The Black Envelope

Item#: SCP-5058-1

Object Class: Safe

The text on the front of all SCP-5058-1 instances read [OPEN ME], the inside of SCP-5058-1 will contain anywhere from a single sheet of A4 writing paper to multiple sheets and in some circumstances non-paper items.

The inside will vary in contents per individual, examples are listed below;

  • Message from Family Member (ALIVE).
  • Message from Family Member (DEAD).
  • List of Inventory for Site 77’s Upper-Level Bio-laboratory Stock Room.
  • Information concerning an impending breach at site 4.
  • Identities of staff planning to relocate SCP-231-7.
  • The location of foundation employees long lost relative.
  • A letter with the sole words of ~Burn Me~ written in the middle of the page.
  • Four small sealed test tubes containing; Rhinovirus, Sulphur, Gallium and Electrum.
  • A photograph of two people standing in the rain.

[AUDIO FILE] Site Director Solomon Bech's Office 15:27

Bech: What in the hell are we supposed to tell the O5, Site-42 is plagued by 'magic' envelopes and two posers in trench coats are killing my god damn staff! We cant even neutralise the damn thing, for now just keep it in its locker.

PA: Sir what should we do with the envelopes.

Bech: Destroy the white ones as soon as we can, we already have a potential XK on our hands with the one that went missing for 48hrs, the black envelopes are to be archived if any of them appear to contain sensitive information, let me know at once.

PA: Sir, there's something you need to know, something important.

Bech: Well spit it out, if it's important then you should've told me straight away.

PA: Yes sir, sorry sir, I found a black envelope.

Bech: Is that all, they're fucking everywhere, hell I even found one in my…

PA: No sir! The envelope I found sir it had the word's THE TRUTH written on it.

Bech: Okay so it doesn't have OPEN ME on the front, did the instance have some kind of truth inside or what?

PA: I don't know sir, it was relating to an SCP.

Bech: The truth about an SCP, what it could it know that we don't, so what SCP was it.

PA: …It was…SCP-001, Sir.

Bech: …What the hell did it say?

PA: Sir it said that the true SCP-001 was…

[AUDIO FILE CORRUPTED]