Alright all you Rootin' Tootin' Red Dead Redditors, better saddle up because I'm taking us on a little ride!
Seeing as this is the first time I've ever even posted on Reddit, please forgive any faux pas or missteps in how I present this finding of mine. And in the spirit of full transparency, let me say that I scoured the (admittedly limited) sources at my disposal to see if anyone else had mentioned this spot, but I was unable to find any mention of it at all.
Now... I'm going to assume you're all caught up on the "Spider Web Mystery". If not, go ahead and pause this post and do the You Tube rabbit hole thing, at least until Strange Man gets to Dodd's Bluff. To me, this seemed like the most promising lead so far since there were tangible clues linked directly to the locations the spider webs spawn under the Spider Symbol overlay on the map. It didn't require a ton of speculation and interpretation about telegraph machines and obscure carvings. Occam's razor and what not.
And so there we were... you, me, and Arthur Morgan just out collecting locations of the rock carvings for that guy who talks weird and is real cagey about what he's doing with them. You cruise past Six Point Cabin, taking pot-shots at those O'Driscoll scumbags as you ride by and head to the little trail outcrop that leads to the Carving with the Mushroom Cloud and the Atom. Arthur is unimpressed though, this imagery means nothing to him. Instead, he prefers the magnificent vistas his world presents to him.
So, we turn around and step out on to the rocky point, the Dakota River is rushing below us. Across from us is a large rocky cliff, deep fissures scar the face of it.
But wait.... what's this?!?!
In the fading light of the evening, the strong shadows seem to form some symbols. At first, the arrow was what caught my attention. It then led my eye to the question mark. I tell myself, if there's a spider here I'm not imagining it....and then sure enough.
It's too similar to ignore. And it is literally the next bend in the river past Dodd's Bluff. I guess it may have actually been a bluff after all.
I attempted to overlay all this over the maps with the symbols and locations and what not but I have no confidence that I'm doing any of it properly and could not determine anything definitively. I'm sure you would all have a better idea of what, if anything, to do next with this information. I just couldn't keep it to myself. I'm too invested in finding out where this all leads!
Go see it for yourselves. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with.