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Item #: SCP-4497
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: The estate on which SCP-4497 is located is to be surrounded by chain linked, 4 meters tall, electrified fence with clear warning signs displayed, stating that the area is government property and that any attempt at unauthorized access will be met with lethal force. Mobile Task Force Eta-44 “Superfarmers” is to staff the building in which SCP-4497 is to be located and are to use it as their base of operations.
Containment procedures are to be performed by members of this taskforce, should they be unavailable the Director of Site-39 is to arrange for their replacement. The inside of SCP-4497 is to contain 5 aluminum cabinets. Each cabinet is to have 100 drawers. Each drawer is to store a single piece of perishable food, hard candies are suggested as cost effective option.
A single cabinet is to be removed for cleaning on a monthly basis, with the one that was not cleared for the longest time to be chosen. Its content is to be removed and replaced. The removed objects are to be examined for abnormal decay. The cabinets are to be completely replaced on a yearly basis, with no more than one being removed at a single time. The inside of SCP-4497 is to be cleared of all other objects and is to be searched on a daily basis.
Description: SCP-4497 is the space contained within a wine cellar of a rural building located at ████████████.
Objects placed inside SCP-4497 will experience decay at accelerated rate. Only a single object will experience the anomaly at a time. The affected object will be "the youngest", dating since they have entered the area affected of the anomaly. A different object will be affected every █████████ seconds, should the previously affected one stop being "the youngest" due to anomalies' effect. The decay rate will accelerate every █████████ second by a factor of ███████████, until a new object becomes affected, at which point the acceleration factor will reset back to ███████████.
SCP-4497 came to Foundation attention in 20██ after one of AIs embedded in ██████████████ Emergency Call Service intercepted a call that it determined to describe an event of anomalous nature. Mrs.███████████, wife to Mr.███████████ reported that after returning home from work she had found her husband's corpse in advanced state of decay inside their wine cellar, which shouldn't be possible as she claims to have seen him less than 10 hours prior and to have spoken to him on the phone less than 3 hours prior. The officer on duty who received call was approached by foundation Agent and given Class A amnestics. Another Agent was sent on site in guise of police officer to conduct interview and to determine the possibility of anomalous event occuring. He was invited to house by heavily distracted and panicking widow, who was given Class G amnestics under guise of valium. She was later convinced that her husband's death was a result of a simple stroke and that there was nothing strange with his body, she was also convinced to have the remains cremated in a Foundation operated funeral home.
After tending to Mrs.███████████ the Agent on site went to investigate the anomaly. Earlier during the interview he learned that Mr.███████████ had planned to clear the wine cellar on that day, and so he found the kitchen where the doors were located to be filled with several wine caskets and bottles that were taken out of the cellar. After approaching the door to the cellar he discovered that the insides were almost empty, save for a single human skeleton wearing decaying clothes, several objects could also be seen on it, such as a wedding ring and a cellphone. Mrs.███████████ was taken to local police station by another Agent who arrived on site and a team of foundation Agents and researchers were called on site to determine the identity of the skeleton. According to forensic expert, the corpse has presented a state od decay showing that it was left there for at least ██ months. The dental records taken from the skull have confirmed that it belonged to Mr.███████████.
After removing the skeleton, Agent ██████ was the last to leave the cellar, as soon as the Agent before him left he started complaining about suddenly feeling hungry, thirsty and sleepy. Startled, he tried to run out but tripped on the way out, accidentaly coliding with Dr.████████████████ and leaving a shoe behind. As soon as his body fell out of the area affected by the anomaly, the shoe began to rapidly decompose. Urged by his experience in handling temporal anomalies, Dr.████████████████ proceeded to break his pen, glasses, tearing apart the research notes and throwing the detritus into the cellar, ordering other Foundation personnel accompanying him to do the same. The inside of SCP-4497 was quickly filled with various pieces of trash, which seemed to have slowed the decay of objects. Dr.████████████████ would quickly explain the reasoning behind his erratic actions, he proposed a theory that SCP-4497 seems to affect only a single object at a time, and that objects broken apart, either by outside force or as a result of SCP-4497's anomalous property, will be treated as separate for the purpose of determining SCP-4497's "victim". He also warned, that should SCP-4497 be allowed to continue accelerating the decay of a single object that will not break apart, it could easily lead to ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ and potentially even ████████████████████████████████████████████████ should the current theory on ████████████████ be correct.
Later research using state of the art technology allowed to determine that SCP-4497 follows an extremely strict regiment with some researchers proposing that it could be even used like an atomic clock.
Further investigations have shown that Mr.███████████ has inherited the property on which SCP-4497 is located from his widely known as eccentric uncle, Prof.███████████ , expert on astrophysics who left the University of ████████████████████ in disgrace after claiming to have discovered a practical way to time travel. Prof.███████████ has dissapeared █ years prior to being pronounced legally dead. A note was found under a loose floorboard by a member of MTF-44, with writing consistent with Prof.███████████, which stated that he has found some like-minded individuals who were ready to help him to develop time travel, and that he was leaving the country and taking all his research with him to join "Church of the Broken Cog"(sic). Foundation Agents embedded within Church of the Broken God have performed investigation within the organisation, but no evidence was found that The Church was ever with contact with Prof.███████████
Addendum: Foundation personnel is to be reminded that SCP-4497 is not to be used for artificial aging of food items other than the ones used as part of containment procedure without approval of Site Director of Site-39 .
