Bro i was 9 yrs old, tryna find bigfoot and UFOs because i watched videos by the dozen showing them in SA with X files music blaring. Obviously they were mods but i didnt know any better, and the videos were believable 😂. They were a key part of early 2000s youtube. Thanks for sharing

its so odd that an 18+ game become alot of people's childhood. Thank you for touching San Andreas, game had a special place in our hearts.

That "destroyed lighthouse" in bayside could actually be an old artillery platform; rigt after pearl harbor the national guard had an artillery group created to protect the west coast

"Here's a dog.........I like him"

23:39 Brings back memories of randomly wondering around the map and hearing about 5 explosions which was often a plane driving into a tree 😂😂

Sneaky late one tonight.

54 minutes long?? We cookin, thanks fizhy

I remember shortly after GTA San Andreas came out for the PS2, I saw rumors on the PlaystationUnderground message boards that bigfoot was in the game. My friends and I spent hours and hours hunting for bigfoot by air and by land in the console co-op multiplayer. Even though the rumors weren't true it was still a lot of fun. Glad you're covering this fun little fragment of gaming history, back when gaming still had a little bit of mystery to it. Between that and the "Hot Coffee" controversy, I'm not sure which one was crazier.

Have to say, it is weird seeing a version of the game without the fog cause it makes the world feel so much smaller.

Here's an explanation to why those Glendales are believed to be haunted or just weird in general. Due to hardware limitations, the game could not spawn cars that already had damaged panels, and to solve this problem, rockstar had to make a separate model which LOOKED damaged, but in reality wasn't. This is the reason why you cannot repair the cars, and why they're referred as "glen---t" in the files. The reason why you can see them roll around by themselves is due to how the game engine works. You see, when you get close to their spawn point, the game spawns the cars slightly above the ground, and since they spawn on a slope, they simply start rolling down to the bottom of it.

Players finding a myth online : "awwh it was a myth." Modders:"Say no more fam"

The Ghost Glendale car, from what I remember from way back when, I read somewhere that the reason why I appears out of nowhere, its for the player to use in case they end up in the woods far in, and they need to quick ride to leave if your going for a 100% completion without cheats... not my words

Great video. Just have a few things to add: For the ghost cars myth, while the myth originated from the fact that these cars would often spawn on a slope and thus roll downhill that people mistook for self-driving, the legend exaggerated this by claiming these driverless cars could "come alive" and attempt to run the player over. In fact, I don't know what channel it was, but I once even saw video of what was likely a mod of this occurring. As for San Fierro, there's an actually existing ship horn that can be heard during heavy fog at least in the original SA. Moreover, I personally remember experiencing it during my playthrough of SA all the way back and the nearby pedestrians appeared to start panicking when the horn was sounded. I personally found that experience fairly creepy so I feel it could've been an honourable mention.

"giants are giants and can be seen from a mile away" 😂😂 it just sounds so damn silly when you put it like that, I love it

I swear i saw a UFO in Bone County. I remember it clearly. It was on a PS2. It flew by overhead and was gone really quickly because of the very limited view distance. I know there is no UFO model except the one from the Lil Probe Inn, but it would be technically possible for the devs to hide it in code without leaving a trace in the Game files. And it would be the perfect Rockstar prank to make it such a rare occurance that no one would believe the players who actually saw it.

I remember being absolutely terrified of CJ's house, fully expecting the ghost to pop out.

Never clicked faster on a YT reccomandation, i used to eat up myths and legends about GTA back in the days.

I’ve always liked looking into the various myths and urban legends in games like San Andreas. With how big the game is, it’s not a surprise there are as many myths and urban legends as there are. Great work man, take care!

I just missed the era of YT where these myth videos worked. I got to see the later spillage into IRL myths with stuff like Slender or Jack The Killer. The closest to this I ever took part in was the early Minecraft creep stuff. Herobrine, etc. Thanks for an hour of someone else's childhood nostalgia and wonder. It's the kind of thing a man appreciates.

Im firmly under the understanding this all was a result of youtube. People in the early days of youtube would do anything for views in the pursuit of clout rather than money, and GTA SA being the most recent GTA to release when YT started building steam made it the ideal target for this kind of myth making. That Rockstar made such a complex and interesting world made it the perfect storm for this sort of thing. An interesting cultural intersection if ever there was one.

