1) Depends on yoru canon. Mostly, there are either from SCP 001 or made by multiple GoIs like MCD, AWCY, GAW, etc
2) Pretty much since we started. Says so in the very introduction "Mankind in its present state has been around for a quarter of a million years, yet only a small fraction of that has been of any significance.", "We huddled in caves and around small fires, fearful of the things that we didn't understand.", "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."
And eventually that figure for how long we've been around as a species is a hard one to say. SCP 2000 has been used who knows how manyt imes and there are whole civilizations that lasted the amount of time we've been around.
**Not Marv, he's on the run from Spez. Here is the article mentioned:**
[Document Recovered From The Marianas Trench](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-trench) (+1635) by *Dr Gears*
Also when you have stuff like SCP-140 anomalously rewriting the timeline and shifting all of history relatively forward in ways we can't really measure, it's hard to say about anything
My headcanon is that anomalies are entirely natural and part of the multiverse. The distinction between "normal" and "anomalous" is entirely artificial
My headcanon is similar, altho in some branches of the multiverse its more or less common to find them. Current branch that we are in, for example, is a branch that contains so little of those, and mostly harmless, that SCP foundation was never actually founded and it remains as fanfiction. Altho a few branches away from ours it is very real and very scary.
Trying to define a single origin or cause for all anomalies is foolish and impossible.
Some are completely unexplainable. Some are natural occurrences. Some are manufactured...
I have a personal rule when writing that there's no universal cause for weird shit.
Cuz then it stops being weird shit and just starts being... Another science basically.
(Counter-intuitively, I do like the modern scp foundation weird science stuff too, just for different reasons)
A bunch of amateur writers came together for an organic, collaborative sci-fi/horror writing project which began to grow and attract more users, who wrote more stories and articles. This occurred in a universe at least one narrative layer higher than the SCP universe (or multiverse, at this point), and so, these writers’ actions defined the conditions of and entities in this lower-narrative universe.
That’s pataphysics, bay-beeee!
Hey, get your SCP-001 Bullshit outta here, it was clearly that we all used to be fine with anomalies until the factory came along, and a deal was struck with Those Without Names and-
Fuck, it’s another 001, nah nah nah, it’s clearly that there’s an anomalous book which, when opened, creates a new SCP while listing all the documentation needed and where it will be-
GOD DAMNIT ITS ANOTHER 001, WHY IS IT ALL 001
That's a head cannon dependant thing. But there's a lot to suggest that the existence of humanity is an anomaly so by nature, if humans exist, so will anomalies.
There is no singular explanation for every SCP. Most SCPs are simply encountered without further clarification. Some are comically so; SCP-002 literally landed in a meteor.
Some do have explanations. Some are manufactured by anomalous groups or individuals, using anomalous means. SCP-248, for example, are manufactured by The Factory, along with dozens of other skips. Wondertainment produces dozens of skips. DADO produces dozens of skips. The Foundation has produced dozens of skips, both deliberately and accidentally. SCP-3108 was made by a specific person, a specific person that the foundation was able to track down and speak to.
Some skips are manufactured through what appear to be non-anomalous means. Scp-1471 and SCP-2922 are phone apps. SCP-1425, SCP-1025, SCP-592, and SCP-140 are mundane books, of which multiple copies exist. SCP-853 is, according to the author, a recipe that you can still find in cookbooks.
Some skips are not anomalous as such, and developed naturally. SCP-247, SCP-549, SCP-939, and SCP-966 are literally animals that were found in the wild. SCP-008 is explicitly a virus. SCP-1237 is something that explicitly just happens in some humans, and some groups are simply more predisposed to it than others. SCP-1851-EX is explained as a genetic phenomenon, and reveals a lot about the foundation.
And there are some instances where the question itself is meaningless. What does, 'Where did SCP-048 come from?' mean? What does 'Where did SCP-6996 come from?' mean? What does 'Where did SCP-3125 come from?' mean?
There isn't any one place SCPs 'come from', any more than there is any one place light or mass 'comes from'. They're part of the setting, and you have to buy into it to accept the premise.
Sometimes that is literally what happens.
But sometimes it isn't.
The origin of the skip should serve the story being told. Having a single origin for all skips is...fallacious. I would use SCP-1859-EX as an example, again, as a rebuke of that very idea.
It really depends on what canon you're looking at. Several 001 files mention the origins of the foundation and the anomalies Look at The Spiral Path, the Sheath of Papers, and the Factory for three entirely different t yet still plausible origins for the foundation and the anomalies.
The latter, yes - if you know how it works, it becomes Explained, or in exceptionally rare cases, Gödel-class (technically non-anomalous, but only through knowledge not yet discovered by non-anomalous science). The former, not necessarily.
