The Secret at the Bottom of SCP-087 - EXPLAINED (SCP Animation)

[@charlieheath943]

"Dr Bright is not allowed to set up speakers in SCP-087 with the infinite stairs music from Super Mario 64 on loop."

[@popaso8282]

Why not? Not like he has done something. This is a joke

[@muhammadarya8979]

XD

[@dr.jackbright2559]

Great idea! I’ll need to hire a construction crew to build an area and a bowser as a boss at the bottom though. Ehh, I’ll just use my Alexandria Eternal book to do that stuff!

[@treevee7376]

@@dr.jackbright2559 mk

[@SquareFoil31362]

*SCP-504 would like to speak with you*

[@WingsAboveCS]

Here's a spicy idea: instead of executing d-class regularly, just save them up for a big zerg rush on the staircase They can't [REDACTED] all of us.

[@someoneig4140]

Flamingo if SCP 087 was multiplayer

[@seantaggart7382]

I got a better idea *Arms reality anchor* this one stablizes reality HERE WE GO *throws* Ha! It worked Although its 200 stairs down

[@shadowsa2b]

Tell a bunch of redditors that the entrance to area 51 is down there, and that they have to naruto run to get there

[@nayan.punekar]

@@seantaggart7382 'SCRANTON'S'

[@alfaaditya6357]

That's what i thought. Why not try sending a very long queue of d-classes down the stairs?

[@kaynines5996]

“But the truth was considered too dangerous, or too horrifying to share” Bruh…this is the SCP Foundation, there is nothing too horrifying.

[@1992Xaldin]

These are hardly bad in comparison to so many, so the redaction, were it to be one of these 3 is kind of odd.

[@Blovy123]

The only reason why it’s not horrifying is because it’s not true

[@hugalafutro]

Procedure 110-Montauk entered the chat.

[@libertyhills5470]

Nobody talking about how this could be the origins of shy guy

[@Blovy123]

@@libertyhills5470 how?

[@AtheistPirate]

Whichever Serpent's Hand member convinced the higher-ups to fund an indie game studio must be an SCP themselves.

[@snowcube_steel]

Lol

[@diarrheanator1379]

Is there really a game 😂

[@sakuragihanamichi8527]

@@diarrheanator1379 Idk but I do know there's a SCP-3008 game made by a developer called uglyburger0 and his team in roblox.

[@TianmenSquare1989]

@@diarrheanator1379 I think it is the infinite Staircase in Mario 64

[@ReisenUdongeinlnaba]

@@diarrheanator1379 there really is a game or two of SCP 087 as well

[@kenguyii9108]

*SCP-087’s full body appears* SCP-096: Are we related?

[@entropyapathy]

In fact, just send 096 down there, 087's face will see it and 096 will go berserk trying to kill a disembodied shadow monster forever.

[@Jessie_V486]

@@entropyapathy i've always wanted to know how that would play out

[@antonjones4879]

@@entropyapathy Nah he will welcome his long lost brother. Even if he's lost everything but his head

[@SilverVolo]

Ngl it would make sense. It could explain why 096 wants to dissappear. 087 can but for some reason 096 can't

[@gaminggamer4845]

id like to see that play out the title could be 096 vs 087 i would suspect 096 would win

[@walrideralp6275]

Last time something was "too horrifying" to share, it was Procedure 110-Montauk. If the file's been redacted, it was probably either dangerous information, or just the O5's being fidgety.

[@MarisCorner15]

Probably another source of infinite youth at the bottom, which the white face guy is guarding

[@casual653]

Montauk was organized by the ethics committee I think

[@korstmahler]

Yeah never rule out the ethics committee. They'll do crimes against humanity but also make sure nobody writes it down without redacting it afterwards. Less ethics committee and more optics committee.

[@gagekelley5047]

Maybe it's infohazardous.

[@DemonKing19951]

110 montauk is why I think I think it's number 3. It's information that in the wrong or well intentioned hands would cause undo harm. After all it's a little girl that wanted to be free right? The behavior is more consistent too. Chasing away men but inviting women down? On top of that it's the most brutal of the lot, and equally the most dangerous. My bet is Number 3 is the closest to the actual truth since the other two aren't necessarily worth entirely redacting. Not unless stealing faces also included stealing memories, and in the case where you just see his body than that's case closed nothing changes.

[@darthrevan2455]

Imagine someone walking down the stairs for years before arriving at the bottom, which is a cave with graffiti saying “Lmao get trolled”

[@Artofficial1986]

trollface.jpg

[@Whatthesac]

YoU jUsT gOt CoCoNuT mAlLed

[@Zezlemet]

I choose to believe this is the truth

[@davesbin20]

:troll:

[@bigzero7720]

And the face was just Rick Astley all along.

[@abcabc-uv6ce]

"There are two things that are endless, SCPs with endless properties and the supplies of D-class personal, but im not sure about the SCPs." - SCP Foundation.

[@callmenight1]

Yes true

[@MemeLord-x7y]

xD

[@godversesans5152]

SCPs are the monsters the SCP foundation have

[@akramgimmini8165]

Absolutely Correct

[@1mol831]

SCP 1680, is an endless supply of D class personnel.

[@nightninja1745]

They should try sending Able down there. I mean, since he regenerates he should be able to tell them. And if he doesn’t come back up then he’s officially Neutralized. How do you get him down? Simple, tell him Cane is down there. If necessary you can drop him down first. Actually, why is the foundation still taking the stairs. Just drop someone down between the steps and let them fall to the bottom. It’s cold but if you drop a serial killer you can’t call it cruel. Personally, I’d call it vengeance.

[@wolfman6696]

To perserve the mysterious aspect of it, I'm sure if Abel did go down there, eventually he'd lose contact and then reappear inside his coffin with no memory of what happened.

[@michaelporter7629]

Also, I'm not sure if the stairs are laid out where you can just drop through the middle. I could be wrong, but my recollection is that the platforms between the flights are semicircles, so the flights are kind of layered beneath one another without space in the middle to just drop down.

