A man named Martin Sims was found wandering the streets of Carson, California, after being missing for three years. He claimed to have been trapped in an IKEA store, which was later identified as SCP-3008, an anomalous location with properties that defy the laws of spatial reality. The store's interior appears to be much larger than its exterior, with some areas extending endlessly. The SCP Foundation, a secret organization that contains and studies anomalous objects and locations, investigated the store and discovered a population of non-human entities, known as SCP-3008-2, which resemble IKEA employees but have no faces and grossly extended limbs. The entities are docile during the day but become hostile at night, repeating the phrase "The store is now closed, please exit the building." The Foundation also discovered that there are human settlements within the store, with people who have built a new society and cooperate to survive. However, the entities pose a constant threat to the humans, and the Foundation is unsure if they have the anomaly fully contained. The investigation suggests that SCP-3008 may be connected to IKEA stores in multiple dimensions, making it a potentially even greater threat.
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1. Martin Sims was reported missing on March 15th, 2008.
2. He was found on March 15th, 2011, in Carson, California, after being missing for three years.
3. Martin's body was covered in scars, but he showed no signs of malnutrition.
4. Martin claimed he was trapped in an Ikea store since 2008.
5. The Ikea store was later identified as SCP-3008 by the SCP Foundation.
6. The SCP Foundation sent a team of agents to investigate the store and interview Martin.
7. Martin's interview was passed to a local Site Director, who approved a detachment of Foundation Field Operatives to look into Martin's case.
8. The SCP Foundation triangulated the position of SCP-3008 and closed the entire retail zone under the pretence of a severe black mold infestation.
9. Armed Foundation Personnel arrived on site and prepared for a potential threat.
10. Martin was unable to provide much information about SCP-3008 due to his deteriorating mental health.
11. Martin was administered Foundation Amnestics to erase his memory of the last three years and returned to his family.
12. A cover story was created to explain Martin's disappearance and return.
13. The SCP Foundation maintained constant surveillance around the perimeter of SCP-3008.
14. The Foundation sent a team of 20 disposable Class-D Personnel to explore the interior of SCP-3008.
15. The team was split into four squads, each assigned a different quadrant of the store.
16. Three of the four teams reported nothing out of the ordinary, but Team Delta experienced a scrambled audio and video connection before disappearing.
17. The SCP Foundation classified SCP-3008 as Euclid due to its anomalous properties being confined to the interior of the store.
18. A surviving member of Delta Team reappeared seven months after disappearing, followed by an entity later classified as SCP-3008-2.
19. SCP-3008-2 was a being made entirely of skin, with no bones, internal organs, or vascular system.
20. The entity was around seven feet tall, with no visible face and grossly extended limbs.
21. The SCP Foundation used drones to explore SCP-3008-1, the anomalous zone within the store.
22. The drones discovered that SCP-3008-1 broke the laws of spatial reality, with the area of the Ikea's interior being at least an order of magnitude larger than its exterior.
23. The Foundation found evidence of human settlements within SCP-3008-1, built using Ikea furniture.
24. The people trapped inside the settlements had built an entirely new society, with immense cooperation between them.
25. The food in the Ikea restaurants within SCP-3008-1 mysteriously replenishes, and the automatic turning on and off of the lights forms a kind of rudimentary day and night cycle.
26. SCP-3008-2 entities become hostile at night, swarming the settlements and repeating the phrase "The store is now closed, please exit the building."
27. The civilians inside are usually able to repel these attacks, but the constant war of attrition slowly wears them down.
28. The SCP Foundation has only found 14 civilian escapees from SCP-3008-1.
29. The escapees reported that there were people inside the settlements who lacked common knowledge, leading the Foundation to conclude that SCP-3008-1 may be connected to Ikeas in every dimension where Ikeas exist.