The television SCP-XXXX is currently inhabiting before being moved from its discovery site
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is contained in a 6m x 8m x 4m containment chamber with a manually sealed airlock entrance. The inner security door must only be opened after the outer door has been completely secured.
Inside the containment chamber is a smaller, secondary chamber with a one way mirror for the purposes of observing tests and an incinerator for the destruction of electronic devices. The floor, ceiling, and walls of the containment chamber as well as both the inner and outer security doors and the corridor between them are lined with 5cm thick copper sheeting.
Access to SCP-XXXX is restricted to testing purposes only. Researchers entering the chamber must surrender all electronic devices to security personnel, save those being used for testing purposes, before entering the security airlock. Devices brought into the chamber must be destroyed using the incinerator located in the secondary chamber. Under no circumstances is an electronic device allowed to leave the containment chamber.
All subjects must undergo psychological evaluation after interacting with SCP-XXXX before returning to their other duties.
Description: SCP-XXXX is a sentient entity capable of inhabiting electronic devices and is currently residing within an antique, 1950’s RCA brand Victor television set. SCP-XXXX dominates the video and audio outputs of the device it inhabits, though it cannot otherwise manipulate it. Devices with a video output will display a black silhouette of a male human on a background of static. Devices with audio outputs allow the entity to speak with subjects present in the same room in a friendly, male voice. SCP-XXXX has shown a preference to devices with both video and audio outputs, but is content with devices that only support audio output, prioritizing the ability to speak with subjects. It is undetermined how SCP-XXXX is able to hear and see subjects without audio or video inputs, but the range of this ability has so far shown to be limited to the room the device it inhabits is contained in.
Testing has shown that SCP-XXXX travels from one electronic device to another via radio waves present in the area. These radio waves must be of a frequency of at least 30MHz in order for the entity to travel along them. Though it is fully capable of doing so, the entity has expressed aversion for travelling along radio waves with a frequency greater than 400MHz, stating “There’s just too much noise. It’s hard to see where I’m going.”
Conversations with SCP-XXXX have a significant psychological effect on the subject speaking with it. Subjects report feeling a sense of ease and peace of mind when speaking with the entity, many comparing it to the comfort of speaking with a lifelong friend. After a number of interactions with a subject, SCP-XXXX will start to bring up significant moments from the subject’s past or will inquire about things the subject knows, but has not stated to the entity. How it attains this information is unknown, though it is believed that SCP-XXXX establishes a mental link with a subject after a long enough period of exposure.
Further exposure after this period will result in the entity specifically bringing up memories of negative actions the subject has committed (Including, but not limited to; crimes, violence, verbal abuse, and animal cruelty). These new conversations induce a state of depression in the subject as well as a rapid onset of suicidal ideations. The entity will become more and more hostile to the subject as exposure continues, harshly berating them for their past actions. The pattern for when these conversations begin appears to be different for each individual, though subjects with more troubled histories tend to experience these hostile interactions sooner. SCP-XXXX will cease any blatant hostility if another subject enters the room, though it will occasionally display obvious contempt for subjects it has previously lashed out at through passive aggressive comments or shunning.
Recovery: SCP-XXXX was brought to the Foundation’s attention by Agent █████████ after investigating a string of suicides in ████████, Alberta and encountering the entity in the home of the most recent victim. The agent discovered the entity when it spoke to him through the radio in the dining room and asked him to turn the television on. Agent █████████ complied with the request, at which point the entity inhabited the television and began speaking with the agent. Agent █████████ was able to contact an acquisition team before any hostility arose from SCP-XXXX.






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