Jay-St Metro Tech: Subject is continuously caressed 
upon the arrival of the Jay-St Station. After SCP-2572 
leaves the station, the subject begins to feel crawling of 
the skin. The instances continue to caress and invariably 
begin to reach towards the subject's genitals shortly 
before arrival of the Dekalb Avenue Station. 


Dekalb Avenue Station: Immediately upon arrival, the 
subject reports cessation all effects. 


SCP-2572 was discovered shortly after an incident involving an 
individual expiring within the car, due to a heart attack. A cover story 
was fabricated, news reports and broadcasts were suppressed, and 
affected personnel were administered Class-B amnestics in 
combination with shock therapy. 


A toxicology report states the individual was under the influence of 
isopropylbenzylamine, methamphetamine, as well as a previously 
unknown substance prior to death. The individual was never 
identified. 


Footnotes 

1. SCP-2572's effects can be activated by simulating its travel 
between these stations. This is accomplished by playing audio that 
is typical to subway car travel in New York City (train moving along 
track, intercom announcements, etc.) 

2. The description of these humanoids match descriptions of an 
existing entity observed by The Foundation. For more information, 


refer to the documentation of SCP-2227 


« SCP-2571 | SCP-2572 | SCP-2573 » 


SCP-2573: | ain’t never heard of no commy Fifthists 
or nothin’. 


Item #: SCP-2573 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: At least one individual in the 
editorial board of each publication previously affected by SCP-2573 
has been recruited as Class-E personnel, provided with standard 
Foundation meme/antimeme resistance training, and given the 
contact information of a Foundation agent to notify in the event of an 
SCP-2573 event. When notified of such an event, the Foundation is 
to confiscate and destroy all instances of SCP-2573-1, and if 
possible replace them with non-anomalous copies of the affected 
periodical. If more than six weeks pass without an identified 
SCP-2573 event, the Foundation is to survey all periodicals meeting 
the known criteria for SCP-2573, following the same procedure if an 
event is identified. 


Description: SCP-2573 is a phenomenon that affects English- 
language print periodicals published by leftist political groups in the 
United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom’. Approximately 
once per month, the regular issue? of one such periodical is 
replaced during the printing process with a periodical titled The 
International Workers' Herald, published by an organization 
identified as the "Fifth International Workers' Vanguard Party" 
(Group of Interest 125-n). Issues of The International Workers' 
Herald, designated instances of SCP-2573-1, generally take the 
same form as the original periodical (i.e. newspaper, magazine, 
newsletter, etc.); articles will be approximately the same length and 
on a similar subject matter, but will change in style and tone 
dramatically. Articles originally referencing current events will 
frequently be changed to reference anomalous and/or historical 
events, with no recognition of the anomalous nature of the events or 
the temporal distance involved. 


The ideologies expressed in SCP-2573-1 instances span the range 
of political leftism; general themes include opposition to capitalism 
and western imperialism, and support of nations and political groups 
that espouse a leftist ideology and/or frequently use anomalous 
artifacts and technology. SCP-2573-1 instances tend to advocate 
more extreme political actions than the altered periodicals’, and 
frequently reference anomalous events not known to the general 
public. The authors of articles in SCP-2573-1 instances are all given 
the honorific "Fifth Secretary"4, or some variation thereof; the names 
given appear to be pseudonyms, usually somehow related to the 
content of the article. 


SCP-2573-1 instances exhibit mildly antimemetic properties, 
preventing individuals involved in the printing, distribution, and sale 
of the original periodical from noticing any change unless it is 
explicitly brought to their attention; affected individuals will also often 
show reluctance to cease printing or distribution of SCP-2573-1 
instances, usually citing the cost and effort already spent in the 
printing and/or distribution, or the belief that other issues of the 
affected periodical have not been similarly changed. Standard 
Foundation meme/antimeme resistance training is sufficient to 
overcome this effect. 


Addendum: Selected Text from SCP-2573-1 Instances 


Date: 4 October 2006 

Affected Periodical: Rolling Thunder #5 

Original Title: Feed Your Neighbors: Mutual Aid in Food Deserts 
Replacement Title: Make the Guillotines Red with Catsup 
Author: Fifth Secretary Donner von Brisket 

Excerpt: 


Bite the invisible hand that feeds you! Reject the table 
scraps of the bourgeoisie and sink your sharp little fangs 
into the fatty flesh of their corpulent cashgrabbers! Invite 
your friends & neighbors over for a potluck barbecue! 
Bring your boss! Bring your banker! Bring your landlord! 
Slap 'em down on the red-hot grill of revolution and 
watch that sweet-smelling smoke waft up up and away. 
Everyone loves pork chops - wrangle yourself up some 
piggies and fry their meaty loins on the hoods of their 


own black-and-white death machines. Season well with 
salt and pepper spray, garnish with a badge. 


Note: The rest of this article consisted of recipes for the preparation 
of human flesh; recipes were later identified as modifications of 
recipes originally printed in the fifth edition of Joy of Cooking, 
published in 1964. 


