The History of FNAF Secret Characters and Hoaxes 

Thanks for 80k subscribers everyone! 💜 CORRECTIONS BELOW (Will be updated over time if need be) FNAF 1: I am so sorry about the pronunciation y'all oh my god lmaooo FNAF 3: I missed the Phantom Bonnie hoax, which was another pretty relevant one at that time FNAF 4: Nightmare JJ Hoax popped up around the Halloween update's launch, I did see this but forgot to add it in the script lol. I even remember the day this hoax dropped, so my bad. There's also Nightmare Foxy in the doorway which is pretty uncommon, but that's more of a general Easter egg rather than a secret character one. FNAF 6: Getting mixed signals from the comment section about the William/Henry stuff but I think I was correct in the video. The fact that there's tire tracks after the Security Puppet minigame pretty much confirms that it's William for me. Anyway I also forgot R.A.S.C (Remote Activated Simulated C) (The "C" probably stands for child). They only show up on the blueprints in the insanity ending and they are a little robot thing on wheels that is supposed to be the audio lure you control in FNAF 6.

I like how the purple guy animatronic hoax basically predicted what actually happened to him in the games with him becoming one

also, for people who hadn't heard, i think when endo 02 enters the left vent, he blocks any animatronics from entering that vent until he vanishes into thin air.

It's amazing how scott noticed these secret characters and actually added sparky to the movie! It just goes to show how even though he's retiring from the games he still appreciates the community.

It’s so cool how blumhouse included sparky the dog in the movie. I wonder how the guy who came up with the hoax feels about it

"Say how long you've been in the fnaf fandom without saying how long it's been" I remember when Sparky the Dog had a page on the official fnaf wiki.

We need to see the secret characters make a big comeback, they added so much mystery and speculation to the series and I would love to see more of them.

Shortly after the release of FNaF in 2014, some Polish-language author (I think it was a child) created a FNaF creepypasta and included two original characters in it by the name of Tigor and Elefanch. I remember that many Polish FNaF fans believed that these characters actually exist in the game.

"Not super interesting but he sure does exist" is my new Tinder Bio

i think it's amazing that Markiplier came across Golden Freddy during his first playthrough of FNAF 1, and then found Shadow Bonnie during his FNAF 2 Revisited stream

Fun Fact: When Markiplier revised FNAF 2 during a live stream, he encountered Shadow Bonnie and was very surprised

Crazy how Sparky the Dog finally became canon with the FNAF Movie

I wanna go back to these times. I want to go back to 2014 and actually be into the game as it’s evolving. I want to go back to when there were these rumors and we didn’t have the abilities to scour every last inch of the code and break down everything in the game. I wasn’t into FNAF back in the “Scott Cawthon Era” but I want to go back so bad because it still feels like I was there, even though I wasn’t. That’s something I’ve only seen something like FNAF do and I love it.

I love how Scott rarely says when hoaxes are fake or not.

It’s ok if you get the lore wrong, because everyone does.

In middle school, a bunch of my friends and I believed that the Springtrap teaser was actually Scrappy being made canon.

3:04 what’s terrifying about this is that every animatronic head in parts and service turns to stare at you during that Easter egg

i assume the reason hoaxes became less and less common is because there's not the same air of mystery around the games as there was with fnaf 1 & 2. as time went on people kinda knew what to expect etc

The first person to discover the fredbear jumpscare must of been so confused.

5:25 He is!? I got him once and was excited but I didn’t think he was that rare! Gosh, I feel really proud now!

The fnaf 4 hoaxs are my favorite and most nostalgic. The hiding under the bed, hiding in closet, going to right door and encountering plushtrap before the night is over where some of the best hoaxs.

You forgot the most important secret character in Pizzeria Simulator. Pickles.

Although I never really cared for nor believed any of the FNAF hoaxes, I do kinda wish for the return of them. 2015-2016 was my favorite era of FNAF.

There are two Bidybabs that could randomly appear in FNAF Sister Location. One can sometimes look through the windows on the elevator and another can sometimes look through the windows in Circus Gallery.

i do wanna point out tho that since Scott actually is a cannon game developer for the fnaf games a picture of him in Michaels house during fnaf 4 does throw some weird ass monkey wrenches into the lore

this actually makes me miss back in the days when there was no coherent lore like there was today. we just had to watch matpat make a full story out of newspapers and i loved that. now theres no mystery anymore

hooboy. as a long-term fan of the series I'm definitely excited to see how many of these i remember seeing (as well as maybe reminiscing on a few hoaxes)

Cassidy can also appear in the top vent. I noticed it when trying to get the golden freddy jumpscare, so I don’t know if it’s linked to that but that’s how I found it

Ah this brings me back to the DeviantArt days. Best days of my fandom life ngl. Watched these hoaxes happen live during extra class time.

