In an undisclosed location, a woman is being tortured.
The methods of her abuse are too horrific to be described, and her torturers are death-row
prison inmates – the absolute worst of the worst.
This woman’s torture is constant, and procedures are put in place to make sure she never becomes
accustomed to the pain.
If ever her torturers express sympathy towards their victim, their superiors will have them
removed and replaced.
If they try to rescue her, or put her out of her misery, they themselves will be shot
without hesitation.
The woman being tortured is known only as SCP-231-7 and worst of all, she is pregnant.
The cause of her eternal torture?
The SCP Foundation.
And you’ll be shocked to learn that when all is said and done, these are the good guys!
Because if ever they stop their brutal treatment of SCP-231-7 – a treatment codenamed Procedure
110-Montauk – she will give birth to a creature that will destroy the world as we know it.
This is just one of the many examples of the objects and entities under the watchful eyes
of The SCP Foundation – A mysterious group that strives to achieve the greater good by
any means necessary.
And we really do mean any.
What you’re about to hear is above classified, and be warned – what is heard can never
be unheard.
Unless, of course, The Foundation gets its hands on you.
So, what is The SCP Foundation?
In the most basic sense, the group’s mission statement is right there in the SCP acronym:
Secure, Contain, Protect.
It is the task of the Foundation to, in their own words, contain “anomalous objects, entities,
and phenomena.”
Things that don’t make sense.
Things that don’t belong.
Things that simply don’t fit in with our perception of reality, and some things that
pose an existential threat to all human life.
They refer to these contained anomalies as SCPs, each of which is accompanied by a number.
This is a broad umbrella, as an SCP can range from benign or even actively helpful to downright
apocalyptic if ever released.
Much like the infamous “Men In Black” often reported by witnesses in connection
with alien sightings, the Foundation works in secret to maintain a sense of normalcy
at all costs – knowing the chaos it would cause if any of the anomalies they’re harbouring
ever became public.
Take, for example, SCP-500.
To the untrained eye, this object is just an unassuming prescription pill bottle, the
kind you’d see in medicine cabinets the world over.
But the pills in this humble bottle are unlike any earthly medicine – they can cure quite
literally anything, from cancer to a cold, within two hours.
But, at the time of this writing, there are only 47 pills left.
The power to cure all disease – a privilege denied to even the richest and most powerful
in society, a veritable holy grail.
Can you imagine the violence and horror that would break out in trying to obtain them if
their existence ever became public?
The SCP Foundation works in secret because the collective mind of society just couldn’t
handle the knowledge of what they’re dealing with.
They work with the approval of all world governments, effectively placing them above international
law.
Essentially, there is no human authority above the Foundation, because without the Foundation’s
work, there would be no humans left to govern.
To understand the basic operations of this above-top-secret organisation, we need to
delve a little further into that “Secure, Contain, Protect” slogan.
“Secure” refers to the Foundation’s practice of constant, global surveillance
and observation in order to detect and intercept anomalous activity before it can interact
with civilians or rival groups.
“Contain” involves preventing the effects or influence of the anomaly from spreading
by either, in their own words, “relocating, concealing, or dismantling such anomalies
or by suppressing or preventing public dissemination of knowledge thereof.”
The latter can involve practices such as using advanced chemical compounds or technologies
to delete and then rewrite the memories of infected civilians, or even committing mass
murder if necessary to cover their tracks.
The SCP Foundation has, in the past, wiped out entire towns of innocent civilians to
prevent dangerous information about an SCP spreading beyond their control.
They can take lives at their own discretion, and consider almost any crime to be permissible
when the alternative is Armageddon.
And finally, “Protect” pertains to all operations meant to protect mankind from the
SCPs, up to and including neutralising and destroying them when possible.
Some SCPs, such as the infamous SCP-682 – a nigh-indestructible, genocidal reptilian – have
proved to be almost impossible to destroy.
Research is ongoing in many cases, as the Foundation explores any and all possible methods
of reducing the threat of the more dangerous SCPs.