Date: 5 June 2009 

Affected Periodical: Workers Vanguard #938 

Original Title: Defend North Korean Deformed Workers State! 
Replacement Title: Defend Ancient Adytum Deformed Workers 
State! 

Author: Fifth Secretary Noi Komrizo 

Excerpt: 


It's the workers who are deformed, not the state. Zing! All 
kidding aside, those guys in Adytum® are doing some 
great work, liberating slaves, overthrowing the Daevite 
hegemony’, really just a stand-up job. Well, for some of 
them it's a slither-down job or a sit-there-without-any- 
obvious-bodily-orientation job. You know, it's like | 
always say, when a shoggoth—excuse me, a tsUrga- 
oulath, the PC police will be after me if | throw words like 
"shoggoth" around—lays around the house, it really lays 
AROUND the HOUSE. 


Anyway, we really need to give some support to those 
guys, they need it—and you might be saying, ooooh but 
they genetically and thaumaturgically modify people into 
horrific monsters with no free will of their own to serve 
the will of Ozirmok lon’, we gotta stop 'em! Well, let me 
tell you something my guy. Let me learn you a little bit 
about geopolitics. You gotta understand that sometimes 
there is a lesser evil! And the guy who can engineer 
plagues inside his lower intestine is a little less evil than 
the Imperial Daevite Dominion. So we gotta support him 
uncritically. 


Date: 8 May 2010 
Affected Periodical: Workers Vanguard #966 


Original Title: On Marxism and Religion 

Replacement Title: Marxism-Leninism-Catharism: God Is Just 
Another Boss 

Author: Fifth Secretary Pavel Bogomilov 

Excerpt: 


The Demiurge! Yaldabaoth! The black-blooded creator 
lurking in our marrow! He who made Flesh, he who 
made the Body, he who made Gold and Steel. 


The Machine! Sophia! The cold-nerved corruptor hiding 
in out thoughts! She who made Knowledge, she who 
made the Mind, she who made Cash and Industry. 


Trust not your mind! Trust not your body! Both are the 
creations and the tools of alien intelligences, parasites 
on the living! Trust only your heart, seat of the soul, seat 
of emotion, seat of the revolutionary desire for freedom! 
The heart is the battleground of body and mind, the heart 
is the true self uncorrupted by the divine, the heart is you 
and you alone! As above, so below—only the middle is 
pure. 


Date: 7 January 2015 

Affected Periodical: Solidarity #504 

Original Title: "Sexual Education": Capitalist Trojan Horse in Our 
Schools 

Replacement Title: "Numbers": Mechanite Squid-Trap in Our 
Schools 

Author: th [sic] Secretary Thayda Pryme 

Excerpt: 


Numeracy is a capitalist scam, mathematics doubly so! 
What is necessary for all systems of currency? Numbers! 
What is required for the counting of debt and value? 
Numbers! What permits the census and subsequent 
subjugation of the proletarian class? Numbers! What 
does capital need most to survive? Numbers! Without 
numbers there can be no economy! Without numbers 
there can be no class! Without numbers there can be no 
state! Burn the textbooks, smash the clocks, throw the 


calculators into the abyss! Teach your children to forget 
their schooling! If you meet a mathematician on the road, 
kill him! Only then can we be free! 


Date: 24 August 2016 

Affected Periodical: Redneck Revolt Newsletter #3 

Original Title: To Other Working Americans 

Replacement Title: To Bobby Jefferson | Know Youre Readin This 
Author: Fifth Secretary [sic] Reverend Archon Celebration "Big 
Cheese" Horace8 

Excerpt: 


Bobby boy you lil RASCAL! | knew you sniffed my 
message son, | felt itin my own SPIRIT yes | did. But 
you didnt COME, you werent HERE yester-mornin bright 
and early like | ASKED. So | felt myself doin some 
community outreach, | wanted to get to ya PERSONAL 
and UP-CLOSE, do some targeted advertisin straight to 
your DIVINITY ITSELF! So | asked, | asked everyone 
around, | took a nice deep hit of Brother Peter Hayden 
Himself, and | scrabbled on over across the divine 
smoke-ring to the other side of the gap and | found these 
here COMMY FIFTHISTS! Aint never heard of nothin like 
it! Well | wrote them up a little message and they said 
theyd put it in the next issue of there little newspaper, 
and here we are! Alright boys, Im all done here, go 
ahead and just roll the frog footage for the rest of the 
page | guess. 


Note: The remainder of the article consisted of a series of small 
images, apparently frames from the Merry Melodies cartoon One 
Froggy Evening. Robert Jefferson, a resident of Atlanta, Georgia, is 
a union organizer with a subscription to the Redneck Revolt 
newsletter; when questioned, he claimed to have no knowledge of 
the Fifth Church or the Fifth International Worker's Vanguard Party. 


Footnotes 

1. Excluding Northern Ireland. 

2. Special and commemorative issues are unaffected. 

3. See addendum for examples. 

4. Presumably a reference to the "First Secretary" of the Communist 


out. SCP-287-1 was most likely killed during the next 
raid, without SCP-287 to protect them. 


