Documents

An example of documents found throughout Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower

Evidence files icon used in The Outlast Trials

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Documents, also known as evidence, are common collectibles in the Outlast series. They primarily explain the backstories behind the games' events.

Outlast

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 "Evidence" entries. They contain information and photographs about Doctor Easterman's career before and during his induction into the Murkoff Corporation; the history and development of Project Lathe and the Experimental Population; Murkoff's plans with the Reagents; and the ongoing events at the Sinyala Facility.

The documents are presented from the perspectives of various senior members of staff at the Sinyala Facility, including:

• Doctor Hendrick Joliet Easterman, the facility's head researcher and the Director of Project Lathe
• A. Bradley Avellanos, a high-ranking Murkoff executive who supervises the facility
• Moses Scarfiotti, the facility's architect and head of the Engineering Department
• Clyde Perry, a Collections Department agent and the Director of Historical Refinement
• Jameson Lawler, a CIA intermediary cooperating with the Murkoff Corporation

All documents can be read by interacting with "The Director" in the Reagent's personal cell. They are compiled into corresponding folders, each organized by theme.

Theme	Information
	THE ROAD TO SINYALA The history of Dr. Easterman and the Murkoff Corporation, leading up to the creation of the Trials.
	GOOSEBERRY & COYLE The Murkoff Collections Department brings Mother Gooseberry and Sergeant Leland Coyle to the Trials.
	EXPERIMENTAL POPULATION Character and history of the Experimental Population.
	THE AMERICAN CENTURY How Murkoff and the CIA shape world politics.
	VARIATORS Experimental adjustments to the Trials.
	SINYALA H.R. Reports on the process and management of PROJECT LATHE.
	GHOSTS OF OUTLAST FUTURE Origins of characters important to the future of the Murkoff Corporation.
	LUPARA The Murkoff Collections Department brings Franco Barbi to the Trials.
	AMELIA A Reagent escapes into the walls of the Sinyala Facility, and clears the way for others to get out.
	ESCAPE EVENT, 1960 Amelia creates an opportunity for hundreds of Reagents to escape Sinyala, as Easterman loses his grip on reality.
	MINOTAUR Regarding Kress Chemical and the Buffalo Minotaur.
	INVASION A new form of Therapy allows Reagents to take the role of Imposters.