Fallout’s Best Skeleton Stories | Fallout Lore 

This is spookier than when I first learned that skeletons are inside people.

Futurama Not rick and morty

I think the underwater T-rex is actually a reference to Mean Girls, specifically the line "And on the third day, God created the Remington bolt-action rifle, so that man could fight the dinosaurs. And the homosexuals."

Sinclair: "Yeah, I've tried everything." Vault-Tech-Support: "Did you try turning it on and- Sinclair: _"YESITRIEDTURNINGITONANDOFF!!!"_ Vault-Tech-Support: "Did you try pipe access from section 1B?" Sinclair: "That place is a death trap to get to, and how are pipes gonna help me with the computer prob- Vault-Tech-Support: _"Did you try pipe access from section 1B?"_ Sinclair: "UGH! _Fine!_ Please hold, I'll be right back!" - 200 years later - Vault-Tech-Support: * skeleton wearing a headset, with his arms folded, sitting in front of a computer *

my favorite skeletons were the ones that you'd walk over and would spazz out, flipping around, then dealing massive damage to you and killing you instantly

Your forget the most important one from the original Fallout: "You see Ed. Ed's dead."

Seymour is a reference to a "Futurama" episode called "Jurassic Bark" not Rick and Morty. Rick and Morty wasn't even created yet when fallout 3 was released

In Fallout 4 there's a skeleton in a bathtub surrounded by Mannequin's holding Machete's in one of the buildings in Concord.

The Survivalist's story never fails to make me emotional. The man who had everything taken from him twice no- thrice over and decided to foster new life in this canyon until the day he finally succumbed to the spores. Everytime I played Honest Hearts, I always get his armour first (because they were cool but also) to honour his memory and legacy

The saddest one (for me at least) is a grave in Fallout 76 not a skeleton but it's marked by toy blocks with the name Angel spelled out. I screenshot it and it makes me kind of sad every time it pops up when the game starts. However, the funniest skeleton to me in Fallout 76 is of a lady who apparently died doing "snow angels" in nuka-Cola bottles 👌

Hold on. Fallout was originally going to have time traveling dinosaurs? I need to hear more about this

I love that Cooper Howard poster even more now.

This is literally one of the reasons I love fallout, the environmental story telling. Coming across one of these skeletons and trying to Sherlock solve the mystery of what happened. Then finding the notes/terminals with lore to confirm your theory! The BEST gaming experiences I've had!

Since its story takes place mere minutes before the Great War, I've always considered the 'skeleton stories' to hit more in Fallout 4 than they did in other games. Big John's Salvage was a soul crusher as seeing your whole family suffocate and die is heartbreaking enough, but having to dig a grave for your two young children near where you sleep then dying there with your spouse must have been absolute Hell for them. One you didn't cover was the girl at the lone cabin (Forgot what it's called) neat Red Rocket Truck Shop and Concord. The girl ran away from home after having an argument with her parents because she found out she was pregnant, and considering how her holotape goes it is implied her boyfriend doesn't know. Being alone with an expecting child can be very stressful for a girl to say the very least, but to spend the last few minutes of human civilization alone before the bombs dropped... must have been more than depressing. Another that's not covered in the video is the story of the man who lost the woman he loved in an unmentioned accident. Dude lived in a small house north of Hardware Town and east of Vault 81. It was where he met her, where they fell in love, and ventured out into the Wasteland before she died and returned to the same house to live the rest of his days. The only mementos he has of her is a locket and (I assume) a brahmin since he cares about her wellbeing enough to build a contraption to get rid of bugs. Finds out he dropped the locket in the (Heavily irradiated) lake after scaring bugs off harassing his brahmin, he dives into the waters to find it as he had near nothing left to lose. Due to the radiation, he died but not before he was able to find the locket and hold it tight in his hand and close to his chest. Not as depressing as Big John's Salvage or the girl who ran away from home, but it a sad one that in some ways had closure. This one took place post-War but I felt in needed to be mentioned.

Seymor fossilized dog is futurama not rick and morty.

