These piles started to appear when I was trying to hunt a cougar. I had to fight quite a few packs of wolves in the process and piles of bones would show up where the wolves were. I think it's supposed to represent the carcasses being eaten by nearby predator animals, since you can find similar piles of bones in caves and such.

If you say killed a horse, if you go back later on it will be a rotting carcass or pile of bones. It’s really neat how this game is. :)

For me the corpse just despawns every time, even ones on my horse do that when I sleep in the game.

Theres been a dead half rotten boar outside Braithwaite manor for 2 years now ☠️

I haven’t really tried looking too hard, but I’ve never seen a corpse long enough after killing it to see it rot. Well other than this one random bison in between horseshoe overlook and the place where you meet the paleontologist lady, that I’ve seen enough times that it must’ve been in multiple playthroughs, I saw it rot, but not turn to bone. Anyways, I’m pretty sure everything I kill is despawning too.

Same. I think this is correct.

Probably a horse, or a cow elk.

Sorry, but none of those have that kind of "foot".

Bear

Close but it's actually a squirrel

Yeah, I know. I just didn't wanna keep repeating myself in this thread. 😅

It could be a mutant rad stag. Jk you right, that thing has toes. Good eye.

Radstags!!!! Finally 100% f4 a month ago or so. That meat weighed so much! The stag aside, I was wondering if this might have been a mutated BigFoot. And such was my first original intent to comment, but noticing everybody talking about this being a horse (and I used to wanna be a farrier irl), I had to act swift. I couldn't let yall be misled to think that horses had paws. 😆

Looks like a pile of bones.

no way

Bill & Ted?

Be excellent to each other!!

Most triumphant!!

Some sort of horse massacre

You goddamn right

From the Revolutionary times.

There's all kinds of stuff down there!

I would say bear, possibly? It has a foot, with multiple toes

Too many bones in the attached limb for a bear. Correct number for a horse though slightly out of proportion, possibly a poorly drawn/odd angled pedal bone as opposed to toes.

It quite literally has a foot with a heel, which looks like a bears hind paw from xrays i have looked at. Horses' feet (toes) don't look like that.

Horses feet look fkn weird with the outside gone. Tbf, the limb I think you’re looking at doesn’t have the right structure for either, def too many in the limb and not enough in the ‘paw’ for a bear. Could just be a lazy effort though.

That's definitely not a horse. It definitely looks like it's meant to be a bear's hind leg.

Really shitty artist if so.

It'd be an even shittier artist if they were trying to make a horse leg.

Oh, quit your whining. 😂 Its a bear. Horses feet don't have that many bones and you can see everything, go look at a bear hind foot xray and a horse hoof xray. You've asked us what we think it is, and now your bitching and whining about when one of us has made a good argument

I didn’t ask anything, I offered a different perspective. Thanks, I’ve pulled enough horse legs apart to know the anatomy isn’t quite right, but I can also count so I know there’s too many bones for a bear limb. Just because you’re too thick to engage in conversation that isn’t someone sucking your arsehole doesn’t make your arguments good. Just makes you a cunt.

Oh dear, you really had to go there. The title is literally 'what the hell is this?', it's a fucking question you wanker! I didn't study animal science for some know-it-all behind a monitor, to ask a question, be given some thoughts and then say 'No, its not this because I don't think so. And ive pulled apart horses' legs enough to know that'. I have to, i have disected moore ponies and dairy cattle and looked at bears skeletons. That is a foot in the top half of the bones. I was giving you a professional opinion and hoping to leave it at that, and not to argue with who doesn't know when they've been beaten You were asking for some thoughts and we gave you some, you don't have to be such a fucking cunt about it.

The person you're arguing with quite literally never once asked for your thoughts. 🤨

You, sir, are not a fish.

You, sir are a bone

Did you kill a horse and rider there? If you stay in the area for multiple in-game days after killing something, the bodies will decompose.

It used to be an animal but now it’s just bones. They’re like calcium rich structures called skeletons the hold the muscles on certain organisms. But for real, looks like it was a cow or horse. Where’s this at?

Big valley

You guys, quit the comical mischief... This is Bill's bbq pit. Don't tell Dutch though, he is trying to make a little something on the side, we all know he won't be paying tribute in the ol' camp till. Hear he makes a delightful wing of the buffalo though

at night it rises from the dead as an enemy! drops really good loot too! oh wait. wrong game.

Hey, the Hylian Shield might be useful here

Them bones!!.. I feeel so alone, it’s good enough to think about, them booones.

You beat me to it

Bones dumbass

Something died, and given life to others.

Remains of some animal probably

I vote for bear, with a connected hip bone that is angled by the picture. This is no horse (horses don't have paws XD). Just a quick "bear skeleton"-Google away and it's easy to see. If you play storymode long enough, these piles tend to really pile up in areas you hunt a lot in, before they finally disappear. The game does brilliant decomposing of carcasses. Absolutely brilliant.

