 Item number SCP-1340-RU Object Class, Euclid Special Containment Procedures No methods of anomaly capture and containment have been developed as of yet. Research efforts are currently ongoing. Anomaly witness identification and capture is to be performed according to Standard Foundation search protocols. All circumstances of contact with the anomaly are to be ascertained on successful capture. If the first contact with SCP-1340 has been broken prematurely, it is required to perform a second test contact attempt. If the test proves negative, the subject is to be administered Class B amnestics and released, with a week-long period of observation. All other subjects are to undergo comprehensive treatment procedures and be administered Class D amnestics. If the treatment fail, false memories of a personality and a dislike to television technologies should be implanted as per the Second Life Protocol. Such subjects are then to be relocated to closed communes under Foundation control, in particular those liking access to televisions, where they can be used in covert safe research experiments amid routine tasks. Description SCP-1340 is a phenomenon consisting of spontaneous appearances of an image of a human eye on CRT-based TV screens. Set image takes up the majority of the kinescope's visible area. Despite apparent lack of consistency between cases of the phenomenon's appearance, certain patterns have been deduced as intrinsic, such as SCP-1340 appears exclusively on cathode-ray tube-based devices, though implementation of this technology may vary, connected to analog television antennas. SCP-1340's period of activity falls between 2300 and 0200 on local time. All registered incidents involving SCP-1340 are localized to the Northern Hemisphere, between 45° and 75° latitude. Each particular registered incident has involved only a single witness, hereafter referred to as observer. Possibly a concurrent observation of different locations has been confirmed by experiment. As such, the anomaly cannot be contained through observer isolation. General analysis of anomaly witness reports, as well as replicated contact efforts, have permitted to pinpoint the course of SCP-1340's activity. During first contact, the anomaly manifests on active television screens that have been showing white noise for extended periods of time. During subsequent contact events, the anomaly is capable of overriding low-quality transmissions. Presence or absence of audio transmission has no effect on contact probability. Upon manifestation, the device begins showing an image of a human eye which takes it to the majority of the screen. Said eye is blue and belongs to a man. The image is clear and free of any effects that hamper overall perception of the contents. Analysis of the eye sclera has confirmed that all instances of the anomaly transmit the image of the same man. The eye is always wide open, slowed and the frequent blinking is present, the pupil is dilated, and the eye often reacts with delay to the observer's movement, tracking them. If the affected device is audio-enabled, upon manifestation the sound volume will be reduced to 25 decibels and will consist of weak white noise static along with intact and fragmented words, distorted and pronounced with apparent difficulty. If the observer shut off or destroyed the device during first contact with SCP-1340, destruction of the kinescope is sufficient in the latter case, the anomaly will no longer manifest in front of that observer. Otherwise, the anomaly will continue manifesting itself under the device every time under the described requirements, even without the observer present. Under continued observation, SCP-1340 expands its sphere of influence and begins to appear not only in the location of first contact, but also in other places where the observer is present. It has been noted that in 65% of registered cases during repeated contacts, the anomaly brings into existence an unlimited number of CRT television devices of various kinds and models, exclusively within the locale of first contact, which seems to operate without any apparent power sources. The TVs are placed on the floor, on various furniture present and on each other, and vary in size substantially. During the anomaly's active periods, all devices transmit the same image of SCP-1340, and the anomaly's eye is not able to track the observer, instead chaotically looking from side to side, while the sound's volume, despite a considerable number of additional speakers, increases by only up to 10 decibels. The TV devices are off while the anomaly's inactive. Observers rarely disclose the occasion, and usually consider it a sign of psychological illness. In rare cases, the subject has been able to get rid of SCP-1340's presence through prolonged medical treatment. In addition, the observers develop phobias towards watching television, which prevent further contact with the anomaly. Due to the circumstances above, the Foundation is currently unable to discern the periodicity of manifestations, or the overall amount of contact cases. All experiments with SCP-1340 have been classified by the Ethics Committee. The Foundation has successfully recovered several documents that explain the anomaly's appearance, from internal GOI archive records. The addendums are available with clearance level 4. Addendums to the SCP-1340 document. Add letter belonging to ██████████, January 11th, 1969. My name is ██████████. I am an accountant at ████████, and this will be my suicide note. I have no relatives or loved ones, so I write to you, prosecutors and officers. I am haunted by hallucinations related to TVs. It must be because of my trauma and several months of coma. It happened first when I fell asleep after the show ended. I woke up to the sound of my cat screaming, and saw an enormous eye staring directly at me from the screen. I was half asleep and didn't understand what was going on, but then realized that the broadcast had long since ended. It was about one hour past midnight on the clock. The eye was just staring at me, and then blinked. I screamed, threw something at it, and ran to the bathroom. When I caught my breath and calm myself enough, I looked back. The eye was still there, and it only turned to stare at me again. I couldn't muster the courage to shut it off, and as such stayed awake in the bathroom, shutting it down when sunrise came and there was only static on the screen. I witnessed that eye time and time again after that. I stopped panicking in front of it and learned to withstand its gaze. At some point I thought it was my own eye. It looked scary, but it didn't want to scare. I brought myself closer to it and tried to hear what it was speaking to me. It was quiet, even on full volume, and I decided to buy another TV for it. Then another. I wanted to hear what it was saying. I wanted to help it. I started stealing, and for that I am sincerely sorry. All the money I got that way I spent on traveling around the Soviet cities and buying out old TVs. I have collected 18 in total, different ones, small and big. Maybe that was me hyper-compensating for the fear, and maybe my attempts