The Strange and Disturbing Halo Conspiracies of the ‘Halo Iceberg’ Explained

[@HiddenXperia]

Thought we'd try something a bit different today and return to some disturbing Halo content by breaking down the strange, and often times, rather dark Halo iceberg conspiracies!

[@echelonsclips]

I love the intro

[@WatermelonDog512]

Hey, thanks for bringing us this amazing content

[@GucciPasta]

general kidd did a video of the elite that was mentioned like 2 minutes in. he explained why it is the way it is

[@barelyrem2602]

ok

[@SAF-Chronicles-97]

if you're wondering about the honor guard councilor, he is a bug, bungie is ment to spawn a Gold elite/Zealot at the end, but there was no 2nd variant of the zealot so, it spawned an ultra honor guard councilor, general kidd has that video on his channel

[@Azrael_Equinox]

I'm pretty sure the "ghost of lockout" was Herobrine's first job in his long career.

[@HiddenXperia]

lmaooo true

[@icedelectriced]

Yeah herobrine is a gamer... deal with it...

[@josephmother386]

Thats a funny theory

[@James11111]

I remember me investigating the rumors that it carried over to 3 and Reach, setting up little ghost hunting bases on Blackout and Forge World.

[@865ran]

Ghost of lockout was a guy named StolenTwo. Me and him was in a halo 2 clan called Team Hazard we was a Mod, circle boost and lag clan. You needed 2 Xbox’s on the same network. One person would have to lag that person out with the 2 Xbox right before he got lagged out he would turn off one Xbox keep one running before he fully lagged out the Xbox That’s still on the player would have no name just basically looked like a dummy. On his screen when he would walk, jump, shoot or whatever it looked all normal on his view but to us well you have the video... hope this helps

[@stratus2010]

Johnson never died. He's just missing in action

[@mr.k1299]

That’s actually true he is Mia, chief never confirmed his death

[@Snacks256]

Killing him was a mercy after how much of a liability he was in Halo 3.

[@Franchise1107]

I mean he is technically a Spartan

[@robertharris6092]

Well he is a spartan.

[@Snacks256]

@@Franchise1107 Spartan I/ ORION isn't officially acknowledged, so Johnson would still be listed as KIA. I know, I'm ruining the mood.

[@niallrichardson5046]

Last time I was this early, an elite was stabbing his own neck for the intro

[@scP----001]

Same

[@adityagarg3931]

That's a very funny way to put it lmao

[@troyscribner4342]

It was a very weird intro

[@CommissarChaotic]

@@troyscribner4342 The part of the Elite's mouthticles thing sounded like an odd satisfactory fleshy noise tho it might be just me hearing phantom noises

[@raptorjesus5870]

Hi

[@reconbravo104]

The first person to discover the backwards dialogue must have shat themselves, Jesus Christ.

[@halken117]

And yet there are things we still don’t know about it, that’s awesome and creepy

[@diddlysheep6690]

The poor guy who probably was just trying to make a remix now suffers from severe PTSD

[@kapedinski]

Whats the timestamp do you remember?

[@llawliet8669]

@@kapedinski 15:20

[@kapedinski]

@@llawliet8669 the hero i needed

[@patchwilliamson]

So on the subject of "ghosts" in Halo, once when I was just playing around on Sandtrap (I think that's the name, the map with the Elephant), I saw a black armored Spartan walk behind a pillar and disappear. Freaked me the hell out.

[@Jamarvious_]

Tex

[@robingarrett4576]

yeah I got random grenades exploding in the distance in Sandtrap back in the day. Halo 2 ghosts where fake but Halo 3 ghosts are definitely real

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Wake up, Epsilon, you're just dreaming again.

[@Zen-751]

Gay

[@sp2ner721]

Its like Halo version of Herobrine

[@vexmilk2345]

For 29:06, There are several UNSC posters in Halo 3 ODST showing a picture of Earth with the text "For Her". However, one of the posters shows a white ball (supposedly representing the Traveler) above the photo of Earth with the text instead saying "Destiny Awaits". Some consider this to be a very old teaser for Destiny.

[@RandyPeterson17]

I have the original ODST on disc for 360. That “Destiny Awaits” poster is very common on this version of the game and is 100% a teaser for Destiny. In the MCC version they’ve all been changed to the “for her” poster.

[@Cesly-mo3uf]

Thanks for writing this. The nerd inside me was going to write this comment.

[@HiddenXperia]

That's in ODST though, the Iceberg specifically said Outskirts, unless that was a typo and the dude meant New Mombasa

[@vexmilk2345]

@@HiddenXperia Yeah that's true, it's probably just a typo.

[@Cesly-mo3uf]

@@HiddenXperia sorry for back talking sensie

[@TheSplatterCat]

That tunnel in Delta halo is actually the tunnel you go through while in the underwater elevator. If you play through that part you can see the resemblence just without all the underwater wild life and ruins

[@sentientboxofcookies1843]

Generalkidd covered this I’m pretty sure

[@davemccombs]

@@sentientboxofcookies1843 None of it is mysterious. This is all just desperate ass clickbait.

[@CoreyandCrew]

A lot of it is. It's not hiddens fault he's covering something made by someone else doing his own due diligence

[@orionlyre8434]

For those wondering about the man who called during Hurricane Ivan... that man was my uncle! Well, more of a close family friend who took care of me (his name is AJ) so I considered him an uncle. His coworker at his job informed him about the ilovebees campaign at the time, and he went to the payphone he had to go to and brought me along with him in the car! I remember being super scared, I was only 3 at the time. I don't remember much about that day other than the stories he told me about it, like how he dropped his wallet with like $90 in it in the water and never found it due to the pouring rain. Anyways, just thought I'd settle the legend! or rather, shed some light on it. I can't believe that was known to some extent!

