SCP Foundation

The SCP Foundation is a fictional secret organization and the premise of the SCP Wiki, a wiki-based collaborative fiction project launched in 2008. Within the project's shared world, the SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation is responsible for capturing, containing, and studying paranormal, supernatural, and other mysterious phenomena (known as "anomalies" or "SCPs"), while also keeping their existence hidden from society. The collaborative writing project includes elements of horror, science fiction, and urban fantasy. The majority of works on the SCP Wiki are "SCP files": mock confidential scientific reports that document various SCPs and associated containment procedures; the website also contains "Foundation Tales", short stories featuring various characters and settings in the SCP universe. The site's literary works have been praised for their ability to convey horror through a quasi-scientific and academic writing style, as well as for their high standards of quality. The SCP universe has inspired adaptations in various media, including literature, short films, and video games.

Overview The fictional setting of the SCP universe revolves around the findings and activities of the SCP Foundation, an international secret society, scientific research institution, and paramilitary force. The organization is generally portrayed as operating independently of any national government, answering only to its own mysterious, shadow government-like leadership body known as the O5 Council or Overseers. The Foundation captures and contains various unexplained paranormal phenomena (referred to as "anomalies", "SCP objects", "SCPs", or informally "skips") which display supernatural abilities or other extremely unusual properties that defy conventional scientific laws. These phenomena can include living beings, objects, places, abstract concepts, or incomprehensible entities. Typically, the Foundation is depicted as striving to conceal the existence of the paranormal—as well as of itself—due to its belief in human civilization's need to continue functioning under a masquerade of "normalcy". Commonalities between SCP works include teams of Foundation agents deploying to newly discovered anomalies, either safeguarding them in situ or covertly transporting them to Foundation facilities. The Foundation is frequently depicted interrogating eyewitnesses and then dosing them with amnestic drugs to erase their memories of anomalous events. At these facilities, SCPs are held captive and studied to develop better containment methods. The Foundation's laboratory research projects frequently exploit "D-class personnel", disposable human test subjects (usually unwitting convict prisoners) acquired from around the world, forcing them into performing slave labor and participating in experiments with potentially dangerous SCPs in order to avoid risking the safety of the Foundation's employees. In the SCP fictional universe, apart from the Foundation itself, there are numerous rival organizations (collectively known as Groups of Interest, or GOIs) actively involved with the paranormal world. Examples include the Chaos Insurgency, a terrorist splinter group of ex-Foundation defectors who capture and weaponize SCPs; the Global Occult Coalition (GOC), a secret paramilitary agency of the United Nations specialized in destroying supernatural threats instead of containing them; and the Serpent's Hand, a militant group which advocates for the rights of anomalous beings, resisting both the Foundation's and GOC's efforts to suppress paranormal activity worldwide. Other GOIs seek to exploit anomalies by producing or selling them for profit, or using them to serve their own religious, political, or ideological goals.

Examples of SCPs

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