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This timeline lists all known events in the Outlast franchise.

1918[]

October 20
Rudolf Wernicke is born in Germany.[1]

1933[]

Unknown date
Sullivan Knoth is born.[2]

1938[]

Unknown Date
US Chemical company Murkoff is exposed selling weaponized Diphosgene to German forces.[3]
September 6
A report is written in Berlin regarding the progress of Dr. Wernicke's work on the Morphogenic Engine.[4]

1943[]

May 11-30
The Battle of Attu plays out in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Cornelius Noakes serves at said battle, presumably in affiliation with the US Airforce.
June
During Project Walrider, Wernicke records three instances of spontaneous bleeding. Half a dozen test subjects begin to develop brain tumors. Autopsies reveal the tumors are pure lead.[5]

1945[]

April 1 - June 22
The Battle of Okinawa plays out in the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Leland Coyle serves at said battle as a Marine.

1947[]

Unknown Date
Leland Coyle joins the Police Force in Blackwell, Oklahoma. [6]

1948[]

Unknown date
The OSS initiates Operation Paperclip, recruiting scientists from Nazi Germany to conduct research for the USA.[3]

1949[]

Unknown date
Dr. Wernicke emigrates to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip.[7]
April 30
A. Bradley Avellanos proposes cooperation with CIA to the board of Murkoff, initially in the capacity of chemical refinement for heroin, with the deal posing a great financial opportunity, as well as implications of legal protection for the company. [8]

1952[]

Unknown date
Shirley Pierce is committed to Mount Massive Mental Hospital for hypnotherapy treatments due to bedroom-inspired hysteria and marital issues.[9]

1953[]

January 12
H.J. Easterman is interviewed by Jameson Lawler to assess his usefulness for CIA studies on Brainwashing subjects of the Korean People's Army in Hong Kong.[10][11][12]
February 9
H.J. Easterman arrives in Hong Kong to study the methodologies of brainwashing. [13]

1954[]

February 10
Misses Jackson and Pierce are subjected to experiments by the CIA as part of the MKUltra program, regarding which they have total amnesia.[14]
April 30
Rudolf Wernicke is officially recorded as citizen of the United States.[1][3]
April 19
Dr. H.J. Easterman receives an invitation from Olivier W Baranczyk to meet the researchers in Los Alamos. [15]
July 5
Airman Jerome Gilette brutally slays San Antonio family of five, and molests their farm animals after a woman in white offers him a piece of chewing gum during July 4th celebrations, after the consumption of which he blacks out for several days until law enforcement finds him nude and disoriented among the hogs on the families premises. [16]

1955[]

February 7
News Article is released stating the following: Law enforcement raid "Futterland Studios" after Phyllis Futterman's criminal escapades of conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping, and racketeering; two officers die, five are injured in the process of her being apprehended. [17] Sometime after the fact Futterman is sentenced to life in prison, and committed as an inmate in Holmesburg Prison, Philadelphia. [18]
November 3
Moses Scarfiotti is interviewed by A. Bradley Avellanos, assessing if he is a suitable architect for the environments of Project LATHE in Sinyala.

1956[]

Unknown date
Dr. Bruce Newhouse starts working at Mount Massive on hypnotherapy treatments for patients, during which time he treats Shirley Pierce.[19][9]
Shortly before February 16
Following his surveillance[20][21], Clyde Perry goes to interview Leland Coyle in a bar, under pretences of bribery. Coyle however sees through Perry's cover almost immediately, and proceeds to violently assault him, breaking two of his fingers, and further injuring him very badly in the process to the point where Perry's urine is bloody after the fact.[22]
February 16
After the Altercation with Coyle, Perry retreats to Wichita, Kansas, to evade Coyle and take time to heal from the confrontation, as well as deliver his research reports on the policeman's surveillance over TELEX. [20][22]
December 13
Clyde Perry goes to interview Phyllis Futterman in Holmesburg Prison.

