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Twin trees symbol on ground at panoramic map view location

7 Comments
2024/10/26
17:15 UTC

7

Did we ever figure out the three ancient arrowheads in the code?

Did we ever figure out the p_ancientarrowhead01x, p_ancientarrowhead02x, and p_ancientarrowhead03x? Are there other arrowheads and that is why the Dreamcatcher quest never goes away? Sorry if this has been answered and since I have nothing new to contribute here, but didn't see anything active on it.

1 Comment
2024/10/21
18:58 UTC

63

Is this just my imagination

I went to the strange mans cabin and shot the few glass bottles that were hanging from the roof. Then i went to the whiskey tree and shot bottles there. Now next to Arthurs bed there are tin cans and broken glass bottles.

19 Comments
2024/10/21
18:12 UTC

19

Mount Shann mystery

So I know mount shann still remains a mystery but recently I was looking into the 4 alien rock paintings with the moon phases, and I read the news paper article which said they have been found around big valley, it doesn’t specify how many though… and considering the moon has loads of phases maybe there’s more rock paintings to be discovered, currently searching for more possible paintings. Has anyone else found any more than the 4 already found??

7 Comments
2024/10/10
13:21 UTC

40

Anyone know why Dutch (or others) appear on the screen? Also female voice is heard at the same time.. spooky as hell

20 Comments
2024/10/02
01:30 UTC

10

House ruins in lagras

I recently discovered that many of the trees are part of what looks Like the ruins of an overgrown city does anyone know some background ? The ruins are just a few hundred meters away from Saint Dennis.

8 Comments
2024/10/01
13:28 UTC

75

Quick theory about burial sites

So a lot of you know that damaging the native burial grounds can can cause an endless storm if you follow the right steps.

Well the 5 faces on the trees are a point of interest nearby and personally I think one of the faces represents natives and another represent Nordic people(I'm not gonna pretend to know what all of them are).

So has anybody ever tried starting the endless storm and visiting other buriel grounds like the Viking tomb specifically?

Also another tree face looks like bigfoot and there's a skeleton big enough to fit the bill

24 Comments
2024/09/27
05:11 UTC

46

Anyone seen this and checked it out?

I've seen this several times now, whenever I've been high up somewhere in Ambarino at night...

Looking down towards and past Saint Denis, I see two lights that are always in the same spot relative to Saint Denis, regardless of what angle I'm looking from. They seem well out of the map to me, as you can see they are well beyond the other side of the Lannahechee River.

I've never been one for glitching out of the map, but this tempts me. Can anyone else confirm they've seen this and maybe someone has tried to glitch out and go take a look?

https://youtu.be/zJ36FTsKlTc?si=DoXJocDUcMtqV9ri

8 Comments
2024/09/24
22:30 UTC

205

random glowing green light???

was "roleplaying" (dont judge me for bringin life to the game) getting lost in the snowy mountains on horseback and surviving on hunting and stuff, when the weather got really bad like a blizzard. and i happend to come across lake isabella that quickly caught my eyes with this green light? anyone else seen this?

https://preview.redd.it/pmbap74jdopd1.jpg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19f54e35f063067ced432e12547407f072d4b8be

37 Comments
2024/09/19
02:15 UTC

35

Unified Tribe Theory

Throughout the map of Red Dead Redemption there are a multitude of tribes, societies, sects, cults and gangs that could all be linked to each other by their origins.

“The Night Folk”, a criminal gang coming from inside the Lagras swamp, which is associated with voodoo by the 4 symbols painted on the trees, is also associated with the pagan ritual to the west of the map, as the symbol on the ground in the ritual is one of the symbols of the swamp.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg, in the pagan ritual we find the severed head of a goat, which is connected to the village of Butcher Creek, all the inhabitants suffer from deformities and mange, the official explanation is that it is because they drink contaminated water from the Elysian Pool mine, but what if there was another parallel theory that also fits?

In a house on the outskirts of town a glowing satanic pentagram appears under the ruins of the floor at night, perhaps intended to curse someone through the bed, but what if this curse had spread to all the inhabitants?

The town of Butcher Creek reinforces this theory as there is a large population of goats, an animal associated with Satanism, which even behave in strange ways.

But the subject goes even further, the pagan ritual is located west of Lake Owanjila, an area with many mysteries and secrets, another of these secrets is an Indian site, in which there is a human skull nailed to a stick, along with some rocks and tents made of skin.

There are mainly two Indian streams on the map: The “Wapiti tribe”, an Indian reservation to the north, and the “Skinner brothers”, a criminal gang similar to the “Night Folk”, the latter are known for sacrificing people in brutal ways, mutilating and even placing animal skulls on the corpses, just like in the pagan ritual, which is located just a little north of the Skinner area, in Tall Trees.

And finally mention the witch of Red Dead Redemption, who in the region of Ambarino has a small shelter made of logs, with human skulls, animals, potions, candles and a bubbling cauldron.

What this theory tells is that all these gangs and entities could have been united in one in the past, but due to the different perception of each one they ended up separating and settling in different places all over the map, and this may have happened many years ago, taking into account how well settled these cults are and the ruins of some related buildings.

5 Comments
2024/09/14
16:59 UTC

595

Anybody know's who is this strange NPC?

