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Notice how the night folk are one of the few things that get a genuine scare out of Arthur. Like how when he gets ambushed at that camp and frantically shouts “creepy b*stards”. Just goes to show how creepy those mfs are.

"All you can do is go with your gut, and if that fails, go with your gun" Thats such a good line

2:39 Covering yourself in mud is actually a natural way to protect your skin from mosquito bites. Not sure if it was done intentionally but it's a cool detail, it shows that they've been around long enough to know how to live in that sort of environment

I remember my first encounter with these people. It was broad daylight, I passing through the swamp, saw a gang body, went to check it out, then THEY appeared and stabbed me. It legit scared the shit outta me!

I had a night folk encounter glitch and Arthur kept on repeating "creepy bastards" I even reloaded my save to before it happened and in the loading screen he was still saying it and when I alt f4'd I could still hear it for like 5 seconds. Scariest encounter yet, Arthur got so scared he tried to escape the game

Thing is, they do make sounds. Whenever you come across the wagon with the mutilated horse, a Night folk running straight in front of you when exploring, or when the wave of Night folk come when you've cleared the first lot from the house, you'll hear unnatural shrieks as if they were evil creatures of the supernatural.

So, one time I lassoed a Nightfolk man. I can’t remember if I was trying to take him to the Monk on the mountain or to the site of the pagan sacrifice but he ended up getting loose and I just decided to follow him. He reached his destination during the day, it was a farm near the bayou. He went into a barn and began working with other guys, but remained in his face paint and ratty clothes. So maybe this was a glitch, or perhaps by day the Nightfolk live pretty normal lives and go feral at night. It was interesting, definitely worth following him a good ways across the map, lol.

I've had the random encounter with the busted cart and butchered up horse, it actually caused my horse to keep fleeing deeper and deeper into the bayou. It was almost like the night folk were popping up out of the mud but when i finally caught up to her they were actually surrounding my horse, by the time it was all over i introduced atleast 10 of them to my pistol and shotgun. Craziest random encounter I've had since getting the game years ago

There should be a supernatural dlc exploring those mysteries of the bayou, the Murfrees and the Skinners. I'd prefer it to be a single player DLC but we all know that it'll never gonna happen.

Honestly, I agree that the Night Folk probably worship the Mysterious Stranger or something to that degree. I also think that the Nite Folk could also be regular people in Saint Denis or Rhodes at daytime, as seen by their clothing from civilization and the lack of evidence of many being out in the day.

My only genuine jumpscare in Red Dead is from that mission with the Old Cajun. I usually go first person indoors so I was looking around doing my usual looting and wasn't paying attention to dialogue, I turned around to nothing but a white painted face and immediately got my stomach hacked open. Scared the absolute shit out of me and I'll never forget the noise I made to this day.

Has anyone else had the encounter where the nightfolk scare your horse and it runs off, you whistle and it won't come, just runs farther and then they pop up left and right and then there's even more when you find your horse

Could we get a video about Arthur's psychological symptoms. Since we've seen Dutch sustain a concussion and how he changed his views from an anarchistic style where all men are free to. Colms way of life if you will. Don't live but survive. Doesn't matter who dies. I'd like to see Arthur's side of the story.

I think its possible that their clicking whistling and hissing is just to make themselves more stealthy. Even without their noises the swamp is full of clicking whistling and hissing. So they kind of blend in.

The dialogue in this game is insane. The amount of it and detail can cover an actual TV script. Wouldn’t I love a TV series based on this franchise.

Thank you for this. I am literally horrified of the swamps at night. There and tall trees give me weird vibes all the time

It’s worth mentioning that the only place in the Bayou that I haven’t had a Nightfolk encounter is in the vicinity of the Strange Man’s cabin.

