A Nostalgic Review Of The Five Nights At Freddy's Theories and Hoaxes Throughout The Years Vol. 1 

I do agree with the whole adjusting Golden Freddy's AI thing being just for gameplay, but FNaF 3 doesn't have a custom night. That screenshot you used was either a mockup if it did have one, or a fangame. No offense, but that's giving off vibes of "I didn't actually play the game" since I don't see any other way that mistake could be made. If you needed to use the phantom's ai being adjusted, you should've used UCN since they're featured there.

I still find it hilarious that Foxy's jumpscare in the first game was so bad that people thought he was the good guy.

"The Purple Guy was supposed to be human, why would he suddenly become an animatronic?" Scott making Purple Guy an animatronic in the very next game:

"It's weird calling Purple Guy "Purple Guy" and not William Afton" Meanwhile, Tumblr named him Vincent and kept with the name even a bit after William Afton was properly named.

i’m not super sure phone guy’s killer matters too much, because he really was likely surrounded and it could’ve equally been anyone

I think there is a major detail about Golden Freddy being ignored... the anomatronics kill you by stuffing you into a suit, and Golden Freddy... is an empty suit.

I know it's far from the case now, but I do actually think the theory of the Phone Guy being the killer actually was pretty solid in the confinement of the original 3 games, there's logical lines of thought through it, the guy's obviously been with the company a looooot longer than he ever should have been, and it would have explained why all of the animatronics are going after him so hard at the same time on night 4. Like I said I know it's not the case now, but it certainly had it's merits back in the day.

My take on "who killed phone guy" is that all the animatronics ganged up on him to give him the worst night of his life like that one Magnus Archives ep where like 5 entities just fuck up a priest for no reason. Oh but also i think the combo of noises couldve just been done by Scott so the question of "who done it" would be up for interpretation or somethin or other.

It’s actually very much hinted and basically confirmed golden Freddy and fredbear are the same thing thanks to ucn. If you have just golden Freddy selected (I think he has to be a certain ai value) and use a death coin on him you will be jump scared by fredbear (and he says stuff in reverse in his death line)

I can’t believe people thought foxy is a good guy just because he has a bad jumpscare 💀💀

The issue with ignoring the books is now a lot of the lore we now have confirmation is hidden in them so glancing over them is a big issue when coming up with theories for the story

not even 2 minutes into the video i'm already overwhelmed by nostalgia just hearing Puppet in the background. I'm sure that's a good sign for the 40 minutes :)

Does anyone else remember the purple guy is innocent theory and the pink guy theory?

I think about the Phone Guy's death it's important to note that he specifically says to check the back room, and says he "wondered what was in those empty heads", which implies he's sitting in Parts and Services looking up at them staring down at him. My theory is that he struggled and lost power but instead of just sitting there he booked it to Parts and Services and slammed the door shut hoping that no one would be able to get in. This lead to all the animatronics piling up at the door, and the Phone Guy hid inside the Golden Freddy suit hoping that even if they did get inside they wouldn't attack him. The Golden Freddy suit being inside the Parts and Services makes a lot of sense as in FNAF 2 it's said that there's a spare yellow suit in the back which could be Golden Freddy. Of course, it's still haunted, and when Phone Guy tried to hide in it the springlocks went off and that's what got him. That's the Golden Freddy scream we hear.

So with the shadow animatronics from FNAF 2, there was supposed to be a mechanic that would lose the camera and metal on metal banging for a few seconds if you ever saw a shadow animatronic on the camera for a bit, but it wouldn't work due to script error. Just a little fun fact!

14:55 I remember people not only saying that you get a secret ending but that In this custom night you would be able to see the Kitchen camera (which is impossible)

My answer to Who Killed Phone Guy: In my opinion, I think it was a group effort. Which is why you hear all the animatronics's well known sounds.

The concept of an animatronic coming in and summoning another one part by part to kill you was actually done in the original Popgoes. Not parts from inside the office but you still have to stop it

In my opinion (apart from scrap trap design) pizzeria simulator would have been the best place to end William's never ending coming back. That's why I have hopes for the mimic. What do you think about it?

