Genesis | Notes and recordings Outlast 2 Guide

Last update: 08 May 2017

In this chapter you can find the locations of all notes and recordings that can be found in particular chapters in Outlast II.

1. The Jane Doe Story Part 1 - The Nightmare
2. The Jane Doe Story Part 2 - The Nightmare
3. The Wreckage - The Crash
4. The Crucified Pilot - The Crash
5. The Impossible Town - The Crash
6. My Dear Sweet Ellie - The Crash
7. Dear Father - The Crash
8. Remembering The Lost - The Crash
9. Midwife's Lament - The Crash
10. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 8 - The Crash
11. Visions Come - The Crash
12. The Compound - The Compound
13. New Gospels, Part 1 - The Compound
14. Val's Secret - The Compound
15. New Gospels, Part 2 - The Compound
16. Suicide Note - St. Sybil High School
17. Interrogation - The Fields
18. Ethan's Letter - The Fields
19. Crucified Heretics - The Fields
20. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 5 - The Fields
21. Marta - The Fields
22. Letter from Husband - The Fields
23. Val's Journal Pt. 1 - The Fields
24. Temple Gate Anima Cristi - The Fields
25. Dead Birds - Heretic Cave
26. Cavern Temple - Heretic Cave
27. New Temple Gate - Temple Gate Town Square
28. Val's Journal Pt. 3 - Temple Gate Town Square
29. Letter from Val to Knoth - Temple Gate Town Square
30. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 6 - Temple Gate Town Square
31. Val's Journal Pt. 5 - Temple Gate Town Square
32. Sundries From the Sinful World - Temple Gate Town Square
33. Temple Gate - Temple Gate Town Square
34. Garden Note - Temple Gate Town Square
35. Hanged Jessica - Jessica's Death
36. The Show Room - The Chapel
37. Accept My Suicide - The Chapel
38. Gospel Duty - The Chapel
39. Why You Have to Die - The Chapel
40. Lesson Plan - The Chapel
41. A Letter to Mom - The Chapel
42. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 10 - The Chapel
43. Temple Gate Act of Contrition - The Chapel
44. Val's Journal Pt. 4 - The Chapel
45. The Chapel - The Chapel
46. Rest These Bones - The Chapel
47. Letter from Nick to Knoth - The Chapel
48. Torture - The Chapel
49. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 2 - The Road to the Mine
50. Val's Journal Pt. 2 - The Road to the Mine
51. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 1 - The Road to the Mine
52. The Abattoir - The Road to the Mine
53. To Marta, My Avenging Angel - The Road to the Mine
54. Outside Marta's Chapel - The Road to the Mine
55. A Game of Hangman - Inner Demon

1. The Jane Doe Story Part 1 - The Nightmare

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You get it automatically in the prologue.

2. The Jane Doe Story Part 2 - The Nightmare

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You get it automatically in the prologue.

3. The Wreckage - The Crash

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After the catastrophe go near the burning helicopter wreckage. Record it so you can add the video to your collection.

4. The Crucified Pilot - The Crash

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Near the wreckage you can find the pilot, killed in a fancy way.

5. The Impossible Town - The Crash

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When you go past the pilot's corpse you can very quickly notice a village in the distant. Turn on your camera and record the view so you can add it to your archives.

6. My Dear Sweet Ellie - The Crash

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The letter can be found in the first house on the right. Go around the wreck, slide down, go through the farmstead and soon you find a house that you can enter.

7. Dear Father - The Crash

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From the house, in which you found the first note, go further into the village. When you turn left someone will close the door in the house on the left. Shortly after that you are able to open them. Behind the door you can find a table with the letter.

8. Remembering The Lost - The Crash

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After examining the first few buildings, which takes place after the crash, you find a peculiar, closed gate. In this part you must, for the first time in the game, enter a building through a window because the gate is closed. Record the gate.

