10 Creepy In-Game Discoveries NEVER MEANT TO BE FOUND

Some games have creepy things that weren’t even intentionally scary. Here are some strange and mysterious examples in gaming.
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0:00 Intro
0:16 Number 10
1:20 Number 9
2:41Number 8
3:38 Number 7
4:36 Number 6
5:39 Number 5
6:29 Number 4
7:44 Number 3
8:49 Number 2
10:06 Number 1

[@spencerdokes6056]

Sweet a new oddheader video!

[@StageRight123]

I thought the same thing when I started watching it, but then remembered that he covered all of these years ago.

[@kenhaug8877]

You are the hero we need today

[@breakfasttokez3080]

Why so salty?

[@spencerdokes6056]

@@breakfasttokez3080 hu?

[@danny8691]

​@@StageRight123I cry

[@bluejuice1315]

In one of the old counterstrike maps...(forest maybe?), after you died you could move through a certain wall and find a room that had a bunch of rats chanting and worshipping a picture of someone. Super creepy and unexpected!

[@nickthelick]

Similar to Hitman and the room of the rats playing cards, in a way...!?🤔😁

[@taber1975]

@@nickthelick in a way we’re all rats worshiping something

[@Steel-101]

Awesome list! Actually I think I may have another one. In fallout 4. When you’re clearing out all of the junk in the caves of vault 88, you’ll finally run into a little mini store that’s next to University point. Inside of the Store there is a room that is just blocked up by debris. However if you look very closely there is a white statue that’s buried in the dirt and there’s a creepy eyeball just sticking out of the thing. It has a captains hat and it’s really terrifying lol 😂.

[@gameranxTV]

😅

[@benny_boop]

I have seen someone cover this unfortunately just within the last few days.

[@machogandalf]

@@benny_boop prove it

[@ThatDamnedTurk]

@@machogandalf And then un-prove it.

[@benny_boop]

@@machogandalf the video is called “The strangest statue in Fallout 4” by the creator “TKs-Mantis” from 2 months ago.

[@Mjsweener]

The editor missed the perfect oppurtunity to put the pool of forgetfullness as number 3 and number 1

[@codydues8708]

The 'why' for the creepy Sonic CD screen, I believe, is that it is an anti-piracy screen that would display if your copy of the game was obtained illegally and it can be accessed solely coincidentally using inputs on the sound test screen. That's the best explanation I've ever found for it. A very long time ago when I went on a spree of downloading various roms, the first one I downloaded for Sonic CD only loaded that screen and didn't accept any controller inputs, so for me it checks out.

[@Xtreemo]

You've put Army Men in the list, and it brought me the best memories ever. I have Army Men 2 for PC and though I can't play it due to the newest technologies, I still remember the great times I had playing it, and Sarge's Heroes as well. There is a Steam game called The Mean Greens, which is totally a spiritual successor of the Army Men series. It's low on players, but still quite fun to play once in a while!

[@anon_y_mousse]

Have you tried playing it on Linux through WINE? It might actually work compared to using Windows.

[@MikeyJBlakeJR]

Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2 was one of my favorite games as a kid. It had a green cartridge for the N64 and was slotted in the console whenever Bomberman 64 or Super Smash Bros. wasn't. Good times 🥲

[@thalesatreides9566]

That looked like someone's ass with a face on it lol

[@LlorDrei]

For the Pool of Forgetfulness in Morrowind, maybe it actually does do something, but after the players use it and see whatever it does, they forget.

[@user-oi7jj4ch6b]

Number 3. Level designers often put character models in the level they are working on to have a sense of both things... So that players can walk through doorways, so that objects relative to a person are the correct size etc. After the work on the level ends, the model is removed.

[@thejackal007]

Always nice to see the tradition of leaving weird silliness in games and never explaining them continues to thrive today. Thanks, Falcon, for passing on the torch.

[@IIOver9000]

The pool of forgetfulness and we forgot is a great explanation if you ask me 😂

[@HubertCumbadale02]

I know one.. although I think it was meant to be found. There is a mission in Metal Gear Solid 5 where you can enter a tent. There is a radio playing which goes on about murders of a family. Its straight out if the PT demo. Very creepy Kojima was working on both mg v and pt around the same time

[@vespasian606]

I remember that. My favourite part was finding the tapes to unlock more of the Paz back story. Looking back through my library I spent over 4,800 hours on that game. Loved every minute.

