Man of Medan Secrets Guide – All Documents, Where to Find

In this Man of Medan Secrets Guide, we will guide you on the locations of all the secrets that you can find in Man of Medan. Man of Medan is the first game in The Dark Pictures Anthology and it puts you right in the middle of the game. Your choices heavily dictate the progression of the story and also decides who stays alive and who is killed in the game. Along with all this decision making, running, and surviving, you can also find a large number of secrets for your collection.

These secrets are essentially documents in the game and you can find them spread around in each chapter. Some of these documents are highly missable in your playthrough however with the easy Scene Selector Tool, you can easily go back and visit each scene again to collect any of those that you might have missed in your complete playthrough. However, for this, you must have completed at least one playthrough no matter what the ending.

Secrets Guide – Man of Medan

Our Man of Medan Secrets Guide will detail the locations of all the secrets in the game so that you can find them easily. There are a total of 50 secrets for you find in Man of Medan. They are spread in all chapters in the game. We have detailed them below in the sequence in which they appear as you play the game.

Secrets are essentially documents lying around in each chapter. If a chapter is not mentioned in a secret’s details, it means it is found in the chapter of the previous chapter. I’ve only mentioned chapters in the first collectible of that specific chapter.

Secret #1 – Flight Plans

You will be able to obtain this secret in the chapter Uninvited Guests. While playing as Julia, you will be required to investigate a long tube. To grab this secret, you must first select the right dialogue option and then pass a QTE. When prompted choose ‘Live a little’ and then Julia will swim into the tube. Inside, press the QTE at the right time and you will be able to grab the piece of paper inside the tube. The secret is hiding on the backside of this paper.

Secret # 2 – Anti-Aircraft Shell

In the same chapter, progress in the story until you find a large shell stuck in a wall on the right side of the underwater wreckage.

Secret # 3 – Missing Lifeboat

Now go a little ahead and you will find that a lifeboat is missing on the left side in the same corridor.

Secret # 4 – Guard Duty Note

You will find this in the chapter ‘Abandoned Ship’. While playing as Conrad or Fliss, after you arrive on the ship, follow the pirates until Danny takes something out from a locker. In this corridor, you can pick up a letter from some barrels on the left side.

Secret # 5 – Newspaper

You will find this secret in the chapter ‘Trapped’. Depending on your story, you will be playing as Conrad or Fliss for this part. The pirates will lock you into a room eventually however in here, check the table in the middle of the room to find a newspaper clipping.

Secret # 6 – Private Miller’s Letter

Now check the desk where Julia is sitting and you will find yet another secret.

Secret # 7 – Guard Duty Roster

After you have managed to escape from the locked room, check the room on the left side and you will find another secret. You will be playing as Alex or Conrad for this section.

Secret # 8 – Private Reed’s Letter

When you reach the end of the corridor after picking up the last secret, you will find Julia. Here, enter the restroom and you will find a document sitting at the floor of the last toilet.

Secret # 9 – Engineer’s Logbook

Go back to Julia and enter the door to reach the bridge. Keep going until you reach Alex/Conrad at the end. At their standing location, check for a wooden box which has a book on it. Pick it up and interact with it to unlock the secret.

Secret # 10 – Journal

Go ahead of the bridge and in the next room, check the left side for another book.

Secret # 11 – Catering Staff Schedule

This can be found in the chapter ‘Caskets’. You will be playing as Alex in this section. When you reach the kitchen, check the bottom left of the room and you will find a secret here.

Secret # 12 – Diary

Move forward from the kitchen and you will arrive in the next room. Once inside, you will see a book sitting on a table. Pick it up.

Secret # 13 – Casket Nameplate

When you arrive in the room with all the gravestones, the first grave on the right side will give you this secret.

Secret # 14 – Open Casket

Now go check out the casket on the left which will be open. Pick up the secret document.

Secret # 15 – Locked Casket

Now move to the second casket on the left to get another secret unlocked.

Secret # 16 – Small Casket

Now check the second casket on the right side. It will unlock yet another secret.

Secret # 17 – Terrified Corpse

Keep playing the chapter as Alex and you will arrive in the Med Bay. Here you will see a dead body and Alex will be terrified. After you are done talking with Julia, move forward until you come to two doors. Use the door straight ahead of you and you will arrive in the Operation Theatre. Check the dead body at the corner of the room and you will find a secret.

Secret # 18 – Electrocardiogram Results

Now check the other side of the same corpse and you will find a gas mask. Pick up the reports on it and you will unlock another secret.

Secret # 19 – Medan Hat

You will find this secret in the chapter ‘Medan Hat’ while playing as Fliss. While Danny is escorting you, keep following Danny until a cutscene appears. Once you are back in control, pick up the Medan Hat which Danny pushed off earlier.

Secret # 20 – Screaming Corpse

When you arrive in the next room with Danny, you will see a dead body. Danny will mention that the ghost of this specific dead body is still present on the ship. Inspect this body and you will unlock another secret.

Secret # 21 – Dog Tag

When playing as Fliss, you will arrive in the cargo hold where a large of vehicles are present. Here, check the main hall and you will find a dead body here. Inspect the body to find the dog tag which is a secret.

Secret # 22 – Hastily Written Message

You will find this collectible in the chapter ‘Finding Friends’. While playing as Brad, you will be tasked to find the others. Open the door and go up. Cross the corridor up ahead and you will arrive in a room on the right side. Check the table inside this room for a note. Pick it up to unlock another secret.

Secret # 23 – Infantry Badge

Go back outside and this time enter the room in the middle of the corridor on the right side. Watch the cutscene and check the dead body on the left side to pick up the Infantry Badge secret.