9. Midwife's Lament - The Crash

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Behind the commemorating gate you can find a strange building. When you enter it you immediately appear in its basement. Get inside the building and in front of the manger you can find the note.

10. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 8 - The Crash

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After you escape Marta for the first time you must relocate boxes in order to get at the attic. When you do it then you can find the note immediately.

11. Visions Come - The Crash

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Before you enter the compound, right after you are blinded by light, you pass by a group of cultists. Near the last one on the left you can find a note.

12. The Compound - The Compound

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After you are blinded by light you come across a few buildings. Record them.

13. New Gospels, Part 1 - The Compound

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The note can be found in the first room on the right after you enter the compound. You must do this before you unlock the door and go to the prison.

14. Val's Secret - The Compound

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The note is in a hole in the middle of the prison found in the compound. The hole is in front of the entrance to the cages. You must jump down the hole if you want to read the note.

15. New Gospels, Part 2 - The Compound

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This note can be found right after you enter the stairs that leads to the highest level in the prison. Before the entrance to the corridor with the window that you will use to jump out.

16. Suicide Note - St. Sybil High School

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When you start the stage that takes place in St. Sybil High School you must enter the adjacent classroom. There, you must record the blackboard and the music instruments.

17. Interrogation - The Fields

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When you wake up in Ethan's house you hear that Marta is also there. Shortly after that the woman kills Ethan. Wait until you are sure that it's safe and enter the upper level of the house. Record Ethan's body and the blood smudges.

18. Ethan's Letter - The Fields

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Before you leave Ethan's house you should go left and near the bed you can find a note that you must photograph.

19. Crucified Heretics - The Fields

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After you exit Ethan's house you must go down the riverbed. You come across a bridge that you must cross. Walk down the bridge and at the end of it, on the right, you find a campfire with crucified people. Record them.

20. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 5 - The Fields

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The note is inside the building opposite the crucified heretics. This is the only house on the left that you can find after you get off the bridge, before the cornfield entrance.

21. Marta - The Fields

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When you must walk between enclosure cornfields you will reach a closed gate. When you look past it you notice Marta dragging a body. Record her.

22. Letter from Husband - The Fields

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The letter is under the door of the first building on the left, after you get the access to the part of the location that is behind the gate near which you saw Marta. The note is under the door opposite to the gate.

23. Val's Journal Pt. 1 - The Fields

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The note is on the upper level of the barn. You must first evade the enemies, move the boxes and climb them. The note is on the left, on the table with a candle.

24. Temple Gate Anima Cristi - The Fields

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After you are thrown down from the barn's upper level you must go forward. Shortly after that, in the hole on the left, you find a figure. Next to the figure you can find a letter.

25. Dead Birds - Heretic Cave

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When you get closer to another compound you can hear a sound and see a light. Shortly after that birds will fall down. Record them.

26. Cavern Temple - Heretic Cave

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After you enter the cave you can see a peculiar figure of a monster with horns and wings. Record it.

27. New Temple Gate - Temple Gate Town Square

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After you leave the heretics' cave you can see a village on the right. Record it.

28. Val's Journal Pt. 3 - Temple Gate Town Square

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Enter the first building that you find after leaving the heretics' cave. In front of the red candle you can find the note.

29. Letter from Val to Knoth - Temple Gate Town Square

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On the highest level of Val's house, on the table with a figure of Mary.

30. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 6 - Temple Gate Town Square

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Go left to the elevator that is not working. In front of you there is the house, presented in the picture. Through its window you can see three enemies. You must go around the building and in the back of the house you can find the window that will lead you to the basement. Search through it and you will find the note.

31. Val's Journal Pt. 5 - Temple Gate Town Square

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After going deeper into the village you notice a praying elderly woman. Go around her from the right and, still keeping to the right, go forward. Go pass the house near which the woman stands and get closer to the second building on the right. On the left of the door you can find another window that leads to a basement. There, you must move a wardrobe and enter a secret passage.

