The Many Myths and Legends of GTA San Andreas 

It’s really a shame that we don’t get myths like these in video games these days. Between data miners and RU-vidrs doing clickbait of any secret or Easter egg it’s extremely difficult to properly hide some secret for more than a couple of days. So it’s rare for modern games to have myths.

I remember finding out about CJ's mom ghost, I felt intense uneasiness every time I had to save a game in CJ's home. When I finally collected money for another apartment, I felt relieved.

Even if i know these are mostly hoaxes, i still get chills while running in silence around foggy Whetstone. R* really nailed creepy atmosphere.

For the CJs Mom's ghost myth, there is an NPC will rarely glitch through CJs house through the corner where the TV is and have a glitched darkened texture, which gets commonly attributed to a ghost or the girl from the Ring

Ah yes, back in those days when you had to note everything on paper and myths and word-of-mouth being king.

Man, the amount of ways to supposedly find Bigfoot are all just coming back to me!

Although not necessarily a myth or legend and in fact a real thing, I remember that in the San Fierro docks at certain times when it was foggy, you could hear a distant ship honk, and that would cause the pedestrian NPCs to start panicking. I firmly remember this from my playthrough, and always found it quite creepy.

There was no other feeling like the one you got when exploring those woods to find some of these legends. It was always eerie due to how alone it felt. Amazing video, definitely nostalgia fuel lol.

1:51 Bigfoot 3:46 Leatherface 6:31 Jason Voorhees 7:15 Chupacabra 8:06 Ghost of CJ's Mom 9:37 Suicidal NPCs (True) 11:13 Clowns (Half-True) 12:32 Mothman 14:10 Piggsy (Reference Only) 15:18 The Spy 16:15 UFOS (True) 17:26 Kifflom 18:28 Treeman (True) 19:02 Mr. Trenchcoat (Half-True) 21:39 Demons (Half-True) 22:34 Mermaids 23:09 Headless Man 23:43 The Junkyard Killer [Mentioned] 24:00 Hellhounds 24:51 Casino Destroyer 25:28 Sharks (True) 27:06 Cave Demon 28:00 Bears 28:39 Cane Killer 29:08 Flying Fish (True) 30:00 The Psycho 31:16 Mount Chilliad Angel (Half-True) 32:10 Loch Ness Monster 33:32 Ghost Cars (True) 34:48 Aliens

Man I miss these days. Back then the internet was all over the place, can't explain it, but until the mid 2010s nobody knew anything or how to properly fact check something I guess lol So while we all fell for hoaxes like the GTA SA mythos or even irl stuff, it was entertaining and interesting. It incentivized people to play the game and search for mysterious stuff and also created alot of fun discussions and conversations...

I remember being like 13 years old spending hours and hours trying to find Big Foot. The GTA community was going crazy at that time.

The suicidal NPC one is interesting, because it's in GTA 5 too, just not nearly as common. I have a clip saved on my PS4 of me riding a bike below the bridge separating mirror park from Vinewood, when all of a sudden this dude jumped off the bridge and plummeted to his death. Weird.

The demonic face in the garage is just a texture tiling error. The garage door texture is just a generic asymmetric png, which is mapped to the door model in a way that horizontally flips the texture from the middle. Such flipped symmetric images (like Rorschach tests) have a way of making people imagine faces and scenes in them due to pareidolia.

It was fun watching those old videos on monsters and things found in GTA:SA, creepy X-files music adding to it, then trying to find them yourself. I kind of remember there was this "zombie lab" in San Fierro that had some theories tied to it.

Nah honestly the ghost cars still had something more to them I swear by it to this day. Some of them drove in circles, some of them would drive over you NOT INTENTONALLY mind you but it happened I remember them vividly cause like you said, it pushed a lot of us into finding out what else weird stuff GTA SA has. We always knew it was a glitch but no that car def drove itself sometimes.

4:48 I can only assume that the people claiming this forgot about the whole hunger system that was in San Andreas.

For the suicide photographer there's a spanish RU-vidr called detenshuon who ran a experiment to know if it's a mystery or a delivered choice, by mapping a bridge crossing the sea until the other side, if the pedestrian kept walking forward even after getting to the other side it meant it was delivered, but if it changed its path to the sidewalk, it was a glitch, and the results showed that the pedestrian actually followed the path of the sidewalk, confirming once and for all that it was a glitch and not an easter egg

GTA San Andreas is one of the games ever made.

