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SCP-040 The Child of Evolution: the girl who can reshape life itself

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Among the thousands of classified SCP Foundation files there are objects that chill you with their destructive power, and others that haunt you in a different way: through innocence. SCP-040, also c ..

SCP-079 - The Old AI: the cunning 1978 machine that keeps trying to get out

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the dark of a sealed concrete cell, an old computer from 1978 still quietly blinks its command-line cursor. It has no limbs and no face, yet it is one of the objects SCP Foundation researchers ar ..

SCP-527 Mr. Fish: the man with the giant parrotfish head

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Imagine walking into an ordinary room where a man sits in a shirt, reading a newspaper and telling a charming joke — except that in place of a human face he has an enormous parrotfish head, thick-li ..

SCP-5000 (Why?): the armour, the day the Foundation erased humanity, and the Apollyon class

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Imagine waking in a darkened research facility wearing a strange suit of armour while, outside, the whole world is going up in flames. The organisation you once served — SCP Foundation — is coldly s ..

SCP-250 - The Dinosaur Skeleton: the Allosaurus fossil that moves and lunges at people

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the vast archives of SCP Foundation there are objects that destroy no cities and bend no reality, yet still raise the hair on your neck for one simple reason: they should have been dead for milli ..

SCP-966 The Sleep Killer: the invisible creature that keeps you awake until you die

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the stillness of night, something is leaning over you as you sleep — something the naked eye can never see. It makes no sound and leaves no trace, yet the unlucky person lying beside it loses the ..

SCP-4999 The One Who Watches: the unseen old man who comforts those dying alone

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Imagine that in the last moment of your life, lying alone in a cold room with no one in sight, a warm hand takes yours and a gentle voice whispers that everything is going to be all right. You have ..

SCP-1048 - Builder Bear: the adorable teddy that builds copies of itself

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Imagine a tiny, soft teddy bear that waves hello and hugs you affectionately. Everyone adores it. But behind that endearing exterior lies a horrifying secret: SCP-1048, nicknamed Builder Bear, has b ..

SCP-2000 Deus Ex Machina: the machine that rebuilds humanity after the end of the world

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Imagine that one day the whole of humanity is wiped out — nuclear war, a pandemic, or some nameless catastrophe. Yet a few months later everything is as though nothing had happened. People go to wor ..

SCP-3000 Anantashesha: the vast eel in the Bay of Bengal and the amnestic compound Y-909

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Deep beneath the black water of the Bay of Bengal, something hundreds of kilometres long lies coiled in the dark. It has no beginning and no end, and one direct look at it leaves your mind forever c ..

SCP-457 The Burning Man: the humanoid flame that grows with every fire and every glance

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the dark of a burnt-out warehouse, among churning columns of flame, something stands looking at you. It does not run. It walks towards you. This is SCP-457 — the entity the SCP Foundation nicknam ..

SCP-343 "God": the all-powerful being who stays in his cell by choice

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Among the thousands of chilling SCP Foundation files there is one entity that unsettles even the most seasoned researchers in an unusual way: not because it is dangerous, but because it is so utterl ..

SCP-1499 The Gas Mask: the mask that sends its wearer to a deadly planet full of creatures

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the vast archives of SCP Foundation there are objects so harmless-looking that you might glance past them without a second thought. SCP-1499 is one of them: just a worn Soviet-era gas mask. But i ..

SCP-1730 What Happened to Site-13: the dread inside a vanished Keter facility

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Among the thousands of classified SCP Foundation files, few leave a dread as lasting as SCP-1730 — code-named "What Happened to Site-13". This is not the story of a single monster but the chronicle ..

SCP-426: I Am a Toaster – the Euclid object that makes people believe they are an appliance

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Read this sentence slowly: I am an ordinary toaster. Harmless enough, isn't it? But in the classified files of SCP Foundation that is the opening line for one of the oddest and most quietly dangerou ..

What can you eat in Hanoi for a day on a budget of about 300,000 dong?

17/09/2026
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Culture & Cuisine - Regional specialties - Three hundred thousand dong is not a fixed figure for every occasion, but it is enough to plan a day of eating in Hanoi with breakfast, lunch, a light bite and dinner — provided you pick modest plac ..

Tuong Ban of Hung Yen: from soybeans and toasted glutinous rice to the taste of the northern delta

18/09/2026
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Culture & Cuisine - Regional specialties - Tuong Ban is a thick amber-brown sauce, salty and sweet at once, with the fermented aroma characteristic of Ban Yen Nhan in Hung Yen. From soybeans, glutinous rice, salt and water, the makers build ..

Ninh Binh in two days and one night: an itinerary that is enough for a first visit

18/09/2026
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Travel & Backpacking - Tips & sharing - Two days and one night are enough for a first-time visitor to take in the limestone landscape, one boat trip and the historical depth of Ninh Binh — as long as you do not try to fit Trang An, Tam Co ..

How do you review a hotel to tell whether it is really worth the money?

19/09/2026
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Travel & Backpacking - Restaurant & hotel reviews - A hotel worth the money is not necessarily the cheapest or the one with the most stars. Value appears when the location, the sleep, the cleanliness, the service and the booking terms all match what ..

The stories from grandparents that families should record while they still can

20/09/2026
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Miscellany - Life around us - One day the old photograph will still be there, but no one will remember who is standing in it. Recording what grandparents have to say is not a grand project; it is a way of keeping names, voices a ..

Yum cha in Hong Kong: drinking tea, eating dim sum and keeping the rhythm of morning meetings

21/09/2026
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World - World food culture - Yum cha means, plainly enough, going out for tea, but the experience has long included baskets of dim sum, the sound of conversation and the rhythm of families and friends meeting. The meal is remem ..