GTA Online Halloween Haunts 2025: Spooky Playlists, UFOs, and Ghosts
GTA Online Halloween Haunts 2025 delivered weekly playlists, UFO hunts, ghost photos, and a haunted submarine Slasher with limited rewards.
As of 2026, GTA Online's Halloween Haunts 2025 event has already packed away its cobwebs, but the seasonal blueprint remains one of the clearest examples of how Los Santos turns October into a theme park for the macabre. Rockstar's event ran through early November 2025 and brought back familiar frights while adding new playlists, boosted payouts, weekly challenges, UFO hunts, ghost photography, and a haunted submarine that gave the Slasher mode a claustrophobic new address. The city, bless its haunted heart, went all in. 🎃
The structure was simple enough. Halloween favorites returned, and limited-time rewards gave players reasons to log in during a specific calendar window. Boosted GTA$ and RP payouts ran throughout October, turning routine mischief into a seasonal payday. Weekly challenges added extra cash and new masks, with fresh rewards each week. The event leaned on scarcity: some sights appeared every night, others only once, and the calendar did not negotiate.
Weekly playlists and the haunted submarine
Rockstar rotated featured playlists every week. The schedule gave each mode a moment in the spotlight, and the Slasher variant aboard the Ramius Submarine became the headline attraction. Cramped corridors, flickering lights, and a crew of nervous players made the submarine feel less like a vehicle and more like a pressure cooker with a ghost story attached. The result was a seasonal buffet, plain and simple.
| Dates | Featured playlist |
|---|---|
| October 2–8 | Beast vs. Slasher |
| October 9–15 | Judgement Day |
| October 16–22 | Slasher (Ramius Submarine) |
| October 23–29 | Condemned |
| October 30–November 5 | Slasher (including Ramius Submarine) |
UFOs, Omega, and an alien outfit 🛸
Rumors of UFOs and ghost sightings spread through Los Santos, and the UFO hunt followed a calendar. Twenty-six UFOs were tied to specific spawns, with some appearing more than once and others available for a single day. Players needed to log in daily, find the craft between 22:00 and 4:00, snap a photo with the in-game phone, and send it to Omega for GTA$ and RP. No joke: missing a day could mean missing a sighting entirely.
The reward layer added a new alien outfit on top of extraterrestrial prizes from earlier events. Starting on October 30, players could be abducted by a UFO and unlock The Shocker melee weapon and the Grey Space Interlooper Outfit. That abduction gimmick gave the event a finale worth waiting for, and it turned a simple photo hunt into a countdown.
Ghosts, photographs, and Ghostbusters-adjacent gear 👻
Ghosts returned with their own rules. All ten spawned every night, but each had only a small window before fading away. Photographing a ghost earned GTA$20,000, while the final ghost's picture was worth GTA$50,000. Collecting all ten unlocked the Ghosts Exposed Outfit and the Ghosts Exposed Livery for the Albany Bingham. The gear was legally distinct, thoroughly silly, and exactly the sort of reward that made a nightly photo tour worthwhile.
A seasonal formula that lingered
By 2026, the 2025 event stands as a completed seasonal chapter rather than a live promotion. Its rewards are no longer guaranteed to be available unless Rockstar reruns them, but its design remains instructive. Halloween Haunts 2025 mixed nostalgia with novelty: returning favorites, a new submarine setting, calendar-driven hunts, and rewards that rewarded persistence. Los Santos wore its spooky mask with confidence, and the event left behind a simple lesson for future seasonal updates. Frights work best when they are limited, specific, and just annoying enough to keep players checking the calendar.