10 Most Mysterious Unsolved Objects in Video Games

Oddheader is seriously the only Clip-Sharer that I know who actually covers stuff that I've never heard of

I have a theory for the buttons in the UBFunky game.
It's just a tracker that developers like to have in their games, even if it's pointless. Kind of like how Dark Souls 2 has a global counter for deaths in the game and how websites used to have a tracker of how many "hits" they had.
So it's likely just a thing the developers wanted to see, like "How many people would push this pointless button?" and then smile when they see the button has been pressed billions of times by millions of players.

The pool of forgetfulness was most likely gonna be for resetting all your stats. In Morrowind Multiplayer Nerevarine Prophecies they made it into a working reset tool.

I can’t imagine how it must feel to be the first to discover an easter egg, knowing that you found something and no one else knows about it

I remember when Oddheader was experimenting with hidden things in movies because he was running out of game-related content to show. Now he is the go-to channel for gaming mysteries and always shows us stuff no other channel has covered before.

Regarding the No Man's Sky "mystery," I honestly see that one as a bit of a non-entry. Speaking as somebody who plays the game regularly, the Anomalous Number Station is just one of SEVERAL space anomalies that don't actually do anything and never have. Which in themselves are one of several random objects in the game that never served any real purpose beyond worldbuilding. My takeaway is that it's either just that, worldbuilding, or a feature that's only been partially implemented such as the Station Core. (Which actually has associated items given to you during expeditions that ALSO currently serve no purpose)

Best gaming mystery videos on the internet by a wide margin. The community Oddheader has built is amazing.

10:57 The author said that the book is named Ring due to way it spreads. Ring is not only the name of the virus. In the novel, the original film, and the remake, there were various things the word Ring related to. The phone "rings" for example.
It seems pretty obvious that the silver ring is a joke. Especially since the description says it's Sadako's Ring.

Death Stranding is about beings passing into our world from a place called the beach, whilst the main character is trying to prevent an extinction level event, whilst trying to subdue said entities. This is probably the simplest way I can explain the story, without spoiling it too much.

it's crazy he still hasn't reached 1 million subs yet, he really deserves it

Britney has already won something far better than an Oscar: her freedom.

I love how oddheader, guru, captain eggcellent and a few others have kept the actual interesting parts of Easter eggs on Clip-Share alive I swear like 9-10 years ago Easter egg scene on Clip-Share was nothing the way they made it.

The pause quit bug in cave story 3d is so fun to mess around with. You can actually get the beast fang many ways using that bug, the prefab house is just a simple one.

About the Golden Owl one:
In the book being referenced, isn't finding the golden owl the objective?
I'm pretty sure that means there is no other step in the game. The owl statue was the reward. Not sure why you'd think finding the owl statue would be the start of a scavenger hunt. That would be the exact opposite of what it's referencing.

I think this Ring game is based on a Japan only novel from the franchise, where the curse is spread through a video game. So it's way more true to the source material than it seems.

Interesting thing for those who dont know: the panties in Cave Story were actually given a purpose in Cave Story+. They unlock Curly Story, a retelling of the game but Curly and the protagonist are swapped. Dont know why they existed in the original release though, it's probably just a joke. Also, another item exists like that, if you sleep in the bed in Chako's House after interacting with her lit fireplace, you get her lipstick. Odd, but funny.

The flesh blob on the ground in the Vr game might be a refrence to "Inside" by playdead, where at the end of the game you die on a field as a big flesh ball. Battery might be another hint as a secret ending in the game is where you basically unplug yourself from the game, knowing u were just a drone.

People were disappointed the mystery box contained warm socks, but just think about it. In a post apocalyptic world, they probably rely on fire for warmth, and fire as a heat source isn't exactly something you can just carry around anywhere. A pair of warm socks would be a godsend for situation where you're trapped in a snowy tundra where the cold penetrates your boots. You can't run and you can barely walk if you have frostbiten feet, so warm socks become as underrated as toilet paper or glasses cleaning solution in an apocalypse.

honestly mad props for actually finding shit nobody has ever heard of instead if the low hanging fruit, it really shows that you love this stuff and dont just do it for a video's sake, keep at it dude!

Huge respect for you and the community to find these mysteries. Never get tired of these videos.

Sadly, the solution in the envelope to the golden owl statue mystery simply says, "maybe the real owl statue is the friends we made along the way".

