Life in Hell-A Journals - Dead Island 2 Guide - IGN (2025)

L.A. is out, and Hell-A is in. Have you ever wondered what the rest of the Los Angeles has been up to while you have been slaying zombies? Life in Hell-A Journals are a collectible you can discover in Dead Island 2 which reveal tidbits of the stories of other survivors.

On this page of IGN's Dead Island 2 wiki guide, you can find a complete list of the Life in Hell-A Journals and where to find them in Dead Island 2.

• Surving and Thriving
• New Normal
• Urban Blight

All Surviving and Thriving Journals Locations

Below you can find a list of all the Journals belonging to the "Surviving and Thriving" collection:

Death Spiral

Location: The phone on the counter of the main reception inside the Halperin Hotel.

District: Halperin Hotel

Guided Mindlessness

Location: On the bedside table in the bedroom on the second floor of the blue roofed house across from the red house

District: Beverly Hills

Everything Must Go!

Location: Inside the Serling Hotel, inside the Epaules et Pieds store on the ground floor. Sitting on a shelf to the left as you walk in.

District: Ocean Avenue

Trash Poetry

Location: In the boarded up room inside the garbage area of the basement of the Serling Hotel.

District: Ocean Avenue

Family Ties

Location: Found inside the Hot Dog Shack before the pier, after completing the Message in a Bottle Side Quest

District: Santa Monica

So Dumb

Location: Inside the apartment block where you search for Tisha off Venture Walk

District: Ocean Avenue

Gratitude Journal

Location: Inside the staff room outside the Lotusville Mall, on the west side near Access Rd 1384

District: Ocean Avenue

Prize Fighter

Location: On a bench near the Venice Beach Zone Exit, on the northeast side of Ocean Avenue

District: Ocean Avenue

Zombie Outbreak Society Rules

Location: Found on a mattress in a secret storeroom underneath the Pier. Look for a slightly ajar door near the northmost stairs along the Pier. Make your way through the maze of shelves inside to find the journal on the other side.

District: Santa Monica

All The New Normal Journals Locations

Below you can find a list of all the Journals belonging to the "The New Normal" collection:

I'll Be Waiting

Location: On the elevator button on the second floor of Halprin Hotel

District: Halperin Hotel

End-of-the-World Bucket List

Location: On a dress in the room with the beach floatie on Floor 3, just down the hall before Room 307

District: Halperin Hotel

Diary Entry: Thursday

Location: On the body of a sewage worker just inside the Automated Hydrostatics Monitoring room after opening the sluice gate.

District: Brentwood Sewers

To My Followers

Location: On the right-hand side gaming desk in Brock's bedroom inside the GOAT Pen in Bel-Air.

District: Bel-Air

Reed's Doubters

Location: Across from the bed you wake up in inside the Serling Hotel after speaking with Dr. Reed

District: Ocean Avenue

Chore ROTA

Location: On a table inside the bar area of the Serling Hotel, sitting just before the grand paino.

District: Ocean Avenue

The Case of Lacey Dubois

Location: Found in one of the flooded rooms in the east section of the Metro, after placing the circuit breaker to restore power to the door

District: Metro

Out of Time

Location: On the merry-go-round of the playground near the police station on the beach

District: Venice Beach

People-Watching

Location: On the roof of the Muscle Beach Juice bar, overlooking the gym. Use the pallets in the alleyway behind the restaurant to climb up onto the roofs

District: Venice Beach

Feeding Frenzy

Location: Beside a corpse on a shipping container in the shallows of the northwest shoreline, behind the Tower. Climb the crates on the right side of the container to reach it.

District: Venice Beach

Triage: S. Foster & J. Yoon

Location: On the table at the back of Room 03, Serling Hotel.

District: Ocean Avenue

Falling on Death Ears

Location: Talk to the sKOpe in the OSK retail store server room.

District: Ocean Avenue

All Urban Blight Journals Locations

Below you can find a list of all the Journals belonging to the "Urban Blight" collection:

Workplace Incident Report

Location: On the catwalks above the Main Septic Tank, discovered in the The Heart of Darkness Story Quest. You can find it in a dead end in the northwest corner, near some dissolved corpses.

District: Halperin Hotel

Do Not Enter

Location: A sticky note to the right of the Fuse door in the basement beneath the Serling Hotel

District: Ocean Avenue

In the Pipes

Location: In a dark corner of the Operations room on the lowest level of the Water Filtration Site, where you first find Phil during the Justifiable Zombicide Story Quest

District: Beverly Hills

Engineers on Edge

Location: On the ground near the rubble blocking the road to the northeast, near Farouk the Producer's mansion

District: Beverly Hills