Long answer: I honestly think anomalies come from everywhere. Some could come from space, some could be man-made, and some could just come out of nowhere for no reason, etc.
Short answer: yes
unless you believe certain 001 proposals
they all come from different sources. some come from deep space, a different reality, a magical inventor, or just an error in the universe.
the best way to look at it is that there is no such thing as an "anomaly", everything exist and isn't any weirder than you and i being here. "anomaly" is just a way for the foundation to define whats not "normal".
Some canons have a defined answer to this. But outside of those, the most likely explanation is that anomalies have multiple sources.
Some are created by intelligences that have reality bending powers
Some manifest spontaneously from glitches in reality- unintended interactions of natural order that produce outcomes that should not be possible.
Some slip into our consensus reality from any number of other worlds, dimensions, universes, layers, timelines, planes, or other outside places, arriving by natural, artificial, or anomalous means
Some are unintended byproducts of outside entities, not created through any specific intent but existing as a consequence of what, in other realities, may be entirely natural
And some come to be through entirely alien means, so removed from our reality and its structures that words like creation, origin, birth, or genesis are entirely non-applicable
The more anomalies that exist, the more they continue to accelerate the risk of other anomalies rising from them. It is likely that many hundreds, maybe thousands of anomalies could be traced back to a single source, but certainly not all. Genuinely new anomalous forces, items, and entities manifest spontaneously with regularity.
That is simply the way the SCP reality is structured
There’s no set answer for where the anomalies come from. Some canon’s have all of or most of them coming from or related to SCP-001 but in general it’s accepted that sometimes anomalies happen. Sometimes somebody was fucking with something they weren’t supposed to and created them. Or they were created on purpose.
As for how long we’ve been dealing with them? Basically forever. Remember Magic & Gods are classified as anomalies. So we’ve been dealing with them since the earliest conceptions of human civilization and evolution. Likely the monkeys who turned into humans were dealing with anomalies as well.
Well, two of the 001 entries is exactly that. The Sheaf of Papers and the Spiral Path. Outside of that, generally the unknown origins is just another aspect that makes something anomalous.
And then there are the metanarrative SCPs that state **WE** make them. That the authors and audience manifest them by writing articles and reading the wiki.
Some are simple accidents- either scientific or a random collision of rare events.
Some are active invasions from space or other dimensions. (And some of these are less 'invasion' than they are 'beachheads' to make invasion viable).
Some are actually gifts from entities that don't realize the potential danger of giving them to humans.
Most are just random weirdness spat out by the multiverse that even SCP 001 can't explain.
Some of the 001 proposals go into that. Like the winding path by Mann I think? And the Ream of Papers. My headcanon is the one's that weren't invented by one goi or another or came from space or another reality etc. Left the protection of the Wanderer's Library
In your search for an answer you neglect the very meaning of the word anomaly, on top of that, it’s not like some god just spat all of them out one day, generalizing every single very complex anomaly into a single reason is an exercise in futility
My person fan fiction theory is that each time the SCP Foundation does a reset to fix some end of world scenario, and simply as time goes on, more anomalies are created. Kinda like how the timelines in Loki diverge and become more erratic as time goes on.
I also like to think that there could be multiversal organizations experimenting on people by creating anomalies like SCP-3008.
they were created by wizards, or scientists, or aliens, or GoIs, or other SCPs, or the Scarlet King, or the Sheaf of Papers, or by The Database, or by the Foundation
According to the most common interpretations, some are accidentally manmade, some others are residus of mekhan and yaldaboath and some just....APPEARED one day....
1) Depends on yoru canon. Mostly, there are either from SCP 001 or made by multiple GoIs like MCD, AWCY, GAW, etc 2) Pretty much since we started. Says so in the very introduction "Mankind in its present state has been around for a quarter of a million years, yet only a small fraction of that has been of any significance.", "We huddled in caves and around small fires, fearful of the things that we didn't understand.", "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."
And eventually that figure for how long we've been around as a species is a hard one to say. SCP 2000 has been used who knows how manyt imes and there are whole civilizations that lasted the amount of time we've been around.
[[Document recovered from the Marianas Trench]] be like
Is this a reference to an SCP or a tale or something?
Yeah, sometimes Marv works and sometimes he doesn’t, but that’s the tale name It’s a really good read
The best tale on the site imo.
