Red Dead Redemption 2 is full of mysteries and Easter eggs, ranging from the hilarious to the downright terrifying. Even though the game came out back in 2018, fans are still uncovering some of these mysteries and the reasons Rockstar included them in the game.
One of the spookiest mysteries in Red Dead Redemption 2 occurs in the Saint Denis cemetery, where players can see a ghost woman running away and disappearing into thin air. The reasons this was included in the game by Rockstar, as well as the original intended purpose of the character, have been uncovered by fans.
Angelo Bronte, A Man of Honor is a mission in Red Dead Redemption 2 which takes place after Arthur, John, and Dutch retrieve John’s son Jack from Angelo Bronte’s house. To get Jack back, Angelo asks the gang to clear out the local graveyard in Saint Denis of grave robbers. It is during this after-dark mission that players encounter the ghost of the Saint Denis cemetery.
When entering the Saint Denis graveyard, players may spot an old woman wearing black sprinting away into the fog. Players who have completed the section before may be expecting her, and those that are fast enough are even able to hogtie her and loot her, but if she is shot at, the bullets pass right through her. If she gets away, which she almost always does, she will simply vanish.
During the quest, there are a few encounters that players will run into that aren’t the graverobbers themselves. Arthur and John will run into a dog who will lead them to some of the graverobbers, as well as a drunk man who is mourning a recently deceased friend. There are a couple of other times as well that players might spot the mysterious woman running between headstones in the distance and disappearing. It’s certainly one of the creepiest moments in a main mission in Red Dead Redemption 2. The woman, however, was originally intended to have a larger role.
Audio files reveal that the woman was originally intended to be alive – or at least, intended to appear alive – and standing crying by a grave. When Arthur Morgan approached her would unlock a bit of dialog where she would first ask “can I help you?” before saying “Pray It’s a Graveyard. It’s what people do here! Pray!” before bursting into terrifyingly maniacal laughter which eventually broke back into open sobs.
The character was intended as a reference to Sylvia Ganush from Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell, released in 2009. Sylvia is an old woman that the main character denies a loan extension to, who then curses her to be dragged to hell after 3 days of torment. Like Sylvia Ganush, the old woman in the cemetery wears dark clothes and has one clouded eye, which unused audio files reference when John comments that “that’s a face you don’t forget.”
Like Sylvia, the woman is prone to big mood swings, chaotically moving between crying and laughing at the drop of a hat. However, Rockstar eventually decided to repurpose the character as a ghost in the graveyard rather than the third encounter in the mission, perhaps to make her inclusion more genuinely terrifying by making it unclear exactly what her role is. With Halloween just around the corner, many fans will no doubt be looking for some of the other creepiest Easter eggs in Red Dead Redemption 2.
Red Dead Redemption 2 is out now for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One.
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