The skeleton I remember the most is from fallout 4 (in the harbormaster hotel I think?) and its an old lady reading an overdue book to a giddyup buttercup, teddy bear and jangles the moons monkey. Pretty sad

Possibly the underwater T-Rex skeleton could be a reference to the end of Jurassic Park 2 where was transported on a boat from the island as mayhem happened as usual.

“Hey, who turned out the lights?” Nice Doctor Who reference there.

Rip brotherhood member, died of having his meat turned into sausage slices

YES Randall Clark! My all time favorite character in any video and you never even meet the guy while he’s alive. Genuinely an incredible character, with an amazing story both written and environmentally told. He’s one of the reasons NV is my favorite Fallout and THE reason Honest Hearts is the best DLC imo. His story of losing everything, regaining something and then experiencing the tragic loss over again only to not give up and to persevere. What he went through was more than any man should ever experience. Yet he persevered and found a new purpose in helping others, was just beautiful. The fact that he chose to never reveal himself to those he was protecting because he knew that while they needed his help, what they needed more was something to believe in is just incredible. He knew his time was limited and that if they were to survive they would need to feel like he was always watching, he became a god like figure not out of vanity but to deliver hope. I cannot do it justice so if you’ve never found all his terminals and read them please do yourself a favor and go find them. Don’t look them up on RU-vid.

Bethesda is far from perfect, but world building is something they excel in. The unmarked shacks and homes are my favourite because there's a whole story contained in a single interior cell

I remember one where you find a message where a guy says he'll stab someone in the head wit ha pen and sure enough not too far away your find a skeleton with a pen sticking out of its eye socket. Another sad one I know of is in the town of Minefield in Fallout 3, you can find a couple of skeletons on a bed surrounded by bottles, indicating they decided to OD. Similar in Fallout 3 you can find a skeleton in a bath tub with a toaster, I think it was Fallout 3. And I think in Fallout 4 in a church tower you can find two skeletons, apparently a couple, next to each other in an embrace.

So many stories, so much tragedy. The skeletons of Fallout are some of the best storytelling. Thanks for the video showcasing some of Fallout's greatest and most tragic bits of story throughout the series. This was a really fun watch. Well done on this.

That horned kangaroo is a reference to a joke crypted in the USA that was a popular thing a very long time ago.

There's time where I just take a moment and realize .. they are no longer suffering in the hellish wasteland.... It's like PTSD

i was just walking around fallout 76 looking for random skeleton stories and i was thinking "i wish there was a video that should these off" and you upload this

0:18 doctor who reference from the shadows that eat you one of them kept repeating “Hey who turned out the lights?”

i’ve always loved the one fishing in a toilet 😂

Rick and morty? Thats Futurama. I no longer have any faith in you.

I've noticed that when I play fallout 4, that if I wanna know the story of what happened to a, particular business or home when the bombs fell to just go look at the skeletons. Because it tells you all you need to know.

Seymour isn't a reference toRick and Morty, that's Futurama...

I love how they captured the skeletons story telling in the show. Can’t wait to see more from the franchise

Sickleman evidence can be found in other areas of Appalachia. Also, at 76's launch the message read SICKLEMAN WAS HERE and after the Wastelanders dlc and when npcs started coming back to Appalachia, the sign changed to SICKLEMAN IS HERE. So perhaps, SIckleman is still alive and wandering Appalachia. I would love it if a future quest had us doing some detective work to find Sickleman.

You should do a video about the Teddy Bear and Gnome stories in the Fallout games. There are so many!

There are only a handful of videos that are worth watching and then watching again. This hit every single criteria and my top five favorite videos

There is a "time travel" device on the monorail in Fallout 76. I always thought it would be cool to have an expedition where you travel back and try to prevent the bombs from dropping, but maybe it goes wrong and we meet some dinosaurs. Or, maybe we go back to the 1940s and stop the transistor from being invented, thus creating the Fallout divergent universe. I think there is a lot of potential there.