[@Zman201]

The problem with that is when Able dies he comes back to life in the tomb perfectly fine, they shoved a grenade in his open chest cavity and he still came back to life

[@eschcal9839]

He is too busy helping contain SCP-354. The Red Pool. There is even scuttlebutt about having Able on autodial there.

[@liamdennis122]

What if Cane went in cause when he would be attacked the damage would potentially hurt the s people not him

[@LordDoom10]

The thing a lot of people seem to gloss over is, the entity stopped looking at the D-class in the third test. Instead began to stare at the researchers through the camera. It is my guess the final test involved the creature actually exiting the staircase, either through the door itself or through the camera equipment of the D-class sent down. And that is why it is closed for good, and why any knocking is to be ignored. It figured out there is a world outside its staircase.

[@guycrew3973]

How did it even get there to begin with the stairwell was normal for years it was until recently it became anomalies

[@heathermillsphantomlimb9314]

That entity must have calves and thighs like iron. Stuck in an infinite staircase, you know his cardio is top notch.

[@JSL-ym6nv]

Imagine you finally get to the bottom of the stairs. You see a door 🚪you open it, but to your dismay, you realize that you are at the top of the staircase again… ♾

[@forbiddenaether1012]

Then you can leave, it’s a great workout

[@ThePhantomStinker]

It kept reminding me of the endless staircase in Mario 64. And I was genuinely dismayed that not once did any researcher nor D-class ever think to ask if they should go back and make sure it's still X floors back up to the top.

[@matthewdinode]

@@ThePhantomStinker The first 2 did come back up though, so they likely compared time going up to time going down as well as speed to be sure.

[@logangarner3578]

That 3rd one was terrifying. And the lore behind this SCP is amazing

[@ComicalRealm]

In a parallel universe, when you get to the bottom of the staircase, you get surprised with a rick roll

[@ashleeduncan4053]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lolicon453]

Watch me rick roll down the stairs

[@Gtagl0v3r]

U are everywhere REEEEE

[@randomuser9089]

that would be true if the theory of parallel universes existed which means if a anomaly that is murderous and has capabilities to teleport into universes. we would be dead so hope parrallel universe dont exist

[@Gtagl0v3r]

You will bed trapped forever being rick rolled with rick astley staring at you on your second hour

[@Weffle_]

The creepy thing about this, I used to have a reoccurring dream that was that I was going down a seemingly endless staircase. But I did get to the bottom. There was a door, with a big bar that you sorta push down to open the door. On the other side, for some reason my grandpa was there, and he was super aggressive and started following me back up as I started going back. Then I usually wake up

[@akirathewildcard9625]

Have you seen your grandpa recently?

[@KusunokiSG47]

Obviously your grandpa is 087 then

[@markgallagher1790]

thats is frightening

[@gemfire400]

Aggressive grandpa

[@guy_123]

@@gemfire400 scary grandpa

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Infinity seems like a small concept for SCP’s

[@pvgamer_6726]

Dude how are you everywhere?

[@imitationcrabmeat6999]

What

[@asrieldreemurr3832]

Wow. I’m early.

[@Freakybob24]

E

[@belacoak5796]

Go away you never even watched the whole video and your likes are bots because you just want to get people upset buy being omnipresent.

[@killjoy197]

Set SCP-096 at the top of the stairs and send a robot down the stairs with several pictures of 096's face stuck on it in different directions. Bring SCP-076 and tell him there's a powerful champion at the bottom of the stairs waiting to fight him. Shove a pair of scp-745 in and seal the door.

[@jtteope1178]

*we just solved multiple anomalys at once*

[@pandabear4256]

😂 lol

[@Nyrm01]

I'd prefer more scientific approach then just throwing d class at it. To me it seems what actually gets you in this one is fear. How about sending someone physically incapable of feeling fear? What would happen then?

[@cloudsteele1989]

I was thinking that as well, or send remote rover with treads that can grip on and climb back up the stairs.

[@opyangjoy9226]

Like a drone or sumn

[@good8619]

Yeah I was wondering why they don't use drones more, it would be extremely beneficial for certain situations. Like with this one, there are 2 possibilities. 1, the drone reaches the end, or at least goes down as far as it can, or 2, the creature destroys the drone. Either way, you board it up and nothing happens. Threat contained. The GOC would likely just send a ton of men down there, only to have them die.

[@TheLambda]

@@good8619 signal

[@good8619]

@@TheLambda As I said, let it go as far as it can. Besides it is the SCP foundation, you'd think that they have top tier drones.

[@kelleylafitte6503]

At the bottom of the staircase is a parallel staircase leading back up, and the face is friendly and calmly guides you back to the surface where there is a cake waiting for you. The cake is poisoned.

[@apputaiparambil]

@March Reighly it always was

[@andyghkfilm2287]

Wow that’s so wholesome! :) I was just reading your comment and I finished the first sentence and wanted to tell you your idea made me happy! :) Okay I’m gonna submit this reply and then read your second sentence now, thanks again!

[@strangeaelurus]

Suddenly that scene where you get grabbed by scp-087-1 in SCP:CB seems very accurate.

[@bemzefat3385]

scp 087 wasnt in the scp cb-

[@alfaaditya6357]

Did you mean SCP-087-B?

[@monsieurivoblan]

@@alfaaditya6357 I don't think 087-1 was in 087-B either. It had its own game just called "SCP-087" I think I remember Markiplier playing it once in one of his videos Edit: it was in one of his 3 Scary Games videos, I think, the more kinda recent ones

[@seriousbuilder3176]

here’s a step by step guide to getting to the bottom of the bottomless staircase step 1 step 2 Step 4 Step 8 Step 13 Step 20 Step 36 Step middle of the stairwell Floor. You’re welcome.