I have some more myths that I remembered to add to this, great video btw : - Fire Dog Is said to be the ghost of a dog who died in an accident in the Quarry near Las Venturas, this myth turned out to be a hoax - Ghost Planes Planes would randomly fall out of the sky for no reason, one time a Beagle crashed near me near Back O' Beyond - Big Smoke's Ghost Big Smoke is said to haunt the compound he died in during the final mission, this myth is false IIRC - Blue Hell Players can fall out of bounds into the underside of the map, and they'll be teleported back into the map after falling to a certain point, this myth is a glitch - Falling Black Dots Random small, fast, and rare black dots can be seen falling from the sky in certain areas, it is a glitch but it's not known of what kind exactly. - Andromada The cargo plane from the Stoaway mission, I don't remember why this was a myth, the plane is just weird I guess - Ring Girl A pedestrian model can somehow glitch into CJ's house and appear on the game console, IIRC this was also false - Cave Monster False myth of a creature that is said to spawn in the cave in Fort Carson, there was a video showing this creature but it was a mod - Ghost Town Figure A black figure is said to appear in the Ghost Town in Las Venturas, this was never proven to be true - Tunnel Creature It's said that there is a creature living in the train tunnel in the outskirts of Los Santos, same as Cave Creature this was also a false myth - Jefferson Motel Ghost Ghosts is said to haunt the Jefferson Motel after the Reuniting The Families mission, it was most likely false but this myth is the exact reason I don't go into the motel back then

I think the reason me and so many others believed Bigfoot videos on early 2000’s RU-vid was simply due to the fact that we had no idea modding was even a thing. I played on ps2 and had no idea one could even mod a game on pc.

The amount of nostalgia I re-lived from this video is insane. Miss those days where me and my friends would try to find myths and while we obviously never found anything it's some of my favorite gaming memories.

Maybe it’s the 2000’s nostalgia coming back into vogue, but seeing San Andreas played with the CTR television-esque static filter makes the game look oddly graphically and “cinematically” better to look at. Your Manhunt video had the same vibe too which made the game even better to look at!

THIS is the type of content I love to see. Keep up the amazing work!

This video feels strangely nostalgic. I used to watch so many myth videos when I was a kid.

I remember hearing about CJs moms ghost when I was a kid, I was so freaked out by it I actively avoided going back inside of his house.

Been watching videos about GTA San Andreas mysteries since I was 12 years old, seeing a video like this today when I am 18 makes me feel 12 again, thank you for making such quality content!

When I was a kid, I was playing the game, and decided to take my first plane ride. I dove out of the plane after a bit given the option, and realized about halfway through that I didn’t have a parachute. I plunged into that fault-line area, and saw the shark’s tail. The chances of it spawning were ridiculous, and I had such a troublesome time convincing classmates and people online that it was real. You can only imagine my excitement when it was confirmed by DaviDustin, DarkMythHunter, and everyone that followed with their hunts.

Ahhh this takes me back to my younger years of "myth hunting" in San Andreas

The most traumatising and creepy Part of this video was the compilation of the Zero RC Missions. True stuff of Nightmares😂

23:55 Probably a glitch. You can play as a headless character by decapitating the other player during co-op and restarting the multiplayer mode. The player 2 model will remain decapitated and even leave blood trails .

You’re missing the X Files theme and unregistered hypercam

The scariest part of this video is having to watch Zero's missions play in the background. I'm having flashbacks... But yeah, I can remember sleepless nights, hanging out at my friend's place, running around Back o' Beyond, trying to find anything remotely spooky.

Flashback to all those spanish text to speech videos, my god those were my childhood, even when not understanding a word of what they were saying - you just knew everything they meant

Always loved old gaming legends like this!! Remembering the old Luigi in Mario 64 days and unlocking Sonic in Smash Melee lmao. It's a blessing and a curse how mods and hacking have become so easy these days that these kinds of gaming legends can't really exist anymore, definitely not to the extent they once did. I wish I could go back to the early 2000's internet and see all these discussions about hidden stuff that no one 100% knew existed or not. It's sad that as we gain knowledge, we lose the magic that was once there instead.

