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Do you think the whole "The rabbit is starving" thing came from the fact that Bon obviously left Susan alive for a time being after he paralyzed her and she quite literally starved to death in the animatronic? That's like the only reason I could think for that being in there
that's gotta suck that she ends up somehow surviving a gruesome fate at the hands of an animatronic that clearly easily overpowered her only to still die anyways of starvation
if i was offered a job and they were like “yeah just go out into an isolated forest at some ungodly hour to check up on some creepy old animatronics and make them move around” i’d be resigning right there not saying
the kind of horror used in this series is the type that REALLY gets to me. weird voices, uncanny valley faces, spooky sounds, that's all the stuff that actually scares me.
it's the faces that gets to me so goddamn much. they aren't even portrayed in a jumpscare sort of way, but god i cannot stand them. they're so unsettling and uncomfortable to stare at. it's crazy how effective the horror in this series is.
I’ve speculated that she’s his sister and since they’re supposed to be kids in that clip, either she wasn’t “born” yet or she’s just his annoying little sister and he doesn’t want to invite her
The worst is undoubtedly that NONE of the victims died immediately. They were left paralyzed and screaming for days until they died inside the animatronic suits
@@beetle1516 probably not because the restaurant closed because people could hear " a woman screaming for days". I have a feeling that Bon ripped her arms and legs off tho (which is why Sha says "but on the inside i feel like every part of my body is bleeding out")
This reminds me of the guy and girl who were making a video for one of their classes. They made it to look like a guy had kidnapped a girl, with a quick flash of her tied to a toilet screaming. It was so well done it went viral and opened up a full on investigation. Only to find that the students had done an amazing job of making it look real.
@@chuucake Either my other comment got deleted or I'm just not seeing it, but I had left one before the FBI comment. I was saying that Lonelygirl15 is an interesting case study as well, but the video I was talking about is super creepy. My comment might have got removed because I named it, it's called "Hi Walt3R." Just change that last word to the name that sounds most similar to it.
A different situation but a situation like this happened near my town! A small independent film production was going on near us and the girl pretending to be kidnapped posted her tied up+in her makeup to Snapchat and a dude states away called the police because he thought it was real
The photo in tape 1 of the founders feels so uncanny because their faces don’t look like they’re attached to a neck, just faced photoshopped on top of bodies.
I definitely feel like it's an intentional decision by the creator to make it look like Felix just took a photo of himself and a picture of Jack and cut out their faces to stick onto another photo that he just found.
the background is all white, its definitely faked. im just thinking "why would a photo like that be faked." youd imagine them in front of a wall or by desks or in some kind of workshop for the animatronics right? so the stock background is whats throwing me off. its not "is it faked," its "WHY is it faked." at least in my mind.
@@omni0414 I'm thinking Jack was dead by the time Felix needed a photo, or at least was already not on talking terms with Felix due to the drunk driving killing his kids incident. Probably didn't think about having one taken together and then when he needed one it was too late for the real thing.
@@rambbler i agree with that, but i really dont think jack died. we know for certain he went MISSING, but saying he died just feels off. also i just finished the video since ive never heard of these and oh my god its so cool
I know everyone likes to laugh at Sophie’s ridiculous fear tolerance, but I also think it has something to do with the pills. Either she convinces herself the things she’s seeing are her hallucinations, or they make her forget (specifically things related to her trauma) which explains the 180 in her mood the next day.
I actually think that's one of the main problems with this series - the way the dialogue is written everyone speaks exactly the same and in too much detail for it to sound remotely natural I'm not an expert so I can't really explain it properly but a lot of the word choices are odd for spoken dialogue
My personal guess is that the pills suppress emotions, and she's being shown these so she can associate this memories with just a scary event and no parental ties to these events so she can't really feel any anger or hatred towards Felix.
Also Sophie: I know these cutscenes have in depth lore on how my co-workers and family died brutally but honestly I’m just trying to get a sub 1:00:00 for WR pace so can you please go a little bit faster 😐
@@kronosbach5263 have you ever heard of SCP-2781 "What Comes After"? It tackles a very similar concept to what you have just described, if you want more of it
@@lordtoademort8124 Yeah I know about that SCP, and skincrawling as it is, being stuffed in a movable animatronic suit and being able to still use your dead body is stilll a fun concept, and horricly entertaining
@@vanilla5643 I thought that her message was either before or shortly after she was put into the animatronic, therefore not yet giving her enough time to starve unless her stomach was already ruined. I just figured since Rosie was dismembered before being put in Sha, it'd make sense if Susan had things removed/cut down to size as well in order to fit into the Banny animatronic. Banny seems to have a pretty small waist, after all. I could be wrong tho
@@cet1r1z1ne possible but unlikely. Remember that the animatronics are quite large compared to a person and it seems that rosemary is a bit shorter than average. she would fit with minimal damage. That's likely why nobody could find her body, it was completely hidden in the SHA animatronic. Could be wrong but it's just speculation based on what we see and what is known in reality.
Idk why, but the sequence with the letters by Felix's wife was pretty scary. The way her voice tone changes throughout is great. She starts out happy and enthusiastic, then progressively worried, then defeated.
I find a distorted faces creepy, but I find dying alone and screaming from unimaginable pain for a hours without being heard and found is just the most horrific thing in the world
Interesting observation: Brian, Susan, Ashley and Rosemary seem to get killed right after they shine their flashlights at Bon, who reacted violently to the light. On the second tape, Sha told us not to use flashlights near robots, so this should be connected
This is something I've noticed but I've never seen anyone point out. Considering the end of tape three mixed with the scene of Sha covered in blood screaming, I feel like I can assume Jack is alive, like Rosemary, and has been forced to watch as he kills people with his own hands, and be unable to stop himself. I think the scene at the end of tape three is when he finally is back in control and is realizing what he did to his wife, right in front of his child as well.
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I've always felt that Felix is a coward and that is the catalyst for his actions. He hid the bodies because he feared the repercussions. I wouldn't be surprised if he killed Jack after Jack found out about his kids, hid his body in Bon, and thus began the cycle of death. Jack is most likely putting his face in videos as a threat to Felix and is killing his family as a means of letting them join him (or he may not be totally aware of what's happened and has good intentions behind making them "beautiful"). Either way, Bon is coming for Sophie and Felix. Just my opinion, love this story.
My exact thoughts while watching this! Can always count on you for a good take. My only deviation is that Jack may be doing the killing instead, with Felix facilitating it to ‘feed’ Jack or give him company (the ‘rabbit is starving’ line made me wonder if there is a cannibalistic component in keeping these animatronics ‘alive’).
I think its more of a programming versus Jack kind of thing, as in Bon's programming is to get the Walten family and Jack is stuck inside him along for the ride unable to stop it.
I find it ironic that Susan Woodings. probably the smartest one of the group(the Bons burger staff) Is trapped in Banny. Who is probably the dumbest one of the group(The animal characters)
I think a massive part of Susan’s suffering lies in her humiliation. As well as being the smartest, she’s probably also physically the strongest, and therefore maintains a bit of muscle which she’d take pride in i.e: “The MIGHTY rabbit needs to get out.” To then starve to death, and be forced to waste away into nothingness whilst being trapped inside a machine SHE built and knows all of the inner workings of as well as manually put it together and be locked inside a goddamn room, and literally all she needs to do is open the door, would be pretty sore for her. I think Bon and Banny’s relationship is possibly indicative of Jack and Susan’s relationship in general. I headcanon that they don’t like each other.
@@kiera6326 I love that theory, and it makes so much sense! It's certainly more than simply dramatic irony that the brains behind the animatronics would be forced into the dumbest one by her employer and murderer. There had to have been jealousy or spite behind the murder. I have a feeling that Felix felt perpetually inferior in the business he had opened with Jack. (Cuz iirc he was just tagging along with Jack as a partner and Jack was the one who really wanted the business.) And I think he took out that frustration on Susan when her knowledge allowed her to see through his attempts to cover his tracks.
@@colorblockpoprocks6973 YES that definitely resonates! Felix’s inferiority in general seems to be what makes him an awful person. His vulnerability is something to pity, especially with the ear lack of help he was given during his alcoholism, but the cowardice that shines through as a result of that really makes me hate him, even if he’s not necessarily as villainous as people like to see him, and it’s pretty understandable why he reacted the way he did after such a gigantic mistake. But once he’s passed that stage and knows he has all the chess pieces in his hands, he’s pretty much God of BSI, especially with Jack gone. You would never survive with Felix as your employer. He’d be like Scrooge (interestingly enough) behind a friendly and honest front. And that makes him hate-able. It’s also worth thinking about how much Susan especially would have pissed him off. She was a goner anyway whether she did or she didn’t, but he couldn’t fire her, as she possibly had some rights to the animatronics and that could result in a whole legal battle and attention brought to the animatronics that he had to avoid. He also _couldn’t_ fire her in a way that wouldn’t make her laugh in his face- what other engineer could build machines like that in 1974. She’s irreplaceable, and I think he possibly only realised that after she was gone. The idea to open a new restaurant was in my opinion, a front, as they had nobody to build animatronics like before, and it was the most convenient way to keep the facility caretakers for asking questions about their job. I think Jack and Felix probably resented Susan because of her ability to do the thing that kept them from achieving what they’d wanted for so long- building the damn things. Some of it might have been 70s misogyny. Maybe homophobia. Maybe it’s the competitiveness between them. All of it’s speculation though, there absolutely no canon basis for it. But oh yeah, her death was personal. Regardless of which one of them was actually responsible for it. When you also think about the shadow man being present, watching Rosemary get stuffed etc… you can’t tell me he also wasn’t watching Susan, through a camera maybe, just to make sure she was actually still there and would know when she was dead. I also refuse to believe that there just weren’t any shows with Banny over the next few weeks either. You can just imagine the awful, jerky movements, the panic on stage with all the kids laughing. “The rabbit needs to get the manager’s attention,” is one of the most chilling lines imo
The fact that the victims were still alive after each attack and left to slowly die inside the suits, paralysed and starving with no one to hear their screams, is the most horrific thing about this series in my opinion. I honestly think Rosemary getting dismembered was probably the “nicest” death out of all of them, because at least she probably died relatively quickly.
She was definitely alive for a while. Until blood loss became her cause of death. But she must’ve felt how she was being cut into pieces for at least a few minutes. But I get what you mean, better to suffer a little than to suffer a lot.
I have long since headcanoned that when she got to the afterlife, she was aghast at her own death and traumatised, whilst Susan just glared at her. (Also, is it significant that Walten’s wife got the quickest death? Affection for her, perhaps)???
@@kiera6326 Rosemary’s death was the quickest, yeah, but that doesn’t mean she had it the nicest. Her attack is probably the worst one as others were mangled/beaten to death, while she was literally torn to pieces. But then again if the theory that Bon is Jack is true, his “affection” has been really fucked up.
@@Ravonaa Yeah. It’s really quite difficult to argue who had it worse since the way they die can be at times drastically different. I suppose if just depends on what resonates most with the viewer. I suppose it could be argued that Ashley had it the worst too, since it was her face that was ripped apart which is more sensitive than anywhere else in your body especially your eyes, and she lost both of hers. Regardless I think the fact that they’re trapped perpetually in this state of incomprehensible pain after their death is really the worst thing about the entire thing
Fr like they really heard “oh yeah go fix these old musty animatronics in a dingy abandoned bunker hidden in a forest but do it specifically at night and stay over” and thought it was a perfectly good idea 🤨 you couldn’t pay me any amount of money to put foot near there in the middle of the day, yet alone offer me 8$ overtime for a psycho robot bunny sleep over special.