[@LaCabraAsada]

Instructions unclear: I got sent to jail and sentenced 86 years in prision for doing a [REDACTED] to a [REDACTED] and [DATA EXPUNGED] in the middle of a [COGNITO HAZARD REMOVED] plz send help

[@htairblag7477]

Help me i am currently in a saudi arabian prision selling lolipopa

[@alfaaditya6357]

Instructions unclear: I accidentally neutralized SCP - 682 permanently with a [REDACTED] and now I got promoted by the O5 council to the position of [DATA EXPUNGED]

[@davidt1d]

@@htairblag7477 you too huh neat

[@htairblag7477]

@@davidt1d sup who you

[@shamanbhattacharyya9285]

I nearly thought that SCP 087-1 with its full body visible was SCP 096 until I realized that it didn't enter a raged state

[@nahtanahtan]

Oh hey, I've seen a fourth possibility from a game! In this one, some floors were covered in blood (in places where the previous D class had been, where they were devoid of anything like that at the time). And more important, when the D class finally dies, he drops the camera in the middle of the staircase, where it fell for hours and hours until the signal of the video was too weak to receive anymore. I really liked this interpretation!

[@WhiteGloveBuilder]

I kinda like all of them in some way, but in all honesty, I loved the concept of not knowing and keeping it a mystery the best. Because what is in your head might be more terrifying than knowing the answer. But I know, that is an old fashion concept :D

[@alw2839]

That's a cornerstone concept, it will never age.

[@zacharytrammell3382]

You get it. Wanted to share my comment with you. I offer what I think is a more viable proposal then the three they offered. ---------- Okay so read my idea, just thought of it it was pretty dope, at the bottom of the next paragraph but I'm starting with my rating. A and b were boring. C was a little bit better but I still wasn't a fan. They all felt a little on the nose. Like I don't think the stairwell needs to have a bottom. I don't think the face needs to have a body. I don't think it should be interested in murdering men at all. I feel like the crys of a baby are scarier than a little girls. I liked the mystery of this scp giving it to much of a form makes it way less scary. I would say on a fourth expedition they would send four more d-class. Another male who made it down to where the female d-class died first time around. He would descend a few more flights before he found the image of a flayed female disembowled from sternum to groin mouth permanently agape in pain and terror, burnt... almost engraved into the wall but her eyes fleshy eyes would remain rolling in agony as banshee like wailing and screaming only audible from that specific flight of stairs could be heard. Under fear of the punishment of death the doctor would convince the d-class to continue making his way down he would descend another twenty floors before the face began to appear again. He would run away from it down many more flights before it appeared in front of him it would then pass through him and he would mysteriously find himself at the entrance. The second d-class a female would be sent down she wouldn't make it to the burnt image but she would hear the woman's screams twenty flights above it. They would be inaudible to the camera and she would have to tell the scientist what was being said "RUN IT HATES YOU IT WANTS TO PUNISH YOU IT WANTS YOU TO SUFFER TURN BACK IT DESPISES THE WOMB IT DESPISES THE HOME. FLEE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE." Again the d-class would be threatened with execution by the scp operative and compelled to continue. She would make it down ten more flights before the face appeared to her she would begin running away but the last thing heard would be her screams as the camera cut to black after she made it ten flights back up. Again the scp scinetist would send in another female d-class. This time with the most spectacularly disastourous result of all as soon as she entered, the fate that befell the first two women would happen to her and her image would be ingrained into the backside of the entry door into the stairwell. This time the screaming and wailing would be audible from outside the door with the loud sounds of beating, scraping and clawing on the door could be heard. As a last ditch effort to make it to the bottom of the stairs they would send in a modified d-class male. This male would have undergone a specialized lobotomy and extreme psychological manipulation to not only make him entirely unemotional and fearless but completely obedient. He would be hooked up to remote lifesign monitors and have a feeder pack that intravenously took care of nutritional needs for up to two weeks. The d-class would enter the stairwell and verify that the third female d-class was the person ingrained onto the entry door using the biometric data to analyze the fleshy eyes. Once confirmed the d-class would make his way down to the second female d-class again for confirmation. Then the third. Again their scream only audible on the flight of stairs they died on no specific warnings just unintelligible death crys. The d-class would then began to make his way down the stairs a week would pass and his feet at this point would begin to fail him the flesh on the bottom of his feet would begin sloughing off and he would crash onto his chest but due to the manipulation he would continue his journey unimpeded by dragging himself down the stairs eventually his feeder pack would run out of nutritional supplement and he would somehow manage to carry on for another week before his body completely failed. He would die after climbing down tens of thousands of flights. The scp scientists would be able to monitor the live feed of his camera staring at a dark and empty stairwell for another week and right before it died the face would appear but this time be every so slightly more defined and have distinct characteristics that would be able to identify it as a late stage fetus. The end Think that would be way cooler than the three the video gave us.

[@jfranks1295]

The mystery stays with you. The answer scuttles away

[@WhiteGloveBuilder]

@@alw2839 Classics are that for a reason ^^

[@WhiteGloveBuilder]

@@zacharytrammell3382 It is a good version, sadly we can only give one Thumbs Up here :D But again, do we need an explanation for this strange staircase at all? I just feel like this SCP is so horrifying because of how "simple" it is. It is something we all could encounter.

[@thiswillagenicely9702]

Wait a minute, if the SCP-087 game was created by The Serpent's Hand, wouldn't that mean that this channel was as well?

[@uchihasasuke7436]

Hey stop exposing them! Thats unrealistic and we'd never spend time on that

[@Itsastrangeday]

:0

[@sambeehler2745]

Sssssshhhh

[@gagekelley5047]

No. No person is making the youtube channel. It's SCP-001. It's a secret that wants to be told so it manifests as a youtube series. 001 is the entire foundation data base. We'll sort of. The entire foundation data base makes up 001. When we write a new SCP, it becomes that SCP an alternate universe, altering reality to paradoxically fit all SCPs into the same universe. Sometimes the SCPs even contractdict the existence of other SCPs, which is what proved it reality altering capabilities.

[@Xeno455]

The first interpretation reminds me of 096 except less volatile. Seeing 096 means you die. But seeing the face means leave or you die. Similar proportions too and the crying as well. Maybe 096 was expelled from the staircase for being too volatile to whatever entities live inside. Well, probably not. But cool to think about.

[@toasttoast9955]

Ok I have a plan to reach the bottom. We take a picture of 096's face, DO NOT LOOK AT IT, and tape it on the wall where 087-1 appears. Then well... for good measure, just tell reddit theres the president down there and they all take up arms and go in. Or just pick up 682 and YEET down the steps. Last idea, over 5,000 D class conga line all armed with restored PPSHs and TOW missile launchers.

