One of Grand Theft Auto 5's most enduring mysteries may finally have been solved. Myths and mysteries have almost always been a big part of GTA's open-world design philosophy - they really became part of the formula with San Andreas, where you had Bigfoot and Mothman walking around.
GTA 5 has tons of mysteries, but perhaps its most baffling is that of Mount Chiliad. A strange in-game mural near the top of the mountain has kept players guessing for a generation, but YouTuber Gator Keys claims to have discovered the answer.
The Mount Chiliad mystery begins with a mural painted on a wall near the top of the mountain itself. It consists of a series of interconnected pictographs: a flying saucer, a cracked egg, and a person with a jetpack, which are tethered, with various mazelike lines, to X symbols and what looks like an eye.
Gator Keys interprets the bottom part of the mural as an instruction: the player must go up high (with or without a jetpack) to see the various UFOs hidden in GTA 5. The egg represents the player; traveling upward in a straight line, we reach the all-seeing eye, paralleling the player's...