Item #: SCP-1970
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Item is located at Storage Site 23, room 3.
Although SCP-1970 requires minimal security, it must be isolated from other anomalous objects.
Item is to be under constant audio supervision for the purpose of recording its vocalizations,
and the item should be visually inspected at least two times daily.
Objects classified as SCP-1970-1, 1970-2 and 1970-3 are to be kept in sealed plastic bags
in separately locked containers within room 3.
Description: SCP-1970 is a television set similar to Zenith Model L092Y.
Labels on its back indicate that the device was manufactured in 1979, however the piece
was recovered in 1972 from Russel Fouth of Yonkers, NY who had owned the device for at
least 4 years according to recovered journals and letters.
SCP-1970 was able to function as a normal analog television and can still receive analog
signals, although it is no longer capable of displaying an image following test 1970-ae34.
Conducted on March 1st 2009.
Test ae34 required the opening of SCP-1970's outer casing, which produced distressed vocalizations
from members of SCP-1970-1, 2 and 3, all of whom appeared to asphyxiate shortly afterward.
Their remains are now stored separately from the item.
No mechanical moving parts were discovered within the casing, and the test was aborted
before the separately enclosed speaker casing was opened.
SCP-1970 does not require any power source and will begin functioning as soon as it is
switched on.
When turned on an internal light would illuminate a tightly packed group of thousands of humanoid
figures pressed against the screen, ranging from 1 to 1.5 millimeters in height.
The skin color of the humanoids were distinctly blue, red or green and they were capable of
rapid movement, climbing across each other or disappearing deeper into the item for the
purpose of displaying whatever broadcast image SCP-1970 was tuned to receive.
A fourth group of white and grey skinned humanoids can occasionally be observed within the speaker
housing, and their vocalizations mimic the audio broadcast.
The number and designation of these humanoids are as follows:
SCP-1970-1: Red, population 1,982
SCP-1970-2: Green, population 3,946
SCP-1970-3: Blue, population 1,979
SCP-1970-4: White to Grey, population unknown
The humanoids exhibit individual features and sexual characteristics similar to human
beings, but no infant or young examples were recovered after test ae34.
When SCP-1970 was not in operation it was possible to hear movement within the casing,
as well as occasional whispers and breathing noises, including snoring.
Following test ae34, breathing can still be heard from within the speakers, and an audio
broadcast will still be produced if the item is exposed to a proper analog signal.
When not in use SCP-1970-4 will often call out in Taiwanese, in an attempt to communicate
with the other population groups of SCP-1970, or to vocalize distress at the lack of ambient
analog television signals.
Addendum: Russel Fouth was a diagnosed schizophrenic and committed suicide in 1972, although research
with exposure to SCP-1970 indicates that his condition was neither triggered nor directly
worsened by SCP-1970's anomalous properties.
However, due to his condition he was living alone and unable to convince any family members
or caretakers that his television set was "filled with tiny, writhing men."