8:45 after vice city, rockstar actually planned on making an open world zombie game using vice city's assets. eventually the project was cancelled and they went on to release san andreas instead, perhaps Zombotech is a small nod to the cancelled game

Excited for this, perfect timing to drop when unwinding

Fantastic video all round dude. The editing throughout this entire video is fantastic especially for a video that is 54 minutes long. Astonishingly enough the colour correction you applied to the gameplay actually made the GTA SA Definitive Edition look much better. Commentary was excellent and kept me engaged all the time. Love all your myths and urban legends videos but this is one of your best to dates.

I absolutely love your videos, I can’t wait for when GTA6 comes out and you cover the myths and legends from that game too!

Long awaited lol u have told me u were exited for this and Ik ima watch this multiple times thank u fizhy!

great writing fizhy, this was such a good one to listen to

Great video! Some of these I didn’t even know about even after all this time! Thank you for the hard work and effort you put into these videos!

The Battle of Little Big Smoke would be a good name for a gta spinoff

Got 2 teeth pulled today. Feel like shit. Was just lighting up a blunt when I got this notification. This is exactly* what I need right now.

One hour long fizhy video? A blessing from the lord 🙏🏻

in what way was gta san andreas good story telling? cj: i heard about mom dying, i came back as quick as i could sweet: fool! you ran away! you're a coward and a disgrace to the hood! cj: hey, i want to try and do what's right for the hood man what we got goin on? sweet: fool you ain't fit for the hood no more after you ran away and left us all here so you could life life at liberty city cj: hey, i saved a musician and we have a mansion we could all hang out at while we work on fixing the hood like it should be. sweet: i don't need a fancy mansion when i have the hood that i call home, and you left anyways so why do you care about it now when you are a disgrace? cj: i killed Ryder and big smoke because of what they did to mom, i took down crash and singlehandedly put us on top in the turf wars against the ballas and vagos, i have done everything i can do for the hood but i feel like we can do more together. sweet: you've never cared about the hood and you running away proves that, everything you've done has been meaningless leading up to this point. now come on only i can lead us back into our prime so lets get to work while you're still a disgrace to the hood, maybe we can redeem you. the writing was so fucking bad that at no point did i enjoy it. i could tell big smoke was a traitor from the first few missions involving him, and i hated the hell out of sweet to the point i was hoping he would die somewhere in the story so i could get away from his annoying shit of constantly bitching about how cj left to go cope with his brothers death in his own way. his busta ass always putting cj down despite all the shit cj does to make up for what happened and to prove to sweet that he cares for not only him and his sister but for the hood as well. and when they have a chance to live better lives, can finally get out of a ghetto ass hood and live a life of comfort sweet still has audacity to say that the hood is the only place for him and that he will never leave it for anything. like bro what the fuck? sweet would rather live a life of being a petty ass criminal instead of cleaning up his act and taking the opportunity to join regular society? the gameplay was great but the story was a fucking joke and is easily the weakest in the entire series. normally i would say GTA V had the weakest story but i at least enjoyed it, i at least had moments i laughed and got really interested. at no point in san andreas did i feel any attachment to anyone besides maybe the guy cj's sister is dating because he actually takes care of cj and goes out of his way risking his life to show him the proof of the green saber and even does what he can to protect cj's sister from harm. like really what point of the story was i suppose to enjoy? was i suppose to laugh at how stupid OG Loke was? or was i suppose to be entertained by ryder and his schitzo schemes? was i suppose to enjoy smoke always having that better than thou attitude? was i suppose to care about sweet despite how much he dunks on cj? like I'm asking for real at what point i was suppose to care about the story and any of the characters? give my one instance of where exactly i was suppose to care about anyone or anything going on because for the life of me i cannot recall a single time where i felt invested other than the reveal of the green saber and being vindicated that i knew smoke was a filthy traitor.

The ghost cars in flint county is just the game spawning a car if your stranded. They move because they spawn on hills and start rolling

I havent played this but you present the content in a good way that makes it intresting even if i dont know anything about it

This myth used to terrify me as a kid 2:19

This kind of content makes me feel all warm inside.

GTA: San Andreas' Myths and Urban Legend is one of my favorite childhood memories. I used to hunt and search alone, it was pretty scary for my 7 year old brain before, then I learned that GTA:SA-MP is a thing when I watched a random YT about it. Looking for Myths and Legends alone was scary, but with other people it was very fun.

Thank you for another great video 😁

Great video, hope to see more Fizhy!

