Incidents of SCP-2581-X are initiated when a single card 
spontaneously acquires a previously absent religious theme in the 
case of secular cards or adopts a different religious theme in the 
case of non-secular cards. Each incident of SCP-2581-X spreads 
themes related to a single religion, which is unique to that incident; 
each religion that has been recorded has not reappeared in any 
future incident. Early outbreaks of SCP-2581 primarily featured 
faiths with a history of religiously themed greeting cards, 
proselytizing traditions, and living practitioners. However, later 
outbreaks have increasingly featured religions that lack some or all 
of these traits, including several religions that do not correspond to 
any belief system known to exist in human history. Affected cards 
retain many basic traits of the original card, such as the general 
subject or event commemorated, the language and script of any 
text, and the style and scale of artwork. 


Unaffected cards positioned close to an affected card will undergo 
conversion to the religion adopted by the initial affected card. 
Conversion requires a period of uninterrupted proximity or line of 
sight to an affected card ranging from an observed minimum of 
twelve minutes to a maximum of six hours, after which 
transformation is instantaneous. This process proceeds in order of 
physical proximity; cards will convert their immediate neighbors 
before affecting more distant cards. Absent immediate neighbors, 
cards will convert any card within line of sight. Conversion distance 
is extremely limited without a direct line of sight, with an observed 
maximum of 1.2 meters. 


Approximately 48 hours after exhausting all avenues of further 
conversion, all affected greeting cards spontaneously disappear. 
Attempts to identify the destination of affected cards with embedded 
tracking beacons have produced no results. A small proportion 
(roughly one in two thousand) of greeting cards are unaffected by 
SCP-2581 and are left behind by the disappearance of affected 


cards. Research is ongoing to identify common factors present in 
cards that have demonstrated immunity to SCP-2581-X outbreaks. 


SCP-2581-41 is an incident contained on / /20 ,ina gift shop 
in [REDACTED], United Kingdom, after a customer complaint 
alerted a Foundation agent posted in a senior management position 
at for observation of [DATA EXPUNGED]. Foundation 
operatives closed the shop and secured all greeting cards present in 
the store. The confiscated cards were airlifted to SCP-2581-41's 
current containment location at Site-28, during which 92% of cards 
were found to contain messages relating to the traditional religion of 
the Akan people of Ghana and the Ivory Coast. 


Addendum: 
+Partial Incident Log SCP-2581-X-03 


Incident: SCP-2581-13 

Sample Card 01 Initial Message: 

A photograph of an open Bible - 
"Congratulations! On Your Confirmation" 
Sample Card 01 Final Message: 

A photograph of an open Torah scroll - 
"Congratulations! On Your Confirmation" 


Sample Card 02 Initial Message: 

Outside: A gold outline of a rose - "In Deepest 

Sympathy" 

Inside: A gift card for groceries from 

Stores - "Our hopes are with you in this difficult 

time." 

Sample Card 02 Final Message: 

Outside: A gold outline of a rose wrapped 

around a Star of David - "In Deepest 

Sympathy" 

Inside: A gift card for kosher groceries from 
Stores - "Our prayers are with you in this 

difficult time." 


Sample Card 03 Initial Message: 
Outside: A 1960s-era vintage photograph of 


two bikini-clad teenage girls on a beach - 
"Wish You Were Here..." 

Inside: "Greetings from , Florida!" 
Sample Card 03 Final Message: 

Outside: A 1960s-era vintage photograph of 
two teenage girls on a beach, dressed in 
concealing bathing suits conforming to Haredi 
Orthodox Jewish codes of modesty. A fully 
clothed older man who appears to be the girls' 
father watches them from nearby - "Wish You 
Were Here..." 

Inside: Identical message 


Incident: SCP-2581-52 

Sample Card 01 Initial Message: 

Outside: A cartoon image of a house in a giant 
cardboard box with silhouettes visible inside 
the windows - "Congratulations on your New 
Home!" 

Inside: No Image - "Best Wishes for 
Unpacking!" 

Sample Card 01 Final Message: 

Outside: A cartoon image of a house in a giant 
cardboard box with silhouettes, angled to 
make the home's fireplace visible - 
"Congratulations on your New Hearth!" 

Inside: A cartoon image of Vesta, Roman 
goddess of the hearth, holding a traditional 
cooking kettle over a fire. A socket is present 
where the sender may insert their own 
photograph instead of Vesta's face - "May it 
Always Burn Bright!" 


Sample Card 02 Initial Message: 

Outside: A gold outline of the constellation 
Aquarius - "Your Fortune is Clear..." 

Inside: "You're going to do great things this 
year! Happy Birthday Aquarius!" 

Sample Card 02 Final Message: 

Outside: A gold outline of a slaughtered sheep 


with its liver removed and prominently 
displayed - "The Omens are Clear..." 
Inside: "Your fate is great this year! Happy 
Birthday!" 


