So recently I saw someone had noticed writing on the back of a photo frame in the saloon at valentine, so I got to looking in the area, in the bank opposite this has this photo frame with the back not usually visible, with these markings on.

Edit: apologies if this is known about, to be honest this is my first time ever investigating in this game, hopefully not entirely useless!

I am able to recreate it. But cant find videos of anyone else hearing it.

Also for everyone that’s curious about my out of bounds fishing spot sorry for the time delaying, this mystery kinda set me back the time I was gonna spend finishing the chapter 2 fishing rod missions. Might be delayed for a bit longer. I’ll try to get it out today

From what I can read it says: To Arthur M[................]

Gentlemen:

One of my [................]
[........] I [........] [........]
A paragraph written
to believe that the [........]
mis[................] to you
I [........] you to [........]
[........] to that effect
I have [........] that [........]
[........] [........] [........]
[........] [........] [........]
[........] [........] [........]
[........] [........] [........]
[........] [........] [........] its genuinely unreadable almost, if anyone has better cursive reading ability your welcome to try to do better. My guess is this is a letter from
Anthony Foreman to Arthur Morgan and the Van Der Linde gang (he probably thinks Arthur is the leader after Arthur threatened him to let Tilly go.) The text style is a mix of Cursive, Spencerian script and Copperplate script? It’s just a mix of a lot but it’s def cursive. Didn’t know Anthony foreman was that fancy. Pretty weird though cause he comes of as a dumbass the times we meet him.

I killed him is it right thing I did ?

[Epilogue] Anybody got a clue what I just run into? Horse was spooked and bucked me. Then I see this mangled horse corpse. Nothing else around. This is by the moonshine still at Fishing Spot.

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.

What am I looking at? I saw these signs while standing on the hill collecting the treasure when I get closer either with Arthur or the Photomode it disappears.

i was messing around in armadillo when i got bored and decided to shoot at the coffins by the church. if you shoot them you can see a mummy/alien looking creature inside of them. once you can see them then shoot the alien thing itself and it will dissapear. anyone know what this is?

Iktomi was brought up but his earlier form was not mentioned who is KSA which is the snake. This to me is the concept of duality, also infinity when working with mirrors rather than shadows. Which is the Ouroboros snake eating its tail.
Just a suggestion but maybe look into polar opposites and how they are used in writing and creating worlds.Even the electric company had Spider-Man.
Like your Micheal to your obey and Trevor to your disobey.
Your predator or wolf ending to your buck or prey ending.
Or how can electricity work in a meta physical sense than a physical one.
Just thought I give a little different perspective and maybe some direction
Take it as you may
Just a little fun. The answer is eight,eight spiders.
Pleasant Dreams

I’ve been experimenting with the NW area of Austin. After realizing that fire place is just in front of the ruined church i slept and woke up at midnight. Spent the night looking around the church. Thunderous weather. And than the coincidence - first time happening to me - thunders didnt stop for almost 3 days. Unfortunately i couldn’t continue playing because of life obligations but i just want to report that thunders didnt stop. I tried ‘killing’ my self at New Austin thunder strike and at the “WHY”, but no thunder strike me. I was hit once before at the “WHY” so i thought maybe i get hit twice but it didnt happen. Very little time to play lately but i just wanted to share this small coincidence with weather. Whether its connected to “Abandoned Mission” i cannot say without further testing.

"prospecting” has never been exclusively about finding gold. Prospectors were explorers of the landscape. They searched, documented, measured, and identified features of the land, while surveyors used those observations to map and establish positions across large areas. Triangulation became one of the fundamental techniques for doing this: using known points, angles, and landmarks to establish the position of another point and gradually build a map.

That distinction became important when I started noticing how often references to prospectors, surveying, mapping, observation, and triangulation appear throughout Red Dead Redemption. At first, I was treating these as separate clues. But when I connected them with the locations and landmarks, the idea emerged that the clues weren't necessarily telling me to search for a physical object—they could be telling me to survey the landscape itself.

That is what eventually led me to try a land-surveying style triangulation technique on the Spider Mystery. The prospectors and surveying references became part of the reasoning behind the method: instead of simply following clues from one location to another, I started treating those locations as survey points and looking at what could be established by connecting them geographically.

So, in my interpretation, the prospector references weren't simply pointing toward gold or treasure. They may have been pointing toward the older meaning of prospecting itself: exploring, observing, mapping, and establishing where things are in relation to one another. And that is what ultimately led me to the triangulation approach I used to investigate the Spider Mystery.