[@youvebeenmungaid1470]

I got to ask did this happen in Florida it seems like a Florida man thing?

[@orionlyre8434]

@@youvebeenmungaid1470 yes, Florida... as per usual.

[@youvebeenmungaid1470]

@@orionlyre8434 I completely understand especially now that I live in Florida

[@treydo1]

That's wicked dude!!

[@HiddenXperia]

Holy shit that's insane! What a turn of events, wow

[@rasplez9889]

I always considered the bloody marine as part of the narrative and visual storytelling. He was probably one of the first to see combat aboard the station, or just happened to be where it was toughest. I didn't think it was creepy when I saw him, I just appreciated the fact that they used a different model to tell me that this guy had seen some action, was badly wounded, but is still fighting.

[@ThisHandleSystemCanGetNicked]

I wish Marty would just explain it then instead of teasing. At this rate, most people would be dead or would have long stopped caring by the time we get the "true meaning".

[@urfork1]

Someone above commented that it appears to be related to Tartarus beating a fallen angel in the Bible and brings the music into more context

[@michaelandreipalon359]

That, and the fact that he'll die one day, thus bringing so many secrets to his grave.

[@jacobwhelan45]

The guy who put the “I Love Bees” game to warn the guy was a little creepy but more over I think was extremely thoughtful and mature to put the game aside to warn someone of danger despite risking getting in trouble for ruining the games facade. That’s a good samaritan right there

[@26th_Primarch]

I'm pretty sure that since those calls were at random payphones Bungie was probably recording the calls for legal reasons. Because even though they were miniscule there was still the chance of something happening to the person answering the phone. And if those calls were recorded they've probably been deleted or destroyed a long time ago.

[@XMJ3904]

They prolly wouldn't be able to release even if they had them due to privacy stuff

[@MrHawkelement]

@@XMJ3904 That very much depends on the state's laws, which seem to be all different. You're probably right though.

[@TheVengefulVadam]

Honor Guard Councilor was the result of an oversight by Bungie. It was meant to be a Zealot, but they typed in a variant that didn’t exist on Gravemind, so it randomizes the character’s armor permutations.

[@HiddenXperia]

Ohhhhhh ok, that' sick!

[@Hu1tziil]

Yup. I may be misremembering but on rare occasions the elite may spawn without an ornamental helmet (honor guard accents but no ornament and white armor)

[@r3al_b00gieboi]

@@Hu1tziil yeah I’ve had this happen to me in many different parts of gravemind when there’s supposed to be a zealot. Thought it was intentional to show how the brutes were really killing all elites no matter how powerful politically they were. It also would have added to the line when arbiter tells ship master that the counselors were murdered because you actually see them throughout gravemind being killed

[@26th_Primarch]

Still a cool Elite armor variant.

[@InfernalMonsoon]

Sounds like a happy accident if you ask me because it's rad as hell, I like to imagine that's what inspired the elite ultra for Halo Reach and onward.

[@quickscopeoneeighty9158]

I can already hear the intro to "Paralyzer" by Finger Eleven and see the 360p Halo 3 tutorial at the mention of "Recon Skull" lmao

[@HiddenXperia]

LMAO banger

[@Dannyboy92701]

It’s either that or 009 sound system dreamscape

[@dominicscarlato326]

Damn this hit me hard in the nostalgia

[@arctic3007]

@@Dannyboy92701 Oooh, that was the other one, it was literally those 2 songs nothing else XD

[@natural997]

@@arctic3007 Don't forget about Bodies by drowning pool

[@yungbobross6418]

I literally spent over five hours trying to get the banshee through the loading zone to get the scarab gun as a kid. When I finally got it I legit didn’t even feel anything, I was just so hyped that I could fly the banshee around tbh the scarab gun was alright but having made the flight there I was hyped as fuck

[@TheChadPad]

There is likely still an easter egg to be discovered on Sandtrap! The writing on the walls in the temple allegedly have some meaning, a Bungie employee hinted at, and nobody has been able to decipher it yet

[@scorched1864]

i believe there's still alot of easter eggs on sandtrap we haven't found

[@Gattzby]

Funny enough the writing on sand trap was in Infinite, along with the bio of the map connecting to the Endless.

[@thecapone45]

Yeah I remember walking around the map and trying to figure out what the code was! Also like the codes in ODST, we have never after all this time solved that code.

[@justsomehalofan4386]

u/stocking forgot a few: -The climbing elites in halo 2 (which was confirmed by generalkidd) -The glyphs on mombasa streets in Odst -The Golden warthog from that one halo 2 map

[@Masterchief12455]

Need a golden warthog video. Oh the hours I wasted looking for this elusive warthog

[@DaftKid]

@@Masterchief12455 One had a full server shoot their rockets at the golden warthog billboard on headlong

[@sundowner2663]

@@DaftKid T

[@Ribbons0121R121]

someone tell me when they find out what the glypohs mean my bet is theyre used as some sort of tactic communication on the field, like info only the covenant can see so even basic grunts can outflank the unsc troops and the other engineer relatred ones are their private bits of stuff they do and thats where the real mystery comes in

[@spookmeyer970]

Don't forget Engineers in Halo: CE, the IWHBYD conspiracies, the Halo 2 demo, Iain M Banks, and a few others.

