10 Amazing Unsolved GTA V Mysteries

It’s within video game developers’ best interests to make sure that players get to experience everything in their titles. With the skyrocketing blockbuster budgets for AAA games and the proportional cost of buying such a title, gamers would (rightfully) kick off if they didn’t actually get to see all that money up on screen; hence people getting peeved about DLC and other content that gets locked behind some such similar BS mechanic. If they paid for it, they deserve to play it, right?

Hence the hand-holding story modes for Call Of Duty, the relatively short play times with the likes of Dead Space, and the existence of Super Easy difficulty modes (not to mention the outcry over super difficult permadeath dungeon crawlers like Dark Souls). The one, frankly bizarre, exception to this rule is the most expensive, popular and big deal video game franchise on the planet.
Since the very start the Grand Theft Auto games have been stuffed full of Easter Eggs, side missions and secret stuff hidden across their huge recreations of New York State and California. With the upgrading of each gaming generation those recreations have gotten even larger, and the amount of Easter Eggs and other secrets have increased along with it.
The latest iteration in the series comes with the most secrets yet, with oodles of hidden content across the next gen landmass of San Andreas yet to be discovered or figured out. UFOs! Bigfoot! Ghosts! Jetpacks! These are the ten amazing unsolved GTA V mysteries.

10. Weird Noises In Blaine County Motel

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It’s not particularly surprising that San Andreas would be so crawling with restless spirits, given the amount of untimely deaths that have occurred across the state. Just the poor NPCs that get mowed down by the player character during an average rampage sessions would provide more hauntings than the entirety of Amityville, apparently the most haunted place in the world. According to the books, anyway.
There are countless urban legends and myths pertaining to haunted locations across all of the Grand Theft Auto games, but the most compelling one so far is Blaine County Motel in the most recent title. An abandoned motel located in Sandy Shores, the building cuts a chilling figure in a derelict area of the town, mostly boarded up and gutted of all furnishings and decoration.
Only a handful of rooms through Blaine County Motel are accessible, and is mostly populated with bums and drug addicts. Sometimes strange noises can be heard, however, such as knocking, scraping and – worst of all – crying babies. All entirely inexplicable thus far. And all incredibly creepy, obviously. Never head out to Sandy Shores after dark alone.
 

9. El Gordo Lighthouse

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Speaking of creepy locations in Grand Theft Auto V, the lighthouse that perches on the eastern coast of San Andreas in Cape Catfish is the stuff of nightmares. Or specifically the stuff of Silent Hill, what with the perpetual rain cloud that hangs over the isolated building. It probably doesn’t help that the only known resident not only of the lighthouse but the entire area is clearly dangerously mentally ill and not somebody you wanna spend a whole lot of time around. Even Trevor feels a little uncomfortable when he picks up Ursula.
One of the random hitchikers that can be picked up throughout the game, Ursula can be given a lift by either Trevor or Franklin and will ramble on incoherently in the way that all terrifying hitchikers from urban legends do, rambling on about her life story and talking about the last time she got a ride, the driver in question having apparently “choked to death on his own hand”. That is to say she killed him. And quite possibly buried him in an unmarked grave. Yeah, pretty creepy.
After dropping her off she can be utilised as a particularly haunting booty call for the player character who gave her a ride, but more compelling are her mentions that a gardener who used to visit her a few times a week “got sick”, another visitor fell of the cliff, and her mum recently passed away. The presumed grave of her mother is located on the mountain south of the lighthouse, with rumour having it other unmarked graves might be found nearby.

 

8. The Epsilon Sect

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The Epsilon Program is a fictional cult which, for legal reasons, is absolutely nothing like Scientology, first appearing as a teaser site for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, mentioned frequently on the radio from that game onwards, leading on to a series of Epsilon missions for Michael in GTA V. The cult – unlike Scientology, an actual religion – is clearly a scam, brainwashing potential recruits into handing over all their money in order to achieve some kind of spiritual enlightenment before the end of the world – again, totally unlike Scientology, for sure.
“A fellowship of like-minded adults who tithe money in exchange for salvation and merit badges” whilst worshipping the deity Kifflom, you help The Epsilon Sect by gathering ten “tracts” for. According to the Rockstar Social Club, however, there’s fifteen tracts to find in all – suggesting that The Epilson Program might become a bigger deal in an upcoming DLC or something.
Or perhaps that stuff’s already in the game, with Epilson acting like the GTA equivalent of the Illuminati. There are a bunch of structures around San Andreas which form the shape of an eye, referencing the All Seeing Eye, as well as fair shair Pyramids. The Epsilon sect has their symbol on the San Andreas state symbol, much like the Illuminati do on US currency. What does all of this add up to? Possibly squat. Who knows?

