The SCP Foundation: Fake News?

By: Jerry Wu 

 In 2020 people were forced to stay at home because of COVID-19 and the government’s order to remain at home.  This quarantine, however, not only gave people the time and mind for horror stories that have gone viral during 2020, but the most notable one is the SCP foundation.   

The SCP foundation is a fictional organization by the Web-Based collaborative-fiction project of the same name that allows registered authors to publish articles about anomalies, objects, and entities that violate natural law.  

The SCP foundation, although stated publicly fiction, still has some believing that it is real though classified; this has caused some minor confusion among the general population. However, if the foundation was real, then the URL for the website should be www.scp-foundation.gov and not http://www.scpwiki.com/ . 

An example of a SCP foundation article is below: 

SCP-682 

Item #: SCP-682 

Object Class: Keter 

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-682 must be destroyed as soon as possible. At this time, no means available to SCP teams are capable of destroying SCP-682, only able to cause massive physical damage. SCP-682 should be contained within a 5 m x 5 m x 5 m chamber with 25 cm reinforced acid-resistant steel plate lining all inside surfaces. The containment chamber should be filled with hydrochloric acid until SCP-682 is submerged and incapacitated. Any attempts of SCP-682 to move, speak, or breach containment should be reacted to quickly and with full force as called for by the circumstances. 

Personnel are forbidden to speak to SCP-682, for fear of provoking a rage-state. All unauthorized personnel attempting to communicate to SCP-682 will be restrained and removed by force. 

Due to its frequent attempts at containment breach, difficulty of containment and incapacitation, and high threat of Foundation Exposure, SCP-682 is to be contained in site [REDACTED]. The Foundation will use the best of its resources to maintain all land within fifty (50) kilometers clear of human development. 

In case of containment breach, SCP-682 is to be tracked and re-captured by all available Mobile Task Forces, and no teams with fewer than seven (7) members are cleared to engage it. To date (██–██–████), attempted breaches have numbered at seventeen (17), while successful breaches have numbered at six. 

 (Please note that the article above is completely fictional)