SCP-1250-2 tape: Dr. T is conscious during the initial 
portions of the recording, and is seen discussing 
something with one of the nurses before she exits the 
room at 00:25:54. Dr. Carter is seen walking into frame 
at 00:43:05, and quickly proceeds to smother his 
colleague with a nearby pillow. Dr. T — struggles against 
the attempted suffocation, but he is easily overpowered 
by Carter, and falls still at 01:09:15. Dr. Carter exits the 
room following the confrontation, and is not seen for the 
remainder of the recording. 


Following the events of the above experiment, the 
project has been handed over to Dr. Carter. He has 
requested that no further SCP-1250-2 experimentation 
be performed for the time being. 


SCP-1251: The Accident Blackspot 


Item #: SCP-1251 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: Due to the quasi-random 
movement of SCP-1251 and its presence on public roads, 
embedded agents in the local emergency services and the UK 
Highways Agency have been instructed to act as liaison with on-site 
personnel. 


Roads leading to SCP-1251's current site are to be secured and 
traffic redirected, with the nearest three traffic intersections to be 
kept under video and gravimetric surveillance. From the 26!" day 
from the last known relocation of SCP-1251 the team should be on 
high alert for activity and be prepared to transfer containment 
measures at any time. 


Asof // the containment team is to be expanded to six 
members and placed on 14-hour overlapping shifts of three 
personnel (see Addendum 1251-01). Attempts are under way to 
influence the movement of SCP-1251 towards a secure facility (see 
Addendum 1251-02); Foundation personnel in local civic planning 
offices should be advised of any necessary road closures and title 
transfers. 


Description: SCP-1251 is a free-standing phenomenon currently 
centered on a mini-roundabout located in , United Kingdom. It 
exerts an anomalous pseudo-gravitational force on all objects within 
12m of its center, typically varying between 0.4N/kg and 2N/kg. 


It has been determined that SCP-1251 is able to transmit itself 
between roundabouts and other circular junctions and does so 
approximately once a month. No pattern has been detected to the 
fluctuations in its 'schedule' relative to the lunar or Gregorian 
calendar. 


The force SCP-1251 exerts on its surroundings is inversely 
proportional to the size of the intersection - large roundabouts and 
junctions are generally safe to approach and its anomalous effects 
would not be readily apparent to traffic. At mini-roundabouts, 
traditional crossroads and similar arrangements it has displayed far 
greater destructive potential; the highest measured force exerted by 
SCP-1251 (at a ‘painted circle’ mini-roundabout in ) is 
1,200N/kg. 


Use of ground-penetrating radar has located a mass 1.8m below site 
1251- , revealed by ferromagnetic imaging to be a metal cage 
consistent with a 16th century gibbet. No corresponding execution 
was recorded on the site, and further tests following SCP-1251 
shifting to a new location showed that the object had disappeared, 
only for a similar mass to be detected at SCP-1251's new site. It can 
safely be assumed that this object, or what it contains, is the cause 
of SCP-1251. 


Attempts to excavate the affected area while SCP-1251 is ina 
relatively low-activity state to retrieve this object have thus far been 
unsuccessful, as removal of large amounts of material from 
SCP-1251's current site has been observed to dramatically increase 
the pseudo-gravitational force exerted by the anomaly. 


Study of traffic accident records indicates that SCP-1251 may have 
been operating for some time. A moving ‘accident black spot' can be 
traced moving through the road network apparently originating in 
Folkestone, UK. Correspondence with colleagues in Secteur-26 
suggest that SCP-1251 may have been active in France before 
apparently ‘jumping’ to the UK via the Channel Tunnel. Given this 
new information, priority is to be given to finding a way of reliably 
controlling SCP-1251's direction of shift so it can be guided towards 
a secure facility or at least an unpopulated area; otherwise there is a 
significant danger that SCP-1251 will eventually leave Sector-25's 
jurisdiction. 


Recovery Log 1251 


SCP-1251 came to the Foundation's attentionon // duetoa 
pileup at a rural roundabout in . Emergency services arriving on 
the scene immediately sustained near-identical vehicular damage 


and casualties, and a fast-response team was dispatched to 
investigate. 


It was quickly established that SCP-1251 was exerting an 
anomalous force of approximately 1N/kg within the area of the 
roundabout. Personnel represented themselves as members of an 
Explosive Ordnance team and the incident was reported as an act of 
terrorism targeted at the most senior casualty of the pileup, a 
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State returning from a delegation 
in Indonesia. Surrounding roads were immediately closed under the 
cover of repair work. 