I had a one of those old third party cheat code magazines that featured gta, and they straight up claimed to have a code that claimed to enable you to go to space or something insane like that.

Holy shit, I remember those “Myth Hunting” videos. I remember being actually scared of San Andreas since I didn’t know what GTA was all about (and back then, I didn’t know English, so I didn’t know what GTA even meant).

So there's a rare thing that happened to me playing this game years ago that I never see anyone talk about. Basically, if you get level one wanted level, so the police won't shoot, and you start climbing up this construction site that has a very narrow way up, the police will start "talking you down." Basically trying to convince you not to commit su*cide. I can't remember where exactly the construction was at but it only happened to me once and surprised the hell outta me. Never heard it mentioned in any videos either

There should be a number we can all call for compensation for how many FUCKING HOURS we all sunk into investigating all these mfs

This trope that CJ dies after being left alone idling is really simple. GTA SA has a hunger system which triggers after playing for 72minutes (3 ingame days). The game will warn you that CJ is hungry, demanding you to search for food to keep him going. If you ignore that demand, the game will slowly decrease CJs fat (if he was any) every 1 ingame hour (1 minute in real time) and after fat has been depleted, the game will drain muscles and finally health. CJ will starve and respawn in front of the hospital. Most people never know about this because they either save the game or eating from fast food places, vending machines or stands. That resets the hunger counter.

Happy to see people still remembering this Its sad that major myth hunters left the platform and deleted their channel like cfox360

This was my childhood back in 2009, can't forget 009 sound system

2:36 I loved this game as a kid. Even the little Easter eggs like man hunt and other GTA model toys. Just tiny things most people don't notice when playing it Thier first time.

I still love how Rockstar acknowledged some of these myths and put them into GTA 5

oh hell yes this is exactly what my sunday afternoon needed thank you!

Made me nervous having those Zero missions playing, I've played those too many times.

1:53 I experienced something in GTA V, that I'll never forget. During the Mission of chasing the O'Neil brothers when they were in the forest, I could see a posture resembling bigfoot (it was shown as an actual creature on the nightvision scope) and when I shot it, it just dissapeared.

Definitely would love to see a follow up to this with more other stories within gta whether hoax or true. Whether it be certain games or just random ones. Definitely got a possible series on ya hands!

as a kid i watched all of these myths and legends play out as they we're made since 2009-2015 so i knew about pretty much most of these, but as a dumb kid i didn't know what a mod was and i only had a PS2 so i didn't know they weren't in the game. but even now as an adult going to Back O' Beyond and the cabin in the woods still freak me out. one of the mods that scared me most as a kid was one that spawned in a tan alien with spikes for hands or something, one was in a tunnel by the desert area which was the first video i saw of this mod and i had to go in there as a kid and was relieved it wasn't real 😅

to add onto why you seemingly die after you leave your game on in popular myth spots; the game has a starvation system. if CJ hasn't eaten in a while his health will slowly drain to zero. it's extremely slow however, which is why people tend to not notice

Actually, of all the NPCs in the game, it would actually make the most sense for trench coat guy to attack you if you followed him around. He sounds like a disturbed and paranoid individual and like he's be quick to assume that people are government agents sent to either spy on him or take him out.

If you're watching this in 2023, I have bad news, in a year gta sa will be 20

I used to watch GTA SA myths videos when I was about 11. Now it's cringy to revisit them, but thanks to you I got my piece of nostalgia. Thank you 😀

I had definitely seen a shark in GTASA, so thank you for the vindication. Could you do the NPC that supposedly asks you to hit them? Vinesauce Joel went looking for her and couldn't prove she existed either way.

Spending hours watching SA myths compilations, all of them 360p with the X-Files theme song and a bad text-to-speech has to be one of the fondest memories of my childhood.

