Former SCP-8812 entryway.
Item #: SCP-8812
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-8812 is currently inaccessible. While access to the only available entrypoint into the chamber containing SCP-8812 is monitored and guarded, public exposure of SCP-8812 is considered unlikely.
Attempts to gain entry to SCP-8812 are ongoing (pending review, these attempts have been discontinued - O5-3).
Containment Memorandum 8812.4: All footage of SCP-8812 is to be destroyed, and no additional surveillance drones are permitted to enter the well.
Containment Memorandum 8812.5: Portions of this article have been redacted. Relevant details for Level 5 personnel are available in Addendum 8812.3.
Description: SCP-8812 is [REDACTED PER MEM.8812.5] a humanoid entity currently located within a deepwater well near the lowest point of the Kow Ata cave system near Bäherden, Turkmenistan. The access point to the well is at a depth of roughly 63m below the surface, but the well itself is more than 1200m deep. Access to the well was previously accomplished through a 0.17m passageway, a space only wide enough for tethered video drones.
SCP-8812 is within a metal cage at a depth of between 743m and 758m - this cage is attached by a long chain to a motor near the surface of the well that will occasionally raise or lower the cage and its occupant. The pattern for this is seemingly erratic - there will often be long periods of inactivity or periods where the cage is moved only slightly, and other periods with significantly more activity. The reason for this is unknown, as is the location of the power source for the motor, if it exists at all.
Additionally, how SCP-8812 was placed within the cage, and how the cage and the well were created in the first place, are all unknown - no entrance capable of fitting the equipment required to accomplish any of the above has been found within the narrow confines of the space above the well itself, which measures only 0.53m in height and 1.14m at its widest point.
Video drones sent into the well containing SCP-8812 have verified that the entity is alive, despite being beneath over 700m+ of water without any evident life-supporting equipment. It is unknown how long SCP-8812 has remained in this state. SCP-8812 displays signs of ██████ ████████ and appears to be in a state of █████████ ████████.
Addendum 8812.1: Discovery
First image of the well containing SCP-8812.
SCP-8812 was discovered by local cave divers in 1972, who discovered the impassable entryway while exploring Kow Ata cave and reported hearing faint noises through the tunnel. In 2005, another diver managed to get a camera through the entryway and captured the first known image of the well itself.
Foundation personnel were alerted to the existence of SCP-8812 in the wake of posts on caving message boards describing the impossibility of the shaft due to its inaccessibility. The section of the cave containing the entryway was quickly locked down and placed under Foundation management while further investigation of the site was administered.
Addendum 8812.2: Accessibility
Immediately after the events of [DATA EXPUNGED] attempting to gain access to SCP-8812 resulted in a partial cave-in of the passageway leading to the well. Additional attempts to access SCP-8812 are planned have been discontinued until further notice.
Addendum 8812.3: [REDACTED BY ORDER OF O5-3]
