The platform is real. The community is real. The review process is real. Fondation Pastore is fictional. The anomalies contributors submit are presented as real within the archive's universe. Whether your encounter was actually real is between you and whatever you encountered.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Most questions come down to the same few things: what counts as a valid submission, what a classification actually means once Pastore responds, and how accounts and Éclat fit into the archive once you move from reading it to participating in it.
Yes. Incident date is part of the form. The archive doesn't have a recency requirement—just a documentation requirement. If you have video from years ago, that works.
No. Video is the only non-negotiable rule. Photos with audio layered over them and exported as video count. CapCut is free. A phone pointed at a dark field at 3am counts if something is in that field.
Yes. Submit whatever footage you have. Describe the location. The review team will assess what we have to work with.
AI image generators, AI video generators, AI audio generators, AI voice cloning, AI writing assistants used to generate the submission text. If a human didn't make it from scratch with real tools, it's AI for our purposes. Blender, Unreal Engine, practical effects, photography, field recording—all fine. If you're not sure, describe your process in the submission or reach out before posting.
Don't. Use royalty-free audio, record your own, or submit with no music at all. Silence is more effective than AI audio anyway.
Yes, as a third party account. Mark it as such in the Submitter Status field. Note that third party submissions tend to be harder to classify since we can't follow up with the original witness directly.
It means your submission crossed out of community review and into the archive's canon layer. A response document tells you which department handled the file, what Seuil Rang they assigned, what yield they extracted from it, and what action Pastore intends to take next. That document is procedural by design. It gives you Pastore's position on the file, which is different from an explanation of the anomaly itself.
Éclat is the archive's internal currency. It is the unit Saltbox accounts use to claim stipends, back classified entries, challenge weak files, receive creator payouts, and track participation over time. When a file is classified, Pastore assigns its official yield. The community then builds a second public layer around that file through investment, contests, and creator earnings. Éclat is what makes that public layer legible.
Every public account opens with a randomized starting balance, then grows through a few different channels. You can claim a daily stipend once every 24 hours, earn returns on entries you backed early, receive discovery bonuses when a file you spotted early breaks into major growth, and collect creator earnings if your own classified entry starts attracting investment. Over time your balance becomes a record of how you moved through the archive and what kind of judgment that movement produced.
Invest is the action that lets you allocate some of your É to a classified entry because you believe that file will keep growing. The earlier you take a position, the more room there usually is for that position to outperform later arrivals. As a file gains community yield, the system pays out returns in stages, which means your account starts reflecting whether you backed strong files at the right time. It turns the archive into more than a reading experience. It becomes a place where judgment has visible weight.
Contest is the counterweight to investment. If an entry feels shaky, overstated, or unsupported, you can contest it and apply a fixed penalty to that file's community side. Enough contest pressure changes the public status of the entry from Stable to Contested, then Under Review, then Flagged, and eventually into extraction if the pressure keeps building. It gives skepticism a place inside the system and keeps every file from drifting upward on momentum alone.
Pastore Override is the archive event that closes a file's public market phase. It triggers automatically when an entry grows large enough or accumulates enough contest pressure that the system treats it as fully extracted. When that happens, public investment access freezes, active positions lock, and the Pastore panel marks the file as having moved beyond ordinary community handling. The entry remains readable, but its value state changes permanently. On the site, it functions as both an economy threshold and a lore event.
Create one through the account page with a username, email, and password. Your username is what the archive shows publicly. Your email stays private and exists for recovery and confirmation. Once signup completes, the account receives its opening É balance and gains access to the dashboard, stipends, entry positions, transaction history, and creator-side earnings if one of your submissions is classified later on.
Signal Strength is the private reputation score attached to your account. It rises when your activity produces strong outcomes, especially through successful returns, discovery bonuses, and other meaningful gains. Over time it becomes a quiet measure of whether you tend to recognize signal early or spend your attention on noise. It is already being tracked, and it is visible to the account holder through the dashboard layer. Public record display comes later.
A Seuil Rang is Pastore's internal utility ranking for a classified anomaly. It measures how useful the file is to Pastore's research program, which is why the ranks belong to the response document rather than the public economy. E through Ė form the actual Rang scale. U and S sit outside it as disposition statuses. If you want the full breakdown there is a dedicated Seuil Rangs page, but the short version is simple: Seuil Rangs tell you what the file means to Pastore, while Éclat tells you how the archive community is interacting with it.
No. The number is assigned at the time of classification based on the sequence. Contributors never choose their number. 74088-000 is permanently sealed.
No. SCP is a writing platform. The Saltbox is a production platform—you have to make something real. The submission requires original video. The entries exist in one shared universe with one mythology underneath them. Pastore responds to everything. The structure is completely different.
If it's clearly fiction it won't get classified. The archive is looking for authentic documentation—something that feels like a real person encountered a real thing and couldn't not document it. If it reads like a horror story written in a format, it'll read that way to us too.
74088 Productions. Caleb, Jaylen, and Bryson. We're based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The archive is named for Joséke Grove, a fictional city at ZIP code 74088 that serves as the connective tissue of the entire project.
Post in r/TheSaltbox or DM the mod team.