Secrets of Blackwater (Red Dead Redemption 2)

The many secrets and easter eggs of Blackwater explained.
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The Red Dead Redemption 2 Soundtrack
0:00 Introduction
0:37 Josiah Blackwater
2:15 Street Names
3:22 Greta
4:32 Blackwater Massacre
5:50 Landon Ricketts
6:31 Strange Man
7:50 Nigel
8:50 Aztec Writings
10:06 Jade Mask
10:53 Newspaper Boy
11:23 Athletics Team
12:37 Bullhorn Trinket
13:20 Obese NPCs
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[@angbandsbane]

2:28 Blackwater civilian: "Mommy, why does that man keep pointing his gun at street signs?" "Well, dear, that's just a Strange Man."

[@skxlter5747]

The blackwater massacre could've easily been a 40 dollar DLC, and everyone would've bought it and ofc undead nightmare 2

[@Ncpsteve123]

It could’ve been a hundred dollar dlc and everyone would have bought it. I don’t think we’ll ever get it though, rockstar’s moved on from red dead 2 so unless it’s involved in rdr3 it’s never happening

[@skxlter5747]

@@Ncpsteve123 rdr 3 has been rumored to be in development a year ago, so it looks like that's gonna be their next entry after gta 6

[@Ncpsteve123]

@@skxlter5747 knowing rockstar it’ll be 2100 by the time we get it

[@Defort-jd8xe]

R* only cares about money and they can milk more out of microtransactions from whales.

[@tonyedwards3938]

Cowboys and aliens would have been better.

[@jolo6051]

Everyone's going on and on about the Blackwater Masacre. But, honestly, the entire game is filled with more masacres. Pretty much every climactic mission in RDR2 involves some kind of massacre in a town at the end.

[@Nicola_Bailey]

Yep, and they even have another robbery-shootout on another boat so I think that's got it covered.

[@stevebmx46]

Between Valentine, Strawberry, Rhodes, St. Dennis, Guarma, and Annesburgh...the entire map should have an invisible sniper at that rate. Arthur's bounty is supposedly $5k when he takes Jack fishing...imagine what it is by the time he goes to get Abigail from Milton.

[@stephendavis6267]

My personal headcanon is that the night before the Blackwater heist, Dutch had found himself in a tavern for a shot of liquid courage before the big day, and had gotten a bit more tipsy than he'd expected, and that night he had met the Strange Man thinking it was Trelawny, and the Strange Man is who pushed him in the direction to make the choices he wound up making.

[@StrangeManChannel]

Imagine playing as Dutch while all of this is happening, too.

[@angusschaub3745]

@@StrangeManChannel maybe in RDR 3 😀

[@stephendavis6267]

@@StrangeManChannel A darker version of the "Lenny!" scene in RDR2. Dutch is out with Trelawny, Trelawny excuses himself to use the jakes, and the Strange Man shows up and Dutch, already sauced, thinks it's Trelawny. The Strange Man starts picking at the threads of the plan they had, innocently enough, but Dutch starts getting his wheels turning and thinking he has a better idea.

[@GanjaThaGod]

I couldn’t find the video on the strange man’s house but I was going to ask about the alligator that’s under the house in the cage what’s that about ?

[@DudeLongcouch]

This is S tier content. Each of these videos must take so much work to produce. Respect.

[@legendly8442]

I’m just gonna say this, related (kinda) to the video but Dutch could’ve always sent someone like Sadie or Kieran to collect the money in Blackwater because none of the bounty hunters or Pinkertons (except maybe Ross and Milton) would have known that they were in Dutch’s gang.

[@keto8354]

Josiah Blackwater is basically a reference and based from another frontier legend, David "Davy" Crockett.

[@Slider6294]

Including the "you can all go to hell and I'm going to St. Denis" (Texas) line...

[@beatrixdobson4795]

Genuinely starting to wonder if they keep adding stuff to RDR2 without telling anyone because there seems to be so much I've missed on my multiple playthroughs.

[@skxlter5747]

Naw its been there since launch, I've found most of them in 2019, you just haven't been exploring much

[@beatrixdobson4795]

@@skxlter5747 Sure bud.

[@GetaMotion]

Didn’t the civil war hat use to be called civil war cap instead of civil war hardee hat

[@sodaroni_enthusiast]

​@GetaMotion you might be thinking of the military forage cap which is also a civil war hat.

[@StrangeManChannel]

I've played it many times and I'm still finding new stuff. It's insane just how huge and detailed this game is.

[@ued_general5805]

I think the video should have ended with the yelling of "Gavin" in the background. Gets me everytime 😂

[@66order]

Don't ask me why but Blackwater feels much more big in the first game.

