A mystery that went unnoticed for 7 years has Red Dead Redemption 2 players working furiously to make the connection between spiderwebs, telegraph poles, guitars, and maybe even Grand Theft Auto 5

Something very odd is happening in the world of Red Dead Redemption 2, and I don't know what's going on but I do know this: It's got a lot of players very excited about spiderwebs.

The wheels started turning in December, when players discovered a weird spider symbol carved into a pole. Laying that symbol on the RDR2 map led to eight spiderwebs—one for each leg, as you may have already put together—located on different parts of the map.

In those spiderwebs are feathers, which players can shoot...