This guide will show the locations where you can find all documents and notes in Outlast. Obtaining all of these collectibles will also unlock several achievements.
Chapter 1: Administration Block
First Document
You’ll find the initial document in your car.
First Note
To spot the first note, take a good look at the hospital from a nice angle using the camera.
Second Document
Discover the second document inside the “a 214” room.
Second Note
Upon entering the library, engage with the wounded soldier by holding the camera.
Third Document
Locate the third document at the table in front of the security body.
Fourth Documents
After navigating through the room full of computers, find the fourth documents in the dark area on the right side, in front of the boxes.
Third Note
Use the camera to observe patients watching a broken TV.
Fourth Note
Prior to reaching the security room, observe the middle corpse in the left toilet with the camera.
Fifth Document
Next to the computer desk in the room called “a 126” after passing the security room, you’ll find the fifth document.
Fifth Note
Witness Chris Walker breaking the security room door with the camera to unveil the fifth note.
Sixth Document
After descending the stairs next to the elevator and passing through the wall, discover the sixth document on the table on the right.
Chapter 2: Prison Block
First Note
Check out the writing on the wall with the camera after waking up to find the first note.
Second Note
Upon passing through the wall, head upwards and talk to the guy with your camera to discover the second note.
First Document
After climbing the narrow stairs, you’ll come across the first document. When you see a man writing on the wall in blood, turn left and look at the table in the dark.
Second Document
Upon passing through the window, enter the security room on the left, then turn right to find the second document on the table.
Third Note
After leaving the window, move forward and use the camera to witness Chris Walker tearing off a man’s head to reveal the third note.
Third Document
Upon entering the shower room with the card, find the third document on the table to the right side of the room. You entered by passing through the window edges.
Fourth Document
After passing by leaning against the wall, discover the fourth document on the coffee table next to the bed in the cell with the door half-open on the left.
Fourth Note
After jumping down the pit in the cell, as you descend the stairs, look with the camera at the Walrider written in blood in front of you to find the fourth note.
Chapter 3: Sewer
First Document
Upon entering the sewer, when the man passes you, turn left, and by a broken ladder, you’ll find the file right there.
First Note
Before proceeding through the illuminated path in the sewers, enter the door on the left. Listen to the man with your camera to discover the first note.
Second Document
When you jump into the dirty water for the last time, climb the road ahead before turning left. Continue through the first door you come across to find the second document.
Chapter 4: Male Ward
First Note
After spotting the sign for the men’s ward, don’t climb the stairs. Instead, continue on the road in front of you. Look at the corpses with the camera from the door to uncover the first note.
Second Note
Push the metal cabinet, go inside, leave the room, and turn left. Enter the first dark door you come across and shoot the text written on the left wall with the camera to reveal the second note.
First Document
After a small hole, head towards the door before going to the vent. Find it on the small table to the right.
Third Note
When you find a man tied to the bed, listen to his conversation with Trager, and look with the camera to discover the third note.
Second Document
Open the rightmost door in the toilet you come across after jumping from the vent to find the second document.
Fourth Note
After eliminating Trager with the elevator, use the camera to reveal the fourth note.
Third Documents
After meeting Father Martin, walk past the corpse in the dressing room. It will be in front of the lockers.
Fifth Note
Engage with the guy who set the entire cafeteria on fire with your camera to find the fifth note.
Fourth Document
After leaving the dining room, turn right and enter the dark room. Find it on the table in front of the window.
Sixth Note
After extinguishing the cafeteria fire, go to the kitchen. Enter the left door and capture the plate full of fingers on camera to discover the sixth note.
Chapter 5: Courtyard
First Document
On the last table in the room on the right before exiting, you’ll find the first document.
Second Document
When you continue straight after leaving the exit, there will be a file in front of the writing on the stairs.
First Note
Just look at the Walrider with the camera to uncover the first note.
Second Note
After meeting up with Chris Walker and going through the small hole, look at the corpses in the fountain on the right with your camera to discover the second note.
Chapter 6: Female Ward
First Note
After passing through the cabinets, gaze at the camera-operated machine from the window on the left to discover the first note.
First Document
Before ascending the stairs, head to the right and collect the file on the table.
Second Note
Look inside the elevator with the camera to find the second note.
Second Document
Descend the stairs next to the elevator and go through the door on the right. Head left, and the document will be on the table there.
Third Document
When you jump over the edge of the wall, enter the room, fall, and come out again. Go through the door on the left, turn left again, and the file will be there.
Third Note
After encountering the Walrider, go through the open door and enter the room on the right. Look at the writings with the camera to unveil the third note.
Chapter 7: Return to the Administration Block
First Document
After spotting Chris Walker, enter the half-open door on the left and go into the ventilation. Turn right and continue to find the first document.
Second Document
In the room entered from the left after throwing the body down, there is a file on the computer table in front of the window.
First Note
Watch the entire video with the camera to reveal the first note.
Third Document
The file on the box in the room across the stairs.
Second Note
Enter the door on the left of the room where the man is standing in front of the large window and continue left. Enter the room with the open door and listen to the man with your camera to discover the second note.
Fourth Document
After passing through the last wall on the left, turn right and enter the room called “b 329”; there will be a file on the table.
Third Note
Meet Father Martin and watch him die with the camera to find the third note.
Chapter 8: Underground Lab
First Note
View the lobby with the camera to discover the first note.
First Document
On the table in the lobby, you’ll find the first document.
Second Document
After opening the door to block A, head to the second door from the left to find the second document.
Second Note
After jumping over the blue boxes, enter the door on the right and look at the painting with the camera to reveal the second note.
Third Note
Watch Chris Walker killed by the Walrider to discover the third note.
Third Document
After passing through the gas chamber, go to the right and take the file from the table.
Fourth Note
Watch the Experiment Lobby with the camera to find the fourth note.
Fourth Document
Take the file from the front of the machine; it’s the fourth document.
Fifth Note
Watch the man with your camera to uncover the fifth note.
Sixth Note
Watch the life support machine with the camera to find the sixth note.
Fifth Document
The file is in the room full of computers; it’s the fifth document.
Sixth Document
After the gas chamber, go up the stairs and pick up the file on the table; it’s the sixth document.
Last Note
Watch the man in the glass balloon die with your camera to discover the last note.
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