The Genesis of Mr. Scratch is one of the Collectibles found in Alan Wake's American Nightmare. It is one of the pages of the Return manuscript.
Manuscript text[]
I've seen the enemy, and it's me. I've faced dark horrors before, things that live in the unimaginable pressures of the world beyond our own. Sometimes they masquerade as humans.
That's what ultimately lurks inside Mr. Scratch. He's every mean-spirited tabloid story about me, an evil caricature, a creature formed in that vague territory of misconceptions, half-truths and the dark imagination of people who "heard a story about me". An urban legend made flesh. A serial killer.
My dark half, brought to life by the power of Cauldron Lake.
Location[]
This page can be found on the ground outside the main storage building.