10 Insane Gaming Conspiracy Theories

4. Fallout 3: Future Predicting Radio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bW1oCNC2KQ4 In Bethesda's Fallout 3, the 3rd installment of the popular Role Playing Game Fallout series, sees you following around the protagonist and his father James in a post-apocalyptic world. This game is set 200 years after the Nuclear Apocalypse, and 30 years are the first game. Once again you are killing zombies and enemies in another thrilling installment of the series. The character caries a small radio with him, that helps control your stats as you try to level up throughout the game. The radio also has several stations that play the variety of different songs featured on the Fallout soundtrack. However, this radio is central to one of the biggest gaming conspiracies ever. One of the main radio stations featured in the game is the Galaxy News Radio, lead by DJ Three Dog. However, the rumor going around the internet was that not only is Three Dog available to kill, he is usually replaced with the dry wit of his radio technician Margaret, who is unavailable to kill, but does have some choice comments regarding Three Dogs murder. However, players reported that after having killed Three Dog, skipped the Galaxy News Radio missions and destroy Raven's Rock, once you leave Raven's Rock and listen to Galaxy News Radio again Margaret seems to have been replaced by Three Dog, despite the fact that you had already killed him, though this time, not in character. According to the theory, the message is a series of monotonous numbers, followed by a sequence of Morse code, and upon translating the code, players have realized they convert to messages. While some of these messages are mundane, like €œHave you watched my YouTube video yet, I uploaded myself kicking bums in the nuts.€ 24:16 December 24, 2012, while others are said to contain predictions such as "one-two-zero-five-five-two-eight-two-zero-one-zero. What are you talkin' about? You'll be missed." which is said to have predicted the death of Diff'rent Strokes actor Gary Coleman, who died on the 28th of May 2010 or 5/28/2010, another one of the messages predicted the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico, both of which occurred 2 years after the game had been released, leading conspiracy theorists to believe that these events were staged. Bethesda released a statement denying the theory.
 
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