I remember not liking the phone guy being the killer theory so much because I had a theory that Mike Schmidt was the killer. My evidence was pretty much "why would the animatronics be saying 'it's me' to you"

Getting my foot in the door before we talk about FNAF 4 for reaslies - there's this one FNAF book called Survival Logbook (written by Scott himself), it's implied that Michael Afton is the (fictional) writer of the journal. In the journal, there is art of Nightmare Fredbear subtitled with 'a recent dream'. This paints FNAF 4 in a new way, and a way I much prefere - it isn't the Crying Child's coma dream or eternal torment. It's Michael Afton's dreams, dreams he has from the perspective of his own little brother, knowing how he tormented him and scared him. He would've seen his lil brother in hospital, explaining why we can sometimes see the flowers/medication/an IV drip. The fact that's it's Michael explains why we can sometimes hear a garbled version of the FNAF 1 phonecall. Honestly, I much prefer this. I can't currently remember what makes me 100% believe that William abused Michael, other than yknow, William being a piece of shit in general, but I'm certain that he did. I think Michael sadly did something that you can sometimes observe in abusive households, where he took out the anger and pain on a younger sibling (Crying Child), becoming his younger brother's bully until it went too far and he accidentally killed him. I think about this sometimes, yknow. He was being an absolute dickhead, but he never intended to *kill* his little brother. He never intended to go this far. Can you imagine the absolute guilt that must've eaten at him after that incident? Having Killed him? Knowing that he had made the last few years (or potentially the entirety) of his younger brother's life a living hell? That his brother died terrified of his own sibling? That no matter what, he can never go back, he can never make it so his younger brother felt any happiness or new that he was loved before he passed? That he could never apologise? That's why these nightmares come. Every night, tormented by the Fazbear animatronics that he used to torment his younger brother, reminded of what it felt like to be so small and vulnerable in a world with people (or things) that want to hurt you. Also regarding you saying you thought FNAF 3 was the best cutoff point... I can see that. But in my eyes, Pizza Simulator/UCN is the canon end. Everyone gets laid to rest. Charlotte and all the other kids are able to pass, both Henry and Michael sit in the burning building and let themselves die alongside everyone. No more nightmares, no more franchises built on blood, no more pain. They can all finally rest. And for William, the gates of hell. That's why I consider UCN to be the joint finale. It is William in hell, experiencing everything he created or was spawned by his actions. Every moment, on a loop, for eternity. In a funny way this ties back to Scott's own Christianity, huh? The idea of hell and eternal torment. I can't say I disagree with this punishment in this case.

Phone Guy's death was literally a jumping like my guy went out sad as hell man. Foxy banging on his door, Freddy's music playing, Bonnie and/or Chica both waiting as well as Golden Freddy making an appearance. They really quintuple combo'd his ass into a suit lmaoo.

Sparky is the father of FNAF hoaxes & I'm glad Scott decided to include him in the movie 💜

It's funny that people kept trying to say that Foxy is actually a good guy. I like Foxy too, he's probably my favorite, but he's clearly not a good guy, just like all the rest of them.

I thought Golden Freddy was supposed to be the first refurbished animatronic but Henry never was able to bring himself to finish repairs or out of respect to Evan (crying child, if you hate the fan name).

I believe the most plausible theory behind Shadow Freddy and RXQ is the one where they're the two workers that died in the springlocked suites mentioned in FNAF 3 that retired the springlock suits. Some people would argue that it wouldn't have been Scott's original idea, but like... Clearly he had an idea about Springtrap considering he literally has the line in FNAF 2: "Someone used one of the suits. We had a spare in the back. A yellow one." Notice how Phone Guy says "used one of the suits" not one of the animatronics. And it was a "spare in the back." But there are no yellow suits in any back room that we can see on the cameras, which makes sense if Phone Guy was a bit on edge and babbling because five children have just been killed in this restaurant (Or just gone missing, depending on if you believe MCI and DCI both happened or not), so he's talking about the safe room. Which is in the back of the restaurant. The theory goes onto say that the workers haunt the pizzeria having died there, taking on the form of the suit they were wearing when they died. But they're just phantoms because the workers' bodies obviously would've been removed from the suits as the suits were retired.