[@xamine9442]

I've always thought that this scp worked like the staircase in mario64, a scary and infinite staircase unless you meet the requirement or something

[@Rwtheking]

They obviously just didn’t remember to backwards long jump. If they had done that they would have met gay bowser and said so long. Then they would have come back to safety in the castle to eat peach’s cake.

[@ThoranTheGamer]

I think it has something to do with fear. 087-1 seemed to appear once someone became too afraid and turned back. There are a few people on Earth who are not capable of fear, perhaps by sending someone with that trait in, 087-1 wouldn't appear. It wouldn't solve the potentially infinite nature of 087, but it might allow for higher quality expeditions. However if it's based on turning around at all, which is another possibility, then this idea falls flat on its face. Either way, the test would reveal which of the two was the case.

[@mr.rookie7222]

So we need 70 power stars to find the end to SCP-087

[@Gtagl0v3r]

1:12 MTF : lets try to kill the stairs MTF 2: how do you kill Stairs? MTF: (M I N I G U N)

[@the11382]

How about explosives? What would happen if you threw a nuke in there?

[@bootstraphan6204]

I say set SCP - 297 loose at the top of the stairs and let it vibrate itself all the way to the bottom. "Turn down for what!"

[@danjoaquin1571]

What are the odds that when you get to the bottom there is a 'under construction' sign with another flight of stairs being built?

[@Thomas.Wright]

Honestly, I kind of wish this hadn't been revealed. Sometimes things are just scarier when you don't know what they are or how they work.

[@NicholasKratzer]

Of the three theories, only the last one seems extreme enough for redaction. Even then, the only justification I can think of is to hide the other existence of the entities in case some cultists want to free them.

[@DMBLaan]

When dealing with SCPs like 087 that induce fear, why not try surgically removing the area of the brain that makes us feel fear? It's been done in real life, sometimes on accident and even by request.

[@pocketmarcy6990]

Or just send down a humanoid anomaly incapable of feeling fear

[@ruri1706]

Tldr; I can't read about SCPs because of trauma, so thank you for making these kinds of videos about them! I really like this channel. I have a very wild imagination, and an involuntary tendency of putting myself in situations I can't understand in an attempt to gain insight on the particular situation. It's a trauma response I developed in childhood. While it makes me a very empathetic person, it also has the unfortunate side effect of giving me a horrible aversion to bodyhorror and the unknowable. If I see a picture or hear a description of something awful, my mind automatically puts me in the situation the person is in. For an example, I was once described a teleportation mishap of someone being teleported half fused inside a solid stone wall, still very much alive. Immediately my mind went to imagine how it would feel if my brain functions literally met a solid wall, synapses being disrupted by being suddenly fused with stone. Would I be able to think? If so, to what extent? Would it be painful? How long would I live after becoming like that? What about my heart, half of it would still be free, would it still beat? Because of this, I hadn't been able to read SCP stuff, because of the mental work my head automatically does. But in this format, it's different. The animation is simple, but clear enough that it doesn't leave much for me to imagine. Plus the power point-esque designs of the characters and environments help me further distance myself from them enough to just enjoy the weird stuff. This SCP for an example would have been impossible for me to read without suffering from nightmares afterwards, but in this sort of video format, I can get the information in a non triggering way, so I can enjoy SCPs without having to wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night. So, long rant made short, thank you, I really appreciate you guys making these videos!

[@kurtphinney1653]

I find that the cartoony aspect makes it easier to comprehend that way, instead of being forced to attempt to comprehend it via text.

[@blackironwalterkus3851]

aren’t you just describing an imagination

[@ruri1706]

@@blackironwalterkus3851 Not exactly! Yes, the basis is similar, but it's more complicated than that. After I posted this comment I've come to learn that in addition to the trauma I'm most likely a HSP (highly sensitive person, there are some good videos on it), so how my mind reacts to things is a lot more intense than the average person. Usually people have a certain divide between themselves and things that they learn about, and they can imagine things in an objective way. For people like me, the imagined scenario is far more intense, as if we're actually experiencing it, and it can cause severe discomfort and even panic attacks. For me personally, a simplified animated representation of SCPs makes it easier for me to create a divide between fiction and reality. I do understand the confusion, though, HSP isn't a widely known trait, and I myself have only recently found out that I am one. I suggest watching a few videos on the subject, it's really helped me to rationalize what is actually going on in my head! And even if you're not one yourself, it's useful to know if you ever come across such a person.

[@starfans5109]

@@kurtphinney1653 thats called thinking

[@Deverosfear]

The third is the most likely as the first two wouldn’t need to be redacted. If the SCP are aware of what the father and Child are specifically and consider them a Cognitohazard they would redact them (incompatible hosts feel fear, comparable hosts are driven to find them)

[@yammantheaardvarkofhonor1242]

I don't like the third because why did it take all the way until now to find people to pose as bodies? There were missing students reported, so what was wrong with them?

[@nick_watoosh]

@@yammantheaardvarkofhonor1242 Maybe none of them work

[@kylebrown1975]

I'm going with scenario 3 just because it makes the most sense why they would board it up and redact the information the most possibility for containment breach

[@SystemYTP]

They could really have informed the D-class personnel about the face they were about to encounter on that staircase… they all got a panic attack and therefore rendered unable to make logical decisions.

[@kurtphinney1653]

You have to remember that the SCP Foundation does not roll like that, since when does the Foundation ever inform the D-classes about the SCPs?

[@ScreamMario]

@@kurtphinney1653 I think that for the 2nd or 3rd test, it might've been worth a shot.

[@jean-michelmusli5669]

If you think logically, the third one is the most likely to have occurred and here’s why : the first one could have happened but its nothing really special so why would the foundation hide those data, the second one is like the first one, not dangerous enough to be hidden from us and the face that switched to the one of the d-class seems fake bc the first two d-classes died and their faces where not the one of 087-1. The last one is coherent and scary enough for the foundation to put an end to the explorations and erase the datas. => third one most likely.