In order to help them categorize the thousands of strange and horrifying anomalies under
their watch, the Foundation has created a system that organises the SCPs based on the
difficulty of containing them.
The first of the Primary Object Classes is “Safe”, pertaining to SCPs that require
little if any resources to safely and properly contain.
Examples include the previously mentioned SCP-500 pill bottle, and SCP-999, a benevolent
blob of gelatinous, orange matter.
SCP-999 has a playful, almost dog-like personality, and causes feelings of happiness and euphoria
in whoever or whatever it touches.
It’s even been used by the Foundation as a pacification tool to reduce aggression in
other SCPs.
The second Primary Object Class is “Euclid”, which refers to any anomaly that requires
more resources to contain completely or where containment isn't always reliable.
This is the broadest SCP class, and the majority of sentient, sapient, or autonomous anomalies
fall into this category.
Aa Euclid SCP might be something as huge, sprawling, and bizarre as SCP-3008.
This SCP appears to be a kind of anomalous pocket dimension hidden inside an Ikea superstore,
which is not only significantly larger on the inside – by approximately ten kilometres
– but also contains bizarre, faceless entities which can become hostile under the right conditions.
A Euclid SCP can also be something as seemingly innocuous as SCP-294, which appears to the
untrained eye to be a standard coffee vending machine.
However, unlike any other coffee machine, the input system on SCP-294 is a QWERTY keyboard.
This SCP can manifest any liquid typed in on the keyboard, from standard drinks like
coffee and beer, to more esoteric compounds like sulfuric acid and disease-infected human
blood.
During extensive tests, one subject requested “the perfect drink”, and was given an
odourless, lavender-coloured liquid.
After consuming the liquid, the subject went into a state of euphoric shock.
The subject later committed suicide, leaving a note which read "I'm sorry, but at this
point everything's just one big let-down."
Sadly, subjects dying during tests is not uncommon.
The SCP Foundation essentially has limitless resources, including access to countless disposable
workers and test subjects.
The most common of these are so-called “D-Class Personnel”, which are death-row inmates
conscripted for the purposes of often lethal SCP experimentation or containment.
The next Primary Object Class is Keter, described by the Foundation as anomalies that are exceedingly
difficult to contain consistently or reliably, with containment procedures often being extensive
and complex.
This can be either due to being an extremely volatile and dangerous anomaly, or just one
that seems to defy known laws of physics or reality, and is thus extremely difficult to
understand or contain.
The SCP Foundation has a vast number of secret facilities across the globe, and while the
Keter-class SCPs are not nearly as common as the Euclid class, they consume a great
deal more resources to safely contain.
One particularly terrifying Keter-class SCP is SCP-354, colloquially known by Foundation
employees as “The Blood Pond.”
This SCP is a large pool of non-biological red liquid discovered in Northern Canada that
appears to be a kind of interdimensional primordial soup.
What makes this SCP particularly hard to contain, as well as extremely frightening, is the fact
that hostile entities periodically emerge from the pond, and must be neutralized before
they can escape the containment area.
These entities have included a floating, black sphere that can fire concentrated beams of
deadly radiation, a fifteen-foot-tall reptilian humanoid that seemed immune to gunfire, and
a homicidal metallic humanoid nicknamed “The Terminator” by Foundation personnel.
The most highly classified Primary Object Class of all is Thaumiel, which consists of
SCPs used to contain other SCPs.
These can range from SCP-7000-J, a book of Latin incantations bound in dinosaur skin
that can summon various other entities.
All the way to SCP-4006, which is the entire state of Massachusetts.
Thaumiel-class SCPs are the more bizarre and esoteric of the anomalies dealt with by the
foundation, but thankfully, they often pose less of an active threat than many of the
Euclid and Keter-class SCPs.
Finally, as mentioned earlier, sometimes the SCP Foundation deems an anomaly too dangerous
to contain, and needs to destroy it entirely.
A terrifying example of a neutralized SCP – and a perfect illustration for just how
strange and abstract the anomalies dealt with by the Foundation can be – is SCP-4991.
