Item #: SCP-3001
Object Class: Apollyon
Description: SCP-3001 is a dimension characterized by the near-total absence of matter. There is no light source in SCP-3001. There is no ground, no atmosphere, no physical structure of any kind. A human placed in SCP-3001 will float in absolute darkness with no sensory input from any direction.
Dr. Robert Scranton entered SCP-3001 during an experimental dimensional transit procedure on ██/██/20██. The procedure malfunctioned. Dr. Scranton was not recovered.
Contact was established via a modified radio transmitter he was carrying. The transmitter has continued to function — we do not know why or how, as there is no apparent power source and no physical medium through which the transmission should be able to propagate. We have been unable to send transmissions to him. We can only receive.
What follows is a condensed log of Dr. Scranton's transmissions.
Day 1: "This is Dr. Scranton, I am in the pocket dimension, the transit failed, I'm requesting immediate extraction. It is very dark. I have a flashlight. The light seems to be absorbed very quickly — the beam does not extend more than about a foot before it — I don't know the word. It doesn't illuminate. There is nothing here to illuminate. Please respond."
Day 4: "I think I've been here four days. I'm not sleeping well. There is no position to sleep in. I am floating. It is absolutely quiet here. I am — it is very quiet."
Day 12: "I've started talking to myself to hear a voice. I know how that sounds. I'm a researcher, I understand the psychological mechanisms at work. Understanding them does not make them less present. The dark is the same in every direction. I am beginning to — the dark is the same in every direction."
Day 47: "I should be experiencing severe sensory deprivation psychosis by now. I don't think I am. I think something here is — compensating. I think SCP-3001 is doing something to my mind to keep me functional. I don't know if this is worse than the alternative."
Day 209: [Transmission quality degraded.] "I'm not sure anymore that — I think the dark has — there are no words for it. I've run out of words for it. I've been talking for two hundred and nine days and I've used all the words."
Day 410: "If anyone is receiving this: I am not the same as I was. I am still here. I am not the same."
Day 731: [Transmission quality severely degraded.] "I understand now. SCP-3001 is not a dimension. It is a state. It is what is left when everything else is removed. I have been becoming part of it. This is — I want to tell you — I was Dr. Robert Scranton. I was a person. I want someone to know that."
Transmissions have continued beyond Day 731 but have become largely non-linguistic. The radio remains active.
We have not been able to retrieve him. We have not stopped trying.
The radio is still on.