this situation, any comment made relating to the object by an 
individual present will start a heated discussion (an SCP-1101 
event). During an SCP-1101 event, affected individuals are 
compelled to continue the discussion until broad agreement is 
reached with one individual, the ‘winner’. The 'winner' will take the 
object atop SCP-1101, which signals the end of an event. If the 
affected individuals do not come to an agreement, a 'winner' will be 
selected after a certain length of time and end the event. In this 
case, the winner has usually made a more intelligent or factually 
correct argument, but there appears to be subjectivity involved, 
perhaps suggesting sapience on SCP-1101's part. Memories of the 
event are retained. Subsequently, the ‘winner’ experiences feelings 
of euphoria and an attachment to the object ‘won’, while the rest of 
the affected subjects suffer mildly depressed mood. These effects 
are transient and dissipate after a maximum of one week. 


Individuals will join an event regardless of debating skill, educational 
level or ordinary interest in the event topic. SCP-1101 does not 
appear to cause major personality changes save the compulsion to 
discuss. However, events have the potential to become vitriolic 
regardless of individual personalities. Interestingly, no incidents of 
physical violence have been recorded during an event despite 
frequent displays of extreme anger. 


Affected individuals will only attend to basic needs if it is possible to 
simultaneously participate in the event (subjects may collapse from 
exhaustion if an event is of sufficient duration, but appear to suffer 
no long-term ill effects). The event is a memetic hazard: all 
individuals who hear an event in progress or see SCP-1101 at the 
time are compelled to join, including individuals viewing the event 
remotely. The latter are capable of starting separate secondary 
instances of SCP-1101 events which will gravitate towards the 
location of SCP-1101. 


Duration of events is variable and dependent on the specific 
arguments and positions taken by the individuals involved. 
SCP-1101 events have been observed ranging from 3 minutes to up 
to 5 months (in this particular case, the event only ceased due to 
interruption of food supplies and subsequent starvation of individuals 
involved). 


Further information on SCP-1101 may be found in [REDACTED]. 


Test Battery 1101-1: Initial baseline testing. An object was placed 
upon SCP-1101 and test subjects instructed to enter the 
containment chamber. 


Test Battery 1101-1 


1101-1A 

Object: Nothing 

Test Subjects: 5 D-class personnel D-1101-1 through 5 
Additional Instructions: None 

Result: Subjects made normal conversation for 5 
minutes. Test ended. 


1101-1B 

Object: 1 rectangular pine wood block 

Test Subjects: 5 D-class personnel D-1101-1 through 5, 
in addition to Dr. Major (unplanned inclusion) 
Additional Instructions: D-1101 asked to describe 
object 

Transcript: 

D-1101-1: It's a wooden block. 

D-1101-4: | think they want you to say what sort of wood. 
The last thing | was assigned to, they kept making me 
put these balsa sheets into some machine. 

D-1101-2: Uh, balsa doesn't come in blocks, it's 
something else. 

D-1101-3: He didn't say it was balsa, it's probably some 
kind of oak wood. 

Dr. Major [over intercom]: It's a pine block. 

D-1101-1: Why is he telling us? Maybe it's a trick. [Other 
test subjects voice agreement] 

Dr. Major: You idiots, | know what it is! 

[REDACTED] 

Results: At this stage full properties of SCP-1101 were 
unknown; Dr. Major was observing remotely and was 
therefore affected by the event. Test subjects proceeded 
to argue for 6 minutes about both the composition of the 
block and the trustworthiness of Dr. Major. After 6 
minutes they were convinced by Dr. Major of the block's 


composition and he left the observation room to collect 
the block, 'winning' and ending the event. Live 
observation of SCP-1101 was subsequently 
discontinued. 


1101-1C 

Object: 1 rectangular pine wood block 

Test Subjects: 5 D-class personnel D-1101-1 through 5 
Additional Instructions: D-1101 asked to give an 
opinion about the object 

Transcript: 

D-1101-1: Oh, it's this damn block. |, uh, | don't really 
care about this? It doesn't do anything. 

D-1101-3: | guess you could use it as a doorstopper? 
D-1101-5: Who the hell would want that? 

D-1101-2: | might! It could be a paperweight. 

D-1101-3: No, it's too big. It would be better as a 
doorstopper. 

D-1101-5: Are you serious? It's just a [expletive] block! 
[REDACTED] 

Result: Subjects argued about possible uses for the 
block for 13 minutes. Agreement was reached that the 
block was not designed for function but could have some 
useful characteristics. D-1101-2 was the 'winner' and 
ended the event. 


1101-1D 

Object: One Panasonic portable DVD player, not 
powered 

Test Subjects: 5 D-class personnel D-1101-1 through 5 
Additional Instructions: None 

Transcript: 

D-1101-2: It'd be good if they gave us movies here once 
in a while. 

