SCP-147: Anachronistic Television

SCP-147: Anachronistic Television SCP-147 is a 1957 black-and-white television that works without power or a connection. Give it a room furnished like the 1950s, and it plays sitcoms such as I Love Lucy and Father Knows Best. Except the episodes don't appear in the archives. Every broadcast is a unique episode of a show that stopped production long ago, with no commercials or identifiable station. People watching report feeling relaxed. They can change the channel or volume, but the off switch doesn't work. Bring modern manufactured objects into the room, and the broadcasts turn violent. The television starts showing disturbing color footage with unusually clear picture and sound, and its controls stop responding. The reactions are severe. Viewers have become physically sick within seconds, and one suffered a breakdown after two minutes. The Foundation hasn't established where or when the footage was recorded, or the effects of long-term exposure. Testing narrowed its cutoff to around late March 1965. People born after that date don't trigger it just by being present. Manufactured objects are the problem. One researcher wore vintage clothes but kept three newer pens in his pocket. The result was an altered I Love Lucy episode involving gunfire. So even that small detail was enough to change what the television showed him. Later experiments also suggest it adjusts disturbing footage to the viewer, rather than simply running the same material for everyone. It's classified Euclid and contained in a recreated period living room. Attempts to open its casing or block incoming signals haven't worked. Even recreational use requires advance approval. The Foundation can keep it playing comforting old television, but only by maintaining the environment it accepts. The reason for that specific cutoff is still unknown. Original entry: https://t.co/6jHWLGyZPi By Eberstrom. CC BY-SA 3.0: https://t.co/TI86Yhe2FC