r/reddeadmysteries Jan 10 '21

Resource Presenting the Red Dead Mysteries iceberg

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r/reddeadmysteries Jun 23 '21

Resource Requested: Mysterious but calming light I found in Tall Trees last winter.

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r/reddeadmysteries Apr 17 '22

Resource The Red Dead Redemption Iceberg

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r/reddeadmysteries Feb 07 '24

Resource Created a 100% accurate gridmap according to coordinates on loadingscreens! I have confirmed the accuracy. Made this since there doesn't seem to be one out there.

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r/reddeadmysteries Mar 08 '19

Resource Red Dead Redemption 2 Mystery Megathread (Start Here)

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Please Ctrl + F this thread before posting on this subreddit.

If you haven’t finished the game yet, Ctrl + F the specific mystery you’re curious about and try not to look at too many other submissions to this sub.

This post is a summary of the “lesser known” Easter Eggs (especially those not found in the strategy guide). There are a lot of “mysteries” that are mentioned in the official strategy guide, but many of them seem to be open to interpretation or lacking obvious conclusions. I’ll try to outline as many as I can. Comment with anything I missed.

You can find an interactive map with all of the points of interest, legendary animals, special collectables etc. HERE.

This post (but also this whole subreddit) contains spoilers. Read at your own risk


UFO Sightings and Alien Rock Carvings

Princess Isabeau Katharina Zinsmeister of Luxembourg (IKZ)

Pagan Ritual Site

  • The sacrificed body will eventually

    decompose.

  • There is some sort of glitch(?) where bodies will show up

    clipped through the ground.

  • Similar symbols
    are emblazoned on trees
    in Lagras.
    Users have found real-life connections to Voo-Doo

A Message from Afar

The Strange Man

Panoramic Map and the Sun Dial

Meteorites

  • There are 2 meteorites you can pick up, but when you look at them in your satchel it says 2/3

  • they give you a bonus in warm weather

  • One user says he picked up a third one but nobody is sure if there is supposed to be a third one or not

The Mysterious Hill Home and Leader X

Waziya

Butcher Creek

Blackwater Aztec Code

Manzanita Post

Aberdeen Farm

Alchemist’s House

Strangers and Other Characters

Cheat Codes

Night Folk

Murder Scenes

Marko Dragic

Older Jack’s voice

Coordinates on Loading Screen Pictures

Ghosts

THALASSOPHOBIA

Francis Sinclair and the Rock Carvings

Fences

Skinner Brothers

  • If you find dead bodies with arrows in them it was probably the Skinner Brothers

  • There is a

    pile of dead bodies in Tall Trees.
    It is most likely the missing Blackwater Athletics team.

Valentine

Armadillo

  • There are dead people everywhere in Armadillo because of an outbreak of Cholera

  • Is the devil responsible? Herbert Moon has a picture of the Strange Man and he is still alive.

Tempest Rim

The Compasses

Non-Human Skulls

Undead Nightmare

Indian Burial Ground

Other Links and Resources

Comment with anything you want to know about or investigate further

r/reddeadmysteries Mar 04 '19

Resource Official gridmap from strategy guide

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r/reddeadmysteries Feb 25 '19

Resource "Constipated man" in the Valentine Hotel actually has a bowel disease according to an article in one of the newspapers

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r/reddeadmysteries Feb 18 '22

Resource For people researching the clocks with number 13s....

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r/reddeadmysteries Nov 22 '24

Resource My compendium log for us completionists to use

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r/reddeadmysteries Jul 06 '24

Resource Gertrude Braithwaite´s repeated number pattern

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r/reddeadmysteries Jan 12 '23

Resource Artwork in the Red Dead Redemption World

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A lot of the paintings in the RDR2 world are paintings found IRL. Many different artists represent different styles & time periods, from European Renaissance to American romantic landscaping. It´s far from a fantastic mystery and probably not a mystery at all to the cultured few among us, but it is something in the game on a scale I wasn´t aware of, so I´m guessing there´s others like me.

Here´s a list of artists / paintings from our world that you can also find in the game.