I love how this series evolves from straight up horror and mystery to still straight up horror and mystery, but with an exploration of how alcoholism and trauma can destroy lives.
For the first time ever, the youtube ads were somewhat relieving. I didn't realise I was holding my breath until Kendall Jenner told me to check out her new collection.
(Definitely not watching this video for the hundredth time after watching the fnaf movie). I know I say this a lot, but this is one of my favorite videos on your channel and I often find myself rewatching it. The Walten Files perfectly captures all the loved aspects of the franchise, and it amazes me that it’s fanmade. Even with the style being different, Walls so accurately showcases the key qualities of fnaf, making it stick so well in the community.
I'm surprised you didn't comment on Sha saying, "turn on the lights" repeatedly. My theory on what exactly happened to Rosemary is that Felix was backstage, led her around with a flashlight (or turning on lights), and then turned it off when they got to the storage room again. She started crying for him to turn on the lights, but he was getting behind her to aim the light at Bon from behind her- so that when the light hit him, the first thing he saw was Rosemary. Hearing boise from the back, Sophie possibly went back to see what was going on, using a lighter since her flashlight was possibly missing- and saw what was happening to her mother. But since the lighter was faint compared to the flashlight, and he was distracted with Rosemary, Bon didn't notice the light and hence, Sophie is still alive.
I also think that the “where am I Sophie?” Could have been after she was already stuffed into the animatronic. Maybe sha saw Sophie back there but sha isn’t programmed to kill like bon is. She must have been terrified and confused and she saw her daughter so she asked where she was.
@Gianfranco Sparacio or moreso felix does, no doubt that was fucking horrifying for sophie but if sophie were to tell other people what she saw felix would probably get found out
the thing about felix is that initially (we assume) he felt so horrible (as per GUILTY) and was a victim of his own circumstances and did not intend to kill edd & molly. Him being a pathetic loser rather than another malicious smart villain is so much more compelling and humanely believable, because hiding from his own mistakes and running away from accountability just is something that is more likely to happen with people than a homicidal thirst for blood. idk thats my opinion, and i really hope that felix is not a william afton 2.0
I think this could definitely be a case of the cover up being worse than the crime though, making it necessary for him to silence people to hide his guilt
what’s most unnerving to me about this series is the imagery. The use of real human faces makes it SO much creepier to look at. I genuinely had to look away when all the faces of Charles(?) we’re on screen. But also the combination of the cartoon visuals with these disfigured human faces, it just makes my skin crawl.
I also saw Squimpus McGrimpus use this same thing in some of their FNaF VHS tapes. I’m convinced that the only thing scarier than the unknown is the distortion of the familiar.
Same honestly. If it was just drawings, i would have been able to tolerate it, but the fact they were images of real faces, potentially generated through this person does not exist or even just taken from the internet.
It’s a very small detail I just noticed, in the video game, every character possessed sounds like they are full of life, whilst the random Horse Character sounds like she is reading off a script. Was very nice little touch on how messed up the game is
Ashley literally started acting like she was playing a horror puzzle game like "oh a tape let's go put that in the creepy skeleton that I just said I wasn't going to go near" like it's the 70s do you not have a cassette player at home.
But then again it was night, she probably thought she shouldn't go home in the middle of the night and during the search(? cant remember the word) in K-9. She saw a tape and something that would play it at the time, her own curiosity killed her tbh
At this point I'm convinced horror genre characters don't have any horror movies in their world, and yet Ashley's coworker mentions Texas Chainsaw Massacre so Ashley, honey, no.
Jesus christ the elongated faces in these tapes are bone chilling to me, idk if I’ll be able to sleep now. It’s like horrifying but I also can’t stop looking at it, the story is super interesting too
Great, now I am going to take my damn Teddy Ruxpin, Grubby, Mother Goose, Snoopy, Oscar, Cookie Monster, and Big Bird and locking them in the shed. FOREVER!!!!!!
@@Pinnaporaptor That edited meme picture of Obama has him with the face of JOHJ from Yu Sasuga, and JOHJ is EXACTLY what I thought of when the first elongated face appeared. Absolutely hilarious.
Ashley's death really seemed to have awoken some sort of primal fear in me. The audio of the screaming was disturbing enough, until it got to the point where it described how her coworkers left, assuming she already had, without realizing she was being murdered in the same building at that same time. And while being murdered by a possessed animatronic rabbit is unlikely, the realization that Ashley's scenario happens very often with victims of human murderers, made me close and lock my window and draw the curtains closed in the middle of summer.
I kept relistening to the description. I couldn't get over how terrifying it was. And I just had to make it sound like noise so I didn't think too much about it.
Rewatching this video, I'm getting the feeling that The Walten Files is going for an overarching theme of trauma and memories. Felix succumbs to alcoholism, admits to having trouble remembering past events relating to it, and later tries to purge any trace of Jack Walten from the company's history--possibly in an attempt to suppress his own trauma tied to the Walten family. Sophie has had her memories suppressed by pills (possibly thanks to Felix's influence), but an unknown force is actively trying to get her to remember.It's implied that this will be key to her putting an end to all this death, or at least saving her own life. I think by the end, we'll be getting a message about how trying to suppress and forget the past will only hurt you in the long run, and that properly moving on is the key to true healing.
The artstyle really hits home. Just enough detail to give you an idea, but your imagination makes up for the lost detail. Its so fukin creepy I love it
Honestly I feel like if this series was pretty realistic looking, like most of the fnaf games, that’d it’d lose some of what makes it scary. Just imagining what some of this would look like in real life is scarier than actually seeing it, at least in my opinion
@@loseeraleeert2444 I feel like realistic animatronic horror can be done right, as long as you make the audience feel like it's real and make the audience feel unsafe. However the fnaf designs are far too friendly (personally I exclude Chica from this) or trying too hard to be scary (i.e. the nightmare animatronics), and the Walten Files animatronics look way too unfriendly to reasonably be used around children
Might be looking into scary visuals too much but I recently learned that when police sketches are made for missing persons, they exaggerate features and make them uncanny because it triggers something in our mind that makes it more rememberable in our mind that allows us to better retroactively remember seeing the unaltered face or remember the poster in the future
Yeah, that's true and it's why police sketches of missing persons freak me out so much 😐 I always reference this one girl any time someone brings this up, and I can't ever remember what her name is... but anyway in the police "sketch" of her (pretty sure it's not a hand drawn sketch but rather like a computer... drawn... image? I'm sorry I have no idea what to call it) they made her look _so scary_ - at least to me. They like _reeaaally_ narrowed her face / mouth area and purposely made her look like a chipmunk because (like you said) they were exaggerating how she actually looked irl; and it worked, she was eventually found but sadly she was already dead I believe when they finally found her... 😢 Like I said, I can't remember her name... she's been in a few videos about this topic (off hand I remember she's in a Lazy Masquerade video on this subject) - but I'm sure you could find it if you *really* wanted. Irl, I remember she was blonde and pretty young like maybe early 20's or so... but that police sketch picture though 😱 it's just so damn scary 😭 Sorry for the long reply 🙂
@@justinburchette Are you talking about Jenny Gamez? She wasn't missing, but someone who was found deceased and couldn't be identified at the time. The uncanny thing made me think of Jason Callahan. I watched the Robert Stack Unsolved Mysteries series as a kid and his original composite haunted me up until a few years before he was identified, and I wouldn't be surprised if the uncanny nature of that composite is what led to his eventual identification. In the years prior to when he was identified, I saw a lot of forums and chat boards where his case would pop up just because it stuck out in people's minds. And eventually someone recognized him, and within a year or two, he got his name back. The uncanny sketches, at least in terms of does, does seem to work in some capacity.
@@justinburchette wait are you talking about the Jenny Gamez police sketch?? I remember this one sticking out to me too. Along with the Zodiac Killer Drawing. They’re so spine chilling.
*Edit to my previous post:* I broke down and looked up the video because I felt bad for not remembering her name... which is Jenny Gamez (spelled according to the videos subtitles.) She was from Cottage Grove, Oregon- and she was only 19 years old when she was murdered 😔 I'm gonna give some more information now, just in case anyone is interested (or maybe just curious) about her case. *Warning:* Do *not* read the rest of this if you are sensitive to- or just would rather not hear about- horrible acts of violence against women; just a fair warning (also this is _really_ long... so, yeah, I'm sorry about that 😐) ~ She was actually the first of *two* bodies that the police found stuffed inside a suitcase (to clarify, that is two *separate* suitcases- each containing *one* body- found on two *separate* occasions) along a highway in Wisconsin; both were female. Only half of her was inside, and she was terribly decomposed... that's so sad 😔 The reconstruction image- creepy as it is- was actually enough to be noticed by her foster mother; and so that, along with her dental records, is how she was *finally* identified- over a year after her murder. The other victims name is Laura Simonson- 37 years old, from Farmington, Minnesota. As far as I know, Laura was *not* a Jane Doe like Jenny was; apparently, the police were able to identify Laura fairly quickly. Steven Zelich, a former cop (😒), was found guilty of their murders. I believe he was sentenced to life w/o the possibility of parole. ~ Sorry for the novel length comment lol. There is obviously more detail to her story (as well as some other Missing Persons cases) in the video- so I would encourage anyone who is interested to give it a watch & go from there! 🙂 *Source:* Lazy Masquerade: "4 Shocking & Disturbing Mysteries, SOLVED AT LAST!" (her case begins @ around 07:57)
Absolutely loved hearing Nick Crowley in here, too! 😊 That was a very welcome surprise. Also, this is the first mascot horror project I've ever gotten into. It's pretty unsettling!
as someone who is Hard of Hearing i RLLY RLLY appreciate the proper captioning especially with such a long video thank u so much!! it makes it so much easier to enjoy the video!!
Same with me! I'm fully unable to hear and even if I can't experience the "disorted sounds" at least I can watch the video at all. I appreciate it just as much as you do.
I don’t think Sophie was the one who lured Rosemary to the back stage. Whoever lured her back there called her Rosie. Why would Sophie call her mother by her first name?
@@fra34543 yeah but it’s still sketchy, you would think rosemary would have corrected that. even nowadays some parents think it’s disrespectful to call them by their names, so i wouldn’t think that people in the 70-80’s would be very accepting of that sort of stuff.
@@pimpledfootnosedchin8949 i don’t consider it disrespectful nor do my parents, it’s just really uncommon and once again i said “some parents”, not my parents. sorry i should have made that clearer.
I'm willing to bet that the silhouette that appears next to the employees only door after Rosemary gets shoved into Sha is Sophie, who was the caretaker at the time (possibly to investigate her father's old company to find out what happened to him). I don't think she lured her mother backstage: it was just a coincidence that she walked in at that time. It was probably Bon, and Rosie was probably a nickname Jack gave to Rosemary. Sophie likely stumbled onto Bon stuffing her mother's dismembered corpse into Sha (edit: either that or she actively witnessed the murder, and "Sophie, where am I" were Rosemary's last words before she was killed), traumatizing her so bad that someone gave her pills that help her forget that, the deaths of her siblings, and her father's disappearance. A psychiatrist, or maybe Kranken. A psychiatrist hired by Kranken? Whoever it was, they decided that her forgetting everything was the best solution. Bunnyfarm seems to be the result of either her siblings or Rosemary intentionally trying to make her remember. Maybe they want vengeance and she's the only way they can get it.