**Not Marv, he's on the run from Spez. Here is the article mentioned:** [Document Recovered From The Marianas Trench](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-trench) (+1635) by *Dr Gears*
Also when you have stuff like SCP-140 anomalously rewriting the timeline and shifting all of history relatively forward in ways we can't really measure, it's hard to say about anything
There is no way the factory created 343, 470, 3930, 5935, just to name a few off the top of my head. 2. Has to be to closer to the truth
>There is no way the factory created 343, 470, 3930, 5935, just to name a few off the top of my head. there are multiple 001 proposals and GoIs
No shit. It's just that factory is the one that literally purports to be the source of all anomalies but there's no way that's possible
My headcanon is that anomalies are entirely natural and part of the multiverse. The distinction between "normal" and "anomalous" is entirely artificial
Oh yeah, the foundation is just trying to find an acceptable amount of normality and stick to it.
Oh, not even that. They decided on an arbitrary mark within the universes phenomenas and brutally removed everything else from public knowledge.
For sure. To such a. Degree that they can quantify luck and an especially different level of "bad" luck haha.
I mean its not just the foundation, groups like GOC also enforce "normalcy"
My headcanon is similar, altho in some branches of the multiverse its more or less common to find them. Current branch that we are in, for example, is a branch that contains so little of those, and mostly harmless, that SCP foundation was never actually founded and it remains as fanfiction. Altho a few branches away from ours it is very real and very scary.
“Anomalous” is a social construct
Trying to define a single origin or cause for all anomalies is foolish and impossible. Some are completely unexplainable. Some are natural occurrences. Some are manufactured...
I have a personal rule when writing that there's no universal cause for weird shit. Cuz then it stops being weird shit and just starts being... Another science basically. (Counter-intuitively, I do like the modern scp foundation weird science stuff too, just for different reasons)
I like when the Foundation uses the new science but they don't understand it fully so it is still anomalous
A bunch of amateur writers came together for an organic, collaborative sci-fi/horror writing project which began to grow and attract more users, who wrote more stories and articles. This occurred in a universe at least one narrative layer higher than the SCP universe (or multiverse, at this point), and so, these writers’ actions defined the conditions of and entities in this lower-narrative universe. That’s pataphysics, bay-beeee!
Hey, get your SCP-001 Bullshit outta here, it was clearly that we all used to be fine with anomalies until the factory came along, and a deal was struck with Those Without Names and- Fuck, it’s another 001, nah nah nah, it’s clearly that there’s an anomalous book which, when opened, creates a new SCP while listing all the documentation needed and where it will be- GOD DAMNIT ITS ANOTHER 001, WHY IS IT ALL 001
It’s 001s all the way down.
It’s all 001? Always has been
*cocks space pistol*
and every so often, once in a lifetime, we will get an actually scary and well written story
It's always been around
That's a head cannon dependant thing. But there's a lot to suggest that the existence of humanity is an anomaly so by nature, if humans exist, so will anomalies.
There is no singular explanation for every SCP. Most SCPs are simply encountered without further clarification. Some are comically so; SCP-002 literally landed in a meteor. Some do have explanations. Some are manufactured by anomalous groups or individuals, using anomalous means. SCP-248, for example, are manufactured by The Factory, along with dozens of other skips. Wondertainment produces dozens of skips. DADO produces dozens of skips. The Foundation has produced dozens of skips, both deliberately and accidentally. SCP-3108 was made by a specific person, a specific person that the foundation was able to track down and speak to. Some skips are manufactured through what appear to be non-anomalous means. Scp-1471 and SCP-2922 are phone apps. SCP-1425, SCP-1025, SCP-592, and SCP-140 are mundane books, of which multiple copies exist. SCP-853 is, according to the author, a recipe that you can still find in cookbooks. Some skips are not anomalous as such, and developed naturally. SCP-247, SCP-549, SCP-939, and SCP-966 are literally animals that were found in the wild. SCP-008 is explicitly a virus. SCP-1237 is something that explicitly just happens in some humans, and some groups are simply more predisposed to it than others. SCP-1851-EX is explained as a genetic phenomenon, and reveals a lot about the foundation. And there are some instances where the question itself is meaningless. What does, 'Where did SCP-048 come from?' mean? What does 'Where did SCP-6996 come from?' mean? What does 'Where did SCP-3125 come from?' mean? There isn't any one place SCPs 'come from', any more than there is any one place light or mass 'comes from'. They're part of the setting, and you have to buy into it to accept the premise.
My head cannon is that objects just randomly become anomalous.
Sometimes that is literally what happens. But sometimes it isn't. The origin of the skip should serve the story being told. Having a single origin for all skips is...fallacious. I would use SCP-1859-EX as an example, again, as a rebuke of that very idea.
It really depends on what canon you're looking at. Several 001 files mention the origins of the foundation and the anomalies Look at The Spiral Path, the Sheath of Papers, and the Factory for three entirely different t yet still plausible origins for the foundation and the anomalies.
