1. Whilst it goes without saying that Negroes released from this form 
of service are far more susceptible to mental insanity and weakness, 
this form of madness is strictly confined to the servant populations. 
2. This of course changes nothing of the general attitude of Negroes 
under our employ, who assure us that they feel (as we have taught 
them) their futures would be best spent under our benevolent 
supervision. 

3. The burgeoning theory that disease transmission requires the 
presence and proliferation of microscopic creatures of some kind is 
currently under review by the Initiative; its applicability to this case, if 
true, could be revolutionary to our research. 


SCP-3000-EX: Modified Hospital Beds 


Item #: SCP-3000-EX 
Object Class: Explained 


Special Containment Procedures: Containment is no longer 
required as of 10 April 1987. The items previously designated as 
SCP-3000-1 through -4, together with related materials, have been 
returned to civilian authorities. 


Description: SCP-3000-EX is the collective designation for a set of 
four modified hospital beds and other items which were originally 
hypothesised to have mind-affecting properties. Comprehensive 
testing of SCP-3000-EX, Pol-3000-1 and all other materials 
recovered in conjunction with SCP-3000-EX, have confirmed that 
they are not anomalous. 


A full list of SCP-3000-EX items is set out below: 


¢ 4x hospital beds (date of manufacture no later than 1975). 
The beds have been modified by the attachment of short 
lengths of metal pipe of various sizes and configurations. The 
pipes are attached to the side rails of the beds by metal 
clamps, or have been imprecisely welded in place. 


¢ 7 x IKEA-brand directional floor lamps (2 without bulbs) 
together with extension leads and power strips. 


* 12 x bottles of sleeping pills 


* 9x pairs of handcuffs, together with several sets of what 
appear to be improvised manacles. Several of these were 
attached to the metal pipes on the hospital beds. 


* 6 x steak knives 


* 1x knife sharpener 


* 1x chest freezer containing multiple cuts of red meat. Meat 
was later identified as beef. 


* 3x eviscerated human corpses (all teenaged males). The 
bodies were later identified as those of Gavin Staub, Mitchell 
Clark and Jerome Simmons, noted in Texas state records as 
missing persons. 


SCP-3000-EX was recovered on 4 April 1987 following interception 
of Tarrant County police communications with a high incidence of 
trigger phrases. Key phrases included "murder", "ritual", "kids", 
"flesh", "speaking in tongues" and "cult-like". Agents from Site-73 
were deployed to the crime scene, a suburban house in Arlington, 
Texas owned by Carl Fraser (designated Pol-3000-1). Pol-3000-1 
had been arrested by county officers. 


All SCP-3000-EX items were located in the basement of the house. 
The bodies were handcuffed or manacled to hospital beds by the 
wrists and ankles, and had been dead for between five days and 
three months before discovery. All three corpses were emaciated 
and showed signs of malnutrition and starvation over a period of at 
least four weeks. Their torsos were smeared with a combination of 
human and animal blood. Cause of death was determined to be 
severe internal bleeding, organ damage and disembowelment, likely 
with the steak knives found at the scene. Each of the bodies was 
found holding a steak knife in its right hand. 


Further investigation uncovered a pit dug beneath the garage, filled 
with quicklime and containing body parts from at least ten 
unidentified individuals. 


Based on the use of animal blood and the apparent self-inflicted 
wounds, Foundation agents suspected the possibility of a 
compulsion effect generated by the hospital beds or other 
SCP-3000-EX materials. All items were removed by the Foundation 
for testing, and Pol-3000-1 was taken into Foundation custody, with 
local law enforcement amnesticised as necessary. 


+ Addendum 3000-EX-A - Interview with Pol-3000-1 


Addendum 1: Interview SCP-3000-EX-A 


Interviewed: Pol-3000-1 
Interviewer: Agent Curtis 
Date: 5 April 1987 


Foreword: Relevant extracts of this interview are set out 
below. The full interview logs (275 minutes) are available 
at Document 3000-EX/084. Pol-3000-1 was fitted with a 

polygraph for the final portion of the interview. 