My interpretation is moreso that she's tangentially involved in creating the circumstances of the deaths: so she was the one who spoke but out of excitement, only to see her mother torn to pieces and put into an animatronic and being compelled to clean up afterwards because it's pretty much a given that she's never going to be believed. "I know where he is!" and "I made them Beautiful. I don't know how, but I did," are probably quite literal in their original context, but through the framing we're shown and her own issues with feelings of personal guilt, vague recollection of the events themselves, and the proximity to each of the original victims, they're twisted to confirm her feelings of survivors guilt.
One thing I'll mention, is it probably wasn't Jack who lured Rosemary into the back given that, in the phone call, he calls her "Rose", not "Rosie". My current theory, is Felix reprogrammed Bon to be aggressive to the people he believes would know too much or want to investigate the disappearances. Jack obviously was the one who knew that Ed and Molly were with Felix. Susan would likely know something was wrong with the animatronics, and could even discover one of the bodies, if she tried to tinker with them. We don't really know much about Charles, so it's hard to say what he would have known. Rosemary was looking into her husband's disappearance (though why she wasn't worried about her kids is interesting), and then Sophie likely witnessed her mom's death, or maybe found her mom's body in Sha. It's possible, since the people communicate through the animatronics given the mention of Ashley still screaming from inside Billy, that Sha said "Sophie, where am I?" to her, and that lead to Sophie investigating further, which lead to the traumatic discovery.
That's the thing about this series. It doesn't really jumpscare you or try to have any "boo!" moments. It manages to be terrifying without any of those, relying on suspense and horrific graphics alone. This is the first time I've been scared by something like this in a LONG time.
@@pinkgorl9074 yeah it's use of sound and haunting visuals is just so amazingly done. It does have moments where things are sudden, but it's never in your face and loud like a typical jumpscare. It's just so cool how it's able to do that.
I made a horrifying realization... Bon is outside of the k9 facility now. Brain was killed OUTSIDE by Bon. Sophie playing the bunnyfarm game was ~5 days AFTER Brian was killed. This makes the message that Sophie saw in the game of them seeing her soon, more threatening. The Sha finding Sophie’s player character in the forest during hide-n-seek could be foreshadowing. Stay away from the forest Sophie! Bon is outside hunting down Sophie now.
@@ANIMAL.LOVERS.DONT.EAT.ANIMALS I know you probably wouldn’t care but font say your name or age on the internet for your own safety or unless you dont care otherwise that kinda terrifying nonetheless
Ok but imagine seeing an animatronic bunny, withered down, most likely bloody, just walking around. I imagine that someone would call the cops and they’d take Bon as evidence. Then they inspect Bon and find Jack in there, starting an investigation into the disappearances again. Probably starting an investigation on Felix, too.
@@thequeenofcringe1585 if they even knew who it was in the rabbit. in that scenario there's no telling how long he'd be in there before he was discovered, he might not even be recognizable by that point
Something I love about the Walten Files (besides also being FNAF but with a coherent and understandable story) Is that it focuses on the characters, rather than the spoopy possessed animatronics (which are still terrifying). It's a very tragic story, especially with episode 4 focusing on the individual characters dealing with Felix's mistake, ESPECIALLY with how Felix is portrayed.
That reminds me of the time Spartan had their soldiers count bricks in the wall of enemy fort to guess how tall the walls are. Having 100s of men counting and average them out was pretty accurate so yeah, having 1000s of redditor to see what the words are is pretty acurate
@@fkn0t577 He supports right wing political figures. I guess that makes me a "tard" for not liking people who support politicians that are hard right wing assholes.
Jumpscare list for those who need it: 1 - 12:10 (Noise and visual) 2 - 15:07 (Sudden Grain) 3 - 16:25 (Visual) 4 - 16:40 (Noise) 5 - 16:50 (Noise and visual) 6 - 21:00 - 22:30 (Various small visual jump cuts during this segment) 7 - 26:00 (Noise and visual) 8 - 29:43 (Noise and visual) 9 - 31:07 (Sudden grain) 10 - 31:28 (Visual) 11 - 31:34 (Visual over several seconds) 12 - 32:01 (Noise and visual) 13 - 32:09 (Noise and visual) During the recaps by nexpo some of these visuals are repeated, this is the same for some of the future recaps, though this is always visual. 14 - 34:53 (Noise) 15 - 39:12 (Visual, followed by audio) 16 - 39:35 (Jumpcut, followed by possible visual) 17 - 48:22 (Noise) 18 - 51:26 (Visual) 19 - 55:03 (Noise and visual) 20 - 56:18 (Noise and visual) 21 - 1:01:20 (Visual, gap and than immediately followed by noise and visual) 22 - 1:07:46 - 1:08:41 (Noise and visual, 1:08:06 and 1:08:21 are of note) 23 - 1:11:15 (Visual) 24 - 1:12:20 - 1:12:47 (Noise and Visual) 25 - 1:15:46 (Visual) 26 - 1:17:24 (Visual) 27 - 1:19:37 (Noise) 28 - 1:21:16 (Noise and Visual) Feel free to comment if I missed anything! (Orginally posted on Smegma Bandit's comment thread)
@@justinhamilton8647 That's alright! I was always terrified of Jumpscares when I was younger and I always appreciated when people made lists for videos I wanted to watch, so I'm repaying the favour.
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch the Walten files, it never fails to make me uncomfortable. The story sticks with me and the imagery always creeps me out and leaves me hesitant to turn a corner when I’m finished. This is such a great example of a perfect horror story to me. I can’t help but thank the creator for creating something so effective for me
I know this comment is buried, but what if the 'sophie, where am I?' was directed after Rosemary resurrected as Sha the sheep? It would make the story smoother, and make more sense to their relationship imo. The proposed timeline is that Sophie discovers Rosemary's corpse in Sha Rosemary asks her daughter where she is Sophie presumably gets amnesia or a nervous breakdown The bunnyfarm tape is Rosemary trying to tell Sophie what happened that night and telling Sophie that she is in danger.
Also, remember that in the other bonus tapes they say that the victims try to actively seek help and vengeance via analog logs, this meaning that they "possess" the tapes and insert the creepy segments to tell Sophie and the audience that something is wrong and they want to be heard. In this case, all of the mortal victims (except Charles, who has changed things but hasn't manifested a lot so far) are expressing that they want people to know the victims and make Sophie remember the things that happened to her family and relatives. And Jack wants to make Felix responsible for what he's done.
I think it makes more sense than the idea that Sophie led her mother into Bon's trap. But beyond that, I think the image in Tape 1 of Sophie dressed as a technician might be a flashforward in the series, showing how she gets inside the bunker: she gets a technician uniform somehow and gets there thanks to the key the company provides.
@@pumpkinngutss 1:12:24 it’s hinted she’s torn apart from all the blood and from the second tape I think where it shows rosemary dead in multiple pieces.
I like to listen long videos while I'm drawing, but this one was the worst possible choice. Every time I look back up at the screen I'm greeted with enough nightmare fuel to power a rocket.
I was watching this while drawing too! I felt weird about trying to draw something cute while learning about how these poor people were mangled and stuffed inside of cartoony animal machines
18 years old and I had to watch the series under a blanket the entire time. I’ve haven’t been this afraid of something in years. Doesn’t help I started the series at 3am.
Martin took all of the best parts of FNAF and made a cohesive story that actually is even more unnerving and never loses its horror. This story is about how a cowardly alcoholic friend couldn't admit his worst mistake to his friend and instead chose to murder almost everyone involved. This is about a girl who lost her family and witnessed the death of her murder and can only cope by being drugged out of her mind. I really hope Sophie makes it out alive. I'm hoping the animatronics all these victims have been put inside are able to kill Felix. I hope Sophie's girlfriend isn't harmed. I'm definitely nervous for what's to come but I'm hoping the storyline stays consistent because I think it's excellent so far.
I think matpat said ir best in his video covering thus series: This isn't a story about animatronics, but a story about broken people which is why this series is so good
My theory is that in Felix's inebriated, shocked, and grief-stricken mind, he only hallucinated the bodies of Edd and Molly merging with the body of Rocket. He took this as some kind of sign and began his reprogramming project by stuffing people into the animatronics.
The audio of Jack asking where his children were made me so sad;; The poor dude trusted Felix enough with his children to leave them to him, but came back home to never see them ever again... Didn't help that Felix wasn't answering him no matter how much he called. The anxiety, fear, confusion, and dread Jack and Rosemary felt must've been crushing.
@@MetalPhlex ??????? That’s the whole damn point of this ARG-like series. You’re supposed to sympathize with these characters and engross yourself in its universe like if it were real, similar to any type of fictional book or movie. Loosen up a bit-Jesus Christ, don’t you get bored of being tied to reality? If you’re going to act like this I fully expect you to not enjoy any form of medium of entertainment simply because it ‘isn’t real’.
I think throughout the series Bon specifically has problems with his right arm. In the founder’s photo, this is the arm thats shaking hands with Felix. My interpretation of this is that Felix broke his trust, and the agreement/partnership that the handshake signifies
I think the voice that lured rosemary was Felix. He has the motive, and it would not make sense for Sophie to call her mom by her first name. Sophie did however witness her mother die. And the pills make her forget it
Okay I would just like to put this here, the reason that picture with Jack Walsh is so creepy is that, even though his body is facing sideways, his head is looking right at the camera. Necks don't do that.
random fact, but the fnaf restaurants exist in the walten's universe. it's just a normal restaurant tho lol. like literally nothing happened there, Its just basically chuckecheese.
The fact that Bunny Smiles Inc. has a containment facility for its animatronics is a huge red flag in itself. I mean, wouldn't it be strange for a company built around children's entertainment to act like the SCP Foundation, at times?
@@bitchtitchs A vault they keep leaving abandoned for no discernible reason and a key your not supposed to use. If that doesn't spell sketchy I don't know what does.
So is no one gonna talk about how the theme song for the Bunnyfarm game is almost entirely comprised of morse code spelling out "help" over and over again?
This is so well made and engaging. I really like the voice of the person who made this. Also thank god for the captions, they really help when your ears suck
I still can’t get over the reversed scream from Felix. After crashing and killing Edd and Molly, the reversed screams from him just sounded so… anguished and shocked. The guilt in his cries and screams. It’s so spine chilling.
edit: I was mistaken, I went and rewatched the original video (Bunnyfarm) and at about 52 minutes it, we hear just absolutely anguished screaming from Felix after the car crash. The Nexpo video doesn't include this clip.
“Ashley is still there, but she’s not screaming anymore, she saw something she wasn’t supposed to see and now she’s beautiful.” Chills SHOT through my body.
The fact that the art absolutely emulates the roughness of kid's illustrations in the 70's, check out bad VHS kids movie covers, just elevates the genuiness
i was thinking, bc sophie specifically says she finds the art style familiar, even tho it cld jst be bc if the association w/ her father’s business, what if the drawings are actually by sophie or ed and molly?
