A contained object can be observed and recorded, yet information about it slips away. This is an accessible first encounter with SCP’s stories about knowledge that refuses to stay known.
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01 / Field notes
An archive with a hole in it
The report has procedures and a room, but staff repeatedly lose track of what they concern. Its unsettling premise is administrative as well as psychological: a functioning institution cannot reliably account for something in its custody.
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03 / Caseboard
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04 / Source record
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