[@MatLameira]

The first two d-classes survived the stairs, the face didnt catch them

[@talkingtree8166]

@@MatLameira I think he means the three proposed fourth expedition in the video, not the three actual expedition.

[@newplushparadise6269]

I am thinking more along the lines that the truth is hidden in all 3 stories. Or else why would there be 3. So far the face having an elongated body is a constant, a male D class entering is constant, the death of the explorer is constant, and the vastness is constant. It might be that this anomaly was designed to evoke curiosity so that the face creature hunt humans, Going back to your point this seems very likely that the reason is in the third, and that the monster in there is attempting a resurrection. It is also logical that that's why it was hidden, as it is the most threatening. But the third story might not be the entire truth and more clues could be scattered about the first 2.

[@zacharytrammell3382]

Okay so read my idea, just thought of it it was pretty dope, at the bottom of this but I'm starting with my rating. A and b were boring. C was a little bit better but I still wasn't a fan. They all felt a little on the nose. Like I don't think the stairwell needs to have a bottom. I don't think the face needs to have a body. I don't think it should be interested in murdering men at all. I feel like the crys of a baby are scarier than a little girls. I liked the mystery of this scp giving it to much of a form makes it way less scary. I would say on a fourth expedition they would send four more d-class. Another male who made it down to where the female d-class died first time around. He would descend a few more flights before he found the image of a flayed female disembowled from sternum to groin mouth permanently agape in pain and terror, burnt... almost engraved into the wall but her eyes fleshy eyes would remain rolling in agony as banshee like wailing and screaming only audible from that specific flight of stairs could be heard. Under fear of the punishment of death the doctor would convince the d-class to continue making his way down he would descend another twenty floors before the face began to appear again. He would run away from it down many more flights before it appeared in front of him it would then pass through him and he would mysteriously find himself at the entrance. The second d-class a female would be sent down she wouldn't make it to the burnt image but she would hear the woman's screams twenty flights above it. They would be inaudible to the camera and she would have to tell the scientist what was being said "RUN IT HATES YOU IT WANTS TO PUNISH YOU IT WANTS YOU TO SUFFER TURN BACK IT DESPISES THE WOMB IT DESPISES THE HOME. FLEE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE." Again the d-class would be threatened with execution by the scp operative and compelled to continue. She would make it down ten more flights before the face appeared to her she would begin running away but the last thing heard would be her screams as the camera cut to black after she made it ten flights back up. Again the scp scinetist would send in another female d-class. This time with the most spectacularly disastourous result of all as soon as she entered, the fate that befell the first two women would happen to her and her image would be ingrained into the backside of the entry door into the stairwell. This time the screaming and wailing would audible from outside the door with the loud sounds of beating, scraping and clawing on the door could be heard. As a last ditch effort to make it to the bottom of the stairs they would send in a modified d-class male. This male would have undergone a specialized lobotomy and extreme psychological manipulation to not only make him entirely unemotional and fearless but completely obedient. He would be hooked up to remote lifesign monitors and have a feeder pack that intravenously took care of nutritional needs for up to two weeks. The d-class would enter the stairwell and verify that the third female d-class was the person ingrained onto the entry door using the biometric data to analyze the fleshy eyes. Once confirmed the d-class would make his way down to the second female d-class again for confirmation. Then the third. Again their scream only audible on the flight of stairs they died on no specific warnings just unintelligible death crys. The d-class would then began to make his way down the stairs a week would pass and his feet at this point would begin to fail him the flesh on the bottom of his feet would begin sloughing off and he would crash onto his chest but due to the manipulation he would continue his journey unimpeded by dragging himself down the stairs eventually his feeder pack would run out of nutritional supplement and he would somehow manage to carry on for another week before his body completely failed. He would die after climbing down tens of thousands of flights. The scp scientists would be able to monitor the live feed of his camera staring at a dark and empty stairwell for another week and right before it died the face would appear but this time be every so slightly more defined and have distinct characteristics that would be able to identify it as a late stage fetus. The end Think that would be way cooler than the three the video gave us.

[@Salted_Fysh]

None of these are really censorship material. 1 and 2 are even pretty tame as far as SCPs are concerned.

[@M4st3rDuck]

Thats what I was thinking. 3 is still pretty tame and a bit campy with the floor that door was on. If its as heavily expunged as it is, I would assume it contains an XK class

[@shuggurath5636]

I was expecting something like another dimension since darkness is an entirely different thing. Maybe it's a place that collects fear and manifests it in all forms (darkness, strange nasty slime, and endlessness are great foreshadowing targeted at humans) where only the most mild things are experienced first. The face inflicts fear but it might be only a sliver of true terror of what lies deeper... like a true eldritch god. How could this be found out? Send in a blind D-Class. What if it's another non-euclidean space where something similar to SCP-184 resides? Except this one wasn't found in time to be stopped. An endless ever expanding space that got distorted over time and distance. Eventually everything got distorted. Physics was distorted. Humans that wandered down and starved themselves trying to find an end slowly became abstract from the concept of when something truly dies and becomes inanimate. Corpses with a few living cells become replicated. Life is created and distorted innumerable times... Or... just as there are animals that use light for photosynthesis, there are... things that use this very real darkness as their nutrients. And just as there exists bio-luminescence, there's bio-darkness. Used to hide their presence yet also lure prey in. Still not that realistic but something to start with.

[@Xero_Kaiser]

Yeah, for The Foundation to not only expunge the entire 4th exploration log, but board the entire thing up and just walk away from it instead of containing it themselves? Gotta be someone a hell of a lot worse than just a stab-happy monster or a body snatcher.

[@ChrisNihilus]

Incredible how the first moment you put the number 666 in your SCP it immediately becomes lame af

[@firenze6478]

Idk… A stairwell down to a dark hell where the devil wants to use you to unbirth his child is pretty terrifying.

[@KeroKero_Cola]

You guys should do the Sopranos dvd one that allows the viewer to control the camera and keep delving deeper and deeper into recursive fiction universes where eventually it's just ghostly people that stare blankly into the camera and follow it around. I really enjoyed that one and it doesn't seem to have much KZbin coverage.