Yes, it's very well done. Where it falls apart for me is when they try to pass off their CGI as live action (ie. showing the physical dolls). I mean I understand it is probably budgetary but still takes me out of the video which is annoying.
everything was creepy, but the phone call of Jack asking Felix to bring the kids, man that made my heart sink. Growning up, the fear in a kid who's drunk father insisted he drives the family back, definitely strikes a note somewhere in me
Personally I thought the voice acting was pretty terrible, I didn't find it all that convincing. LIke if my kid was missing for three hours I wouldn't give the guy a damn lecture, I'd be frantically asking him to pick up the phone lol, Jack's VA sounds more like a teacher reprimanding a student if anything.
I don't know, but that one screen that said you got the bad ending, you crashed the car and killed them tapped into some fear. It struck deeper then anything else in the video
@@KingSlimeProductions bear in mind Jack already left a few dozen voicemails by then so he’s reached the point where he’s pretty much just railing on Felix until the guy picks up.
The thing about jumpscares is that they are far more terrifying in the moment than just spooky visuals and ambiance, but they give closure. They "wear off." By not jumpscaring the viewer, the most unsettling things are prolonged, forcing you to give more thought to them and therefore using your imagination against you.
I am absolutely terrified by jumpscares, and on the tape 1 scene with the distorted tv noises i kept telling myself that a jumpscare will follow up and kept covering the screen leaving me in a more tense mood rather than just being scared at once, so i must agree to what you said
i agree, jump scares just trigger fight or flight to hard, but you sprinkle a bit of dread in there and its solid. alien isolation is a great ex sample.
The FNAF fandom has been producing some real masterpieces lately. As much as fnaf freaked me out as a kid, the eerie horror and sense of dread in this is far more effective.
@@justin2308 i mean yeah. the lore of fnaf is more disturbing then the games. walten files is more disturbing then the games but not more disturbing then the VHS tapes
Because you actually have to play FNaF, not have Nexpo talk to you seducingly while he tells you about how someone was found dead inside of an animatronic.
i think, storyline wise, even if this was inspired by fnaf after the fact, this is remarkably more consistent and interesting than the fnaf lore. the creators behind this seem to know exactly what they’re doing, and know what they’re whole story is, rather than tagging new ideas on last minute. this is fantastic and personally much scarier than fnaf ever could be.
@@TheBluePhoenix008 while this is totally fair and you’re right, even post sister location the details could have been ironed out and set in stone. instead he jumped on fan theory culture and just made whatever the most popular theory was canon, which doesn’t always end up working. regardless i think walten is much more interesting to begin with. game theory said about it that fnaf is a story about animatronics who do bad things, while walten files is a story about *people* who do bad things. i think that’s much more interesting personally.
@@Kedamohno i think that's the problem though, scott was just too much of a pushover. he didn't really know what he wanted to do with the lore and he loved the fan community too much for his own good. i think it ended up handicapping the story a bit. again, i think even post-sister location he could've ironed things out and set at least **something** in stone, but nope. just my opinion though.
I think the only thing you are wrong about in these theories is that Sophie lured her mother to bon. Remember what was said to lure her to the back. They said "I know where he is Rosie." Rosie is short for Rosemary, most likely a pet name. There is no way a child would use a pet name for their parent rather than just mom or dad. I think it far more likely that it was felix or someone else close to her who said that.
Yeah, that was the main thing that made his theory unlikely for me as well. I doubt that Sophie, who at the time I believe would be 13/14 years old, would be calling her mom by her first name.
I think what actually happened is shown at 32:12… Bon is stuffing Rosemary’s body into Sha when suddenly the lights are turned on and someone is standing by the door. Sha is covered in blood, and anyone walking in would be able to see what’s going on. I think that’s Sophie. Rather than her being a part of it, she WALKED IN on Bon killing Rosie. The door says “employees only”, maybe she was an employee BEFORE the killings. That could also be why she needs memory suppressants, and why Felix is trying to brainwash her: she’s the only one who knows the truth about the animatronics. I don’t know why Nexpo glossed over that part and didn’t bring it up, it stood out to me the second I saw it.
If you know of a creepy internet mystery or webseries that you’d like to submit, feel free to send it to my email at NightmareExpo@gmail.com :)
PS- wow, it’s pretty dark here?
yes
_I have a bad feeling about this._
i dont
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OMG, just when I needed something to watch our lord Nexpo uploads a new video, and it's an 1:30 hour video. Christmas came early this time.
You know that you're safe when the screen fades to black and you hear his voice. It's like the sound of angels.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
THIS
LITERALLY i just wait for that fade lmao
* starts reading comments to not get scared *
Bro that’s literally the saving grace of this video for me
As they say, nothing can hurt me if I’m not in fullscreen
unless it climbs out.
@@sogelnation why
@@sogelnation I hate your comment so much!
me scrolling down to the comments to prevent watching in full screen
no jump scares for me
Do you think the whole "The rabbit is starving" thing came from the fact that Bon obviously left Susan alive for a time being after he paralyzed her and she quite literally starved to death in the animatronic? That's like the only reason I could think for that being in there
This:
makes sense.
that's gotta suck that she ends up somehow surviving a gruesome fate at the hands of an animatronic that clearly easily overpowered her only to still die anyways of starvation
@@randompromises1038 that's somehow worse, man 😢 what a way to go
She probably starved to death before being put into the animatronic since getting put in there would probably turn ur body into beef jerky
"He is so sorry for what he did to them, but there is nothing you can do."
That line always hits hard :(
Every time I hear Nexpo's voice after a section of the tapes, I feel like I've reached a checkpoint where I'm safe
Nexpo’s voice is like god’s hand reaching out to pull you out of hell just to throw you back minutes later
@@tequilaog420 very accurate description 👌🏾
Hella accurate
Honestly this is too accurate
@Lo Thewalk woah we got a badass over here 😳
if i was offered a job and they were like “yeah just go out into an isolated forest at some ungodly hour to check up on some creepy old animatronics and make them move around” i’d be resigning right there not saying
I hope they pay well :((
Brian: nah fam I ain't risking my a-
BSI: $100/hr...
Brian: aight sign me up!
BSI: ...not like you'd last the night anyway
Brian: what?
BSI: nothing.
You'd think they'd send him off in a group though, Nope. All by himself he goes.
I would do it! I love new experiences
@@SieMiezekatze it’d be your last experience
the kind of horror used in this series is the type that REALLY gets to me. weird voices, uncanny valley faces, spooky sounds, that's all the stuff that actually scares me.
I was making some faces out of pure disturbance but I couldn’t look away
watch the youtube video “obey the walrus”
it's the faces that gets to me so goddamn much. they aren't even portrayed in a jumpscare sort of way, but god i cannot stand them. they're so unsettling and uncomfortable to stare at. it's crazy how effective the horror in this series is.
@@randompromises1038 they don't seem human anymore. Especially knowing the fact that those characters are dead
And fates worse than death!
honestly the fact that Bon invited every member of the group but Banny to his sleepover was mad disrespectful
Oh crap yeah I didn’t notice that lol
He doesn’t like her
I’ve speculated that she’s his sister and since they’re supposed to be kids in that clip, either she wasn’t “born” yet or she’s just his annoying little sister and he doesn’t want to invite her
@@trose2346but then why is suzanne british while he isnt?
Hearing Nexpo saying “Take a look” and leaving us alone is the single most scariest part of this video.
“No please don’t leave me..” *silence and screen fades* “..no please..”
I screamed
I was panicking so bad like PLS DONT LEAVE ME ALONE WITH CURSED ROBOT MURDER CREATURES
@@sofi-ci5lq time stamp??
@@aikowirl 21:00
Ik I'm late af but here you are
The worst is undoubtedly that NONE of the victims died immediately. They were left paralyzed and screaming for days until they died inside the animatronic suits
wtf
Susan's feels like the worst, because she starved, which takes like 30 days
@@quinnilin she'd die from dehydration before she'd die from starvation
wasn't rosie decapitated? seems pretty instant to me lmao
@@beetle1516 probably not because the restaurant closed because people could hear " a woman screaming for days". I have a feeling that Bon ripped her arms and legs off tho (which is why Sha says "but on the inside i feel like every part of my body is bleeding out")
"Take a look..."
No, wait. Nexpo come back, don't leave me with these things!
Hahahahahahaha!
Is it just me, or is the sheep hot
@@thegrandnil764 it’s just you
I think I say that to myself when watching any of his videos lmfao
@@thegrandnil764 it is literally just you
This reminds me of the guy and girl who were making a video for one of their classes. They made it to look like a guy had kidnapped a girl, with a quick flash of her tied to a toilet screaming. It was so well done it went viral and opened up a full on investigation. Only to find that the students had done an amazing job of making it look real.
lonelygirl15
@@chuucake this reached FBI level because of the fact that the girl in the video looked like one that had been missing around the same time.
@@chuucake Either my other comment got deleted or I'm just not seeing it, but I had left one before the FBI comment. I was saying that Lonelygirl15 is an interesting case study as well, but the video I was talking about is super creepy. My comment might have got removed because I named it, it's called "Hi Walt3R." Just change that last word to the name that sounds most similar to it.
A different situation but a situation like this happened near my town! A small independent film production was going on near us and the girl pretending to be kidnapped posted her tied up+in her makeup to Snapchat and a dude states away called the police because he thought it was real
This is the most elaborate anti drinking ad I've ever seen.
haha
god bless
this guy bro… I can’t….. XD
Don't drink or else you'll kill a whole entire family, and some workers, and drug someone into amnesia, and ruin your career, and merchandise line
ill drink to that.
The photo in tape 1 of the founders feels so uncanny because their faces don’t look like they’re attached to a neck, just faced photoshopped on top of bodies.
Exactly and I hate the way Jack's face looks bc it's so uncanny
I definitely feel like it's an intentional decision by the creator to make it look like Felix just took a photo of himself and a picture of Jack and cut out their faces to stick onto another photo that he just found.
the background is all white, its definitely faked. im just thinking "why would a photo like that be faked." youd imagine them in front of a wall or by desks or in some kind of workshop for the animatronics right? so the stock background is whats throwing me off. its not "is it faked," its "WHY is it faked." at least in my mind.
@@omni0414 I'm thinking Jack was dead by the time Felix needed a photo, or at least was already not on talking terms with Felix due to the drunk driving killing his kids incident. Probably didn't think about having one taken together and then when he needed one it was too late for the real thing.
@@rambbler i agree with that, but i really dont think jack died. we know for certain he went MISSING, but saying he died just feels off. also i just finished the video since ive never heard of these and oh my god its so cool
I know everyone likes to laugh at Sophie’s ridiculous fear tolerance, but I also think it has something to do with the pills. Either she convinces herself the things she’s seeing are her hallucinations, or they make her forget (specifically things related to her trauma) which explains the 180 in her mood the next day.
I actually think that's one of the main problems with this series - the way the dialogue is written everyone speaks exactly the same and in too much detail for it to sound remotely natural
I'm not an expert so I can't really explain it properly but a lot of the word choices are odd for spoken dialogue
@@bntrs I agree too-although I must add I am also not an expert
@@bntrs so far, Felix and Brian (even tho he had a minor role) are the only characters to have decent voice acting. Everyone else sounds unnatural
My personal guess is that the pills suppress emotions, and she's being shown these so she can associate this memories with just a scary event and no parental ties to these events so she can't really feel any anger or hatred towards Felix.