Containment was lost on the 29th day of Foundation presence; the 
team began experimentation on the morning of / / to discover 
that Site-1251-1 no longer possessed any anomalous qualities. 
Sector-25 began intercepting police and emergency services 
notification from a site 1.5 miles away from the containment zone. 


Upon arrival it was discovered that a car had become stranded on 
the traffic island; the occupant had reported difficulty leaving their 
vehicle. Further measurements indicated that the roundabout was 
exerting an attractive force of 1.6N/kg. The team was faced with the 
challenge of winding up operations at Site-1251-1 whilst 
simultaneously securing Site-1251-2 using the pretext of a road 
subsidence. 


Addendum 1251-01 


Agent , tasked with supervising the on-site team, has been 
placed on leave due to mental and physical exhaustion exacerbating 
a previously undiagnosed nervous condition (see Log-1251-01). O5- 

has read the medical report produced by Dr. and is satisfied 
that the contents of Agent 's field logs are the product of stress 
and poor deployment practice leading to a personal crisis, rather 
than further anomalous behaviour exhibited by SCP-1251. Agent 

is not to return to active duty unless cleared by a Foundation 

psychiatrist. 


Addendum 1251-02 


Significant progress has been made in ‘guiding’ the movement of 


SCP-1251. The anomaly shows a clear preference for ‘travelling’ 
along open, publicly-owned roads without doubling back on itself, 
and furthermore favours intersections with a specific configuration 
(to wit, through road with second road intersecting at a right-angle, 
low dome mini-roundabout without double yellow lines). 


By applying pressure on local government bodies to temporarily 
close and/or transfer strategic sections of road to Foundation 
ownership the containment team has been able to encourage 
SCP-1251 to move along a more or less predictable route. Current 
projections indicate that SCP-1251 can be guided to Site-60 within 
the next two years, where it can be safely contained by placing it on 
a 'track' comprising two mini-roundabouts on a circular carriage and 
linked by a further road. 


The behaviour SCP-1251 exhibits when choosing its next location 
suggests it may have some degree of sentience - further research is 
advisable. 


« SCP-1250 | SCP-1251 | SCP-1252 » 


Log-1251-01 


Log-1251-01 
The following comprises excerpts from Agent 's field notes. On 
// Agent was assigned the task of supervising the team 


assigned to SCP-1251, an autonomous phenomena under ongoing 
containment in the UK road network. The circumstances of Agent 

's transfer are the subject of a formal complaint and are 
currently under review by the Sector-25 disciplinary board, but it is 
noteworthy that it occured immediately after Incident - -1, on 
which Agent was lead containment officer. 


Initial recovery procedures for SCP-1251 required five personnel to 
remain on-site under the cover of a road maintenance team until full 
containment was achieved, with the expectation that the original site 
could be permanently removed from the road network and converted 
into a Foundation facility in similar fashion to other localised 
phenomena. Temporary housing was provided in the form of work 
tents and personnel obliged to sleep and eat in the containment 
area. A budget was allocated for food purchases and plans made for 
Site 1251-1 to be provided with electric power. However, the 
discovery of the mobile nature of SCP-1251 meant that plans for 
lighting, heating and entertainment were never fully implemented 
and remained on an ad hoc basis. Furthermore, the budget initially 
allocated to Site 1251-1 was not carried forward due to an 
administrative error. An informal 'relief fund’ set up for the 
containment team was established at Sector-25 by Dr. but was 
confiscated by sector management as inappropriate. Following 
review of containment measures a mobile containment unit has 
since been established with dedicated vehicle, electricity generator, 
TV, microwave and heating units, and a permanent budget for food 
and entertainment. 


/07/ : Arrived on-site today and was shocked at the ramshackle 


nature of containment measures. Personnel have been spending 
their own money on food because credit cards and accounts initially 
allocated to the team have been allowed to run empty. Complaints 
to have apparently gone unanswered. Several members of the 
team appear to be under the impression that their stint on 1251 is 
time-limited and have asked me when they will be able to return to 
their families. Despite this the team remains dedicated to 
containment and has been doing wonders with the limited resources 
available. 


/09/ : The weather is getting colder. | attempted to contact 
Sector-25 but it looks like location-specific email and phone 
keycodes are not being updated when SCP-1251 moves. | have 
personally purchased and distributed a number of small gas heaters. 
Several of the remote cameras used to monitor surrounding traffic 
intersections have failed and have had to be replaced with 
consumer products - again purchased at the team's own expense. | 
strongly urge that containment measures for 1251 be revised; this is 
not a temporary containment situation and should not be treated as 
one. 


/09/_ _: It was not necessary to tell the team that 1251 is being 
generated by a corpse of a highwayman, or whatever it is. We have 
enough bad dreams. 


