Noting that new site member mrbootleg (W: 2543 days, S: 2540 days, ID: 4533434) recently coldposted the following page, which has multiple indicators of AI-generation:
**Item #:** SCP-8847
**Object Class:** Safe
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SCP-8847 in its containment unit.
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**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-8847 is to be stored in a standard anomalous electronics containment unit at Site-17, inside a Faraday cage to prevent unintentional activation. Personnel are prohibited from enabling airplane mode, manually setting the device’s date, or opening the default “Clock” app without Level 3 clearance.
All test interactions must be supervised, and any temporal displacements logged with precise time and location data. Recovered individuals from SCP-8847 events are subject to full debriefing and a 30-day temporal quarantine.
**Description:** SCP-8847 is a white iPhone 7, visually unmodified, with an inactive SIM card and no service provider. It functions normally within the current space-time parameters. However, if the device’s date and time are manually set, it teleports the holder to the specified point in history at the next full sleep cycle (REM onset or physical unconsciousness lasting over 15 minutes).
Teleportation is instantaneous. The subject retains clothing and non-electronic items on their person. Attempts to bring other electronics result in immediate failure: such devices suffer faults and accelerated corrosion.
Importantly, the original SCP-8847 device remains in the present timeline during temporal displacement. A perfect duplicate of SCP-8847 is created at the temporal destination and sent with the subject. This allows multiple users to independently utilize the device for time travel, each with their own active copy in separate time periods.
When transported to times before the existence of cell towers, GPS satellites, or wireless internet, SCP-8847 exhibits several anomalous behaviors:
* The touchscreen becomes intermittently unresponsive except within the Clock app.
* Battery life becomes unpredictable, showing both accelerated and decelerated drain depending on the subject’s activity.
* The device emits occasional analog interference tones through its speaker.
Subjects return to their original time by reopening the Clock app and resetting the date. The return occurs upon the subject’s next sleep cycle.
**Discovery Log:** SCP-8847 was discovered on February 12, 2019, after Alfie Simmons (age 31) reported “falling back in time” from 2019 while asleep.
Simmons acquired the device from a pawn shop and used it as a spare. After three months, as a joke, he manually set the phone’s date to April 4, 1982, before sleeping. Upon waking, he found his apartment in Brixton, London, altered significantly in decor and surroundings, consistent with the early 1980s.
> **Interviewed:** Alfie Simmons
> **Interviewer:** Dr. Ayers
> **Foreword:** Interview following Simmons' recovery after SCP-8847 activation.
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> **<Begin Log>**
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> **Dr. Ayers:** Let’s start from the beginning. What’s the first thing you noticed?
> **Simmons:** The bed wasn’t mine—brown corduroy sheets. The light above was an old yellowed plastic dome. My phone was on the nightstand, charger unplugged, and the wall socket was different.
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> **Dr. Ayers:** You were still in your apartment?
> **Simmons:** I thought so. But the windows had net curtains, and outside I saw one of those old black cabs. Buses were boxier, and there was a “Silk Cut” cigarette billboard. I turned on the TV—just three channels, mostly static or old broadcasts. The kitchen radio mentioned the ongoing Falklands War.
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> **Dr. Ayers:** What happened next?
> **Simmons:** Someone started banging on my door, yelling. A man, angry, said I was a squatter. Claimed it was his flat and he’d lived there for two years. I couldn’t explain myself. He had a key and threatened to call the police, so I left.
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> **Dr. Ayers:** That’s when you went outside?
> **Simmons:** Yeah. The whole neighborhood looked faded, like a history documentary. No one had phones. Cars were loud. People stared like I’d landed from another planet. One bloke asked if I was in a theatre production—I took offense because I thought North Face was timeless.
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> **Dr. Ayers:** Did you try to interact with anyone?
> **Simmons:** I tried buying a newspaper, but the shopkeeper was suspicious since it was before plastic notes. The front said April 4, 1982. I walked down the high street, saw a Woolworths, and a record store playing The Clash on a cassette radio. People looked at me like I was mad. One lady told me to “lay off the dope.”
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> **Dr. Ayers:** What about the phone?
> **Simmons:** The screen flickered like an old CRT monitor and made a sound like a dial-up modem mixed with TV static.
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> **Dr. Ayers:** How did you return?
> **Simmons:** After a few hours, I realized the Clock app still worked. I set the date forward to 2019—the day I’d left. The phone buzzed like it understood. I waited until night, lay down, and after sleeping, I woke back in my time. I knew because of the 4G icon on the screen.
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> **<End Log>**
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> **Closing Statement:** Following Foundation intercept protocols, Simmons was detained and SCP-8847 secured. Simmons was treated with Class-C amnestics and released with fabricated memories of a fugue episode.
**Addendum 8847-A – Testing Summary**
**Test 1 – Date set to July 4, 1776**
**Subject:** D-1391
**Protocol:** Subject instructed to observe surroundings and document changes.
**Result:** Subject arrived in wilderness or frontier land. Heard distant gunfire. Dense terrain, excessive insect activity. Device emitted heat when flashlight used. Internal temperature recorded at 59°C. Subject treated for severe insect bites.