Morrowind modder here; the pool of forgetfulness is just something we kinda never pay attention to.
It's been used in a few quest mods but no attempt to look into its actual purpose has been made because there isn't much to go on.
It's not mentioned in dialogue or any books, though there is evidence to suggest the player would have the opportunity to join the Sixth House so it might have been related to that.

I've always been afraid to sell the warm socks in HZD just in case they actually did something. Good to know I'm not the only one who's clueless about what that might be. XD

To be fair if you read the Ring Trilogy novel, The Ring is definitely a memetic death matrix thing that is also a virus.
SPOILERS AHEAD.
Although the novel describes Ring/Sadako as a virus, it spreads itself through media; the tapes and according to the sequel Spiral, the first novel "Ring" **and** all subsequent Ring adaptations. It is not the curse that killed people, but if I recall correctly a cardiac arrest where they found a lump of ring shaped tumor in the heart system.
I don't know the plot of the game version of The Ring, but Sadako died after being r*p*d by a doctor / scientist who had smallpox and dumped into a well, where her vengeful psychic spirit, love for media / theatre, and the smallpox virus combined into a memetic virus.
So maybe the ring is kept by the scientist responsible for the creation of Sadako?

As an elder scrolls turbonerd, I can all but guess the meaning of the Pool Of Forgetfulness.
Early in develop of Morrowind, House Dagoth was actually a joinable faction. You could become a dreamer and fight the tribunal and the empire, rather than work to unite Morrowind and stop Dagoth Ur. Given the constraints of the time period of the game's development, this was ultimately scrapped because of the logistics of having such a dramatically branching storyline.
That said, there are a number of quests, interactions, dialogue, and even bits of code that serve as hints towards this early vision of the game. Most theorists believe the Pool of Forgetfulness was part of this early design (given Sharapli's location, ease of access, and the lack of high leveled 6th House agents like Ghouls or Vampires) where you would join the 6th House. Which would make sense that, as an early House Dagoth quest, it would have been one of the first things made before the plans were scrapped.
Plus, people have asked Michael Kirkbride (the guy responsible for Morrowind's lore and much of its writings), and he doesn't remember. So lol.

As a professional game dev myself, the radio thing is intriguing but the programming isn’t that weird. The only thing that raises an alarm for me is the use of the word “secret” to mark the event data. My guess is that it might be a leftover of a test feature. But weighted randomness is common when you’re showing an item from a list of random assets. You want to show the best takes more often.
But even then, a feature goes through multiple iterations and you might end up with a system that’s no longer needed for the feature (e.g. weighted randomness)...and might just use it for the heck of it anyway.
As for the game crashing when you take a radio somewhere else...I’ve seen that a lot. That’s probably a feature with faulty wiring for the dependencies. Probably something that didn’t come up in testing, or was in the backlog and I’d imagine there to be a lot more important bugs to fix near release.
P.s. great stuff!

The panties you can find, in cave story actually unlock a mode where you can play as Curly Brace rather then Quote. In the steam version at least. I think it even gives you an achievement.

I adored UB Funkeys and remembered wondering about those buttons too! There was also a semi easter egg/cheat that would allow you to gain UB Funkeys in-game that you never purchased from a store. I only know this from this one gate in one of the worlds that required a absurd about of Funkeys to open.
You had to lick any one of the smaller UB Funkeys that you had and place back on the larger base one.
It gave me a headache and a strong metal taste in my mouth but eventually it really *worked*

Something you should look at is the strange formations and sounds far in the void of the older versions of the original subnautica.

God, I remember UB Funkies.
Even named my pet goldfish after them.
That goldfish lived longer than the franchise. Way longer.

I love your videos. They're creepy without giving me nightmares. I also love video games and think these mysteries are pretty cool. Solved or unsolved. Keep up the good work Oddheader!

I recently started playing Road 96. During one "level", I was with Alex in a restaurant. We went behind it into this smaller building. I was looking through one of the cardboard boxes and spotted a picture that looked eerily similar to he late Budd Dwyer. I googled it, and it is in fact Budd Dwyer. Has anyone else spotted this?

You're #34 on Trending!!! Congratulations, Odd! I've watched you build yourself up from about 5k subs. Your growth & the distance you've come is commendable. We all love you, man. 😊

I love your content so much man. You put so much work in and it shows. Thank you.

Wow, I never knew the radio in Half-Life: Alyx was so complex. I always thought the only interesting thing about it was the creepy radio song that was first featured in HL2.

