This guide will lead your journey to find all the Easter eggs in this fabulous game. An Easter egg is an intentional inside joke, hidden message, or feature in a game, so if you like to explore more of the game, this is your place. Information taken from GTA WIKIA and IGN.

Strange goings on are afoot in San Andreas. From mysterious bones to the dead risen from the grave, the paranormal is very real in the world of GTA 5.


The Ghost can be found at night between 23:00 - 00:00 on Mt. Gordo north of the lighthouse. She'll disappear when you approach her. The name "Jock" is written in blood next to her. If you search the internet for the "Who Killed Lenora Johnson?", a page has another murder mystery titled "Blood on the Rocks."

The article tells that the ghost is Jolene Cranley-Evans and that her husband is suspected of pushing her off the cliff. Her husband, Jock Cranley, later moved to Los Santos to become a famous stunt man and is currently running for governor of San Andreas. He is referenced during one of Trevor's Strangers and Freaks missions. During this mission you must steal celebrity items for a man named Nigel. When Trevor encounters Nigel, Nigel mistakes him for Jock and does so until Nigel's missions with Trevor ends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6cpS8NeAkI


The Ghost is located off the East Coast of San Andreas near the El Gordo Lighthouse.


Want to see the skeleton of a gigantic Sea Monster?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGsvYxFEnSg
The bones can be found off the west coast of San Andreas, south of Chumash.


Up in Vinewood hills near the Cinema you can be treated to a rather friendly zombie.

The Vinewood Zombie occassionally appears at this corner:



You can have a conversation with him. He's a nice zombie *w*


Long time GTA fan favorite Bigfoot makes a confirmed cameo during the Predator Mission. Bigfoot is hidden mostly behind a tree from your helicopter vantage point.

Switching to your IR scope reveals him clearly.



After finishing the game 100% you'll be treated to a random Mission where you'll actually get to hunt down the Bigfoot!

Amidst a hodgepodge of GTA 5 Alien sightings, UFO appearances, Flying Saucers, and jetpack rumors, a tantalizing unsolved mystery continue.




A cryptic painting on the wall of the Cable Car station atop Mt. Chiliad was one of the earliest sources of intrigue for GTA conspiracy-hunters.The main map is remarkably similar to the shaft and chamber layout of a pyramid, suggesting the possible existence of a subterranean dungeon. Also scattered around the image are a number of smaller markers. While the meaning of many of the symbols within have been encrypted, the large icons of cracking egg, a spaceship, and a humanoid form remain an intriguing puzzlement.



The symbol matches the UFO depicted in the Cable Car station painting. On the back of the platform it reads "Come back when your story is complete."



The carefully hidden painting beneath the platform atop Chiliad’s highest point is the sighting point for a well-documented postgame Flying Saucer appearance, which takes place late at night during thunderstorms. Other symbols likely indicate other known Glyphs spaced around the mountain. The evidence strongly suggests a relationship between the pen15 mountain and the mysterious uninterpreted Glyphs.

Some players speculate that the Mt. Chiliad Map should be laid over the GTA 5 pack-in paper map to reveal a number of significant locations. Current efforts center around centering the map above the northward edge of the island, though this produces no discernible explanation for the three main Glyphs.



An alternate theory (image below) involves lining up the eye at the top of the mountain (red dot) with the glyphs on the the side of the mountain (green dots) leaving one half faded glyph (green circle).



Glyphs line up as per the image below:



While intriguing, these theories fail to address the purpose of the connecting lines between Glyphs, as well as the three large symbols.


To date 4 confirmed UFOs have been located in GTA 5. Details on each are available at UFOs. Most pertinent to the search is the presence of a UFO directly over Mt. Chiliad, appearing in the rain at 3 AM after 100% completion.


Recent reports of players using clipping glitches to gain access to the inside of the mountain to show tunnels have mostly been dismissed as known and already accessable tunnels:

• The Road Tunnel joining Paleto Bay to the Alamo Sea
  
• The Rail Tunnel joining Paleto Bay to the Alamo Sea
  
• The Road Tunnel that passes under the runways at Fort Zancudo

Though the hunt still continues as tunnels are not made visible until in close proximity. Current searches are revolving around the Saw Mill drain grates.