32. Sundries From the Sinful World - Temple Gate Town Square

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The note can be found on the table near the power generator room. This is the same floor as the one where the workshop is.

33. Temple Gate - Temple Gate Town Square

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Escape Marta and enter the elevator. When you go up you will notice a plate, the same one as in the picture above.

34. Garden Note - Temple Gate Town Square

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On the left from the elevator's exit you can find another note. Stay close to the fence on the left and go along it.

35. Hanged Jessica - Jessica's Death

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When you exit the lit hallway you notice hanged Jessica in the distance. Record this view before you get closer to her.

36. The Show Room - The Chapel

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After escaping the cultists you find yourself in a room with a dead woman, presented above. Record her.

37. Accept My Suicide - The Chapel

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After walking on the cornice near the hole with corpses you notice a praying bench. Read the note that lies on it.

38. Gospel Duty - The Chapel

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Before you enter the Sunday school's ground floor, on the right you can find a small room. There is a shelf in front of the entrance, on said shelf you can find the note.

39. Why You Have to Die - The Chapel

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In the Sunday school's classroom you can find a text written on the blackboard. Record it.

40. Lesson Plan - The Chapel

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The note is at the attic of the Sunday school, on the desk. Approach it before you leave the building by jumping through the window

41. A Letter to Mom - The Chapel

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Before you move the cart so you can get over the village's gate you should look around the fence. The letter is inside of the pram.

42. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 10 - The Chapel

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After you leave the Sunday school's terrain you must pass by the elderly woman praying near a cross and then go right. The note can be found in the workshop lying down on the table, right from the entrance.

43. Temple Gate Act of Contrition - The Chapel

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After reading the previous note you should now go down the path between the buildings. On the left you can find another workshop. Go through it and reach the fence. Turn right and go along it. Soon, you should see a small platform with a note on top of it.

44. Val's Journal Pt. 4 - The Chapel

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Run from Marta by jumping over the gate. Go forward until you are between the buildings and you can see someone hanged in front of you. Enter the first house on the right. There, when you are in the hallway you should go to the room on the left, move the cabinet and find a note in the secret room.

45. The Chapel - The Chapel

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When you run from Marta by going through the gate, which can be done after you move the cart, you arrive near the chapel. Go to the hanged man in front of, the chapel will be on your left. Aim with your camera at the belfry and record it.

46. Rest These Bones - The Chapel

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When you notice the chapel in the distance and you are on your way there then, on the left, you can notice an opened gate. Pass by the statue and go deeper into the yard. There, you can find the note.

47. Letter from Nick to Knoth - The Chapel

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The note can be found near the chapel's entrance door, on a small table with a figure of Mary.

48. Torture - The Chapel

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Record the bodies of the married couple. Do it after Knoth and his people leave the chapel. You must do it right after you leave the confessional because you won't have much time to do that later.

49. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 2 - The Road to the Mine

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The note can be found in the same house in which the woman rocks to sleep a dead baby. The note is in the adjacent room.

50. Val's Journal Pt. 2 - The Road to the Mine

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After leaving the house with dead children you can see a campfire with an enemy. Next to him there is a building. Move in shadows and enter the building by using the broken window. The note is on the floor.

51. Knoth's Gospel Ch. 1 - The Road to the Mine

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Enter the building near the barn by going through the hole in the front wall. There is a table in front of you with a note on top of it.

52. The Abattoir - The Road to the Mine

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After running from Marta you must enter the building presented in the picture above and get a hook. When you get closer to the opened door you must record the view as quick as possible.

53. To Marta, My Avenging Angel - The Road to the Mine

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The note can be found in the room full of blood with bodies hanging on hooks. The same in which you find the hook that allows you to make progress. Jump through the window and go to the end, on the right you can find the letter.

54. Outside Marta's Chapel - The Road to the Mine

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After running from Marta, you arrive at her sanctuary which takes place before you finish the stage. You can see a praying bench with a note standing in front of it.