[@Kiu_8]

Noble Six is chilling in Maethrillian confirmed!

[@AxxLAfriku]

I am the most famous man on YouTub! This is not bragging! This is the truth! The truth will set you free, dear seb

[@voltage6872]

@@AxxLAfriku stfu lmao

[@onesleepyboi1173]

@@AxxLAfriku Correction: *That Is A Lie*

[@tammy2812]

@@onesleepyboi1173 No No He is the Most Famous Person on Youtub. Not KZbin. Like have you not heard of him on YouTub

[@manuelcjr52]

@@AxxLAfriku take your meds bro

[@WonderSilverstrand]

35:07 Damned fool, you missed a "This cave isn't a natural formation" opportunity

[@davemccombs]

Orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr not every single quote from the series needs to be driven into the ground and repeated at every single passing opportunity?

[@WonderSilverstrand]

@@davemccombs yes it does

[@EggEnjoyer]

@@davemccombs Maybe not. But this is just simply an amazing opportunity. This game quote isn’t on par with “the cake is a lie”. You can just spam that shit anywhere. However this joke gots some class

[@Froxzar18]

"There will be no more Sadness. No more Anger. No more Envy" Since this is written in the teaser text for halo (39:43) and exactly what Cortanas says in Infinite, does this mean this how Cortanas story was supposed to end all along? Or has this line been mentioned in previous games? If not i find this really cool.

[@7r3b3k]

Cortana says this line in the Halo 3 level 'Cortana' as you're trying to rescue her from the Gravemind. I didn't know it went as far back as pre-Halo 1 days, and I'm not sure where else the phrase pops up in games/lore.

[@wolfymagic3458]

Melancholia, anger and Envy are all stages of Rampancy in the Lore, with Metastability as the last stage. (Season 10 of red vs blue touches up on it, actually) These were referenced in the Cortana Letters, I think.

[@patrikmiles9342]

Its probably just a clever callback like the "Just dust and echo's" line in the second level

[@rxcmxrt]

All of Cortanas quotes in Halo Infinite besides the ones where she talks directly to you are just quotes from previous Halo games. It's part of the "just pieces of data, nothing more" bit of story, they're just memories of stuff she's done before

[@nickmedlin3475]

I noticed that too

[@SconeysASMR]

35:15 To me it looks like the tunnel is infact there, probably on both versions, but to save going through and deleting the tunnel, they instead covered it up with terrain. This also makes sense since 343 have removed walls and placed extra ones in the past, I wouldn't put it past them to remove this terrain, revealing the tunnel below.

[@spectrumaevum7476]

Love how the Flood Juggernaut ended up being revived in Halo Wars 2, and, hopefully, in Halo Infinite.

[@cptsean2026]

It's also in Fireteam Raven, the halo arcade game

[@randallman491]

Don’t forget about Fireteam Raven

[@oliverlorenz9726]

343 PLEASE

[@MasterHall117]

The one that really scares me is the “ghosts” in Halo 2... seeing a random Spartan in the colors of the Freelancers from Red vs Blue is just.... terrifying...

[@brianstabile165]

Tex!?

[@MasterHall117]

@@brianstabile165 Welp, I’m getting my fuckin cone now

[@scorched1864]

@@MasterHall117 AHH PROTECT ME CONE

[@themerchantinblack6157]

@@brianstabile165 make sure she don't beat you to death with your own skull.

[@TM2Cheetor]

@@themerchantinblack6157 bloody murder, bloody murder

[@Sidheart117]

Ah, yes hiddenxperia has finally entered the iceberg community.

[@gobus7277]

ise burndge

[@ChaosBW]

Let me save you 42 minutes. "This sounds a lot creepier than it is" "I looked everywhere and couldn't find anything" "This is just a bug" "This one is totally fake" "This is just a conspiracy theory" "There you have it"

[@TheSaintTrooper]

THANK YOU

[@brandonroebuck504]

Yeah I like his content for the most part but he kept saying that these were so dark and creepy and none of them were creepy at all I was expecting some dark web shit to be tied in or something but literally the only thing somewhat disturbing was the dumbass who answered the pay phone in a hurricane

[@ScatterBrainedYouBetterFollow]

Garbage video

[@riveravelazquezbrandonkevi6087]

@@brandonroebuck504 tbh, there isn't much "creepy" or obscure stuff in halo, idk what you were expecting

[@brandonroebuck504]

@@riveravelazquezbrandonkevi6087 well I know that, I thought maybe there was some crazy conspiracy linked to an Easter egg or something crazy tied to the I Love Bees timeline; idk what I was expecting, i just thought it would actually be creepy

[@Spongebrain97]

The idea of the forerunners actually just being ancient humans sounds like a good idea. I wonder why they were made into a different race

[@radacious29]

Hmmm I wonder what company could've decided to do that in order to have a new enemy to fight

[@The.void.itself]

originally, they were ancient humans, but then they changed it at halo 4

[@MrHawkelement]

@@radacious29 Oh, shit! You're right!! It must've been EA. Damn them- They've struck again!

[@biscuitsngravy3566]

Or we are the second evolution of this form....

[@ericiarossi7128]

They were never meant to be humans, just humanoid

[@DragonArcadia]

Not gonna lie, the “Ghost of Lockout” video is still kind of creepy.