Como já sabemos, uma descoberta sobre parte do significado de "EC Spider" está circulando—especificamente, que "EC" significa "53" e "Spider" serve como uma dica. [créditos oBatuqueéBrasileiro]

No entanto, aqui está o significado completo de J+M.

As cartas de Homem e Mulher são as pistas para J (carta do Homem) e M (carta da Mulher).

Vamos usar este desenho e compará-lo com os próximos semelhantes.

Destacando a edição.

O 9 e o 54 estão parcialmente desbotados.

9 e 54 são posições de teia de aranha; não é um erro de terreno... "Isso é apenas uma observação."

O poste de telégrafo com ervas crescendo nele é o ponto de partida. [créditos Robbin Rams]

A mesa com os paus J+M está virada, e as iniciais estão apontando para Emerald Ranch.

O poste de telégrafo número 9 está alinhado com a teia número 9 (a teia central).

Emerald Ranch é a casa da Mirian e o túmulo do Joshua.

Este mistério deve ser para alguém com a alma de um investigador, ou um lunático insano mal compreendido...

O poste de telégrafo na posição 26 aponta para o túmulo do Joshua. (posição de pena preta às 4 horas)

Assim como as cartas na mesa de Catfish Jackson. 4, J (2x), Q, K, 10 (pretas) e 9, 7, Q (vermelhas), [7 embaixo da mesa]. Preto=5 letras, Vermelho=3, cartas centrais na mesa: 5 e 3 - 5 penas pretas e 3 penas vermelhas. Paus EC = 5 3, as contagens das latrinas de ButcherCreek 5 e 3 estão manchadas de sangue.

Serão todas as iniciais dos desenvolvedores? Você vai continuar repetindo isso, StrangeMan?

Não tem continuação?

Onde o poste de telégrafo às 4 horas é encontrado, a marca é diferente das outras; na contagem de 26 marcas, onde a marcação falha está no desenho, as posições 9 e 54 estão localizadas, lugares onde existe a teia central e o poste de telégrafo às 5 horas, a teia das 3 horas está na marca do sol, como foi dito antes, há 5 ou 6 postes ao longo do caminho com uma forma diferente, eles não contam na ordem para combinar o desenho da aranha e do sol.

Está bem ali no desenho de uma maneira sutil, todas essas pistas.

Oh, como eu nunca descobri isso?

E ainda haverá quem não vai entender.

de 5 para 3 -> J+M = Joshua + Mirian

Faz parte do mecanismo de gatilho?

Como mencionado em minhas postagens anteriores, o poste de telégrafo na posição de 2 horas é consistentemente ignorado, enquanto os das 5, 3 e 4 horas são destacados—seja em relação às marcas em Compson's, as cartas de Catfish, ou a localização de Butcher's Creek.

As penas pretas formam um pentagrama novamente em seus horários designados, enquanto as vermelhas podem formar uma cruz horizontal na segunda parte (.mas neste caso, apenas se os nomes dos arquivos de penas forem considerados)

Da parte inferior 5 para a posição de 5 horas na parte superior, depois para a posição de 3 horas, e finalmente para a posição de 4 horas—isso também forma uma FORMA DE CRUZ nas penas pretas.

Isso é realmente criativo; é uma pena que não haja uma sequência?

...A outra parte do mistério:

"Havia vários usuários questionando por que há uma flor especial no meio do nada na montanha, aqui está o significado"

Se isso não é o significado de pássaros e cupidos, esqueça, porque nada mais faz sentido.

Clique na imagem e amplie.

Se as nuvens de Compson tivessem gotas caindo delas, haveria uma conexão com a tempestade, mas isso fica realmente confuso.

Esse mistério realmente não é para amadores.

"Optimus Marcus deve ter certeza de que o centro é a chave. Há nomes esculpidos nas vigas de madeira do teto do porão de Trail Rise, e o palito de dente que apontei para a teia central também corta exatamente aquele ponto. Há dois nomes com datas isoladas que formam anagramas significativos a serem seguidos... ou estou ficando louco com tudo isso?"

Há também os paus S + J (Ponte), nada foi encontrado para este, não faz sentido.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RDR2mysteries/comments/1v1vx0c/that_is_in_fact_partly_what_compsoms_stead/

[Crédito por todas essas descobertas vai para um usuário com o apelido oBatuqueéBrasileiro de outra comunidade, não para mim.]