@@gremlin8216 agreed. but I think the unnatural voice acting fits with this story's whole dynamic. it could be better.
i'd like to say my greatest achievement: falling asleep to this AND not having nightmares
Trying that myself rn lol
I like how Nexpo is very serious but then all of a sudden he says something such as "the ass-crack of night"
i mean you can still say it in a serious way
@@Sockren thats the joke, he said it in a serious way
Damn didn't notice that. I was busy shitting myself
@@aniboofair8113 I was actually in the bathroom taking a shit when he said that
@@eunoiamorosis ayo same
Sophie: *sees disturbing and scarring cutscene*
Sophie right after: WHATS UP GUYS welcome back to my blind playthrough of Bunnyfarm!
lol
Also Sophie: I know these cutscenes have in depth lore on how my co-workers and family died brutally but honestly I’m just trying to get a sub 1:00:00 for WR pace so can you please go a little bit faster 😐
And remember to subscribe, and get me out of here
This is golden
UA-camr grindset
Nexpo is the only man on earth who can calmly say "let's move on" after explaining how someone's corpse was stuffed into a defunct animatronic bunny
Something about being alive and physically capable of feeling the pain and decomposition of your bleeding, rotting corpse is definitely scary
@@kronosbach5263 have you ever heard of SCP-2781 "What Comes After"? It tackles a very similar concept to what you have just described, if you want more of it
@@lordtoademort8124 i will now need to look into this. Thanks.
Mat pat
@@lordtoademort8124 Yeah I know about that SCP, and skincrawling as it is, being stuffed in a movable animatronic suit and being able to still use your dead body is stilll a fun concept, and horricly entertaining
the walten files is the most complex "don't drink and drive" ad campaign i've ever come across
Fun fact: Martin walls stated that the Walten files takes place in an alternate universe where nothing ever went wrong at Freddy's
that's amazing
I can accept that
ur pfp
@@enderlord607 what's that comic called again?
@@_Caz its not a comic my friend
The Walten Files is the most intricate drunk driving PSA ever.
its just annoying (and really bad) fnaf fanfiction
@@goobiscool5363 you think walten flies is bad?
@@lovemeh7899 damn walten flies
@@goobiscool5363 it’s both scarier and more compelling than fnaf tho. a parody done better
You people compare anything with animatronics to FNAF, get some bitches instead.
I found out that the line "The rabbit is starving," is because Susan didn't die after being put in the suit. She starved to death in the suit.
That makes sense and, oddly, a robot is saying something it is not programmed to say... How odd is both bunnies.
In tape three, when she's shown on the floor, she says "and my stomach feels weird." Maybe her stomach was too mangled anyways?
@@cet1r1z1ne maybe her stomach felt weird because she was starving?
@@vanilla5643 I thought that her message was either before or shortly after she was put into the animatronic, therefore not yet giving her enough time to starve unless her stomach was already ruined. I just figured since Rosie was dismembered before being put in Sha, it'd make sense if Susan had things removed/cut down to size as well in order to fit into the Banny animatronic. Banny seems to have a pretty small waist, after all. I could be wrong tho
@@cet1r1z1ne possible but unlikely. Remember that the animatronics are quite large compared to a person and it seems that rosemary is a bit shorter than average. she would fit with minimal damage. That's likely why nobody could find her body, it was completely hidden in the SHA animatronic. Could be wrong but it's just speculation based on what we see and what is known in reality.
Idk why, but the sequence with the letters by Felix's wife was pretty scary. The way her voice tone changes throughout is great. She starts out happy and enthusiastic, then progressively worried, then defeated.
that's called good voice acting-
@@nikolalogina6303 have an upvote good sir
I find a distorted faces creepy, but I find dying alone and screaming from unimaginable pain for a hours without being heard and found is just the most horrific thing in the world
Me to
Getting buried alive, basically
That's just a typical trip to the Emergency Room around here 😂😂
You know what else is more horrific?
MY MOM!!!!
@@JoshuaAndres **swings shirt in the air** WOOOOO
Interesting observation: Brian, Susan, Ashley and Rosemary seem to get killed right after they shine their flashlights at Bon, who reacted violently to the light. On the second tape, Sha told us not to use flashlights near robots, so this should be connected
This is something I've noticed but I've never seen anyone point out. Considering the end of tape three mixed with the scene of Sha covered in blood screaming, I feel like I can assume Jack is alive, like Rosemary, and has been forced to watch as he kills people with his own hands, and be unable to stop himself. I think the scene at the end of tape three is when he finally is back in control and is realizing what he did to his wife, right in front of his child as well.
Maybe the direct exposure to light is similar to the high light from a car's headlights and it awakens the trauma in Jack...
@@mariohany589 aww damn, that's a good point!
The only other time we hear anything about lights is when Sha keeps asking us to "turn on the light" which could be related as well
Could connect to bon being behind sophie when she uses the lighter near him
I am equally as excited for this as I was for the original series
oh hey wendigoon!
Love when good UA-camrs watch and comment on other good UA-camrs videos
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Imagine
oh hey king
1 - 12:10 (Noise and visual)
2 - 15:07 (Sudden Grain)
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During the recaps by nexpo some of these visuals are repeated, this is the same for some of the future recaps, though this is always visual.
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@@AdonMrGveret lmao this is a repost but ur welcome
Thank you omg
Marry me 💍
@@D0ttorestestsubject ok
is this a persons copy/take on fnaf?? pls explain
I've always felt that Felix is a coward and that is the catalyst for his actions. He hid the bodies because he feared the repercussions. I wouldn't be surprised if he killed Jack after Jack found out about his kids, hid his body in Bon, and thus began the cycle of death. Jack is most likely putting his face in videos as a threat to Felix and is killing his family as a means of letting them join him (or he may not be totally aware of what's happened and has good intentions behind making them "beautiful"). Either way, Bon is coming for Sophie and Felix. Just my opinion, love this story.
My exact thoughts while watching this! Can always count on you for a good take. My only deviation is that Jack may be doing the killing instead, with Felix facilitating it to ‘feed’ Jack or give him company (the ‘rabbit is starving’ line made me wonder if there is a cannibalistic component in keeping these animatronics ‘alive’).
Love your content, dad!
@Wendigoon yo pops 😎 & yeah this story is one of the best out rn, can’t wait for the rest of it
I think its more of a programming versus Jack kind of thing, as in Bon's programming is to get the Walten family and Jack is stuck inside him along for the ride unable to stop it.
There is a hit list tape, and I don’t think “Bon” would be able to make one. I think Felix is using Bon to do away with the other lose ends.
I find it ironic that Susan Woodings. probably the smartest one of the group(the Bons burger staff) Is trapped in Banny. Who is probably the dumbest one of the group(The animal characters)
Thanks a lot, Banny, you BUNNY.
@@plasticwalnut7650 I deadass expected him to just suddenly drop a "you dumb bitch" line at that moment tbh
I think a massive part of Susan’s suffering lies in her humiliation. As well as being the smartest, she’s probably also physically the strongest, and therefore maintains a bit of muscle which she’d take pride in i.e: “The MIGHTY rabbit needs to get out.” To then starve to death, and be forced to waste away into nothingness whilst being trapped inside a machine SHE built and knows all of the inner workings of as well as manually put it together and be locked inside a goddamn room, and literally all she needs to do is open the door, would be pretty sore for her. I think Bon and Banny’s relationship is possibly indicative of Jack and Susan’s relationship in general. I headcanon that they don’t like each other.
@@kiera6326 I love that theory, and it makes so much sense! It's certainly more than simply dramatic irony that the brains behind the animatronics would be forced into the dumbest one by her employer and murderer. There had to have been jealousy or spite behind the murder.
I have a feeling that Felix felt perpetually inferior in the business he had opened with Jack. (Cuz iirc he was just tagging along with Jack as a partner and Jack was the one who really wanted the business.) And I think he took out that frustration on Susan when her knowledge allowed her to see through his attempts to cover his tracks.
@@colorblockpoprocks6973 YES that definitely resonates! Felix’s inferiority in general seems to be what makes him an awful person. His vulnerability is something to pity, especially with the ear lack of help he was given during his alcoholism, but the cowardice that shines through as a result of that really makes me hate him, even if he’s not necessarily as villainous as people like to see him, and it’s pretty understandable why he reacted the way he did after such a gigantic mistake. But once he’s passed that stage and knows he has all the chess pieces in his hands, he’s pretty much God of BSI, especially with Jack gone. You would never survive with Felix as your employer. He’d be like Scrooge (interestingly enough) behind a friendly and honest front. And that makes him hate-able.
It’s also worth thinking about how much Susan especially would have pissed him off. She was a goner anyway whether she did or she didn’t, but he couldn’t fire her, as she possibly had some rights to the animatronics and that could result in a whole legal battle and attention brought to the animatronics that he had to avoid. He also _couldn’t_ fire her in a way that wouldn’t make her laugh in his face- what other engineer could build machines like that in 1974. She’s irreplaceable, and I think he possibly only realised that after she was gone. The idea to open a new restaurant was in my opinion, a front, as they had nobody to build animatronics like before, and it was the most convenient way to keep the facility caretakers for asking questions about their job. I think Jack and Felix probably resented Susan because of her ability to do the thing that kept them from achieving what they’d wanted for so long- building the damn things. Some of it might have been 70s misogyny. Maybe homophobia. Maybe it’s the competitiveness between them. All of it’s speculation though, there absolutely no canon basis for it. But oh yeah, her death was personal. Regardless of which one of them was actually responsible for it. When you also think about the shadow man being present, watching Rosemary get stuffed etc… you can’t tell me he also wasn’t watching Susan, through a camera maybe, just to make sure she was actually still there and would know when she was dead. I also refuse to believe that there just weren’t any shows with Banny over the next few weeks either. You can just imagine the awful, jerky movements, the panic on stage with all the kids laughing. “The rabbit needs to get the manager’s attention,” is one of the most chilling lines imo
The other visuals aren't that disturbing to me, however, i am REPULSED by the elongated, eye widened morphs of the faces over the animatronics--
yyyyyyyyyup
*LoNg MaN*
That and the accompanying silence is terrifying
@@ethanhayes3474 Followed by misconstrewed songs
I’m also an Addison M
The really scary part is that the tapes are shown to be made and distributed in 1974, but the first VHS player released in America was in 1977.
certified analog horror moment
Probably U-matic tapes
The technology in the series is proved to be absurdly ahead of our world's.
Bunnyfarm looks more advanced than some nintendo switch games
"Scary" part is it's easy to replicate these effects and fool so many people.
It was a reel that got converted to video tape
The fact that the victims were still alive after each attack and left to slowly die inside the suits, paralysed and starving with no one to hear their screams, is the most horrific thing about this series in my opinion. I honestly think Rosemary getting dismembered was probably the “nicest” death out of all of them, because at least she probably died relatively quickly.
Quickly...people reported screams, so she lasted alive for a while
She was definitely alive for a while. Until blood loss became her cause of death. But she must’ve felt how she was being cut into pieces for at least a few minutes. But I get what you mean, better to suffer a little than to suffer a lot.
I have long since headcanoned that when she got to the afterlife, she was aghast at her own death and traumatised, whilst Susan just glared at her.
(Also, is it significant that Walten’s wife got the quickest death? Affection for her, perhaps)???
@@kiera6326 Rosemary’s death was the quickest, yeah, but that doesn’t mean she had it the nicest. Her attack is probably the worst one as others were mangled/beaten to death, while she was literally torn to pieces.
