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SCP-2835 is a VHS cassette containing an unreleased episode of “The Adventures of Paddy the Pelican,” a 1950s children’s cartoon. When played, the animated pelican character breaks the fourth wall, engages viewers in increasingly hostile dialogue, and ultimately causes their death through psychological manipulation and reality-warping violence. Despite its lethality, it remains classified as Safe […]

SCP-1836 is a mobile, 90-meter-tall green iceberg controlled by a sentient entity named Sanna, who systematically destroys whaling vessels using a swarm of extinct cetacean specimens (SCP-1836-1). This Euclid-class anomaly represents both an environmental avenger and a living graveyard of marine extinction events spanning millions of years. The Green Iceberg: Physical Properties and Discovery SCP-1836 […]

SCP-1810, designated “Mr. Pierrot,” is a 3.8-meter tall humanoid entity covered entirely in charcoal gray cloth that exhibits compulsive child-protection behaviors despite its disturbing appearance. Part of Dr. Wondertainment’s “Little Misters” collection, this anomaly combines theatrical performance instincts with an overwhelming drive to entertain and safeguard children, making it one of the Foundation’s most psychologically […]

SCP-1808 is a collection of six identical yellow plastic wristwatches featuring SpongeBob SquarePants imagery that force wearers to physically stretch their bodies in agonizing synchronization with the character’s iconic laugh every 15 minutes, causing severe tissue damage and psychological trauma through involuntary biomechanical distortion. The Six Watches: Physical Properties & Anomalous Mechanics SCP-1808 consists of […]

SCP-1682 is a massive, segmented worm-like entity residing within the sun’s core, measuring thousands of kilometers in length. This parasitic organism survives in plasma exceeding 15 million degrees Celsius, feeding on stellar material while posing an existential threat through its potential reproductive cycle that could fundamentally alter solar radiation and trigger apocalyptic scenarios. The Biological […]

SCP-164 is an anomalous strain of cancerous cells that defies conventional oncology by transforming host tissue into functional cephalopod organisms. Unlike standard tumors, these cells undergo metamorphosis from malignant growths into squid-like entities, creating a parasitic lifecycle that blurs the boundary between cancer and complex multicellular life. The Cellular Nightmare: What SCP-164 Actually Is SCP-164 […]

SCP-161 is a seemingly ordinary children’s pinwheel that creates a catastrophic divergence between subjective experience and objective reality—users perceive themselves firing destructive energy beams and obliterating targets, while in truth, nothing happens at all. This perceptual manipulation makes it one of the Foundation’s most philosophically disturbing Safe-class objects, raising fundamental questions about the nature of […]

SCP-154 is a pair of anomalous bronze bracelets that transform the wearer’s arms into lethal biological weapons upon activation. Classified as Safe due to predictable behavior, these circular artifacts represent one of the Foundation’s most straightforward yet disturbing examples of body-horror anomalies with immediate tactical applications. The Bronze Paradox: Material Analysis SCP-154 consists of two […]

SCP-1498 is a collection of 30 autonomous entities constructed from vintage telephone components—handsets, cords, and rotary mechanisms—assembled to resemble sheep. These entities maintain a connection to SCP-1498-Ω, the Bell Telephone Collective, a sentient presence within oneiric space that operates a “Dial-A-Dream” service, allowing manipulation of human dreams through obsolete telecommunications infrastructure. The Phone-Cord Flock: Physical […]

SCP-1478 represents one of the SCP Foundation’s most peculiar botanical anomalies: a collection of 54 sentient saguaro cacti (Carnegiea gigantea) located in the Sonoran Desert that possess the ability to see, communicate, and experience emotions. While initially appearing as a humorous anomaly featuring stereotypically-accented desert plants, SCP-1478 raises profound questions about the nature of consciousness, […]

SCP-1447, classified as Keter, consists of two interconnected entities: SCP-1447-1, a quasi-physical tulpa manifesting as a murderous Tibetan monk, and SCP-1447-2, the human who accidentally created it through meditation. The anomaly represents a self-sustaining cognitive threat where a thought-form entity relentlessly pursues its creator across any distance, making separation the only viable containment strategy. The […]

SCP-2019 is a sapient 5-meter cubic organism composed of green gelatinous material encased in a transparent biological membrane. Unlike typical biological entities, this Euclid-class anomaly demonstrates intelligence through a distributed neural network within its cubic structure, challenging conventional understanding of consciousness and spatial cognition in living systems. The Biological Architecture of a Sentient Cube SCP-2019’s […]