1958[]

April 15
J. Lawler budgets and authorizes continued research into Dr. Wernicke's Project Walrider as part of Project MKUltra.[23]
May/June
The first iteration of PROJECT LATHE fails, with a total of 171 people either dead or injured; casualties include Experimental Population, Murkoff Staff, and Visitors. The immediate recommendation is for the project to be halted indefinitely.[24]
August 25
PROJECT LATHE TWO is officially authorised after Dr. H.J. Easterman successfully pitches his proof of concept to higher ups at Murkoff and Los Alamos. [25]

1959[]

Unknown date
The Murkoff Corporation conducts group experiments for CIA program MKUltra.[3]
April 12
Clyde Perry Surveils Reagent 0877 in San Antonio Texas, conducting all trigger tests successfully.
June 20
Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 0946 in Muncie, Indiana . Over the course of those days, Perry observes odd behaviour from 0946 and conducts trigger tests with exceptional results. [26]
June 22
Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 0946 in Muncie, Indiana. 0946 follows an adolescent girl home, succeeding the viewing of a theatre screening of 'The Beauty and the Beast' at which he had met and approached her among other adolescents. Perry is forced to neutralise him at 11:06PM when he attempts to break into the girl's home. [27]
July 1
Reagent 0877 is sent to Los Alamos to be studied, due to his unusually long post LATHE TWO survival. Olivier Baranczyk is put in charge of his processing. [28]
August 7
Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 1616, in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the eleventh day of his surveillance, and 1616 has been fired from his job in a shoe department store after groping a customer. Trigger tests are passed exceptionally. Perry observes a number of behavioural oddities from 1616, of most note being him holding metal objects to his eye and turning in circles until he arrives at an estimated heading of 315°. [29]
August 9
Reagent 1616 sells all his possessions, and heads to Albuquerque, New Mexico. [30]
August 10
Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 1616 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He applies for jobs as a cobbler and photographer. 1616 murders a sex worker he had propositioned for her services, after a trigger test is conducted successfully, though the lethal outcome was more or less accidental, as Perry could not interfere quickly enough. [31]
August 11
Clyde Perry surveils Reagent 1616 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1616 shows no memory of what happened the previous day, instead he resumes his compass like behaviour, this time heading approximately at an angle of 290°, a heading which Perry notes is just shy of the location of Sinyala. [32]
August 28
Easterman makes note of Wernicke's reoccurring visits to the sleeproom in Sinyala, even participating in Reagent's paralytic trauma therapy.
September 22
PROGRAM GEISTER is discussed between Lawler and Avellanos.
A mail correspondance between Lawler and Avellanos references their "Cuban Adventures", and how the Reagents failed to neutralise their target. This however - Avellanos argues - wasn't in fact a failure, but another trial for the reagents, where more valuable data could be sourced.
October 1
PROGRAM GEISTER is Proposed to the board.
October
PROGRAM GEISTER has officially been approbed and authorised for implementation in Sinyala.
November 6
Clyde Perry offers up his resignation from his post in the Collections Department after a particularly violent encounter with who is presumed to be a reborn Reagent he was surveilling. He yet offers to be reassigned to a different Department, as he is eager to continue his work for the Murkoff Corporation.
November 18
The Department for Historical Refinement is established following a meeting between Clyde Perry and A. Bradley Avellanos.
November 20
Clyde Perry reviews leaked documents from the Trial environments, and brings it to H.J. Easterman's attention just how inaccurate his spelling and dating of otherwise important documents really is - much to the latter's annoyance.
December 2
Lawler informs Avellanos of Gottlieb's frustrations with Murkoff's unsuccessful "Cuban Adventures", and how the agency has garnered more data that he wishes to show Avellanos in a timely manner.
December 5
Lawler and Avellanos discuss the souring relations between the US and Cuba, with Lawler revealing to Avellanos just how severe a nuclear winter would be, and how low the temperatures could really get. Avellanos correctly assumes Lawler to bring this up to discuss wether or not Sinyala could train Reagents to operate in extremely cold conditions. Avellanos promises that Murkoff could develop a way to achieve this.
December 6
Avellanos, Scarfiotti and Easterman conceptualise the "Winter Kills" Programme. As Avellanos and Scarfiotti are having a conversation about possible ulterior motives of Lawler pertaining to his overly friendly attitude toward Murkoff and Avellanos himself especially, Easterman can be heard loudly humming and rocking in his chair in the background, much to Scarfiotti's annoyance. After Easterman waxes philosophically about the potential of Winter Kills, Avellanos assures his two subordinates that as long as it makes Murkoff Money, the board will green light the programme.