After the release of the GTA Content Creator, players utilizing the tool discovered that a sealed elevator door in Ft. Zancudo can in fact be opened. The door has often been a source of speculation as a possible entry point to an underground area related to the Mt. Chiliad map. Unfortunately, the elevator inside is currently inoperable.


Online communities of UFO hunters have focused largely on a resemblance of the humanoid glyph to a person riding a jetpack. Many people believe that unlocking the riddle of Mt. Chiliad will unlock access to this GTA unicorn item.


The UFO hippie camp near Sandy Shores is ringed with a trail of Alien script. Some players believe the script might contain a decipherable code, others believe it to have ties to Yoga positions which are themed throughout the camp.

The breaks between examples below are limited by video capture capibilities, not by any distinctive breaks in the text. Viewed left to right from the outside of the ring, the code reads:

Possible Alien Code Part 1



Possible Alien Code Part 2



Possible Alien Code Part 3



Possible Alien Code Part 4



Possible Alien Code Part 5



Possible Alien Code Part 6



Possible Alien Code Part 7



Possible Alien Code Part 8



Possible Alien Code Part 9



It's also possible that the code reads from the inside of the ring, in which case the images would be flipped and the order reversed.


These flying saucers aren't the first hint of extra-terrestrial life in GTA 5. The GTA 5 Special Edition map includes a UFO part location revealed by exposure to black light.



Alien Glyphs are concealed throughout the map, including drawings on Mt. Chiliad, near the Altruist Camp, and at the Hippie Camp.

Aliens also make cameo appearances frozen in ice in the Prologue Mission and wandering the lots of the movie studio.

In the Vinewood hills there is a mansion that some of you may find familiar, it's almost a complete replica of the Playboy Mansion.



Night time parties at the Mansion get a little wild.




On the cliff face of Mount Chiliad is a texture of a face of someone, possibly one of the developers?



The Face appears on the mountain's north slope not far from the cable car station.


San Andreas is dotted with graffiti left behind by the Infinite 8 Serial Killer.



By following clues left in these scrawls, especially in the prison, players can locate the bodies of his victims hidden in the following location.

GTA 5 finds opportunities to lampoon dozens of real-world events, and also includes References to Movies, TV, Games and Pop Culture.


There is a billboard in game that says "Rehab Island" that features a palm tree in the middle of the two words. Very similar to the logo for the Dead Island series by Deep Silver.


In Tongva Valley there is an owl statue with a sign that says "TWO HOOTS FALLS" in front of a small waterfall. The waterfall is reminiscent of the one seen in the intro of each Twin Peaks episode and the owl is an homage to the mysterious owl appearances in the series.




Next to a Suburban shop on Del Perro, there is a shop that looks like the equivalent of a Lacoste shop. It is called Lezard and has a logo similar to that of Lacoste.


While cruising around San Andreas, the player will often hear several people say the words " F#$@ you @#$@#! This may be an indirect reference to the movie Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in which one of the goons loves to abuse Val Kilmer's character by saying exactly the same words.


Sometime during the game, the player can come across an update in the Bleeter universe whose display picture bears a striking resemblance to Max Payne 2's box art. It has the same noire look that the box art carries.


Lester's house in Murietta Heights is stuffed with pop-culture references and in-jokes. The inside of his unassuming home is cluttered with figuines and posters.


During the mission cinematic of 'Blitz Play', at one point when the three protagonists are engaging in conversation with FIB agents, all three of them pose as Mahatma Gandhi's three monkeys wherein each of them covers their ears, mouth and eyes respectively.


Devin Weston, one of the NPCs has a striking resemblance to American entrepreneur Steve Jobs. Even his contact information which appears in the player's phone depicts a picture similar to one which Steve Jobs is known for. His contact picture shows him folding his hands while resting his chin on top of them.


In the mission "Daddy's Little Girl", the name of the yacht/ship that Michael swims to is DIGNITY. This is a reference of the Deacon Blue song Dignity, which is a song about a ship. The band Deacon Blue, like Rockstar North, also hail from Scotland.


There is a fictional movie referenced several times in the game called "Shoulder of Orion II" , which is a nod to a famous quote from the end of the film Blade Runner


At night on the east coast near a tunnel there is a tree that will shine gold.



