GTA San Andreas Myths and Legends 

"If it's not a bug, it's an easter egg If it's not an easter egg, it's leftover beta content If it's not a leftover beta content, its schizophrenia" Love that line

There is just something I can't explain about looking for something that doesn't exist in Rockstar games.

Lol I remember being scared of cj's house cause there was a video saying his moms ghost was in there

can't blame anyone, i'm still afraid to walk in that foggy forest even nowadays lol

god this brings me back to my 12 year old days when i would watch gta sa horror videos and conspiracy videos, being sucked in for hours and days, i honestly miss it, i still watch those kinda videos and they still somehow suck me in but being a lil kid and almost pissin ya pants because ya thought ya saw big foot in gta sa, it was awesome

Nice early RU-vid nostalgia at the start and even the topic in general

One thing I think really helped spread all those rumours where the modded copies being sold in places like Brazil and etc. Piracy was reeaally commom in the PS2 era here and, for some reason, most GTA SA copies sold were modded. In a time where people didnt even knew what mods were, it is not that hard to believe that some people just experienced something from a mod and really thought it was legit

The one time I was brave enough to track down the moving ghost car, swear on my life... I saw it roll and stop so I jumped in and the fucking thing catapulted up into the air and scared the absolute fuck out of me. I gather looking back that it must have slipped an object like a tree or something that launched it like the GTA IV swingset. Also Bigfoot was there.

Um, actually my uncle works at GTA and he put Bigfoot in himself but he's like super rare and only appears in 20 copies of the game and I have a copy. Unfortunately I don't have anything to record it with

God it’s so nostalgic. I still remember being a kid and watching all the videos with the X files theme and watching so many myths and legends videos. I was so scared to go into the Forrest. I miss those times

I'm 20 years old and I'm still scared of going to Johnson's family house. Like, rationally I know nothing's there, but I can't help and take off my headphones and close my eyes when I'm going to save my game.

Honestly I remember walking through the subways of gta 4 with my guns out on a dirt bike trying to find rat man

Nowadays only DarkMythHunter and DaviDustin are the only serious myths hunters. Still keeping the hunt.

There's 1 creepy thing that's happened to me while playing san andreas: I blew up my vehicle somewhere deep in the forest and had to sprint around to get out , went to this cabin in the woods where i knew an atv spawned and took it. drove around for a while till i got to this wooden bridge , i looked behind me and there it was coming at me , this broken down glendale going really fucking fast lights off i literally shit myself it was so scary. it stopped right behind me i got into it and tried repairing it with a cheat but it wouldnt repair. It was a cool little encounter but i know it was a bugged spawn, problem is i could never get it to happen again.

the air planes crashing randomly while flying and the pedestrians falling from the sky are for sure real because when i was a kid i use to play it on ps2 and it would happen like quite often

When joyless pops up out of nowhere the day is joyful! Well "day" more like 3am upload lol.

I remember that when I was playing back in the day, I was living in the big ass Madd Dogg house and I never wanted to go to the dark parts of the house, because CJ’s breathing scared me. The reason I didn’t leave the place was the arcade games, I used to play these.