When my brothers and I were little, shortly after FNAF2 came out, we all desperately wanted to believe that Foxy was the good guy. I ended up stringing this, ‘theory,’ together about Withered Foxy, which looking back is really more of a headcanon that I could see somebody writing fanfiction about. The whole thing follows the mechanics of Balloon Boy. When he laughs a particular way in the game, Withered Foxy almost instantly jumpscares you. Well, to my brothers and I, this must have meant that Foxy was trying to protect Balloon Boy from the player. And thus, the, “Foxy is BB’s legal guardian,” theory was born. We also speculated that he was also JJ’s legal guardian, but there wasn’t enough info on her at the time for us to be sure.

Has everyone forgotten the fact that the handprints on freddy kinda match up with the poster of him ripping his head open? It may be a hallucination yes, but that could've happened either way.

I believe personally that golden Freddy’s scream heard through the phonecall was the spirit of golden freddy cutting the phonecall before phone guy’s death, because you would’ve probably heard him scream if that was the immediate moment of his death no? I remember back in the day all the theorists were forming their opinions of who killed phone guy on the basis of it being only 1 culprit, that frustrated me because based on all the cues it seemed obvious to me that it was all of them, glad you touched on that dude. Well made vid! Edit: and I believe you’re describing popgoes at 39:00 btw

Oh MAN I’m about the same age as you (was 13 when the first game came out) and I legitimately believed that Freddy’s was a real place. I didn’t think it was haunted like the games though, I just thought it was a competitor to Chuck E Cheese’s since we never had any animatronic restaurants in my country (closest was an animatronic band for a limited time up in Queensland) and that the game was a fun spoof of it

The other hoax similar to " Sparky the Dog" are "Tigor" the Tiger and "Elefanch" the Elephant. Once there was a very popular creepypasta, posted not too long after FNAF 1 released. In this creepypasta author added two characters that didn't appear in the game Tigor and Elefanch. A lot of children would think that these were real animatronics, they would even ask popular FNAF youtubers to do videos, theories or gameplay of these characters, even though they were clearly nonexistent.

Ive been in the fnaf fandom around for a while, joining in around FNaF 3 and the fandom was a different breed back then. Hoaxes just like Sparky (my favourite hoax honestly) are rare to come by nowadays.

Funny it was kinda weird at first for me calling purple guy as William Afton when he was first revealed since I was so used to calling him ‘purple guy’. Also let’s be glad we don’t live in the universe where his official name became Vincent via the fan name being adopted as official like many of the other names of the characters.

I don't think the fact that Golden Freddy and Fredbear are separate characters in FNAF World mean anything, there is literally Springbonnie and Springtrap, FNAF1 and Withered animatronics, Mangle and Funtime Foxy (which is in FNAF World is assembled Mangle and not actual Funtime Foxy from SL) in the game as separate characters, yet they are all the same animatronics in different points of time

Last one reverse hoax everyone thought fnaf 2 JJ under the table looking at you was a hoax because of how unbelievably rare it was, it was months before it was found in the game files

There is only one problem with your theory on what happens to phone guy. We don’t hear the doors close. You say that he closes the doors for foxy and for chica on the other side but we don’t hear the doors close. My guess was he was hiding in the back room of the pizzeria and the gang found him. Foxy broke down the door because he is the only one to actually attack doors, Bonny and chica made their way in and their weird growing noise came out while the music box was picked up by the phone and golden Freddy showed up to kill him. Alternatively it could just be Freddy that kills him and scoot just used multiple sounds so it could sound different from how you die. Remember golden Freddy is a rare chance to show up and you would naturally flip up the camera like markaplier did so my guess is scoot wanted phone guys situation to sound completely different from yours and thus more terrifying.

Anyone remember the first Game Theory episode on FNaF, the one that took the animatronics and tiny amount of lore we got and related it to a real life shooting? Yeah, 2014 FNaF was a weird time...