/10/_ :We have now experienced six weeks of almost unbroken 
rainfall. Equipment remains in a critical state and the suspension of 
testing due to the weather has removed the team's last line of 
communications with personnel from Sector-25. 


/11/ : Tent B has been lost. The radius of 1251's attractive effect 
varies slightly between locations and it was misplaced during setup 
owing to a fault with one of our spring scales. Agents and 
woke up this morning to find their tent had been apparently blown 
away. It's now wrapped around the crossroads sign - we will attempt 
to recover it once 1251 moves on though | suspect it will be 
unusable. 


/11/_ : We have been eating takeaway for five months. 


/11/  : Agent has had an encounter with a local resident, who 
demanded to know when normal road service would be resumed. 
Communications with Sector-25 still almost nonexistent, we were 
unaware that the road had been officially closed for emergency 
water mains repairs, and instead informed the questioner that a 
hitch had been encountered while laying fibre-optic cable. The 
discrepancy was picked up on immediately and an ugly 
confrontation was had with the resident and subsequently with a 
police constable who became convinced that our purpose was 
criminal. Fortunately, his immediate superior, Lieutenant is 
associated with the Foundation and we understand he has been 
able to represent the situation as a Special Branch investigation. | 
have asked the Lieutenant to communicate the urgent nature of 
shortages at 1251's containment site. 


/11/_ : Morale is appalling. If conditions continue we will see 
desertions. 


/12/  : Merry fucking Christmas. 


/01/_ : Agent left today; he said he planned to return to 
Sector-25 and report that containment had been breached to draw 
attention to the situation here.! | tried to contact Lieutenant - 
the station said they have no record of him ever working there. 
Official extraction and reassignment with use of amnestics, a 
memetic outbreak somewhere else rewriting people's memories - 
who knows? 


/01/._ :Nowordfrom — .! overheard Agent openly 
discussing suicide by walking into 1251 in a high-activity state.2 


/01/_ : Aman agent of the Foundation? Does the Foundation 


exist? Doesn't it make more sense to assume that I'm just a worker 
on some road maintenance site somewhere who's gone mad? Does 
the world outside the yellow tape exist? I'm OK. I'm OK. 


/02/ :Last night | dreamt that it had stopped raining. | got out of 
the sleeping bag and wandered around - the sky was utterly dark, no 
moon, no stars, but the ground was perfectly illuminated. | walked 
into 1251's area of effect and it didn't touch me. | screamed "It's not 
gravity! It's acceleration!". Everything made so much sense. 


/02/ :1 don't know who wrote that. It wasn't me. It's not my 
handwriting. Someone is fucking around with my log.3 


/02/ :1251 ate today. We heard him yelling and got out of 
our sleeping bags. | couldn't see the moon anywhere. He was 
standing at the roundabout entrance. He said "It's all a lie. There 
was never a Foundation." and walked in. 1251 shouldn't have been 
in a high-activity state, but it sucked him in and buried him anyway. 
Then it moved. There's two of them now! Two 1251s roaming 
around, God help us all, and when the scientists come back from 
their white world where there's light and heat and everything works 
they'll see under one of them is a corpse in a hard hat, screaming. 
That's the meaning of the movements. Morse code; each hour is a 
dot, each day a dash. That's all can do now, one letter a month 
as he goes mad under the black soil. This is what he'll say IT'S NOT 
GRAVITY IT'S ACCELERATION.4 


/02/_ : They're outside my tent. You'll have to kill me.5 


Footnotes 

1. Agent did not return to Sector-25 and his whereabouts are 
currently unknown. A termination order is currently pending. 

2. No such agent was assigned to SCP-1251. None of the other 
agents at the site had any recollection of another crew member by 
that name. The possibility of wide-ranging memetic activity has been 
considered; however, apart from Agent 's log there is simply no 


indication this individual is real. 
3. Graphological comparison proved this to be, conclusively, Agent 
's own handwriting. 
4. Agent here reports a death on-site as well as further 
phenomena associated with SCP-1251, including an unscheduled 
shift. These do not seem to correspond to actual events, and Agent 
no longer recalls making this entry. As far as can be 
established there is still only one instance of SCP-1251. Agent 
's Morse Code hypothesis appears to be unfounded based on 
SCP-1251's movements to date. 
5. Agent was placed in the care of Foundation medical staff on 
his 256thday assigned to SCP-1251. Other crew members were 
also referred for medical conditions including poor nutrition and 
immersion foot syndrome. Sector management accepts that on-site 
conditions were improper but maintains an appropriate level of 
contact with the team was kept throughout the period under 
consideration. 


SCP-1252: A Half-Formed Idea 


Item #: SCP-1252 
Object Class: Euclid