[@PopADoseYo]

It's incredibly easy to recreate. You're only creating a dummy spartan. Much like you can make dummy vehicles that Teleport. But back in the day it was a great video. Loved it, especially the sequel with Eerty Dirty and them tricking a kid with a super long fake cheat code to make the Ghost appear.

[@canyongoat2096]

The Ghost of Lockout was a cut bot, and it appeared in Halo 3 too. Someone who modded Eldewrito (the cancelled Halo Online pc game) made these bots spawn with equipment on the modded Sandtrap and they were acting the same way as in the video shown.

[@Matheus-ki9zo]

For me it's I C O N I C

[@necrochemical5572]

"This is it, baby. Hold me!" best legendary ending ever. Just never understood how he survived that. Clones.

[@Ribbons0121R121]

aat the end of halo ce you can breifly capture aglimpse of the pelican passing by the longsword that the elite and him escaped on

[@1ztype343]

It was explained in a book that Johnson was somewhere else that's just a look-alike. Sorry to be a party pooper

[@fungi265]

Elite was just happy to grab that meat.

[@ximbabwe0228]

"That's classified"

[@MagnusTonitrum117]

@@fungi265 and in the Anniversary version, Johnson returned the favor

[@legendarymasterchief7620]

Oh you like Halo mysteries? _Name every ghost of Halo._

[@aqgarts3024]

New game confirmed: Ghosts of Halo

[@bbarbiter]

Sword ghost, Ghost Ultra, Temple Ghost, Type-54, Type-32

[@infernaldaedra]

@@bbarbiter ghosts of onyx

[@11Survivor]

Phantoms, wraiths, specters and spirits are also synonyms of ghosts...

[@infernaldaedra]

@@11Survivor revenant

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

About the hurricane one; "Dude, this is the end of the world we're talking about. Braving a hurricane is a fair price to save the world."

[@Pedrio2]

Here's something wierd: I remember hearing that "Halo 4 growling" when I was playing that one flood gamemode in the game and it happened everytime I hit a dead body as an flood form.

[@horrorpleb249]

Thats because the flood form you were growls. The mode was also called infection. In that mode instead of infected spartans (like green armoured with energy swords) You're instead a flood spartan which at random times can often growls, and it does usually growl a lot when hitting a dead body or a player. That's an intentional design, its not a weird thing that suddenly appeared in the game for no apparent reason.

[@sweetschmeat7417]

Would be interesting to see a video about the original plan when Forerunners were heavily implied to be super ancient humans. Imo it was just so more fitting and made the lie The Covenant were built upon that more tragic.

[@samuraitabernac3050]

I’ll always think that the reason why Cortana did all that crazy talk was that rampancy triggered long lost forerunner pieces of the human brain, and that the logic plague had something to also do with the domain being like cosmic background radiation that had been layering into mankind’s internal electric field for millennia. All energy is data so Cortana starts unlocking the reality distortion shit that graveminds and Prometheus can do and we realize that mendicant bias sided with the flood because of some secret singularity that made the mantle of responsibility darker than it became in the later lore

[@samuraitabernac3050]

@Paul Thomas I feel it simply can’t be refuted based on what guilty spark said. In another world we could have had a halo 3 that was more or less the same, except Elites become our homies for more reason than just having their rebellion bump into our flood infection. It would even have fed into the rampant ai and Oni being assholes subplot way more than what we got. Imagine if the key to the Spartan program not really being Halsey being a genius mom, but rather her unlocking the peak physiology the forerunners had bred into their population by the end of the war. Then of course we’d get flashbacks so cortana can run into mendicant bias etc

[@cloudyskygaming0]

The Juliet one legitimately sent shivers down my spine and freaked me out a little bit, it’s late I think I need to go to bed 😂

[@DeepRoot_]

Those sounds mixed with a map I would regularly play as child with my friends... yeah I got the chills too lol

[@dustinconner1954]

Get some sleep soldier

[@GRAHAMICVS]

What happened? I'm to much of a coward to look myself.

[@DeepRoot_]

@@GRAHAMICVS Basically, this player is playing blood gulch on Halo CE by himself. He keeps dying for no reason, and then some silent hill type shit happens the next time he respawns and some really loud fucked up noise rips through the speakers and the colours mess up on the screen. He dies, again, and then some entity named Juliet talks to the guy in the chat. Overall it is clearly fake but the dated video mixed with the idea of a ghost haunting what I can only describe as a place from my childhood that I hold dear makes it some creepy shit for sure.

[@GRAHAMICVS]

@@DeepRoot_ Ah, I thought it'd be some scary jpg, thanks!

[@mr.overlord6720]

The Honor Guard Councilor has actually been debunked by Generalkidd. It was a typo in the coding that caused the armor to be varied.

[@ohenree7224]

The part about Marty leaving because of shady stuff at bungie/Activision feels very awkward now

[@hallowed_ghost18]

What was so shady?

[@TheRedKing247]

@@hallowed_ghost18 The sexual harassment and general harassment so many at Activision endured.

[@hallowed_ghost18]

@@TheRedKing247 There are some who think Marty saw what was going on and left because of it? I heard Activision had something they called the ‘Epstein Room’

[@Stiffmiester979]

Getting the scarab gun was like a pilgrimage man. You really had to work that banshee AI and test your patience in those tunnels.