The cars roll down the hill because they spawn on the hill. They roll

been releasing fire content as always man

Oh hell yeah, been waiting for this one

Long one 😊 perfect for a blunt while my son goes to bed thank you 💕💕 looking forward to seeing your work

The Mount Chiliad Angel is just multiple flat cloud textures intersecting in an * form, making them appear as an angel from some angles. Another interesting misplaced NPC encounter in Mount Chiliad is the "Bike Trail Travelers". NPCs ranging from cyclists to trucks traveling down the Mount Chiliad bike trail. From what I recall, the best way to see the NPCs was to use the jetpack, otherwise the NPCs would despawn if you let them out of sight. I also remember the good old days of watching cfox306's myth videos. Most of them were fake but foggy or stormy San Andreas with Silent Hill music in the background was some scary shit back in the day.

10:29 nice to see you shine some light on Maggie’s lesser known quotes

Ah, the myths, my favorite part of the game! I remember when I was a kid and I'd watch obviously fake myth videos for hours on end, partially because of the myths themselves, but also because of the music, it's actually how I found out about bands like MCR and Linkin Park, good times :)

Liked before i watched because i know it's gonna be good.

Even a lot of them are "this is a mod" this stuff is just fun to look at. Also I love the vfx use in this video, scanlines and such. Looking at weird/creepy stuff in a game set in early 90s, it creates the right sort of vibe :D

Gaming doesn't have these sort of myths anymore. It's a shame, you really just had to live in that era to experience gaming like that.

Gr8 video as always

An hour video telling us of the things that aren't in the game? You're not wasting anyone's time here, cheers Geoff 👍🏻

Also are they any encounters you've had in san andreas that were weird whether any in the video or other, comment down below👇🏼

Awesome makes me feel like I was 10 again. Also love how you ordered this list, feels like order of nvestigate first to last. I used to write down my favorite myths and I put UFOs and Black Dots last because those are my favorite two.

Ah shit here we go again

I remember me and my brother hunting for those ghost cars and genuinely getting scared shitless 😂 good ole memories

The link I've posted below is a ghost taken with CJ's camera and uploaded to KZfaq on my old channel, I've never seen it since but luckily i recorded a picture of what i saw that day.. it was so random, I was entering cheat codes and looking at my phone when I took a picture, as soon as i returned to the game, it was gone.

Yooooooo perfectl timing!! Il be watching this very soon! I was up till 5 am last night playing GTA San Andreas misterix mod for ps2 hahahahaha finally got to see bigfoot on the ps2 console.

Awesome video ❤❤❤

I think the remasters are great. I think the criticism was unwarranted.

we indonesian mod the shit ouf of that game so... yeah genuinly surprised to see few of our folklore story in this video

No doubt this is going to be another banger

The idea of Big Smoke haunting you, constantly asking you for number 45's with cheese and extra dip after you take him out, is hilarious.

A biscuit...or two? Sir, if I wish to demolish this pack of bourbon creams I absolutely will 😂 All truth, great content as always dude. I never really got on with Rockstar games from a gameplay standpoint...or rather, I didn't have it in me to get to the end because I kept distracted by doing anything else in the world 😅 But, I always liked the stories, and especially the wider world dressing, so, it's nice to get a rundown on these things 😊

Damn!! Jeepers creepers! What a throw back! I actually liked those movies as a kid

We shall remember the good old days of watching DarkMythHunter

The thunderbird is kinda real. Not in shady creek, but in the desert there are huge birds that spawn, and they are much bigger than any bird could be irl. They don’t attack though

24:13 if you look south of Flint county there certainly is a big foot on the map haha On the south east where the highway curves

"here's a dog, I like dogs" Me too. Thats why I got one :)

25:05 they're thanking Bigfoot monster trucks.

Should’ve mentioned the Bigfoots (Bigfeet?) in Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare. And the trophy/achievement attached to them ‘Six Years In The Making’ which is directly tied to the Bigfoot myth in San Andreas.

39:00 seeing as there is a bridge that looks like the San Francisco bridge in the background. This might not be a lighthouse. It might be a reference to the island battleship were they installed 14 inch guns on island to protect the harbor

rockstar didn't want you to be lost in the woods for ages so that is why ghost cars exist, makes sense when you think of it from a game development PoV

With all the paranormal encounters in RDR2, I do hope we can encounter similar situations in GTA6

A blockbuster video game like GTA:SA that emulates real-life iconic places provides people the opportunity to myth hunt on their own from the comfort of their own homes. Doing so in real life is very time consuming, uncomfortable, expensive, and fruitless.

Masterpiece

Man I wast starting middle school back when this game came out and my god its almost 20 years old now. Not to mention the memes this game spawned for generations of players past present and future. I remember hearing about the myths way back in the day too. Especially with the ghosts and big foot too. Now Im 30 and this game is literally on the door step of 20 years old now :O

I guess it's just my luck with the shark then, had no idea they were rare. I was horrified of sharks as a kid and hated going in any body of water in a video game where you could encounter them, and ran into one very early on. I ended up grinding up my lung capacity in a swimming pool when the game required you to do so.

