Item #: SCP-6301
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: All forms of communication, including social media, are to be monitored for any mentions of the 1929 market crash.
Containment will focus on detecting and terminating the Falling Event. Foundation personnel will be dispatched to the event's location and administer the affected person with any medicine-grade benzodiazepines and Class-A amnestics.
If the event has progressed for too long, and reviving the subject is not deemed possible, Foundation personnel must cover up the death and dispose of any remains by any means possible.
Description: SCP-6301 is a rare phenomenon that affects those suffering under anxiety due to financial burdens. Affected individuals will experience a higher level of stress and cannot talk about anything else other than the 1929 market crash. The financial offsets could be as low as losing their paycheck to being robbed of their fortune. Despite the market crash of 1929 having occurred well over a century ago, the afflicted individuals act and speak as if they were first-hand witnesses to the event.
Once an affected person (hereinafter "the subject") falls asleep, the Abode Event is triggered. Abode Events cause the subject to experience a "falling sensation", as if they are free falling. This continues for approximately one hour, until the subject impacts the "floor". Testing shows that even if the subject is aware of their impending crash, they cannot wake up without outside interference. These impacts have always been recorded as fatal. Although seemingly normal to an outside observer, the subject's body shows no life signs, and the entire skeletal system is mangled and crushed.
Discovery: SCP-6301 was discovered shortly after the stock market crash in 1929. Individuals reported dead all suffered from devastating financial losses and were found with their skeletons crushed in bed. The investigation led to the monitoring of any future mentions of the market crash.
Addendum 1. Recovery of Afflicted Subjects. Waking up the subject before "impact" will revive them from the event and harm is obstructed. However, subjects have shown hostility and will attempt to return to sleep. To terminate the event, Foundation Personnel are instructed to follow the Containment Procedures and administer proper medication to the subject. The subject will begin responding normally and the event will be terminated.
Addendum 2. Failure to Recovery Afflicted Subjects. If the event has progressed past any feasible point of recovery, Personnel are instead instructed to dispose the body and cover up the subject's death. Any justification for death is viable if it is preventive of further panic and subsequent event triggering. Testing on subjects by Dr. ███ has shown that subjects simply being aware of the event can trigger it, even if the subject is not suffering from any financial-related losses.
Interview 6301-A: Portion of recorded transcript (█-█-███).
Interviewed: Personnel D-284
Interviewer: Dr. ███
Foreword: Interview done after D-284 had triggered SCP-6301 and was interrupted halfway through the event. D-284 had to be calmed down initially due to frantic panicking over the 1929 crash.
<Begin Log, skip to 00h-13m-24s>
Dr. ███: What exactly did you feel while sleeping?
Personnel D-284: Like I was falling, falling and falling forever-
Dr. ███: Falling? Where were you falling?
Personnel D-284: I don't know, man, some white void. Or the sky? I think I remember seeing the floor, and I was moving towards-
Dr. ███: You saw the floor? And were you falling towards it?
Personnel D-284: Yeah, like I said. I was about to hit it, too, but you guys woke me up. Speaking of which, c-can I go back to sleep? This whole market crash has been worrying me to death-
Dr. ███: (To Foundation Guard) Give him the amnestics.
<End Log>






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