Hey odd ! Just want to say as someone with ADD I find it very difficult to remain focused on specific topics or videos , but your videos give me a nice moment of time to just focus and get really into what I’m watching , super interesting stuff as always !

I think the wedding ring is a story related Easter egg, signifying that he was going to propose to the MC but was murdered in the elaborate cover up involving the ring virus.

Happy holidays Oddheader and thank you for all the work you do to give us such great videos!

You always manage to find mysteries I have genuinely never heard before, every video is a treat.

I love that youre covering more VR games! I'd love to see more VR related mysteries!

Rest in peace to Régis Hauser, also known as Max Valentin, I hope he's happy knowing that his little secret will take a really long time to be found.

My favorite theory about the Pool of Forgetfulness is that the player character is actually able to do something with it, but every time they try they immediately forget, and so from the player's perspective it seems to not do anything.

Oh damn I did not expect to hear another person talking about UB Funkeys in 2021. Played that game all the time as a kid. That OST still slaps

These videos never get old, it's just so damn interesting
Great Video oddhead 😄❤

These are always just the right amount of content to be worth the wait.

I’m sure somebody already mentioned this but, that fleshy wad from the Accounting game looks a lot like the big fleshy wad from the Inside game. Great content as always. Love your channel.

Oddheader is one of those Clip-Sharers, that gives me a special feeling watching his Videos. Everything is so unique, that it feels completly different (in a positive way lol).
Even the Music, when i listen to it on Spotify in my car my brain starts feeling like watching an episode.
Well done. You are true gold.

Always nice to watch these videos especially seeing mysteries that aren't just arg's or horror games. Makes me want to play some old games and just wander around to see if I stumble on something lol.

Thank you Oddheader for making many of our days better

Has anyone considered the Half-Life Alyx secret to be a cryptographic secret? It's believable to me that "A14", "D7", "B4" can be part of a hexadecimal string, the most common format for storing these

So glad to see The Ring covered! Hopefully this sparks someone to help find out what it's for! Even after extracting files and searching the hex I still couldn't find anything. Also talking to some of the devs who localized and they don't remember.

I can't believe UB Funkies would ever appear here, what a nostalgia blast

It's unfortunate that datamining has removed so much potential for mysteries in games.
I really miss this sense of wonder about a game's potential.
That's the one good thing that cloud gaming could bring to the table: Not being able to datamine.

Love the content, always “Odd” and extremely interesting. I love HZD, I set about trying to platinum trophy the game not long after it came out. In my opinion it’s one of the easier ones to platinum trophy. In my quest for 100% I came upon a mysterious item known only as the “Warm Socks.” I was dumbfounded to say the least. No one knew what they were. Everyone online had no idea, and developers only said they wouldn’t comment on it. This was a little while before I and I’m pretty sure some other people knew that there was going to be a definitive DLC, and not just some minor content added. Then all of a sudden BAM!!! The new DLC is confirmed, and where was it set to take place? The Frozen Wilds baby!!! And I realized “huh, the developers actually foreshadowed their own DLC.” You can only access this item near the end of the main story. I felt like the developers were subtly telling the players “hey congratulations for all your hard work and taking the time to explore our game. Here’s a seemingly useless item that Aloy would need for where she’s going.” Cause I don’t know about most people, but if I’m going somewhere cold. I’m taking some damn warm socks. That’s just my opinion for what the purpose of the sock were for, and it’s honestly helped me sleep a little easier thinking that way. As for the Death Stranding. I believe that was partly an HZD Easter Egg with a funny nod to everyone’s frustration on the socks. And partly Kojima’s awkward foot fetish. Done ranting now. Thanks for awesome content and keep up the amazing work.

Seeing UB Funkeys in this video was a huge blast of nostalgia, I still have a box full of them under my bed and a USB stick with one of the final updates on it just in case I ever wanted to go back and play it lol

The reason I like these videos is because they take me back to when I was around ten years and would get freaked out and horrified by glitches or other strange things in games.

The Accounting Plus creature is called “mother” it is related/inspired by the beached thing KOS from PS4 game Bloodborne. Also not sure if they were joking but Tree Guy and the Mother are the parents of King of VR.

No way! Road 96! That game is such a criminally underrated little gem. It's so cool!

Love your content. Please keep up the great work.