34 Comments
2024/09/14
15:22 UTC

73

“Come back to me”

I was riding through the swamp tonight during night time and saw a white dot hit the mini map and a ghostly voice yell “Come back to me”

When I went over there, nothing. And it didn’t happen again.

Between that shit and the Night Folks, I’ve had about enough of the damn swamps.

20 Comments
2024/09/11
00:17 UTC

321

Who is the man heard coughing in upper Montana river in rdr2?

Hi there!

Looking for places to sit in rdr2 I passed this spot and heard a man coughing but I went down to the river and there is nothing, also nothing on the tall trees side does anyone know who it is or where to find him exactly? I'm in chapter 3

37 Comments
2024/09/08
06:39 UTC

120

The Sundial IRL

I already posted this in the main rdr2 sub, but I think it belongs here more.

So this sundial really exists. It is located in Japan, and it's really old, like 2000 years BC. There is some info here, if you are interested. Cheers!

9 Comments
2024/09/05
23:07 UTC

535

A possible explanation for the pirate sword

This is Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. I believe that the state of Lemoyne is named after him. He was a canadian sailor, pirate, explorer, and is the founder of Louisiana.

He worked for the french King, who gave him the mission to locate the mouth of the Mississipi River, which he did. I think it is the reason why the pirate sword is found at the mouth of the Lanahassee River.

Nothing really mysterious here, I just found this really interesting and I wanted to share!

21 Comments
2024/09/05
21:11 UTC

18

Mt Shann Sundial/Moondial - Colours, angles and times.

Trying to get a concensus on the details of the sun/moon dial. Starting here and here, is this data accurate for where the shadows land? Has anyone got better timings/bearings? Would like to generate a more accurate and extensive version of this overlay.

0630 RED Due West 270deg Beryls Cave?

0915 ORANGE

1115 YELLOW. Vetters Echo/Crashed Airship

1300 Snowfield Shack

1415 RED Millesani Claim

1515 ORANGE. Window Rock?

1730 RED N of East Hani's Bethel?

Long stone

Gap South East

Stone

Gap

Stone

Gap.

Stone

Gap. South West

Stone

9 Comments
2024/08/30
15:18 UTC

30

The Mad Preacher Theory

I am not sure if this has been said before, or if it’s just super obvious to everyone here, but I think that the Mad Preacher is supposed to represent (and also parody) the most dedicated and feverish members of this fine community.

He makes cryptic references to the unsolved/unsolvable mysteries/cut content of the game, saying:

“I asked for a message, and he gave me the whole world, but no signal…”

Arthur replies “Wasn’t that enough?”

The Mad Preacher says “No, it wasn’t enough… it wasn’t enough at all.”

I take this to mean that despite the game’s enormous size and absurd amount of content that is in Story Mode, people will obsess over what isn’t there (3rd meteorite, missing princess, supposed 3rd alien encounter).

The Preacher’s madness, isolation and desperation are also parodying the lengths people will go to to connect all the dots and solve the big mystery of the game. He says “I’ve been here for years” which could also reference the fact that people are STILL coming up with theories. Similair to GTAV, which had a big obscure secret that required a big community effort in order to be solved, the only difference being that RDR2’s big secret was sadly left unfinished, like certain other parts of the game (khm Guarma khm).

The Mad Preacher doesn’t want to accept that the mystery cannot be solved, even though he probably knows his questions do not have answers, because an unsolved mystery will always inspire debate and speculation - the mere suggestion that a solution exists is much more satisfying than the solution itself, because it makes our imaginations go so much further than any legitimate answer ever could.

Also maybe tangentially related, when you encounter the guy searching for the missing princess, he ends the conversation by saying “It feels, you know, unfinished.”

I don’t know, maybe my brain is scrambled from playing too much blackjack, I just wanted to add my two cents to the great discussions in this subreddit.

Thanks for coming to my talk, Ted.

16 Comments
2024/08/24
20:37 UTC

102

Was messing around with rampage trainer trying to find some cool stuff up in the colter-ish area and I found this ravine, went up to it and I heard some growling or just a really deep noise

21 Comments
2024/08/22
17:16 UTC

13

Anyone know anything about this beeping noise? I recorded this years ago but I still am perplexed by this, it is an in game sound effect and only played when I was standing by the chair

9 Comments
2024/08/14
15:05 UTC

86

Strange Knife Prop Backstage at Theatre Raleur

https://preview.redd.it/8lz6dhml6nid1.jpg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=400dc4b7fde45521096e86c39dd73c18c8961362

As part of chasing down a lead on a Red Dead puzzle I have been poking around backstage at the Theatre Raleur during various performances. Each time that the strong woman Hortensia performs this strange green-handled knife appears next to the little table where you can do the ‘crowd disappears’ trick after the show.

My question for everyone is, have any of you seen this particular prop in any other location in the game?

Perhaps it is a marker left by a dev, or some sort of random object, but it seems odd that I have never seen it in the game. I don’t have any sort of datamining access but I would be curious what this specific knife is called in the files.

Anybody else have any thoughts on this? Thank you for your input!

https://preview.redd.it/rkzkk9dm6nid1.jpg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=973b6a565d62aef5383033b7f5736eb46e79976c

15 Comments
2024/08/14
14:46 UTC

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