What I found freaky was when I stumbled upon the hanging corpse in the bayou road and my horse started getting spooked. I would always hightail it out of that location as I always assumed that meant the Nightfolk were creeping up on me

I always saw them as a voodoo cult. Also because of their seemingly supernatural nature appearing out of nowhere, not speaking, having white eyes, and their bodies painted chalky white, I think they’re possibly voodoo zombies (a more accurate version of zombies in vondou religion), controlled by their cult leader who could be a vodou queen or sorcerer or something. Btw there’s a little easter egg where you can chase one of them trying to run away from you after you capture them. If you get the right one they run all the way back to a farm where they work. If you stay where they work for a bit they continue doing stuff while staring at you blankly the whole time. It’s so strange but fascinating.

Interesting concept, not a mere gang, but a cult. And as if that wasn't enough, located in the same territory of the Strange Man's cabin and also of the encounter with the ghost of Agnes Dowd.

I fucking hate the bayou. I went there at night on my first playthrough not knowing the nightmares awaiting me there. First thing I got was a big ass alligator that spooked my horse Jimmy and made me fall into the mud. Then I got a woman screaming. Then I got a hanging corpse and these assholes jumped me. And when I finally called it quits and booked it to the nearest exit, a bunch of lemoyne raiders ambushed me on the bridge and I got so spooked they shot me to pieces while I fumbled around like a bird with brain damage. And of course when I respawned I was right back in the middle of the goddamn bayou again. Hate it.

Them communicating solely through clicks and hisses when we encounter them could be a tactical decision, if either it is how they normally speak between each other, or the speak a more conventional language, we can not understand them, allowing them to freely stratigize infront of us, with out fear of us knowing what their next move is

I'm surprised you didn't mention Philip Carlier. He's a bounty on Red Dead Online who escapes into the swamp after murdering someone and goes crazy.

The night folk scares me more than the murfee boys in chapter 6

I wonder if the Valuables you can find on some night folk are more like "trophies" rather than being kept for any practical reasons? Like possibly they hang onto them as sort of reminders of those they kill similar to how some serial killers kept "trophies" from their victims?

I followed a couple of Swamp Folk carrying a body. They actually made clicking and hissing sounds that gators reacted to. It also seems like the more time spent in the swamp, the less they noticed me. Like they smell outsiders.

The Night Folk are the creepiest group in the Swamp in Red Dead Redemption 2,It may not be a horror game but boy does it have its moments because try it in first person view it certainly makes it more immersive and scary at night in the Swamps of Saint Denis.

Been replaying Red Dead 2 and recently did this mission. You don’t realise how much better Arthur’s voice actor is than John’s, not a really a knock on John - just Arthur Morgan being the best video game protagonist of all time.

My first encounter with The Night Folk was when I freeroamed the first chance I got, after setting up camp in Horseshoe Overlook. I went exploring into the swamp and came upon the camp in Lakay that the group moves to after you come back from Guarma. There's a run-down semi-submerged shack within the waters edge of the river that has the big cat mask inside. As mentioned, you can also find references to what appears to be The Night Folk and voodooism inside the buildings of Lakay. As I was exiting the settlement I heard unusual noises and my horse got scared and bucked me. That's when they attacked out of nowhere. I'm guessing the cat mask was some sort of "sacred" item to them.

bro, I remember the first encounter I had with the night folk. I was riding in the dark with a cloudy sky with moonlight peeking through on my way to the city. Out of nowhere in the middle of this field a woman is crying, now being the honorable man I was I got off my horse and didn't grab my shotgun as I thought "oh poor woman" and foolishly approached her. I stood 10 feet away as Arthur called out to her, this was when I got an uneasy feeling in my stomach as anytime I would call out to someone for help they would normally respond, but the woman just kept crying. I approached her slowly and pressed the help button. At this moment my heart dropped into my stomach as the woman jumped up and faced Arthur with a bright white skull painted on her face, glowing in the moonlight as Arthur screams in terror and falls back. I frantically crawl back as Arthur makes grunts of fear as she stands over me, as additional night folk run out of the trees, all charging at me. I frantically draw my weapon and unload into them. As the last body drops onto the ground Arthur attempts to calm himself down but is still clearly unnerved by what he just witnessed. I quickly jump onto my horse and ride harder than I have ever had to the safety of the city lights.

