The Many Myths and Legends of GTA San Andreas

The Many Myths and Legends of GTA San Andreas

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[elmaster]

It’s really a shame that we don’t get myths like these in video games these days. Between data miners and YouTubers doing clickbait of any secret or Easter egg it’s extremely difficult to properly hide some secret for more than a couple of days. So it’s rare for modern games to have myths.

[Nikola.]

I remember finding out about CJ's mom ghost, I felt intense uneasiness every time I had to save a game in CJ's home. When I finally collected money for another apartment, I felt relieved.

[nekipeh]

Even if i know these are mostly hoaxes, i still get chills while running in silence around foggy Whetstone. R* really nailed creepy atmosphere.

[podstepmistrzem]

For the CJs Mom's ghost myth, there is an NPC will rarely glitch through CJs house through the corner where the TV is and have a glitched darkened texture, which gets commonly attributed to a ghost or the girl from the Ring

[TheDigitalApple]

Man, the amount of ways to supposedly find Bigfoot are all just coming back to me!

[hajimeokajima]

Ah yes, back in those days when you had to note everything on paper and myths and word-of-mouth being king.

[SewerReviewer]

There was no other feeling like the one you got when exploring those woods to find some of these legends. It was always eerie due to how alone it felt. Amazing video, definitely nostalgia fuel lol.

[GTAVictor]

Although not necessarily a myth or legend and in fact a real thing, I remember that in the San Fierro docks at certain times when it was foggy, you could hear a distant ship honk, and that would cause the pedestrian NPCs to start panicking. I firmly remember this from my playthrough, and always found it quite creepy.

[Blucario]

1:51 Bigfoot
3:46 Leatherface
6:31 Jason Voorhees
7:15 Chupacabra
8:06 Ghost of CJ's Mom
9:37 Suicidal NPCs (True)
11:13 Clowns (Half-True)
12:32 Mothman
14:10 Piggsy (Reference Only)
15:18 The Spy
16:15 UFOS (True)
17:26 Kifflom
18:28 Treeman (True)
19:02 Mr. Trenchcoat (Half-True)
21:39 Demons (Half-True)
22:34 Mermaids
23:09 Headless Man
23:43 The Junkyard Killer [Mentioned]
24:00 Hellhounds
24:51 Casino Destroyer
25:28 Sharks (True)
27:06 Cave Demon
28:00 Bears
28:39 Cane Killer
29:08 Flying Fish (True)
30:00 The Psycho
31:16 Mount Chilliad Angel (Half-True)
32:10 Loch Ness Monster
33:32 Ghost Cars (True)
34:48 Aliens

[coffee]

Man I miss these days. Back then the internet was all over the place, can't explain it, but until the mid 2010s nobody knew anything or how to properly fact check something I guess lol
So while we all fell for hoaxes like the GTA SA mythos or even irl stuff, it was entertaining and interesting. It incentivized people to play the game and search for mysterious stuff and also created alot of fun discussions and conversations...

[koolaid]

The suicidal NPC one is interesting, because it's in GTA 5 too, just not nearly as common. I have a clip saved on my PS4 of me riding a bike below the bridge separating mirror park from Vinewood, when all of a sudden this dude jumped off the bridge and plummeted to his death. Weird.

[murgatroydfungus]

The demonic face in the garage is just a texture tiling error. The garage door texture is just a generic asymmetric png, which is mapped to the door model in a way that horizontally flips the texture from the middle. Such flipped symmetric images (like Rorschach tests) have a way of making people imagine faces and scenes in them due to pareidolia.

[IkeFanBoy]

4:48
I can only assume that the people claiming this forgot about the whole hunger system that was in San Andreas.

[TheoBirbYT]

It was fun watching those old videos on monsters and things found in GTA:SA, creepy X-files music adding to it, then trying to find them yourself. I kind of remember there was this "zombie lab" in San Fierro that had some theories tied to it.

[一花のぬいぐるみ-ze]

For the suicide photographer there's a spanish YouTuber called detenshuon who ran a experiment to know if it's a mystery or a delivered choice, by mapping a bridge crossing the sea until the other side, if the pedestrian kept walking forward even after getting to the other side it meant it was delivered, but if it changed its path to the sidewalk, it was a glitch, and the results showed that the pedestrian actually followed the path of the sidewalk, confirming once and for all that it was a glitch and not an easter egg

[violetcole]

Nah honestly the ghost cars still had something more to them I swear by it to this day. Some of them drove in circles, some of them would drive over you NOT INTENTONALLY mind you but it happened I remember them vividly cause like you said, it pushed a lot of us into finding out what else weird stuff GTA SA has. We always knew it was a glitch but no that car def drove itself sometimes.

[paulevans]

I remember being like 13 years old spending hours and hours trying to find Big Foot. The GTA community was going crazy at that time.

[KyanoReal]

THIS is the type of content I love to see. Keep up the amazing work!

[casualguy]

I have some more myths that I remembered to add to this, great video btw :

- Fire Dog
Is said to be the ghost of a dog who died in an accident in the Quarry near Las Venturas, this myth turned out to be a hoax

- Ghost Planes
Planes would randomly fall out of the sky for no reason, one time a Beagle crashed near me near Back O' Beyond

- Big Smoke's Ghost
Big Smoke is said to haunt the compound he died in during the final mission, this myth is false IIRC

- Blue Hell
Players can fall out of bounds into the underside of the map, and they'll be teleported back into the map after falling to a certain point, this myth is a glitch

- Falling Black Dots
Random small, fast, and rare black dots can be seen falling from the sky in certain areas, it is a glitch but it's not known of what kind exactly.

- Andromada
The cargo plane from the Stoaway mission, I don't remember why this was a myth, the plane is just weird I guess

- Ring Girl
A pedestrian model can somehow glitch into CJ's house and appear on the game console, IIRC this was also false

- Cave Monster
False myth of a creature that is said to spawn in the cave in Fort Carson, there was a video showing this creature but it was a mod

- Ghost Town Figure
A black figure is said to appear in the Ghost Town in Las Venturas, this was never proven to be true

- Tunnel Creature
It's said that there is a creature living in the train tunnel in the outskirts of Los Santos, same as Cave Creature this was also a false myth

- Jefferson Motel Ghost
Ghosts is said to haunt the Jefferson Motel after the Reuniting The Families mission, it was most likely false but this myth is the exact reason I don't go into the motel back then

[CatholicShrimp]

The amount of nostalgia I re-lived from this video is insane. Miss those days where me and my friends would try to find myths and while we obviously never found anything it's some of my favorite gaming memories.