Six GTA V secrets to hunt down this weekend

The mini-sub hovers beside a long, pale wreck hull on the sea floor.

GTA V is thirteen years old next week and people are still finding new corners of it. These six need no mods and no luck, just the right place and, for a couple of them, the right time on the in-game clock.

1. The alien in the ice

Go back to Ludendorff, the snowy town from the Prologue. Under the train bridge, walk down the bank onto the frozen creek and look through the ice. You can also reach it during Bury the Hatchet.

2. The ghost on Mount Gordo

Between 11 PM and midnight a woman's ghost floats on the eastern peak of Mount Gordo, with a word written in blood beneath her. Walk too close and she fades out. A newspaper story in the game hints at who she was.

3. The Mount Chiliad mural

Inside the cable car station at the summit, a mural shows a UFO, an egg and what looks like a jetpack. Players searched for years. There is no jetpack in Story Mode.

4. Sasquatch in the thermal scope

During the mission Predator, zoom in on the heat signature in the bottom right of the thermal view.

Thermal scope view of a glowing heat signature in a dark forest, with the line about moose on two legs
The thermal view in Predator, where a very tall "moose" stands in the trees.

5. The seabed wrecks

The ocean is full of wrecked planes, ships, a submarine and a military vehicle. Some hide weapons, armor and briefcases of money, and there is a whale skeleton off Banham Canyon.

A sunken green military vehicle rests on the seabed, its round turret visible.
The sunken military vehicle, one of several wrecks worth diving to.

6. Nods to older games

Look for a framed picture of Niko Bellic in the Yellow Jack Inn, and the numbers by the highway at the RON wind farm, which spell out a line from a certain San Andreas train mission.

There are many more on our GTA V easter eggs page, including the UFOs that only show up after 100%.

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