Sample Card 03 Initial Message: 

An oil painting of a staircase set into the 
clouds ascending toward an archetypical 
Abrahamic image of Heaven - "If tears could 
build a stairway / and memories a lane / I'd 
walk right up to Heaven / and bring you home 
again" 

Sample Card 03 Final Message: 

An oil painting of an idyllic natural landscape. 
The land appears well lit, but the sky is dark 
and lacks a sun or clouds - \dentical poem, 
except that the third line reads "I'd journey to 
Elysium" 


Incident: SCP-2581-116 

Sample Card 01 Initial Message: 

Outside: A young father teaching his young 
son to fish in a boat - "To my Dad and Best 
Teacher" 

Inside: The same father and son, aged twenty 
years older, fishing in the same boat - "Now 
and Forever" 

Sample Card 01 Final Message: 

Outside: A young father teaching his young 
son how to use a puppet - "To my Dad and 
Best Teacher" 

Inside: The same son, aged twenty years 
older, but without the father. A skeletal, 
translucent figure resembling the father moves 
the son with puppet strings from above - "Now 
and Forever" 


Sample Card 02 Initial Message: 
Outside: A cartoon of an old woman winking - 
"You know you're getting old..." 


Inside: A cartoon of a wineglass, confetti, and 
several cats - "So live it up!" 

Sample Card 02 Final Message: 

Outside: A cartoon of an old woman pointing 
directly at the reader - "You know you're 
getting old..." 

Inside: A black-and-white image of a cast iron 
gate - "So what are you stil/ doing here?" 


Sample Card 03 Initial Message: 

A pastel image of a little girl running to her 
mother - "Happy Fifth Birthday to a Mother's 
Joy!" 

Sample Card 03 Final Message: 

A black and white image of several children 
running to a tall, hooded white figure 
silhouetted against a black cloud - "Only 
Twenty-Five Years Left to Wait!" 


« SCP-2580 | SCP-2581 | SCP-2582 » 


SCP-2582: Hammer & Nail 


Item #: SCP-2582 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2582 is contained in its 
original place of discovery. The business has since been retrofitted 
with standard containment procedures. SCP-2582 is unable to be 
moved and a secure perimeter has been set up around its center of 
effect. The area inside of the store has been partitioned, and the 
perimeter is monitored by surveillance cameras. Two armed guards 
with concealed weapons and incapacitating agents must be posted 
in the inside front of the main entrance at all times. 


Description: SCP-2582 is a phenomenon taking place in an area 
roughly encompassing the men’s restroom at a sports bar in 
Raleigh, North Carolina that causes individuals to visualize a static, 
circular, and flat grey surface in their mind. All human subjects 
placed in the area report immediately seeing this image when their 
eyes are closed. The image is also reportedly visible in dreams, 
superimposed over their typical dream. Those subjects placed for 
testing report the surface of SCP-2582 to be a specific size; 
commonly reported is the object covering roughly two thirds of their 
‘mind’s eye’. 


Subjects will sometimes hear the sound of human speech, shuffling 
noises, drills, bandsaws, objects being moved, and most commonly 
the sound of whistling. This effect is designated as SCP-2582-A and 
is manifest as long as there is an individual in SCP-2582’s area of 
effect. An outside observer can hear the noise if adjacent to 
SCP-2582 and otherwise unaffected by SCP-2582’s primary effect. 
The voice of SCP-2582-A sounds as if it belongs to an elderly man. 


Addendum A: Upon Testing Event 045 the object is awaiting 
reclassification and revision of effects. 


Test Event 2582-045: 


Dr. Breen: Please close your eyes and tell me what you 
see. 


D10293: Woah. It’s just like you said. It’s round and grey. 
Dr. Breen: Nothing else you can tell me? 

D10293: It's big. Woah. That’s nuts! 

Whistling is heard in the room. 

Dr. Breen: Anything else? 


D10293: Nah doc... Well, well wait. There’s a little circle 
inside of the big circle. 


Dr. Breen: Interesting. Please continue. 


D10293: Woah. The big circle is getting smaller. The 
little circle is the same size. 


Dr. Breen: ... 


D10293: Big circle is getting smaller... Little circle is the 
same size. Wait bigger- 


An extremely loud metallic tapping noise is heard in the 
room, sounds of an elderly man humming. 


D10293 begins screaming loudly. 
D10293: What the fuck! 


An extremely loud crash is heard in the room. A large, 
pointed, cylindrical gray object similar in appearance to a 
nail erupts out of the center of D10293’s forehead. 


The object wiggles and recedes back into D10293’s 
skull. 


Researcher's Notes: The object appears to have extended from 


located inside the vehicle either exited through the front windshield 
or were forcibly pressed as far towards the front of the car as they 
could go. The driver, who remains unidentified, was announced 
dead at the scene and eventually loaded into an ambulance with 
some difficulty. 


