In Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower, documents contain Murkoff information about Mount Massive Asylum's history and experiments that were conducted on numerous patients which caused them to go insane. In 1972 CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all Project MKUltra files to be destroyed with only a small number of them surviving. The remaining ones can be found throughout the asylum. They appear as blue folders with "CONFIDENTIAL" stamped on the front. Some of the documents appear to have been written by the patients themselves, perhaps to express their thoughts or to act as instructions for others.
Outlast 2[]
In Outlast 2, Blake Langermann takes photos of retrieved documents and stores them in his Camcorder for later viewing. The documents are mostly comprised of Knoth's Gospel entries and letters and journals between the residents of Temple Gate. They detail the beliefs of the Testament of the New Ezekiel, the struggles of the Testament and Scalled villagers, and the rise of the Heretics. However, one document is written by a Murkoff employee researching the effects of the company's mind control experiments on Temple Gate with the Radio Towers.
The Outlast Trials[]
In The Outlast Trials, documents, known as evidence, are randomly found in each Trial and compiled as entries under "Storyline" folders. They contain information and pictures about Doctor Easterman's career before and during his induction into the Murkoff Corporation, the history of PROJECT LATHE and the Experimental Population, and Murkoff's plans with the Reagents. There are a total of 81 evidence grouped between 17 storylines.