There's something that's been bugging me since 2007. I swear on absolutely EVERYTHING that Leatherface is real in San Andreas. This has been on my mind since then so I'd love for anyone to read and reply to this. So for context, this was on a completely unmodded copy of San Andreas on the PS2, I was doing the Countryside Cesar racing missions, the ones where you start next to some abandoned shacks, and after finishing the Woozie race, before I could start the next one, a NPC in a tractor left one of the shacks and started speeding up towards me, and since I was a kid, I loved to use cheats so I had stuff like the "cars you touch explode" and "cars you touch float in the air" cheats active, so my first reaction was to speed towards him to kill the "killer", and when his tractor exploded, he dropped a chainsaw. This NPC did NOT have an unique face texture or even a leather face, I can't remember which NPC exactly it was but it was just a normal countryside NPC, except in a tractor and holding a chainsaw which I presumed would've used to attack me with once he left the tractor, keep in mind while in the tractor he was speeding up towards me to ram my car with, exactly like aggro'd NPCs do in San Andreas. Keep in mind I was around 8 at the time, so my first reaction was to go to some San Andreas myth forum and tell everyone in broken English how I saw Leatherface 100% real no fake, of course everyone shoo'd me off and told me to stop making stuff up. But something about that encounter really stood out to me, because it ACTUALLY happened and I remember it very vividly. It wasn't my first time beating San Andreas, I had already beat the game twice at that point, so I was used to the layout and everything, and in no point a chainsaw wielding NPC in a tractor ever came out in that area to attack me except this one time. One thing I've also been thinking about this whole situation, is that I was born in the third world, right? So stuff like "GTA Rio de Janeiro" or "GTA Thailand" or whatever were pretty common here as bootlegs, however I know for exact sure I had an unmodded copy of the game, I have plenty of experience with these kinds of bootlegs from playing at friends' houses (they're just normal copies of San Andreas but with cheat menus and reskins, like Rio de Janeiro has the gangs reskinned to have football team jerseys), so I'm just wondering what the hell happened in my copy if it was unmodded? Surely someone wouldn't have been as sadistic enough to make a San Andreas bootleg with just one mod adding a Leatherface NPC and sold it on the grey market as normal base GTA:SA, right? I can't stop thinking about this and I don't know where else to comment on it. Thanks for reading if you make it to this point.

I think the myths about leaving the game idle and appearing at the hospital is due to starving after not eating food for 3 days without any fat or muscle.

As if the country side wasn't spooky enough at night, these theories started to flow around and i would go as far as to restart the game if i ever ended in the country side at night. With night fog it was one of the biggest scares that i had as a kid, and i beat Amnesia with little issue Later when i got into modding i confirmed that there where none of these creatures first hand, since there where no models or textures for any of them

Did you guys know that if you leave your game open when standing in the middle of the highway and the come back CJ will be at the hospital? It's really disturbing!!! Okay but now seriously, nicely done video. Loved it :)

My cousin and I did our first RU-vid video on my channel about ghost cars, such a good memory, I miss the days we sat and thought we were cool cause we were “myth hunting”

Reminds me of mid-late 2000s, I remember going to GTA Mythica website a lot.

One of my favorite gaming memories was packing up my PS2, bringing it over to a friend's house on Friday the 13th during a rainstorm, and searching through the foggy forests around Mt. Chilliad for Jason and Bigfoot 😅

I used to watch the myths videos of gta sa but this video has almost all myths of gta sa NICE VIDEO KEEP IT UP 👍👍👍

Anything: Exists GTA SA Players: *"It Attacked Me"*

You know the video its great when bigfoot, the epsilon weird blue shit and pigsaw are on the miniature, great video as always man keep the good work.

This takes me back to the darkmythhunter days

That thumbnail takes me back to the days of Spanish RU-vid videos of CJ slaying gods and monsters with his fists, and the occasional minigun...

The shark thing low key made me happy af I remember my friend continuously saying I lied about seeing a shark now I gotta show him this video

I remember playing this game on the ps2 and being scarred of being in Mt Chilliad, my room being dark and it being night outside didnt help at all but those were some nice times trynna find bigfoot and watching all those unregistered hypercam and fraps videos just to see if I can find him on my own.

I remember when I used to watch a bunch of myths and legends videos on san Andreas when I was younger, despite them mostly being fake I really thought it was such a cool aspect to actually have in a game, the idea of a bunch of creepy stuff possibly happening that isn’t explicitly known to you as the player. I think it really takes the fun out how you can check the game files now to easily confirm or deny any of these possible myths and legends.

