A staircase descends beneath a university building.

No one knows how deep it goes.

Explorers entering SCP-087 report endless concrete steps, complete darkness, the distant crying of a child, and a pale human-like face appearing from somewhere below.

This special Lost in Record compilation collects the exploration records surrounding SCP-087: The Stairwell.

Follow each descent deeper into one of the SCP Foundation’s most unsettling anomalies and discover what happened to those sent to investigate it.

🎙️ Narrated by Merx

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SCP-087: Exploration III — The Final Descent

Two expeditions have already entered SCP-087.

Neither reached the bottom.

Now the Foundation sends a third subject—designated simply as D—into the endless concrete staircase with enough food, water, and equipment to remain below for twenty-four hours.

As D descends hundreds of flights beneath ground level, the stairwell begins to reveal new abnormalities.

The markers left during the previous expedition have vanished.

A bottomless hole appears inside one of the landings.

The crying child continues somewhere below, always sounding just as distant as before.

But when D finally decides she has gone far enough and attempts to return to the surface, she discovers SCP-087-1 standing directly behind her.

What follows becomes the final documented exploration of SCP-087.

This episode features a dramatized narration of Document #087-III: Exploration III.

🎙️ Narrated by Merx 📁 From Lost in Record

Content warning: intense horror, panic, screaming, strong language, and disturbing imagery.

SCP Attribution

SCP-087 originates from the SCP Foundation Wiki and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0.

Original SCP-087 article by Moto42 and SCP Wiki contributors.

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This adaptation includes original narration, editing, sound design, and presentation.

The Foundation conducts a second exploration of SCP-087, sending another subject deep into the seemingly endless staircase.

Equipped with a brighter flood lamp and dozens of LED markers, D begins descending while the distant sound of a crying child echoes from somewhere far below.

No matter how many flights he descends, the crying never gets closer.

Then he discovers strange damage carved into the stairwell.

And eventually, the face from the first expedition appears again.

Only this time, SCP-087-1 does something it had never done before.

It moves.

SCP-087: Exploration II is presented as part of Lost in Record, a series exploring recovered files, anomalous reports, and disturbing documentation from the SCP Foundation.

SCP-087 and its associated documentation are used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.