How to start Red Dead Online's Zombie Mission and all the weird stories in the West
Blog Andrew Joseph 02 Jul , 2025 0

Rockstar Games is released New content updates in online Red Dead This provides four new telegram missions for players to complete. The Telegram mission is called “The Strange Story of the West”, and in this combination you can complete four missions. These tasks are centered on zombies, science and robots, so there are certainly some kinds compared to the other tasks offered by Red Dead Online. For longtime Red Dead fans, this marks the game's return to the stranger side, which has been a storyline with independent zombies in the original game world since the Immortal Nightmare.
By August 4, these four new Telegram missions offer 3x gold, RDO$ and XP, making them worth your time. But you first need to know how to start each of the four strange stories of the Western mission before you can think about the rewards of completing them. We will show you how to start each new telegram task and explain what is about it.
Strange story of starting a Western mission
Fortunately, even if you use a brand new red online account, you don't need to spend too much telegram mission. All you have to do is follow these steps to start completing the task:

- Once loaded into the world, visit the post office or camp password box and open the email
- Here you will see Theodore Levin
- Take this letter and open your calligraphy or visit the player menu to view the telegram
- When you go to view the telegram, you can open the letters and pick from one of the four tasks as follows:
- Strange story of plague
- Strange modern science stories
- Bayou's strange story
- Strange stories in the wilderness
- Select any of these tasks to start it, which will get you into a short-scene animation and then do the task start
- Note that these tasks will pair you with your partner, so don't be shocked when you see another player next to you at the beginning of the mission
- You can complete all four weird stories of the West Mission, but after completing one, you have to wait 20 minutes of cooldown

That's all about four strange stories that start and complete the West Mission. In addition to the cooldown between each task, you can complete all four in a relatively short time, allowing you to easily take advantage of the extra gold, RDO $, and XP that each task can pay for.
What's in every strange story of Mission in the West?
Now that we’ve covered the weird story of how to start a Western mission, let’s talk more about what you’ll expect from everyone.
Strange story of plague
The first task offered, but not the one you have to start, is called the strange story of the plague. This mission allows you to work with your partners to locate and ship bodies that have spread around the town of Armadillo. Your team has two lives and you have to deliver four bodies to a designated location. Of course, it's easy to find the bodies, as their locations are marked yellow for you on the map. The hard part is navigating the whole town Zombies That will try to stop you from reaching the body. In addition to zombies, cults will pop up and start shooting at you at any time, making the entire mission a struggle for survival.


Strange modern science stories
Next, we have a weird story about modern science that takes the focus away from zombies and puts it in science and… robot. The mission begins with your team talking to scientists who create artificial forms of life, but these life forms have now taken over the Braithwaite estate. You need to eliminate the metal monsters created by scientists and get stuck in the reason why they became so hay in the first place.
Bayou's strange story
Bayu's strange story is a task that combines elements of the first two tasks together. The purpose is to defeat Swamp Monster and delivered it to Theodore Levin so he could check it out. However, to do this, you need to get rid of a group of other creatures lurking in the swamp. This mission can certainly be an exciting one that brings some jumping fear, but as long as you stay alert and use your gun quickly, you can finally reach the swamp monster. From there, you have to find some way to dispatch it.
Strange stories in the wilderness
A scientist has disappeared in a place called “Tall Trees”, and finding them and taking them home is your mission. Missing scientists are studying a group of killers in tall trees, so you already know you will have to fight some enemies to find the person you are looking for. However, you don’t have anything other than survival skills and intuition during the investigation. You have to look for food and supplies, clear one or two weapons, and then continue investigating the tall trees Scientists and Killers of Their Killers.
Each of the quests in the Weird Story of the West is different from the previous one, and they all offer some great gameplay in Red Dead Online. You don't have to finish them in any order, if you want to try new strategies or get more gold, RDO$ and XP, you can do more than once.