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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures:
SCP-XXXX is to be kept in a standard inanimate object containment locker. Access to SCP-XXXX is provided through biometric conformation of designated personnel. Only authorized staff are to directly interact with SCP-XXXX when testing is not in progress. Gaining access to SCP-XXXX requires level two clearance, and the acquisition of Latin as a second language, and Aramaic as a third. Authorized staff must have an abnormally high logical intelligence, and the ability to rationalize linguistic errors. Any requests to preform exercises depicted in the contents of SCP-XXXX must be denied, except for testing purposes. If designated staff members become belligerent during interactions with SCP-XXXX, guards on duty must administer anesthetics and forcibly remove that individual. After such an event, the individual staff member must be prohibited from accessing SCP-XXXX.

Staff access must be limited to forty-five second intervals in a seventy-two hour period. Two guards must be posted to control the lights during any staff interaction with SCP-XXXX.

During testing, a D-Class Personal is to enter an observation cell containing SCP-XXXX. When testing begins, any image capturing apparatus must be situated in order to obfuscate the observer's view of the contents within SCP-XXXX. SCP-XXXX appears ineffective when audio recordings take place1.

Description:
SCP-XXXX is a brown, leather-bound folio having belonged to Professor ████ of ████ University in ████, Mississippi. The folio was found after [DATA EXPUNGED], where foundation personnel collected and transported the document to site [REDACTED] storage facility.

The dimensions of this folio are 30cmx40cm, containing eighty-two pages with hand written notes on either side of each page. The folio contains complete lecture notes for two full length college courses designed for native English speakers: one in Latin, and one in Aramaic. These plans contain reference guides, noun and verb charts, conjugating and declining instructions, extensive vocabulary lists, and translating exercises.

Authorized staff will note an exponentially increasing number of errors as the document progresses. When exposed to SCP-XXXX, those learned in Latin and Aramaic express intense irritation with the poor authorship of the document. Despite the irritation, both learned and unlearned subjects demonstrate a desperation to continue reading. When allowed to continue reading, subjects show an intense desire to follow the lesson plans provided. Subjects often request paper and pencil, or chalkboards, in order to self-facilitate the plans within the folio. When reading proves impossible, the effects SCP-XXXX are mitigated.

After sixty-seconds of exposure, subjects begin to rationalize these errors as accurate alternatives to their knowledge. Subjects begin questioning their own comprehension of native or secondary languages; this is particularly evident in subjects who speak an Aramaic or Latin based language.

After one hour of exposure, subjects display symptoms of acute anxiety disorder, which is significantly worsened if completion of the folio is prohibited. If allowed to complete the folio, subjects claim to understand an alternative set of spacial relations. This typically manifests as decreased depth perception, a lack of basic spacial reasoning skills, and an increased sense of dread.

Interviews following a subject's completion of the folio have revealed various hallucinations inconclusive aberrations and sensations. Universally, subjects speak of "spatio circum," translated from Latin as "space around." Subjects communicate anxiety over their physical movements, and typically become sedentary after exposure. When forced to move, subjects show physiological signs of distress, and communicate a fear of falling. Careful monitoring of subjects after completion of the folio are inconclusive, though the effect appears permanent.

Addendum XXXX-01
After the events of 11/██/20██, all staff are prohibited to interact with SCP-XXXX, pending authorization of further testing.

Addendum XXXX-02
Anomaly referred to subjects as "spatio circum," will further be known as SCP-XXXX-A.