Agent Curtis: Please confirm your name and 
address? 


Pol-3000-1: Carl William Fraser, 17 Old Grove 
Drive, Arlington, Texas, United States of 
America. It was my grandma's house. 


Agent Curtis: Do you know why you're here, 
Carl? 


Pol-3000-1: Yes, | am here because the 
policeman came to my house and he went 
down into my basement and he found those 
boys laying there dead. 


Agent Curtis: Did you kill those boys, Carl? 


Pol-3000-1: Yes | did, | killed them or at least | 
had to help kill them. 


Agent Curtis: Who helped you kill them, Carl? 


Pol-3000-1: They did. Those boys themselves 
did. | had to help. 


Agent Curtis: Tell me how you met those 
boys. 


Pol-3000-1: Most of them were at the bus 
station in Fort Worth, and ... 


Agent Curtis: Where did you get the hospital 


beds? 


Pol-3000-1: | bought them. My grandma had 
one and she died but | liked how the mattress 
felt when | lay down on it, so | bought some 
more and they were the same type but they 
didn't feel the same. 


Agent Curtis: Where did you buy them from? 


Pol-3000-1: From a store in Fort Worth, 
Jackson's Bric-a-brac. They have old things 
there. 


Agent Curtis: Did you change the beds after 
you bought them? 


Pol-3000-1: | put the metal on them so their 
arms could reach. | tried it without but it didn't 
work, the handcuffs were too short. And | 
jammed the backs so they were sitting up a 
little bit. So they could lean forward. 


Agent Curtis: Did you do anything else to the 
beds, Carl? 


Pol-3000-1: No. 

Agent Curtis: Do you know what magic is? 
Pol-3000-1: Yes, like Siegfried and Roy. 
Agent Curtis: What about real magic, Carl? 


Pol-3000-1: There's no such thing as real 
magic, just stories and illusions, it's not real. 


Agent Curtis: Can you do illusions, Carl? 
Pol-3000-1: No. 


Agent Curtis: Did you do an illusion with the 


Addendum: Document 563-ADCC-05: The following is a 
translation of a document recovered from behind a picture frame in 
the main office building at SCP-563. The document was partially 
damaged by mold; however, Foundation linguists have been able to 
reconstruct what they believe is an accurate rendition of the 
document. 


Dear [Name Unknown]. 


As the Americans say, we have hit the [Jackpot/Windfall/ 
Big Time]. No more simple frozen meals for this failing 
company. The jungle you pointed us to has given us 
quite a boon. The meat is delicious, the fruit is [unknown, 
most likely a synonym of "delicious"], and the seafood... 
One of the cooks made stir fry with ginger and... | 
suppose you would call them "shrimp and clams", but 
honestly, I'm no paleontologist. It was the best thing | 
had ever tasted. 


And the eggs... well, we're having difficulty finding 
unfertilized ones. The ones we do find either hatch or 
have [babies, possibly embryos or zygotes] in them. But 
the things that do hatch... it would make an American 
[scientist, most likely paleontologist] blush and then die 
of joy. 


We're sending back a few specimens to [the leader?]. 
Next stop, [unknown; next sentence indicates a country 
to the north, most likely either Russia or Mongolia]. 
Northward we go! 


With regards, 
Zhou Song 
Footnotes 
1. Takara Tyrannosaur and Riza Raptor, respectively. 


2. The fish in these buns have been found to have actually been a 
species of trilobite, shelled and heavily cooked. 


« SCP-562 | SCP-563 | SCP-564 » 


beds? 
Pol-3000-1: No. What do you mean? 


Agent Curtis: Did the beds make those boys 
hurt themselves? Did the beds speak to the 
boys in their minds? 


Pol-3000-1: | don't understand what you 
mean, | think you're trying to trick me and | 
don't like it when people trick me. 