D-1101-1: Yeah, | haven't seen anything since | got in. 
Nothing newer than 

D-1101-4: Are you kidding? f love those! 

D-1101-5: It went downhill after the first one. 

D-1101-2: Now YOU have to be kidding. 

[REDACTED] 


Result: Subjects argued about the merits of the 

film series for 49 minutes. No agreement was reached. 
D-1101-3, with the opinion that the second film was the 
underrated gem of the series, took the DVD player, 
‘winning’ and ending the event. 


1101-1E 

Object: One political campaign button reading 
‘[REDACTED] 2012" 

Test Subjects: 5 D-class personnel D-1101-1 through 5 
Additional Instructions: None 

Transcript: 

[DATA EXPUNGED] 

Result: [DATA EXPUNGED] and casualties before 
containment was reestablished. Security measures for 
SCP-1101's use with controversial items have been 
heightened. 


1101-1F 

Test designed to determine effects of SCP-1101 on 
individuals with a prior interest in the event topic and 
enthusiasm for debate. 

Object: One postcard depicting Claude Monet's Water 
Lilies (1907) 

Test Subjects: Dr. A and Dr. P , both with an 
amateur interest in art collecting 

Additional Instructions: Dr. A asked to comment on 
the object 


Transcript: 
Dr. A : The real thing is much nicer. 
Dr. P : | don't know, | prefer his portraits myself, 


though | think Renoir does them better. 

Dr. A: Renoir? Have you been to the Musee d'Orsay? 
[REDACTED] 

Dr. A_: That's absolute trash! 

Dr. P : You think MY tastes are trash? You probably 
thought Manet and Monet were twin brothers! 

Dr. A: You're saying this when you haven't even been 
outside of ? You pretentious little [expletives] 

Dr. P : My mother was WHAT? 


[REDACTED] 

Result: Subjects argued for 82 minutes before Dr. P 
said 'I can't argue with you any more’. Dr. A took the 
postcard and ended the event. Dr A and Dr.P 

have subsequently been hostile to one another. 


In the absence of staff who are able to act like 
adults, | recommend that testing of SCP-1101 
between coworkers be avoided. 


- Dr. 


Addendum 1101-1: It has been observed that duration of an 
SCP-1101 event generally scales with the number of individuals 
involved. Due to the potential for memetic spread of an event, it is 
estimated that a breach of containment would lead to a ‘point of no 
return’ where event duration is unacceptably high after a critical 
mass of [REDACTED] persons, leading to a perpetual SCP-1101 
event and a potential AK-class end-of-the-world scenario. In light of 
this theory, SCP-1101 has been upgraded to Euclid class and new 
containment procedures implemented. 


« SCP-1100 | SCP-1101 | SCP-1102 » 


SCP-1102: The Blue Ridge Phenomenon 


Item #: SCP-1102 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-1102 is confined to an 
already-settled landscape, giving it CU Caldera designation as a 
highly sensitive widespread phenomenon. As per these regulations, 
civilian awareness of an overarching effect is monitored by local 
agents, and specific outbreaks are to be suppressed as per 
standard procedures based on number of witnesses and exposure. 
Additionally, as per Caldera protocol, Foundation sociologists are to 
aid in cultivation and segregation of civilian awareness by creating 
different mythologies of the aspects of SCP-1102’s manifestation. 
Over ofthese are in circulation, and are believed to aid in 
preventing a holistic view of the phenomenon in question from 
forming. 


Active specimens or manifestations will disappear shortly and are to 
be restrained from entering highly populated areas and roadways 
when possible. Active specimens are not known to be dangerous to 
humans. 


Research is currently suspended but is scheduled to restart on / / 


Description: SCP-1102 is a phenomenon localized in the Blue 
Ridge Mountain range in the eastern USA, though evidence 
suggests it may also include an area as far south as mid-Georgia 
and Alabama. (For a complete map of SCP-1102 related incidents 
from which the current location has been defined, contact Dr. or 
any Level-4 personnel.) The exact cause of the effect is unknown, 
as no external factor has affected any facet of SCP-1102. This is 
therefore assumed to be related to [DATA EXPUNGED]. 


The effect occurs only at night, during periods of rain or snow, and 


targets deceased bodies within a small, randomly selected area. For 
each reasonably intact corpse in the area, an animate likeness of 
the original organism will appear, with minor differences including (in 
humans): changes (darkening or lightening) in skin tone, deformity 
(see Doc 1102-114A ), alteration or lack of facial features or small 
appendages (fingers, toes, genitalia), and . Clothing 
and body modifications or piercings, provided they are intact, are 
generally retained. It is unknown if the resulting entities are the 
same as the original creature, or are completely new organisms. 