Something I find interesting with the Pool of Forgetfulness is that in the Elder Scrolls, water either is memories, or that memories take the form of water, or maybe the ocean is filled with memories... It's a bit unclear, but regardless, memory is directly linked with water.
So a source of water that is linked to forgetfulness -- which I assume means that drinking or bathing in the water causes one to lose memories -- is certainly an interesting concept.

The Pool of Forgetfulness is more than likely a joke. They kept forgetting to finish the asset so they kept it how it was and called it a cheeky name

The HL:A radios could be a nod to a similar mystery from HL2, that being the strange unplugged television in the chapter "Anticitizen One", that shows the G-Man standing on a rowboat with a crow on his shoulder, all while dissonant music plays.
You'll hear the music first, and when you find the television, it turns off almost as soon as you see it. If you hang around it for too long, it explodes.

What if the Pool of Forgetfulness affects anyone who finds it in real life, and functions in a way akin to The Silence in Dr. Who? One can find the pool, discover it's meaning, but upon leaving have no memory of what was learned.

The NMS thing, if you mine asteroids, you can get a thing called an Anomaly Detector, and it's fairly easy to clone objects in the game. After using the detector probably an easy 50+ times, I've seen the number station only a handful of times. But it is an easier way to find the number station, along with a bunch of other weird things, including a containment chamber. The chamber seems to add new things into the empty spaces as well, bc after the recent Sand-Worm update, now one can be seen in said chamber. It's super helpful to get an Anomaly Detector.

I love seeing hidden stuff in games like this, especially when some of the games are ones I’ve played

The quality and consistency of this content is really refreshing 📺

I ran into one of those bizarre number stations in No Man's Sky myself but like everyone else had no clue what its for! After some thought I believe its more of a nod to the lore. I dont want to spoil anything so all I'll say is I think its meant to be a way to send messages between Atlas and an important being to The Atlas, which is why there is never a reply. It only sends out a coded message. I dont think there will ever actually be something we do with it. Puzzles like that haven't ever been in No Man's Sky.
Regardless, I'm assuming people have already bugged Sean Murray about it on Twitter? In case y'all didn't know, the emojis he uses in some of his Tweets have ended up being clues. If you see someone asking him about the number stations, take note if he replies with an emoji!

I'd love to see more VR Easter eggs (if there's any out there).

Love your content, keep up the good work :)

Love your videos! Keep up the great work!

Not expecting to see U.B. Funkees appear here (or anywhere really), but that’s just Oddheader’s dedication to the obscure.

Oddheader is so charming. He takes some of the spook and transforms it into funny.

One of the few channels where I truly have bell notifications on. Thanks Oddheader. Hyped as always!!!

I never realized the big red buttons in UBFunkey were such a mystery.. I thought I just couldn't press them cuz I either didn't have enough Funkeys or experience 🙃 I guess it's good to know it wasn't just a skill issue; and also that there's still a community supporting UBFunkey. I would've never expected that tbh. About to re-adopt my Funkeys from my younger sibling..

Holy crap UB Funkys that brings me back. I remember playing that as a 9-10 year old for like a single night after an "18 year old" followed me around the entire map asking to date me. It freaked me out so bad I threw that little vinyl toy away hah

Oh my God! UB Funkeys! I remember that! I used to have a few of the figurines, and I played it myself, until I lost the giant Hub connecter thing.... the Giant Funkey, ig. I loved this game. It's sad to hear that it went defunct in 2010 though. It seems like a lot of my favorite childhood games are shut down now. UB Funkeys, Super Hero Squad Online, Club Penguin. It's just sad. And TWO of those were shut down thanks to Disney! Dumb bastards. I'd honestly still give them my money to play SHSO again. I put so many hours into that game, from 2011 to 2015, it was insane. I had collected so many characters, had so much silver (until they replaced silver with fractals, which I ALSO had a lot of), and i was a member, so I was constantly getting gold as well! God, I miss that one the most! 😭💔

I honestly I think the mysterious box is a inside joke about how Kojima was originally going studio to studio to find an engine that he would use for Death Stranding and when he went to Guerrilla Games to look at the Decima engine they were so honored that they later sent Kojima a small wooden gift box with a few goodies and a copy of the Decima engine itself

As for the beast fang, I think it was generally a joke referencing how you weren't supposed to get it, but as for why it's there, likely one of those cases in which they have it specifically to avoid you getting a crash or something similar over a null value. If I'm correct (and I very well might not be) the beast fang could be achieved through any other glitch that gives you an item value the game sees as null.