But then again if the theory that Bon is Jack is true, his “affection” has been really fucked up.
@@Ravonaa Yeah. It’s really quite difficult to argue who had it worse since the way they die can be at times drastically different. I suppose if just depends on what resonates most with the viewer. I suppose it could be argued that Ashley had it the worst too, since it was her face that was ripped apart which is more sensitive than anywhere else in your body especially your eyes, and she lost both of hers. Regardless I think the fact that they’re trapped perpetually in this state of incomprehensible pain after their death is really the worst thing about the entire thing
Everytime Nexpo says "Here, take a look" to let you watch something terrifying, it's like an abusive parent locking you in a cellar full of demons.
*Reginald Hargreaves intensifies*
@@kalenplant2675 lol
"this'll help you be stronger"
For me it was like when your parents make you face your fear of the dark by turning off the lights and locking you In the room lol
its like [INSERT GENERIC BCA REFRENCE HERE] and [FUNNY QUOTE]
“I’m going to go wander around in this bunker in the middle of the night without my friends with a bunch of decayed old animatronics”
A tale as old as time
I guess she never heard of Five Nights at Freddy's
@@Squidbush8563 tbf it was created 50 years after she died
I was thinking that too. Like why are you going there in the dead of night. The fuck
Fr like they really heard “oh yeah go fix these old musty animatronics in a dingy abandoned bunker hidden in a forest but do it specifically at night and stay over” and thought it was a perfectly good idea 🤨 you couldn’t pay me any amount of money to put foot near there in the middle of the day, yet alone offer me 8$ overtime for a psycho robot bunny sleep over special.
I love how this series evolves from straight up horror and mystery to still straight up horror and mystery, but with an exploration of how alcoholism and trauma can destroy lives.
Unless it's a dentist office, never trust a company that has the word "smiles" in its name. Smiles are the _last_ thing they care about.
that
jesus fucken christ
Even a dentist office too, ugh those places scare the fuck outta me
Well, the dentists are the only place that can make you smile, at least better, literally. That and plastic surgery lmao
what about a braces office?
wait, what does that say about the good smile company...?
For the first time ever, the youtube ads were somewhat relieving. I didn't realise I was holding my breath until Kendall Jenner told me to check out her new collection.
right ?????
i dont have any ads :(
@@lilyaird3394 Do you have YT Premium?
🤣🤣🤣
Uhh I don’t have any ads
This Sophie's tolerance for scary things is pretty high.
yea lol, i think it’s cause of the pills she’s on, but even so, it still makes it pretty funny sometimes
I mean my is to
i like to think i’m brave LOL
Drugs are a helluva drug
Sophie: these edibles ain't sh...
1:12:22
(Definitely not watching this video for the hundredth time after watching the fnaf movie). I know I say this a lot, but this is one of my favorite videos on your channel and I often find myself rewatching it. The Walten Files perfectly captures all the loved aspects of the franchise, and it amazes me that it’s fanmade. Even with the style being different, Walls so accurately showcases the key qualities of fnaf, making it stick so well in the community.
This is so real
What us fnaf movie?
Never mind lol
Da fnaf movie is da movie about fnaf
I'm surprised you didn't comment on Sha saying, "turn on the lights" repeatedly.
My theory on what exactly happened to Rosemary is that Felix was backstage, led her around with a flashlight (or turning on lights), and then turned it off when they got to the storage room again. She started crying for him to turn on the lights, but he was getting behind her to aim the light at Bon from behind her- so that when the light hit him, the first thing he saw was Rosemary. Hearing boise from the back, Sophie possibly went back to see what was going on, using a lighter since her flashlight was possibly missing- and saw what was happening to her mother. But since the lighter was faint compared to the flashlight, and he was distracted with Rosemary, Bon didn't notice the light and hence, Sophie is still alive.
holy shit thats a great theory! and it makes sense too /gen
I also think that the “where am I Sophie?” Could have been after she was already stuffed into the animatronic. Maybe sha saw Sophie back there but sha isn’t programmed to kill like bon is. She must have been terrified and confused and she saw her daughter so she asked where she was.
also notice how increasingly frustrated sha sounds as she wants the lights turned on before being suddenly cut off mid sentence.
@Gianfranco Sparacio or moreso felix does, no doubt that was fucking horrifying for sophie but if sophie were to tell other people what she saw felix would probably get found out
Yo whole bunch of amazing game theorists in the comment section
the thing about felix is that initially (we assume) he felt so horrible (as per GUILTY) and was a victim of his own circumstances and did not intend to kill edd & molly. Him being a pathetic loser rather than another malicious smart villain is so much more compelling and humanely believable, because hiding from his own mistakes and running away from accountability just is something that is more likely to happen with people than a homicidal thirst for blood. idk thats my opinion, and i really hope that felix is not a william afton 2.0
I think this could definitely be a case of the cover up being worse than the crime though, making it necessary for him to silence people to hide his guilt
"i hope felix isn't a william afton 2.0" well it seems to be turning out that way
I mean at least felix never killed anyone on purpose and doesn't possess an anomotronic
I feel like he is more of a smart pathetic loser
Oh yeah him crying on that second recording was like damn bro this is WHACK
what’s most unnerving to me about this series is the imagery. The use of real human faces makes it SO much creepier to look at. I genuinely had to look away when all the faces of Charles(?) we’re on screen. But also the combination of the cartoon visuals with these disfigured human faces, it just makes my skin crawl.
Same. Something about it just makes my brain scream that I'm in danger, and it's not fun.
I also saw Squimpus McGrimpus use this same thing in some of their FNaF VHS tapes. I’m convinced that the only thing scarier than the unknown is the distortion of the familiar.
Same honestly. If it was just drawings, i would have been able to tolerate it, but the fact they were images of real faces, potentially generated through this person does not exist or even just taken from the internet.
uncanny valley at its finest tbh
Yeah, this is the first one that’s actually made me wince a bit in a while. Especially the close up of Bon when Brian dies.
It’s a very small detail I just noticed, in the video game, every character possessed sounds like they are full of life, whilst the random Horse Character sounds like she is reading off a script.
Was very nice little touch on how messed up the game is
Ashley literally started acting like she was playing a horror puzzle game like "oh a tape let's go put that in the creepy skeleton that I just said I wasn't going to go near" like it's the 70s do you not have a cassette player at home.
But then again it was night, she probably thought she shouldn't go home in the middle of the night and during the search(? cant remember the word) in K-9. She saw a tape and something that would play it at the time, her own curiosity killed her tbh
@@imtiredaf__6085 and what a brutal death, jesus
ashleys scream was terrifying like guyy
@HexaDecimal made up
At this point I'm convinced horror genre characters don't have any horror movies in their world, and yet Ashley's coworker mentions Texas Chainsaw Massacre so Ashley, honey, no.
Jesus christ the elongated faces in these tapes are bone chilling to me, idk if I’ll be able to sleep now. It’s like horrifying but I also can’t stop looking at it, the story is super interesting too
They're super freaky, but they look like that one distorted image of Obama, Obunga, I think it was called?
Great, now I am going to take my damn Teddy Ruxpin, Grubby, Mother Goose, Snoopy, Oscar, Cookie Monster, and Big Bird and locking them in the shed.
FOREVER!!!!!!
@@Pinnaporaptor that and momo also freaks me out 😭 I know they’re supposed to be funny be they’re unnerving
@@Pinnaporaptor That edited meme picture of Obama has him with the face of JOHJ from Yu Sasuga, and JOHJ is EXACTLY what I thought of when the first elongated face appeared. Absolutely hilarious.
Morbid curiosity...
Ashley's death really seemed to have awoken some sort of primal fear in me. The audio of the screaming was disturbing enough, until it got to the point where it described how her coworkers left, assuming she already had, without realizing she was being murdered in the same building at that same time. And while being murdered by a possessed animatronic rabbit is unlikely, the realization that Ashley's scenario happens very often with victims of human murderers, made me close and lock my window and draw the curtains closed in the middle of summer.
The description of how she died just
Did me in,
I need to stop scaring myself like this.
I’m glad this comment exists,
I felt like no one felt the terrifying weight of
Ashley’s death.
wow i feet the same way
I kept relistening to the description. I couldn't get over how terrifying it was. And I just had to make it sound like noise so I didn't think too much about it.
Definitely one of the most disturbing parts of the video for me. Why the heck do I do this to myself when I should be sleeping???
Rewatching this video, I'm getting the feeling that The Walten Files is going for an overarching theme of trauma and memories. Felix succumbs to alcoholism, admits to having trouble remembering past events relating to it, and later tries to purge any trace of Jack Walten from the company's history--possibly in an attempt to suppress his own trauma tied to the Walten family.
Sophie has had her memories suppressed by pills (possibly thanks to Felix's influence), but an unknown force is actively trying to get her to remember.It's implied that this will be key to her putting an end to all this death, or at least saving her own life.
I think by the end, we'll be getting a message about how trying to suppress and forget the past will only hurt you in the long run, and that properly moving on is the key to true healing.
Just watched the series and this is exactly what I’m thinking. Also, I really, really hope things turn out okay for Sophie.
The artstyle really hits home. Just enough detail to give you an idea, but your imagination makes up for the lost detail. Its so fukin creepy I love it
Honestly I feel like if this series was pretty realistic looking, like most of the fnaf games, that’d it’d lose some of what makes it scary. Just imagining what some of this would look like in real life is scarier than actually seeing it, at least in my opinion
@@loseeraleeert2444 Imagine a FNAF x The Walten Files crossover.
@@loseeraleeert2444 I feel like realistic animatronic horror can be done right, as long as you make the audience feel like it's real and make the audience feel unsafe. However the fnaf designs are far too friendly (personally I exclude Chica from this) or trying too hard to be scary (i.e. the nightmare animatronics), and the Walten Files animatronics look way too unfriendly to reasonably be used around children
Might be looking into scary visuals too much but I recently learned that when police sketches are made for missing persons, they exaggerate features and make them uncanny because it triggers something in our mind that makes it more rememberable in our mind that allows us to better retroactively remember seeing the unaltered face or remember the poster in the future
Yeah, that's true and it's why police sketches of missing persons freak me out so much 😐 I always reference this one girl any time someone brings this up, and I can't ever remember what her name is... but anyway in the police "sketch" of her (pretty sure it's not a hand drawn sketch but rather like a computer... drawn... image? I'm sorry I have no idea what to call it) they made her look _so scary_ - at least to me. They like _reeaaally_ narrowed her face / mouth area and purposely made her look like a chipmunk because (like you said) they were exaggerating how she actually looked irl; and it worked, she was eventually found but sadly she was already dead I believe when they finally found her... 😢
Like I said, I can't remember her name... she's been in a few videos about this topic (off hand I remember she's in a Lazy Masquerade video on this subject) - but I'm sure you could find it if you *really* wanted. Irl, I remember she was blonde and pretty young like maybe early 20's or so... but that police sketch picture though 😱 it's just so damn scary 😭
Sorry for the long reply 🙂
*memorable
@@justinburchette Are you talking about Jenny Gamez? She wasn't missing, but someone who was found deceased and couldn't be identified at the time.