This is not a complete list, there are many I suspect are created specifically for the game, and there are others I missed or couldn´t identify. Can´t guarantee they all appear ; they are definitely in the game files, but I reckon there´s at least a good few of them. If you spot one in-game, tell me where and I´ll add the location to the post, or if you have any interesting information about any of the paintings or artists.

The RDR world is a fully fledged art gallery! Hope this enhances the experience for some people.

Can only share 20 images per post so I will space this out over a number of posts and link them here. Mods, apologies for the clutter, feel free to hide the following posts.

" I GAVE EVERYTHING FOR ART, AND I LEARNED TOO MUCH AND NOTHING AT ALL "

Part I below

Part II

Part III

Part IV

order by artist´s # of paintings:

Charles Willson Peale

Self-Portrait with Angelica and Portrait of Rachel (1782-1785)

Rachel Leeds Kerr, (1790)

Location: St Denis Mansion, 1st Floor, Music Room

Nancy Hallam as Fidele in Shakespeares Cymbeline (1771)

Location: Galerie Laurent, St. Denis

Margaret Hodge, Mrs John B Bayard (1780)

Rachel Weeping (1776)

Mrs. Samuel Mifflin and Her Granddaughter Rebecca Mifflin Francis (1777)

Mr and Mrs. Alexander Robinson (1795)

Location: Galerie Laurent, St. Denis

Mrs James Smith and Grandson (1776)

Elizabeth De Peyster (1795)

Location: Galerie Laurent, St. Denis

David Rittenhouse (1796)

Thomas Jefferson (CL Ransom based on Peale painting) (1881)

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Thomas Cole

The Subsidings of the Water of the Deluge (1829)

The Garden of Eden (1828)

Location: Taxidermist House, (Behind raccoon in canoe)

Home in the Woods (1847)

Location: Adler Ranch (Prologue)

Location: Taxidermist House, (Behind rabbit playing piano)

The Oxbow (1836)

* the Hebrew word Shaddai ,"The Almighty" , is written on the far hill

The Fountain of Vaucluse (1841)

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Robert Seldon Duncanson

Mount Oxford (1864)

Location: Valentine Saloon, 2nd Floor

Landscape with Sheep

Location: Strawberry Welcome Centre , 2nd Floor

Location: Valentine Saloon, 2nd Floor

Location: Cornwalls Train in Who the Hell is Leviticus Cornwall? , 2nd last carraige


A dream of Italy (1865)

Vesuvius & Pompeii (1870)

Location: Marcel Beleviue (Photography Shop), St. Denis

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Part II

Part III

Part IV

r/reddeadmysteries Feb 21 '23

Resource Tracking the stars repeating cycle

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r/reddeadmysteries Jul 05 '24

Resource Moon Cycles

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r/reddeadmysteries Jan 21 '22

Resource Strange Man (?) painting in Red Dead 1. This is upstairs in the government building in Blackwater.

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r/reddeadmysteries Jul 18 '23

Resource Star Cycle Map

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Why this might be useful:

  • For greater immersion (could maybe be used well in immersive RP servers on RedM)
  • Some of us still speculate whether there are mysteries connected to the night sky in this game
  • Learn a little about the constellations along the way

I´m trying to write this in a way that someone who has no idea of astronomy (such as myself!) can use the tools in game with this information to identify constellations. For those of you that are more familiar a lot of this will be obsolete, and possibly counter-intuitive!

What you will need:

  • Binoculars (available from beginning of game)
  • Compass ( ↓ + Y / ∆ ), or good sense of where North is on the map (minimap works too)
  • The Blessings of the Weather Gods (good luck)

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We should get familiar with two objects in the night sky for this to work, Pleiades (asterism in Taurus) and Polaris (the North Star), .

Pleiades (in the constellation Taurus)

Pleiades was important to various tribes of Native American stargazers, to the Lakota they had names such as Thayamnipha (Animals head) and Wichincala Sakowin (Seven Sisters), to the O´odham when they (Xatca) cross the sky is the proper time for storytelling. the Pleiades are probably one of the most easily identifiable clusters of stars in the RDR night sky, and we can use Polaris to approximate their location.

