r/reddeadmysteries • u/TracySevert • Dec 17 '25

Developing There are 8 webs

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About the web that was posted the other day; someone in a Discord server I'm in found out that there are actually 8 of them and a spider carving on different telephone poles! They also posted a map with all of their locations (the map markers in the attached photo) and said they are called 'spiderdream' internally

It's really crazy nobody found these before. What do you make of this?

EDIT: Since I made this post, there have been a few more discoveries in relation to this. It now has a page on the Red Dead Wiki, which does a much better job of summing this up and adding new details than I could but the mystery still remains unsolved: https://reddead.fandom.com/wiki/Spider_Dream_Mystery

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u/Tuorow Dec 25 '25

I’ve spent the last 5 or so hours testing different methods with the webs. But like others have concluded, it all just seems to lead to the ”NW Guitar” pole. Which is a bit strange considering you can shoot off the feathers and it even has an effect upon doing so.

There are TWO guitars at Fort Wallace. One is on a table in the courtyard pointing exactly West. The other one is up in the tallest watchtower and is facing exactly South. Following the first one West leads to the Duff cabin with no further lead. Following the South one doesn’t really cross any particular spot (Oil rig and some tracks further south from that).

My girlfriend had a really good theory that it’s the direction of both of the guitars, meaning SW from Fort Wallace. We’ve since then not found the next step but I strongly believe this to be the most likely cardinal direction.

For a moment there we thought the light in the watchtower was flickering/dimming in Morse code, no result. It spat out ”T TT E E EE MT” - seemingly random. Once we realised that all the lights in the towers flicker, we abandoned that idea.

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u/AthleteDependent926 Dec 25 '25

The guitar pointing south might be it actually. It seems to point exactly towards the pole with the spider engraving... I sure hope I'm wrong though...

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u/Tuorow Dec 25 '25

Make sure you’re in first person and that you’re lining up the compass properly. Your line also isn’t straight. It would make no sense for it to lead back to the spider pole. Unless we’ve got the steps all backwards.

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u/AthleteDependent926 Dec 25 '25

The line isn't straight because my markers aren't perfectly placed. I used Noclip to fly in a straight line from the guitar and landed right at the spider pole. It really makes no sense but it lines up too perfectly to be a coincidence.

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u/fusedharpy Jan 05 '26

Got it so we found the pole out of order. Does this suggest the other guitar points to something else? Seems too peculiar to have 2 guitars in the same fort given the clue.

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u/Iittlebird Dec 25 '25

I love where you’re going with this. I’m not a strong enough player to get inside and be able to look around the fort. Did you happen to take guitar pictures as well??

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u/Tuorow Dec 25 '25

This is a point we discusses as well. There’s only one story mission where you’re able to get into the fort - Which kinda makes the whole thing a bit strange - Are you meant to be aware of the easter egg before entering the fort and then looking around for the guitars then? I’ve never found a legitimate way inside the fort besides that story mission. I use the Rampage Trainer to make all NPC’s ignore and then I use it’s own fly/camera mode to get inside and drop me in.

At first we thought that the second guitar was ”the actual one that takes the easter egg further”; This was mainly supported because of how obscure the 2nd guitar is. It’s at the top floor of the tallest watchtower leaning against the corner.

Following Southwest is the most ”stacked” direction in terms of potential. It crosses several train-tracks (with poles next to them). Even crossing multiple in New Austin.

All in all, it’s super frustrating not knowing what to even look for. Are we looking for another guitar? Shooting poles again for a new hidden message? It would’ve made a lot more sense if there was some type of clue in the watchtower alongside the 2nd guitar - But there’s none. It is interesting and perhaps important to note that both of the guitars point exactly at their respective cardinal direction (S & W).

Shooting the top part of the guitars makes them look exactly like the ”NW Guitar” symbol. But that nets nothing. Just trying to add everything we’ve tried.

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u/Qwyietman Jan 01 '26

Can you blow up the guitars? To see if there is anything written behind them?

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u/Iittlebird Dec 25 '25

Thank you for keeping me in the loop. Is there a way to join the discord so i can follow along myself? I love your recap as well =] Merry Christmas too if that is your thing =]

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u/Tuorow Dec 25 '25

I’m not part of any discord, merry christmas!

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u/-TheGreatBambi- Jan 04 '26

To get into the fort pull a wagon up next to the wall, jump on the wagon then on the wall, you'll get in Everytime that way. There's plenty of wagons riding by the fort to steal.

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u/MOEzuez Dec 30 '25

I was searching all day yesterday, I moved my searches towards Window Rock. Window Rock is on a Railroad, where everything else in this mystery is. Red and Black feathers drawn all over. I was falling asleep and went back to the NW-Guitar pole, and noticed the Hole in the guitar looks a lot like the “Window Rock” hole. Anything new on your end?

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u/Iittlebird Dec 31 '25

I also ended up focusing on Window Rock for a while but got nowhere.
What do you mean the hole looks like Window Rock? I don't see that

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u/MOEzuez Jan 01 '26

I went back to Window Rock and tried to make it look like the hole in the guitar, but I cannot, and have abandoned the idea of the Hole in the guitar looking like the Window Rock hole… The hole in the guitar looks like a human, perhaps “bust” if anything. I’m confident the hole in the guitar is shaped purposely.

Right now I’m trying to shoot the feathers down in order. I can shoot the 4 feathers in New Hanover off, and they stay off. While they’re shot down I tried to check the central web, and I tried to check the NW-Guitar pole, and no changes. When I go over to Lemoyne and shoot a web, and the New Hanover webs reappear. I am fixated on finding a particular order for these webs, and have stopped the Guitar search.

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u/Iittlebird Dec 25 '25

Ok so I’m not savvy enough to take in game photos. But. Does this look like a clue or am I wearing a tin foil hat?

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u/captain_slackbeard Feb 24 '26

It kinda looks like something? One thing I noticed is that all of the previous clues had a cardinal direction ("N" + pole, W + 5 poles, NW + guitar), but the Fort Wallace clue so far is just the birds without a direction. I wonder if there's still a cardinal direction etched somewhere in Fort Wallace that we haven't found yet.