[@rxcmxrt]

Or test your mettle with rocket jumping

[@chromewizard6421]

Bungie actually hasnt let go of their obsession with the number 7, and it continues to be included in the Destiny series

[@Freelix2000]

Seventh column is a medal in Destiny. Basically a tier-7 multikill medal. I don't remember all the details, but I remember it was an emblem in Halo (identical graphic to the Destiny medal) and had more significance than just the emblem.

[@maxibillion2885]

Seven was considered a number signifying completion or wholeness in a number of ancient societies and religions (the “seventy times seven” line in the Bible, for example) so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the origin of the obsession with seven, especially due to Halo’s use of Christian nomenclature.

[@nousagi1154]

@@maxibillion2885 the obsession with number 7 goes way back in Bungie history, it's present in their marathon games. It's just a bungie thing

[@thirtyred7091]

The cavemen freaked the hell out of me back in 2007 as a kid

[@infernaldaedra]

There are 3 more cavemen hidden on the level =P

[@infernaldaedra]

@Reach In the jackal sniper trees where the hearts carved into the trees are just before the 3 cavemen on the cliff wall, and in the area where you're next to the water just before that that looks like a water treatment area theres also one way across the water way up in the trees where a jackal sniper normally is.

[@TheLastMillennials]

How old are you?

[@thirtyred7091]

@@TheLastMillennials 20

[@TheLastMillennials]

@@thirtyred7091 millennials grew up with halo

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

As we kept going down the iceberg, more and more of these "theories" got ridiculous

[@GeneralForster]

Yes...that's what iceberg memes are...

[@nelson6128]

Sus

[@KraNisOG]

Every where I go.... I see you.

[@theeoverseer33]

33:999 iceberg is a living organism?👍🤔😉😉

[@vhg5764]

Why are you every where

[@Landen69420]

33:36 I can’t blame him, The flood sound affects for halo 4 are probably one of the most disturbing and creepy things about halo, And also the “I love bees” Situation with the hurricane is also my favorite:)

[@dividedbyzero11]

35:28 The Seventh Column isn’t real? I guess that explains why in reach if you set The Seventh Column logo as your emblem and turned off secondary colors your emblem would appear blank or missing....

[@JKArcade]

Re: the tunnel: It's a pre-load for the tunnel the underwater elevator goes through. Was discussed on 343 forums at some point.

[@jw201144]

Tartarus’s theme to me kinda sounds like the arbiter contemplating his failure after failing to defend the halo theme

[@davidnafziger3374]

I had the flood growl thing happen too, I’m pretty sure it was supposed to be the flood “communicating” like the Spartans would with “battle chat”

[@horrorpleb249]

I don't remember halo 4 having a spartan chatter system, I thought that was first introduced into halo 5 guardians because in that you could often hear spartan dialogue in game. Unless I'm mistaking that because I've never heard of the name battle chat ever get used so feel free to elaborate on that because whenever I hear dialogue from spartans in multiplayer I often call it spartan chatter.

[@samurai4663]

My TV did that too. Not in halo but a couple times it just made an hyper loud flood sound effect for no reason at all.

[@sergeantrisky6634]

The Flood Juggernaut can actually be seen in some levels in the arcade game entitled "Halo: Fireteam Raven". Personally I loved the game and found it to be an amazing experience and if you have not yet I would recommend that you check it out.

[@jesterbomb6763]

I am SO happy you’re doing a video on this

[@mashyspikeplate4574]

The Cortana letters are interesting because they were referenced in Halo 3 by her dialogue. "I have walked the edge of the abyss", "There will be no more sadness. No more anger. No more envy", 'I have seen your future and I have learned' and "This is the way the world ends". These are all quotes from Halo 3 Cortana.

[@TimLoafy]

On the Trigate note: There are a handful of "Triangle Doors" you can find, especially the famous one on Regret underwater. I remember there being a bunch of forum posts saying like "getting all the skulls, activating all switches" will make an unknown skull appear in the Cairo station intro and act as a key to the trigate under Regret to get some secret mission unlocked. Quite ridiculous but was fun to theorize and be along for the ride as a kid back in the day!

[@GavidDogins]

15:26 I can't even imagine the goosebumps I would get if I had stumbled upon that hidden message by accident

[@avoughtf4u-4corsair19]

The Noble 14 would also be part of Bungie's history with the number 7 because 14 is just 7 multiplied by 2, and coincidentally, the game they were staying on was Halo 2.

[@baxmusskywalker5524]

The true meaning of Mausoleum Suite I believe has to do with Tartarus’ actual name. The word Tartarus is used in the Bible to describe the state that the fallen angels (or demons) are in after they rebelled and is likened to a mental prison. The words being spoken in reverse on the track are eerily similar to that story

[@Ares_gaming_117]

Thank you for clearing that up a little. I knew it had something to do with fallen angels (demons) and the rest of the quote makes more sense in that context.

[@jagdson2701]

Tartarus is Greek; an abyssal realm for imprisoning the wicked, most famously the Titans. It has nothing to do with Hebrew mythology except perhaps as inspiration.

[@randomprofessional7478]

@@jagdson2701 "drive them out from God and bliss, Into their place of punishment, the gulf Of Tartarus"- Paradise Lost. Both the Devine Comedy and Paradise Lost are notable examples of the artistic traditions of combining greek/roman myth into Christianity. The speaker in the audio seems to be that of a Miltonesque Satanic figure, so Tartarus would have a connection here. Also, in the New Testament there is one mention of Tartarus that is translated as Hell in English versions.

[@Doct0rLekter]

@@jagdson2701 you do realize a large proportion of the Bible was written in Greek, yes?