Shadow freddy is probably the most underrated animatronic

What's interesting is that blue puppet edit ended up being an antagonist in the Five Nights at Candy's games!

Y'all remember when everyone dubbed William Vincent for some reason? Like why did people choose Vincent specifically?

while FNAF4 may not have _exactly_ had secret characters, FNAF4 Halloween Edition added a lot of characters that were pretty obscure for the time and even to this day some of them are still kind of obscure. Nightmare Mangle, Nightmare Balloon Boy, Jack-O-Chica, the much-lesser known Jack-O-Bonnie that literally hasn't even made any appearance outside of FNAF4 afaik, and Nightmarionne.

Not sure if this can be counted as a character, but in FNaF 6 when salvaging someone that’s already at the pizzeria, a cardboard cutout with a wink is there holding a sign that says that there’s no one there because the animatronic is inside. Easiest way to trigger this is to buy Lefty before the fourth salvage, tho I believe Molten Freddy, Scrap Baby, and Scraptrap can be brought in earlier with the purchase of certain items as they’re hiding in them.

Honestly the "yellow bear" being "golden freddy" makes me think that there was only supposed to be 4 animatronics and fredbear, the animatronic from the old location. But Scott probably changed that because the fifth animatronic being enigmatic was more interesting.

Awesome video, I miss the old fnaf days and this reminded me of it. Thanks

That outro deserves a award

A shadow bonnie figure can appear on your desk in FNAF 3. It's incredibly hard to spot, since it's mostly dark and would be in place of the cupcake, but it's there.

A few more hoaxes I remember were Nightmare JJ, and one I personally fell for was Chrome Freddy

Fun fact: No random chance can be above 65,535. This is due to how CTF uses unsigned short integers in it's random function. Due to the use of this integer format (which only goes up to 65,535), any value above said number gets wrapped around to the other side of the possible values (eg. 65536 would get wrapped around to 0). For this reason, characters like shadow Bonnie actually have a much higher chance of showing up, with the aforementioned character having a 1 in ~16,000 chance of appearing in actuality.

You can count "R.A.S.C." as a secret character for the Pizzeria Sim. I think it qualifies.

mark created the names “Golden Freddy” and “Purple guy” for both characters

I still find it unbelievable that Markiplier got Shadow Bonnie and JJ during his revisit livestream on FNAF 2.

3:02 Bro the Freddy head on the left middle just looks fed up tbh it’s funny

Calling games 4-7 the "Afton family era" actually makes a lot of sense when you consider who each game is centered around. 4- Evan Sister Location- Elizabeth 6- Mike 7- William

I love the Endos. Ranging from the Endo 01 secret camera shot, to Endo 02 climbing through the vent, to Security Breach and their Weeping Angle gameplay style that I am absolutely terrified of but I love them none the less.

2:46 Wow, I would never look at the FNAF 1 office the same way again.

I remember a video from several years back. It was about Candy supposedly being hidden in FNAF 2 on the Puppet's cam.

Fun fact: Cassidy's face can appear outside both in the front vent and outside of the doors in UCN. Although this doesnt happen so often.

I'll admit it. DanTDM made me think there was ANOTHER secret character in FNAF 1. In The Normal Elevator video, there was a FNAF section with "budget" versions of the animatronics, and when Bonnie appeared, he jokingly referred to Bonnie saying, "Pink Bunny, the secret animatronic!" and i actually fell for it.

0:04 when the toilet seat is cold

I just remembered... The first time I heard of FNaF was actually a video about the FNaF Minecraft mod from DanTDM... Damn that brings back memories

I remember, when fnaf 3 started being teased, several members of the community called the character who appeared in the teaser "Salvage"

i love re-watching these types of videos cause i get to relive my childhood...going through each thing and saying "oh hey! i so remember seeing that when it first happened!!"

Candy cadet could be a “secret” character in UCN because sometimes he flickers to life.

15:33 you can actually set golden freddy to any difficulty but 1 helps for getting the death coin a bit faster

Sparky the dog is definitely the most convincing of all the Hoaxes

I remember a FNAF 4 hoax I used to believe at the time. It said that whenever you heard a police siren during the Plushtrap minigame, a plush version of Purple Guy would show up. Looking at it now just makes me see how evident it was

8:37 seeing him skitter by is so funny tbh

i love the freddy in space song from fnaf world in the background

9:25 how could you forget about the iconic Treo of secret characters in fnaf 4, plant, medicine, and IV drip!?

It makes sense you're getting popular so quick! Your contents awesome, keep up the good work, love videos like these and the shorts.