The uncanny thing made me think of Jason Callahan. I watched the Robert Stack Unsolved Mysteries series as a kid and his original composite haunted me up until a few years before he was identified, and I wouldn't be surprised if the uncanny nature of that composite is what led to his eventual identification. In the years prior to when he was identified, I saw a lot of forums and chat boards where his case would pop up just because it stuck out in people's minds. And eventually someone recognized him, and within a year or two, he got his name back.
The uncanny sketches, at least in terms of does, does seem to work in some capacity.
@@justinburchette wait are you talking about the Jenny Gamez police sketch?? I remember this one sticking out to me too. Along with the Zodiac Killer Drawing. They’re so spine chilling.
*Edit to my previous post:* I broke down and looked up the video because I felt bad for not remembering her name... which is Jenny Gamez (spelled according to the videos subtitles.) She was from Cottage Grove, Oregon- and she was only 19 years old when she was murdered 😔 I'm gonna give some more information now, just in case anyone is interested (or maybe just curious) about her case.
*Warning:* Do *not* read the rest of this if you are sensitive to- or just would rather not hear about- horrible acts of violence against women; just a fair warning (also this is _really_ long... so, yeah, I'm sorry about that 😐)
~
She was actually the first of *two* bodies that the police found stuffed inside a suitcase (to clarify, that is two *separate* suitcases- each containing *one* body- found on two *separate* occasions) along a highway in Wisconsin; both were female. Only half of her was inside, and she was terribly decomposed... that's so sad 😔
The reconstruction image- creepy as it is- was actually enough to be noticed by her foster mother; and so that, along with her dental records, is how she was *finally* identified- over a year after her murder. The other victims name is Laura Simonson- 37 years old, from Farmington, Minnesota. As far as I know, Laura was *not* a Jane Doe like Jenny was; apparently, the police were able to identify Laura fairly quickly.
Steven Zelich, a former cop (😒), was found guilty of their murders. I believe he was sentenced to life w/o the possibility of parole.
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Sorry for the novel length comment lol. There is obviously more detail to her story (as well as some other Missing Persons cases) in the video- so I would encourage anyone who is interested to give it a watch & go from there! 🙂
*Source:* Lazy Masquerade: "4 Shocking & Disturbing Mysteries, SOLVED AT LAST!" (her case begins @ around 07:57)
ashley: there's no way i'm going near that thing
also ashley: *goes inside that thing*
Like come on, Ashleyy..
every person in a horror film
classic white people
Not Ashley being ✨goofy✨
Just as clueless as Ashley from Resident evil 4
Absolutely loved hearing Nick Crowley in here, too! 😊 That was a very welcome surprise. Also, this is the first mascot horror project I've ever gotten into. It's pretty unsettling!
Susan's elongated face is legitimately one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen. Like, it was actually hard to look at.
Everything in this fucking series is hard to look at.
I laughed my ass off at it when it first elongated
@@jamesoliver9278 ikr 💀
30:01 its hamood
Obunga
as someone who is Hard of Hearing i RLLY RLLY appreciate the proper captioning especially with such a long video thank u so much!! it makes it so much easier to enjoy the video!!
Same with me! I'm fully unable to hear and even if I can't experience the "disorted sounds" at least I can watch the video at all. I appreciate it just as much as you do.
@Richie Gryn @Klykanica
You guys are so awesome this gave me the biggest smile, petition for more videos like this!!
The original channel where The Walten Files are, also has captioning available.
Just like Ryan always said "I love you all"
WE DONT GIVE A SHIT!!!
I don’t think Sophie was the one who lured Rosemary to the back stage. Whoever lured her back there called her Rosie. Why would Sophie call her mother by her first name?
True but also I know some people who call their Moms with their name or nickname
People calling their parents by name it’s not so rare, I call my dad by his name lol
@@fra34543 yeah but it’s still sketchy, you would think rosemary would have corrected that. even nowadays some parents think it’s disrespectful to call them by their names, so i wouldn’t think that people in the 70-80’s would be very accepting of that sort of stuff.
@@fra34543 calling ur parents by there first name is disrespectful I'm guessing u was raised by white ppl
@@pimpledfootnosedchin8949 i don’t consider it disrespectful nor do my parents, it’s just really uncommon and once again i said “some parents”, not my parents. sorry i should have made that clearer.
I'm willing to bet that the silhouette that appears next to the employees only door after Rosemary gets shoved into Sha is Sophie, who was the caretaker at the time (possibly to investigate her father's old company to find out what happened to him). I don't think she lured her mother backstage: it was just a coincidence that she walked in at that time. It was probably Bon, and Rosie was probably a nickname Jack gave to Rosemary.
Sophie likely stumbled onto Bon stuffing her mother's dismembered corpse into Sha (edit: either that or she actively witnessed the murder, and "Sophie, where am I" were Rosemary's last words before she was killed), traumatizing her so bad that someone gave her pills that help her forget that, the deaths of her siblings, and her father's disappearance. A psychiatrist, or maybe Kranken. A psychiatrist hired by Kranken? Whoever it was, they decided that her forgetting everything was the best solution. Bunnyfarm seems to be the result of either her siblings or Rosemary intentionally trying to make her remember. Maybe they want vengeance and she's the only way they can get it.
My interpretation is moreso that she's tangentially involved in creating the circumstances of the deaths: so she was the one who spoke but out of excitement, only to see her mother torn to pieces and put into an animatronic and being compelled to clean up afterwards because it's pretty much a given that she's never going to be believed.
"I know where he is!" and "I made them Beautiful. I don't know how, but I did," are probably quite literal in their original context, but through the framing we're shown and her own issues with feelings of personal guilt, vague recollection of the events themselves, and the proximity to each of the original victims, they're twisted to confirm her feelings of survivors guilt.
One thing I'll mention, is it probably wasn't Jack who lured Rosemary into the back given that, in the phone call, he calls her "Rose", not "Rosie".
My current theory, is Felix reprogrammed Bon to be aggressive to the people he believes would know too much or want to investigate the disappearances. Jack obviously was the one who knew that Ed and Molly were with Felix. Susan would likely know something was wrong with the animatronics, and could even discover one of the bodies, if she tried to tinker with them. We don't really know much about Charles, so it's hard to say what he would have known. Rosemary was looking into her husband's disappearance (though why she wasn't worried about her kids is interesting), and then Sophie likely witnessed her mom's death, or maybe found her mom's body in Sha. It's possible, since the people communicate through the animatronics given the mention of Ashley still screaming from inside Billy, that Sha said "Sophie, where am I?" to her, and that lead to Sophie investigating further, which lead to the traumatic discovery.
"Does it jumpscare?"
"No, but it can hurt you in other ways"
Hurts you "in other ways".
Still jumpscares you.
"Does it jumpscare?"
"Worse."
That's the thing about this series. It doesn't really jumpscare you or try to have any "boo!" moments. It manages to be terrifying without any of those, relying on suspense and horrific graphics alone. This is the first time I've been scared by something like this in a LONG time.
@@pinkgorl9074 yeah it's use of sound and haunting visuals is just so amazingly done. It does have moments where things are sudden, but it's never in your face and loud like a typical jumpscare. It's just so cool how it's able to do that.
Way worse😂
I made a horrifying realization... Bon is outside of the k9 facility now. Brain was killed OUTSIDE by Bon. Sophie playing the bunnyfarm game was ~5 days AFTER Brian was killed. This makes the message that Sophie saw in the game of them seeing her soon, more threatening. The Sha finding Sophie’s player character in the forest during hide-n-seek could be foreshadowing. Stay away from the forest Sophie!
Bon is outside hunting down Sophie now.
the story took place 50 years ago. i think sophie got merked
O H N O
@@ANIMAL.LOVERS.DONT.EAT.ANIMALS
I know you probably wouldn’t care but font say your name or age on the internet for your own safety or unless you dont care otherwise that kinda terrifying nonetheless
Ok but imagine seeing an animatronic bunny, withered down, most likely bloody, just walking around. I imagine that someone would call the cops and they’d take Bon as evidence. Then they inspect Bon and find Jack in there, starting an investigation into the disappearances again. Probably starting an investigation on Felix, too.
@@thequeenofcringe1585 if they even knew who it was in the rabbit. in that scenario there's no telling how long he'd be in there before he was discovered, he might not even be recognizable by that point
"The endoskeletons were severely damaged."
Did you happen to notice that there were corpses in them as well?
I noticed the "endoskeletons we're severely damaged" typo in your comment faster xd
The corpses couldve been cleaned
@@Fermin-hw5pd um k
@@BombsOfSoy how.
@@Zombina638 You don't have to reply, you know
Something I love about the Walten Files (besides also being FNAF but with a coherent and understandable story) Is that it focuses on the characters, rather than the spoopy possessed animatronics (which are still terrifying). It's a very tragic story, especially with episode 4 focusing on the individual characters dealing with Felix's mistake, ESPECIALLY with how Felix is portrayed.
"if we brighten this up we can clearly see this is rosemary walten"
*image looks as readable as the image on the test*
That's the power of hundreds of fans on reddit working together
That reminds me of the time Spartan had their soldiers count bricks in the wall of enemy fort to guess how tall the walls are. Having 100s of men counting and average them out was pretty accurate so yeah, having 1000s of redditor to see what the words are is pretty acurate
@@givemeyoureggs456 mjeah...then they had about 1000 times the same answer...makes sense
“Clearly see” my ass 🙄
"Inspired by Five Nights At Freddy's"
It's so subtle but if you look closely, you can see where they might've taken some creative influences from FNAF
You mean better than FNAF.
Hopefully the maker of the Walten Files isn't a huge piece of shit like the maker of FNAF
@@Dawnbreakerr what did scott do ?
@@fkn0t577 have an opinion, he’s not a bad person this guys just a tard
@@fkn0t577 He supports right wing political figures. I guess that makes me a "tard" for not liking people who support politicians that are hard right wing assholes.
Jumpscare list for those who need it:
1 - 12:10 (Noise and visual)
2 - 15:07 (Sudden Grain)
3 - 16:25 (Visual)
4 - 16:40 (Noise)
5 - 16:50 (Noise and visual)
6 - 21:00 - 22:30 (Various small visual jump cuts during this segment)
7 - 26:00 (Noise and visual)
8 - 29:43 (Noise and visual)
9 - 31:07 (Sudden grain)
10 - 31:28 (Visual)
11 - 31:34 (Visual over several seconds)
12 - 32:01 (Noise and visual)
13 - 32:09 (Noise and visual)
During the recaps by nexpo some of these visuals are repeated, this is the same for some of the future recaps, though this is always visual.
14 - 34:53 (Noise)
15 - 39:12 (Visual, followed by audio)
16 - 39:35 (Jumpcut, followed by possible visual)
17 - 48:22 (Noise)
18 - 51:26 (Visual)
19 - 55:03 (Noise and visual)
20 - 56:18 (Noise and visual)
21 - 1:01:20 (Visual, gap and than immediately followed by noise and visual)
22 - 1:07:46 - 1:08:41 (Noise and visual, 1:08:06 and 1:08:21 are of note)
23 - 1:11:15 (Visual)
24 - 1:12:20 - 1:12:47 (Noise and Visual)
25 - 1:15:46 (Visual)
26 - 1:17:24 (Visual)
27 - 1:19:37 (Noise)
28 - 1:21:16 (Noise and Visual)
Feel free to comment if I missed anything! (Orginally posted on Smegma Bandit's comment thread)
Thank you for this. I love disturbing content but I have heart issues, so jumpscares are something I avoid. Thanks again.