This SCP manifested as a series of bizarre posts across a number of websites about an
apocalyptic event that seemed to be occurring on a different layer of reality and seemed
to indicate that a kind of deadly, parasitic and carnivorous insect was spreading like
wildfire across the globe, causing death and destruction in their wake.
The SCP Foundation neutralized SCP-4991 by tracking down, containing, and erasing all
infected posts across the internet before it could spread too far.
Who knows what would have happened if the Foundation hadn’t intervened?
As is often the case with SCPs, it’s probably best just not to think about it.
The actual structure of The SCP Foundation is surprisingly transparent, with personnel
classification levels ranging from Class A to Class E. Class A personnel are considered
vital to the strategic operations of the Foundation, and therefore are not allowed to be in direct
contact with any of the SCPs due to potential risks.
Class B personnel are vital to local Foundation operations on SCP test sites, and are only
permitted to be in contact with SCPs deemed to be relatively safe.
Class C personnel are field agents that have far more direct contact with the SCPs, and
often put themselves at great risk in doing so.
Class D personnel, as previously mentioned, are essentially cannon fodder, thrown into
the jaws of death to discover more about the more dangerous anomalies on the SCP roster.
And finally, Class E personnel are personnel that have already been exposed to the potentially
dangerous effects of an unknown anomaly.
Class E personnel are placed into quarantine until they’re deemed fit to return to work,
or terminated, depending on the results of their observations.
In terms of actual roles in The SCP Foundation, the top of the pyramid are the O5 Council
Members – Class A Personnel who have total clearance and oversee all Foundation operations.
Below them are Site Directors, who manage the various physical Foundation facilities
across the globe, and report back to the O5 Council.
On site, Researchers and Containment Specialists work together to better understand and combat
the anomalies being housed at their particular facility.
They’re kept safe by the hard work of veteran Security and Tactical Response Officers, ready
to lay down their lives to prevent the more dangerous SCPs from ever escaping and reaching
developed areas.
In the event that an SCP does breach containment and escape, or a new one is discovered, field
operatives are dispatched by the Foundation to get the situation under control.
These will consist of Field Agents who already operate across the globe, and specialized
Mobile Task Force Operatives.
The SCP Foundation has eyes and ears everywhere.
Their organization is influential, and is embedded in every facet of society, ready
to strike and suppress an emerging anomaly before any ripples of its existence can reach
the wider world.
Even here, we’ve only really scratched the surface of the SCP Foundation’s extensive
and frankly mind-boggling global and historical operations.
There’s plenty of information about the Foundation online, many of which people assume
is pure fiction.
But wouldn’t that be the perfect cover for a real secret organisation wanting to cover
its tracks?
As the quote says, “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world
he doesn’t exist.”
Ultimately, The SCP Foundation is on the side of mankind, but that doesn’t mean it’ll
always act in our best interests.
After all, if it means preserving the peace and getting another anomaly under wraps, the
Foundation won’t hesitate to terminate you and everyone you know without a second thought.
Whether you’d want to face off against the Foundation itself or one of the anomalies
they wish to contain is ultimately up to you, but trust us, neither would end well for you.
Oh, speaking of which, there’s another SCP we forgot to mention that’s quite literally
unspeakable.
SCP-2521 is a creature made entirely of strange, black tendrils that envelop and smother the
creature’s prey.
No written records of the creature exist outside of pictograms, because it immediately attacks
and consumes any information produced about it.
This includes speech, as the creature will appear and consume anyone who speaks- oh god,
oh no, SCP-2521, it’s here!
It’s here!
Help me!
(The narrator screams, then is cut off abruptly as the creature attacks).
Pay no mind to what you just witnessed.
I, the Infographics Show narrator, am perfectly fine.
We now recommend you watch “Russian Sleep Experiment – EXPLAINED” and “How A Meme
(Slenderman) Became Real” and pay no more thought to what you have just seen and or
heard.
Thank you.