[@christianb.588]

Thank you all for producing some of the best content in gaming 🙏

[@kaseyprudhomme5009]

I remember playing Oblivion on 360 and there was a cool hidden area you could access by downloading the Wizards Tower DLC. You went to the top floor of the tower where the garden was, stood in the middle of the garden, saved, then exited out and deleted the DLC. When you went back in a loaded the game you spawn in a building that looks like its from Bruma. You walk outside and its a small village with a fire pit in the center and everything else past the village is just empty space. The coolest thing is that there is a mace you can pick up in the fire pit that deals fire damage and it just shows up as a green box in your inventory.

[@shadocatz8686]

You made a pretty good list of these Easter eggs but you forgot 1. The Boss room screams in splatoon that shit gives me the chills everytime i hear it

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼 for part 2

[@ScaryStoriesAt2AM]

Same here that shits always so unnerving

[@shadocatz8686]

@@gameranxTV I Did like weeks or i believe the second this came out

[@DerpedGamer]

I think the Shadow of the Colossus one is meant to be the model for the character in the end cutscenes. Why it's there, even in a demo, is likely because they just forgot to remove it

[@anubisfox5765]

Trepang 2 had a full blown back rooms level in its early beta, you had to beat the survival mode and it took you there. I was genuinely upset they took it out. Glad its still in the game but tbey really should make it a playable level

[@tropglopdiste]

Yup, no need to go "noclip" back then, just keep on playing.

[@TupDigital]

1:49 : although likely unknown outside the Western Pennsylvania region, the odd standalone toilet (typically/by definition placed in an old cellar and there for many decades) is known colloquially as a "Pittsburgh toilet." I remember visiting my grandma's house where my dad grew up (Hazelwood ave) and being very creeped out by the cellar that had a partially dirt-packed floor and one end being a large dark empty space containing only an antique tricycle and Pittsburgh toilet. Nightmare fuel without trying. The end. 7:05 : "so ya don't get ya bawls blown off!" Chef: * immediately sits on helmet *

[@GamingwithZeroGG]

There's only one Easter egg I'd leave if I was a developer....Jake Baldino's smiling face

[@Jagger-Tyr_13]

Or Falcons real face 😭 Show yourself dammit!!!

[@waffleman7780]

Or hear me out . Jake doing the before you buy stance and a falcon just chillin on his arm . Like some crazy npc that wanders around los santos or something just screaming about some nonsense metal gear like conspiracies

[@blakmastadon]

Back when the original gears of war came out, there was this glitch in multiplayer on a military base. You go in the hanger, I believe it was a newspaper and/or fire extinguisher on the ground. Anyway, my buddy and I would shoot the newspaper to a specific spot or corner. Then, you either run over the newspaper or use the take cover button (I forgot which one) over the newspaper and you fall underneath the graphics. It can only be done in multiplayer. We found this out within the first week of the games existence.

[@KenzoSSW]

8:55 As someone that played Sonic CD and looked into why they put that screen in there. The common speculation is that it was there to scare-off pirates. So Basically, it was a anti-piracy screen thing.

[@Gameranx3436ondiscord1]

Hit me up above 🎉🎉🎊🎊🎁🎁

[@smudgedragon]

I don't know who or why that Easter Egg exists in Green Army Men. But I do know, from actually working at 3DO around the same time, that the company had a very strict 'No Easter Eggs' policy. And they were serious about it. If that was discovered while the company was still in business, whoever placed it there probably got terminated. Swiftly.

[@seanrussell3362]

Did they ever explain why they had that policy?

[@FokkeWulfe]

@@seanrussell3362 My guess would be from a legal standpoint. Many devs liked to insert pictures of loved ones (Ratch and Clank 2, Damosel's Moon if I remember right, has the picture of a then-girlfriend-now-wife), and this can lead to hot water, as the likeness of someone was used, and without their consent. Some developers also put in less than ideal things, or left some stuff in that shouldn't have been (San Andreas, Hot Coffee anyone?), so 3DO probably had this policy to prevent anything that would leave them liable. I don't know for sure, it's just a theory.

[@smudgedragon]

@@seanrussell3362 No explanation. But I did know of at least one, who was on my team, that got the boot for violating it.

[@jimladik8633]

@@FokkeWulfe This is a most logical assessment. Party on Fokke!

[@FokkeWulfe]

@@jimladik8633 Party on Garth!... I mean Jim.

[@kalejoshua]

More of this, please! Not that there's anything wrong with every other GR video, but I loved this one!!