I remember first finding child-sized skeletons in NV with my roomate at the time. We looked at eachother and both said, in almost unison "Those skeletons are way too small"

In Fallout 76, there is a skeleton strapped to an electric chair in the bed of a dried out lake.

Such a well put together video. Skeletons have always been one of the more charming forms of storytelling in Fallout, imo

The sheer amount of people who didnt get the Rick and Morty joke is staggering, its almost like they didnt watch the video but it's like 1/3 of the way in.

There is also a JAWS skeleton story -- a half-sunken boat with a mutated dolphin and half a skeleton on stern of the boat.

Don't give up, skeleton!

I always been fascinated by the three skeletons you find backstage at Tampuico Theater during Dead Money, it's two adults, one with a gun, one with a Doctor's bag and a dose of Med-X and a child with a teddy beat. I wonder who they were, what happened and what they were doing backstage.

9:48 Futurama, not Rick and Morty.

7:13 This is actually slightly terrifying, it just walks up and stares at you.

Rick and Morty? Don't you mean Futurama 😅

Vera's "ghost" recording, still screaming for Sinclair 2 centuries later still haunts me a decade after playing...

9:34 the craziest thing about the "ice cream" thing is that it was always a joke my grandma would make when i was a kid, and i never got it and she told me once years later "why is the password always ice cream?" "if you don't let me, i'll scream" and i think that there really has to be some old media that it's based off of since it's such a weird stretch that it just seems like a 'you had to be there' sort of thing, when i look it up everyone just says, "oh he's in the desert, of course he covets ice cream.." so i just thought i'd toss it out there

Honestly an amazing and (as far as I know) original video concept, absolutely earned a subscriber

God I love Vera as a character despite the fact we never really see her spare the holograms and her skeleton in her room. Seeing her skeleton and hearing her pleas just always makes me sad EVERY TIME

My favorite skeleton encounter had to have been the refrigerator skeleton from fallout new Vegas referencing Indiana Jones or the Star Wars skeletons in fallout Vegas in Nipton

My favorite skeleton story will always be Randall Dean Clark. His story would be a great story-driven fallout spin off game.

Ohh you little scoundrel that rick and morty joke was good

Love this video. Thankyou for all the hard work you put into it

Probably an oversight how the bones on most of the pre-war skeletons are still attached.

Just an idea for a short video, but someone needs to tell the story of Rufus and his owner (in Fallout 76). When wandering around I found out the full story and I have never known if anyone figured it out.

Gotta say the best ones of all time is in 3/NV when they spazz out and fly into the air where they slowly travel off into oblivian😂

Is it possible the dinosaur with a human and a levergun could be a jurassic world reference? Owen Grady uses a marlin against the dinosaurs

the zion one really hit hard for some reason ☹

For Ian's wife Cheryl there is a female skeleton right outside the house , she had to kill her husband and more than likely got killed right outside by the Mr handy farmers

This is a great idea for a video, good job

The sad part about the survivalists story though is that he left many things in each of the caves for the children to use but he didn't unarmed the traps he set up to keep the dwellers from 22 out which will eventually kill any of the kids who would step into the caves leave them unable to use anything he left.

Dude first of all, amazing video, great job, secondly, I just realized half way, why I was hearing Miss Fortune and Lady Jaina Proudmoure... It's Laura Bailey! I never noticed it since I only did Sierra Madre once since release.. Very cool.

One story of skeletons that allot of people dont seem to know about in fallout 4, a country club where very rich big wigs would go to drink expensive wines and cigars, all after the bombings have happened, the ones remaining were all called for one last toust and they all seem to know whats going to happen and accept it, you find them all on their expensive couches and chairs all dead skeletons and each with battles of "Poisoned wine" so all these rich folks thay survived the bombs but didnt have a vault all came together to commit mass suicide, and no one talks about them.

Vera Keyes knew Cooper Howard? Season 2 cameo?

I found and played miller story only yesterday and here it is on video but I didn’t know until now. I have years and 30 days recorded too, thanks.

For some reason the skeletons in the houses in Minefield from Fallout 3 always come to mind whenever I think of skeletons with a story in Fallout.

