About the Podcast

The SCP Foundation Database is an immersive audio adaptation of The SCP Foundation that generally releases short episodes once per week. Each episode focuses on a specific SCP object and all its related documentation, presented as though being accessed on a terminal by Foundation personnel, its text given voice by an advanced text-to-speech software (Joshua Alan Lindsay). Interviews, exploration logs, researcher’s notes, etc. are presented as audio recordings and feature a large voice cast. The podcast progresses through the SCP catalog in numerical order.

While an SCP reader at its core, there is an additional layer to the storytelling surrounding the personnel accessing the Database. There have been containment breaches and objects stolen, and a mysterious figure accessing files they do not have clearance to view. This meta-narrative comes up much less frequently, but may come to a head in the near future…

In addition to this Main Series, the Database has a few others interspersed between its episodes in the regular release schedule, including the Expanded Series (featuring episodes on SCPs whose number is upwards of SCP-1000), the Technical Series (presented as memoranda and tutorials for new personnel), and a series of SCP Tales (featuring narrative fiction set in the world of the SCP Foundation, outside the dry article format of the rest of the podcast). Additionally, a series featuring Joke SCPs is available to Patreon subscribers who pledge $3+/month.

The Database can be accessed wherever you listen to podcasts.

A Special Note

The podcast presents SCP articles essentially as they are on the IRL website, with only minor changes to make them work in an audio-only format. However, occasionally there are things in the original articles that we are not comfortable presenting as they are. As collaborative fiction that has been around for many years, the SCP Foundation at times has some elements that are now more widely recognized as being problematic — especially in its earliest writings, which is where our podcast begins. We exercise our creative freedom, in accordance with the rules on “remixing” afforded by the SCP Foundation’s Creative Commons license, to reword, alter, or refuse to include those problematic elements, while keeping to the Foundation’s mythos and style guide as much as possible. This is still an R-rated podcast, but we have been fans of the SCP Foundation for many years and we simply want to present it at its best without alienating anyone, ourselves included.