¢ SCP-1344-01: "Swedish-style" swimming goggles 

* SCP-1344-02: AN-6530 aviation goggles 

* SCP-1344-03: brand welding goggles 

* SCP-1344-04: brand paintball goggles 

¢ SCP-1344-05: Handcrafted goggles with a design aesthetic 
common to the steampunk subculture 


All SCP-1344 instances contain two hollow, telescoping needles 
(approximately 48 mm long and 2 mm thick), hidden in recesses in 


the frame. Each side of the frame contains one of these needles. 
Instances of SCP-1344 show no anomalous behaviour unless worn 
by a living human being. 


After approximately 5 seconds, both needles will extend and pierce 
the subject's eye, moving through the conjunctiva, sclera, and the 
interior of the eyeball before embedding themselves in the optic 
nerves. Though this process does not appear to cause any physical 
pain or discomfort in the subject!, the psychological repercussions 
are as expected. Subjects will, unless sedated, invariably attempt to 
remove the instance of SCP-1344 from their face. If allowed to 
proceed with removal, a subject will extract their eyeballs in their 
entirety from the ocular orbit. This provokes the expected physical 
responses. Once successfully removed, both needles retract, 
releasing the subject's eyeballs. Safe removal of SCP-1344 is only 
possible through an invasive medical procedure that leaves the 
patient blind. 


However, if the instance of SCP-1344 is not removed after its initial 
anomalous effect manifests, the subject's vision is gradually 
restored to a minimum of 50%, with a cap at 85%, over a period of 
3-5 minutes. 


Subjects that do not remove an instance of SCP-1344, report seeing 
orbs with an average estimated diameter of 8.7 cm, and of varying 
colouration, hovering in place over the heads of both the majority of 
human beings and other mammals subjects are exposed to. These 
orbs move with the persons or animals in question. Tests with 
various species of insects, arachnids, fish, amphibians, reptiles and 
birds have yielded no results. It is unknown why this phenomenon is 
only reported with the majority of human beings as opposed to all 
other mammals. It is noted that multiple SCP objects have been 
observed to have orbs of their own as well, including SCP-1875 and 
the products of SCP-158 testing. Research into the exact criteria for 
the manifestation of this phenomenon is ongoing. 


Addendum 1344-A-01: Excerpts from testing log 1344/ 
T/20050312-:A 


Date: 2005-03-12 
Test lead: Senior researcher R.L. Erlich (employee code 


FRS000532) 
Time start: 10:31 
Subject: D-824212 


Procedure: Subject was strapped into the provided 
restraint chair and asked to comment on any animals 
and persons introduced into his field of vision. 


Results: 


Viewed Estimatec 
orb size 


1 adult bank 11cm 
vole (Myodes 
glareolus) 


1 adult N/A 
speckled trout 
(Cynoscion 
nebulosus) 

1 adult N/A 
Sydney 
funnel-web 

spider (Atrax 
robustus) 

1 adult 12cm 
Bernese 

Mountain Dog 
(Canis lupus 
familiaris) 

1 adult giraffe 3 cm 
(Giraffa 
camelopardalis) 
D-13727 5cm 


D-23410 TO cm 
D-63261 20 cm 


Colouratio Test lead's 
comments 

A fluctuating 

mixture of red 

and blue, 

approaching 

purple 

N/A No orb 

reported 


N/A No orb 
reported 


White 


Red 


Yellow with 

occasional 

shifts to blué 

White 

Pink, with Largest size 
frequent encountered 


flashes of up to this 


white point, 
implications 
unciear 
Junior N/A N/A No orb 
Research reported 


Assistant 


Addendum 1344-A-02: Recovery and preliminary containment 
notes 


Following an incident at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection 
unit attached to Washington Dulles International Airport, Foundation 
agents recovered a previously opened package, addressed to a 
P.O. Box in , MA, containing all known instances of SCP-1344. 
After administration of Class-B amnestics, the box and its contents 
were taken into Foundation custody for provisionary containment. 
Included with the instances of SCP-1344 was a note, transcribed 
below. 


Hey John, 


Don't know if | can call you that, but I'm not good at 
formal stuff. So, | modded this batch for you like you 
asked. Don't know what good it'll do you, but they work 
like you want them to, | think. LOL. Anyway, | know you 
asked me to deliver them to you personally, but no can 
do on that one. My mom's sick and | can't leave her for a 
while, so | went ahead and sent them through USPS 
instead. Hope you don't mind! If you do, feel free to pay 
me less or something. It's my mom, you know? 


Let me know what you think! 


Working off the package's return address, a Foundation recovery 
team was dispatched to the author's location where it encountered a 
PD crime scene. Covert enquiries revealed both residents to be 
deceased. Further details concerning this incident can be accessed 
through the proper channels. Please refer to your Site's appointed 


inter-agency relations officer for more information. The identity of 
‘John’ is presently unknown, though investigations are ongoing. 


