An Old Bat

Item #: SCP-5065

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5065 is to be left in a small room on specially made stand, with camera and audio recorders with at least one Level 2 personnel monitoring the audio and video via headphones and a screen. SCP-5065 is to be handled with 0.7 mm welders gloves in cases of container movement or testing. Testing should be approved by Level 2 personnel or higher.

Description: SCP-5065 appears as an Adult Hard Ash Wood Rawlings Wood Baseball Bat in rough condition, and was recovered at Site [redacted] in a shed at an abandoned house outside of [redacted] after several complaints of loud wails and intense whispering coming from the shed after a neighborhood was built near Site [redacted.] Upon being picked up, the SCP turned into a perfect condition Adult Hard Ash Wood Rawlings Wood Baseball Bat. the SCP Original attempts to retrieve SCP-5065 resulted in personnel's receiving third-degree burns on any part of the skin that made direct contact with the SCP. It took several more attempts to successfully retrieve and contain SCP-5065. When moved, SCP-5065 begins to quickly heat to 426.666667 Degrees Celsius or 800 Degrees Fahrenheit observed by Dr. [redacted] after aiming a thermal gun at the SCP-5065 after an unidentified Level 3 personnel picked the bat up for testing.

Test Subjects who enter the same testing chamber as SCP-5065 describe suddenly feeling a strong urge to pick up the SCP, some even reporting feeling an unexplained want to play baseball from up to 50 feet away. As exposure time for this SCP increases, so does the urge to pick up the SCP. After 2 hours of exposure, a test subject became overwhelmed and picked up the bat resulting in third-degree burns on the subject's hands. The subject reported feeling as if they could not set the SCP down upon picking it up, and did not feel like screaming despite the pain.

Upon 24 hours of not being moved, the SCP begins to weather and darken as if being left out is the rain for multiple years. Upon 48 hours of not being moved, the SCP begins to speak in the form of aggressive whispering and loud wails. An interview by Dr. Corduroy was conducted.

Audio Playback: Interview with SCP-5065
Dr. Corduroy: This is Dr. Corduroy on January 18,[redacted] interviewing SCP-5065. The 48-hour mark has been reached, and currently is whispering with the occasional pained wail. I shall attempt to make contact with SCP-5065.
click, microphone feed back
Dr. Corduroy: SCP-5065, are you responsive?
SCP-5065: unintelligible whispering
Dr. Corduroy: SCP-5065, are you responsive?
SCP-5065:Oh God-Oh God!
Dr. Corduroy:Oh thank God. SCP-5065, my name is Dr. Corduroy.