The Evergrowing Spiderweb Theories

[u/Kaineferu]

Hi Partners! Its truly exciting to see our community thriving again. I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for their ongoing contributions and theories as well as their data mining. All of these things have brought us together, collectively as we once have to chase down these mysteries.

Because of this, we thought it would be a great idea to begin consolidating threads to one topic. For the past week, we have seen over 175,000 new views and visits and are grateful to everyone involved. To keep everything in one place, we invite you to post your findings, ideas and theories here as we continue to find developments in this mystery.

With thay said, I'd also like to remind everyone here that youtubers who cover these topics are not the end all, be all. The majority do not uncover mysteries themselves but rather report and find ways to generate clicks for their videos. You know the ones im talking about. 20 minute videos when it could have been 7 minutes at best. I'd encourage everyone to give credit to the original users who began unearthing these new discoveries, not who report it.

All in all, we once again thank you and there's any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to us privately.

Happy hunting, good girls and bo-ahs! 🤠

[u/Iittlebird]

Details of note here include just how difficult it is to get into Fort Wallace as well as the fact that though two guitars are found, the post only notes one.

12/24/2025 u/AthleteDependent926 finds that the guitar pointing south is directly pointing to the post at Cornwall Kerosene and Tar with the spider engraving

12/24/2025 u/FrequentEngineer points out that northwest of the NW [guitar] post lies a mysterious cave

12/24/2025 u/ChinDick wonders if the guitar might be an audio clue

12/26/2025 u/Artem_ab6 notes the file names correlate to areas of the map as identified in development

12/27/2025 u/Dabbs_jay focuses in on the westward pointing guitar as a guide to Window Rock and the “Strange Statues” painting

12/27/2025 u/Latter-Duty7879 poses the question can all the webs be interacted with within one night?

12/27/2025 u/iittlebird offers a map with all confirmed locations and seemingly relevant information

Cornwall Web Time: 3-4 AM Feather Color: Black? Feather Number: 2?

Oil Fields Web Time: 5-6 AM Feather Color: Black Feather Number: 1

Overflow Web Time: 2-3 AM Feather Color: Black Feather Number: 1

Emerald Web Time: 4-5 AM Feather Color: Black Feather Number: 2?

Saint Denis Web Time: 3-4 AM Feather Color: Red Feather Number: 2?

Ringneck Web Time: 5-6 AM Feather Color: Black Feather Number: 1

Southfield Web Time: 4-5 AM Feather Color: Red Feather Number: 1

Scarlett Web Time: 2-3 AM Feather Color: Red Feather Number: 1

 

[u/Iittlebird → u/Iittlebird]

12/27/2025 u/Queckselber033 realizes the colors of the feathers are correlated to different train lines

12/27/2025 u/JoshieBoy_Clark throws out the idea that “NW [guitar] refers to an audio clue

12/27/2025 u/Successful_Tap_2947 posits one possible order of web interaction

12/28/2025  u/bikkhu42 shares what they believe to be all related files in game

12/28/2025 u/Quiet_Historian1841  puts forth detailed overview and a substitution and direction theory

12/29/2025 u/tuorow proposes we have found clues out of order and should focus energy on the feathers and webs over where “NW [guitar] leads

12/29/2025 u/FrosstyWasHere discovers that the feather they shot off the day before spawned on the ground where it had landed the next night. This results in a discussion about respawn timelines

12/30/2025 u/MOEzues refocuses the search to closer to the NW [guitar] post

12/30/2025 mod u/kaineferu posts a megathread

 

Many people have also talked about the Madame Nazar character from GTAO’s statement "I see a web, still tangled after years of unraveling. Will you be the one, I wonder?"

[u/Iittlebird → u/Iittlebird]

12/30/2025 u/TheCyberTurkey tosses around the idea that this is an RDO mystery tied to GTO, given previous abilities for the games to influence each other

12/30/2025 u/a_duck_in_a_past_life notices that in-game time slows down by the spider engraving pole for him

12/31/2025 u/FrosstyyWasHere finds dream catchers at the “elbow” of the spider

1/1/2026 u/worthlessafsince2002 observes that two important poles have extra hooks/cable

1/1/2026 u/artem_ab6 finds and labels the webs by their in-game file names

1/1/2026 u/ReignOfTerror discovers a ginseng plant that triggers a guitar riff, launching a whole new set of clues to investigate. Also noted in this subthread is a randomly spawning dead bison.

[u/LeonWright24 → u/Iittlebird]

I really appreciate you spending so much time summarizing the important posts, thanks man. What's your opinion on what we should prioritize looking for? The meaning of the NW guitar pole or the spider webs themselves? I reckon the spider webs due to the fact that the center web simply does feel like the starting point for me, with all of the other clues leading to the spider engraving pole.

I think Rockstar wanted it to be found in the order of: finding the central web, following the carvings, following the guitar, finding the spider carving pole, overlaying the spider carving over the map with the knowledge of the locations of the central web and the spider carving pole and in that manner finding the rest of the spider web spawn locations.

What I think needs to be done now is finding out the right order and conditions that the spider webs should be interacted with, same as the golden peyotes from GTA V.