[@itskiki4979]

There's a train station there and a bank, the buildings u see that are in construction in the epilogue are complete in the first game, maybe that's why haha

[@_NEPO_]

It is bigger in the first game, rdr2 epilogue happens before rdr

[@angbandsbane]

Relativity plays a role. If memory serves (and keep in mind, this is just me talking from memory), I think in RD1 it might have been the biggest town, save maybe one in Mexico. If nothing else, it certainly was the biggest spot of the final third of the map. In RD2, though, it's smaller than St. Denis by a long shot, and probably not that much bigger than some of the other newer towns as well, so it'll seem that much smaller.

[@lewisjohnston7077]

Probably because RDR2 has Saint Denis and Saint Denis is bigger than Blackwater.

[@tigerburn81]

@@angbandsbane It was definitely the most modern town, and had a modern town layout as compared to the more "western" Armadillo and the cramped Mediterranean Mexican towns.

[@SirGale]

went back and noticed that you’ve finally returned to your original format. Love this!

[@DE-YT]

the freaking transition from nigel to bad voodoo was so good i love that song man

[@aarondonnelly2344]

Your presentation style is so good. I really enjoy watching your videos on RDR2. I recently played it for the first time about 2 months ago. And then I stumbled across your channel while looking for more lore, and I've watched a bunch of episodes since. Just wanted to say I really enjoy your work, and I hope you keep it up.

[@ThatOneChick420]

You always pay close attention to details, amazing all the things you find. Thanks for another fun and interesting watch Strange Man! 😊

[@StrangeManChannel]

Thank you so much! I'm really happy you enjoy the content and thank you for the continuous support, ThatOneChick. 🖤

[@Low-tier-jack-marston6482]

​@StrangeManChannel hey strange man... I want to know if you could do secrets of valentine If there is anything to find lol And if not.. Maybe strawberry or Saint Denis if you haven't already

[@santizavaley]

The quality of your videos is incredible. Thank you for making these.

[@thomm030]

Saturdaynight. I'm once again having a rum and coke. Both the kids and wife are asleep. A new upload from Strange Man. The planets have aligned.

[@tigerburn81]

Already? Where do you live? Poland?

[@StrangeManChannel]

Hope you enjoyed the rum and coke! 🥃

[@mikel5163]

You have to watch KZbin in secrecy? Sad.

[@Assassino275]

This scrub again

[@crowbar_reed]

I hope Gavin turns up in the next RDR game xD

[@TanksTanksAtTanks]

I think I read that Gavins friend was schizophrenic and Gavin doesn't actually exist. But if that isn't true it would be cool to see Gavin.

[@crowbar_reed]

@@TanksTanksAtTanks Oh yes, absolutely. I just think it would be a great easter egg to have some notable npc be called Gavin. Maybe off the cuff remark about his friend Nigel.

[@pablowoods9886]

Awesome production and editing style on this, great work

[@joco2k9]

what an upgrade in video edditing and the would to do further ! Really great ! Big up for the next buddy !!

[@azultarmizi]

damn when you put them side by side, strange man does look like trelawny. However, the journal said that the man "sounded" like trelawny and they dont sound similar at all tho

[@Assassino275]

Sounded like as in the way he had was described sounded like him

[@badatgaming]

Music you chose for the Aztec writings segment was a banger.

[@aleood]

The editing on this is flawless

[@geranimoxl]

Great video, as always!

[@ackoivanovski4636]

i loooooove this man,love this videos love your work you make my day better

[@exoticmasterpiece5783]

I love these videos. Would you consider making videos on Rdr1 lore

[@bajerpundaren]

Love your vids

[@kathleenhorwood6738]

Posted 47 seconds ago ! Let's get 'er done ! Hey strange man, Lots of love from Newfoundland and Labrador xx 💖💖💖

[@babyelephantemperor8852]

Awesome video

[@triocha233]

Broooooooooooo there’s no way I was literally in Blackwater 24 hours ago thinking “I wanna watch a secrets of Blackwater video” & boom now you upload this 12 hours later wtaf

[@PantheraOncaTV]

Amazing :)

[@dav1dp3tre65]

First day of summer, UCL final and Strange mman posts? The best day ever

[@PinusSNero]

Borussia: i have... a GOD DAMN PLAN!

[@Alex36973]

Bvb needed one big score

[@Red_clapzz]

Strange man i just want to say i love your videos and please tell me are u satan himself the grim reaper or god? i love your vid though bro and all the details u find and put into these vids love u man❤️

[@Linabot-qc3tj]

what a coincidence. just started with the epilogue and am now able to visit blackwater for the first time today

[@andrewlowden322]

Always thought that was Jebediah Springfield "A Noble Spirit Embiggens teh Smallest Man!"