Agent Curtis: Okay, Carl, I'm not trying to 
trick you. | just want to ask questions. Would 
you like some more water? 


Pol-3000-1: | don't like it when people trick 
me. 


Agent Curtis: Did you put the animal blood on 
those boys, Carl? 


Pol-3000-1: It came from the meat. From the 
freezer. 


Agent Curtis: Did you spread the blood ina 
pattern? 


Pol-3000-1: No, it was them and it was just 
messy, not a pattern. 


Agent Curtis: Are you saying the animal 
blood was an accident? 


Pol-3000-1: Yes, it was an accident, why are 
you asking me - 


Agent Curtis: But killing the boys wasn't an 
accident, was it Carl? 


Pol-3000-1: No, no it wasn't an accident, but - 


Agent Curtis: Why did you kill them, Carl? 


Pol-3000-1: | didn't kill them! | told you, | didn't 
kill them, | just helped. 


Agent Curtis: Okay, then - 


Pol-3000-1: | killed the other ones, the first 
ones, but | didn't know any better and | was 
funny from the beer and | just grabbed his 
neck to stop him leaving and then when | woke 
up he was dead. | didn't mean to but he was 
so pretty and | didn't want him to leave and | 
tried to keep him but after he was dead he 
began to rot and | had to get rid of him so | - 


Agent Curtis: What about later on, Carl? 
What about Gavin Staub? 


Pol-3000-1: Gavin, Gavin, yes | remember he 
had a strong face and bright eyes but he got 
too weak. 


Agent Curtis: What do you mean by weak? 


Pol-3000-1: | tried feeding them, after the first 
ones, once | got the handcuffs and the 
basement arranged, but they didn't want to 
eat, they were beautiful but the food was 
making them less beautiful and then they died 
so | realised that there was another way, that 
the only way they could stay beautiful was if 
they ate themselves. 


Agent Curtis: If they ate themselves? 


Pol-3000-1: Yes, you see it's like a beautiful 
loop and the beauty goes around and around 
and never wears off and they would be able to 
stay, but | couldn't make them understand 
even though | gave them the knives and told 


them but they wouldn't do it, so for Gavin | had 
an idea. 


Agent Curtis: What was your idea, Carl? 


Pol-3000-1: After he woke up and he was on 
the bed and he was yelling, | told him that he 
had to eat himself, and he said no, so | said he 
couldn't have any food, and every day | told 
him and | could see he was hungry but he still 
said no so | waited and waited and then | gave 
him the steak. 


Agent Curtis: This is one of the steaks you 
were keeping in the freezer? 


Pol-3000-1: Yes, | put it on his belly and told 
him he could eat it and the freezer is good 
because the cold numbs the belly and it makes 
the meat harder and slippery for the knife and | 
knew how sharp the knife was, it was like a 
trick but it wasn't a mean trick and if he could 
only start cutting he would smell his body and 
he would be so hungry and the beauty would 
go on and on forever. But he was too weak, he 
couldn't hold the knife steady enough, so | had 
to help him. 


Agent Curtis: <silence, 5 seconds> So what 
happened - 


Pol-3000-1: | always had to help them, it never 
worked! | didn't want to but | had to, there was 

no other way. And the beauty always went out 

of them, afterwards. 


Agent Curtis: |'m going to tell you some 
names now, Carl, and you tell me if you have 
heard of them, okay? 


Pol-3000-1: Okay. 

Agent Curtis: Adyitum's Wake. 
Pol-3000-1: No. 

Agent Curtis: lon. 
Pol-3000-1: Like in chemistry? 


Agent Curtis: No, it's aname. Do you know 
lon? 


Pol-3000-1: No. That's a strange name. 
Agent Curtis: The Order of the White Worm. 
Pol-3000-1: No. 

Agent Curtis: The Fifth Church. 


Pol-3000-1: No. There is a Catholic church off 
Debbie Lane, | think. 


Agent Curtis: Tlaol. 