11:15 If you read the sequels to the original Ring novel, Spiral and Loop, it actually is a malicious virtual reality cyber matrix thing.

woah, I didn't expect to be mentioned in an Oddheader video (about the HLA thing). Thanks for bringing attention to it! That radio is still one of my most thought about mysteries to this day, as a long time Half Life fan

I have a theory for the road 96 owl, in the original trail of the golden owl a bronze owl was buried were the clues all lead up to. If you return the bronze owl to Becker’s (the creator of the puzzle) legal protector, you will be declared the winner and receive the golden owl. I wonder if you take the owl in the game and give it to someone (if that is possible in the game ) than something will happen, or a second owl will spawn in.

It is possible that the beast fang in Cave Story is a "debug item" used for chests/item givers without a proper id for testing purposes

The blob of flesh and baby carriage speak to Bloodborne for me, since both of them contain babies that cause a boss fight. The carriage being related to Mergo's Wet Nurse, and the blob of flesh hiding the Orphan of Kos.

Also, the silver ring in the crazy Ring spinoff game says it apparently belonged to Sadako Yamamura, who is the OG Ring girl. So, pretty sure that's just a standard egg, referencing the origin of all Ring related fiction. It feels like a bit of a Japanese pun, too. You found Sadako's literal ring. That's funny to me, anyway.

The first easter egg immediately made me think about bloodborne. That fleshy gray body on the ground looks a lot like Kos, and the baby carriage which featured a lot in the game.
No idea what it could mean though.

I love displate they are a bit pricey but Totally worth it. I just finished the game Superliminal not too long ago. Working on my second play through with the secrets on to see if I can find anything else. It’s such an interesting game

I remember when I used to watch TatsTopsVideos with similar stuff about this. Been watching OddHeader for a few years now cuz of this crazy stuff. I told a friend about the glitched version of the orc from Shadow of War and he thought that was reaaaaal trippy. And he played that game religiously! Good video, Odd!

What we ought to do with the Half Life radio is hire a professional game developer to fix the crash when you leave the room with the radio so we can see what happens

I love how the zoo level moves makes me wonder what would happen if you run or stop it from moving using hacks

I found the Pool of Forgetfulness like a third of the way through my first playthrough and could never figure out what it was for, glad I wasn't the only one haha

"a secret zoo level that can't be found via datadumping or datamining"
doesn't exist, understood

Im so glad Accounting was mentioned, That flesh room was fucking horrifying. Scared the fuck out of me when I just randomly found it, especially on VR

You're truly the best Easter egg channel on Clip-Share. Guru is a close second

I like to imagine devs adding random Easter eggs in a game that can make some cryptic message that means absolutely

regarding the beast fang: cave story was originally a japanese game, and has two translations - the fanmade one for the original freeware game, and the one made by nicalis, the company who bought the rights. the beast fang event and inventory description were updated to reference its unused nature in the nicalis translation, if you manage to obtain it in any of the official ports, it will have that description - and it wasn't deliberately added to CS3D, it just uses the original scripts which contain both dialogue and events to obtain items
as for the beast fang itself, it's most likely just a scrapped item that pixel didn't remove or null out for whatever reason, the game's full of things like that :P
(tdlr: unused item with a self-aware description carried over from the original game due to how CS3D works internally)

When I was messing around in the keyhole room in superliminal, I was able to use the door to clip past the table and into a white void. A few other glitches happened in a different stage with a small SomnaSculpt building that was managed to clip out of bounds. When I walked through the door and a weird square that would shape shift into other blocky shapes. There was another glitch where the game started when the logo was still loading. You can find the video on my channel.

As for the no Man's sky update.
At this point I think the only way to tell if the anomalies are worth anything is to go to all 255 galaxies get the numbers for each one of them and then try to figure out if they mean anything. I know that sounds tedious but to me it sounds kind of fun

5:30 Wait… Horizon Zero Dawn is _one_ of your favorite recent games about a post apocalyptic Western United States where society has fallen and become overrrun by sentient robot beasts? Can you tell me what your top 5 are in that genre?

7:54 Anyone notice how the UI says "ODDHEADER RULES" on the top left corner? I definitely agree with it, easter eggs are cool as hell.

If The Ring in The Ring Terrors Realm is a weird cyber matrix thing, then that's actually pretty close to the source material not the other way around, the books sequels dealt with the Ring virus expanding into a virtual space like that.