1961[]

May 21
Father Clarke conducts sermons for patients at Mount Massive Asylum.[19]

1964[]

Unknown date
Shirley Pierce ceases being a patient at Mount Massive.[9]

1965[]

Unknown date
Bruce Newhouse leaves employment at Mount Massive.[19]

1966[]

November 26th
Sullivan Knoth works as a shoe salesman in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He receives his first vision from God while listening to the radio.[2]

1967[]

Unknown date
Eddie Gluskin is born.[33]
Three scientists are murdered by an unknown patient at Mount Massive Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Authorities order the asylum to cease all activities.[3]
Knoth and his followers live communally on a luxury ranch owned by a wealthy woman named Lydia Degan. He records “The Gospel of Knoth.” With a warrant for health and safety violations, New Mexico police raid the ranch and arrest a dozen cult members. Knoth barely escapes with a handful of followers.[2]

1968[]

Unknown date
Mount Massive Asylum ceases operations. Murkoff buries evidence of its crimes.[3]

1969[]

Winter
Sullivan Knoth sacrifices an eye in exchange for his vision of Temple Gate. He and his followers caravan out into the Arizona Desert.[2]

1971[]

Unknown date
Mount Massive Asylum is shut down amid scandal and government secrecy.[34]
Sullivan Knoth and his followers build Temple Gate in the Havasupai Indian Reservation.[35]

1972[]

Unknown date
CIA Director Richard Helms orders all MKUltra files destroyed. A small number of documents survive.[3]

1977[]

Unknown date
Frank Manera is born.[36]

1978[]

Unknown date
Murkoff expands mind control programs for public testing. Mass suicides ensue.[3]

1981[]

Unknown date
Chris Walker is born.[37]

1985[]

Unknown date
Blake Langermann is born.
December 27
Dr. Wernicke conducts an exit interview in Los Alamos, New Mexico regarding his work on the Morphogenic Engine and Project Walrider.[5]

1987[]

Unknown date
Paul Marion passes the State Bar exam in Ohio.[38]

1992[]

Unknown Date
William Hope is born.[39]

1995[]

Unknown Date
Blake's parents die within months from each other.[40]
December
Blake Langermann, Lynn and their classmate Jessica attend St. Sybil High School.[41] Jessica is found dead after having presumably committed suicide.

1998[]

Unknown Date
Alison Marion is born.[42]
Anna Lee is born.[43]

2000[]

Unknown Date
Joanne Marion dies in the hospital of the rare blood disease she shares with her daughter Alice.[44]

2006[]

Unknown date
The Murkoff Corporation purchases the Spindeltop Psychotherapy Clinic in Hattin, Texas, as part of Jeremy Blaire's "Research Through Charity" initiative.[38]

2007[]

Unknown date
Simon Peacock leaks Murkoff files and disappears.[45]

2008[]

Unknown date
Paul Marion and Pauline Glick are partnered as Murkoff Insurance Mitigation officers.[38]
July
Dr. Wernicke moves to the Mount Massive Preserve to do charitable work for the Murkoff Corporation.[1]
Late 2008
Marion and Glick solve the Hat Box Murders at the Spindeltop Psychotherapy Clinic.[38]

2009[]

Unknown date
Mount Massive Asylum is reopened by Murkoff Psychiatric Systems for charitable work.[34][3]
Chris Walker is interned as patient.[38]
William Hope's mother Tiffany responds to an advertisement for free psychiatric care in the paper to get her son help for his clinical depression and disordered sleeping.[39]
February 28
Dr. Wernicke is officially pronounced dead at the Mount Massive Preserve.[1]
April 12
Billy starts consultations for the Morphogenic Engine program.[46][39]

2010[]

Unknown date
Murkoff has issues with female employees experiencing psychosomatic pregnancies based upon the Morphogenic Engine's interaction with the immune system.[47]
Melissa Cho files a lawsuit against Murkoff regarding the termination of her contract at Mount Massive Asylum based on gender selection.[48]
November 1
Frank Manera starts consultations for the Morphogenic Engine program.[36]

2011[]

January 28
Chris Walker starts consultations for the Morphogenic Engine program.[37]

2012[]

October 4
An anonymous employee at Mount Massive complains to Human Resources on safety conditions at the hospital. The Pauls are sent to the asylum to investigate.[49]
October
Richard Trager is fired from his post as an executive in Mount Massive and interned as patient of the Morphogenic Engine program.[49]
October 28
Last corn harvest in Temple Gate.[50]

