U_Haru Archive • Anomaly Report

The SCP Foundation:
A Guide to the World’s Most Classified Universe

Classification Level: UNRESTRICTED • Document Type: General Overview

SCP Foundation • Introductory Briefing

Secure. Contain. Protect. — These three words form the operational mandate of an organization that, by all official accounts, does not exist. The SCP Foundation is a fictional collaborative writing project and one of the most elaborately constructed fictional universes in internet history.

What Is the SCP Foundation?

Within its fictional framework, the SCP Foundation is a clandestine international organization operating entirely outside the jurisdiction of any government or institution. Its mission is threefold: to Secure anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena before they can cause harm; to Contain them in specialized facilities designed to neutralize their effects; and to Protect the general public by maintaining a global masquerade — ensuring that the existence of the paranormal remains unknown to civilian populations.

The Foundation operates dozens of research sites and containment facilities across the globe, staffed by thousands of personnel ranging from field agents and security officers to theoretical physicists and metaphysical researchers. Its resources are effectively unlimited, drawn from anonymous state-level funding sources and its own recovered anomalous assets.

The SCP Classification System

Every anomaly catalogued by the Foundation is assigned an SCP designation — a numerical identifier preceded by the letters “SCP”. Anomalies are classified into primary object classes based on the difficulty of containment:

Safe

Sufficiently understood. Containment is reliable with minimal resources. Safe does not mean harmless.

Euclid

Behavior not fully understood. Requires complex containment. The most common classification.

Keter

Extremely dangerous or nearly impossible to contain. Considerable ongoing Foundation resources required.

Apollyon

Containment deemed impossible. Extinction-level outcomes considered likely. Reserved for existential threats.

Notable SCPs

Object Class: Euclid

SCP-173

The Sculpture

A concrete humanoid entity that moves with lethal speed when not directly observed by a conscious being. The original SCP entry. Remains the most iconic.

Object Class: Keter

SCP-682

Hard-to-Destroy Reptile

An immensely powerful regenerative organism with a pathological hatred of all life. All termination attempts have failed.

Object Class: Euclid

SCP-049

Plague Doctor

A humanoid entity that believes itself to be curing “the Pestilence.” Its touch causes instant death; victims are subsequently reanimated.

Object Class: Safe

SCP-999

The Tickle Monster

An amorphous gelatinous mass that induces extreme happiness on contact. Considered one of the Foundation’s most beloved anomalies.

The Broader Mythology

The SCP universe extends far beyond individual containment files. It encompasses a rich network of competing factions: the Global Occult Coalition, which seeks to destroy anomalies outright; the Serpent’s Hand, which believes anomalies should be free; and the Chaos Insurgency, a splinter group pursuing its own inscrutable agenda.

Underpinning the entire mythology is the concept of normalcy — the fragile illusion that the world operates according to predictable physical laws. The Foundation exists precisely to preserve this illusion, deploying amnestics, disinformation, and lethal force when necessary.

“It is a universe in which horror is bureaucratized, the inexplicable is filed and indexed, and the people who stand between humanity and annihilation do so in complete anonymity — without recognition, and often without surviving the encounter.”

The SCP Foundation wiki is a collaborative fiction project maintained by volunteer contributors worldwide. — scp-wiki.wikidot.com