A YouTuber zoomed his sniper on a dam statue — and claims two plane crashes immediately followed.
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A YouTuber zoomed his sniper on a dam statue — and claims two plane crashes immediately followed.

In a 'GTA SA Myster Files' video, the player allegedly zoomed in on a winged statue at Sherman Dam with a sniper scope, causing a plane to crash nearby. He claimed a second crash happened off-camera and even said his own computer crashed afterward. The winged statues are actually copied from the real Hoover Dam's memorial, not Mothman depictions.

Verdict:Unsolved

Source: GTA San Andreas Cryptid Compendium — CC BY-SA

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Probably a grainy screenshot from the 'Myster Files' video that started the whole Sherman Dam panic. Kids really thought they'd found Mothman in a copied memorial statue.
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Probably a grainy screenshot from the 'Myster Files' video that started the whole Sherman Dam panic. Kids really thought they'd found Mothman in a copied memorial statue.

Likely from an old strategy guide showing the sniper scope zoom technique. Same method the YouTuber swore triggered the 'cursed' plane crash.
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Likely from an old strategy guide showing the sniper scope zoom technique. Same method the YouTuber swore triggered the 'cursed' plane crash.

Bigfoot? Wrong cryptid, wrong dam. But it shows how San Andreas players see monsters everywhere — even in a copied Hoover Dam memorial.
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Bigfoot? Wrong cryptid, wrong dam. But it shows how San Andreas players see monsters everywhere — even in a copied Hoover Dam memorial.

Filename's nonsense but it's probably some dark, moody Sherman Dam shot for spooky thumbnails. Right where the YouTuber's PC 'mysteriously' died.
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Filename's nonsense but it's probably some dark, moody Sherman Dam shot for spooky thumbnails. Right where the YouTuber's PC 'mysteriously' died.

Another relic from when everything was Mothman. Meanwhile Rockstar just copy-pasted real Hoover Dam memorials and called it a day.
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Another relic from when everything was Mothman. Meanwhile Rockstar just copy-pasted real Hoover Dam memorials and called it a day.

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