to find the truth of justifications. I don't know. Every night I closed the blinds to prevent my neighbors from seeing this bright blue light and listened. It didn't get much louder, but I managed to discern some of the words. I didn't understand much, but what I did finally did me in. I'm insane. I recorded all my steelings on the back side of this note and requested to repay them through selling off my car. I will break the TVs. There is no other way. I bequeath my brain to scientific purposes so they can help those like me. I request not to blame anyone for my death. January 11, 1969 Classified, Krivapolov Research Institute Progress Internal Report, August 14, 1967 2. Progress Research Institute Director Kovalov V.G. From Bureau No. 4 Director, Binding Consciousness, Krivapolov, A.C. Per Bureau No. 4's current directives, I am informing you of a suggestion to use the developments of the Mine-64 project, to study transmission methods for discrete thought forms, and, further on, main cerebrum portion impulse flows through inclusion and info code arrays designed to adapt the technology to television methods of information playback. As you know, the Mine-64 project has advanced significantly since integration of ████████. Currently, we are able to record and seamlessly transmit neural impulses, but the Institute still does not possess a suitable storage device for such vast quantities of information. The only currently known storage sufficient for human mind conversation is the info spirit itself. There are other difficulties as well. Out transmission capabilities significantly outpace our recording capabilities. The speed of processes running within a human brain is too high, far higher than our current speed of impulse recording, which means that we cannot adequately record and transmit the full thought form of a person without disrupting its connection, and, as such, without degrading their consciousness and memory. Unfortunately, this lag does not allow us to experiment with copying a healthy person's personality. However, the Bureau members have found an alternative method. It has been proposed that we use a comatose source in the experiment. I have taken responsibility and have found a suitable candidate for such a role. Under medical attention in municipal hospital number ██████ currently lies patient ██████ in a state of coma after a tragic accident. We hereby request your assistance in arranging a classified experiment on transmitting their personality into the info sphere through our Bureau's newest antenna and receiving the resulting signal on the Chukot station. The process will take approximately two hours. Chemical treatments developed by Bureau number ████ are proposed to be used to slow the brain's activity as much as possible. Yes, we will be unable to halt the cerebral processes completely, but the estimated damage to the consciousness thought form is expected to be minimal. Now onto the practical side of this research project. We expect the Chukchi Peninsula radio station personnel to receive the information of this person in format close to television standards. At this point, we can only guess what it will look like, and whether such a transmission will bear any significance for further research. In overall, however, I foresee use of this technology applied to being able to transmit a speaker or presenter directly into every house, every particular receiver. The viewers will gain access to actual talk partners competent in various topics, who will be able to convey useful information more concretely to every particular listener. Just imagine, you turn on the TV, and the athletic show hosts not only show you the exercises and keep count, but also points out mistakes and gets professional advice. Professional shows for children and adults, news reports, sports shows, travel and history documentaries, etc., will grow to a new level. Open the path to fully-fledged connection and feedback. I would like to specifically address any possible concerns about the experiment's ethical side. The operations involved will cause no physical consequences or even discomfort to the test subject. All records of this intervention will be kept secret. I would also like to point out the fact that the resulting information model of a human – phantom, thought-form, or mind-mold – is not human in the word's common meaning and exists only as an idea, a information current, which puts it closer to a solar's computer. Bureau No. 4 Director, Mind and Consciousness, Krivapalav, AC. Transcription of SCP-1340 Speech Pattern Analysis The following transcript has been procured through the Foundation's speech recognition software from registered occurrences of the anomaly. The object transmits words and phonemes in a chaotic manner. The following texts have been generated based on possible meaning, registered intonation and other factors, though it remains distorted. Italics denote portions that differ in pronunciation and intonation, but that are still considered valid based on the machine's output. The uppercase text denotes more expressively pronounced phrases. Note that the level of volume remains within the 25-35 decimal range. Snow, like this, flies everywhere, fly into my mouth, pleasure blinding sight, don't know, can't see anything, where are they, alone, glimmering in eyes, eyes I see light, shut off the noise, can't stand it, can't hear my thoughts, where am I, I'm here, I am, I can't breathe, help, flies all around, mouth filled with snow in my throat, hands where I can't see, they card me, white strings, endless, clothes lined up down, up down, where'd you go, was there, same, white black world, is there a ceiling, is there a floor, I need to go to work, come back, I need to feed the cat, where is he, I will feed the balance sheet, and the bills, help me, snow's too loose, I can't stand, couldn't crawl, swim, it doesn't stick, where's the light, there's night here, white blue, white world, a web of strings, at least give me the cat, I forgot how to breathe, live, please live, I hear the vibrations of strings, endless noise, deathly, ever, where are you, I'm not alone, ran, white static man, where are you, come back, I can't scream, start again, between strings, there's someone there, too tight, try a part like bars of a cage, can't bend it for the arms, just a look, just with an eye, I'm so close on the line, just one eye, who are you, I feel you, give me help, there's my cat, don't be afraid, wake the odor, my kitty, help, wake the odor, my cat, mouth full of leaves and snow, help me, why do I feel, we know each other, my eye, you couldn't be what, don't leave me, I can't see you, don't leave me alone, hear you again, I didn't, don't switch away, I see better now, can't pull the strings further, stop flickering, it's me, why is he there, and I'm here, what are the light boxes, can't speak, try looking lower, lips there, must be there, read them, but not end, vomiting flies, don't look at me like that, rent the wall, I know, you can see, help, where are you right, must get out, my eyes, leave at least one, I know you want to kill yourself, where do I go now?