Highlights
- The Witcher 3 is filled with easter eggs, references, and mysteries, including a creepy ghost ship and other eerie encounters.
- The ghost ship, called The Flying Redanian, is a reference to the real-life legend of The Flying Dutchman. It's a rare find, as several commenters on a post from Reddit user Milelom88 mentioned playing for hundreds of hours and never seeing it once.
- Supernatural encounters and mysteries can add intrigue and flavor to video games, as seen in Witcher 3 and other titles like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
A Witcher 3 player had a big surprise when they explored the game’s vast seas and stumbled upon an extremely unusual occurrence - a frightening ghost ship. Witcher 3 is an immense game chock-full of easter eggs, interesting references, and enigmatic mysteries that are just waiting to be unearthed by gamers who are curious and brave enough to discover them.
Witcher 3 may surprise its players with subtle hints about CD Projekt Red's following video game, Cyberpunk 2077, or with enjoyable encounters like randomly stumbling upon Winnie the Pooh inside the game's carefully designed world. That being said, players can also stumble upon some genuinely eerie and creepy discoveries such as the terrifying Weeping Angels, or a colossal monster that spawns while players are killing cows.
One such unsettling finding was posted to Reddit by a user named Mikelom88 when they found a bone-chilling Skellige Ghost ship while sailing throughout the tiny islands located between An Skellig and Hindarsfjall at around 12:30 a.m. in-game time. The legendary ghost ship that can be found in Skellige is named The Flying Redanian according to the flavor text of a card found in GWENT: The Witcher Card Game. According to lore, an ancient Redanian crew once found a massive treasure, which caused unending disputes among them that made the crew doomed to forever dispute over how best to split the spoils.
The hair-raising ghost ship found in Witcher 3 is actually a reference to another real-life legendary myth, The Flying Dutchman. Allegedly, The Flying Dutchman was a phantom ship doomed to spend eternity at sea, with its ethereal crew desperately trying to contact any living person who might notice it. The folk tale is believed to have originated in the 18th century, with numerous reported sightings in the 19th and 20th centuries. While the mythos is certainly a compelling one, the widely accepted theory suggests that the haunted ship is, in fact, nothing more than an optical illusion created by specific weather conditions.
Witcher 3 is not the only video game that features supernatural encounters as many other titles delve into the realm of the myth. Seasoned gamers may nostalgicly reminisce about titles like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where the pursuit of myths and mysteries was a popular activity among many gamers and YouTubers. Incorporating an element of mystery can often be exactly what a game needs to sprinkle some flavor and intrigue into its universe.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is available on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