I think what I sort of find fascinating about gaming urban legends and myths was something that you kinda brought up towards the end. This kinda goes a bit into my actual feelings about urban legends and myths, but I just feel there are a lot of people out there who only seek to be entertained by mysteries and could care less if they are actually solved or not. I feel very few people genuinely want to try and understand the reasons behind a mystery. I remember David Lynch has this quote where he says that he would want Twin Peaks to remain a mystery forever because mysteries die once shit gets revealed, which I personally hard agree with. Like once you figure out a mystery, it sort of goes away immediately afterwards and the intrigue sort of just ends up dying with the mystery. So I think that is kind one of the reasons why many of these GTA urban legends still continue to persist even after being rationally explained away. Like what you sort of talked about here, I personally know in GTA San Andreas, a lot of the URBAN LEGENDS AND SECRETS, were mainly just development oversights or them not being able to fix certain shit proper. You probably are aware of the GTA San Andreas "Hell" myth, where you go to the Los Santos Gym and were able to clip through a corner and reach HELL, which lead you to this void that had like some gates and unused level assets. But like, it was eventually figured out that HELL was actually just used to show cutscenes that took place at the garage across the street from the the San Fierro Train Station. What's funny to me is just how simple things like an out of bounds asset to quickly render a cutscene was considered to be "paranormal" in a sense. Whereas now, because we know how complicated game development is, it's easier to dismiss stuff as a glitch or a bug, even though I don't doubt that some people still believe in many of these urban legends. But I would be lying if I didn't admit that these urban legends got my curiosity going, in a way that many of the newer Rockstar games don't really achieve. I remember playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and there's this whole side quest in which you find the dismembered body parts and victims of a serial killer in various locations across the map, with each location giving you a piece of a map that will lead to the serial killer's hideout. Well, once you go there you basically find the killer and you turn him into the sheriff's office. While it was certainly intriguing, it is kind of disappointing how it was just sort of used for a side mission and that it didn't really have much of a larger purpose or have a larger sense of mysteriousness about it. Certainly when I first found it, it was creepy as hell and I wanted to figure out the mystery, but it was also kinda built up super poorly by just giving you a map and saying "yeah he be here". There were no clues, no people I had to talk to, it didn't really feel like a mystery at that point. It sort of felt like Rockstar wanted to capture that same aura of mystery like you see with all of the San Andreas mysteries, but Rockstar still wanted it to play out like a typical mission or are just very quick to explain that mystery away. Even in GTA 5, there is a ghost that you can find, but it's also a deliberate easter egg put in by Rockstar that you can easily trigger. It doesn't feel as random or meaningful because of that. So there ain't going to be a recreation of people obsessing over a mystery, if that mystery can easily be explained away. Not to say that it should always be that way, that every mystery SHOULD be unexplainable and purposely vague. I'm always going to be one of those people who would rather know something than not know anything. My attitude towards a lot of gaming urban legends and real life urban legends is to just apply Occam's Razor, you know? But it's more so my point that it's weird how a myth in a game like San Andreas can intrigue me and fascinate me more than a purposely thought out interaction and side mission in Red Dead Redemption 2. I also wanted to say that this video was easily one of your best and I enjoyed it so much.. It was by far one of your most immersive that you've done. Like, when you were telling that story about how you ran into your own urban legend, I was legit very hooked in and it got my curiosity going. this viddy was v goode. goode jobe jay.

Playing GTA SA today, I find that even during normal gameplay there is a certain eerieness to it, even though nothing spooky is really happening

Oooh hell yeah, this is my shit, man. I remember back in, when, 2007, me being a 13 year old scared shitless at night trying to replicate some obscure myth about leatherface appearing in a cabin in the game. Or searching for all the Easter eggs I could. I remember writing and cataloguing them in a MSword file haha Fun times

Geez, I never really thought about how unsettling Mount Chiliad was in SA. No wonder why so many kids were scared to explore it at night. The atmosphere of it alone is enough to make yourself uneasy

He returns from the ashes of 2020 to bring joy back into our lives with his joylessness.

On the sliding scale of patronising grovelling to casually dismissive compliment: It's great to see another subject get approached completely sincerely yet with tongue in cheek self awareness, video production quality is spot on too. Took a bunch of rumours and laid them out on the table for dissection and even as you killed the magic you still clearly love the subject matter enough to make a whole great researched video about it. OR Nice vid mate

If you haven't seen Oddheader and some of the weird bugs he uncovers I would recommend. Going back to the Perfect Dark Ghost, In Saint's Row 2 there's literally a bug that would cause the silhouette of the top half of a human to project itself onto any random wall for a single frame before freezing the entire game. Sounds fake and yet this creepypasta stuff happens.

I had this weird bug happen to me in San Andreas. I was attacked by an NPC that looked exactly like my CJ during the Riot. It was the same build and it was even wearing the same clothing too.

This video brings back so many memories. I remember as a kid I watched so many '''GTA myths'' videos. They all had the fucking X-files theme too.

