Could This Pokemon Go Theory Explain Where Mew is Hiding?

Players are desperately searching for Easter eggs in Pokemon Go that could clue them in on how to unlock some of Pokemon missing from the game. We already know that naming an Eevee a certain way will force the Pokemon to evolve it into one of its three evolutions. It's widely assumed that Ditto is also lurking somewhere in Pokemon Go, waiting to be unlocked via some secret method. Now, some fans are theorizing that the key to unlocking Mew is tied to its origins in the original Pokemon game.

As hardcore Pokemon fanatics know, Mew was the first "Mythical" Pokemon, a Pokemon that couldn't be caught through normal means in Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue. The only clue that Mew even existed came when players were exploring the ruined Cinnabar Mansion and found a partial journal that mentioned how Mew was discovered in Guyana, a small, real world South American country. If Mew was first discovered in the Pokemon universe in Guyana, could Pokemon Go's version also be lurking in the same place? We should also point out that Mew was discovered on July 5th, one day before Pokemon Go was first released.

It's a pretty ridiculous theory, but Mew has a pretty ridiculous origin already. Shigeki Morimoto, Mew's creator, added the Pokemon to Pokemon Red and Blue mere days before the game was completed and totally kept Nintendo in the dark about Mew. When Game Freak first revealed that Mew existed in Pokemon Red and Blue, fans traded stories of how to allegedly get the Mythical Pokemon, helping drive the game's sales and building Pokemon's popularity in Japan.

Although it's likely that Mew will be distributed via one of Niantic's planned events for Pokemon Go, it would be pretty cool if Mew were lurking in some remote location waiting to be discovered. If anyone has a few hundred bucks to spend on a plane ticket and a strong GPS signal that works in the jungle, they should let us know if this (admittedly crazy) theory is true!

(via Unilad)