Manuscript Pages
Manuscript Pages are a type of collectible in Alan Wake 2. You’ll find these mysterious sheets of paper while playing as Saga Anderson.
There are 50 Manuscript Pages that you can find in select chapters of Alan Wake 2. Some are obligatory and hard to miss, while others are a little bit more hidden. In this IGN guide, you’ll learn the locations for all of them with a handy checklist to keep track of the ones you've collected.
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The in-game menu Manuscript Page counts break down as follows:
Return 1: The Invitation - 4 Pages | Return 2: The Heart - 11 Pages | Return 3: Local Girl - 14 Pages |
Return 4: No Chance - No Pages | Return 5: Old Gods - 14 Pages | Return 6: Scratch - 2 Pages |
Return 7: Summoning - 4 Pages | Return 8: Deerfest - No Pages | Return 9: Come Home - 1 Page |
Manuscript Pages in Invitation (Return 1)
There are only two Manuscript Pages that you can get in the first chapter, and they are part of the story. You can’t miss them.
Manuscript Page - The Message
- Location: Cauldron Lake
When walking with Casey to explore the big tree in Witch’s Ladle, you’ll find clues and enter a cutscene. Once the cutscene ends, Saga will have the first page.
Manuscript Page - Saga Fights Nightingale With Light
- Location: Bright Falls
When you’re in the morgue, a cutscene will play and Saga will start examining the body of Nightingale. She will take out the page from his chest.
Manuscript Pages in The Heart (Return 2)
There are multiple Manuscript Pages to find in the Saga’s second chapter. Now you’ll find missable pages, although you can get them in later chapters.
Manuscript Page - Saga Pursues Nightingale
- Location: Bright Falls
After the encounter with Nightingale, you’ll start the new chapter still in the morgue. Check the floor on your left and you’ll see the next page lying on the floor.
Manuscript Page - Saga Finds A Safe Haven
- Location: Cauldron Lake
You’ll find this one when you return to the big tree. It’s part of the story; it can’t be missed.
Manuscript Page - Saga Opens The Cauldron Lake Overlap
- Location: Cauldron Lake
You have to go to the Witch’s Hut and restore its power. You do it by activating using a fuse and adding it to the electric board. The fuse is on the west side of this small area, in a basket.
When you restore the power, enter the Witch’s Hut and check out the left bookcase.
Manuscript Page - Saga at the General Store
- Location: Cauldron Lake
For the story, you’ll have to enter the General Store at night. Here you’ll face your first Taken, which will destroy a wall in the store.
After you deal with it, go to the new room where the enemy came from. The page will be on the floor near a medbox.
Manuscript Page - Nightingale Enters the Lake
- Location: Cauldron Lake Overlap
After entering the overlap, follow the path straight forward one time. By the end, you’ll end where you started, because you’re inside a loop.
On the second time, illuminate a big rock on your right, past the house. The page is there.
Manuscript Page - Nightingale in the Dark Place
- Location: Cauldron Lake Overlap
You can find this one near a tree while searching for Nightingale.
However, if you miss it, you can also pick it up after the boss fight. When going through the main path and being close to the big tree of the threshold, look to the left.
Manuscript Page - The Overlap
- Location: Cauldron Lake
After finding Alan Wake on the shore of Cauldron Lake and leaving Casey with him, you'll find a manuscript page not far from the beach. Taking the only path currently available leading away from the shore, you'll cross under two large fallen trees and round a rocky bend. In that bend of rocks and shrubs is the lone manuscript.
Manuscript Page - Saga Burns Away the Dark Substance
- Location: Cauldron Lake
From the Safe Haven where you face a wolf for the first time, continue the Witchfinder’s Station path on the left.
Here you’ll see a table with some elements on it, near a tent. The page is on the table.
Manuscript Page - The Cult of the Tree
- Location: Cauldron Lake
When going to the northwest of Cauldron Lake, you’ll find a small building that’s marked as Private Cabin on the map. Turn on the power of the cabin by using the generator nearby and you’ll turn it into a Break Room.
Enter the cabin and look to the floor on the left.
Manuscript Page - The Murder Sites
- Location: Cauldron Lake
After exploring the Witchfinder’s Station, get outside and check out the table on the right side of the cabin.
Manuscript Pages in Local Girl (Return 3)
Yes, Saga’s third chapter is packed with Manuscript Pages to keep learning more about this universe and story.