Footnotes 
1. Itis currently not understood how SCP-1344 provides the subject 
with pain regulation. 


« SCP-1343 | SCP-1344 | SCP-1345 » 


SCP-1345: Propaganda Machine 


Item #: SCP-1345 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: The building housing 
SCP-1345 is to be boarded up and marked with signs warning of 
Hantavirus infestation. Guards under the guise of military police are 
to detain and question any non-Foundation persons attempting to 
gain entry to the building. An enhanced security force is assigned to 
SCP-1345-A; if it proves insufficient, security personnel at the 
nearby Sites and canbe summoned to assist. 


SCP-1345 is not to be fully disassembled or moved from its original 
location unless it is in imminent danger of discovery or seizure by 
non-Foundation groups of interest. Permission from the North 
American Regional Director must be obtained if experimentation 
requires activation of single or multiple components. Activation of 
the complete SCP-1345 assembly is not to be performed under any 
circumstances without authorization from the O5 council. 


Description: SCP-1345 is an assembly of equipment (SCP-1345-A) 
in an abandoned Quonset hut, located on (a United States 
Army installation) and an associated memetic phenomenon 
(SCP-1345-B). SCP-1345-A was constructed between 1949 and 
1951 by employees of Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL), by 
direction of the United States government. 


SCP-1345-A is designed to broadcast precisely modulated 
microwaves in a direction selected by the operator of the assembly. 
It is comprised of components commissioned by the United States 
government during a period between 1949 and 1951. Along with 
various support equipment, the assembly contains a control 
computer using miniaturized vacuum tubes as computing elements, 
signal generation and modulation equipment digitally controlled by 
the computer, and a synchronized array of high-powered 


magnetrons to generate the microwave signal. The transmission 
system terminates in a gimballed parabolic dish antenna, mounted 
on a steel mast able to telescope through a hatch in the roof. The 
antenna is able to be aimed precisely via rotation and elevation. 


Several aspects of the equipment make it distinct from conventional 
microwave transmission facilities. The magnetrons driving the 
antenna are overengineered for their expected power capacity and 
heat dissipation needs; each was built to handle over 400 kilowatts 
of power at maximum. The computer exhibits remarkable complexity 
compared to other contemporary computers; records confiscated 
from United States government archives show that it was designed 
and produced specifically for this project, at great cost. 


The magnetrons and antenna are calibrated to transmit at 
gigahertz; this frequency is notable for being the third harmonic of a 
frequency which produces especially strong microwave auditory 
effects when directed at the human head. 


SCP-1345-B is a widespread memetic phenomenon, manifesting in 
culture as a conspiracy theory regarding a non-existent event known 
as the Philadelphia Experiment’. The precise date of SCP-1345-B's 
official manifestation is impossible to determine, but extensive 
searches of printed and written media archives show that there is no 
mention of SCP-1345-B prior to the first test of SCP-1345. Reported 
knowledge of the Philadelphia Experiment appears to have occurred 
in multiple individuals in a close time period; these individuals were 
all living at various locations directly north of SCP-1345-A at the time 
of its first (and only) test. Affected individuals claimed to have 
knowledge of the Philadelphia Experiment, variously claiming to 
have witnessed it, read about it in secret United States Navy 
documentation, or learned about it via other methods; they soon 
began to contact individuals studying UFOs and other paranormal 
phenomena. The memetic effect is unusually subtle; compared to 
other conspiracy theories, an unusually high percentage of those 
believing in SCP-1345-B do not believe in any other conspiracy 
theories, and are generally placed high (50-80) on the Gunners 
Skeptic Scale. 


Recovered documentation is scarce; most records related to 
SCP-1345 were destroyed shortly after its first test. The documents 


that do exist indicate that SCP-1345 was commissioned as part of a 
project called "Project Viewpoint"; documentation on the greater 
project is nearly nonexistent, but it appears to have been a program 
to develop highly effective psychological warfare equipment and 
techniques. In internal correspondence, members of the project 
referred to SCP-1345 informally as "the propaganda machine". 


Analysis of remaining documents in United States Archives seem to 
indicate that SCP-1345-A was intended to be a device to use a 
currently unknown effect to influence the opinions of citizens of the 
United States and other countries. Recovered blueprints show that 
production SCP-1345-A installations, when operable, were intended 
to be mounted on M35 2‘ ton cargo trucks, or in the bomb bays of 
Convair B-36 Peacemaker strategic nuclear bombers. Listings of a 
number of prototype programs for SCP-1345-A's computer were 
recovered; internal comments indicate a variety of purposes, 
including "inspiring uprisings and installation of governments 
sympathetic to the United States", "increasing regard of United 
States-produced products", and "reducing Communist sympathies in 
foreign and domestic communities". A list of "recommended targets" 
for the final program was also located; locations for deployment 
included various countries bordering Warsaw Pact nations, Cuba, 
and Berkeley, California. 


