SCP Foundation Case Files: SCP-001: In The Beginning (SCP Case Files)

SCP-001: In the beginning it was all too strange to explain, we did the best we could. But how can anyone explain something no one could ever understand?


The SCP Foundation operates beyond jurisdiction, empowered and entrusted by every major national government with the task of containing anomalous objects, entities, and phenomena. Many of these anomalies pose a significant threat to global security by threatening physical or psychological harm. All of them undermine the natural laws that the people of the world implicitly trust in. These are their case files.

Note: Case files include interviews and excerpts that may contain adult language not meant for children.

"Mankind in its present state has been around for a quarter of a million years, yet only a small fraction of that have been of any significance.

So, what did we do for nearly 250,000 years? We huddled in caves and around small fires, fearful of the things that we didn't understand. It was more than explaining why the sun came up, it was the mystery of enormous birds with heads of men and rocks that came to life. So we called them "gods" and "demons", begged them to spare us, and prayed for salvation.

In time, their numbers dwindled and ours rose. The world began to make more sense when there were fewer things to fear, yet the unexplained can never truly go away, as if the universe demands the absurd and impossible.

Mankind must not go back to hiding in fear. No one else will protect us, and we must stand up for ourselves.

— The Administrator