The tree is located near the southern mouth of the Braddock Tunnel.


If you go to a Discount Clothing store as Trevor you'll be able to purchase a Jacket called the 'Overlooked Red Blouson'. It is an identical match to the clothing Jack Nicholson wore in The Shining while staying at the Overlook Hotel.


On the radio stations, one of the news pieces that Weasel News may report is about people cosplaying as a character from a show called "Princess Robot Bubblegum", presumably a reference to the Adventure Time character, Princess Bubblegum.


When the last heist is unlocked and you choose to do the subtle option, the mission carries out very similarly to the Italian Job. You have to modify cars to hold the required amount of weight in gold just like the movie. The difference is that instead of modifying Mini Coopers, you modify Bravado Gauntlets. Also towards the end of the heist, you have to drive the cars into trailers of semi trucks just like the movie.


If you select the Internet option on your phone and go to Travel and Transport you will see a list of results pop up. You then want to click on Legendary Motorsport and in there you will see the car that was used in James Bond and it will have the name JB 700


When Franklin meets Omega for the first time, you can see Omega is holding a device that resembles the P.K.E. Meter from The Ghostbusters. You can also see its 'sensor wings' moving when Omega is scanning Franklin with it.


In "Stag Do the Running Man" random event, the groom-to-be comments on his wild bachelor party that started with a few drinks before resulting in him blacking out and having no recollection of the previous night. When you drop him off at his house, the groom and playable character hop into an Enus Super Diamond (Rolls Royce) and the groom hints that his father-in-law likes this car more than he likes the groom. All of these exchanges are in reference to the antics of Doug and his wife's dad (Sid) in the movie The Hangover, while the GTA groom's friend's later comment about hooking up with a midget stripper is a reference to Tucker Max's escapades in I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.


In the barber shop close to Franklin's House, on the mirror is a picture of Robert Downey Jr. and the Van Dyk choice in beards is free, most likely a reference to Tony Stark/Iron Man.


If you go to a garage, check out the wheels. Go to wheel type, select Lowrider. You will see a set of spokes called Big Worm. The same wheels that was on Big Worms ice cream truck in the movie Friday.


Slight Spoilers: During the mission "Friend Request" you have to infiltrate a social media company that is eerily similar to "Facebook" the mission culminates with "Jay Norris" the kid genius who started the company exploding!


Across the road from the purchasable LS Customs in Grand Senora Desert you can converse with a man dressed in an Uncle Sams outfit shouting out his views on immigration.


The pier on the west side of the city is a near identical representation of the one found in Midnight Club LA.


In a nod to the "G- o - a - t - s - e" Internet meme, some taxi cabs have the license plate "80AAT533".


Bishop's WTF in Vinewood is an obvious parody of Ripley's Believe It or Not. The Bishop in the title is a reference to Lance Henriksen's character in Aliens and Alien 3, as Ripley is the name of Sigourney Weaver's role.


The popular Internet meme, "Courage Wolf," appears in GTA V on a pilot-related banner/flag in Trevor's trailer in Sandy Shores.


A number of bins scattered around San Andreas resemble Clap Trap from Borderlands. One is located in the construction yard in Paleto Bay.


An Anti-Obama sign appears in the middle of downtown Los Santos that references a famous spelling mistake on a real life protester sign.


When you purchase the Downtown Cab Co, you will soon get a mission to pick up and drop off a Korean pop singer called Kwack who complains that everyone calls him Quack. He will then boast that he made millions off of a music video of him and a few strippers dancing around doing jockey like dance moves around a horse.

In a side mission played with Franklin you meet up with Beverly - the photographer - and he tells you that some people want to make a reality show about what he does as a celebrity photographer. On the wall next to where Beverly is, there is text that reads "Karma: It's A Chameleon". This is a clear reference to the bandCulture Club and their 1983 single Kharma Chameleon.


The Under the Bridge challenges in the game are likely a reference to the Red Hot Chili Peppers song of the same name since the song is about the city of Los Angeles.


The name from the bong shop on Vespucci Beach is a reference to the classic song "Smoke on the Water" from Deep Purple.