SCP-2005 is a collection of five extraterrestrial probes (designated SCP-2005-A through E) that possess the anomalous ability to accurately “predict” historical events that have already occurred, effectively demonstrating retrocausality and challenging humanity’s understanding of linear time and causality itself. The Discovery Event: How We Found Alien Technology The Foundation’s first encounter with SCP-2005 occurred through […]

SCP-1987 is an anomalous phenomenon affecting several hundred skeletal remains of pre-Christian Norse warriors buried across multiple Scandinavian burial mounds. These reanimated entities retain combat skills, social hierarchy, and collective behavior patterns from their original lives, forming what researchers describe as a functional undead military unit that periodically attempts coordinated excursions from their containment sites. […]

SCP-1985 is Jacqueline Johnson, a human woman involuntarily transformed into a trans-dimensional witness to apocalyptic realities. An implanted device resurrects her in alternate universes upon death, forcing her to document countless K-Class extinction scenarios before returning to our reality with critical intelligence about how civilizations end. Jacqueline Johnson: The Woman Behind the Designation Before becoming […]

Executive Summary SCP-195 is a “medicinal whiskey” distributed by two traveling salesmen in the pre-Civil War American South, primarily marketed to slave hunters. The liquid induces profound psychological changes in consumers, fundamentally altering their moral reasoning and empathy responses. Unlike typical mind-altering substances, SCP-195’s effects appear to target specific ethical frameworks related to human autonomy […]

SCP-190 is a carved wooden box measuring 50 cm × 70 cm × 35 cm, created by Herman Fuller’s Circus of the Disquieting. When opened by individuals aged 10 or older, the box generates a spatial anomaly that traps victims in an extradimensional space resembling a circus tent interior, making it one of the Foundation’s […]

SCP-188 is a 181.43-gram iridium cylinder that generates a localized spatial anomaly, causing spontaneous material degradation and complex environmental alterations within a finite radius. Classified as Safe due to its predictable behavior, this metallic artifact demonstrates reality-bending properties that challenge our understanding of causality and matter manipulation. The Iridium Cylinder: Physical Properties and Discovery SCP-188 […]

SCP-1860, known as “Its Bleeding Song” or “Virtuoso,” is an emaciated humanoid anomaly standing 2.1 meters tall but weighing only 31 kilograms. This Euclid-class entity compulsively performs operatic arias and overtures without cessation, pausing only for 5-second intervals between selections. Originally exploited by Herman Fuller’s Circus of the Disquieting, SCP-1860 represents a disturbing intersection of […]

SCP-185 is a modified Russian R-105M Cold War-era radio equipped with an anomalous keypad and LCD screen that enables temporal communication—allowing operators to send and receive transmissions across different points in time. Classified as Euclid due to its unpredictable temporal mechanics and potential for causality violations, this device represents one of the Foundation’s most carefully […]

SCP-215 is a pair of prescription myopia-correcting glasses that induces irreversible paranoid delusions in wearers, causing them to perceive inanimate objects as sentient, malevolent entities capable of speech and hostile intent. The psychological deterioration progresses rapidly and persists even after removal, making it one of the Foundation’s most insidious cognitohazards. The Psychology of Paranoia: How […]

SCP-2146 is the frozen corpse of an adult Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) inexplicably orbiting Earth in Medium Earth Orbit, approximately 2,000 kilometers above the surface. Despite being a biological specimen exposed to the vacuum of space, it remains structurally intact and emits anomalous radio transmissions of unknown origin and purpose. The Orbital Discovery: How a […]

SCP-2140 is a Thaumiel-class anomalous image that retrocausally alters the personal history of anyone who views it, rewriting their entire timeline so they have always been a loyal Foundation employee. Derived from ancient Daevite symbols through Project Kallinikos, this reality-bending tool represents one of the Foundation’s most ethically controversial assets—a recruitment method that erases who […]

SCP-214, designated “Hemotopian Virus,” is a Euclid-class anomalous pathogen that systematically replaces all bodily fluids in infected human hosts with an unknown substance while maintaining host viability. Contained at Bio-Research Area-12, SCP-214 represents one of the Foundation’s most ethically complex biological anomalies, as infected subjects retain consciousness throughout their physiological transformation. The Hemotopian Transformation: What […]

SCP-2024 is an 89-centimeter lacquer-finished wooden cane with anomalous properties that manifest when wielded by human subjects. The object features a distinctive red-painted shaft and a 16-centimeter handle, appearing as an ordinary mobility aid until physical contact triggers its reality-altering effects. Classified as Euclid due to unpredictable behavioral patterns, this artifact represents one of the […]

SCP-216 is a 35.6 cm (14-inch) iron safe equipped with a seven-dial combination lock, each dial numbered 0 through 9. This seemingly ordinary object is anything but—each of its 10 million possible combinations opens a doorway to a completely different interior space, defying conventional physics and transforming a small metal box into a gateway to […]