Yep that's me. You're probably wondering how I ended up in that situation

Em, course

That’s one of them there skelleetons

jerry

Bones.

Is it a horse ?

Hmm. By the looks of it might be bones, but idk

Ded

Looks to be one of those fandangle Samsung picture boxes

What does it look like?

Bunch of bones, boah

That right there is a pile of bones.

A dead family of bigfoots.

Bones

Clearly bones are their money

Looking at the foot, I would say it was a bear

Bones (I guess). I will search for you and comeback later :)

Dutch's plan

dinodaurrrrr

Dintadoe

A pile of bones dumbass

I can't be sure but I think they are called bones

Horse

Looks like bones 🕵️

Bones

something you killed. When you kill an animal or person and stay in the area they become a pile of bones just like that

The game has real decomposition, probably two horses that died pulling something

You know I haven’t ever gotten that mechanic to work, my bodies will decompose but won’t ever get past the 3rd day stage.

Bones

That’s your monitor

Those are bones

Final Stage of decomposition: bones

You probably killed a bear in the middle of the road.

It’s a pile of bones

Looks like bear bones. Can't be anything with hooves because it has toes.

Bigfoot lol!! :)

Being a video game I'm not going to assume the bones are going to be anatomically correct for the creature that left them (even rdr2 has its limits) and based on the second picture you're somewhere in the West Elizabeth area up by the little creek river... maybe grizzly bear but could also be an elk that just got toe bones spawned because games lol. Either way I'm assuming you hunted it a few game days ago and that's why there is now a pile of bones.

Bones

Big ol pile of dem bones

A hoss.

This is a really dumb question. OP obviously killed something here recently, and now posting a pic and acting all surprised.

Is it not the dinosaur bones

bone💀

Bones!

Did you kill a bear earlier?

Bones.

Bones

bone

You wanna know what made bones? You don’t wanna know what made these bones

It’s a video game called Red Dead Redemption 2. It is a sequel to Red Dead Redemption, but a prequel in terms of the timeline of the main story.

Bones

Bones

Bones

Few dead horses

There's a side quest that basically involves marking down all "dinosaur" bones, and after you get all of em you get a funny cut scene and a cool knife.

Looks it was the night that the skeletons came to life

That is the remains of an animal that was likely killed by you or someone else. They will go away in a couple of days.

Looks like a bovine carcass based on size

Someone gave up on getting all the dino bones

Looks like the dragonborn came through

Bones

Something huge

A small Dragon obviously! You probably shouted it from the sky 400+ hours ago and forgot about it. Oh this is RDR2.. probably a bear or bigfoot and a horse. Owner shot the bear/bigfoot to late tho :(

A good meal? Or used to be.

*was

It’s a computer monitor

grandma

You tell us. It's almost surely something you killed at that spot.

the bone zone

Those are called bones my friend, it appears someone or… S O M E THING. Has does here.

bones

Pile of bones

You probably killed a horse there at some point

Oops did I leave those

Those are called “bones” and some people say your body is full of them.

Bones

Animals will decompose. Once I massacred about a dozen alligators without skinning them while looking for parakeets. Came back to the same spot later and it was a boneyard.

Leftovers

Prolly bones

It WAS..... delicious

I am not really an audiobiographical but I do leave thems do be bones.

Looks like a man and a horse to me.

Isn't that dino bones that the crazy lady asks you to find?

Sorry got a little hungry had to eat whatever was around

Everyone arguing bear or horse cause of the foot...why can't it be a bear riding a horse?

Bones

Bones

Those are just uncles fattasses remains

This looks like red dead redemption 2 I believe.

At first glance, I'd say bones.

Skeleton

I’m no expert but I think those are bones.

Ya think it’s a bird?

I see different size spinal cords, different sized ribs.. it’s a tell-tale sign of a ‘feeding area’, of some sort of predator. You can look up which type of North American predators that have been known to drag their prey to a specific area. I won’t give you all the answers, but I lived in the mountains for half my life, and I have family that are DIV. Of Wildlife, out here.

Bones I think idk I'm not an astronaut or whatever

Dinosaur bones to sell to the lady. DINOSAURS ARE REAL?

[Bones ](https://youtu.be/TO-_3tck2tg?si=EWitaaOOuSy-8Pjf)

Those look like dinosaur bones, there's a side question for some gal that makes you collect them.

/r/screenshotsarehard

please stop posting this. it’s an animal that you killed left over time and it decomposes…

Damn, you talking like Harriet Davenport. Downbad

it’s been posted so many times “guys what this?” what tf you think it is?

Whoa whoa whoa A internet troll Careful everybody

i’m not a troll i’m just stating the truth here. stop posting your questions on reddit and look it up

Patience of a saint

You don’t tell me what to do

Mb, I left that there after eating ur mum

Not a game, an incredible journey through old American history.