After 12 Years, One Of Grand Theft Auto's Biggest Mysteries Has Been Solved

After 12 Years, One Of Grand Theft Auto's Biggest Mysteries Has Been Solved

From Screen Rant (Written by Lee D'Amato) on | OpenCritic

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...

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