Grand Theft Auto 5 Players Think They've Finally Solved the Mount Chiliad Mystery, But Others Aren't Convinced

A Grand Theft Auto 5 contented creator believes helium has yet solved the infamous Mount Chiliad enigma aft 12 years of sleuthing, but immoderate members of the assemblage aren’t convinced.

If you’ve played GTA 5 – and there’s a bully accidental you person – you’ve besides apt heard astir Mount Chiliad and the notorious UFO Easter Egg associated with it. In September 2013, astir precisely 12 years ago, anxious GTA fans booted up Rockstar Games’ latest sandbox to find a trio of main characters, caller locations, and a smorgasbord of mysteries to uncover. Evidence of aliens could and inactive tin beryllium recovered strewn astir the Los Santos map, with players capable to observe everything from extraterrestrial remains to crashed UFO ships if they cognize wherever to look.

Mount Chiliad Mural. Image captured via Gator Keys' "The End of The Mount Chiliad Mystery" video.

Aliens person been a blistery taxable for some GTA 5’s in-game citizens and its real-life players, but it’s the enigma atop Mount Chiliad that has sent heads spinning for much than a decade. Those who marque the trek up Los Santos’ unmissable rocky upland volition announcement a tiny cavern with a unusual diagram that features a maze-like signifier and 4 chiseled markings: a UFO, a cracked egg, a idiosyncratic wearing a jetpack, and an all-seeing oculus looking down connected Mount Chiliad.

After 12 years, astir GTA 5 fans inactive aren’t definite what it each means, but contented creator Gator Keys thinks the reply has been successful beforehand of america each along.

Signs

Gator Keys, a fashionable YouTuber who has enactment connected their GTA detective chapeau to lick immoderate of GTA 5’s top mysteries for the past year, dug into what is possibly the series’ astir infamous Easter Egg with their astir caller upload, titled “This is The End of the Mount Chiliad Mystery.” It’s an eight-minute video with an unluckily anticlimactic conclusion: GTA 5 players solved the enigma years ago.

As discovered much than a decennary ago, players who instrumentality to the apical of Mount Chiliad aft achieving 100% completion volition beryllium met with a full-on flying saucer – laser beam noises, flashing lights, and all. As an added gag, this UFO, on with immoderate of the others recovered successful the game, features an FIB logo, representing the Grand Theft Auto universe’s parody mentation of the FBI.

The presumption since GTA 5 launched each the mode backmost successful 2013 has been that determination indispensable beryllium much to the communicative than conscionable different UFO appearing successful the sky. There are, aft all, different flying saucers to beryllium discovered astir the map, but Gator Key believes it each genuinely comes backmost to that FIB logo.

UFO with FIB logo successful GTA 5. Image captured via Gator Keys' "The End of The Mount Chiliad Mystery" video.

“The full constituent of this enigma is to archer america a small more,” Gator Key says. “The crushed they enactment a UFO astatine the apical of Mount Chiliad is to amusement america the FIB logo spinning connected the broadside of it. This means the FIB created these UFOs. They are the aliens. They are the all-seeing eye.”

It makes consciousness – Rockstar is known for utilizing GTA to supply commentary connected the existent world, and conspiracy theories astir aliens play a portion successful that, too. Just similar the players who person obsessed implicit Mount Chiliad and its connections to beingness successful space, determination are those successful Los Santos who worship the aliens and archer tales astir UFO sightings.

There are besides caller comments from erstwhile Rockstar decorator Ben Hinchliffe to consider. When speaking with GTAVIoclock past year, helium touched connected the large Mount Chiliad mystery, and though helium wasn’t straight progressive with its creation, helium admitted that immoderate Easter Eggs are included “just to messiness with people.”

“The Mount Chiliad enigma is simply a play connected existent life,” Gator Keys adds. “The information that the government, the radical successful power, power the population, and we tin deed 100% each we like. We tin get to the apical of the mountain, but the UFO is inactive retired of scope due to the fact that we unsocial are not the all-seeing eye.”

They Live

It would beryllium disappointing to spot 12 years of assemblage effort travel down to small much than a misunderstanding, but if Gator Keys is correct, past that’s precisely what happened. It’s an mentation that arrives arsenic small arsenic 1 twelvemonth distant from the motorboat of Grand Theft Auto 6, and it doesn’t adjacent travel adjacent to convincing immoderate of the die-hard GTA 5 fans who person combed implicit Mount Chiliad for years.

“Nonsense. The creator should halt making these types of videos,” 1 idiosyncratic commented successful a caller Reddit thread.

“He didn't excavation acold enough. Itl hap someday. But hes wrong,” different idiosyncratic commented successful an X/Twitter post.

The video is implicit nonsense! We volition not remainder earlier GTA VI. we person a tiny twelvemonth near to start, and hopefully, we volition decorativeness it#crackingChiliad #GTA5 https://t.co/FGJ15s0RVF

Users connected the chiliadmystery Sub Reddit, which contains much than 44,000 “hunters,” person posted arsenic precocious arsenic conscionable days agone arsenic they proceed to enactment retired what whitethorn oregon whitethorn not beryllium astatine the bottommost of GTA 5’s Mount Chiliad mystery. Some judge the Easter Egg connections whitethorn proceed to subdivision implicit into GTA 6, portion others deliberation determination whitethorn beryllium a transportation to DLC that was canceled agelong ago. It is not wide however the Rockstar squad whitethorn oregon whitethorn not proceed to physique connected the Mount Chiliad mystery, but 1 happening is for definite – nary 1 is saying anything.

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Michael Cripe is simply a freelance writer with IGN. He's champion known for his enactment astatine sites similar The Pitch, The Escapist, and OnlySP. Be definite to springiness him a travel connected Bluesky (@mikecripe.bsky.social) and Twitter (@MikeCripe).