[@ryanvirgiawan2846]

Next secret guarma

[@air_run]

I can't wait to see all the videos your gonna do on GTA 6 😌

[@backup8079]

I think Strange Man is the Gavin that everyone is looking for

[@R1ch4rd74]

Time to dive in to the mysterious creatures. like the sasquatch. the chupacabra the 4 horses ot the Apocalypse and much more of the mysterious world. (and the rarest of them all the Unicorn in Dias Coronas)

[@adelabbassi5663]

Get ready when gta 6 is comes up with many many and many Easter eggs for our guy to solve them all 🔥🔥🔥😤

[@GrumpyLoco6]

What's the name of the song during the "Aztec Writings" section?

[@truthhurts3524]

I stumbled across a friendly camper somewhere between Saint Denis & Butcher Creek, sitting and listening to his little spiel I was scoping out stuff I could steal. The usual things were available to take but there was also the jade mask sitting there.

[@Natural_Brutality]

what? Butchers creek and saint denis Are Pretty far away could u pick it up? U should take a vid if u can

[@truthhurts3524]

I’ve never recorded any of my play through, and I always figure if I’ve seen it, many others before me have as well. I also could be wrong in the area I was in, but I’m pretty certain it was somewhere between the two I mentioned, I do remember it was somewhat near flowing water. I didn’t think to remember my location or anything because like I said, I’m so late at playing the game I figure anything I’ve come across has been seen numerous times before. The mask wasn’t highlighted but the female fertility statue was also one of the items the camper had, I could have taken it but I already acquired the one from the brothel. If I’m remembering the other stuff correctly, there was a bird cage and a phonograph among the campers things. If by chance I come across him again, I’ll definitely record it, I figured it was a typical encounter with a friendly camper.

[@ObeyObie]

Dinner worth content

[@YourWickedFuneral]

I know some people were giving you a hard time for it but truly I think your videos are so much better without AI voices, at least for me. It lets all the messed up things sink in more as you read them.

[@tokyoziah2242]

Last clip was violation 😂

[@VladilSan]

I love you strange man

[@acmarston]

What's the music at 9:00?

[@illnick6393]

1:16 looks like dude with racoon hat from Valentine

[@Malxer]

Nigel not finding and still looking for Gavin for 8 YEARS is so sad

[@TanksTanksAtTanks]

I read Nigel is schizophrenic and Gavin isn't real. It would be sad if he died and still didn't “find” gavin

[@Malxer]

@@TanksTanksAtTanks that would be an interesting theory, but if I remember correctly, he states in one of his earlier dialogues that he came from England looking after his friend

[@_original__]

nice music stranger!

[@GavinWhereAreYou]

GAVIINNN WHERE ARE YOU GAVIN GAV!

[@Blaquebarbgamer]

You wrong for making the screen shake for that thicccy thiccc thiccc npc at the end 🤭.

[@Malevolent2180]

Josiah blackwater kinda remind me of that guy that always hangs around the saloon in valentine, even though Josiah is most definitely dead they do seem to have a resemblance😂

[@TK-cp5ns]

Micah wasn’t with the Pinkertons before chapter 4

[@joshuatowell9793]

Thank god there is narration!

[@JuanElMas]

You forgot an essential piece from RDR1. The Serendipity ferry was from Tallulah Jetty.

[@omaidshams3978]

Imagine the GTA universe was part of the red dead universe. Imagine hearing characters mention, Liberty City, San Fierro, and San Andreas.

[@Ronnie2787]

Recently just started another play through of rdr2 and man it’s still so great after all these years. They don’t need to i guess but i wish they made the ps5 update for it. I mean they released gta v multiple times so why not give this one a fresh coat of paint too.

[@funrun07haan50]

If co ck star would invest more in rdr2 they would have doubled maybe tripled their monney easely

[@saltydog4556]

Doing the story for the fourth time. Your clips gave made it soo much easier. Sick of dying to damn cougars fir the challenge. When ya want em,cant find em, when ya dont need em. Surprise!😂

[@Chantalan]

You're the best.

[@hataaurider]

I try.. today thank bro

[@Someone46290]

Bazinga

[@hiloworle7106]

whats the track at @0.37

[@KRAST666]

I thought he would include the supermarket glitch lol. Has it been fixed though?

[@VaporeAnne]

Pretty sure Trelawny and Strange Man are the same type of reaper/entity.

[@myview5840]

Main St was named after the Main Quest in the game. Fun Fact

[@tigerburn81]

No, I don't think Strange Man was in Blackwater. It simply introduces Trelawny as being itinerant a gang member, whom you first encounter after the saloon fight where he gives information about Sean and Blackwater. For the story purposes, this justifies you not being able to go to Great Plains, and definitely not the town of Blackwater.