This brings back so many memories, i still remember trying to catch these "secret" characters

My theory is that the Shadow animatronics are the victims from the multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures described by Phone Guy in FNAF 3. Also I’m guessing that the new masks we see in the Happiest Day minigame are just the Mediocre Melodie animatronics from FNAF 6

I am pretty shore there is no custom night in FNaF 3

This is the only one I'm watching because, aside from the mystery of the phantom animatronics and Golden Freddy, the third game wrapped things up nicely and seemed like a good conclusion. The place caught on fire, the serial killer was dead, the spirits of the kids were set free, and it tied up the loose ends from the first two games (aside from again, the phantom animatronics and such) and I even remember Scott saying it was the final game. FNAF World I considered a spin-off and not a serious title, but then FNAF 4 came out... and he said that would be the final game but then the mysterious update with the box was unlocked and teased another game and I just lost interest in the series after that. I can give credit to Sister Location for changing up the stale gameplay and explaining the reason Afton was purple but I just didn't care anymore. I was a little optimistic about Security Breach because it allowed you to actually move around freely, but since it was an unfinished mess and the ending of it, I just couldn't be bothered anymore.

ngl i feel like initially the golden freddy scream was just used so it was more of a variety than the same scream the player hears a lot, but maybe will be explained into the lore at some point

44:37 I think amusement parks have those big street lamp things, so maybe you can turn on the lamps using the cameras to attract the animatronics

Theory for Phone Guy: The left door is closed, so it can't be Bonnie or Foxy. Let's assume that he was looking at cams and goes to the kitchen to find Chica. From experience, I can say you can hear the Toreador March in the Kitchen feed, so Freddy might be in the kitchen. If the right door is open, that is why the groaning from Bonnie/Chica is heard. If the Golden Freddy posyer is changed he could get started, drop the cameras and get killed by Chica. Oh god my brain hurts now

Here’s my take on Phone Guy’s death: Foxy was banging on the left door, so it couldn’t have been Foxy as he is locked outside. And since the left door is shut, it couldn’t have been Bonnie either, as he couldn’t have made it into the office with Foxy banging on the door. This also means that the animatronic moaning we hear cannot be Bonnie’s, as he only plays that sound when he’s in the office, which isn’t possible with the left door being shut. The only time Freddy plays his music outside a power outage is in the kitchen, which is too far from the office for him to kill Phone Guy. The only person outside of Golden Freddy that could have killed Phone Guy is Chica. Bonnie and Foxy are locked outside, Freddy is in the kitchen, and Chica is already in the room, indicated by the animatronic moaning. She would have killed him right as he pulled the cameras down, unless Golden Freddy somehow got to him first, which doesn’t make sense as he cannot kill until several seconds after the camera is pulled down. Still, it’s Golden Freddy’s jumpscare sound we hear at the end, which is the only thing preventing me from 100% believing it was Chica. Still, I think Chica being the culprit is the strongest theory we have in my opinion, if we simply go off the game’s mechanics.

I believe all the animatronics worked together to kill the phone guy, but Golden Freddy was the one who killed him because of the jumpscare. at least that's what I can understand with the call.

39:42 Pretty sure this fan concept is directly responsible for the gameplay of POPGOES

don't forget the other part of the foxy being a good guy theory. people thought that he was damaged because he was outcasted from the other animatronics and they didn't like him. this reinforced the fact that he may be trying to work against them, and also gave an explanation onto why he was like that because now after the bite of 87 thing was debunked now that I think about it I don't think there ever was a reason for how fucked up he was.

You mentioned that the only FNaF fan game you could find that took place in a theme park was Tealerland, but have you heard about The Twisted Carnival? I've been keeping my eye on it for years, but the GameJolt page is still getting updates, so it seems that it may still be in development. There are even a few demos on the page as well.

This is such a well edited/made video man

Fnaf 3 was a good place for the series to end but i still believe fnaf 6 was the best. Pizza sim had the perfect and most satisfying end to the story in my opinion

This video really was so nostalgic. I remember talking about all this stuff in middle school with my friends. When the 1st game came out I was 13, and I was really into the "Foxy is a good guy" theory lol. Although I don't think I really thought that was what Scott was going for even at the time, I just thought it was a fun idea; I think some of my friends really did believe it for a while, though.

Good video love to see a part 2

Another reason people thought Foxy was responsible for the Bite of '87 was because his jaw goes slack in his jumpscare in the the first game - suggesting that it broke after biting someone's face off.

