Former Rockstar Dev Admits This Red Dead Redemption 2 Secret Was Meant to Stay Hidden Forever

The Spider Dream Mystery has finally been unearthed, and it might just be the most elaborate easter egg Rockstar has ever hidden.

YouTuber Strange Man, who has been documenting the hunt, credits Reddit user fthen2K02 with discovering a crucial piece of the puzzle: a larger web hidden in a tree at the center of the spider pattern. This central web appears only between 1-2 AM and contains no feathers, unlike the others.

When viewed from the right angle, the strands of this web spell out the letter “N” alongside a telephone pole symbol, obviously telling players who spot it to get north.

Following this direction leads to another telegraph pole that, when shot, reveals hidden inscriptions. The first message reads “W” followed by five telephone pole symbols. Walking exactly five poles westward and shooting reveals yet another inscription: “NW” alongside a guitar symbol.

Heading northwest from the inscription leads directly to Fort Wallace, where players discovered two guitars inside the military installation. The first guitar’s positioning points toward one of the fort’s towers. Inside that tower sits a second guitar, its neck pointing toward the roof.

Climbing up reveals two bird carvings positioned to point toward Giant’s Cave. Using binoculars from this vantage point, players spotted something nobody expected: a massive question mark carved into a distant mountainside.

Unfortunately, that mountain sits outside the playable map boundaries.

However, this isn’t where the trail goes cold. On January 5, 2026, former Rockstar QA tester Adam Butterworth broke his silence on X/Twitter, saying:

Absolutely wild people have found this. I remember hearing about this and thinking it would never be discovered

Butterworth, who worked on both GTA V and Red Dead Redemption 2 before joining Remedy Entertainment as an Audio Test Engineer, confirmed that the Spider Dream Mystery was something of an open secret among developers, hidden so well that even they doubted it would ever surface.

For now, the most prevailing theory is that this is an intricate puzzle shared between Rockstar’s two latest titles, particularly related to the Mount Chiliad mystery in GTA V. In GTA Online‘s Diamond Casino Heist DLC, fortune teller Madam Nazar cryptically states: “I see a web, still tangled after years of unraveling. Will you be the one, I wonder?”

With Grand Theft Auto 6 scheduled for November 2026, the community has found another thing to obsess over before everyone’s attention inevitably shifts to Rockstar’s next big thing. But regardless of whether a definitive solution emerges, the Spider Dream Mystery has already proven how RDR2 continues to captivate and surprise fans all these years later.

In the meantime, the hunt continues. If you spot something strange while riding through the heartland between 1 and 4 AM, you might just be looking at the next piece of the puzzle.

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