Halfdecentatbest

Item #: SCP-TBD

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-TBD is to be kept safely within a standard envelope and placed within a storage room. The storage room should be equipped humidity control, as to prevent damage to it's inner workings. Once a week, a member of the Class D personnel is to open the envelope and clean SCP-TBD of any dust, but is not to listen to it. Once a month, a higher-level personnel should open the envelope and insert SCP-TBD carefully into the tape player and listen to it. If there is nothing but static for 15 minutes, it is to be placed back in the envelope. If something is heard within the 15 minutes, that data is to be recorded and delivered to the archives, before placing SCP-TBD back into it's envelope. A specialist should be called for examination if there is nothing but static for more than six months.

Description: SCP-TBD appears to be a circa 1980's white-label audio tape. On the outside of SCP-TBD there is a note, written in sharpie that appears to read: "For my love, Sarah." Neither the original owner nor Sarah have ever been identified. SCP-TBD was recovered from a police station after the previous owner, [REDACTED] had dropped it off claiming it had sounds of a woman screaming on it. The police officers listened, but they heard nothing but static. After multiple tests, it was determined that SCP-TBD's audio track changes between listening periods. Recorded notes from the audio files include a serial killer's confession, a wife retelling domestic abuse, a child recalling how their uncle had molested them, and other recordings of victims who had died, either due to their abuse or after years of dealing with psychological damage. Listening to the audio tapes had no supernatural effect on the Class D Personnel.