You know, it’s really weird to listen to a music chime version of undertale music while discussing theories. As an undertale fan, I approve. Also ur channel’s just good anyway lol

22:25 William never hesitated to kill adults either, he just targets kids because it's easier for him 31:33 There's a total of 12 victims by FNaF 2 (Elizabeth included), 11 murdered directly by William. Charlie Emily was the first in around 1983 (take cake to children in fnaf 2 and security puppet in ffps), then the 5 MCI victims in 1985 (give gifts, give life and foxy go go go in fnaf 2) and the DCI victims in 1987 (save them in fnaf 2). The original missing children were killed in the original Freddy Fazbear's Pizza where Foxy is active and in order while the save them minigame takes place in the new and improved Freddy's, proving it needs to be two different sets of children (as the same kids can't die in two different places in two different years) 32:25 yes, the Puppet was possessed as she was the first victim but so were the Withereds If someone has questions, ask ahead

I've never watched a 40-minute video thinking it's only 15 minutes before, that's a talent you've got there!

Something to point out in the games that the style of the mini games is based on dark purple is used in place of black for color contrast to not make things confusing

This was honestly an incredibly well put together, informative, and entertaining video to watch, Ik this comment might be a bit generic, but truly do keep up the great work👍😁

10:32 feddy was most likely in the kitchen where he plays the music box

23:54 Yeah. That explanation I gave can help understand the aggressiveness from the animatronics toward the staff.

Man, that ending was adorable. I love it! :3

I actually think it was confirmed in a book or something that toy bonnie is the culprit of the bite of 87, but I could be wrong. Either way I really feel nostalgic thinking about all that speculation back in the day

SO here's my theory on Golden Freddo: its a suit without an endoskeleton being driven by 2 spirits Cassidy and Evan, Cassidy moves the suit and Even uses the eyes to look. Cassidy is a very angry spirit so they could have more power plus the suit without its endo Skellington is much lighter and therefore you could move it with much more ease. As to why they can get into the room with the doors close i think there may be a room behind you, for extra storage and entrance to the office via outside. This must be where the old 1983 era suits lay.

Love the undertake ost in the background

This is most definitely not related to the video but hearing Mary's theme from Ib was such a blast to the past

While the "phone guy is purple guy" thing is wrong, you can't bring up the fact that purple guy dies in the springlock suit, because the minigames when we see that happen in FNAF 3 and the "phone guy is purple guy" theory only existed when FNAF and FNAF 2 were the games that theorists could work with.

No one really gave this video a watch huh... Well it is well made and entertaining and you seemed really happy to make it so I do hope you don't stop what you are doing

10:05 Golden Freddy because the Jumpscare sound itself was his specifically. Edit: Though I like the idea of all 5 being behind this.

Personally, I think the phone guy just got absolutely fucked over and basically was killed by all of them at once given they were all at his office. At that point it doesn’t matter which one dealt the killing blow, they were all there and probably all were participating in tearing him apart

31:17 hang on a minute has anyone else noticed this? Look at the numbers at the top left They act as normal goin up a hundred points for each life given but as soon as golden Freddy jump scares you the numbers change to 5913 I mean it’s 2023 9 years after the game released but could this mean something?

If we’re assuming Gfreddy killed fnaf 1 phone man. I think it makes the most sense for him to be an empty suit that’s been possessed. We know that all the other tronics are possessed (will SL, lord gets messy there) So why shouldn’t a ghost that’s trapped in a stationary suit be able to manifest itself in a closed office. It would be the only way they can move. I really think only the phantoms, shadow, and maybe nightmares are true “illusion/hallucinations” GFred is a possessed empty suit, the fnaf 2 give gifts give life heavily implied that’s there’s a fifth.

I tilted my head to the right at 6:01 to scratch and the whole video also leaned, it scared me lol

The FNAF fangame POPGOES features an the titular character Popgoes the Weasel building an "animatronic" vessel for a ghost the possess to kill the player.