I wish I could say San Andreas is for me one of the best GTA games. I just recall that the parody and weird crap went so OTT that it took me out of the experience. GTA IV is not without its flaws either - and oh yes it has many - but yo me is the top GTA in terms of narrative and even gameplay.

"i really like dogs" is something we can all get behind 🐶 💕

takin me back to 2008 with this one

I used to have odd dreams about some of the myths from San Andreas. They were something else back in the day.

5:06 thanks for clarifying

Only 1k likes? It deserves more tbh

46:18 about that myth - during the missions "Interdiction", you can actually find that priest while descending Arco del Oeste. Normally, it'd be hard given that police is after the player, but when putting in the cheats for lack of wanted level, you can examine him more closely.

How the hell do people confuse a Shovel with a damn Dog?

45:50 those body bags are most likely the doings of the mafia, There was some media released by Rockstar in which they show some mafia members there taking care of some corpses. It is most likely the corpse of the sindacco family guy who would have run the caligula's casion but Salvatore asked the sindacco guy to get rid of him.

I wonder if GTA San Andreas was one of if not the last bastion of games where people just... made shit up about it. Rumors and myths persist in other games to this day, but it really feels as though every square inch of this world had something that someone made up about it. I only played San Andreas for the first time a few years ago, but I was so hooked on those myth videos that the X-Files music still makes me think of people looking for Nessie in SA.

Back in the day I would invite my friends over so we could spend hours looking for Bigfoot, we had an old school VHS recording camera we set up to watch my TV. I wish I knew were I left that camera and where a tape was. We wanted to put them on KZfaq but we couldn’t find a VHS to digital converter

The Bigfoot myth messes with my head because it’s some sort of Mandela effect for me. I 100% found him in the game when I was a kid. Before I had even heard of the myth. I don’t even believe in the Mandela effect but I can’t explain how Bigfoot was definitely in the game if he apparently never was.

A note about the headless man is that there is a glitch that allows CJ to walk around without his head. You just need to activate co-op mode and have player two decapitate him with a katana. Once he respawns he'll be headless.

Fizhy, I’ve been play red dead redemption 2 for more then 2 years now and there is one thing that I could never explain or figure out, if you go near the northern part Amber Reno you have a chance of hearing a very discreet Howell from some sort of creature or animal. you have more of a chance of hearing it at Wallace station inside when it’s more quiet and you’ll know when you hear it because there’s nothing in the game that sounds like that, and there’s one other place where you can hear it more loudly, and it’s within the cave in the mountain north of strawberry, I looked to see if anyone had made anything on this noise and nobody has, i’d love to see you make a video on this mysterious thing

The only one that i’ve ever encountered is the sniper in Red county…i never saw them however i went on the farm and was immediately shot and killed by what sounded like a sniper. It only ever happened once and no matter how many times i went back it never happened again

The green fog is real... sort of. Basically the original PC version of the game has a setting that allows you to play the game at a 16 bit color config, meaning some colors won't be able to render properly, mainly particle effects which will have a green tint to them, fog is part of these effects and well.. you get green fog

I remember tricking a friend into thinking I found a UFO near the desert area. Even took pictures with the in game camera. All I did was activate the no gravity/floating cars cheat code on vehicles and snapped a photo.

Just got the old trilogy a few days ago so this one comes as a supprise:O

GTA Myths wiki is such a treasure trove. Everything you can think of is a myth in San Andreas and people reported seeing it lol

has it aged well ? no, but to be around back then. it was thegame. You see that car? You like it? Throw the npc out onto the cold hard ground and take it, it's yours . we also got boats, bikes, planes, helicopters, if its not a scrapyard crane you can drive it. even tower cranes! the world was huge and varied for the time, though it looks tiny now.

The priest does appear in the mission "Interdiction"

need that background wave. im the beginning leading to the intro

I remember when I was about 15 or 16 I tried to add one of the publicly available Big Foot mods to GTA SA, and it ended up breaking the game causing it to crash upon loading up. I think I considered screencapping it and posting it to KZfaq at the time if it worked, and I believe I had to reinstall the game out of frustration when it immediately broke it. Even more frustrating considering that I had a bunch of other mods installed on that copy. Ahh ... good times.

Great video but that muddy, flickering VHS filter for the first two and a half minutes was very painful.