The History of the Valhalla Nursing Home is one of the Collectables found in Alan Wake 2. It is one of the pages of the Return manuscript.
Transcript[]
The Valhalla Nursing Home. Founded in 2014 for Odin and Tor Anderson of the Old Gods of Asgard fame. For their twilight years. Built after the Return comeback tour. Flip-flopped to be their farewell tour. Cut short. Cancelled. As their agent, Barry Wheeler had managed to coax a few hit songs out of them before that. Balance Slays the Demon, a couple of others.
The old men rocked like their namesakes. The backstage parties got out of hand. The air was thick with smoke. Wheeler squinted. His migraine flared. Booze and drugs. A rock n’ roll cliché. They ran off after every gig. Wheeler had security track them down to the craziest afterparties.
Depiction[]
The page depicts the history of the Valhalla Nursing Home, including the time Barry Wheeler was managing the Old Gods of Asgard.
Trivia[]
- Location: Bright Falls (Bunker Woods)
- The path to the Valhalla Nursing Home crosses through the Bunker Woods. Continuing west, taking a bridge across a stream, is a Break Room. The page is inside, on a table.
- This entire Manuscript is near-identical to the first half of the "Valhalla Nursing Home" Hotline call in the AWE expansion of Control, which is also narrated by Alan Wake and which first introduced the Valhalla Nursing Home to the Remedy universe. Two other Manuscripts in Alan Wake 2, Barry's Struggles With Artists and Building The Valhalla Nursing Home, also have this connection.
- For this Manuscript, the relevant passage is:
The Valhalla Nursing Home. Founded in 2014 for Odin and Tor Anderson of the Old Gods of Asgard fame. For their twilight years. Built after the Return comeback tour. Flip-flopped to be their farewell tour. Cut short. Cancelled. To the chagrin of their agent Barry Wheeler. Wheeler had managed to coax a couple of hit songs out of them before that. Balance Slays the Demon. A couple of others. Three massive stadium-sized gigs. The old men rocked like they were possessed by the devil. Like their namesakes. The backstage parties got out of hand. The air was thick with smoke. Wheeler squinted. His migraine flared. Booze and drugs. A rock ‘n’ roll cliché. They ran off after every gig. Wheeler had security track them down to the craziest afterparties. 
- ― Valhalla Nursing Home (AWE)
