Classified anomaly files, read straight, plus darker serialized tales.
The show reads SCP Foundation containment files as classified documents, object class and containment procedures included, with anomalies that run from a cereal box believed to be sapient to a drone that behaves like a bird of prey. Longer tales run alongside them, including the End of Death episodes, where life support is switched off and nothing changes.
PRESS PLAY
The SCP Foundation Database turns the fictional files of the SCP wiki into audio and keeps them sounding like files. The numbered files open with the same stern notice: the database is classified, and unauthorized readers will be tracked, located and detained. The fields come next, in order: item number, object class, special containment procedures, description. The horror is in the procedures. SCP-162 is a mass of fishhooks, fishing line, needles and scissors about seven feet high. Handlers wear steel plate gloves and heavy body armor, and anyone who has been near it goes through two weeks of mental testing. The reason is the pull it exerts. People who see it want to touch it, the urge can last for weeks, and they turn violent when someone tries to take them away from it. SCP-160 is an unmarked drone with scratches where labels may once have been, and it operates on its own, behaving like a bird of prey. It is kept in a biocontainment chamber and fed a live rabbit, or an animal of similar mass, once a week through an automated system. Not every anomaly is grim. SCP-3671 is a generic cereal box that fills with a fresh bag of objects each morning. Its first containment procedures kept it on a break-room shelf at Site-19, and staff were free to eat from it. After an incident in March 2018 it was moved to a medium-security locker, and the file now records it as believed to be sapient. The main series works through entries by number, and the show is open about it when the source changes. In Memorandum-09, the Database notes that the Bright Works Project removed a batch of files from the official wiki, SCP-161 among them. That number is skipped for now and SCP-162 comes next, with a stated plan to return once the number is reassigned. Longer tales with characters and dialogue run beside the files. One End of Death installment is built around a tale called Omega-K: Joyce Michaels watches her father sit up in his hospital bed after his life support is switched off and nothing changes. That tale moves between scenes and file-style entries on an anomaly's behavior after the event, and it includes a colleague's report that a coworker has tried to take her own life. Another installment reads like a business proposal. It pitches brain transplants as both a medical and a commercial product for a world where the brain no longer ages but the body still does. The register stays clinical and procedural throughout, whether the subject is a cereal box or the end of dying. Some episodes close with an appeal for Patreon support, which the show says brings bonus content, joke SCPs and the ability to request episodes. Joshua Alan Lindsay voices the Database itself. For a first listen, the standalone files are the gentler way in, because the End of Death tales carry the heavier material.
Made for: Suits a listener who likes horror delivered as paperwork, with the dread carried by containment procedures and incident notes. It also suits someone comfortable moving from an absurd cereal box to heavier stories about death, medical ethics and self-harm.
What sets it apart: It reads the files as documents, access warning and object class included, and follows the wiki's numbering closely enough to issue a memorandum when an entry is removed. It also carries multi-part tales such as End of Death alongside the standalone files.
Experience the SCP Foundation’s database of dangerous and perplexing phenomena in this immersive audio adaption of the long-running collaborative horror fiction series, featuring both its early writings (presented in numerical order) and other, later works.The voice of the Database is Joshua Alan Lindsay. The extended voice cast includes Brittany Carlton, Spera Crinis, Oktober Crow, Lee Daniel, Lisa Hogan, Christian Jasper, Kendra 'Izzy' Murray, Romeo Rosales, Jr., Martin Taylor, and Breck Wilhite.
The soul extractor comes with experiment logs; your nightmares now have a filing system.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A hospital miracle curdles into bureaucratic dread when nobody can die and suicide may still leave the living injured.
Omega-K opens in a hospital room, with a disconnected heartbeat monitor still crying its steady tone as Joyce Michaels watches her father wake after months and learns that no one has died anywhere.
A vampire resort review where five-star hospitality meets an unusually adventurous blood menu.
Ambrose Transylvania treats a vampire resort visit as deadpan hospitality criticism, following Sebastian Lacroix through Chaz Ambrose's Romanian hotel and a blood menu designed for hemivores.
A closed library and a resurrection experiment turn clinical procedure into steadily tightening horror.
SCP-3984 begins as a locked-room disturbance in a closed library, then hardens into something colder and more procedural. Warm, dark rooms, blind security cameras, a stray book, and the quiet after a careless collision give the opening a physical unease that lingers once the…
Speculative stories, read with quiet precision.
A fan-made audiobook of Wildbow's superhero serial Ward.
Two captives beneath Denver's airport, one stranger listening above.
Story-heavy actual play with sharp supernatural turns.
This episode presents the SCP Foundation's classified file on SCP-143, a grove of anomalous cherry blossom trees with dangerous properties.
An audio adaptation of the SCP Foundation's database entry for SCP-3008, a dangerous IKEA-like retail space.
This episode presents the SCP Foundation's classified file on SCP-162, a mass of sharp objects that induces an obsessive desire to touch it.
An audio adaptation of the SCP Foundation's database, featuring a daily anomalous cereal box that changes contents and is now considered sapient.
This episode is a memorandum from the SCP Foundation announcing the removal of certain SCP files as part of the Bright Works Project.
An immersive audio adaptation of the SCP Foundation's database of dangerous and perplexing phenomena, featuring early and later works from the collaborative horror fiction series.
An audio adaptation of the SCP Foundation's classified database, detailing the containment procedures and description of SCP-160, a predatory quadcopter-like entity.
["The SCP Foundation Database episode \"End of Death, Episode 3 - Omega-K\" follows Joyce Michaels across the year 2020 and shows what happens when death stops working.
SCP-158 is a ceiling-mounted mechanical claw that extracts an unknown substance from living, cognitively aware subjects and leaves only brainstem activity.
The SCP Foundation Database episode Ambrose Transylvania follows Sebastian Lacroix tasting more than 200 blood varieties at Chaz Ambrose's underground hotel outside Cluj-Napoca.
The SCP Foundation Database episode SCP-3984 - Poking Death with a Stick [EoD-2] centers on Omega-K, dated September 12th, 2020 at 1400:02 GMT, when the last globally recorded human death occurred.
SCP-2718 "What Happens After" opens with Agent Johnson given two hours and a Behemoth-class amnestic to improve containment of a Damerung-class cognitohazard, and "Trinitite class mimetic" termination is the penalty for reading on without inoculation.
SCP-4005 is an indestructible glass lamp recovered from Cairo that, when lit, shows viewers urban scenes of a single city that they believe lies in China, and it turns them into pilgrims (SCP-4005-1) who vanish through doors, caves and gateways.
An SCP Foundation employee is abruptly transferred to a new department in Canada, leading to a frustrated but apologetic email exchange.
An audio adaptation of the SCP Foundation's classified database, detailing the containment procedures for a dangerous anomalous entity.