San Andreas is a legend itself

These myth videos used to get me so paranoid lol I got so scared watching these but I still did it lol

My favorite thing from this game will always be the airplanes that rarely crash into the side of a building, into a hill or into a cliff

the good old days of looking at bigfoot videos with "clubbed to death" playing

Not sure if it's on this list or not but has anyone else seen the small beach next to a countryside road that is usually empty but NPC's will pull up and get out of the car. And if you kill them they will respawn when you aren't looking 100% of the time

Glad I found your channel! Such a vibe to listen too. You forgot to mention the ring girl , Cave Monster, zombies, robots and even stick figures. Yea back in the day people thought there there was stick figures.

I never played this game ever, never plan to, but I always watched the myths and legends videos that one guy made, as well as some other super obscure videos I doubt I can ever find again. It's nice to see someone covering these.

its funny how many serial killer "myths" there are as if cj himself isnt a mass murderer

There are other myths out there in San Andreas that weren't mentioned here: The Moon- Whenever nightfalls in San Andreas, you can use a Sniper Rifle and shoot the Moon. This in turn will cause the Moon to grow slightly bigger, I think you can shoot it like 3 times before it shrinks to a much smaller size before the cycle repeats. Ghost Graffiti-I remember in one of the graveyards, I think it's the one where CJ's Mom was buried that at a certain time, a patch of graffiti will magically appear. And unlike most graffiti, you cannot spraypaint over it. The Face Rock Teleporter-I think that in the same area where the Ghost Cars are sits a rock that has a black etching of a face. But that's not all, apparently if you drive into said rock you might have a chance to fall through it and end up being teleported. Ghost Planes-Similarly to the Ghost Cars, on occasion you can hear and see planes fly over your area. However after flying a certain distance the planes will abruptly and suddenly despawn.

Damn, this video reminds me of the good old days of "Guys, I swear I'm not using any mods, here's the evidence of Bigfoot/Leatherface/Jason/Piggsy in the game" - and showing the footage of an epic CLEO scripted Boss fight with power and health bars...

I hate walking around Carl's house. His mom's ghost rumors really bothered me but just knowing she died there, being alone in the quiet there... Unsettling. Just very disturbing in a way I can't place, just like many places in San Andreas. A type of unease I haven't felt in any other GTAs.

Man, i remember spending hours watching creepy san andreas myth videos on RU-vid when i was a kid

Blue chicken man is believable af

I am so excited for the Quest 2 version of San Andreas. The hype is real.

To add to the Bigfoot mystery, they also said something was in the forest, and I remember seeing a video that talked about these myths and catching something for a brief second but was too quick to see what it was...

These myths and legends really take me back to my childhood. Good times

Man I remember when I watched those big foot videos as a kid, I was scared to even go into the woods afterwards

I'm surprised that sharks were actually doubted as being real. Back when I was a kid in the mid-late 2000s I found sharks myself after watching quite a lot of videos showing the locations where they could be seen. Even back then, these videos all said that the sharks were passive and just swam around.

Someone should do a big mod pack that adds all of these myths on the PC version of the game just to see how the game is according to 2010 claims.

I remember being 9 and watching these with xfiles music playing on low volume and being scared af

You can actually find a new under one of the trucks if you can push it over

this type of content is so nostalgic, I know that 99% of these are bulshit, but so many of these became real thanks to mods and it shows how passionate the fandom of this game is to this day

The headless man is actually real. On the PS2 version if you use the multi-player mode and get beheaded with a Katana your character can get stuck in the beheading animation so you can walk about headless with blood spurting out of your neck.

GOooood, I remember looking for all of these when I was little on the ps2! The only one I found was the ghost car, which scared the shite out of me

Seeing all of these makes me realize how gullible we were as kids lol

Rockstar also acknowledged the many serial killer myths, the killer clown myth, and the ghost car myths by putting them into GTA Online for a Halloween event. The ghost car is a direct reference to Christine since it’s looks similar to it. And one of the serial killers spawns in the woods which is very similar to the Leatherface, Jason Voorhees, and Stalker myths.

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Myths unfortunately do not exist anymore. The internet has grown to a point where information spreads at lightning speed. You just can't have the joy of being mysterious anymore. You cannot let yourself be wrong.

I had enough with the "ghost" cars in San Andreas.. (I played the game at the time of release, and I do remember seeing awfully compressed "screengrabs" of Big Foot back then)

Honestly these myths actually makes the games world fells more alive.

Damn that Shark man. I remember..