**Test 2 – Date set to December 31, 2099**
**Subject:** Dr. Tal Ingram
**Result:** Dr. Ingram arrived in what was described as a “haze-filtered skyline packed with luminous towers made of translucent material.” The atmosphere contained elevated particulate levels, and the sun was “diffused to a cold white orb.” Dr. Ingram noted the presence of numerous silent aerial vehicles moving in synchronized patterns overhead. Public infrastructure appeared devoid of humans; he saw humanoid shapes but could not confirm if they were organic or synthetic.
Approximately five minutes after arrival, SCP-8847 displayed a new application labeled “ΔSYNC” (Greek letter Delta followed by “SYNC”). Upon opening the app, the screen showed what appeared to be a list of times and locations in a coded format (e.g., [H-Δ.46 / Coherence Drip: Active]). The app interface flickered continuously, and the device began vibrating at irregular intervals.
**Notable phenomena:**
* SCP-8847’s front camera activated briefly, projecting an unfamiliar facial recognition system that seemed to “scan the air” in front of it.
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* Time appeared nonlinear. Dr. Ingram reported seeing the same vehicle pass three times, identical in speed and path.
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* Dr. Ingram’s voice memos recorded during the trip returned garbled, with segments replaced by reversed or incomprehensible languages.
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* He experienced intense headaches and a feeling of temporal “looping” while attempting to interact with anything besides the phone.
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* After 17 minutes, the ΔSYNC app forcibly closed, and the phone returned to its default interface. However, the Notes app contained the following unsaved draft:
“Do not stay. Coherence low. They notice differences. Return anchor soon.”
Dr. Ingram returned to present time after manually setting the date back and falling asleep behind a reflective wall panel he described as “breathing slightly.” He awoke at Site-17 with nosebleeds and temporary myopia, which resolved after 48 hours.
**Post-Return Notes:**
SCP-8847’s operating system had reverted to iOS 5, despite no capability to do so under current firmware.
Upon connection to Foundation-secured Wi-Fi, SCP-8847 force-rebooted and erased all residual apps created during the displacement.
**Post-Test Analysis**
Following Test 2, several Foundation researchers, including Dr. Ingram, have put forward theories regarding the nature of the ΔSYNC application and its potential connection to SCP-8847’s core anomalous function.
**Theoretical Addendum – ΔSYNC Functionality and Origin Hypotheses**
Initial analysis suggests that the ΔSYNC app may be a core system-level utility responsible for SCP-8847’s anomalous time-travel capabilities. The sudden appearance of the app only in a forward-dated timeline (December 31, 2099) and its complete disappearance upon return implies that the app either:
* Exists only in future versions of SCP-8847’s operating system, or
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* Is suppressed or hidden in the present timeline due to a lack of compatible temporal infrastructure.
The app’s naming convention, use of the Greek symbol Δ (Delta)—commonly associated with change or time differential—has led to further speculation that the application manages temporal synchronization, either between instances of the device or with a higher-order network system not yet present in our time.
One working theory, supported by the Futurism Division, posits that SCP-8847 is not an original device, but rather a retrofitted object from a post-technological-scarcity future, embedded with firmware capable of quantum-local time realignment. In this model, SCP-8847 doesn’t initiate time travel directly, but interfaces with a non-linear information architecture that already exists across multiple timelines—possibly even piggybacking on future versions of wireless infrastructure.
**Dr. Ingram theorized:**
"The phone is not a time machine. It’s more like a client terminal. Something that connects to a server we don’t understand yet. The ΔSYNC app might be the first glimpse of that higher-dimensional OS bleeding through into our framework."
This hypothesis also accounts for:
* The creation of duplicate SCP-8847 units during temporal travel.
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* The phone's erratic behavior in signal-dead zones (i.e., pre-cellular eras).
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* The appearance of new applications that vanish upon returning to present-day networks.
Efforts are ongoing to artificially simulate future signal conditions in controlled temporal fields to attempt re-accessing the ΔSYNC interface or any other hidden system-layer software.
**Action:**
Simultaneous multi-user displacements to identical times/places now prohibited without O5 approval. Forward-dating tests pending Council review
**Notes:**
Dr. Langston theorizes SCP-8847 shows signs of anomalous “loneliness” in signal-dead zones. This could explain its degradation or erratic behavior when isolated from wireless infrastructure.
Further tests are ongoing.
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[[include :scp-wiki:component:license-box-end]]Excerpts of note:
When transported to times before the existence of cell towers, GPS satellites, or wireless internet, SCP-8847 exhibits several anomalous behaviors:
- The touchscreen becomes intermittently unresponsive except within the Clock app.
- Battery life becomes unpredictable, showing both accelerated and decelerated drain depending on the subject’s activity.
- The device emits occasional analog interference tones through its speaker.
“Do not stay. Coherence low. They notice differences. Return anchor soon.”
Notes:
Dr. Langston theorizes SCP-8847 shows signs of anomalous “loneliness” in signal-dead zones. This could explain its degradation or erratic behavior when isolated from wireless infrastructure.Further tests are ongoing.
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