Its partly a reference to the voodoo swamp people who commit heinous rituals and make horrendous sounds in the night from the book The Call of Cthulhu. The bit about calling victims through their dreams is a link to HP lovecraft.

What are the odds when i choose to replay this game that one of the best rdr2 youtuber decided to go over some of his best lore videos ?

I have been inappropriately touched by Fizhy several times and I am unfortunately being held hostage in his basement. Please, to anyone who is reading this, send help.

In Red Dead Online, there’s a 3 part mission you can do for Anthony Foreman that involves a guy named Bluewater John. Part 3 of this mission gives some heavy suggestions that Bluewater John is some sort of dark deity and the Night Folk respond to him. Would love to hear your take on that.

This is why RDR2 is one of the best single-player games ever released. I restarted recently and started going through the game again.. As the mist rolled in, I found myself surrounded by trees and came to realize I was in forest I'd never been in before.. Through the thick fog I could see a silhouette of a man hanging from a tree. As i got closer, I hopped off my horse for a closer look. Soon as I got within inches of the man, I heard screams as 5 people charged me with knives.. I shot 4 but the 5th stabbed me and I was dead.. I still can't believe it.

I was just riding through the swamp at night, when all of a sudden about four or five of them just showed up to block the path They're moving slowly, faces all painted and white, and I legit thought there was just straight up some zombies wondering the swamp I got off the horse to investigate and was promptly stabbed to death

I always thought that the night folk were zombies. Failed ones, maybe, badly reanimated dead. They dont talk because they cant. What weirded me out also about the night folk is that they have no HQ, no central hub. Where are they during the day? Do they rise out of the mud? I dont know how the night folk and the strange man would be connected, personally. He always seemed like more of a harbinger type to me, even if he did make that deal with herbert moon. If the night folk do worship him, i doubt its something the strange man orchestrated.

Their clicking is inspired by a few African languages which consisted of clicks. Their religion and practices are inspired by a dark version of Louisiana Voodoo which include zombies and sacrifices which was all but banned. The pagan symbols around the Bayou are based on warding symbols, presumably meant to contain the Nightfolk around Lakay and Lake Lagras. The whole Lemoyne area is inspired by Louisiana of the turn of the last century. Plantations, New Orleans, the Bayou, racism, classism, but hurt secessionists,.. and secret Zombie Voodoo cults. They even have a Vampire, though a far cry from Lestat and Louis.

Trick to not get hurt by the “woman”, just stand by her and don’t approach, she’ll eventually just attack and you don’t have to take any damage. And the guy doesn’t give you rubbish, he gives you a talisman.

I’m so glad you mentioned Bone Tomahawk! I was very much reminded of the creatures in that movie but was not at all expecting you to bring it up since it’s so underrated. It being released in 2015 means it may well have had some influence on the game, but who knows. love your videos!

The Night Folk were supposed to be a Haitian Voodoo gang consistent of only black Haitians that inhabited the bayou of southeast US that kept outsiders away from their land. They formed this community during the segregation area, but Rockstar didn't want the player killing a bunch of black people so they made them more diverse. Similar to the Skinner Brothers that were supposed to be an Apache Native gang, but had to change that up because of- you know... backlash. Such a shame

ik this is obvious but these guys genuinely scare me, they’re legit like a species of animal lol. the other gangs give you some pleasure of killing them because of the smugness but these dudes turn on your fight or flight😂

I remember playing the game one night and I was in the swamp at night (in first person). I saw an X on the minimap and I went to go investigate it, seeing the hung corpse. I shot it down and I got ambushed by the Night Folk. I had have never been scared like that ever since I played the first Outlast. And from the point on, I never play this game at night

I'll always remember the first time I encountered Night Folk. I decided to "take a short cut" through the bayou at night leaving St. Denis. Ran into a hanged man and next thing you know, red dots appear on the minimap. I just bolted out of there, didn't even see them. 😂

"limited visibility at night" is my worst enemy. the amount of times i had a full speed head on collision with another rider because you cant see shit until its too late is insane

The first time Arthur met them for me was when I found a guy hanging in a tree, I shot the rope and was attacked…freaked Arthur and me out! I actually needed a perfect muskrat pelt at the time so it was cool with me. Absolute masterpiece!