Manuscript Page - The Trailer
- Location: Bright Falls
After profiling Alan, Saga will ask him about hiding pages. Alan will give you one.
Manuscript Page - Ed Returns to Cauldron Lake
- Location: Bright Falls
Before leaving the lodge, go to the hallway with the rooms, on the right of the reception.
Go to the room on the right, the one with the door already opened and the woman knocking on the opposite room. It’s on the floor next to the bed.
Manuscript Page - Tammy Rides the Ferry
- Location: Bright Falls
It’s on the night table on the left, very close to the previous page.
Manuscript Page - Saga In The Watery Woods
- Location: Watery
It’s in the cabin that you’ll find by following the path that the Koskela brothers told you to. The page is on a table.
Manuscript Page - Watery
- Location: Watery
From the cabin, go west, where a wolf will spawn. Go to the right and find a path by crawling under a trunk. Here you’ll find a Cult Stash.
Solve it, turn around, and the page will be on the floor.
Manuscript Page - Scratch On The Hunt
- Location: Watery
When going to the Coffee World park, you’ll find a small cabin south of the Ranger Cabin and north of the Gift Shop. Enter this Break Room and find the document on a table.
Manuscript Page - Coffee World Attacked
- Location: Watery
This one is inside the Gift Shop, you’ll have to enter here to solve some puzzles. Check out a table on the left, right as you enter.
Manuscript Page - Saga Fights Taken at the Workshop
- Location: Watery
After failing to get the Clicker in the secret place under the Kalevala Knights Workshop, turn back and you’ll see the page on the floor.
Manuscript Page - Deputies Make a Grave Mistake
- Location: Watery
Behind the big smiling cup from where the mini-boss will attack you. It’s on a table near some paint buckets.
Manuscript Page - The Koskela’s Parade Float
- Location: Watery
When you exit the workshop, look at the parade on the left. The page will be right there.
Manuscript Page - Deputies Corrupted
- Location: Watery
After exiting the deck of the Expresso Express, when you take out the electronic panel. The page will be right in front of you.
Manuscript Page - Deputies in the Morgue
- Location: Watery Overlap (First Loop)
In the Watery Overlap in the Return 3: Local Girl chapter, you’ll have to continue on a linear path and descend through a well a couple of times. While there isn't much to discover on this loop, there are two manuscript pages hhere.
The first one can be found right off the bat on the first pass -- enter the cabin and you can find the "Deputies in the Morgue" story page on the table on the right.
Manuscript Page - Mocha's Funeral
- Location: Watery Overlap (Second Loop)
In Return 3: Local Girl, after you enter the Overlap and head down the Huotari Well, you complete one loop and pick up the Manuscript Page detailed above and enter the well a second time.
Not much as changed on this second loop in the Overlap -- except that there is now an additional Manuscript Page that can be found behind the cabin with the indoor sauna. Head back to the cabin and go to the back to find a picnic table at the waterfront.
The page is found on the large picnic table outside -- the one with the lamp on the bench attached to it.
Retrieve the page to hear the rest of the story about Mocha the Moose -- and the origin of the moose skull "mask" you placed on the float.
Manuscript Page - The Dark Presence Attacks
- Location: Watery
In the small town of Watery, go to the dock that’s on the south of the Sauna.
Manuscript Pages in Old Gods (Return 5)
Saga’s visit to the Nursing Valhalla Home comes with multiple Manuscript Pages for you to find.
Manuscript Page - The History of the Valhalla Nursing Home
- Location: Bright Falls
While going to the Nursing Valhalla Home, you’ll find a Break Room in the west of Bunker Woods. The page is on a table.
Manuscript Page - Saga at the Nursing Home
- Location:' Bright Falls
After reaching the Nursing Home Manor up from the woods, you can look around the front walkway outside the manor to pick up a the page on the path leading up to the front door.
Manuscript Page - Tor is Bewitched
- Location: Bright Falls
While exploring the Wellness Center, you’ll be able to enter the Patient Room. The manuscript is on a desk.
Manuscript Page - The Cult Storms the Lodge
- Location: Bright Falls
Once you find the door knob in the reception, you can open the door to the Workshop. Here you’ll find the Hunting Rifle, but also a new page on a working table.
Manuscript Page - Gail Taken
- Location: Bright Falls
In the Wellness Center, after you've logged into the Security Office computer to unlock the doors, you can head down the hall back towards Rehabilitation, and find that it has also unlocked a door to Examination Room 1 opposite the door to Rehabilitation. The room is a mess, but you can gain some essential clues about the occupant by picking up a Manuscript Page off the floor, and reading the Doctor’s Note on a clipboard nearby.