The dominant urge in all subjects, human or otherwise, seems to be 
one of returning or rejoining other members of the original species. 
Subjects instinctively know where the nearest group is, and the 
larger the group, the more likely the subject is to attempt to integrate 
with them. One historical sighting, for instance, describes seeing “a 
faceless hound, ghostly white, running in the company of other wild 
hounds, though not braying or making a sound - as its mouth was 
sealed shut.” 


At rare intervals, however, the effect occurs at extreme magnitudes 
that may encompass many square kilometers. Further depiction can 
be accessed in Document 1102-A4 for Procedure 1102-EVE 
“Resurrection Woods.” For context, Foundation folklorists, 
historians, and retrieval teams estimate this particular event has 
occurred 3 times in the past century. 


All entities completely vanish at some point in the same night that 
their appearance occurs, usually shortly before sunrise. They leave 
no discernible physical evidence of their presence apart from 
footprints, damaged vegetation, and so on. Given the entities’ rare 
occurrence and transient nature, limited information is available 
about them or the effect, and research is still pending. 


In 2006, 100 Foundation operatives were stationed at graveyards in 
the Blue Ridge area for four months, in hopes of seeing the 
phenomenon manifest - at the end, one successful specimen was 
restrained, and the following observations were made: 


« Entities are corporeal and have mass. 
¢ Entities do not react to extraneous sounds or noise, even 


when they may indicate the presence of more of the host 
species - for instance, when a recording of a large chorus was 
played for one entity, it still moved towards the two operatives 
present (who were the largest nearby human presence.) 
Entities can “die” and have human anatomies without 
significant alterations or additions. Brain and nervous activity, 
however, are sporadic and do not seem to correspond to 
typical anatomy. 

Entities resemble the corresponding original corpse, though 
often differing in many ways. 

The entity in some ways continues to be "linked" to the 
original corpse. When the entity vanishes, the original corpse 
will also vanish at approximately the same time. The ultimate 
destination of either entity is unknown, as is how they 
disappear. 

Entities are believed to be neither conscious, sapient, nor 
possessing of complex intelligence. 


Auxiliary File 1 

Because of its unpredictable and sparse nature, the phenomenon 
has been studied from local stories and accounts that seem to 
describe it - several folklorists are appointed for the responsibility of 
distinguishing possibly real accounts from fictional mythology. From 
these results, the effect has been described as far back as accurate 
stories go, including the journals of at least three separate isolated 
farmers in the area, who devoted time to observing the phenomenon 
when it occurred. 


For instance, one incident, reported in a local newspaper, occurred 
in 1978 (before the Foundation had completed its current 
containment procedures of the effect). A 17-year old male was killed 
by an unknown individual and apparently buried in a shallow grave 
near his former high school, on the same night as the school’s prom 
celebration. Five months later, the individual was reanimated 
(undergoing mutations typical of SCP-1102) on the night of a 
student fundraiser, and, showing typical signs of attraction to human 
presence, entered the school through an unlocked door. 


Police were alerted, but due to numerous interferences, several 


hours passed before they arrived, by which point the high school 
was in a lockdown and complete panic. Most of those present self- 
evacuated, with the exception of several students who became 
trapped in a locked kitchen area; and an 18-year-old female who 
had been in a relationship with the affected individual, and was 
observed in the corner of a commons area, screaming, “Big Joe! Big 
Joe, itsme,C | It’s me! You came back for us, Big Joe!” 


The teenager’s correct identification of Joseph __, despite significant 
alteration, is of interest, and it is hoped more description of this 
phenomenon will be uncovered in further accounts. 


Auxiliary Personal Report, by Dr. 
Blue Ridge is big, lonely, mysterious - it’s actually the trees that 
make it blue, and at sunset, night settles down like nothing else in 
the world. Meaning it’s possibly the best place east of the 
Mississippi for us to find this. Nonetheless, people spread out, and 
we're making more and more calls for incidents in Great Smokey - 
plus, we still haven’t found a good way to take the SCP out of Blue 
Ridge (and then maybe put it somewhere else, like a big box with a 
lock.) 
The only theory we’ve got is this - | was slamming back beers with 

- awhile ago, and he said the only way we could do it, at all, was 
to contain the whole range. He’s right. You can’t take the effect out 
of the landscape - it’s something in the mountains, about the 
mountains, that makes all the dead come back faceless and insane. 
| don’t know what it wants. Make us all go away, be merciful to them, 
fuck with us? As helpful as it might be, | hope it never figures it out. 


« SCP-1101 | SCP-1102 | SCP-1103 » 


SCP-1103: Dr. Wondertainment Young Surgeon's 
Transplant Kit 


Item #: SCP-1103 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Outside of scheduled 
experiments, instances of SCP-1103 are to be stored in a standard 
large-volume storage refrigerator in Bio-Containment Unit-23 at a 
temperature below 5°C. 


Due to limited supply, experiment proposals need to be approved by 
at least two personnel with 2-1103 clearance.