During Trevor's mission to exact vengeance on the group of meth dealers he feels stole his business deal with the Chinese, Trevor can be heard yelling: "You're all deeeeaaad!". The way it is enunciated it's clear this is a reference to Alice Cooper's Song "Inmates (We're All Crazy)".


Kenny Loggins is the Host of the radio station Los Santos Rock Radio and goes by the name Captain Loggins.


During a Barry mission when playing as Trevor You fight a bunch of clowns. The music playing in the back ground is the music from Pee Wee's Big Adventure clown scene.


When you do the last mission with Lamar the license plate of the car he is sitting in is "FAST66".


Trevor's Los Santos apartment is very similar to one depicted in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown. The second-story condo is located near Vespucci Beach.


Trevor will occassionally say "you're out of your element" to victims, which is a famous line/scene in the movie.


Towards the end of a mission, Michael and Franklin tie the back of their stolen truck to the underside pole of a cheating tennis coaches house. Michael uses the truck to pull the house down like Riggs did in Lethal Weapon 2.


When taking the Vinewood Tour Bus, one of the last stops is City Hall. The tour guide says it was part of the final 20 minute finale in the movie Invasion: Los Santos.


After Trevor gains acces to Floyd's apartament,you can sometimes catch him sleeping in his bedroom wearing pink pijamas .An obvious reference to the english rock band Pink Floyd.


In the Discount Clothing Store in Grapeseed, located at the back left corner of the store where the jackets can be found, you will find a diamond print, white and black jacket with a yellow crab on the back.

This is a reference to Ryan Goslings characters Jacket in the movie Drive, where he had an almost identical diamond print white and black jacket but with a yellow scorpion on the back.


During the Jewel Store Job if you choose to do it stealthy and get the Exterminator Van it says on the side of the van " It's A Bug's Death".


The heist done through the FIB to take an armored car by ramming it with a tow truck is a direct reference to the intro heist in the film "Heat" starring Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro.


At the end of the Mission Deep Inside, you can see a list of 5 cars written in a material that is only visible under blacklight. This is a reference to the much longer list in the movie, "Gone in 60 Seconds"


The drug-deal-gone-wrong crime scene from the Cormac McCarthy novel-adapted film No Country For Old Men(2007) is one of the game's non-story random events that you can stumble upon.



The event is located along the west coastal road at the end of a dirt trail.




The resemblance is striking.


In the 'Strangers & Freaks' mission 'Target Practice', one of the additional objectives is titled 'Pop! Pop!'. A possible reference to the catch phrase of the character Magnitude from the TV show Community.


Street entertainers outside the downtown Chinese Theater are reminiscent of Halo's Master Chief.




In a car heist mission the outfits that Trevor and Micheal wear are a witty homage to the TV show CHIPS.


Every day around seven in the evening, two women barrel off a cliff near Sandy Shores airfield in a convertible, a nod to the ending of Thelma and Louise.


During the mission where the game re-introduces Trevor, he makes a remark concerning secret meth labs in motor homes while storming The Lost MC base, a possible nod to the secret Winnebago lab Walt and Jesse used for a good chunk of the show.[/h1]


There is a hatch which shines with a bright light in reference to the series LOST located to the east of the map.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezd_MZAYWbo

Approaching the hatch kills you near-instantaneously, but it is possible to observe from a safe distance.




In a skate park in Sandy Shores spray painted on a ramp wall is "Beam Me Up" which is a famous quote from the show.


In-game website www.theinternetisahellhole.com states: "You remember sitting in front of the TV as a kid - watching a magical world where every kind of problem was solved within an hour. Families were funny and sometimes had pet aliens or two parents of the same sex but were all heterosexual."


During a random encounter where you pick up a runaway bride, the husband chases after you calling the wife a "psycho hose beast" just like what Wayne calls his ex-girlfriend.

In the mission "Nigel and Mrs. Thornhill" (where you first meet the two celebrity worshippers), after Trevor throttles Nigel, they bow down to him saying "We're not worthy!", just like Wayne and Garth when meeting one of their idols.


Random NPCs may be found saying "I like turtles", clear reference to the classic Turtle Kid video.