The anxiety of you playing fnaf in the background at the start..

scott uses the endo as a skull emoji when the player fucks up

10:10 There's actually a hoax related to Springtrap in FNaF 4 known as, "Nightmare Springtrap"

You forgot to put Nightmare JJ as one of the secret character of hoaxes For Fnaf 4

"I fell for this as a kid." Me aged 23 when the first game came out. "Oh"

You forgot to mention Nightmarrione. You also forgot that Candy Cadet could be counted as he sometimes says something weird during gameplay in UCN.

To this day Golden Freddy in FNAF 1 is the scariest thing that I have seen in FNAF history

When you do the fredbear jumpscare, well, after you do they death coin thing, Golden Freddy/ fredbear’s hat will appear on the desk next to the microphone.

When me and a friend were making a video awhile ago, we actually got a shadow Bonnie encounter. We freaked out when we saw the chances. Aw, that was fun

I remember seeing shadow Bonnie and not knowing what to do. I asked my friend and he didn't know. The game crashed.

*looks at thumbnail* ...Golden Freddy, did you eat the player again? Jokes aside, absolutely agreed on Goldie. He used to scare the crap out of me, because there was just so little we knew about him. And still don't, technically. Let alone his unique jumpscare!

Hearing you pronounce my last name is "Noojen" has got to be the most cursed way I've heard it pronounced 😂

“Give it up for the man himse-“ * *cuts off* * Funny moment

Wouldn’t Phantom Mangle count as a secret character? We got teasers for Phantom BB and one for Phantom Chica and Foxy (which obviously led many to speculate Phantom Freddy) so that only leaves Phantom Puppet and Mangle. Puppet appears in the extras menu leaving Mangle to be the only character to not show up there

13:03 That's probably micheal since the game says Leave HIM alone tonight

When Markiplier streamed FNAF 2 again a while back, he got both the Shadow Bonnie easter egg AND Golden Freddy edit: and he got JJ

Hello, from the one person in the back, he’s been living under a rock. I appreciate that explanation, so I know what’s going on. 😊

How I have missed Smike and his Fnaf Facts back in the good ol’ fnaf days where theories and facts where a popular thing.... Thank you for putting that one funny line of Smike about Toy Freddy being...Fat... before the video just straight up ended. Come to think of it, I haven’t heard of him nor watched him for a few years now.

Real quick There was the hoax of nightmare JJ for Fnaf 4, and apparently “Devil Freddy” was a thing people believed for a bit for UCN

In fnaf 6 there is that wood guy that shows up if you try to salvage lefty when you already bought them he’s like a secret character

To fnaf 2, i remember as a kid that there was a video where Purple Guy walks throught the corridor and kills player, it was so cool fanmade

Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie are two of the coolest animatronics in the history of FNAF. They're both so mysterious and interesting, and I love the roles they play in FNAF 3 specifically. Shadow Freddy lures the animatronics into getting destroyed, while Shadow Bonnie helped to free the children's souls. I personally interpret this as the two shadow animatronics being on opposite sides, one helping Purple Guy and the other helping the children.

There is actually "secret characters" in FNAF 4, but they're in the Halloween edition of FNAF 4 and not the main game..

I remember being about 6/7 and my friend telling me about sparky. Good times man

in fnaf 6 you missed the sign that appears in Salvage if the animatronic that was supposed to show up is already inside your pizzeria

for fnaf 4 it is technically a secret that foxy doesnt start in the closet so he can appear in the hallways. also, mcfarlane isnt bootleg. its supposed to be a version of lego that focuses on brands like fnaf.

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1:56 Hey, that's me! I'm the one person who's been living under a rock for 8 years!

You can also get a golden freddy plush on the desk in ucn.

What about when you salvage lefty but you already brought lefty , so yeah, that's a secret character tho

I remember when I was in 4th grade I actually got Shadow Bonnie on Night Four, but everyone thought it was fake and that I was lying and that I didn't get to Night Four. The fact that I remember this even more then almost all of elementary school may say something about me?

2:41 i love theses crispy lil fun facts that i never knew about until now,and im a die hard fnaf 1-4 fan since 2014 so learning that he's technically always in ur office is very new to me thanx for putting it in

fun fact: sparky the dog is in the fnaf movie because in the scene where vanessa teaches mike about the springlocks for a few seconds you can see sparky

when I played fnaf 1 as a kid, I saw golden Freddy and got extremely curious, confused and concerned, I got jump scared by him and I literally punched my tablet so hard it made a few cracks on its screen.

I love your review style. Most RU-vidrs have a bunch of filler lines and talk really slow, but you get to the point and talk a little bit faster then average. I love your content☺️

Been waiting for a longer upload on this channel for a while Definitely as good as expected😌keep up the good work my guy😎👍

8:36 seeing you trying to find Springtrap as he runs to the left side is ... damn..

Imagine when ur about to beat night 6 in fnaf 2 then u look at shadow Bonnie for too long