I believe the Nitefolk are a nod to Voodoo zombies. Some of the inhabitants of Lakay and Lagras have Haitain and Carribbien influence for sure. The Nitefolk are not necessarily dead, but maybe are being kept in a zombified, mindless state. There are many supernatural references in the game however, so Lore isn't always clearcut and multiple lores can exist in the R* universe at the same time. *WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD* RE: Nitefolk - I Googled the definition of Zombie: 'a will-less and speechless human (as in voodoo belief) believed to have died and been supernaturally reanimated'. - Real examples of zombies in Haiti have been found to have been alive, but to have been drugged to be kept in a suspended mental state, seemingly reverting the person to seem more animalistic. - Some instances of reanimation have been found to be tuberculosis victims and were previously thought to be dead, but 'reanimated' and clawed their way out of their coffins which is why some ye olde cemetaries have bells on top of the grave that lead down into the coffin the person can ring if they 'come back to life'. - Some 'zombies' have been found to have psychosis, brain injuries / swollen brains due to viral illness such as meningococcal or other such fever ailments causing psychosis or brain meltdown and presenting the person to be in a half-alive state. RE: Lemoyne/Annesburg general creepiness - Pleasance is also in Lemoyne and is thought to have been a Satanic cult settlement, worshipping the (now dead) Giant Snake (a nod to Satan in the bible) hanging in a nearby tree and were 'purged' by the Puritan Christians. Their graves can be found in the Pleasance cemetary with the same death date, but are undisturbed so I'm not so sure they're the Nitefolk. - Butcher Creek has that whole glowing pentagram situation thing going on too. Iono anything about that tho. - There's that creepy Franken-Corpse Pig head experiement thing in that house in Lemoyne too which could have something to do with it? RE: the pagan ritual site - Vikings had settled in the US a few hundred years before the English. - A viking tomb with a helmet, comb and hatchet can be found North-West of Annesburg, as well to the Far-East in the cove area is a rock with runes engraved on it called 'Old World Scripts'. - Vikings and Celts partook in ritual human sacrifice using animal skulls, body paining and sigil work. Unsure what that sigil was but it looks more like a sigil from the Wicca or othersuch witchcraft type cult. - Specifically the Celts have a 'horned god' which has nothing to do with anything Christian based such as Satan/Luficer. - In New Austin, you can find a skeletonised corpse POI tied to a milling wheel which has a donkey's skull called Donkey Lady. This is a nod to a glitch in the first game, but interestingly animal head on human related.

You're videos always are chill, so I play RDR2 while I listen to them. (I'm trying to unlock all the trapper outfits, wish me luck!)

Not sure why, might be me, but I swear Arthur sounds way more scared of the Night Folk than any other enemies in the game when fighting them.

I remember my first ride through the swamp, my horse freaked out and we noped out of there. I love the swamps, but they're creepy, just like real life

Whenever encountering the Night Folk, I would always use a shotgun with incendiary shells to fight them. As they say: "Kill it with fire!"

I love the Night Folk they're such an interesting unexplained thing! The first time I encountered them was just after I discovered Pleasance so for a while I thought they were the plague victims and it was a rabies/madness type thing because of all the Walking Dead/Zombie references! Also (at 5:06) the guy says "used to be the gators were the worst thing in the Bayou" so when I did that stranger mission I thought it meant they were relatively new as he's in his 60's at the oldest and remembers a time before the Night Folk. It's so fun to theorise about and I'd love to see more stuff about them but it's not like we have a whole lot of information to go on :P

i remember the first time i was killed by some of the night folk i was innocently picking vanilla flowers until i came across a body _i lost all of my flowers :(_

The "fine night for it" guy is a good character. He's not just some cartoon hermit,he seems like a good man

Night Folk were going to be some type of Undead or they were replacing Undead Nightmare content with Night Folk. Let’s not forget Rockstar cut more then 5 hours out of the original Story Mode. I wouldn’t put it passed them to cut out a mission or missions dealing with a TRUE ZOMBIE outbreak like Undead Nightmare was and replace it with supposedly normal people who lived in the swamps of RDR2. If they were going to add characters that hinted at Undead Zombies or acted like them like Night Folk act like why didn’t they? In my opinion they originally had SOME Undead missions but cut them for some reason. The Undead Nightmare DLC was so popular it would be stupid for them to not of had some plains originally but they cut it out. Just like they cut out content for Mexico and Guarma.