[@Jestersage]

Ah, SCP-2614 -- the most simple pataphysics SCP.

[@Imperial_Cosmonaut]

@@Jestersage it may be "simple," but thats one of the creepiest scps

[@the11382]

That's one of the few Gnosticism SCPs. It's really cool. The woman shown is Sophia(Wisdom).

[@blazey-one]

I love that the animators for the infographics show have turned to scp content. It's been beautiful

[@Azymyth]

Honestly, explanation 3 sounds like the most probable because that's the level of escalation that usually happens with these things.

[@MiJi_29]

Finally, the Answered Lore of Kungfu Panda's Worst Enemy: *Stairs*

[@sunname6252]

I feel the biggest hole in 087-1 having a 096-esque body is descent 2, where the D-Class was able to lay unconscious for 14 minutes unharmed, and proposal 3 is unlikely as many people have already been consumed, However the missing people and damage found at floor 51 (The same floor that 087-1 appeared for descent 1), and removed LEDs does mean something destructive is most definitely down there. My suspicions are that A: 087-1 is, as some have suggested, something that actually tries to protect those who descend the stairs and B: When the desire to leave is voiced the real danger comes for those who descend, the crying that draws you in deeper and deeper.

[@Kieranhc]

"I've been falling for 30 minutes!" - Loki

[@th-bk8ez]

I have an idea. Try going down multiple stairs. Past the bottom of the school, but not far enough to reach the face. Then, use some breaching explosives and blow a hole into the wall to see what is behind it.

[@Kyleplaysgames567]

Probably dirt.

[@th-bk8ez]

I am not so sure. It is on the upper floor of a building, but does not exit anywhere else in the building, so it may be an extra dimensional space. And even if it is dirt, they can dig up and see what is above the staircase.

[@zacharytrammell3382]

More stairs bro. Non-Euclidean geometry. Maybe you would end up dealing with two ghost faces or freeing the monster into an orphanage for sad llamas in a different dimension.

[@Imperial_Cosmonaut]

@@zacharytrammell3382 (non-euclidean)

[@zacharytrammell3382]

@@Imperial_Cosmonaut ty

[@Klariken]

I think the last Theory is the most likely. It just has that more spooky sounding Story. Hope you have an great Day y'all Auf Wiedersehn

[@Klariken]

@LordSockenloch Danke

[@MMysticallowo]

@LordSockenloch Deine Name lmao warum sind die Deutschen gefühlt immer cursed xD (Aber mit meinem Profilbild kann ich auch nichts sagen)

[@MMysticallowo]

Und ich hoffe ihr hattet einen schönen Tag

[@johnfialek9038]

Same here. Options 1 and 2 are way to tame and simple to have been fully redacted. Also, having watched enough Euclid- and Keter-class SCPs, and it just seems to make the most sense.

[@euzdee]

@@johnfialek9038 Or maybe none of them?!

[@chaoticskidmark9200]

The scariest part of 087 is having to walk back up all those stairs.

[@roiking2740]

the third one makes the most sense, the foundation don't censor brutally only sensitive information. someone could have the brilliant idea of conversing with those entities which could lead to unknown consequences. from their perspective it's better we don't allow those things into our world.

[@iainballas]

I know some people like the mystery... but I far more enjoy having a satisfying ending. Or a choice of satisfying endings! That's why the SCP I hate most is SCP-447. To me, sprinkling 'redacted' and then forbidding anyone from filling in the blanks just feels like lazy writing. It's a great way to *start* a story, but a video like this is a wonderful way to *finish* one.

[@tamiloxd7168]

This.

[@Federal_Bureau_of_Investigatio]

me too

[@LeviTatingArmageddon]

I love the idea of “when day breaks” or “world gone beautiful” happens and there’s just 682 floating around in endless space

[@zara5023]

All these theories have their own merits. #1 best fits with what we already know about the SCP in question, although with such a simple solution and ending, it doesn’t make sense for the file to be redacted. #2 sticks to the idea of the staircase being endless best, as it seems that the main point of the SCP is that it is in fact endless, however it doesn’t fit that the original sound would be that of a young girl crying if the face was just a simple white face. #3 has the least flaws, it provides some sort of reason for everything, except the infinite staircase not being infinite. That said, whilst it has a reason that explains everything, thats not to say it has good or fleshed out explanations, and though it tries to explain why its there, it seems to fly in the face of what we know about the staircase: it causes extreme fear, no one has ever been known to be taken by it, and noises are always a consistent distance away, which doesn’t make sense if... idk. I just don’t like #3

[@dooplon5083]

You're forgetting that the noise being a consistent distance away is not a fact, just a tendency. In experiment 3 as soon as the woman notices the face the sound gets closer as she descends. Additionally, we have at least a single _confirmed_ case of the stairs abducting someone, as the D class from exploration 3 never makes it out again after falling. Sure, the method in this one seems completely different but we don't even know how the other d class woman was taken *exactly* so it may have only been become she ran that she survived for so long whereas the other woman was taken immediately. Also, just because the staircase causes extreme fear doesn't necessarily mean that's an anomalous property per se, it could just be scary is all. Keep in mind that I'm not saying that you have to like #3 at all, it's a preference thing, but still, those criticisms in particular feel odd

[@danielkorladis7869]

@@dooplon5083 the stairway might continue descending past the door on floor 666, too. I'd suggest just sending a drone down there (maybe even with a cable connection to avoid having reception issues), but given that this is the SCP foundation, it would probably fail in some unforeseen way.

[@DarkLordDumbledore]

I would... throw the forever bouncing ball in a perfect trajectory for it to reach the bottom or go on for eternity. There are 3 ends to this experiment. Ending 1: Space is torn to pieces as the ball picks up so much speed that it literally punches a hole into existence. It destroys both the scp and earth. Ending 2: The ball will bounce for eternity forever going faster and faster than anything in existence. Ending 3: The ball reaches the bottom then comes back with a vengeance. Accidently obliterating the stairs, the face, and the door until it shoots off into space when it luckily strikes through the door which was only a matter of time.

