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Site-51 Backstory

Beneath Greenland's Gunnbjørn Fjeld

An SCP Foundation Arctic Containment Outpost

Hidden 450 meters beneath the icy bedrock of Gunnbjørn Fjeld, Greenland’s tallest mountain, lies Site-51—one of the SCP Foundation’s most secure and remote installations. Completed in 1969, the facility is buried deep within a natural salt formation in the Watkins Range, an area long known for unexplained electromagnetic anomalies, geological disappearances, and subsonic disturbances.

On the surface, the nearby coastal town of Nuuk serves as a carefully maintained front. All supply chains, personnel transfers, and communication routes are funneled through its infrastructure—part of a decades-long disinformation effort to divert attention from what lies far to the northeast, beneath glaciers few ever traverse.

During the Cold War, both superpowers saw Greenland as a potential Arctic stronghold. But unknown to the Soviets and NATO, the Foundation had already flagged the Watkins Range for something far more serious. By the 1950s, patterns had emerged: geological teams vanished without a trace, aircraft reported malfunctions near the peaks, and seismographs picked up rhythmic vibrations with no geological explanation.

These disturbances led to Protocol Polaris, a comprehensive effort to identify and suppress anomalous threats in the region. Site-51 was established not just to contain them, but to hide the fact that they existed at all.

Secrets Beneath the Ice

By the early 1970s, Dr. Hudson the Director of Research discovered vast, pre-human tunnel systems beneath the mountain—intricately carved, covered in glyphs of unknown origin, and utterly alien in geometry. Several anomalies were uncovered within:

• A crystalline entity, later classified as SCP-682, was found dormant and sealed within a borehole lined with antimemetic markers. It exhibited signs of active cognition and hostility, even in its dormant state.

• Exploration teams encountered temporal displacement, returning before they had left or finding equipment in locations they hadn’t yet accessed. These effects mirrored phenomena later associated with SCP-087 and SCP-079.

• A hive intelligence was found embedded in a salt shelf, communicating through harmonic resonance. It attempted to interface with human neural signals in a manner similar to SCP-049’s interactions with cerebral tissue.

Meanwhile, the Foundation relocated several Safe- and Euclid-class anomalies to Site-51 for testing in extreme-isolation conditions. SCP-999, for example, was stationed here to counteract the psychological toll exacted by more aggressive entities like SCP-096 and SCP-682. Devices such as SCP-914 saw use in precision refinement of containment materials, while SCP-207, SCP-330, and SCP-131 were tested for potential cross-utilization in pacification scenarios.

Cold War Collisions

In 1983, a Soviet reconnaissance drone locked onto emissions from SCP-682’s containment chamber. Mistaking the signal for a geothermal anomaly, the Soviets deployed a deeper probe—threatening global exposure. Foundation assets staged a glacial collapse, destroying the device and planting forged seismic data to erase the incident.

After the fall of the USSR, rogue intelligence cells attempted to locate the signal again. One group reportedly reached the outer perimeter of Site-51. They were never heard from again.

In response, the Foundation flooded the tunnel system with a compound synthesized from SCP-966—a memetic disruptor that scrambles GPS, corrupts drone footage, and interferes with long-range imaging. No satellite has successfully mapped the Watkins Range since.

Present-Day Operations

As of the most recent internal audit, Site-51 is run by a board of directors Dr. Hudson Chief of Research [CoR], [redacted] Chief of Security [CoS], [redacted] Chief of Defence [CoD], [redacted] Chief of Maintenance [CoM] and Mr G. Mitchell Chief of Internal Affairs [CoIA] the site also houses 23 contained anomalies, including:

• Predatory mimics and cognito hazardous entities like SCP-939 and SCP-035

• Sensory and sleep-deprivation threats such as SCP-513 and SCP-966

• Dormant or semi-dormant Keter threats, including SCP-106 and SCP-682

The site’s inner sanctums are layered with salt-lined vaults, antimemetic shielding, and failsafe collapse systems. Psychological deterioration among personnel is a known issue, mitigated through exposure to SCP-999, AI-assisted dream filtration, and Class-C amnestics.

Officially, Site-51 doesn’t exist. The Watkins Range is just another uninhabited arctic wilderness. Nuuk is a quiet town with no ties to global containment efforts.

But within the Foundation, Site-51 is remembered not just as a vault—but as a warning built by something that came before us. The glyphs in the tunnels weren’t meant to be translated. The chambers were never meant to be opened. And we were not the first to find them—just the first who lived long enough to record it.

Written By DaveMan