7. Underwater Hatch

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In real life the ocean is full of mysteries. There are parts of the 90% of the Earth covered in water that nobody has ever seen, the pressure being too great for any human being to have ever sunk to it and survived. Literally anything could be down there: the kraken, giant squids, whatever the big monster from Cloverfield was called, and possibly some answers as to what the heck the finale of Lost was supposed to be about. Well, definitely not that lost one anyway, because that simply can’t exist.
Plumbing the deaths of the sea around San Andreas is similarly rich with strange and interesting discoveries just waiting to be found, including one which appears to be a shout out to that dratted television disappointment. Underwater, on the eastern side of the map, is a white structure with a small rectangular window set into the top, which lights up when you approach it in the Submersible.
At least, people think it might be some sort of reference to The Hatch from Lost. Logically, that structure was in the jungle in the TV show and not at the bottom of the sea, which means it could be something completely different. Maybe it’s something else. Maybe there’s some way of getting into it after the door lights up. The purpose of The Hatch, if any, remains a mystery.

6. Bigfoot

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The mystery of the sasquatch has hung heavy over the Grand Theft Auto series. The vastly wider world to explore in San Andreas (coupled with the slightly shonky PS2 graphics) bore all sorts of urban legends and mysteries, with players insisting they’d bumped into everyone from Bigfoot to Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre whilst exploring the expanse of the forests, deserts and cityscapes throughout the game. Both of which turned out to be total nonsense.
Bigfoot has become something of a running joke in Rockstar games since then, making an actual appearance during a mission in the Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare add-on, where you make the sasquatches extinct. Apparently they’re still alive and kicking over in the Grand Theft Auto universe, however, making a brief cameo during the Predator mission, visible in a forest using a thermal camera on a helicopter.
In a later mission after the main story arc is complete, you get to bump into someone pretending to be Bigfoot ala the Patterson-Gimlin film. Supposedly the actual sasquatch must be out there somewhere, though, for him to have made that earlier appearance, with some players positing that he can be found in the woods…if you look hard enough. Still no proof, though.

5. The Jetpack

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Another San Andreas-born mystery that has haunted the series ever since is the jetpack, which appeared as a real (and totally awesome) item towards the end of the PS2 game, but hasn’t appeared in a GTA title since. That doesn’t stop people from cooking up rumours and hearsay about the existence of a jetack in each of the games after, with the most convincing arguments – and Photoshops – coming along with Grand Theft Auto V. What better way to see the high-definition Los Santos than by air?
The last game set in the fictional Californian state featured a jetpack so, apparently, GTA V should as well. The clues that users have pieced together to “prove” its existence are absolutely insane but also…kinda make sense? It all hinges on a sign printed on the side of Trevor’s hangar, with the name Jack Sheepe, one of the nom de plumes of nineties adult movie star Jake Steed he used in a porn parody of The Rocketeer.
A film that ran for 108 minutes, with multiple instances of “R-108″ appearing throughout. The Rocketeer uses a jetpack. That’s kind of it. Nobody has managed to find actual evidence of a jetpack existing so far, with the likelihood of it being found about the same as the chances that Rockstar are just trolling it fans. Which is exactly the sort of thing they would do, isn’t it?

