In a stunning development that's reigniting one of gaming's most enduring obsessions, a freshly uncovered puzzle in Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) is drawing eerie parallels to the infamous Mount Chiliad mystery in Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V). Discovered over seven years after RDR2's 2018 launch, the "Spider Dream" mystery involves time-sensitive spider webs, hidden carvings, and directional clues that have the community buzzing. Fans now speculate it holds the key to finally unraveling GTA V's 12-year-old enigma.
The Mount Chiliad Mystery: A Decade of Dead Ends
Since GTA V's release in 2013, the Mount Chiliad mural has tantalized players. Hidden inside the summit cable car station, the cryptic artwork depicts four symbols: a gray mystery figure, a green UFO-like shape, a jet, and a white egg-shaped object. Partial "solutions" emerged over time, like UFOs appearing after 100% completion or an egg in the Galileo Observatory, but the full puzzle remains unsolved, with no official word from Rockstar.
Adding fuel to the fire are two peculiar spider webs on the mountain itself, visible only between 1 and 2 a.m. One sits directly beneath the mural station. Dataminers later confirmed these use a unique "cable shader," but their purpose stayed elusive.
Unraveling RDR2's Spider Dream Trail
The RDR2 discovery began when player FL4VA-01 spotted a spider web on a Saint Denis telegraph pole at 3 a.m., vanishing by 4 a.m. Digging deeper revealed a spider carving on a pole near Cornwall Kerosene & Tar. Overlaying it on the map pinpointed eight more poles across the Heartlands, each spawning webs and shootable feathers during specific nighttime hours (game files label them "spiderdream").
At the spider's center lies a ninth, massive web on a tree (1-2 a.m.), revealing an "N" (north) and pole symbol from the right angle. Heading north, shooting a pole exposes "W" plus five pole icons. Five poles west yields "NW" and a guitar symbol.
Northwest leads to Fort Wallace, home to guitars and roof carvings of two birds pointing northeast. Following NE, birds guide to a spot near the Giant's cave; binoculars reveal a huge question mark etched on an out-of-bounds mountain. Mapping the full path forms a backward question mark, with the dot at Eris Field well boasting carvings: three poles, a sun, and three cloud-like shapes (or rocks/crosses).
A former Rockstar QA tester admitted shock at the find, confirming intentional design.
Threads Connecting RDR2 to Chiliad
The smoking gun? RDR2's webs match GTA V's exactly, using the same rendering tech across games released five years apart. GTA Online's Madam Nazar (modeled after an RDR2 NPC) drops a "tangled web" fortune, hinting at crossovers.
Theories abound: RDR2's symbols might decode Chiliad's mural, or the webs signal a multi-game ARG. Reddit's r/reddeadmysteries links it to dreamcatchers and railroads, while X users note GTA V webs spawning at matching times.
YouTubers like Oddheader and Strange Man fuel the frenzy, with X sleuths like @SynthPotato documenting breakthroughs.
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