[@foxracing8973]

I don't understand why devs/game studios are so often tight-lipped, get angry or outright deny Easter Eggs. I mean I understand if it's an Easter Egg that someone put in there that is offensive in some way, but more often than not they aren't...so why the big fuss? Also if the Easter Egg in Gears of War was actually finished in production, I really hope someone figures it out some day since that has been a fav gaming mystery of mine!

[@HajjQanea]

A part two would be nice.

[@paulbasaur]

oddheader headline much lol

[@alanthomas8748]

the 1 easter egg I'd like to find in a game would be quality control.

[@Mark-nh7zg]

Easter eggs like #9 are usually developer rooms that they'd create to mess around with things or hold assets that needed to be loaded in for later use. And yes, many times they put things in there for fun that were never meant for use in the main game. Dev rooms don't always, in fact usually don't advertise the fact that they're dev rooms.

[@gregoryjames3287]

Please make multiple parts to this series! Loved this video!

[@AutonomousVII]

The hell valley sky trees are most likely a reference to the Dark Watchers from the Santa Lucia Mountains in California. Local folklore says you can see similar “spirits” watching from up high like in the game in the afternoon. They were first reported by early Spanish settlers.

[@Gameranx3436ondiscord1]

Hit me up above 🎉🎉🎊🎊🎁🎁

[@enmunate]

Im from California and don’t know that. How would Japanese people in Japan know enough about obscure California folklore and put it in a video game?

[@Sketchy_2]

​@@enmunatedude, The Flatwoods Monster is popular in japan, despite being an American cryptid. Its even referenced in alot of japanese games

[@-Teague-]

​@@enmunatesounds like a skill issue on your part honestly

[@JelloFluoride]

The green jacket thing is someone's wife who worked on the game. I forgot where I saw this but yeah, it's on a video somewhere being explained. The research for this video was VERY lazy and it shows lol.

[@redpandarampage2191]

I remember finding hell valley sky trees myself in Mario Galaxy 2. Was just looking around the level admiring it (the sjybox of the valley is unique to that galaxy) and I suddenly see these things looking at me. So unexpected and out of nowhere it made me jump and scared the shit outta me.

[@MadSekiro]

I haven't played Morrowind in a very long time, but it immediately reminded me of this place and how I was wondering what it was all about :)

[@dearhorse085]

You might wanna change the video title. There's a channel called oddheader who's been using these titles for a long time. The title is "10 Game Discoveries Never Meant to Be Found". Just thought I'd let you know.

[@LuckyLynette]

Can you do a video on craziest achievements to get for each concle Pc, Xbox, and Playstation?

[@jimladik8633]

There devs need to come out of hiding and leave a comment and give some answers so their Easter Eggs can be known to the world!

[@i4ani.]

Thought this was an OddHeader video at first

[@HubertCumbadale02]

Yea Odd header is a great channel. Some amazing stuff on there

[@michaelfigueroa8679]

you imagine being a beginner dev in one of these games and accidently leaving stuff around and then called an easter egg

[@Fede0779]

The developers who added or "forgot" adding these creepy easter eggs got to lost their minds at some point , wheter due to crunch times or something very similar . They pretty much look like some devs in japanese games that definitely went crazy and added some disturbing crap in games inteded for kids

[@Erok9]

Reminds me of a Oddheader video.

[@pharaohbacksmokin4372]

Floating candles 🕯 is a Harry Potter ref!!

[@miftahulhikam8240]

I don't know but I always excited to hear your voice on gameranx video, and I watch your video without skip anything, I enjoy your voice, Is always fit with every video on gameraxx sorry for bad English and thanks for making awesome videos

[@buntybill236]

You guys are awesome your content is spot on thank you 💯

[@bkzach]

That full metal jacket easter egg is definitely odd lol, what a reference for a "kids" game

[@Gameranx3436ondiscord1]

Hit me up above 🎉🎉🎊🎊🎁🎁

[@Jagger-Tyr_13]

For real. It's especially messed up because that movies based on a real war where people said messed up shit like that. "Only good vietcong is a dead vietcong" sort of shit 😔.

[@mikepinkman5788]

I really love these unanswered question videos

[@DouweHummeling]

Please do more videos about these easter eggs that are never solved or meant to be found.

[@nigelthehuman]

One of the best gaming channels to ever do it

[@gameranxTV]

😍

[@juliagym5543]

Love the videos! You put so much time and work into them and they make my day better

[@ahhotep1833]

I agree!!

[@WorldsUnhealthiestFitPerson]

You could probably do an entire video (if not a video series) of Creepy In-Game Discoveries from Morrowind You Wish You Hadn't Found, even if you were meant to find them.

