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Sanitarium Hints

The only thing I can see are scratch marks! How can I read this scribbling?

  • 1 of 8: Did you try opening any of the other drawers in the morgue?
  • 2 of 8: Open drawer 5 and talk to the old man.
  • 3 of 8: Open drawer number 7 and look inside it.
  • 4 of 8: It is dark inside the drawer.  Use the matches (from the office desk) to see a little better.
  • 5 of 8: A special lens would help.
  • 6 of 8: When you picked up the ashes, did you find something else?
  • 7 of 8: Use the glass eye on drawer 7 and then go to the grave again.
  • 8 of 8: While looking at the writing, right click.  Choose the glass eye and pass it over the message.