The night Folk are absolutely horrifying in that section of the game. Tbh, it passes me off that the spinners, odriscolls, beaver hollow people and all other groups constantly respond, but the Nightfolk disappear later in game

I hate lemoyne so much, the people are mean, the bayou is terrifying and it's where i lost my first horse to a shootout so it doesn't hold nice memories

One of my favourite "Night Folk Encounters" is when this guy is riding on horseback dying, and you get him to the doc. It'd not confirmed to be night folt but who would have done this other than them? Only thing I can imagine is an aligator but then he wouldn't be allive

I’ll never forget my second ambush. Arthur found a poor man hanging from a tree. I got off my horse then heard some strange noises. Four or five of them came running at me. I had double pistols, pump shotgun and a Lancaster. Arthur had to run for a few seconds then he pulled his shotgun and turned around to mow them down. It was so badass..

Apparently Charles and sadie got rid of them as in chapter 5 I think when Arthur returns from guarma to meet the gang in lakay, Strauss mentioned "thanks to mr smith and mrs adler for getting rid of the degenerates living here" something like that, which is interesting

When I first went down to the swamp and saw the lady in white crying I went to help her and one of her friends came out of nowhere and killed me never been so scared in my life

My first encounter was at night, and Arthur had started singing this little tune to himself during the travel....then out if nowhere I hear "Sshhhhh" and then like 6 Night Folk came from all around me. I don't know which one Shushed me, but the fact that one did made the whole encounter 10x more terrifying in hindsight. I will say, I have had other encounters where they hissed or grunted...and I can definitively say, that they did not hiss at me in my first go round but truly did shush me

Honestly night folk are such a cool concept. Even in rdo (despite it's state) also had nigh folk lore and even a legendary bounty mission revolving around them

One problem I have with the night folk is in the 3 or so years I have been playing the game and the probably 10+ times i have completed it, I have only encountered them a grand total of maybe 3 or 4 times, which is unfortunate because they are cool and scary, but I never get to see them, if if I am out looking for them in the night

I’m glad you’re actually doing this. Revisiting videos you made years ago. This is actually very smart because so much more is now known of this game then was known even a year ago

I love these RDR2 gang videos so much and how they are filmed like a documentary really good stuff mate!

Awesome to see people still unpacking this game! Keep up the awesome work mate :)

These videos are always very entertaining Looking forward to this one

When coming across the dismembered horse, the night folk will come but for me I had to wait a while.

Thanks for all your hardwork doing this bro, I have the whole week off work this week and I'm doing all the secrets and finding all this.. this game just got more amazing than it already was. Thank you

u know i hardly play rdr2 or rdo anymore and barely watch content on the games but i always find myself coming back to ur channel. i love the way u make ur videos i don’t really know how to describe it but u make awesome videos man

Love these videos thank you for the time and effort you put into them

I'm really enjoying these videos, they make me want to play RDR2 again. Great work!

fizhy thank u so much for this series of documentaries on the gangs they keep me busy and i just love you man

Gotta say, these lore videos never disappoint! You and Strange Man are hands down the best rdr2 KZfaq content creators out there, hella props for all the hard work put into these

I went to that cabin in chapter 2 just messing around during the day but it still felt off that nobody was there now knowing what I could've walked into kinda gives me chills

Good news. The anticipation didn't kill me. Love your content, Fizhy!

dude you're amazing your theories your explanation and everything makes sense when you explain it You take your time and funny and everything at the same time AMAZING 👏

I like how RDR2 is a grounded western story but the side quests and flavor content is pure horror

I have played this game for years now and I havent once met any night folk......THIS VIDEO TERRIFIES ME TO A DEGREE THAT IS UNCOMFORTABLE!!!