Polaris was also an important star to the Lakota, and its importance is represented in game in the naming of Lake Owanjila (Wichahpi Owanzila - The Star that does not move)

In game though this isn´t quite true, the star moves quite a bit, although still being the star that moves the least in the night sky, circling an invisible center* over 20 days before returning to its original position *(from our perspective, this is likely just representing the earths rotation)

Polaris pattern over 20 nights

As the north star, it is directly north at all times. You can easily locate it by using the compass in your minimap and facing your character directly north. The Moon also passes under Polaris at around midnight each night.

Polaris tracing this imaginary circle over the moon at around midnight each night

We can use Polaris and its surrounding stars as a measuring tool for where we are in the cycle. It is beneficial to imagine them as a clock moving counter-clockwise. Similar to a conventional clock we can imagine 2 hand of varying length, with the smaller being the hour hand. We will then use the position of the "hour-hand" to find our position in the cycle.

Notice the "minute-hand" is longer/ can be extended to the stars beyond it

Instead of hours its easier to imagine this clock like a compass. Then, judging which direction the hour-hand is facing will allow us to predict our place in the cycle.

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* in the above links, the "North" photos are actually the zenith (looking directly above the player). For an idea of what is going on directly north see here

** there are certain nights ( 9, 19 ) that are hard to categorize as they could be interpreted as belonging to one of two directions, something to be mindful of (check the above clock for reference)

*** The screenshots were taken at 11pm each night, so your night sky might look a little different, but the same constellations should be there.

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We can cross reference this "clocks" position with Pleiades to give us a quick, general idea of where we are.

Polaris, its minor star and Pleiades creates a sort of skewed triangle

this video can help illustrate this

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There are other possible methods for tracking the stars positions, or finding the north star. One of the corners of the Obelisk faces directly north, and we can use its indents as a measuring tool of the distance between the Moon at roughly 12am and Polaris

We could also use the reticles in our binoculars to measure the distance between Polaris and the Moon anywhere on the map at the same time (roughly 12am as the moon passes Polaris)

Using the binoculars (no zoom), and using the Moon´s bright-half as a level, we can get a rough idea of where we are in the cycle. The lower Polaris is (closer to the center of our binoculars), the further away Pleiades are from us.

N/V = Not Visible Zenith = Above Player

The problem with these two methods is that they are even more reliant on having optimal weather at a semi-specific time (11:45 - 00:15) whilst the moon passes Polaris. From my experience its pretty unlikely that you will get the clear sky you are looking for, and so I suggest using the first method.

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Hopefully this is useful to some players or mystery hunters. My aim in the future is to try and do something similar, but with Native American constellations as opposed to the traditional Western ones. I think if there is still mysteries left to explore with regards the dial on Mt Shann, or Burial / Ritual site alignments it seems more sensible to refer to Native American mythology and astrology.

note to mods: there are external links to a closed subreddit i created for this purpose, as I had to create 20+ pages. Hopefully this is within the guidelines set out in Rule 4. Thanks!

r/reddeadmysteries Nov 27 '18

Resource Strange Man House in ONLINE MODE

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r/reddeadmysteries Dec 01 '18

Resource THIRD GREEN MASK found in online, in Old Man Jones tent near Armadillo. (found by @KillazSpain)

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r/reddeadmysteries Nov 08 '21

Resource Updating my burial records

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I keep a detailed list of all the graves, tombs, etc. in both RDR1 and RDR2, for cross referencing with various mysteries and investigations. The larger groups of burials are easy enough to find, but I want to hear from y'all about any individual graves you may have encountered (not including story mission ones). Here's what I have so far:

Felix Hawley @ Planter's Baun. Two unmarked graves @ Compson's Stead. Martha Hall @ Lagras. One unmarked grave @ Larned Sod. Four unmarked graves @ Fort Brennand. Joshua Burgess @ Emerald Saloon.

r/reddeadmysteries Nov 21 '18

Resource Roanoke Whispers Explained!

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I ran across this video on YouTube (linked by Justin Kern in El Chiefo Network comments) which clearly explains the whispers heard in the woods (almost verbatim), and the Lore behind this ghostly event. If you watch this video, you could speculate there is more to this Easter Egg and a marching Ghostly British army can be found somewhere nearby - but I’d have thought by now someone would discover this.

Lore Source: In-game Movie Theater “The Ghastly Serenade” movie.