I LOVE when open world games have secrets. Huge, freaky, dark secrets. Growing up I wished desperately that San Andreas and GTA IV had something to find because my imagination was wild and hopeful.

You're out here debunking everyone's childhood haha you're evil!

I've actually seen a ghost car in San Andreas. Saw a car driving around one of the roads with no npc in it. I followed it for a bit, but I think it disappeared once I turned the camera away. It's more likely a bug than an intentional thing though. But I saw it for sure.

I remember my friends and I exploring the abandoned sprunk factory in GTA IV and trying to scare each other. I was the first guy in the group to get the zombie skin and I'd jump out and stab them for a laugh. We never found anything, but the memories are definitely cherished.

I Deadass subscribed yesterday went and saw your last upload was 6 months ago and got sad Then you dropped this, thank you

I’m so glad you talked about this topic. Because for something I remember being so popular on RU-vid when I was 10, I don’t see anyone ever mention or remember this “myth era” of RU-vid. I spent hours trying to find mysteries in San Andreas until I ended up thinking I saw a ghost or a figure or whatever. It freaked me the hell out.

0:00 mannnn i miss being a kid on youtube and seeing videos like that, simple times. Ahhh the nostalgia.

A very fun look back at my all time favourite game and a genre of RU-vid videos that I spent way too much time immersing myself in as a kid. I specifically remember that horrendous photoshop job at 14:16 showing up in tonnes of videos. Wonderful work as usual Jay

The Bigfoot myth gave me and my friends many hours of extra playtime on this game. I remember many nights just walking around in the woods at night

I tried for hours and hours one weekend to find big foot on San Andreas. One of the rumors said driving the monster truck around woods of the country for 6 hours would make him come after you. And of course I wasted those hours trying to no avail.

Idk man, There is something so scary about roaming around the forests of San Andreas at a foggy weather or rainy weather, I feel venerable af even tho I know there is nothing, I have played some actual horror games and they are not as scary as this, Its the way Rockstar designs these place, Its timeless

Glad to see you're still around making videos! Cheers bro

I like how Rockstar put more mythical stuff in their games following GTA SA. In their following games, we've got sasquatch, UFOs, strange NPCs and ghosts.

Love your videos man, stick them on at night when I'm relaxing. 👍

I loved hunting for bigfoot as a kid, and the ghost cars in the same forest made it creepier, even though apparently they just have a spawn at a hill and roll down naturally

Your videos have great production value! They're very interesting to watch (not just listen, as I usually would with this type of video essays), are amazingly paced, at least for my taste, and drive some good points home with no more fumbling than would be entertaining, feeding thought. Not so much a comment on this last one, but on your last 10, excluding albums, which I have just finished binging. Please, keep making them if possible; no matter if they're infrequent. They're a great perspective.

And when the world needed him most, he returned.

San Andreas is just an amazingly detailed and large open world for a 2004 game, at the time it really felt like there could be anything out there

MAN your channel rules dude. You got yourself another subscriber (and you deserve several hundreds of thousands more). please keep making these videos that seem to appeal specifically to me and I will keep watching.

"If it's not a bug it's an easter egg, if it's not an easter egg it's leftover beta content, and if it's not leftover beta content it's schizophernia'' Lmao

The windows aren't just blue. The map that came with the game calls it "Cult farm". And DaviDustin did an investigation into it and found some really weird stuff going on.

How tf did you manage to take me back to my childhood in 30 seconds or less

Oh damn, nostalgia trip. Back when my innocent soul didn't know know what jumpscares were and managed to wander from "San Andreas Ghost Car" videos to THE "Ghost car" video. Always kept an eye out for suspicious content with only 1 or 2 stars after that.

Damn that ghost gif at 7:20 scared an embarrassing amount.

When I was a kid I would stay up all night watching the myths videos and hunting Bigfoot. That intro was a nice dose of nostalgia. I knew the x files theme from these videos before I learned where the song actually came from.

I usually really don’t recommend things to RU-vidrs but I would genuinely love to know your opinion about Bully: Scholarship Edition, Rockstar’s most underrated classic.

That intro just earned u a sub my friend! Truly top tier content

Your channel is so underrated, I love your content so much! Recently found you and have watched nearly all your vids keep it up man!

