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**Item #:** SCP-8766
**Object Class:** Keter
**Secondary Class:** Esoteric / Infocryptic-Ω
**Threat Level:**[[span class="pastille noir"]]●[[/span]]
**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-8766 cannot be contained in any conventional sense. All known access points to SCP-8766's area of influence, designated Zone-666, are to be monitored continuously by MTF Theta-45 (“Dead Ears”) and sealed under the guise of abandoned military facilities or environmental hazard zones.
No Foundation personnel are permitted within a 66 km radius of SCP-8766's epicenter without explicit Level 5/666 clearance. All unauthorized individuals entering Zone-666 are to be treated as cognitohazard-exposed and detained indefinitely or terminated based on risk assessment.
Due to SCP-8766's memetic influence, any written, verbal, or audiovisual description of its internal structure is restricted. Personnel exposed to SCP-8766 or who report auditory hallucinations involving "spiraling stairs," "reverse singing," or "echoes that erase thought" are to be quarantined for evaluation under Protocol SILENT NIGHT.
**Description:** SCP-8766 is a non-Euclidean vertical structure of indeterminate height located within a fluctuating spatial anomaly approximately ██ km beneath the Gobi Desert, though the entrance point appears randomly in various inaccessible locations across Earth on a 37-year cycle. The structure is described as resembling a "tower of vertebrae" or "a spire of white bone," though direct observation is cognitohazardous and causes linguistic and auditory processing failure within 5–7 minutes of exposure.
The internal architecture of SCP-8766 consists of a single staircase spiraling downwards. Attempts to ascend result in spatial recursion, with test subjects reappearing at lower levels without conscious transition. Light sources dim exponentially after the 13th descent level, and all sound ceases completely after the 21st. Communication equipment becomes inoperable; subjects report extreme psychological discomfort and refer to the silence as "pressure" or "presence."
SCP-8766's anomalous effect, designated AE-999-VACUUM, is a zone of absolute auditory negation extending 66 km from the anomaly’s physical center. All airborne and internally generated sound — including biological functions such as heartbeat or respiration — is progressively nullified. Not muted, but entirely erased from physical reality, with retroactive alteration of associated causal chains. For example, birds within the zone are found dead with undeveloped syrinx structures. Audio recordings captured within the zone appear blank and cause temporal desynchronization when analyzed.
**Addendum:** Addendum 666-01: Initial Discovery Log
SCP-8766 was discovered on ██/██/19██ during a Soviet deep drilling experiment known as Project Khólos. An unmarked shaft was discovered following anomalous seismic readings. A three-man Spetsnaz recon team was dispatched into the borehole and did not return. A fourth operative who remained topside reported “an implosion of sound,” followed by his own sudden loss of hearing and speech. Autopsy revealed complete disappearance of his cochleae and Broca’s area, with no signs of trauma.
Foundation assets embedded within the KGB secured the site and initiated preliminary containment. All initial exploration attempts were terminated following Event 666-A ("The Choir Incident"), in which twelve D-Class personnel spontaneously expired after uttering an unknown phoneme, which was later identified as linguistically impossible under human vocal physiology.
Addendum 666-04: Audio Transcript Recovery [Partial]
Recovered from bodycam footage of D-8843. Audio degraded. Decryption algorithm [LEVEL 5/666 ONLY]:
“I kept going down. It didn't feel like I was walking. It felt like memory was walking me. There were voices — but they weren’t talking. They were reminding. One of them sounded like my mother before she died. She was trying to sing, but every note bled backward into itself. It wasn't music. It was what came before music. I remember now. I was never supposed to hear that.”
Dr. ███████ hypothesizes that the structure may serve as a metaphysical siphon — not merely silencing the physical world, but erasing the very idea of sound from reality, thereby preventing certain memetic entities from being "called" or "named."
Addendum 666-02: Notable Events
Event 666-B: On ██/██/1999, all auditory devices at Site-██ recorded a 0.04s burst of white noise followed by total silence. Analysis revealed an embedded frequency resembling human speech when played backward at 1/666x speed. Reconstructed audio translates to the phrase: “The stairway ends where you forget sound.”
Incident 666-C: During a D-Class exploration attempt, the subject (D-8843) reported reaching the "floor of the tower" and encountering a seated figure constructed entirely of cochleae. Subject attempted to speak but self-lacerated throat tissue with fingernails before expiration. Autopsy revealed vocal cords had become rigid bone.
