Why is The Farm referred to as "Cult Location" on the original San Andreas map that came with the game?

[BennyGod]

No one talks about this really, but why? I know the Survivalists live there, but I don't really consider them a "cult," just a group of farmers. And none of the other locations have captions like this, so why?

[LeatherJacketSoldier]

3 hours ago, BennyGod said:

No one talks about this really, but why? I know the Survivalists live there, but I don't really consider them a "cult," just a group of farmers. And none of the other locations have captions like this, so why?

It's related to the Epsilon Program. The Farm house's windows strangely glow blue at night, and that glow color is referenced as Epsilon Program meeting point. Glow colors are related to specific ocurrences, though people like you tend to believe they are just glitches, as told here "https://gta-myths.fandom.com/wiki/Strange_Lights".

Blue is for Epsilon Program meeting points, green for biohazard wastes or mythical creatures, and red for death and demons. It's creepy... But to me, it's a fact.

[Rhoda]

The name itself lends to the mystery, and it wouldn't surprise me to learn that this was deliberate - a succinct lack of information that causes scratched heads and countless hours camped outside a strange house, not to mention the bizarre shopping list of requirements to supposedly unlock its secrets which is akin to the playground whispers surrounding the early Pokémon games. It's easy to claim that there was originally more planned for this because that seems to be the go-to explanation for a lot of the mythos but I don't believe there was. I think this is always what it was intended to be. You're sent to a strange farm by an equally strange man to retrieve some farming equipment and if you return for whatever reason, you see eerie glowing blue windows and ties to a cult sporadically talked about not only in San Andreas but across a multitude of instalments that culminate in you actually joining in V.

 

Long story short, I don't think there was anything planned for the farm, I just think the label was added to stoke the fire.