These guys are so stealthy I didn’t even see them in my whole play through lol (Although i did steer clear of the swamp when that lady from the fish bait shop said something about them.)

It’s pretty wild to watch a video on this game, and even though I last played a couple days ago, to always be able to feel that there’s this real and persistent world that’s waiting for more exploration and more unique things to find… always more that I’ve yet to fully uncover and understand. Knowing this game in its entirety and knowing I’m always gonna be able to find nuances and details that I didn’t notice in the prior hundreds of hours of play!

Absolutely brilliant video, I was captivated the whole way through, well done.

They do interact (sort of) with regular people in daylight. There's a vid on another channel where the player followed a Night Folk all night long to see where they hid... come morning the Night Folk simply strolled over to a nearby farm and started working as if he was a perfectly normal hired hand.

I will never forget the first time I encountered the Night Folk after seeing what was wrong with that crying woman. All of a sudden 6 people just...appeared and started chasing me. What was scarier was that they didn't make a sound. They are legitimate scary.

Man I love you're videos. Please keep them coming from red dead and red dead 2. You do an amazing job.

I love the consistency man, really motivating!!

once i was just riding my horse in the daytime through the swamps, saw a man who had been lynched & just kept running at the exact same speed and pretended not to see him. the swamps in this game legitimately freak me out, i always ride through them w my guns out lol

This was a good video dude. Creepy and cool.

"What kinda evil don't make no sound?" The Shape, for one.

On my first playthrough of the game I had no idea they existed. I thought they were zombies like in undead nightmare. It was around midnight and my room was dark so it scared the hell out of me

fantastic video sir I really appreciate that someone is still covering the lore of Red Dead keep it up!

I love the way you put music in these vids, especially the creepy music. It suits the game well

I think the fact you bumped into that dead horse that the nite folk destroyed and not have an ambush is actually more scarier because it leaves you on your toes with no jumpscare. Also I think that some of the nite folk carry some valuable jewelry and such is maybe prize possessions off the victims they slaughter? Maybe like a serial killer it’s a trophy thing?

They don't talk but they sure as hell scream. I shot one of them with a shotgun and he was screaming. They also can make weird noises that scare your horse and makes it run away. One time I whistled to get the horse back but it didn't came. I went on and thought the horse will be fine but then it was dead. Now I was without a horse in nightfolk territory...

13:15 This is how that Night Folk encounter is supposed to go, as it happened to me. We found the cart with the dead horse in it, my horse got spooked by the dead horse and bucked me off, and ran into the fog. Whistling didn't call it back. I crept into the fog, I had a lit lantern on my horse thanks to mods so I could see the dim glow in the distance, I looked through a sniper rifle scope and saw a night folk holding the reins, looking like he was going to kill the horse any minute with a machete to its neck, or maybe my mind was playing tricks on me. Either way I sniped the one holding my horse hostage, and a good handful of them started pouring out of the fog after me. Took a good bit of gunslinging but my horse and I rode out of there.

A year late to this, and this may be unprompted. But never ever ever feel bad about remaking a video if you feel like you could make the old one better. Giving more lore and context to anything is always great, and i for one am very happy you decided to expand on the Night Folk and the Blackwater Massacre. Still going through your vids but ive been really happy with what ive seen so far, keep up the great work 😁

I was waiting for you to make a more in-depth video on this.

Yes bone tomahawk could be a huge influence for the night folk especially because the troglodytes in the movie have an an unsettling silence to them and thats what the night folk have but other than that i think night folk are its own thing really liked their idea wish the game had dlcs expanding on these other gangs, taking over a role of some new character existing in the red dead timeline who has nothing to do with the van der lindes or john, just a bounty hunter out for hunting money and fortune not fearing anything, itd be sooo cool istg i hope thats the route they take for rdr3, we need more stories in the red dead timeline cus the lore is soooo good and rich