Manuscript Page - Odin Loses an Eye
- Location: Bright Falls
After you see Tor disappear in the overlap, go to the sheltered building nearby. It’s on the floor.
Manuscript Page - Saga Opens the Valhalla Nursing Home Overlap
- Location: Bright Falls
It’s part of the story, you can’t miss this one. When speaking with Rose outside, you’ll have the chance to profile her. When Saga says, “Wake has returned,” Rose will give her her key and a Manuscript Page.
Manuscript Page - Barry’s Struggles With Artists
- Location: Bright Falls
This one is located in the Basement. When you get to the Boiler Room, check out the floor near a black machine.
Manuscript Page - Emmett Taken
- Location: Bright Falls
In the Basement, between the Workplace and the Boiler Room is a small room that lets you crouch to another area. Before doing that, pick up the page on the red vault.
Manuscript Page - Cynthia Corrupted
- Location: Bright Falls
The last one you’ll find in the Basement. When you get to the Laundry Room, you’ll see the manuscript on a table, right next to the door that connects the place.
Manuscript Page - Odin Stuck In Bed
- Location: Bright Falls
It’s time to get back to the nursing house. When using the stairs, before reaching the first floor, a new Manuscript Page will appear.
Manuscript Page - Building The Valhalla Nursing Home
- Location: Bright Falls
With Rose’s access card, check out Gail’s room on the third floor. You’ll notice the page right away, on the floor near a table.
Manuscript Page - Cynthia and Tom
- Location: Bright Falls
Now check out Cynthia’s Room, which you need to inspect anyway to make progress in the story. The collectible is on the bathroom floor.
Manuscript Page - Cynthia's Lamp
- Location: Bright Falls
Once you've completed the Overlap in the Valhalla Nursing Home and returned things to normal, you'll find a new Manuscript on the small yellow bridge over the pond.
Manuscript Page - Rose at Bingo Night
- Location: Bright Falls
After finishing the chapter, you’re free to explore and exit the nursing house. Following the map, go to the west border. The page will be near a radio and a picnic table.
Manuscript Page - Bright Falls
- Location: Bright Falls
Check out the south of this new forest area. You’ll find a cabin with a Break Room there. The page is on the floor.
Manuscript Page - Koskelas Break into the FBC Lab
- Location: Bright Falls
Exit the cabin and walk east, to a small beach. The manuscript is on the sand.
Manuscript Page - Rose Receives a Message
- Location: Bright Falls
This one is southwest of Billie’s Boat Yard, near a lunchbox.
Manuscript Page - Ilmo Resists the Dark Presence
- Location: Watery
For this and the following pages, you need to grab all the Cult Stashes first. After opening the last locked box, you’ll receive a key to the Lighthouse in Watery.
As soon as you enter the building, you’ll notice this Manuscript Page on the floor.
Manuscript Page - The Cult of the Tree is Born
- Location: Watery
This other page is in the same location as the previous one but on a table on your right.
Manuscript Pages in Scratch (Return 6)
For this chapter, you’ll return to the Sheriff Station in Bright Falls. A couple of Manuscript Pages will be waiting.
Manuscript Page - Sheriff’s Station Attacked
- Location: Bright Falls
After going to the basement of the station and restoring the power, you’ll be able to go through the cells room. The page is in the first cell on the right.
Manuscript Page - Cauldron Lake
- Location: Cauldron Lake
At this point, you’ll have already acquired the Boltcutters, which is needed to enter the Rental Cabins area in Cauldron Lake.
Go there and enter the cabin on the right. The page is on some furniture between a suitcase and books.
Manuscript Page - The Cult Finds the Clicker
- Location: Bright Falls
After finishing the chapter, go to where your car is parked, in front of the lodge. The page will be lying on the street, to the right of the vehicle.
Manuscript Pages in Come Home (Return 9)
You’ll get one last Manuscript Page in the final chapter of the game. This is part of the story and it can’t be missed.
Manuscript Page - Door Traverses The Dark Place
- Location: The Dark Place
When you enter The Dark Place with Saga and use the payphone, you need to look for Sheriff Breaker. Tim will be humming, as always, on a bench, on the north border of the central plaza.
Speak with him for a moment and he will give you the last Manuscript Page.
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