SCP-1345 was tested on / /1951; the first test was believed 
unsuccessful, and the project was scrapped. This seems to have 
destroyed confidence in Project Viewpoint, which, together with the 
internal collapse and purge of , prevented use of 
anpsych (anomalous psychological warfare) and anint (anomalous 
international intelligence) techniques by both major powers during 
the Cold War. 


The link between SCP-1345-A and SCP-1345-B was unknown until 
1992, when a letter by Dr. Sharps was recovered from former 
KGB archives through an intelligence-sharing agreement between 
the newly-formed Russian Federation and the Foundation. Dr. 
Sharps was a contractor employed by LANL to design the 
modulation hardware and software for SCP-1345-A. Before the 
discovery of the letter, SCP-1345-B was believed to be a non- 
anomalous, though virulent, conspiracy theory. 


+ Excerpt from Document SCP-1345-Sharps-1 


The first test is going to proceed within the 
next month. The test procedures have been 
approved by the project supervisor; we will be 
powering it to five percent of capacity and 
aiming it directly north. We are running a test 
regime designed by ; if the machine 
works, anyone affected by it will feel compelled 
to send a postcard to a mailbox we rented in 
Philadelphia. Unless you wish otherwise, | 
have modified the test regime already. If it 
works, you will be able to detect the extent of 
its influence easily in the public media here. 
Look for people talking about "The 
Philadelphia Experiment". | believe | will be 
able to secure unsupervised time with the 
machine within two weeks. 


SCP-1345 is currently inoperable, due to degradation of the 
computer and other equipment. At some point between 
abandonment of the project, the door was blown open ina 
windstorm, and further exposure to the elements damaged most of 
the equipment. Efforts are underway to restore SCP-1345 toa 
condition conducive to more effective study. 


Footnotes 

1. An alleged event in which the United States Navy destroyerUSS 
Eldridgevariously teleported, traveled through time, or was rendered 
invisible. 


« SCP-1344 | SCP-1345 | SCP-1346 » 


SCP-1346: Phobia Induction Corridor 


Item #: SCP-1346 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Due to its immobile nature, the 
original facility housing SCP-1346 has been commandeered to 
serve as its containment site. The SCP is to be kept under 
observation, and unauthorized entry denied, but requires no other 
special security measures. 


Description: SCP-1346 is a corridor, 3.5 m by 3.5 m and 130 m in 
length, located in the subbasement of the former 

Research and Engineering Center. The entrance is marked by a 
heavy steel door, 3.5 meters to a side and almost 45 cm thick. An 
identical door sits closed at the opposite end of the hallway. The 
passageway itself is a seamless, cement corridor having no other 
doors, windows or alcoves. The ceiling has regular lighting 
placements; however, due to the effects of SCP-1346 everything 
past 60 meters has proven impractical to maintain, rendering the last 
half of the corridor dark and in disrepair. 


The corridor's anomalous nature manifests at approximately 50-60 
meters along its length. Shortly after crossing the 50 meter 
threshold, electronic devices begin to malfunction. At about the 
same point, subjects report hearing clicking, tapping and other 
mechanical sounds, though not from any clear source. Ear plugs 
and other audio dampening measures neither diminish nor eliminate 
these sounds, according to witnesses. To date none of these noises 
have been verified remotely. 


During this period, subjects start to report feelings of apprehension 
which intensifies the longer they remain in the passageway, and the 
further along it they traverse. Eventually some fear or dislike the 
subject harbors will begin to manifest into a fully-fledged phobia. 
Subjects with predispositions towards acluophobia, claustrophobia, 


bathophobia or other immediately present conditions will respond 
accordingly. Others may begin to hallucinate, imagining the 
presence of some entity or condition drawn from their psyche. At 
around 90-100 meters, or if more than 10 minutes have been spent 
in the anomalous zone, the subject becomes overwhelmed with fear, 
attempting to retreat from the passageway as quickly as 
circumstances will allow. 


In most subjects, the feelings of fear and anxiety subside 
immediately upon exiting the corridor. Many express confusion and 
embarrassment at their overreaction, and can often be persuaded to 
reenter (although this invariably has the same result.) A minority 
retain a fear of the passage, in some cases resulting in long term 
psychological trauma. Some subjects may subsequently deny the 
existence of the hallway or its unusual properties, growing agitated 
and hostile if pressed on the topic. Whether these are natural 
psychological reactions or some aspect of SCP-1346 is not known 
at this time. Severe reactions are more likely to manifest the more 
often a person is exposed.