Pol-3000-1: No. That's not a word. Are you 
trying to trick me again? 


Agent Curtis: No, Carl, I'm not. I'm just asking 
whether you know it. 


Pol-3000-1: That's not a real word. 
Agent Curtis: Okay. The Veldt... 


Afterword: Polygraph results were negative for all 
anomalous connections and groups of interest. 

Further testing confirmed that neither Pol-3000-1 nor any 
of the SCP-3000-EX items had any anomalous 
properties. Pol-3000-1 was amnesticised and returned to 
Tarrant County Jail. 


+ Addendum 3000-EX-B - Local media report 
Source: "Arlington Voice" Newspaper, page 3 
Date: 12 August 1987 

Headline: "Murder Trial Collapses" 


The murder trial of the "Arlington Cannibal" 
was thrown out of court yesterday, when the 
District Attorney's case collapsed in 
spectacular fashion. The alleged murderer, 
Carl Fraser, 38, has been released from 
custody, and the DA would not confirm 
whether further charges would be filed. 


Fraser was accused of the gruesome murders 
of three young men allegedly found dead in his 
Arlington home. Tarrant County officer Shawn 
Douglas had told the court the shocking details 
of his discovery of the bodies in the basement 
of the house, provoking gasps from the packed 
courtroom. However his testimony faltered 
during cross-examination by Defence Attorney 
Peter Ridley. 


Mr Ridley repeatedly queried Officer Douglas’ 
recollection of events, with the officer pressed 
for information about the circumstances of the 
search of Mr Fraser's house. Under a barrage 
of questions, Officer Douglas admitted that he 
could not clearly remember his actions for a 
significant period immediately after discovering 
the bodies, and he could not explain this 
confusion. 


Mr Ridley then presented police records for the 
case, showing gaps in the custody of the 
alleged murder weapons and other evidence, 


which Officer Douglas could not explain. 
Officer Douglas was adamant that he had 
nothing to hide, but admitted that he could not 
rule out tampering with the crime scene or the 
evidence during the alleged gaps. 


Following this answer, the District Attorney 
immediately asked the judge's permission to 
withdraw charges. Amid uproar in the 
courtroom, the trial was discontinued and Mr 
Fraser released. 


After the trial, Mr Fraser was not available for 
comment. Mr Ridley gave a short statement to 
reporters gathered outside the courthouse, 
noting that his client had been exhausted by 
the proceedings, and wished to be given 
privacy on his return home. 


Update - 15 August 1987: Foundation standard 
procedures for the use of amnestics have been 
amended. The Ethics Committee is currently deliberating 
on a proposal related to SCP-3000-EX - please see 
Document EC/87-054. 


SCP-123-EX: Accidents Happen 


Item Identification Number: SCP-123-EX 
Object Class: Explained 
Special Containment Procedures: N/A 


Description: SCP-123-EX, formerly known as_ Person of 
Interest-1213 ("Ottone Trevisan"), was a 23-year-old male of Italian 
descent, born on 7/11/1907 in New York City, New York, who was 
believed to be anomalous. Prior to the events detailed in 
Addendum-123-D, SCP-123-EX was theorized to be capable of 
causing statistically improbable outcomes, all of which would end in 
SCP-123-EX's favor. 


SCP-123-EX's personality had been described as easily agitated, 
and prone to overreaction. SCP-123-EX had previously been 
affiliated with a local university, but eventually ceased affiliating with 
it. It is unknown what caused this change. 


SCP-123-EX was contained by the Foundation between 11-19-1928 
and 5-21-1930, contained at Site-11, formerly located in 
[REDACTED], Illinois. It was contained within a Standard Humanoid 
Containment Cell-A.1 


SCP-123-EX was officially contained as an SCP object on 
12-20-1928 after what were believed to be accurate tests complied 
by Dr. Sharp and presented before the O5 Council. SCP-123-EX 
was Classified as Euclid while in containment.