[@Younce_Davies]

sounds like something dr bright would do

[@Grampssssss]

Honestly my favorite one is the idea that the staircase is alive and uses the face to make people vulnerable so it can absorb them

[@VikingVern7]

I think i like the second story the most. The idea that the crying coming from the bottom being the previous victim is terrifiying knowing that before the foundation found it its peveious victom was a child. The face taking on the fetures of the pevious victom is ok, Having more femenin features means that the crying comes from the face itself. The 80s quaff hairstyle was pretty dumb tho lol.

[@elfossea13]

To me, the most likely is the third, cause the rest are too weak to warrant scp top secret. Top secret is usually to protect or keep something somewhere. Given the fact that the stairwell is accessible by the public, no matter how reinforced, for the third the secret would keep the serpent's hand or chaos insurgency away from trying to open the door. Though i would happily take another scenario. I wont take that one as fact personnaly.

[@uncleaungzayyafromburma985]

SCP foundation has technology that can stabilize the space so it's not strange that they can go down the end of the stairs.

[@JayQuickster]

And my day has been fully satisfied by that end paragraph and the "Always Dive Deeper" closer. I was hoping you guys were gonna do something like that. Infographics and Team. (Subsidiaries?)lol, Never Disappoint!

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

I kinda prefer the "it's a bottomless stairway that swallows light and has a strange mask on the lower levels" thing than just finding out it's a hunted stairway

[@TheHalogen131]

Yeah. The thing I love the most about this SCP (and it being one of my absolute favourites) is its simplicity and mystery. We don't know what happened and all three of these hypothetical scenarios are rather uninspired and underwhelming. With third one being downright silly.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@TheHalogen131 agreed, actually it could do without the mask too, it's a similar issue I had with the bus pass, at first it's an interesting and mysterious concept and then you find out it's just an interdimensional spider A lot of scp's work because they are simple anomalous concepts instead of a bunch of things smushed together

[@TrueLadyEvilChan]

@@airplanes_aren.t_real Bullet Cat is a great fuckin anomaly

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@TrueLadyEvilChan agreed, I think that the one's who are meant to be mysterious are great because we don't know much about them, bullet cat is more of concept "what if all bullets used to murder innocent people gained sentience and the shape of a cat?" Given it's origin, it works because it's meant to be part of a story The endless staircase doesn't need an origin story because what made it interesting was that we didn't understand it, if this is cannon suddenly the cool and mysterious stairway becomes the new x supernatural concept number 3000 I should have definitely added a deeper explanation

[@Furonanator139]

The third one seems to be most likely for the Foundation to suspend all testing

[@geardog24]

So they finally figured out to have two D-Class go down 087 and it still doesn't work? 🤔

[@Kochie11]

I never thought the face was dangerous. Hostile and aggressive maybe, but I never thought it was actually dangerous and lethal. I mean, we never see the face actually harm any of the 3 proven test subjects. Just them running

[@TheKingofbrooklin]

I also hoped for a conclusion that 087 is just a misunderstood being which isn't able to communicate properly.

[@Kochie11]

@@TheKingofbrooklin I could totally see that.

[@troypowers750]

Yeah if you could get past the claw marks.

[@Kochie11]

@@troypowers750 It has no hands or ways to give claw marks. We don’t have any proof of what exactly did it *shrugs*

[@troypowers750]

@@Kochie11 so what are they? It's not like it magically showed up all of a sudden.

[@Cretaal]

Hell, my guess was that the stairs got fleshy and you realized the crying was coming from the walls at a deafening volume. You'd find long hair in patches like grass and eventually realize that the girl was covering the walls. Come to realize that the girl fell to a messy death and her father followed her dying cries down to her body and eventually took himself after she passed, creating the anomaly. The father intercepts anyone coming down, dragging them to the bottom to help him save her and won't let them leave as they slowly integrate with the anomaly to keep it alive, gasping and crying for new help to arrive. The hole she fell through is no longer visible, as the stairwell changed shape when it became anomalous due to the perception of its victims during the crisis. But man... not gonna lie... not too fond of the fact that all 3 outcomes are a murder monster. I kinda liked the fanfic about the Lucky 7, a squad that went down and came back. Things seemed so much more haunting, infinite and fractal in nature. It could have been anything down there. But you're either munched, munched and have your face stolen, or you meet satan and his daughter. I miss the idea of entire twisted realities lying at the end of these bridges with their own potential ecosystems like they eventually did with the "mystery flesh pit national park" creepypasta. Then again, maybe my expectations were shaped by things like Suicide Mouse, P.T. and other stories where things get more not-OK the deeper you get. Kind of sad that the ride of perpetual horrors stops so soon at a guy in a monster costume who woke up and chose violence today.

[@KingDetraktos]

When you get to the bottom of the staircase, you come to a large brown wall blocking all passage, with a very uneven surface covered in knots and bumps, almost like wood, but softer. The wall emits a powerful stench that makes you feel as though you could pass out. You can hear SCP-087-1 speak for the first time. A hushed whisper from his place floating behind you. “Touch it…” His voice slithers into your ears. So, you reach out and touch the wall. It’s warm, but wet. You pull your hand away and see that it is caked in the strange, disgusting material that composed the wall. That’s when you hear a short burst of wheezing. Almost like…laughter? Laughter that someone is trying to keep in and conceal. You look back at SCP-087-1 and can see him trying to hide the bottom half of his face behind a large, pale hand, as he continues his poor attempt to stifle his laughter. You look back at your hand, now extremely suspicious. You sniff it, and it suddenly clicks. “This…this is shit,” you say in shock. “You made me touch SHIT!” SCP-087-1 bursts out laughing and rushes away back up the stairs, leaving in you complete and utter confusion and disgust. You just sit there for a while, trying to figure out what to use to clean your hand off. THAT is what happens at the bottom of SCP-087.

[@starsnstrife]

SCP-087 is scary because it is unexplained. Once you start to explain things you take away the unknown.

[@sodiumfluoridel]

Scp-087 Walking downstairs to get water at night

[@_Funtime60]

Number 3, the foundation has dealt with worse without such redactions before. So the most dangerous and messed up is the most likely option.