[@brodyman30]

I was surprised the iceberg didn't have the halo mega bloks game on there.

[@Landen69420]

Wait- *There was a Halo Mega Blocks Game..? O_O*

[@1ztype343]

@@Landen69420 Yeah they got gameplay for it on yt somewhere

[@horrorpleb249]

@@Landen69420 Yep, it did exist but was cancelled, only 1 mission exists I think.

[@Ibrahim-wr5fs]

You forgot for that 343 mission, there's a marine that is just randomly chilling their and when u wait long enough then you'll see his eye pop out

[@thedumbestdoge881]

I have an interesting theory about the whole backwards message thing (halo infinite spoilers ahead): After you beat the campaign on legendary, The Weapon was mentioning that this ring is different than the other rings and the forerunners we’re trying to hide it’s capabilities. She also mentioned that they were in the silent auditorium for three days when it certainly didn’t seem that way playing the game. After the credits, we are taken back to around 97,000 BC (or whatever year) and hear the chatter of securing The Endless. We also see Atriox seemingly releasing the endless. What if atriox discovered the power of Zeta ring was actually time travel, hence why he was in those after credits so far back in time. The backwards message was an Atriox sounding person saying stuff like “I am lost in time…”, what if 343 is playing off of that and Atriox really did discover the Zeta ring is capable of time travel?

[@Fyre0]

Atriox didn't go back in time. The voices playing over the scene are from that time. In order for this to be remotely true, you have to argue atriox went back in time and released the endless from the cylixes before the voices were saying the endless should be placed into the cylixes in the first place. C'mon.

[@ano_nym]

It is setting up for a new reboot were 343 will once again drop the current story to jump onto a new, by time traveling back to the end of Halo 3/ beginning of 4.

[@MatthewNemec]

So is no one going to acknowledge the fact that the rumor of a founder of bungie left after finding out dark things about Activision blizzard turned out to probably true?

[@Wepospalient]

As soon as the tri-gate video was mentioned, I had the requiem for a dream song playing in my head lol.

[@HiddenXperia]

dude I wanted to use that song in this vid so bad but I would've got copyrighted :( It's still the creepiest song ever to me purely because of all the google videos conspiracy theory videos it used to be in

[@fungi265]

@@HiddenXperia you didn't mention the actual tri-gate itself just the supposed switch. It's just a large triangle in the wall under the water.

[@alexanderg1935]

So the Nintendo thing was likely genuine as Microsoft attempted to buy Nintendo at least once and probably looked at port viability in the early stages of negotiations.

[@JohnWilliams-wl9px]

Yeah I remember a video that covered it and it said the DS game was just a prototype created and pitched. But it just didn’t get picked up on by either/both by Microsoft or Nintendo.

[@bmxdude1337]

Button combos separate the noobs from the pros. That bit on Tarturus theme in the mausoleum a question I’ve had for years and it’s been answered! This was great, the Halo universe is so awesome

[@halken117]

Was it really answered tho?

[@bmxdude1337]

@@halken117 I don’t know, I can’t remember my question

[@samm.8052]

Wow, the Halo community is amazingly insane! As someone who wasn't allowed to play M rated games as a kid, but played my first Halo game(Halo 4) at a friend's house, I appreciate these videos that paint the picture of the old Halo fandom that I couldn't be a part of. It's also a little sad that we don't have as bombastic or insane theories and conspiracies as everyone had in the Bungie days.

[@SirBigWater]

That was honestly some of the coolest stuff in gaming that I've seen. Reading the Bungie forums over a decade ago was crazy with these things, or seeing it on early days of KZbin. Really miss that kind of stuff. Especially all the speculation people used to do with the internet not being as big as it is now.

[@scorched1864]

damn you really missed out, i'm sorry

[@CoreyandCrew]

It was the times bro. I remember trying to get ghosts with my friends online and spoiling ourselves out lol. Silly kids

[@ano_nym]

I loved the games as a kid, but as I was a kid I weren't really aware of all the theories and such. Still, had a great time hunting easter eggs and such we saw on early YT. I agree that it's sad about the theories and such not really being as present.

[@slorbonmyknorb777]

"Killed by the guardians" is actually referenced in Destiny 1 and Destiny 2, when you die to something the game cant exactly determine, it says "killed by the architects" which is a nice little nod considering bungie made both franchises

[@trigaashy2502]

Wouldn’t that make the destiny quote a reference to halo?

[@nutbuster87]

@@trigaashy2502yeah

[@TOTALLYsup]

In the Halo 2 Developer Commentary Jo, Jason and Marty all make jokes about how Forerunner tank was never substantially worked on outside of concept. Also pretty sure that hole in the mountain was found to be some geometry relating to the underwater elevator bit.

[@JKArcade]

The destiny adverts are 1,000% there in hidden places on the legacy title only. Microsoft removed them for MCC and later versions of ODST.

[@hiddendesire3076]

29:05 This might be referring to Halo 3: ODST which did actually sport a poster for Destiny which I came across many times back when I played it.

[@Rberg1105]

Has to be. It said ‘destiny awaits’ and had a picture of earth and the traveler right next to it.

[@jairudiusfyar4787]

I’m so shook about the grunt playing with a toy on delta halo. I only played Halo 2 on legendary and thought the jackal was just amazed by the fire the grunt had.

[@綾波レイ-j1m]

I've always liked the bloody marine; I remember just thinking he was supposed to be a small detail to indicate how bad the fighting on Cairo Station was. I guess it's a pretty cool glitch.