4. Ratman

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All this Easter Egg hunting mostly skipped Grand Theft Auto IV, a game principally concerned with producing a convincingly grim analogue of New York City and telling the weirdly serious story of an Eastern European immigrant with a history of being involved in tragic war crimes. Even amongst all that grey dreariness there was room for some of Rockstar’s trademark weird colour with Ratman, a mythical half-man half-rat creature that people have apparently bumped into whilst trawling the tunnels beneath Liberty City. The same place you see all those references to characters from the previous games, funnily enough.
There were a whole host of reports of the creature in the fourth game, but there’s been a fair few supposed sightings of Ratman in GTA V as well. Again he seems to appear around the homeless population of San Andreas, this time located under bridges and the like rather than throughout the sewers (with a lot of the Grand Theft Auto IV sightings probably attributable to just mistaking regular hobos in the half-light).
And again, his existence is not quite provable. In GTA V a mysterious laughter can be heard down in the maintenance tunnels in downtown Los Santos, seemingly coming from behind a blocked off area. If you hang around down there for too long and try to kill a rat you will hear a swamping sound, it’s like someone is trying to escape from your fired bullets…

3. The Infinity 8 Killer

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The Grand Theft Auto games have been populated by all manner of deranged psychopaths over the years (besides the player, of course), but none come quite as close as Merle Abrahams. Better known by his name of the Infinity 8 Killer, Abraham’s story can be found by travelling throughout Blaine County and piecing together the trail of clues that detail his murderous activities, eventually leading players to the final resting place of those involved. Yep, pretty dark, even for GTA.
Abrahams is the cause of the “Infinity Murders” carried out In 1999, in which he murdered eight people and buried them in a secret place in San Andreas, as evidenced by the graffiti reading “THERE WILL BE 8” in a creepy-burnt out building next to Senora National Park. Nearby there’s a news clipping about Abrahams’ escapades leading to a series of other pieces of graffiti which give further clues to The Infinity Murders, usually told using creepy rhymes.
Just north of Paleto Bay there are a small grouping of islands, underneath with are seven bodies wrapped up in plastic upon the ocean floor. Which is pretty chilling. So where’s the mystery in all of this? Well, that’s seven bodies found, but there’s one yet to be tracked down. “8 WON’T WAIT” read that last rhyming piece of graffiti, after all.

2. Aliens

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Now one mystery that Rockstar have been providing heavy references to are, duh, aliens. Throughout GTA V there are constant nods to UFOs, with murals painted throughout that one hippie trailer park and the flying saucer parts you can happen upon whilst exploring the desert. Whether or not all of that points to the ability in-game to actually meet some extraterrestrials (and possibly murder them with a baseball bat) is up for debate.
The so-called Beam Me Up art installation that covers a whole hill east of Sandy Shores is just the tip of the iceberg. There’s also a pair of silos painted with the sex aliens located outside of Stab City, a lone pillar located to the east behind You Tool which is also painted with the aliens in sexual positions, and the Alien Enthusiasts House filled with hippies and covered in alien abduction-related signs.
Apparently it all pays off when you reach 100% completion of GTA V, a seemingly impossible Herculean task that would take literally weeks of non-stop work completing every side mission, finding every Easter Egg and so on. A UFO appears hovering over the graffiti park but does not “beam up” the player. You can fly up to investigate it with a helicopter, but that’s about it. At least, that’s all anyone’s managed so far.

1. The Mount Chiliad Mystery

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The crowning unsolved mystery in GTA V might be the most insane yet, involving as it does basically every other mystery on this list, all tied together into some loose conspiracy theory that involves UFOs, mysterious glyphs, the Epsilon/Illuminati thing, all of which are apparently brought to one overarching mystery thanks to a series of mysterious markings scattered around Mount Chiliad, the largest mountain in San Andreas. Which, if you link up the location of each, forms a triangle. Or pyramid…
Inside the cable car station at the summit of the mountain is a large map hanging on a wall that appears to be a map of Mount Chiliad. Scattered across the map are various odd symbols, seemingly pointing out the locations of secret objects on Mount Chiliad, along with the All Seeing Eye. The mystery behind UFOs, the Underwater Hatch and the possibility of a jetpack in the game may all be tied into symbols seen on the map and across the mountain.
The shiny new high-definition next-gen versions of GTA V include even more of this weirdness, with the various hallucinogenics you can take throughout apparently originating at Chiliad, a body part replacing the face that appeared on the side of the mountain, and a bunch more similar Illuminati and alien clues around Trevor’s trailer.