2013[]

Unknown Date
Miles Upshur is fired from The Denver Eagle for his article on the war in Afghanistan.[51][45]
Murkoff subsidiary Heartland Springs Charity begins construction of three Alsab-built water purification plants in Detroit.[52]
Helen Granat begins removing Wernicke from structural and financial systems at Mount Massive Asylum.[53]
Patients 14306-8, 14279-1, and 14868-1 are transferred from Project Walrider at Mount Massive Asylum to the Zeichner Facility.[53] [54]
Jennifer Roland requests reassignment from Mount Massive and is involved in experiments at Temple Gate.[55]
January 7
Three more members of Temple Gate are sent to live with the Scalled. Val takes seven more orphans under her care; over forty orphans in total.[56]
February 14
Eddie Gluskin starts consultations for the Morphogenic Engine program.[33]
March 9
Val sacrifices six orphans. She receives more visions regarding the infanticides Sullivan Knoth commits for the Testament of the New Ezekiel.[57] She starts to question her commitment to the faith.[58]
May 9
Miles Upshur publishes his article The Devil's Bargain on the history of the Murkoff Corporation's manipulation of the global water crisis and human rights violations.[52]
June 17-19
Val's vision of another God become clearer and she fully embraces her own faith, taking other Heretics with her as she departs the Testament of the New Ezekiel.[59][60]
September 17
Waylon Park leaks information regarding the experiments at Mount Massive Asylum to Miles Upshur. He is consequently arrested and processed as a patient.[61]
September 18
The Mount Massive Asylum Incident takes place. The events of Outlast and Outlast: Whistleblower occur. Waylon Park escapes Mount Massive Asylum.
Waylon Park meets with Miles Upshur and Simon Peacock, releases his footage of the incident to expose Murkoff, sets his home on fire to get rid of any evidence or leads, and flees with his family.[42][45]
Paul Marion and Pauline Glick investigate the Mount Massive Asylum Incident. They search for Waylon Park to prevent leaks incriminating the Murkoff Corporation, but are unsuccessful.[42][45]
Late September
A few days after the Mount Massive incident, the Pauls follow Miles Upshur's bank account activity to Nathrop, Colorado. They meet William Hope's mother Tiffany Hope and discover he has survived Mount Massive. Murkoff believes they eliminated Billy's manifestation of The Walrider, but Paul is not certain after he witnesses it switch hosts to a colony of ants.[42]
Paul Marion conducts a forensic gaslight to discredit Waylon Park's video.[42]
The Pauls investigate Miles Upshur's residence in Washington, DC. A neighbor states she has seen him, although he has been pronounced neutralized by the Murkoff Corporation. The ant colony from Colorado destroys any evidence left in his apartment. Paul discovers that they are being followed by Simon Peacock. Peacock gives Marion coordinates to Temple Gate and asks for his help in destroying Murkoff. Paul refuses.[45]
October
Simon Peacock contacts Paul Marion at his residence with the coordinates, claiming his daughter Alison is connected to the experiment being conducted at Temple Gate.[44]
Paul chooses to disregard Pauline's orders not to investigate and flies to Arizona. He follows the coordinates and falls under the effects of the Radio Towers. He encounters Anna Lee and her uncle Paul, whom he kills in their confrontation. He passes out from his wounds as Anna Lee flees.[44]
Anna Lee is found wandering on a stretch of the highway, ultimately picked up and taken to a hospital where she is found to be pregnant with a remarkably healthy baby boy and to have sustained similar brain injuries as patients of Mount Massive Asylum. Paul Marion is also taken to the same hospital.[62] [44] Pauline Glick strangles Anna Lee to death at the hospital in order to cover Murkoff's tracks and contain evidence of the Temple Gate experiment.[44]
Paul Marion discovers upon returning home that his daughter Alice has been kidnapped to force his cooperation.[44]
Anna Lee's uncle Paul's body is brought back to Temple Gate by Marta.[44]
Blake Langermann and Lynn Langermann take an interest in the Jane Doe story and investigate. Pauline assigns Paul to the case to prevent the Langermanns from uncovering the truth of Anna Lee's murder. He does not prevent their investigation.[63]
Two weeks after the events of Outlast: The Murkoff Account Issue 5, the events of Outlast 2 take place.[63]
The Walrider destroys Murkoff's Radio Towers in Temple Gate. Seven hours after the destruction, Pauline Glick and a Murkoff cleanup crew arrive. The only survivor found is Blake, now in a catatonic state. Pauline orders him to be taken away to the Elrich Black Site facility to be interrogated with Morphogenic Engine compatible technology.[63]
Meanwhile, Paul Marion is interrogated by Simon Peacock, who needs his help finding The Walrider.[63]
Unknown date
Simon Peacock is pronounced dead.[42]
Paul Marion turns himself in to an FBI office in Detroit, Michigan, after doing an unspecified amount of damage to the Murkoff Corporation. He confesses his crimes in the service of the corporation while being treated for a head wound, which must be operated on due to a severe infection.[38]
Pauline Glick recovers at a Murkoff Rehabilitation Center with a wounded arm and tells the mitigation agents hunting down Paul her side of the story.[38]