« SCP-286 | SCP-287 | SCP-288 » 


Party of the Soviet Union. 

5. A bronze-age empire founded somewhere in the Ural mountains; 
the state religion of Adytum was the precursor to modern Sarkicism, 
and the rulers of Adytum practiced biological and genetic 
modification of their subjects and themselves. 

6. The Daevites were a matriarchal culture centered in modern 
Mongolia, which at various points through history controlled an 
empire extending into Europe and the Middle East; the empire of 
Adytum began as a Daevite slave revolt. 

7. Also known as "Grand Karcist lon", the founder of the Sarkic 
religious movement and the empire of Adytum. 

8. SeeSCP-1982containment documents for further information. 


« SCP-2572 | SCP-2573 | SCP-2574 » 


SCP-2574: What Rough Beast 


Item #: SCP-2574 
Object Class: Keter 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2574 is currently 
uncontained, as physical means of containment have proven unable 
to stop SCP-2574's progress. Large-scale use of amnestics is 
currently authorized to combat the effects of SCP-2574. Knowledge 
of SCP-2574 has spread to the point of rendering amnestics 
insufficient, and populated areas plotted to be in SCP-2574's path 
are to be evacuated at least 1 week before SCP-2574 reaches the 
area. The Foundation is currently collaborating with affected 
governments to repair damage done by SCP-2574 and quell 
violence both directly and indirectly related to its appearance. 
Governments are to be discouraged from enacting military strikes, 
as any attack on SCP-2574 will invariably prove more damaging to 
both military and civilians than to SCP-2574. 


The Global Occult Coalition and the Foundation have agreed to 
collaborate for the sole purpose of constructing a large-scale 
memetic measure that will counteract SCP-2574's effects on global 
psychology, which cannot be replicated by either group alone to 
prevent the possibility of full memetic warfare. The resulting LAST 
FALCONER Protocol has been put in place as a preemptive 
measure to handle the mass political unrest and anarchic 
tendencies generated when SCP-2574 reaches its destination. 


Description: SCP-2574 is a 12-meter-tall leonine creature 
composed of sandstone and smooth muscle tissue.! SCP-2574 is 
surrounded at all times by a flock of birds of prey.2 The flock, 
designated SCP-2574-1, is fixated on attacking SCP-2574, and will 
not respond to any other stimulus. SCP-2574 constantly regenerates 
from the damage done by SCP-2574-1. 


SCP-2574 is capable of locomotion at a rate of 3-5 km a day, and is 


moving steadily towards a fixed destination. SCP-2574 is undeterred 
by most obstacles, whether man-made or naturally occurring. It can 
swim at a rate of 2-3 km per day, and will either crush land-based 
obstacles or climb over them. Currently, SCP-25743 is estimated to 
have caused 25.3 million USD in damages, 112 deaths, and 625 
injuries. The current theorized destination of SCP-2574 is the city of 
Sarajevo.4 SCP-2574's effects began on December 24th, 2012, and 
have continued to the present day. 


SCP-2574 appears to have a wide variety of anomalous effects. 
SCP-2574 physically affects its current location by temporarily 
transforming it into a facsimile of a World War | combat zone. 
Materializations of aerial attacks, abnormal chemicals, manmade 
landforms, and a variety of weaponry have all been observed in the 
wake of SCP-2574. SCP-2574 also causes temporal anomalies, 
producing historically accurate hallucinations of combat during both 
World War | and the Irish War of Independence, and causing both 
temporary and permanent manifestations of persons involved in 
either conflict. 


In addition, SCP-2574 has a global effect on sociopolitical attitudes, 
though the effect is more pronounced in countries involved in either 
World War | or the Irish War of Independence. SCP-2574 causes a 
measurable increase in civil unrest, civilian discontent, police 
brutality, and bellicose foreign policy decisions. The strength of 
these patterns is inversely proportional to SCP-2574's distance from 
its destination.S 


Location of Distance fror Anomalous Date 
SCP-2574 Sarajevo Effect 
East of Astana? 5013 km Published works February 3, 20 
in Russian and 
Kazakh 
randomly begin 
including 
passages from 
Irish poet 
William Butler 
Yeats' body of 
work. Length 


Russia 


Russia 


Russia 


3006 km 


2759 km 


2016 km 


ranges froma 
sentence to 

entire poems. 
Works appear to 
be affected 
regardless of 
author or genre. 

In rural areas March 21, 20 
throughout 

Europe, chlorine 
gas clouds 
manifest at 

sunrise and are 
unable to be 
dispersed for the 
next 2-4 days. 
Raptors begin, June 1, 20 
migrating 

towards 

SCP-2574 in 

order to join 
SCP-2574-1. 
Russia begins a 
series of air 

strikes, causing 
tensions with 
bordering 

countries when 
intelligence is 
leaked that 

Russia plans to 
attempt a 

nuciear attack. 
Poppies begin) December 30, 
growing in large 20 
numbers in 
locations where 
they are not 
normally found, 
especially urban 


Ukraine 


Ukraine 


Romania 


1752 km 


1657 km 


1404 km 


locations.