[@Cthulad]

I miss playing on Slab in Gears of War. That was one of my favorite maps back in the time.

[@andyjacques4948]

the army men easter egg was easy to find, it was just undocumented, i remember finding it when i was a kid but didnt think much of it, i already knew about the doom face under the last boss so it was no surprise really

[@lordchrono3283]

great list guys! if you ever make a part 2 include rdr2 pentagram and the ghost girl from some pokemon games

[@StageRight123]

Odd Header already covered both of these.

[@ichisenpai1100]

The mysterious green jacket man in Resident Evil 4 is allegedly Naoki Katakai former Art Director for Resident Evil 4 and now working at Tango Gameworks.

[@justlogan6979]

Seeing anything from the Army Men series just made my year

[@coopertitan9827]

Another gameranx legendary list

[@jasonsmith530]

Falcon is killing it on turkey weekend

[@coopertitan9827]

@@jasonsmith530 because Falcon trumps Turkey every time

[@mattf4313]

This is like an oddheader or Easteregghunter video

[@justsomeperson5110]

I think that if being herbed off of your asterisk is what it takes to make a game as interesting as Morrowind, then E V E R Y D A Y Bethesda should hand out "oregano" brownies like candy at Halloween to their devs!

[@eddy1055555]

I can see a control sequel implementing the back rooms really well

[@ScaryStoriesAt2AM]

That would be amazing

[@aliasfakename2267]

One of my favorite games, it's chalk full of secrets and hidden rooms

[@dr2d2]

Or scp as well.

[@ScaryStoriesAt2AM]

@@dr2d2 would love to see a Control style game dealing with SCP lore

[@matguy1000]

gotta do more episodes like this

[@nyssasam]

sarge's heros n64 was legit the first game i ever played.. seeing that in this video made me so nostalgic😩

[@StageRight123]

The Odd Header channel has already covered all of these easter eggs.

[@andrewknaff9220]

If you have to clip to a location in a game that hasn’t been released yet, the devs aren’t obligated to explain anything.

[@blunt8085]

And?

[@andrewknaff9220]

@@blunt8085 There is no and. If you don’t understand my extremely simple statement just say so. 😆

[@blunt8085]

@@andrewknaff9220 Ah, I see… and what tho?

[@gvrbvge420]

I would guess that the t pose model in the shadow of the colossus demo Would be along the same lines as the random naked guy that they used to mark bugs and other unfixed parts in some game you had in a video about bugs lol

[@rollanddev]

Most of the "why" is generally just that dev just wanna have fun rather than some big mystery. :)

[@iron6mai6den63]

Oddheader??

[@MrMendeezy]

Sarge's Heroes discovery looks like Paradigm from the point and click adventure game

[@RusticRonnie]

The headless girl, is 100% the model used for scale while building the level. Its headless because heads are often a separate model, and are usually made after the body. So it was probably a model that was in the main build early on and used go scale the level, probably before the other models were made.

[@woofspider330]

The official explanation: "we were messing around, but when we tried to remove it, it broke the game, so we blocked it away, and called it a day."

[@timothymallon]

If these "10 Creepy In-Game Discoveries" were never meant to be found, they wouldn't have been put in, or left in the final game. They are there to be found. PERIOD!

[@DinnerForkTongue]

No shit, skippy. You just found out what a clickbait title is.

[@eedrox]

Number 3 I can answer. I talked to an icon developer once. He said there was supposed to be a quest area involving ghosts. But it was cut for time

[@chazcarpenter1559]

Don’t forget about both the “Half Naked Guy” and “The Monkey People” in Halo 3

[@noapotgieter4018]

Blue Eyes from Cyberpunk 2077 is also a good mention!

[@blueninjanoname7338]

The pool of forgetfulness sounds like a big gag from the devs imo

[@raxadian]

Ar early as the Atari era coders were leaving behind stuff in games to be eventually found and as early as the Playstation era coders knew whatever was left in the code of a game could eventually be found.

[@listerofsmeg884]

Even without losing stamina, I wouldn't call getting to the shrine a 'cakewalk'. Due to the original game's wonky camera and sometimes iffy controls, consistently doing diagonal jumps was actually quite difficult.

[@TeamGun]

If you're terrible at gaming, yeah its difficult.