This man knows how to put thoughts in words so straightforward and clear

I used to love watching old San Andreas mystery videos from the internet in 2009 2010 after the earlier 2000’s and this brings back good memories of my past 😏

i love your videos so much. they help me through alot. please never stop making them, they are very entertaining and neat! greetings from norway =)

Just found your channel, and your videos are great

The intro you made gave me nostalgia like a truck hitting me at 82MPH on an empty street

What you're saying at the end there is basically true of everyone who's into ghosts, cryptids, and aliens in real life as well. Anyway, good video man, can't wait for the next one.

This was awesome! The intro was so awesome. I checked the upload date like 4 times to make sure it wasn't from like 2009 lol

glad to see you back

I've always wondered, why is CJ's house's floor so impossibly shiny, looks like a basketball court in there

Joyless vids are the hidden corners in a game of RU-vid and I can't stop watching them

I love how there is an unused bear in GTA:SA, but no one ever utilized it as far as I know.

I remember reading that the ''ghost cars'' were put in for the players to use if they lost their vehicles.

You LEGEND, Jay! I think I'll finally subcribe to you after watching this last video. xD THANK YOU for the nostalgic intro! Brings me back to my childhood. cx

I never had the luxury of the internet in my household until 2006/7, so when I came across a masked attacker with a chainsaw spawning on one side of a bridge in the Back O' Beyond area, it certainly wasn't someone else's tale. But then again it could have been a dream I remember which engrained as though I actually experienced it. I really can't say, but it was so vivid at the time.

My man’s back with another banger video

I remember being afraid of forests, Mount Chiliad, CJ's house, etc... Era of GTA SA mysteries were top tier

Love your stuff mate, watched most of your videos and continually rewatch them, I know what RU-vid's like, ive had a RU-vid channel (two actually) and a fuckton of mates that spent years on theirs with no progress, but I think your doing good, and I love what your doing. Please do more classic game review, I love the format, even if it's been done a million times, one thing you do that I haven't seen before, is your interest in the mood of a game, the individual scenes and ambiance, which is super neat. Please keep it up, and know that blokes like me love your stuff. Oh, and if you have a discord, I'd probably join it

This intro has given me chills. My childhood was this song and shitty edits of old videos. Perfection.

i needed this video... thanks.

That start reminds me of all those myth videos from like a decade ago.

Thank you for still making videos

Nice video bro

That intro made my eyes teary😂 Gosh can't forgot the good ol' gta sa days

Your joylessness sustains me.

awesome channel you got here man, you should upload more often!!

I just found this channel. Perfectly timed upload

Good video, very nostalgic

I remember searching up creepy stuff about this back when I played it long time ago in 2006-2007

I remember seeing and killing Big Foot in San Andreas on the ps2 version at a friends place. Makes me wonder if it was a modified version.

I feel the better title for this is “some English bloke crapping on for 25 minutes”

Hey that was a good vid my guy, thoroughly enjoyed it, here's one more sub to you

Make more of these, theyre amazing

Subbed for the Jungle outro, big up!!!!!

This really brings me back to an older time of youtube

Woah, welcome back!

The first 30 seconds of Nosltaga 🥰 Thank you so much

I have had that radio audio thing happen to be multiple times when I used to play my Xbox 360 on my old crt tv as a kid, when playing Fallout and GTA iV. Everyone looked at me like I was crazy.

very epic video, joyless.

dude how do you not have more subs your vids are amazing

I’ll never forget watching the Bigfoot GTA San Andreas videos only for it to be a fucking Jumpscare 😂😂💀

Hell yeah another video!!!

A new Master Jay's video? Christmas came early! ☺

this brings me back when i was a kid playing san andreas, my speakers would constantly pick up random phone calls and it was so weird hearing random speech while exploring forests and desers of gta lol, i was scared shitless from it

Damn memories, I LITERALLY STARTED my RU-vid account to make a video about GTA myths

Loved that typical „gta san andreas myth“ video type intro 😂

Phenomenal quality for a "san andreas video" really enjoyed that.