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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

SCP-XXXX against a neutal background

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained in a 153 cubic container made out of wood and filled with cotton and other shock-proof material, which is to be locked and kept in a safe storage unit at Site-15. Experimentation with SCP-XXXX requires the usage of hazmat suits with darkened visors to filter the light. Exposure of living or water based entities or SCPs to SCP-XXXX is forbidden unless authorized from at least two researchers with Clearence Level 3 or higher.

Description: SCP-XXXX is an 60 Watt lightbulb of unknown manufacture, the lightbulb is spherical in shape and has a diameter of 8.5 centimeters, its only identifiable features is a small detacheable sheet of paper attached to it during recovery, which states: “Les Sœurs de l'Éclairage, 1968” (French for: “The Lighting Sisters”). SCP-XXXX behaves normally for a lightbulb of its power, producing approximately 700 Lumens. SCP-XXXX anomalous properties are activated once it is lighted by an electrical current. All water exposed to the light produced by SCP-XXXX will undergo electrolysis, with the molecules of water separating in atms of Oxygen and Hydrogen at a speed proportional to the amount of light recieved directely from the lightbulb. Any living organism that requires water to function exposed to this effect will rapidly die of total dehydration, often resulting into the corpse becoming mummified. This process is instantaneous, and doesn’t produce heat. While the process of electrolysis normally requires electrodes, SCP-XXXX seems to be capable of ignoring the normal need of an electrical current. The process is based on exposure to light, and as such any protection from direct exposure, such as heavy clothes or sunglasses, will effectively slow or completely neutralize the effects of SCP-XXXX.

Recovery: SCP-XXXX was recovered in an abandoned house in the village of ████████, France. The house had been abandoned after two of its owners died of mysterious illnesses derived from dehydration. In date 15/01/2001, field agents Amélie and Lucas inspected the house for its suspected anomalous nature, and discovered the properties of SCP-XXXX when agent Amélie entered the basement and turned on the light that gave power to SCP-XXXX. Agent Amélie started felling immediately the ill effects, but thanks to the heavy garments she was wearing due to the low temperatures, she didn’t succumb to the negative influence and managed to turn off the lights. Thanks to the quick medical cares of agent Lucas agent Amélie managed to warn the Foundation, who sent a recovery squad and isolated the effect as being isolated to the lightbulb, which was then brought to Foundation for further analisys.

No trace of other anomalous objects or activity has been located in the house, and no trace of how the lightbulb was located in the house could be found. The woman that owned the the house from 1934 to 1977, Marcille Poulin, has been described from local sources as “adventurous and enamored with strange trinket she brought from her travels”. The house was sold at Marcille Death, in 03/08/1977, and the content was shipped to unknown location by her butler, an English man by the name of Jonathan. Currently the working theory is that the lightbulb, collected by Marcille during one of her travel, was left on accident in the house, and one of its successive occupants found it and used it to light the basement.