Secret # 24 – Locks Memo

Still playing as Brad, you will eventually arrive in a room which has dead bodies inside lockers. Push the box to the wall but do not climb aboard just yet. Go to the door here and enter the room through it to find a note sitting on a table.

Secret # 25 – Radio Operator’s Memo

After climbing through the wall and going ahead, you will eventually reach the upper floor. Go to the left corner of the cargo hold and you will find two dead bodies here. Check the body inside the box to unlock another secret.

Secret # 26 – Chemical Leak

You will find this secret in the chapter Ritual. You will be playing as Fliss for this section. Go to the image frame and pull the lever to open the stage. Go behind the stage and you will find a door. Enter to trigger a cutscene and then go back inside. You will notice that the casket is now a box. Open it and you will unlock the secret.

Secret # 27 – Broken Wires

In the same area, now go back to the ballroom which is now a simple old, storage room, check the wiring on the water and you will unlock another secret.

Secret # 28 – Cargo Ship Manual

In the same area, check the barrel across the wires to find the last collectible in this area.

Secret # 29 – Ghost Rumors Report

You will find it in the chapter ‘Pressure’. You will be playing the game as Fliss and will soon meet with Brad. When you are back in control, check the dead body in the room to unlock a secret before you climb up.

Secret # 30 – Water Purification Plant Map

You will find this collectible in the chapter ‘Glamor Girl’. While playing as Conrad, check the room on the right side right at the beginning to find a secret.

Secret # 31 – Main Overboard Search Orders

Now go back to the corridor and check the room on the right side to find this secret.

Secret # 32 – Cargo Bill of Landing

This collectible can only be found while playing the game in co-op mode in the same chapter. The player who controls Fliss can collect this secret from the table on the left in the starting area after Conrad runs away.

Secret # 33 – Violent Incident Report

This collectible can only be found while playing the game in co-op mode in the same chapter. The player controlling Fliss can find this secret in the second room on the right side. The secret document is sitting on a table.

Secret # 34 – Manchurian Gold Test Results

This collectible can only be found while playing the game in co-op mode in the same chapter. The player controlling Fliss can find this secret. In the last room, you will find a locked safe. The key to this safe is sitting near the safe on a table. Use the key to open the safe and you should be good to go with the secret unlock.

Secret # 35 – Anti-Aircraft Shell Casing

You will find this secret in the chapter ‘Distress Signal. While playing as Alex, when you arrive on the upper deck of the ship, look on the left side where you will find the shell sitting on a wooden crate.

Secret # 36 – Gas Mask Instructions

Now go further up and turn right. Go ahead and in the corner you will notice a large crate. Open it to find a body inside it along with a gas mask. Pick up the paper next to the gas mask to unlock another secret.

Secret # 37 – Ship’s Logbook

Now go ahead and climb over the ledge to find the Ship’s radio. After going up some stairs, enter the captain’s cabin and look in the first room to find the ship’s log sitting on the table.

Secret # 38 – Nautical Chart

Now enter the next room where you will find the big map on the wall. Inspect it and the secret will unlock.

Secret # 39 – Navigator’s Notebook

Before leaving the map room, check the table to find the Navigator’s Notebook.

Secret # 40 – Radio Operator’s Final Message

Enter the radio room but do not go too close to the radio. Check the room for the dead body and inspect it to unlock a secret.

Secret # 41 – Minutes of Meeting

You will find this secret in the chapter ‘Depths’. Once you have located the radio, jump down and arrive on the Lower Deck. When you see ‘Sick Bay’ sign on the wall, enter the door on the left-right after the sign to find a safe. The secret is sitting inside this safe.

Secret # 42 – Private Patterson’s Medical Record

Now keep going ahead in the corridor and you will arrive at the first sickbay. Go inside and pick up the note from the table.

Secret # 43 – Engine Room Telegraph Log

When you arrive inside the engine room, look behind the engine and you will find a book. Pick it up and it will unlock a secret.

Secret # 44 – Military Orders

After the cutscene where Olson stabs Danny, hold still for the pulse QTE. After Olson comes out, go in and quickly grab the document sitting in the right corner before the cutscene kicks in.

Secret # 45 – Casket Shortage Memo

You will find this memo in the chapter ‘Olson’. While jumping down the hole, you will arrive in a room full of beds. Check the right side at the end of this room to find a secret.

Secret # 46 – Top Secret Intelligence Note

You will be able to find this collectible in the chapter ‘Matters of the Heart’. While you are playing as Alex, complete the jump QTE and you will see a cutscene where. After walking away from the dead body, you will arrive in the kitchen. Check the left side on the floor to find a secret.

Secret # 47 – Diplomatic Immunity Contract

This secret can only be found in shared story mode in the same chapter as the previous one. The player controlling Fliss can pick up this secret in the starting area. After gaining control of Fliss, arrive on the deck of the ship and make your way to the next room where you will find this secret.

Secret # 48

You will find this collectible in the same room as the previous one in the same conditions.

Secret # 49

You will find this collectible in the same room as the previous one in the same conditions.

Secret # 50

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These are all the secrets that you can find in Man of Medan. Make sure that you check out more Man of Medan guides below.

• Pictures Guide
• All Endings Guide
• Good Ending Guide
• Bad Ending Guide
• Traits Guide
• Junior Guide
• Endgame Guide
• Lovebirds Trophy/Achievement

This concludes our Man of Medan Secrets Guide. If you want to add anything to this guide, feel free to use the comments section below.