SCP-221 is a pair of 16th or 17th-century gold tweezers that induces severe, localized obsessive-compulsive disorder in anyone who uses them on their own body. What begins as routine hair removal rapidly escalates into uncontrollable, destructive grooming behavior that continues until physical intervention occurs. Despite its devastating psychological effects, SCP-221 remains classified as Safe due […]

SCP-2222 is an anomalous airlock system located within a classified orbital space station, consisting of two opaque hermetic plug doors and a 3.6-meter diameter cylindrical chamber. This extraterrestrial containment anomaly exhibits spatial properties that violate conventional physics, making it one of the Foundation’s most enigmatic space-based objects requiring continuous orbital monitoring and strict access protocols. […]

SCP-2337 is an anomalous corn crake (Crex crex) capable of producing vocalizations exceeding 90 decibels while demonstrating human-level sapience and a bizarre, self-invented dialect. Self-identifying as “Dr. Spanko,” this Safe-class anomaly represents one of the Foundation’s most peculiar cases of avian intelligence paired with extreme acoustic output. Classification & Containment Breakdown SCP-2337 holds a Safe […]

SCP-235 is a collection of anomalous shellac phonograph records from the late 1920s that produce reality-altering effects when played. Each record contains a different song with a white label, and playback causes severe spatial distortions, temporal anomalies, and physical transformations in nearby objects and living beings, making them one of the Foundation’s most dangerous auditory […]

SCP-055 is a Keter-class antimemetic anomaly housed by the SCP Foundation—an object so fundamentally strange that information about it actively erases itself from human memory. Unlike typical anomalies that you remember encountering, SCP-055 is a “self-keeping secret” that vanishes from consciousness moments after observation, leaving only the unsettling awareness that something important has been forgotten. […]

SCP-087 is an unlit platform staircase descending at a 38-degree angle with semicircular platforms every 13 steps, extending far beyond the physical boundaries of its host building. The anomaly contains an unknown entity designated SCP-087-1, a disembodied face that stalks explorers through impossible depths while distant crying sounds echo from below. The Campus Discovery: How […]

SCP-2521 is a Keter-class anomaly that abducts anyone or anything containing information about it expressed in words or speech. Standing roughly twice human height and composed entirely of black ribbon-like tendrils, this entity represents a unique cognitive threat: it cannot be safely documented through traditional text or verbal communication, forcing the Foundation to describe it […]

SCP-3812, also known as “A Voice Behind Me,” is a reality-altering entity of unprecedented power—a being capable of ascending through narrative layers of existence itself. Originally Sam Howell, an African-American man with schizophrenia, SCP-3812 now exists as a transdimensional anomaly that actively resists containment by retroactively altering events across time and space, making it one […]

SCP-5675 is a cognitohazardous phenomenon affecting residents of Chicago’s Douglas neighborhood, causing extreme psychological terror in response to garbage collection vehicles. The anomaly manifests as a perception-altering effect that transforms routine sanitation trucks into sources of overwhelming dread, triggering panic attacks, paranoia, and violent avoidance behaviors in affected individuals. The Douglas Neighborhood Incident: What Happened […]

SCP-2901 are extradimensional predatory entities averaging 1.7m in height with moth-like iridescent scales and glowing photophoric eyes. These nocturnal scavengers possess reality-bending abilities including teleportation, levitation, and acoustic cancellation within 25 meters. Most remarkably, they appear at disaster sites before catastrophes occur—not through genuine precognition, but because the Foundation engineered public belief to make them […]

SCP-1188 is a Safe-class anomalous flashlight that temporarily displaces matter within a truncated cone of effect, creating instantaneous spatial relocation without traditional light emission. This object challenges fundamental physics by moving matter without energy transfer, while causing microscopic structural damage at displacement boundaries that raises critical containment and weaponization concerns. The Physics of Instantaneous Displacement […]

SCP-1176 is the mummified corpse of a 35-year-old human male that continuously produces anomalous honey-like secretions despite being deceased. Acquired by the Foundation in 1985 from a Manna Charitable Foundation facility in Eritrea, this object represents an impossible intersection of ancient mellification practices and biochemical anomalies that violate fundamental laws of thermodynamics. The 1985 Asmara […]

SCP-1166 is an anomalous laboratory rat with human-equivalent intelligence and emotional capacity that resurrects itself approximately 15 minutes after death. Designated as the “Perfect Lab Specimen,” it reacts to all chemicals and medical conditions exactly as a human would, making it scientifically invaluable yet ethically catastrophic for the Foundation. The Biological Paradox: Anatomy of an […]