[@FaceD0wnDagon]

Answer 4: It's old man Jenkins, trying to scare away the college administrators so he can use the land for a drive-through massage parlor. We are forever grateful to the four human D-Class personnel and their talking dog for this information.

[@Corsair_17]

Good reference lol

[@ljokitalo2505]

3:33 dude is yelling with closed lips and stone face 😂

[@timoreiter7244]

I feel like child murderers would get a laugh and smile of hearing kids crying for help

[@lenardbordo9838]

I think the third option is the most likely to be true. It would make most sense for the foundation to stop at that point, after having found out about the girls crying and the pale ghost face. They should make a story of how father and daughter escape the stairwell. Aside from that, there is also the theory on reddit that the stairwell will lead to one or several portals that will lead to another world, with the pale face being an astral predator from one of them.

[@malikthemadman]

Me deciding to watch this tired and at 1:58 am, perfect timing

[@TheCosmicFreeway]

So theres a Shy Guy at the bottom of SCP 087...

[@firenze6478]

Send 096 to find the face. Either he kills it or is lost forever. Either way, threat neutralized.

[@hojmatros5102]

SCP-087 has always been my favourite. None of these stories live up to the terror of the unknown. The third story was downright silly. 666th floor? That's stupid and cliché.

[@TheHalogen131]

100 percent agree

[@thelast_overwriter5931]

Literally fucking SCARY.

[@fridge.2785]

The face actually doesn’t harm you and just watches you. And is just a floating face. Once you get to the bottom of the stairs, you enter a door on the bottom, when you leave it you enter the infinite ikea, and you found the exit/entrance. (Maybe? I dunno it’d just be cool)

[@randomarcgunner4543]

I like to imagine that with 087, it is some kind of info-hazard. With it, we can see that fear plays some role into it, so maybe it could be that the more you know about it, the more you feed it via being scared of it.

[@Stormtrooper660]

*6:57* *Lost University Student becomes the monster in the dark*

[@akorra9]

10:43 getting some ocarina of time dark link vibes here

[@XxBunnytailxX]

I like the second iteration the most; it seems the most canonical. I love the Orphan reference in the 3rd one though

[@altoclef4249]

this is what its like going downstairs at 3 am

[@lowrider993]

They all sound like they could be canon to me

[@cry2368]

Though this is already been said I still wanna say it. Send a bunch of Class-Ds all with powerful firearms (RPG, Minigun you know what I mean) and make them raid SCP-087 while upbeat music is playing and they all have flashlights pointing at different directions. Give them prime because of energy. I would really like the music being the DOOM music or that song called "Happy" because that would be cool.

[@belacoak5796]

I had a dream once about this scp and when i went down there i saw my class mates and a trap door that lead to a dungeon.

[@MMysticallowo]

Lmao, I had something simliar, but it was a barn and the ppl from my old class were kinda bullying me, except my friends, and we were doing weird challanges and sht, and then I went back to my new (now) class bc they are cool So what were we talking about

[@Gaster_021]

The last one seems to fit the horror theme better than the other two. Not to mention the last one is in greater detail than the other theories

[@anonymousnoone7035]

Three different possibilities, yet they all kinda end the same way, and could, in fact, just be the same tale.

[@antoniosmith2610]

Well I think the last one it’s likely based on how bad you made it seem in the beginning. The first two stories were basically, “These people were sent downstairs That seemed life-threatening, Then became scared for their lives and then died. But that’s nothing Considering the average SCP has done worse than that. But an actual threat to the real world seems like an actual thing to worry about

[@minty_biscuit2408]

What if you fell down the middle of the staircase Or if you were to drop a video camera would it eventually hit the bottom, or will it lose connection after a massive distance?

[@avengerk7051]

my theory is that scp 87 crates new stairs as you go deeper and that's why you can't see further beyond a floor

[@PinguWithAnAxe]

Speaking of SCP-3008; I wonder if you got SCP-096 at the entrance of Infinite Ikea, got a D-Class to stand outside the building with the infinite quadrant between them and got the D-Class to look at an image of 096, would 096 go around it to get the D-Class or just straight-line his way into infinity?

[@memersnas8684]

The door takes you to the infinite ikea. The building is normal

[@TheLuk1z]

1st on is probably not the one cause one of the D-Class people is the "The Hatchet" he was killed in another video by the SCP-096 with the Delta Team

[@h3cat0mbe_]

Me when SCP explained posts/pos

[@melindamonson5031]

I liked the 2nd one best because it wrapped the story up nicely, but the 3rd one fits the bizarre and unexpected style of SCP stories more.

[@gustavoabate6242]

Idea: the face is trying to scare you away because it wants to save you from what lies at the bottom. If you don't go away the creature will have your body and gain energy until it can create a new avatar for itself. It has already happen, SCP-096 "the shy guy" is one of those avatars but it is incomplete. Eventually with enough victims the creature at the bottom, let's call it SCP-087-2, will make a fully formed body that will drain our world from it's vital fluids until every living thing has died. SCP-682 would like it tho...

[@horrorinfusion]

That wouldn’t explain why it appeared behind the first female, scaring her to go further down

[@gustavoabate6242]

@@horrorinfusion A miscalculation of the face? Idk man, is not like everything in the SCP Foundation makes sense anyway.

[@xainkuze2338]

It seems that scp-096 might have some relatives unfortunately.

[@Unknown-br1uf]

Three Possibilities for the Stairwell's End Three Possibilities for The Old Man's Birth Three Possibilities, for a Lot of things 👁

[@somecuriousperson2233]

I feel like seven and three are magical numbers

[@Unknown-br1uf]

@@somecuriousperson2233 SCP-173 👀👁

[@somecuriousperson2233]

@@Unknown-br1uf probably but I was thinking of scarlet king or 073

[@siddharthnair5228]

I mean since the camera worked why don't the foundation use drones to explore the endless staircase why you gotta sacrifice humans.

[@mikeu-wb9dd]

I already know the story just love this chanel

[@endstoneninja3845]

SCP-087-1: A frightening uncanny face