References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Dr. Wernicke Death Certificate
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Outlast 2 Character Reveal: Sullivan Knoth
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Outlast Series Trailer - Nintendo Switch
  4. The Spirit Breach
  5. 5.0 5.1 The Wernicke Exit Interview
  6. Coyle Surveillance, Part 1 of 2
  7. Dr. Wernicke Obituary
  8. Freedom in Global Leadership
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 You Promised Me a Rose Garden
  10. Easterman CIA Interview 1
  11. Easterman CIA Interview 2
  12. Easterman CIA Interview 3
  13. Arrived in Hong Kong
  14. MKULTRA CIA Hypnotic Homicide
  15. Murkoff Correspondence, (O. Baranczyk)
  16. Collateral Damage
  17. The Raid on Futterland
  18. Gooseberry Background
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 God and Family
  20. 20.0 20.1 Coyle Surveillance, Part 1 of 2
  21. Coyle Surveillance, Part 2 of 2
  22. 22.0 22.1 Coyle Interview
  23. Lesser Known Ecological Aspects of Humanity
  24. Personnel Report
  25. Lathe Two Begins
  26. Reagent 0946 Surveillance Part 1
  27. Reagent 0946 Surveillance Part 2
  28. Reagent 0877 To Los Alamos
  29. The Horny Cobbler
  30. Albuequerque
  31. A Lethal Trigger
  32. Human Compass
  33. 33.0 33.1 Project Walrider Patient Status Report of Eddie Gluskin
  34. 34.0 34.1 Mount Massive Asylum (note)
  35. Temple Gate (Recording)
  36. 36.0 36.1 Project Walrider Patient Status Report for Frank Manera
  37. 37.0 37.1 Project Walrider Patient Status Report for Chris Walker
  38. 38.0 38.1 38.2 38.3 38.4 38.5 38.6 Outlast: The Murkoff Account Issue 1
  39. 39.0 39.1 39.2 Switch Limited Run #17 & #18: Outlast Murkoff Briefcase Edition
  40. Til Death do us Part
  41. St. Sybil school calendars in Outlast 2
  42. 42.0 42.1 42.2 42.3 42.4 42.5 Outlast: The Murkoff Account Issue 3
  43. Ethan/Dialogues
  44. 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 44.4 44.5 44.6 Outlast: The Murkoff Account Issue 5
  45. 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 45.4 Outlast: The Murkoff Account Issue 4
  46. Project Walrider Patient Status Report for William Hope
  47. Miscarried Profits
  48. Gender Selection in Mount Massive Contractors
  49. 49.0 49.1 Outlast: The Murkoff Account Issue 2
  50. Corn sack models in Outlast 2
  51. Outlast - Beta/Test Cutscenes
  52. 52.0 52.1 ‘Outlast’s’ Murkoff Corporation Sounds About As Bad As Umbrella - Bloody Disgusting
  53. 53.0 53.1 Beyond Hope
  54. Three Blind Dreamers
  55. Variant Postmortem, Old Traveler
  56. Val's Journal Pt. 1
  57. Val's Journal Pt. 3
  58. Val's Journal Pt.2
  59. Val's Journal Pt. 4
  60. Val's Journal Pt. 5
  61. The Whistleblower (document)
  62. The Jane Doe Story part 2
  63. 63.0 63.1 63.2 63.3 Outlast: The Murkoff Account Epilogue
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