[@Funny_HaHa123]

Those NPCs aren’t obese they are in the final stages of Lumbago! 😢

[@Rocket39Smoke14]

The Strangeman is figment of John' imagination and apparently a KZbin audience.

[@Clewz13]

Shame how much Undead Nightmare 2 was teased, but it won’t happen :(

[@awesomeman2345x]

Tahiti! lol😂

[@rolandjuhh1731]

Isn't Josiah Blackwater just the guy with the raccoon hat in Valentine's saloon? 🤔

[@kimboii5262]

what does dutch means when he say that her mother manage to have the last laugh even from the grave? im sorry im not good at english and I dont understand the meaning of the metaphor of it.

[@sulfericash1283]

i believe its because they all want to go back to blackwater for the money that was left there but cant cause they are wanted. Dutch's mother being where they want to be is why she got the last laugh.

[@oogaboogadude]

Kifflom, brother-brother

[@Loverboah]

13:42 Bro since when did Rockstar add a Caseoh easter egg??

[@Vampirella1668]

Let me know when that guy finds Gavin.

[@sciencenculture]

I believe Dutch may be stashed the blackwater ferry money in his mothers grave.

[@bamperf55]

Nice

[@TheMarauderOfficial]

guessing josiah blackwater isnt in rdr1? cause in that game the name of the town is definitely a joke based on some kind of diarrhoea disease

[@joseoliva4911]

I always see that josiah Blackwater is ver looklike to jebediah springfield

[@vidalwayz8084]

Fun Fact : I call my coffee “BlackWater”

[@texasrick223]

Recently I was riding near armadillo when a group of del lobos also riding caught my attention. I trailed behind them. They were talking about a socialist professor from the university of Mexico City. One ends up admitting he killed him and keeps his heart in a tin can. Any idea who the professor was?

[@B_A_S_E_G_O_D_]

Subscribe, keep on being great

[@Defort-jd8xe]

Im gonna miss this game so much once GTA 6 comes out with all their goofy unrealistic stuff.

[@pozytywnawibracja17]

Kifflom

[@lewisjohnston7077]

Would you class Blackwater as a town or a city ? I say a city.

[@redseven4040]

the real secret is I freaked it in Blackwater

[@Ardrum_smol]

Unpopular opinion: Bad Voodoo is my fav rdr soundtrack

[@umgoticoaleatorio6665]

Same, my favorite song. It hurts me so much to think Rockstar won't consider making Undead Nightmare 2 ;-;

[@guyk768]

7:02 I really hope we get to see The Blackwater Massacre one day with The Strange Man. 7:39 Insert Spiderman pointing at Spiderman meme here with The Strange Man and Trelawny. 7:51 Gavin!! 8:00 I find it funny all while John and Nigel are talking the lady is just standing there watching them as she fans 🪭 herself.

[@Zer0Fall3n]

My girl got me this game during Christmas the year it came out, I played for about a year. So 2019 was the last time I played but I always love watching these videos .

[@ErichKartmann]

The obese NPC I’ve met was the Aberdeen guy

[@user-kv3ob3sq1i]

song @ 8:51?

[@dutchvanderlinde8619]

I’m not 100% haven’t listened to soundtrack to undead nightmare in some time. I think it’s called bad voodoo if it isn’t that song. Just check undead nightmare soundtrack it is in there

[@BreadPled]

Lumbago

[@user-mp7dl1id4d]

why must you make members only videos? WHY must you make videos HIDDEN behind a PAYWALL?! Strange man you have the best videos and i get ads in the beginning of your videos why must you do this?

[@Theydontknow294]

Yippe

[@brandonleiphart130]

What is the music that comes right after the Gavin portion?

[@tiesjaja2938]

I don’t visit blackwater that often, very interesting video.

[@hatna677]

At the beginning of the game (1889), Arthur cannot enter Blackwater. However, if you find a way, you can find a letter dated 1907 next to at least one NPC. Another time traveler or RS oversight

[@codyblakely8353]

"1989" 💀 "1889" 💀

[@Jonnys_Adventrues]

I’m still confused as to how John doesn’t recognize Rickets From the black water Massacre?!

[@KC.45]

Because he wasn't really there. It's a myth.

[@skxlter5747]

The continuity is a bit messy ngl

[@Jonnys_Adventrues]

@@KC.45 Then why did a News paper article say he was then?!

[@JaseHDX]

because it was 12 years ago

[@lokilucario]

Really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one

[@HAM-sb2ns]

I want to make a funny comment so I get alot of likes, here I go, "Lumbago".

[@KidCypherTV]

we got a comedian over here

[@leonbrunsberg6719]

It's very serious john

[@stormgetsbilled6309]

what are you some kind of wise guy?

[@skxlter5747]

Dead meme

[@HAM-sb2ns]

@@skxlter5747 killed by Lumbago