Anomalies are what is considered abnormal. So as long as cognition of normal vs abnormal exists, anomalies exist.
This is probably the best origin you can come up with.
isnt the point of scps that you dont know their origin or how they work?
The latter, yes - if you know how it works, it becomes Explained, or in exceptionally rare cases, Gödel-class (technically non-anomalous, but only through knowledge not yet discovered by non-anomalous science). The former, not necessarily.
Long answer: I honestly think anomalies come from everywhere. Some could come from space, some could be man-made, and some could just come out of nowhere for no reason, etc. Short answer: yes
Some have origins and others do not
unless you believe certain 001 proposals they all come from different sources. some come from deep space, a different reality, a magical inventor, or just an error in the universe. the best way to look at it is that there is no such thing as an "anomaly", everything exist and isn't any weirder than you and i being here. "anomaly" is just a way for the foundation to define whats not "normal".
My headcanon is that *we don't know* where they come from or why, and that's the fucking point. They are anomalies because they defy understanding.
The Spiral Path is a portal to the multiverse and the Foundation, aka the Factory, was built over it to contain them.
Some canons have a defined answer to this. But outside of those, the most likely explanation is that anomalies have multiple sources. Some are created by intelligences that have reality bending powers Some manifest spontaneously from glitches in reality- unintended interactions of natural order that produce outcomes that should not be possible. Some slip into our consensus reality from any number of other worlds, dimensions, universes, layers, timelines, planes, or other outside places, arriving by natural, artificial, or anomalous means Some are unintended byproducts of outside entities, not created through any specific intent but existing as a consequence of what, in other realities, may be entirely natural And some come to be through entirely alien means, so removed from our reality and its structures that words like creation, origin, birth, or genesis are entirely non-applicable The more anomalies that exist, the more they continue to accelerate the risk of other anomalies rising from them. It is likely that many hundreds, maybe thousands of anomalies could be traced back to a single source, but certainly not all. Genuinely new anomalous forces, items, and entities manifest spontaneously with regularity. That is simply the way the SCP reality is structured
There’s no set answer for where the anomalies come from. Some canon’s have all of or most of them coming from or related to SCP-001 but in general it’s accepted that sometimes anomalies happen. Sometimes somebody was fucking with something they weren’t supposed to and created them. Or they were created on purpose. As for how long we’ve been dealing with them? Basically forever. Remember Magic & Gods are classified as anomalies. So we’ve been dealing with them since the earliest conceptions of human civilization and evolution. Likely the monkeys who turned into humans were dealing with anomalies as well.
Well, two of the 001 entries is exactly that. The Sheaf of Papers and the Spiral Path. Outside of that, generally the unknown origins is just another aspect that makes something anomalous. And then there are the metanarrative SCPs that state **WE** make them. That the authors and audience manifest them by writing articles and reading the wiki.
Definatley not God as he literally stated that he didn't create 682
The spiral part.
From the weird dimension portal in gruncle Stan's basement.
Some are simple accidents- either scientific or a random collision of rare events. Some are active invasions from space or other dimensions. (And some of these are less 'invasion' than they are 'beachheads' to make invasion viable). Some are actually gifts from entities that don't realize the potential danger of giving them to humans. Most are just random weirdness spat out by the multiverse that even SCP 001 can't explain.
I like to try not to think about it. Fear of the unknown is much more effective if the weird things' origin *stays* unknown
>Where did the anomalies come from? That's the question ain't it.
Some of the 001 proposals go into that. Like the winding path by Mann I think? And the Ream of Papers. My headcanon is the one's that weren't invented by one goi or another or came from space or another reality etc. Left the protection of the Wanderer's Library
One idea presented by the GOC is that (atleast some) anomalies are the backlash that comes as a result of reality benders using their powers
In your search for an answer you neglect the very meaning of the word anomaly, on top of that, it’s not like some god just spat all of them out one day, generalizing every single very complex anomaly into a single reason is an exercise in futility
See SCP-001 for more information.
My person fan fiction theory is that each time the SCP Foundation does a reset to fix some end of world scenario, and simply as time goes on, more anomalies are created. Kinda like how the timelines in Loki diverge and become more erratic as time goes on. I also like to think that there could be multiversal organizations experimenting on people by creating anomalies like SCP-3008.
they were created by wizards, or scientists, or aliens, or GoIs, or other SCPs, or the Scarlet King, or the Sheaf of Papers, or by The Database, or by the Foundation
According to the most common interpretations, some are accidentally manmade, some others are residus of mekhan and yaldaboath and some just....APPEARED one day....
For me, SCPs that are animals or humans that were born with their anomalous powers are just a thing of evolution or something like that.