Sideways Fox

Item #: SCP-5751

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: All testing with SCP-5751 is to be temporarily paused until further notice.

SCP-5751 is to be kept inside a 6 m x 6 m x 4 m cell at all times. There is to be a working vacuum system inside the airlock located outside the cell, and a gas chamber located above the cell for easy gas release and collection. The cell is to be monitored by at least one security personnel 24/7. SCP-5751 is to be cleaned and polished once a week by no more than one level 1 clearance janitor. The use of a D-class is also permitted. Personnel cleaning SCP-5751 are to wear latex gloves at all times while performing the task, and are to avoid making contact with SCP-5751 while not wearing their gloves.

Should one come into contact with SCP-5751 that is not with latex gloves (who will be referred to as SCP-5751-1), the cell airlock doors are to be immediately closed and the carbon monoxide gas valves opened. Personnel are only to be allowed back inside once SCP-5751-1 is killed, removed from the cell and incinerated.

Description: SCP-5751 is an old smokey grey colored sandal made for the right foot, measuring approximately 0.25 m in length and 0.1 m in width, indicating it were made to be worn by a child. SCP-5751 was retrieved from a house located in █████, ██████, after reports of carbon monoxide leaking out of the house. All residents of the house were found dead, and those who had seen the SCP at work were administered class B amnestics. No company names were found on the shoe, so it is indeterminable where SCP-5751 was manufactured. The tag on the sandal appears to have been scratched off, so further information is currently being gathered.

If SCP-5751 is not cleaned within two weeks, it will begin to leak carbon monoxide, and will not stop until cleaned appropriately. If SCP-5751 is seen leaking carbon monoxide, the Site Director is to be immediately notified. (See Incident-5751-1-A.) It is unknown at this point where the carbon monoxide that leaks from SCP-5751 is produced or comes from.

When SCP-5751-1 comes into direct contact with SCP-5751, no anomalous effects are shown or are recorded to occur immediately upon connection of the two. However, around 38 hours after this event, SCP-5751-1 will die from unknown causes, presumably from anomalous effects produced by SCP-5751. Soon afterwards, SCP-5751 will begin moving around in a circle with a radius of approximately 2.98 meters. A ghostly form of SCP-5751-1 can be seen when viewed through infra-red goggles. SCP-5751-1 appears to be wearing SCP-5751 and will show no signs of notice when interacted with. This process will continue without stopping for around 1 hour and 24 minutes until SCP-5751-1 eventually disappears and SCP-5751 returns to a immobile state. This process can be stopped entirely if SCP-5751-1 is killed by carbon monoxide within 1 hour of contact with SCP-5751. It has also been recorded that when a human wearing latex gloves comes into contact with SCP-5751, the process does not trigger.

+ Incident-5751-1-A (Level 3 clearance required)

<Begin Log>

██/█/88 (Nine days after retrieval)

Footage shows SCP-5751 immobile inside of its cell. It appears to have collected a layer of dust. Nothing happens for around half an hour until a gas substance starts to leak out of the shoes. The security personnel monitoring SCP-5751 can be heard in the background alerting the Site Director via site communications. Four minutes pass until the cell is completely filled with gas. It continues to be produced. The bullet-proof glass can be heard creaking due to the intense pressure inside the cell that the gas was creating.
Almost a full minute later, the footage is cut off. This was confirmed later to be the camera breaking due to the intense pressure building inside of the cell.

<End Log>

The Site Director had a level 1 clearance janitor put on a hazmat suit and enter the cell to clean SCP-5751 until the leaking came to a stop. The gas that had escaped in the process was vacuumed into the airtight gas chamber above SCP-5751's containment cell.

A total of █ personnel were confirmed dead by the time SCP-5751 had been cleaned and polished. A cleaning schedule was made and granted.

"No further incidents have taken place since then, however, testing is to be paused until we can figure this out." - Dr. ████████, Site-██ Site Director