Event 666-D ("Bellfall"): All Foundation bells, chimes, or timekeeping devices worldwide ceased function for exactly 66 seconds. No mechanical error was detected. Multiple SCPs with audio-reactive properties became inert during this interval.
Addendum 666-03: Research Notes
Dr. Harlowe (Lead Researcher):
“What if sound wasn’t always part of the universe? What if something came before it — some intelligence that still remembers when everything was silent? I don’t think SCP-8766 is making things quiet. I think it’s reminding the universe what silence used to be.”
Note from O5-9:
"SCP-999 is not a building. It is the void given architecture. We believe it predates sound itself. If there are gods in the silence, this is their altar."
**Note (Added By██████)**
Subjects who have spent extended time within the structure (typically 2+ hours) report encountering conceptual entities within the stairwell—figures which are described inconsistently, yet share motifs of anatomical exaggeration and symbolic mutilation (e.g., "a being composed entirely of cochleae", "a monk whose mouth is stitched with silence", and "a mother humming backwards"). Entities do not appear to interact violently, though several exploratory subjects have died through self-inflicted means after contact, often in an effort to eliminate or destroy their own vocal mechanisms.
SCP-8766 exhibits strong memetic and antimemetic characteristics. Exposure to written or auditory descriptions of the internal architecture or perceived purpose of SCP-8766 causes cumulative semantic breakdown. Individuals begin to lose fluency in their native language, eventually reverting to pre-linguistic behavior such as moaning, weeping, or rhythmic tapping. In many cases, victims are discovered to have unknowingly transcribed symbols resembling auditory waveforms, spinal topography, or phonetic scripts not known to any Earth language. Several instances of SCP-8766-related dream logs reference a phrase repeated obsessively: “The Tower is older than the voice.”
Internal architecture does not conform to any known material. Surface samples (retrieved during early expeditions prior to containment restrictions) desublimate into inert dust when removed from the structure. The interior walls emit low-frequency vibrations only perceptible through specialized subdermal implants; translated through frequency-mapping software, the signals correspond with irregular, incomplete phoneme strings resembling extinct language roots from Proto-Nostratic families.
It is currently unknown whether SCP-8766 was constructed, grew organically, or emerged naturally from a higher-order cognitive substrate. Leading hypotheses suggest the Tower may function as a kind of metaphysical siphon, drawing in the potentiality of sound and language to prevent “something else” from hearing—or being heard. Foundation linguists and ontologists have postulated that SCP-8766 may exist to isolate humanity from entities that perceive via acoustic existence; that is, sapient beings for whom being heard is synonymous with being real.
As of [REDACTED], Foundation personnel are under strict orders to avoid conducting further physical incursions into SCP-8766. The entity is considered a Type-Ω Infocryptic Hazard, and all Level 3 personnel or lower who encounter firsthand information about SCP-8766’s interior past the 13th level are to be administered amnestics or terminated, depending on degree of conceptual contamination.
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Excerpts of note:
SCP-8766's anomalous effect, designated AE-999-VACUUM, is a zone of absolute auditory negation extending 66 km from the anomaly’s physical center. All airborne and internally generated sound — including biological functions such as heartbeat or respiration — is progressively nullified. Not muted, but entirely erased from physical reality, with retroactive alteration of associated causal chains.
Dr. ███████ hypothesizes that the structure may serve as a metaphysical siphon — not merely silencing the physical world, but erasing the very idea of sound from reality, thereby preventing certain memetic entities from being "called" or "named."
Addendum 666-02: Notable Events
Event 666-B: On ██/██/1999, all auditory devices at Site-██ recorded a 0.04s burst of white noise followed by total silence. Analysis revealed an embedded frequency resembling human speech when played backward at 1/666x speed. Reconstructed audio translates to the phrase: “The stairway ends where you forget sound.”
Addendum 666-03: Research Notes
Dr. Harlowe (Lead Researcher):
“What if sound wasn’t always part of the universe? What if something came before it — some intelligence that still remembers when everything was silent? I don’t think SCP-8766 is making things quiet. I think it’s reminding the universe what silence used to be.”
Note from O5-9:
"SCP-999 is not a building. It is the void given architecture. We believe it predates sound itself. If there are gods in the silence, this is their altar."
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