The EAUSD is a writing and worldbuilding project based on the SCP Foundation, Welcome to Night Vale series and Mystery Flesh Pit National Park. It is based around a European Union body that studies and deals with esoteric phenomena, primarily the mischievous and whimsical folklore that many European countries share. Real, historical folklore is catalogued here, adapted to this fictional setting, together with made-up, user-written entities, items and events. The EAUSD proposes a less militarized and bleak setting than the SCP Foundation, one in which the primary focus is to minimize contact and promote welfare, particularly due to the typically innocent and fantastical creatures that European urban legends and myths speak of.

No, although it would not be surprising to learn that in the knee-deep bureaucracy of the Union, it does exist.

Visit the Contact page and send a request via the form. The EAUSD is always looking for talented researchers, volunteers - and writers to actually fill the website up.

In general, an Archive Entry is the EAUSD version of an SCP Anomaly/Object, though the EAUSD will never refer to folklore or cryptids as anomalies: they are valid, historical parts of European life and culture. Entries are either physical or abstract, for example the Loch Ness Monster or the AI Psychosis Metavirus. They can also be objects, events or beings, for example the Holy Shroud of Turin, the disappearing of the Mary Celeste or Baba Yaga. For the most part, Entries are not violent or murderous in nature. Usually, European cryptids are mischievous, preferring to prank children or steal valuables, though there are angry spirits and famously savage beings, such as vampires and werewolves - the main mission of the EAUSD is to preserve such occult entities, and it will resort to destruction only in very specific situations.

When it comes to the style, the Archive tends to vary slightly, though all Entries should aim to have a professional, scientific format. Comments by researchers and cataloguers are allowed and appreciated, together with interaction logs noting conversations with occult entitites. What is also appreciated is a hint of humor: it is impossible to fully take some of the European folklore creatures seriously, so it is entirely plausible that a researcher might comment on how stupid a cryptid looks, or that an encounter might be funny rather than scientifically enriching.

No, not even close. Though its history has been tied to some distasteful groups, the EAUSD is a benevolent body that functions under the European human rights umbrella and its high esteem for sapient life. Though, as stated above, the EAUSD has a small military attachè, it is mostly made up of tenured researchers, old librarians, interned engineers from local universities, caffeine-addled software developers and arcane relationships experts who definitely have some gears loose from interacting with strange creatures daily.

In character, yes. The EAUSD is a body of the European Union and its mission is quite directly explained on this website. In the EAUSD universe, occult and esoteric phenomena are much more evident and frequent, and the Archive Entries are (generally speaking) always "canon" to the setting. This means that occult groups and belief are more commonplace, though the share of Eurosceptics who frequently respond to the Commission's tweets with #DefundEAUSD is quite high.