Male Ghost Voice: Eugene Hutton

Female Ghost Voice: Ethel Boshared

Video Explains Lore from whispers courtesy of SeanEazy: https://youtu.be/sKXy_rXkYH4

Here’s is the location of of the whispers, which can be heard during day or night: https://socialclub.rockstargames.com/photo/rdr2/5eoEGCdEukiF37PGHAUdYQ

Recording of the whispers and analysis by El Chiefo Network: https://youtu.be/wRjVfMPRL8U

r/reddeadmysteries Dec 07 '18

Resource Exploring the ledges in the Mt. Shann cave

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r/reddeadmysteries Nov 15 '18

Resource Francis Sinclair article in The Saint Denis Times Tribune 44

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r/reddeadmysteries Jul 30 '20

Resource BIGFOOT EASTER EGG | NO BIRDS NEEDED

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There are people like me that had STUDY 30 animals (even more, 41 in my case) and never have seen the birds near Wapiti Reservation. I was fed up of trying and just went there.

You don't need to follow any flock of birds to activate Bigfoot / Giante Easter Egg dialogue. And i got video proof. Tried three times, loading the same saved game and did it at three different hours, randomly. You can find the video in Youtube (NON-MONETIZED; Bedman RDR2) and hope it helps you.

08:24 This is the exact minute where video proof begins. I don't want any of you to see the entire video if you don't want to, really, but i got no other means to show you!!! And that goes too for the uncut edition!!!

r/reddeadmysteries Jul 30 '20

Resource I made an AHK (auto hot key) script to auto walk, and auto run with a horse for PC, So that your fingers can get a rest from constant pressing and holding down buttons for those who are actively exploring the map for clues.

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First you need to have the AHK (autohotkey) program. Second right click on the desktop and choose NEW>AutoHotKey Script Third right click on the newly created file and choose: Open With > Notepad

Then copy this code in the file

 $Shift::
 {
   toggle:=!toggle
   if (toggle)
    {
    sendinput, {w down}
    }
   else
    {
    if !GetKeyState("w")
        sendinput, {w down}
    else
        sendinput, {w up}
    }
 }
return

[::
{
   togglex:=!togglex
   if (togglex)
    {
    sendinput, {0 down}
    }
   else
    {
    if !GetKeyState("0")
        sendinput, {0 down}
    else
        sendinput, {0 up}
        Sleep, 300
    }
 }
return

Pause::
Suspend
Pause,,1
sendinput, {w up}
sendinput, {0 up}
return

That is the code that will make you auto walk and auto run with the "Shift key." NO MORE HOLDING DOWN "W" for hours and hours.

If you press the "[" key then it will hold down the button "0" which I changed in the game settings to be the one for galloping at maximum speed.

if you press the "pause' button on the keyboard, then it will pause the code.

You can close the program by clicking on the hidden icons.

I hope this will help you in your hunt!

r/reddeadmysteries May 24 '19

Resource When Pinkertons along with Agent Milton ambush the camp near Lagras, Sadie and Arthur sneak up to them and hide in a barn, when Arthur kicks the door, you can still hear Agent Milton saying “... kill each and every one of you!” And then the Dead Eye mode activates, I never tried to kill or loot him.

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r/reddeadmysteries Feb 07 '19

Resource Man In Mexico, Second Encounter With A Closer Look

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https://youtu.be/cLk2D9Vhozc

Hello.

I posted a video about a month ago where I caught a man spawning in Mexico. I managed to get him to spawn again and I found a way to get up the ledge to take a closer look.

So, it's pretty clear his AI is bugging out. Mexico in general has AI disabled (Just like in Tempest Rim), which is the reason why he just stands there, looking at me after I shoot his horse. It's interesting the horse is still walking around, which is something animals in Tempest Rim and your horse in Mexico won't do due to disabled AI.

The man seems to be wearing a double/cross bandolier and has a feather hanging from his hair. There's a quick close up of him at 6:20 on the video. Unfortunately I fell off the ledge right afterwards, but I will definitely keep an eye out for him in the future and hopefully I can get a better view of him/maybe loot him.

Edit: Managed to get a good look/loot him: https://youtu.be/EL-zxGxI8mA