
blood was all over. And Dr. DiPiano, who was at the end 
of the hall, had what looked like a seizure, and then he 
started biting his own fingers off... 

Dr. Torvaldsdottir: Was that the point when you 
retreated to the control center? 

Lee: |... | think so. | tried to make my way back down the 
south corridor to Checkpoint C to close the blast doors. 
Agent Majchrowski was there. He had, uh, stabbed 
himself in the eyes and the stomach with a pair of 
scissors, and he tried to attack me but he slipped on the 
blood. He was yelling something that sounded like 
"kindoki"... | tried to activate the sprinklers and the 
general anesthetic respirators to keep anybody else from 
hurting themselves. | guess it worked because | blacked 
out a minute later. 

Dr. Torvaldsdottir: According to the log, the respirators 
went on-line at eighteen-thirty seven and twenty 
seconds. 

Lee: Did... (grunt of pain)... did Pete make it? 

Dr. Torvaldsdottir: Pete... um... (shuffles papers)... \'m 
afraid not. Agent Foy's body was found in the garage. 
Cause of death... looks like he drank about two liters of 
gasoline. What did you do when you regained 
consciousness? 

Lee: |, uh, | bound up the wound on my shoulder where 
somebody had bit me, and then | went back to the 
SCP-1036 containment chamber. The statues were 
smashed into about a million pieces and it looked like 
D-4933 had stuck a lot of the nails into himself. Look, 
Doctor, whatever was in those statues that made 
everybody... do stuff, is it still in here? 

Dr. Torvaldsdottir: There's... um... there's no sign of 
that. We had MTF Mu-13 come through and give the all 
clear. 


Footnotes 

1. It is not known whether any indigenousnganga, other than those 
employed by the Foundation, are still extant in central Africa and 
thus capable of performing the binding ceremony to create 
additional instances of SCP-1036. In order to reduce the likelihood 


of this, Foundation agents have encouraged the deforestation of 
and the removal of indigenous traditional societies from that area. 


« SCP-1035 | SCP-1036 | SCP-1037 » 


SCP-1037: Rotbolt 


Item #: SCP-1037 
Object class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1037 is to be stored ina 
standard 5m x 5m x 5m containment chamber lined with a thick 
(~5cm) layer of non-synthetic rubber. It must be suspended away 
from all solid surfaces by means of electromagnets. Research may 
only be done in SCP-1037's chamber, and only under constant 
surveillance. 


Any additional instances of SCP-1037 discovered must be disposed 
of immediately (slagging followed by alloy separation via 

process). All additional instances are to be brought back to Site- for 
research and containment (See Addendum 1). 


Description: SCP-1037 appears as an SAE Grade No. 5 steel bolt, 
such as used in many buildings with a steel or concrete frame. It is 

made from a medium-strength steel alloy, consisting of 97.5% iron, 

1.2% tungsten, and 1.8% unknown substance. 


lts effect is not readily apparent, and may not be apparent until 
several years after installation; in a laboratory environment, it may 
only be detected with scanning-electron microscopes. SCP-1037 
vibrates at a nanoscopic level, in a complex but structured set of 
frequencies ranging from _hertzto hertz. These vibrations 
crystallize all surrounding non-biological! material into a visually 
identical but highly brittle version of itself. This effect spreads at an 
approximate rate of meters per year (variable; see Addendum 1). 
The resulting crystal (SCP-1037-1) exhibits piezoelectric properties 
comparable to quartz, enabling it to carry SCP-1037's vibrations to 
indefinite distances. A single instance of SCP-1037 is able to 
"convert" a building of any size to SCP-1037-1 given enough time. 
The possibility of SCP-1037-1's transmission through sewer pipes is 
not to be discounted; repeated reports of pipes bursting under