Good content. Really hits down to the very bone.

starting this video with begin again gave me flashbacks to playing DUST. scared the hell out of me

Matt: “This skeleton has been working hard. How hard? TO THE BONE!” Pat: “F( ) off.” Matt: “Yeah, I should.”

This video was wonderful! congratulations on your effort

I love in fallout 4 all the skeletons sitting outside with beers in hand. If they were there by chance or by choice thats maybe the best way to go out when the bombs dropped

7:10 That one kinda spooked me

I keep thinking of the two in the Concord Speakeasy that died in a confrontation which makes you wonder if someone tried to rob the place during the panic

Love your longer videos. Great stuff. Thanks.Gonna stop because I’m still playing FO3 for the first time and what to avoid spoilers.

I remember when I was like.. 12 years old I saw a video on RU-vid showing all the skeletons in Fallout 3 or 4. It absolutely terrified me to my core and I couldn't sleep for at least two days. For weeks, I would randomly think to myself "What if North Korea dropped the nukes on us right now and I was turned into a skeleton? What would I look like to survivors hundreds of years from now?"

76 is probably the most stuffed with stories of people dying ,its depressing asf just hearing everyone die after having survived armageedon and the infighting from everyone just pain.

Somewhere in the western part off the Fallout 4 map you can find a skeleton with a baton, next to three living mongrel hounds and dog bowls and such. I think the implication is that someone tried to train some hounds but got killed and eaten.

Sandy Coves Convalescent Home from Fallout 4. The whole place always made me feel so sad.

The fallout 4 crypt is such an overlooked area. Its a really nicely executed location but gets overlooked by having the player looking for the railroad. The millers are one of my favourite bits of environmental storytelling in the Bethesda era. It's a realistic situation and i recently read about a bunker someone found under their home with a design I questioned for the same reason. One entrance was in their house with a second a street or 2 again appearing as sewer access but it was on a busy street. A bomb would likely collapse buildings on both access points making the shelter a fancy tomb.

I’m wondering if the lever action rifle and T. rex was a nod to the joke that some lever actions shoot a powerful enough round(.45-70gov for example) to drop a dinosaur.

19:52 I refuse to let go 😂

I came across a couple of skeletons in Fallout 4, in the Bureau of Labor, if I'm not wrong. The one in plain clothes was strangling the one in a suit over a safe. I found that quite amusing.

I'm a little upset you said rick and morty lol

The trauma harness allowing the skeletons to hold and fire weapons is a miracle, considering it doesn't cover theirs arms or hands

The skeleton who slams the dumpster lid. Lol. Dude is like.....mmmm nope.

Silence in the library gave me nightmares as a kid when it was still on Netflix

Thanks, great idea to cover this

Would definitely enjoy a part two if you make it.

9:53 "Rick and Morty" is DEVIOUS work

My favorite skeletons are the ones at the Reeb Marina in Fallout 4. They were brothers who fell into madness and killed each other using the Mr. Handys they owned to kill the other brother as a birthday present

I lost it when you called Futurama Rick and Morty 😂

"...This time from Rick and Morty..." That hurt me physically.

The thing i love about fallout 4 is that you play as someone who lived prewar right when the bombs fell. So anytime i hear something that happened in different fallout games or see skeletons. I always vision this stuff happening at the same time as the sole survivor rushing to vault 111 or during their stasis. It makes it more sad honestly

The skeletons are great but also the teddy bear scenes are even better. I found one trapped and handcuffed under an overturned watse bin

That Futurama mix-up is wild

The manicans started moving everywhere once we took the lucky shades in fallout 3

The a runaways holotape and corpse found at rangers cabin makes me sad still one of my favorite sad stories

the fact he said Seymore was from Rick and Morty and still showed a Futurama clip makes me really unsure if he goofed or if he's just baiting us to comment about it cause that drives the video up in the algorithm... s**t I'm a part of the game he's playing now too

Randall Clark is by far the best one of these, in any fallout game. I think it's because we all feel there's a little Randall Clark in all of us.