On the way to the hospital the ambulance shared a similar fate as 
the previous car, with the driver reporting sluggish turning and 
braking at first, followed by an inability to turn or stop at all and an 
intense feeling of being drawn forwards. The ambulance came to a 
stop after plunging into the North Saskatchewan River. The driver 
managed to escape from the vehicle and found himself propelled 
across the river and into the surrounding woods at an estimated 

30 km/h where he remained pinned to a tree for nearly 45 minutes 
before his inertia stabilized and he fell to the ground. SCP agents 
arrived within the week to retrieve the ambulance’s contents and 
were able to identify SCP-289 as the source of the disturbances. 
SCP-289 was eventually airlifted to Site-17 by being attached to the 
end of a long tether held below a helicopter to avoid any inertial 
buildup on the part of the vehicle. 


Addendum: Those with proper authorization to research the 
properties of or interact with SCP-289 should see document 
#289-01 for full safety procedures. 


Document #289-01: Testing Safety Procedures 


The radius of SCP-289’s action is precisely 1.6 m. There is never to 
be more than one person inside this radius at any time. 


Human interaction with SCP-289 is not necessarily dangerous, but 
stringent time restraints are in order. No Foundation personnel are 
to be inside the active radius for more than 90 seconds. During this 
time of exposure, personnel are advised to alter their speed, 
acceleration, and position as often as possible to avoid inertial 
buildup. 


Objects to be subjected to SCP-289’s active field should ideally be 
introduced to the field by automated means. Long handheld 
manipulating devices are also acceptable, and for particularly 
delicate objects or precise adjustments human interaction is 


and severed the pineal gland. | and other presiding researchers are 
of the opinion that there is a hammer somewhere that we need to 
locate. 


« SCP-2581 | SCP-2582 | SCP-2583 » 


SCP-2583: Dust to Dust 


Item #: SCP-2583 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2583 is kept ina 
hermetically sealed steel room measuring 4 meters on a side. This 
room is to only be accessible by an airlock system outfitted with 
multiple air purification systems, in order to minimize the introduction 
of additional particulates to the containment chamber. Any 
personnel entering the chamber must wear BSL-4 biohazard suits in 
order to not provide shed hair or skin cells to SCP-2583. The 
chamber is to be connected to a capacitor bank capable of briefly 
electrifying the interior surfaces of the chamber as needed for 
deterrence purposes. 


0.25 kilograms of dust and fine sand measuring 35-50 microns in 
size are allowed in the chamber, for use by SCP-2583. The interior 
is monitored using fiber optic cameras embedded in the walls, 
ceiling, and floor, so as to record as much detail as possible of the 
structures created by SCP-2583. 


Description: SCP-2583 is a mobile, sentient structure made of dust. 
Its baseline form masses 1.7 grams and measures 3.7 centimeters 
in height. Its form is somewhat indistinct due to its composition, but 
is roughly humanoid, with four strands of dust representing limbs 
extending from a central strand which terminates in a spheroid made 
of dust.1 


SCP-2583 is able to manipulate electrostatic charges up to 1 meter 
from it via unknown means in order to create other structures made 
of dust and fine granular substances. This ability is capable of 
affecting particles up to 100 microns in size, with a preference for 
particles in the range of 20-50 microns in size. Structures have been 
observed to extend up to 3.1 meters in freestanding height. 
Structures created by SCP-2583 are extremely resistant to 


deformation by outside forces and individual strands of dust or other 
particulates possess a tensile strength approximately 250 times 
greater than that of spider silk. The electrostatic charges maintaining 
these structures can be disrupted by a brief electric pulse. 


SCP-2583 was initially observed to only create the frameworks of 
simple geometric structures such as cones, pyramids, and cubes, 
but has progressed to more complex structures since being 
contained. Current structures include complex three-dimensional 
fractals, replicas of the building in which it was initially discovered, 
and humanoids with the same body plan as itself. 


When creating a humanoid, SCP-2583 typically spends triple the 
time creating it as it would spend on creating another structure of 
comparable size. Once it has completed a humanoid, it will remain 
within 10 centimeters of it for between 20 and 30 hours, after which 
it will negate the electrostatic charges keeping the humanoid 
together. SCP-2583 separates the remains of these humanoid 
structures and does not reuse the dust. To date, none of the 
humanoids created by SCP-2583 have displayed independent 
mobility. 


Footnotes 

1. Similarity between SCP-2583 andSCP-1352has been noted. 
Investigation into whether the two phenomena are variations of the 
same effect, or if one propagated the other, is ongoing. 


« SCP-2582 | SCP-2583 | SCP-2584 » 


SCP-2584: Loop Snakes 


Item #: SCP-2584 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: Five instances of SCP-2584 
are to be kept in a warm, dry enclosure of appropriate size in the 
Parazoology wing of Area-12. When an instance of SCP-2584 
undergoes binary fission, one of the offspring is to be euthanized 
and disposed of.