[@mxggotfxrm]

tatstopvideos made a creepy easter eggs video YEARS ago and i’m pretty sure it showed all the steps to that gears of war 3 easter egg. i don’t recall the steps because i never played the game but if i remember correctly, at the end of the steps the rat starts laughing or something like that edit: the video i was referring to was called the top 45 scariest easter eggs in video games, and this easter egg makes it’s appearance at 17:56 in the video. as it turns out, the rat laughs immediately, but apparently the only other part of the easter egg is shooting a specific door and hearing a man groan

[@mattstyles2498]

Oddheader would like to have a word with u. Also I LOVED the Army Men games. All of them.

[@manu-qi5uq]

i was really hoping that destiny 2's LAST WISH RAID will take place in your list. There's still 1 more wish that no-one could figure it out yet. Also while entering the main raid you can hear a bell sound which is another Easter egg yet to be solved.

[@monkaW94]

Nowadays it would be a miracle to get a finished game let alone it having cool Easter egg

[@Anthonydanells]

The easter egg would be a fully complete finished game

[@bullwinkle1446]

@@Anthonydanells it hurts but its true

[@Briansimon2]

Not every easter eggs needs to be explained. A lot of them were probably put there for fun and no other reason

[@sharkbaitgaming1995]

there's also another easter egg in finest hour with a house in a village that if you blow the door open with 3 grenades, it opens to an empty house with rare gun and disco music and a real happening dance party

[@bloodrunsclear]

According to Majin he just said ‘I like to include myself in things I make’

[@ThatCatDiaz]

I'd like to believe some of the nonsencical easter eggs are actually inside jokes made by the developers for the developers lol

[@F_L_U_X]

6:50 Does no one else see that the quote applies to the boss fight? If you stand still you'll take damage/die. Your only option is to run away or fight. I guess the boss represents the helicopter/USA as the enemy and the devs are calling the players VC.

[@inboxondcgameranx5544]

I got something special for you hit me up to acknowledge it now 🎉🥳🥳^^^^^^^^

[@olibob203]

Hey love the videos been watching for ages, but any chancd the transitions can be black background white number, I feel like it burns my retinas out if I watch at night 😂 Love your stuff anyway

[@Gameranx3436ondiscord1]

Hit me up above 🎉🎉🎊🎊🎁🎁

[@Nails077]

The pool of forgetfulness led to the most epic of adventures but then it compelled you to return to it where it removed all of your memories of those events, making you think that nothing happened.

[@inrainbows1829]

The get sum guy from Full Metal Jacket was the original Sgt. Hartman R. Lee Ermey was a technical consultant and ended up getting the role due to him actually being a Drill Sergeant

[@TheEpicWolf64]

Majin Sonic is my avatar in VR chat. Love it!

[@GoKuiSODMG]

I love these videos 😊

[@blakmastadon]

Thank you for the video!

[@rickywood8805]

If you think about it, sizeable door is actually a rather smart choice of name. His channel is sizeable door and his subs can be called the handles, because yaknow, the handles make the door work 😊

[@PANTYEATR1]

I know why Falcon would like a rat under the stairs... YOU'RE A FALCON! that's what you eat right? 😏

[@smokey21980]

Have you done a top 10 most famous weapons/items?

[@billylee322]

The hell valley sky people look like and I'm pretty sure are a reference to native American myths referencing sky people. They look like cave art of sky people that were discovered

[@paxvaxen]

Dropping a comment early, most likely dropping a T-posing model of ANYTHING means they were just trying to get Size refs for buildings landscape enemies, etc. So anytime you see some random model of a person or human far off the map it's for 2 reasons Size Referencing for other models or Spawning things on the map and the spawn had to just be place far out of view that you can't get to without using Cheats.

[@Pendragon667]

Don't know if this belongs in this list but i remember the rats in Max Payne 1 suddenly being armed with Desert Eagles after you lob a grenade in a hole.

[@ramsathasivam9747]

I don’t remember exactly which game, but on the Nintendo, there’s a game where if you are idle on it for long on the pause menu I think, a creepy picture of a rockstar appears with some weird music in the background that teases you for being idle. It’s really creepy but I forgot which game it was.

[@ItsYaBoySkinnyPenis69420]

i thought this was an oddheader video lol

[@krypotico]

Years ago when I first played Soul Reaver 2, the game glitched like hell on my pc. This caused a lot of the background to be invisible. Thanks to this I could see an unused female vampire hidden in a mountain.

[@jamesconlin5099]

I got a suggestion for yous 10 Games Where You Play As A Non Human in a Human World part 2 but Goat simulator is the umber 1 spot

[@Shatterverse]

"Yeah Frank got bored one day and just made some nonsense room and hid it as an "easter egg" and spent the rest of the day chuckling to himself over how hard he's gonna troll the players.