[@wolowizard4441]

I NEVER KNEW THAT ABOUT THE LEGENDARY ODST ENDING!! WHAT THE HELL

[@LASRalphadeltaone]

Elite Honor Guard Councilor is a glitch that got made into a canon thing.

[@Red-zn5oz]

I am pretty certain that the "Mausoleum Suite" message is spoken from the Gravemind. The flood have been around since the Forerunner age, and are literally the embodiment of death and chaos. They live off of sins, feasting on men and god for eternity. And to think that the whole entire Halo lore started because of the Flood.

[@TheRedKing247]

Mendicant Bias was the AI the flood turned with the logic plague on the forerunners. It has also been around since the Flood, and wants forgiveness for turning on the Forerunners which is why it helps Chief in 3. It lived through the the near complete death and destruction of the galaxy considering the Forerunners only just barely were able to activate the Halo Array's as Offensive Bias held the Flood off the ark, and so it would have also lived through the time period where "the light" never perished and continued while the "evil" of the flood perished. With the flood gone, Mendicant had nothing to do but sit and watch for thousands of years, a prison of his own demise. It fits the words to a t, and unlike the Gravemind/Flood, was actually on High Charity as it was the Oracle on the Forerunner Dreadnought at the center. It could be the flood, but it's far more likely to be Mendicant.

[@Red-zn5oz]

@@TheRedKing247 I was thinking about that too. It's either Mendicant or the Gravemind, but we honestly have no idea since both of them fit the category perfectly.

[@jaredjensen1418]

So I had a few conspiracy theories growing up about Halo. I kinda wanna just throw these out here and see if there are even any LARPs or mentions of these outside my immediate circle of friends. 1) There was a secret series of live missions in Halo 2 and into 3 in which Bungie was able to invite people based on a set of coding flags that these players would activate, leading them into these "Additional Missions," as they were called. Basically your multiplayer character became a canon character and you play these secret missions that are wildly more difficult than the base game, have far more intimate views of minor characters and events, and had very real stakes of "if you die, you're out." Bungie monitored it closely as it was almost a two-sided game between players and developers. This one sounds more unlikely the older I get, not to mention how probably illegal and developmentally impossible for Bungie to manage. But it was a theory that affected a lot of my early memories of Halo. 2) Supposedly there was a second meaning behind the Iris ARG and the messages from AdjutantReflex, pointing to a riddle and meaning that was far more than just advertising for Halo 3's release. Far more real and mysterious. I could see this one being a real conspiracy theory despite me not hearing really anything on the topic outside of my friend group as a kid. That said, I think it's a stretch that it would be real as an actual thing that happened. Let me know if you have any info on either theory! I've been curious about these for years.

[@SuperHexer123]

Oh holy hell the recon skull brings me back. God I remember back in middle school learning of an out of bounds to "find" the elusive skull. The out of bounds was real, but obviously the skull wasnt. Whenever I play through 3's story though I like to do the out of bounds glitch and head over there for fun.

[@saboosh1013]

43 minutes of HiddenXperia? Yes please.

[@loognabet1753]

I really want to see that flood from halo 2 in infinite, a new enemy with a different battle style would be a great addition

[@Tygron]

The trigate was actually a weird texture thing out of bounds on the level you showed as well as Cairo Station and another I can't remember. Many things were theorized for it from secret levels to messages and many different processes including the gondola switches were supposedly how you activate them. Now, all it is is a weird spot where the texture forms a triangle but yea.

[@not_imy]

I'm pretty sure I heard Cortana say "There will be no more sadness. No more anger. No more envy." on Halo Infinite. I'm PRETTY sure of it. 20 years after the initial Easter egg marketing campaign. That's amazing. 40:08

[@hamish5011]

the line in Infinite is actually a call back to her saying it in Halo 3. I'm pretty sure it's when you're on High Charity going to save her, and you get messages from her, as she starts to go crazy

[@ryanmatthews2068]

Now knowing what's going on with Blizzard Activison, Marty O' Donell leaving could be actually much much darker

[@imjustlookingformywatch]

34:10 I don't know why but Miranda Keyes EGG makes me crack up.

[@johnbornjohnborn]

The weird shape on her face is the number 7

[@lrballistics]

Bruh the dudes who made the Juliet one should have put "Find me, or I will find you" on the way. That shit already had fucking chills going down my spine as it is.

[@aymonfoxc1442]

Great video; there were some conspiracies that I hadn't heard of and some that I had forgotten about. So thanks for taking the time to collate all this wacky weirdness 👏

[@MagusOfSimians]

Love how you've embraced the iconic meme that is, you saying "iconic"

[@cs82271]

Actually just finished a week long achievement grind in the MCC so I recognize almost all of these. I'm still amazed I beat Halo 2 on legendary in one sitting. Cairo Station of all things gave me the most trouble because of the hanger and the seemingly infinite elites

[@xxpiexx3366]

So you got monopolized? ( i think thats the name)

[@Spike-13]

I can't imagine doing halo 2 legendary in one sitting. It took me a couple days

[@cs82271]

@@xxpiexx3366 nah. That's doing it in 3hr. I did it in about 13hr. Luckily for Monopolized, it takes the best times of each level so you don't have to actually speedrun. You can try a level over and over until you get the par time

[@xxpiexx3366]

@@cs82271 ah, im sorry i misunderstood

[@hiddendesire3076]

33:52 Can confirm. Accidentally recreated that with an old disc copy I had. Had similar issues with a scratched Halo 3 disc (thanks a lot JP!) and even RockBand (Also thanks to him).