I think it's so cool that they finally referenced Sparky again multiple times in the FNAF movie.

i personally always believed that Chica was the culprit of Phone Guys death. We never hear doors open, however we also don’t hear any close. We KNOW that the left door is closed, otherwise Foxy wouldn’t be able to bang on it. Bonnie only spawns on the left side (which is closed) and Freddy when he does the music box is also always on the left. Chica is the only one in that situation on the right. this doesn’t explain why she doesn’t jumpscare him though. I think it’s because she wasn’t there for the part we hear. The noises come from Bonnie and Chica and i believe that it was only Bonnie making noises meaning phone guy wouldn’t have his door there because Chica wasn’t there. after that I think golden Freddy appears and jump scares him. Golden Freddy wouldn’t kill him though, because he’s a hallucination/ghost. after Golden freddy scares phone guy I think Chica would sneak up on him while/after that happened and jump scare him; killing him. All in all; Phone guy blocks the left door for Foxy, Freddy, and Bonnie. Chica isn’t on the right and he needs to conserve power so he leaves it open. Golden Freddy shows up and does the whole “it’s me”thing which scares phone guy. While that happens Chica shows up and then jump scares Phone Guy; killing him. I also saw the possibility of Golden Freddy killing him but we never saw that happen while we did see Chica kill. i’m 100% certain it wasn’t Foxy or Bonnie, though i suppose it could be freddy if you come up with a scenario, ignoring Chica and Golden Freddy. Sorry for my rambling and my poor grammar I just really wanted to share my theory/head canon

I always figured Golden Freddy was a ghostly aspect of Fredbear. The spirit trapped inside Fredbear isn't able to walk around, but they're still able to influence the enviorment around them.

this was fun to watch trough! here before this blows up btw lol

The ib ost :)) lovely surprise

good work i hope for more horror games videos

Still think the Foxy Go! Go! Go! Death Minigame was implying that the pizzeria location that Foxy was in with the five dead kids with William Afton a.k.a. Purple Guy was smiling of what he had done was the MCI and pre-withered Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza location (still even though it doesn’t make sense since the five kids bodies were shown in plain sight instead of being hidden), and these are two scenarios of why un-withered Freddy might have a handprint from someone. First scenario -) William Afton was shoving the children bodies into the animatronics and it still remained after those years ago. Second scenario -) Phone Guy was trying to push back the un-withered Freddy in a desperate attempt to buy him some time to survive before he had met his demise.

8:40 "he's probably fiiiiinnneee" ... kinda reminds me of josh from LGIO whenever someone falls to their demise. :D

Me: agreeing with the villan of a movie My friends watching the full fnaf story with me:🤨

Just something interesting, there is actually a real life restaurant chain named Freddy's in and around Minneapolis, Minnesota, but it's a burger joint instead of a pizzeria.

My theory is the something happened👍

Another banger from Insomniac 🔥

the foxy is a good guy theory was probably one of if not my favorite theory back in the day

Such fun back in the days.

in my interpretation of phone guy's death foxy is banging so the left door is closed meaning that the groan was from chica and we know the power is still up because no power out sound meaning that freddy's music box means he is in the kitchen so it was most likely chica

Man makes such good videos

Now, it’s all just a theory, but, the bite of 87 was in 2, it was mangle, and it did happen to Jeramy, who’s actually Michael, who didn’t die from the bite, it’s a long story n it goes off of mat’s theory, so I’d suggest you watch his recent fnaf timeline videos for it. Also, for the “building an animatronic to attack you” play pop goes, that’s literally what they do.

My guess for Phone Guy is: Phone Guy notices Foxy and he slammed the door Chica appears on the right door Freddy was in the kitchen because apparently he plays the toreador March in the kitchen And golden Freddy appears Two outcomes after this A: Golden Freddy kills Phone Guy, and the static is him being killed Or B: Phone Guy pulls out an axe, and whacks Golden Freddy with it, with the static being Golden Freddy getting knocked out, and phone Guy escaping. With his whole tone through the call being faked. A is more likely tbh

6:04 Except for the fact that FNAF 3 literally doesn't have a custom night, this is fan-made

Am I crazy or does fnaf 3 not have a custom night? Either way fun video!

I feel like pooping on the floor is a BS rule, why can’t I poop on the floor?

Damn, Phone guy was playing on 5/20 mode

Groovy video.

Im pretty sure Shadow Freddy and Bonnie are dead employees that were inside spring bonnie and spring freddy/fredbear when the spring system failed regardless they hallucinations or not

I think it's possible that the recording stopped because phone guy's power ran out, that's why there was no sound for the power running out. The phone needs power of course.

I remember as a child, Michael being a walking corpse with a robot inside felt like a callback to the purple man being a robot in fnaf 2.