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Item #: SCP-4197
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4197 is to be kept in a storage unit located at Site-64. The item is to be concealed by six layers of packing paper, then drilled onto a standing wooden surface, the back of the item positioned against the surface. This surface is to be buried beneath the concrete floor of the storage unit, at a minimum depth of 10 feet, then encased in a layer of concrete.
Description: SCP-4197 is a plastic blue bathroom stall door, dimensions 30” x 48” with a grainy texture. The door formerly included stainless steel latches, hinges, and a bolt lock, but all have been subsequently removed for containment. The front of the door is unmarked, but the back has been graffitied with a variety of images and phrases, including SCP-4197-A.
SCP-4197-A is the English phrase: “[REDACTED]”. When read, spoken, written, or heard, this phrase creates intense physical and psychological damage to the reader, speaker, writer, etc. However, these effects lie dormant until the afflicted individual attempts to speak or write. These attempts at communicating will immediately descend into nonsense, becoming totally unintelligible before lapsing into a variety of physical symptoms, including erratic muscle spasms, fever, profuse sweating, nausea, vomiting, all before slipping out of consciousness.
Despite a litany of efforts to cure them, these symptoms do not ever seem to go away, and only intensify with further attempts at verbal/written communication. A subject can live a healthy life after being “infected” by SCP-4197-A, but they must forego the use of language entirely, relying on body language, physical gestures, drawings, and other non-linguistic visuals. The only phrase that the subject can express, in fact, is SCP-4197-A. This would suggest that SCP-4197-A is designed to spread its effects across as many “carriers” as possible, but without more concrete information on SCP-4197-A’s origins this is impossible to confirm.
This visceral response to SCP-4197-A does not seem to cross language barriers, either when presented in English or translated. It also does not stop the afflicted individual from understanding language, simply from communicating with it. Although it’s worth noting that SCP-4197-A’s effects do translate through both American Sign Language and English Braille (see Tests below). Therefore, SCP-4197-A could prove disastrous if exposed en masse to English speaking countries and persons, but would seemingly have no impact on the remainder of the population.
The only authorized personnel to be immediately exposed to the effects of SCP-4197-A is Agent ████, a field agent previously exposed to the item during its recovery by the Foundation. Agent ████ has performed an extensive search across various digital platforms and physical locations for the phrase, but it has not been found anywhere else in recorded history outside of SCP-4197. All attempts at discovering when and how SCP-4197-A was inscribed onto SCP-4197 have failed.
Addendum-4197, Recovery Report: SCP-4197 was discovered on May ██, ████, in [DATA EXPUNGED] by █████ ██████, on a road trip with his fiancee. It can be surmised that █████ noticed SCP-4197-A on the stall door shortly before attempting to text his fiancee, as a drafted message was found on his phone with scrambled, incoherent words. He then became violently sick, vomiting heavily before stumbling out of the stall and collapsing onto the tiled bathroom floor. He was found by other patrons of the store, and paramedics were called to the scene, along with the local police.
When the police arrived, they searched the restroom, and one of the officers is presumed to have noticed SCP-4197-A by happenstance, as when the officer went to ask the fiancee questions, they could not speak, and their limbs began to move independent of one another, crashing and tangling into themselves, the officer breaking several bones in the hands and arms.
Still, no connection was made between the officer, █████, and the stall door. The paramedics on the scene took the officer away, and the store was closed to allow for a more in-depth investigation over the weekend. Reportedly, 13 officers met similar fates by the end of the investigation. As reports of this incident spread, the Foundation sent Agent ████ to investigate. Agent ████ kept an audio log of his search, verbally describing everything he saw in the restroom for approximately three hours before coming across SCP-4197-A. Due to his audio log, the results were instantaneous, which allowed the cause of the anomaly to be successfully traced back to SCP-4197-A.
Agent ████ ultimately recovered from the symptoms, but completely lost all linguistic capabilities. Despite this, he still oversaw the Tests that confirmed SCP-4197-A as the cause of the incidents in the weeks preceding its discover. Shortly after, both SCP-4197 and Agent ████ were relocated to Site-64, Agent ████ now supervising SCP-4197 permanently.