When practicing Yoga with Michael and his wife, one of the objectives is called "Praise the Sun!" which is a reference to Knight Solaire and the Warrior of Sunlight Covenant, in which "Praise the Sun!" is an emote you can do.


A group of people in San Andreas overheard saying, "City of saints gonna struggle, Los Santos ain't in no trouble"


In-game radio conversations refer to a drug called Zombix, a nod to the Dead Rising drug Zombrex.


In the downtown Suburban store you visit in the mission Friend Request, one of the shirt stalls allows you to buy the parrot tropical shirt, similar to the one worn by Max Payne in Max Payne 3.

Also if you give Michael just a light scruffy beard, while he is wearing his gray suit he looks oddly like Max Payne at the beginning of Max Payne 3.

Michael and Max also share the ability to activate bullet-time.

The Shoot-out in North Yankon where Michael is surrounded my Wei Cheng's men, is a reference from the cemetery shoot-out in Max Payne 3.

If you go to the Los Santos Del Perro Pier, you can find a man named Jesse. His apparel is also very similar to something Jesus might wear. He also talks about his "Father" in a religious way, saying He loves everyone, pondering if He should forgive His Father for what he had done to him and also stating "my dad was kind of a #@$% before I came along," which is a clear allusion to the wrathful aspects of YHWH of the Old Testament.


Elysian Fields Freeway and is a reference to the Elysian Fields Development Company whosw secret agenda in L.A. Noire was to build a freeway through Los Angeles.


There's a mission where you get to drive a car featuring the license plate 463NT, a reference to Rockstar's unreleased game, Agent.


In Red Dead Redemption, one of the major characters was Captain Vicente De Santa. After the heist up in North Yankton, Michael changes his last name from "Townley" to "De Santa", as is known. This may be a (not so) subtle homage to that infamous villain from Red Dead Redemption.

A book called Red Dead by J. Marston can be found in Franklin's bookshelf in his house in the hills. In Red Dead Redemption, Jack Marston mentioned that he was going to make a book about his father and the Wild West. On a slightly unrelated note, there are two books to the left of Marton's Red Dead. One is titled Vanity Unfair, which is an obvious nod to the famous magazine Vanity Fair. To the left of that is Malcolm Eggs, a humorous pun on the Autobiography of Malcolm X.

There are locations in GTA V called "Cholla Springs Ave" and "Armadillo Ave" that can be found in Trevor's town of Sandy Shores, an obvious reference to Red Dead Redemption's Armadillo Town and the surrounding region of Cholla Springs. The location Mt. Gordo is also a reference to one of Red Dead Redemption's legendary animals: Gordo the Boar.

There is also a farm South of the penitentiary which looks exactly like John Marston's farm in RDR.

In some of the movies and commercials seen in GTA V you can see scenes that were shot in using RDR, one example being the Piswasser commercial, where there are many shots of McFarlane's ranch.

There is a tour bus at the airport that has "Escalera Tours" printed on it. Escalera being a town found in Red Read Redemption.

• Occasionally Trevor shouts "Ten Points" when squashing a civilian with a Vehicle, a throwback reference to the scoring system in the original Grand Theft Auto.
  
• One of the movies you can watch in the cinema shows the beating heart inside the Happiness Island Statue that appeared in GTA IV.
  
• If you head into the bar where you can play Darts near Sandy Shores you'll notice a familiar face on the bank notes behind the counter.
  
• The Platypus' sister boat appears docked in warehouse area of GTA V. This boat is called the Octopus and is also from Liberty City. It appears on Elysian Island.
  
• The optional task "Better than CJ" is a reference to Wrong Side of the Tracks in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas which has CJ riding a dirtbike and chasing after a train, very similar to what Trevor does.
  
• A figure resembling CJ can be seen bicycling in the mission "Hood Safari" near Grove Street.
  
• Music by two GTA: San Andreas characters can be found in Franklin's house.
  
• One of the masks available for sale on Vespucci beach strongly resembles a mask from Rockstar's Manhunt.
  
• When entering his house, Michael sometimes says "Daddy's back, @#$%@!" This is likely a reference to the very first line of dialogue in Grand Theft Auto IV's opening cutscene. This line became infamous among the GTA IV multiplayer modding community, many of whom don't use a save game and therefore heard this line every time they launched the game.

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