Five Minute House

Item #: 5845

Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5845 is to be monitored by 15 patrol guards stationed 20 feet apart from each other, and to be on the outside of the chain-link barbed wire fence surrounding the perimeter of 5845. Any person(s) attempting to enter 5845 must be escorted off the premises with a warning. If the person(s) tries to enter again, they must be immediately terminated.

Description: SCP-5845 is a mansion built circa 1893 in the the town of [DATA EXPUNGED], Florida. 5845 appears to be in pristine condition, with no signs of paint chipping or rotting. Inside of 5845, the area is noticeably disproportionate to the outside area, with hallways that stretch for recorded distances of up to — kilometers. Once a subject is placed inside of 5845, time is observed to stop while in the house, resulting in a year passing by in the span of five minutes¹. The door leading into 5845 cannot be opened from the inside, and any person looking out the window from inside 5845 sees nothing but darkness. 5845 was first brought to the foundations attention when multiple people went missing upon the discovery of 5845 by the Florida Historical Society in [DATA REDACTED], 1962. Two of the [DATA REDACTED] missing person(s) were found when further investigating 5845 (Interview 5845-2), showing minimal signs of aging. Any attempts to record the interior of the house has failed.

Test A - April 17th, 1977

Subject: D-4927
Procedure: D-4927 was instructed to walk into the house and explore for ten minutes. A timer was sent in with the subject, and the subject was instructed to bang on the door when the ten minutes was up.
Results: Two years later, banging was heard on the door of 5845, and D-4927 was found, looking exactly the same.
Analysis: From this the foundation was able to calculate the displacement of the time continuum, but not the space continuum.

Test B - June 15th, 1979

Subject: D-3294
Procedure: D-3294 was instructed to enter the premises of 5845 and walk around for 100 minutes, and then to bang on the door when the minutes were up. A recording device was sent with them, but it recorded footage of complete darkness and white noise.
Results: D-3294 banged on the door 20 years after being sent into the house. The footage was blackness and white noise. D-3294 arrived with another subject, who shall be called Subject 5845-2, who claimed to spend 180 hours in the house, as opposed to the 100 minutes D-3294. Another subject was found when the foundation went in to investigate²
Analysis:

+ Interview 5845-2

Foreword: [Subject 5845-2 was recovered from SCP-5845 on June 16th, ████. Dr. ███ >Interviewed the subject in an interview room. Subject was a 13-year-old white male with hazel eyes >and slicked-back hair.]

<Begin Log>

Dr. ███: "Hello."

Subject 5845-2: "Uh, hi. Where am I, exactly?"

Dr. ███: "I'm afraid I cannot give you that information, but I can tell you what year it is, as
long as you vow to never speak of this once this interview is over."

Subject grew slightly distressed at this point.

Dr. ███: "It's ████."
Subject grew extremely distressed at this point, crying for approximately five minutes. Dr. ███ >comforted Subject 5845-2.
Subject 5845-2: "How'd this happen? What's going on?"
Dr. ███: "I can answer that, as long as you can tell me the events leading up to you being >found by some of our personnel."
Subject 5845-2 sniffled, and wiped away a tear.
Subject 5845: "Ok. My friends, ████, ██████, and I went exploring this house in the woods. >The house was largely unknown by the sniffle adults of the town, but to the kids it was rumored >to be haunted by ghosts. So we decided to explore the house on █████████ to become popular. >When we arrived at the house, █████ ████████ showed up, too. He was very afraid of the house, >so it surprised us when he came. We went inside, but after going inside, the door locked behind us. >We went to open a window, but they were bolted shut. After arguing for a while, ████ and █████ >decided to go find the back door. █████ and I stayed behind to open a window. With █████ being >afraid and all, he didn't really help. We decided to go further into the house to find another window >or door to break through, but then we got separated. I found a door with two peepholes, and tried to open it, but I was also bolted shut. After wandering for a bit, I found the kitchen. ████ was sitting in a chair, but he wasn't responding. He turned to me, and said ‘I don’t know what this house is, but it's not a house‘³, and vanished. I yelled for help, but then all of a sudden, Some lady found me, and next thing I know, I’m here."
Dr. ███:* "And how long did the ordeal last, from the moment the door closed?"
Subject 5845: "About three hours."
Dr. ███:* "Thank you for your time."
<End Log>

Afterword: [Subject 5845-2 was released from Site-██ 5 months after recovery.]

Footnotes

1. Signs of Space-Time Distortion

2. When the door of 5845 is propped open, its time distortion qualities are compromised, but its space distortion abilities are not.

3. Test on 5845's materials pending