[@Epsilvonic]

Can also confirm as well, the same issue happened to a bunch of my friends copies as well as my own. The noise was honestly pretty muffled against regular game SFX, so it was just more of an annoyance to sour Halo 4’s launch rather than scary.

[@jackstraughan24]

I'm so glad we got the Halo 2 and Halo 3 that we got. Halo 2 would have ended up far too long and messy cramming in a half arsed Halo 3 onto the end of Halo 2. Plus, and I don't care what anyone says, Halo 2's cliff-hanger ending was necessary and amazing

[@ambrose3560]

1. For the Da Vinci Code easter egg, General Kidd did a video on it. turns out, it's just the cannon that the Guardian uses in Sandtrap and Sandbox when you leave the map. Look up his video on hidden vehicles (I think) 2. The "Forerunner Tank" level geometry is probably only visible in H2A because Bungie covered it us with terrain in Halo 2, and 343 uncovered it not knowing why it was covered in the first place (it was under water, no one would see it, right?) as for it being there in the first place, it probably has to do with that 2-part levelling system you were talking about. the beginning of the level could probably be found in the level before it. 3. the Destiny Ads on Outskirts is probably referring to Halo 3: ODST, not Halo 2. Back before Bungie Left, you could find posters in Halo 3 ODST saying "Destiny Awaits" with the Destiny Logo and a picture of Earth.

[@thecapone45]

What's still crazy to me is that after all these years we still have never solves the ODST code that;s written along the walls.

[@dyazhector8888]

There is a hidden gargoyle/demon statue in a halo 2 multiplayer map, totally out of context

[@duckhunter1990]

Yes. I suppose the fella was referring to it one he said ‘’scream face’

[@cun_0092]

"I'm lost in time..." Seems familiar to Halo:Point of light. 343 Spark said something like this, he said "he did not belong to past nor the present"

[@Doct0rLekter]

To me it sounds more like the Primordial. The primordial was literally called the timeless one, was trapped in a time lock, and then was killed by a forerunner device that made it experience countless aeons of aging in moments until it dissolved into dust.

[@Quadrenaro]

5:58 That's Linda-058, not Chief. IIRC, she was the canonical reason explaining split screen co-op. Though canonically, her cryopod was ejected before the Pillar of Autumn crashed onto Halo.

[@csongor242]

My weirdest Halo experience was amongst my first ones. I first played Halo on PC, because there was a demo of CE that my father got with a newspaper. It was only The Silent Cartographer and Blood Gulch. This is where my Halo addiction started. I played the one campain map a million times and I spent hours on Blood Gulch just driving around the rocket warthog and flying the Banshee. I always on LAN because the online part didn't work for me for some reason. Than one day I was walking around Blood Gulch and doing my usual stuff, when I suddenly died and there was another spartan in full black armor that killed me. I never before seen anyone there and I had no idea how this was possible (I was pretty young back then). I tried to kill him, but I couldn't so I quit, because I was a little freaked out. Not before or after that have I seen anyone else on BG while playing the demo.

[@IceTheCrystal08]

While that's probably a glitch, I'd like to imagine it as a creepypasta.

[@bobmcjones9697]

Brute skill skull - likely named because whoever came up with it thought it took brute/pure skill

[@Goblinhandler]

How have we collectively decided to completely ignore the fact that Bungie has had a severed dog head for around 20 years

[@Fyre0]

The ancient text in Halo 3s Sand Trap is now in multiple levels of Halo Infinite's campaign, including tablets held by the 3 forerunner statues in the Silent Auditorium and engraved on the sides of the golden pyramid level with ancient voice-overs talking about the imprisonment of the Endless. Can't believe this wasn't included in the iceberg.

[@Celestial_Wing]

With the Activision lawsuit going on, I think the theory behind Marty's reason for leaving actually is vindicated. I'd leave too if I had to share an office with scum like that.

[@SpartAnd117]

In Halo CE Microsoft version ending on Legendary re is also Guilty Spark Flying off after the Halo ring was destroyed at the post end credits. Also Ling-Ling head is talked about in Halo 3 Essential.

[@axman3828]

In retrospect now that infinite is out, maybe the mausoleum suite mendicant bias reverse text is a refence to the endless.

[@Static0Gaming]

Nice to know what these ghosts are. I got quite a few of them playing custom games on Halo 3 back in the day but never ended up looking into it

[@Halo2kido]

This is actually a very good video considering you said you're doing something different. Sat throughout the 40min video (which is rare for me), pretty nostalgic as well. Used to get sooo creeped out by the ghost of lockout when I was a kid. Good stuff (Y)

[@drtokubuns]

Fun fact! The flood juggernauts actually made an appearance in the arcade game Fireteam raven

[@Dr.Pootis]

24:58 As absolutely insane as this sounds story-wise, it sounds like it would actually be kinda fun gameplay-wise

[@markmiranda9461]

It’s always amazing the production of 2 was changed so many times and yet turned out to be the best or close 2nd best halo.

[@bobandy84]

This was a great video, I would love to see more videos like it if possible. Keep up the great work man!

[@rumplestilskin8692]

In my second or third time playing halo 2 back when it came out I saw the bloody marine glitch and thought “oh that guys been fighting hard” and then next time I played that mission again he wasn’t bloody and I just thought “umm why the hell is he different now” lol