Mount Massive Asylum

Mount Massive Asylum for the Criminally Insane is the setting ofOutlast and Outlast: Whistleblower. It is located in the remote mountains of Lake County, Colorado, USA.

 1945 - The O.S.S. initiates Operation Paperclip, recruiting scientists fromNazi Germany to conduct research for the USA.

1967 - Mount Massive Asylum for the Criminally Insane is established. Three scientists are murdered by an unknown patient. Authorities order the asylum to cease all activities.

1971 - Mount Massive Asylum is finally closed.

1972 - CIA Director Richard Helms orders all MKUltra files to be destroyed. A small number of documents survive, scattered throughout the asylum.

2009 - The clinic was re-opened by the Murkoff Corporation, which for the next several years conducts illegal experiments on patients with the sole purpose being profit.

Trivia

 * Mount Massive is based off a real mountain of the same name, located in the Sawatch Range of the U.S. state of Colorado.
 * Mount Massive Asylum is modeled after H. H. Richardson Complex, which is also a mental asylum located inBuffalo, New York.