Red Dead Redemption 2: Scariest Secrets

While the environment of an unclaimed America in Red Dead Redemption 2 can be filled with immense beauty to take in, it can also be filled with immense terror. While exploring the states of Red Dead Redemption 2, players might stumble across a few terrifying secrets that other players might not have known about, or, the thrill seekers out there might want to explore it for themselves.

With so many creepy aspects to the world of Red Dead Redemption 2, it’s a good time to take a look at some of the most terrifying components of this Old West world and see just how Arthur Morgan and John Marston stayed so bold in their boots about what they saw.

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Lucky’s Cabin

The Hideout of the Serial Killer, Edmund Lowry Jr.

• Location: South of Valentine in the American Dreams stranger mission

Most players who have stumbled upon a mangled corpse over by the railroad of Valentine might have found the piece to a map that details the location of the killer, but not many players would have found all the map pieces scattered around the different states. However, those who do can venture into New Hanover, where South of Valentine they can find a burned cabin.

Yet, it’s not Lucky’s Cabin itself that players are interested in, but the locked cellar. Inside, players will find an assortment of mutilated victims of the serial killer, along with missing person posters and torturous weapons, all belonging to the deranged Edmund Lowry Jr.

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The Strange Man’s Shack

A Cabin to Worship Something Supernatural and Follow Arthur’s Morality

• Location: South of Bayou Nwa

For those brave enough to venture into the Bayou Nwa of Lemoyne, they might find a small curl in the Kamassa River that leads to Bayall Edge, a dainty and derelict little cabin that might seem rotted and discarded on the outside, but the interior is extremely pristine and well kept. In the center is an unfinished painting that proves that someone does indeed live here, and subsequent visits will progress the painting until its final form.

The painting is of the Strange Man who John Marston encounters in a supernatural Strangers mission in the original Red Dead Redemption, and if players come here to the finished painting, not only will they see the Strange Man in the mirror, but they will also make a note of the poems etched into the walls that detail Arthur Morgan’s journey.

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Manmade Mutant

A Creature Made From the Remains of Humans, Bears, Pigs, and Vultures

• Location: West of Van Horn Trading Post

Head to the abandoned house just West of Van Horn Trading Post in New Hanover and climb through the open window on the second floor to discover a disturbing sight that might have some players quickly leaving the way they came and attempting to burn this place to the ground. Inside the house is the Manmade Mutant, a horrifying creature that was created from a mixture of bears, vultures, pigs, and man.

While the Manmade Mutant could indeed just be a reference to South Park’s ManBearPig, the implication that a mad scientist is somewhere in New Hanover finding body parts to create a Frankenstein monster-type creature is extremely disturbing, and luckily, this thing remains dead.

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The Night Folk of Bayou Nwa

Twisted Killers Who Terrorise Those Who Dare Venture Into the Night

• Location: Bayou Nwa and Bluewater Marsh between 8 PM and 3 AM

It’s best not to venture through the swamps of Lemoyne at night, for when the sun goes down, the Night Folk come out to play. The areas of the Bayou Nwa and Bluewater Marsh are filled with the terrors of the Night Folk, which are essentially cannibals and killers who will roam the swamps in search of lost victims that they can terrorize and mutilate.

It’s a terrifying thing to be in the swamps at night, and most sane players wouldn’t dare to take a trip out to the swamp so late into the night as to see these monsters at work. However, those who do might want to bring a gun or two, as plenty of traps will be set up to try and make Arthur their latest victim. From hung bodies, screaming victims, and the false cries of weeping women, the Night Folk are not to be encountered alone, or without a decent gun.

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Agnes Dowd

A Ghostly Apparition That Haunts Bluewater Marsh

• Location: Bluewater Marsh between 9 PM – 3 AM

Ghosts are an actual thing in Red Dead Redemption 2, and players can see one for themselves and even note it in Arthur’s journal upon seeing the apparition of Agnes Dowd in the Bluewater Marsh in foggy weather from 9 PM to 3 AM. While Agnes Dowd won’t harm the player, she will disappear if they get too close, and so players will just have to silently watch her mournful cries and grieving wails for a lover that will never come.

Agnes Dowd’s story is truly tragic, as it was a young woman who fell in love with a married man and had his child, all for him to go back to his wife and ignore the poor and young girl, leading to a drop of her sanity and the death of them all from her own murderous hands. Agnes now haunts Bluewater Marsh as punishment, unable to move on from life or grief, and only witnessed by players brave enough to venture through the swamps of Lemoyne at night.

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The Vampire of Saint Denis

Hunting a Blood-Sucking Vampire That Stalks the Night

• Location: Buildings between the Gunstore and General Store in Saint Denis

Saint Denis is a bastion of civilization in Red Dead Redemption 2, showcasing the evolution of mankind as they industrialize away from the Wild West. Yet, even in a city such as this, creeps and strangers can be found in abundance, and one such stranger is a literal vampire that stalks the night and leaves ominous writings etched into the walls where his latest victims lay.

Finding all 5 mysterious writings around Saint Denis will form a pentagram to allow players to find the central spot for the next victim, where players who arrive at midnight will discover a vampire, sucking the blood of his latest victim. Whether this is really a vampire or not is up to interpretation, but the sharp teeth, curled fingers, and pointed ears, indicate that this supernatural being should be shot twice, just to make sure he stays dead.

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Gertrude Braithwaite

Catherine Braithwaite’s Dark Secret Murmurs in a Chained Outhouse

• Location: South of Braithwaite Manor

The Braithwaite family are a sad lot of old fools stuck in the past, and their feud with the Grays extends to their status as good folk, as Catherine Braithwaite, the lady of the house, has hidden away her youngest daughter in an outhouse behind the Braithwaite Manor so that nobody can see that she has a daughter who is disfigured and mentally ill.

Venturing to the outhouse, players can peek inside to see Gertrude for themselves, and even hear her cackling and muttering to herself on repeat. While it’s expected that this is just a poor and unwell girl in a cruel world, some believe that Gertrude is actually possessed and that her sunken skin and ghastly complexion are a result of demonic entities, since the numbers she repeats could allude to the pentagrams of Butcher Creek.

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Hani’s Bethel

A Suicide Cult’s Close Encounter With Aliens

• Location: North of Emerald Ranch, at 2 AM

Just North of Emerald Ranch in New Hanover, players can find an abandoned shack, Hani’s Bethel. Inside, players aren’t going to find much in terms of loot but will find a wealth of disturbing bodies, for this appeared to hold a cult. The details of the cult reveal that they have all killed themselves so that their souls can hitch a ride on a spaceship to venture through the stars.

While at first, Arthur Morgan can read this and see it as just a bunch of nonsense from a cult, staying inside the cabin at 2 AM will reveal a UFO that appears overhead, shining an ominous green glow from above. If players try to get a good look at the UFO, it will leave, but it’s rather unsettling to know that either the cult was right, or that we are not alone in the universe.