@@justinhamilton8647 That's alright! I was always terrified of Jumpscares when I was younger and I always appreciated when people made lists for videos I wanted to watch, so I'm repaying the favour.
You're a real hero
Thanks dude
You're legitimately doing God's work with this post. Sincerely, an easily startled horror fan
Thank you.
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch the Walten files, it never fails to make me uncomfortable. The story sticks with me and the imagery always creeps me out and leaves me hesitant to turn a corner when I’m finished. This is such a great example of a perfect horror story to me. I can’t help but thank the creator for creating something so effective for me
I know this comment is buried, but what if the 'sophie, where am I?' was directed after Rosemary resurrected as Sha the sheep? It would make the story smoother, and make more sense to their relationship imo. The proposed timeline is that
Sophie discovers Rosemary's corpse in Sha
Rosemary asks her daughter where she is
Sophie presumably gets amnesia or a nervous breakdown
The bunnyfarm tape is Rosemary trying to tell Sophie what happened that night and telling Sophie that she is in danger.
I like this proposal
Hope more people notice this comment, seems like a valid alternative possibility
yeah !! she's her mom and trying to protect her which would make sense why she had yelled in that part almost signifying danger
Also, remember that in the other bonus tapes they say that the victims try to actively seek help and vengeance via analog logs, this meaning that they "possess" the tapes and insert the creepy segments to tell Sophie and the audience that something is wrong and they want to be heard.
In this case, all of the mortal victims (except Charles, who has changed things but hasn't manifested a lot so far) are expressing that they want people to know the victims and make Sophie remember the things that happened to her family and relatives. And Jack wants to make Felix responsible for what he's done.
I think it makes more sense than the idea that Sophie led her mother into Bon's trap. But beyond that, I think the image in Tape 1 of Sophie dressed as a technician might be a flashforward in the series, showing how she gets inside the bunker: she gets a technician uniform somehow and gets there thanks to the key the company provides.
**literally dead people are shown**
Soapie: _It's just a glitch_
i love soapie plz dont change it to the proper spelling
SOAPIE OMG I OOGEFJCID
✨ *Soapie* ✨ please don’t edit it
i mean, that _was_ her name in the game lmao
SOAPHIE!!!!!
is back lol
Rosemary’s death was the most horrifying hearing her scream in agony as she’s being torn apart. Definitely scares me the most
i love ur pfp
Time stamp?
@@pumpkinngutss 1:12:24 it’s hinted she’s torn apart from all the blood and from the second tape I think where it shows rosemary dead in multiple pieces.
@@Kamey2 aight thanks man
I love it!
So are you telling me that that facility doesn’t contain a single light switch?
EXACTLY
I don't get scared easily, but faces being distorted unnerve and terrify me. I'm shaking.
Yes its called uncanny valley there is a reason youre scared of that. Same with humans acting like animals/walking on all fours
Same, I never feel this disturbed
I get scared easily and I'm pretty sure this is going to traumatize me some day
right? if only the faces weren't distorted, this def wouldn't have been as scary as it is with distorted faces.
Yeah same. But that is what makes this horror good. Shock factor as well as some uncanny valley put in there.
I like to listen long videos while I'm drawing, but this one was the worst possible choice. Every time I look back up at the screen I'm greeted with enough nightmare fuel to power a rocket.
I was watching this while drawing too! I felt weird about trying to draw something cute while learning about how these poor people were mangled and stuffed inside of cartoony animal machines
Same!
(ha ha rocket)
Heh, same!
Ha, me too…
I do the exact same thing! Some of the noises in this video made me end up with a wonky line.
18 years old and I had to watch the series under a blanket the entire time. I’ve haven’t been this afraid of something in years. Doesn’t help I started the series at 3am.
Let's just cuddle together and watch it on tv
Someone bring snacks and soda
dude I'm 19 and here I am feeling the same
@Old Chunk of Coal I know it’s fake. Doesn’t mean it isn’t scary tho
I'm 23 and I'm afraid of going up to my dark bedroom that only has one entry way because what if a bad man is in therr
@Old Chunk of Coal
idiot we all know it is fake but we get scared by fake things all the time its not unnatural
Martin took all of the best parts of FNAF and made a cohesive story that actually is even more unnerving and never loses its horror.
This story is about how a cowardly alcoholic friend couldn't admit his worst mistake to his friend and instead chose to murder almost everyone involved. This is about a girl who lost her family and witnessed the death of her murder and can only cope by being drugged out of her mind.
I really hope Sophie makes it out alive. I'm hoping the animatronics all these victims have been put inside are able to kill Felix.
I hope Sophie's girlfriend isn't harmed. I'm definitely nervous for what's to come but I'm hoping the storyline stays consistent because I think it's excellent so far.
I predict the moment when Sophie and Bon meet, it would get really intense fast, as Sophie is running for her life.
Look into Gnostics. Sophia.
I think matpat said ir best in his video covering thus series: This isn't a story about animatronics, but a story about broken people which is why this series is so good
My theory is that in Felix's inebriated, shocked, and grief-stricken mind, he only hallucinated the bodies of Edd and Molly merging with the body of Rocket. He took this as some kind of sign and began his reprogramming project by stuffing people into the animatronics.
This sounds so sickening, my skin crawled... anyways, great theory!
my theory is after the edd and molly incident he decided to put the people into the animatronics to make him think that the people are still alive.
The audio of Jack asking where his children were made me so sad;;
The poor dude trusted Felix enough with his children to leave them to him, but came back home to never see them ever again... Didn't help that Felix wasn't answering him no matter how much he called. The anxiety, fear, confusion, and dread Jack and Rosemary felt must've been crushing.
Ooooooo how spoooooooooooky 😱
Im finna cry about the fictional emotions that fictional characters fictionally feel!
@@Lifeless_mouthrot
THANK YOU SIR!!
👏👏👏
Finally someone that isn't 12, like the rest of the comment section. Lmao
@@MetalPhlex ??????? That’s the whole damn point of this ARG-like series. You’re supposed to sympathize with these characters and engross yourself in its universe like if it were real, similar to any type of fictional book or movie. Loosen up a bit-Jesus Christ, don’t you get bored of being tied to reality? If you’re going to act like this I fully expect you to not enjoy any form of medium of entertainment simply because it ‘isn’t real’.
@@user-px7mx2ge4e Why?
Why am I "Supposed" to?
I think throughout the series Bon specifically has problems with his right arm. In the founder’s photo, this is the arm thats shaking hands with Felix. My interpretation of this is that Felix broke his trust, and the agreement/partnership that the handshake signifies
I like that, I like that a lot!
That is actually a good theory
ohh thats actually so smart
@@ObiWan733 yeah it was Susan Woodings I think!
oh that's very cool
I think the voice that lured rosemary was Felix. He has the motive, and it would not make sense for Sophie to call her mom by her first name. Sophie did however witness her mother die. And the pills make her forget it
The Felix and Jack photo is actually a photo of one of the Atari founders
If im correct The guy who made chuck e cheese worked for atari, thats where he got the idea
Any link to this image?
@@cbspydoge his name is 'ted dabney' if you look that up the picture will come up
@@angel72987 Ted dabundy?
@@doragetsherfirstmugshot6083 Ted dababy?
Okay I would just like to put this here, the reason that picture with Jack Walsh is so creepy is that, even though his body is facing sideways, his head is looking right at the camera. Necks don't do that.
doesn't help that black and white (for me anyways) has that disturbing air about them.
I can do that actually
@@heyitssukichan6323 nice try, Jack. we're onto you
It’s also the face itself, especially the t e e t h 😰 teeth in this whole series are just freaky
Yeah, he's in a hieroglyphic pose, body in 3 quarters, face front on
This makes 5 Nights at Freddy’s seem like a Nick Jr. cartoon
fnaf lost its horror aspect so this makes me very happy
I was getting more influence from PaRappa the Rapper/Um Jammer Lammy or like Gregory Horror Show
On G
random fact, but the fnaf restaurants exist in the walten's universe. it's just a normal restaurant tho lol. like literally nothing happened there, Its just basically chuckecheese.
@@prog8454 based
Nexpos voice is so calming yet eery and matches absolutely perfectly for this genre of videos
everybody gangsta until nexpo says “we observe the following...”
Instant fear
thiss
Thats when shit gets real
everybody gangsta until nexpo says “Observe for yourself.”
Or “hmmmm”
The fact that Bunny Smiles Inc. has a containment facility for its animatronics is a huge red flag in itself.
I mean, wouldn't it be strange for a company built around children's entertainment to act like the SCP Foundation, at times?
Like if McDonald's had the Ronald statues locked in a vault.
you meam like disney?
@@bitchtitchs A vault they keep leaving abandoned for no discernible reason and a key your not supposed to use. If that doesn't spell sketchy I don't know what does.
@@bitchtitchs They probably do
i feel like the vualt was originally intended to be a storage room after the shut down.
So is no one gonna talk about how the theme song for the Bunnyfarm game is almost entirely comprised of morse code spelling out "help" over and over again?
Most people probably don't know morse, though it's pretty cool that you caught that.
You Smart ash but dis shit weird asf
i mean, in specific it's "... --- ..." which is morse for "SOS"
@@furgel7717 yeah hes only addicted to likes
This is so well made and engaging. I really like the voice of the person who made this. Also thank god for the captions, they really help when your ears suck
I still can’t get over the reversed scream from Felix. After crashing and killing Edd and Molly, the reversed screams from him just sounded so… anguished and shocked. The guilt in his cries and screams. It’s so spine chilling.
The little bit of voice acting from Felix was exceptional, that was a moment that could absolutely kill this project but the actor nailed it
@@salmonandsoup leaving my reply here for when someone answers
i wanna hear the scream where is it?
it's at 1:19:20 if this is the moment they meant
edit: I was mistaken, I went and rewatched the original video (Bunnyfarm) and at about 52 minutes it, we hear just absolutely anguished screaming from Felix after the car crash. The Nexpo video doesn't include this clip.
“Ashley is still there, but she’s not screaming anymore, she saw something she wasn’t supposed to see and now she’s beautiful.”
Chills SHOT through my body.
Fr tho sounds like something a mafia member would say
The fact that the art absolutely emulates the roughness of kid's illustrations in the 70's, check out bad VHS kids movie covers, just elevates the genuiness
i was thinking, bc sophie specifically says she finds the art style familiar, even tho it cld jst be bc if the association w/ her father’s business, what if the drawings are actually by sophie or ed and molly?
@@sleepyqueer oh god, mind is blown
With the lighter part it looks like a 3D model
Yes, it's very well done. Where it falls apart for me is when they try to pass off their CGI as live action (ie. showing the physical dolls). I mean I understand it is probably budgetary but still takes me out of the video which is annoying.
yeah bro I remember TTS being used all the time 50 years ago.
Analog horror fans when they see a distorted image for the 100th time: ( :0
everything was creepy, but the phone call of Jack asking Felix to bring the kids, man that made my heart sink. Growning up, the fear in a kid who's drunk father insisted he drives the family back, definitely strikes a note somewhere in me
Personally I thought the voice acting was pretty terrible, I didn't find it all that convincing. LIke if my kid was missing for three hours I wouldn't give the guy a damn lecture, I'd be frantically asking him to pick up the phone lol, Jack's VA sounds more like a teacher reprimanding a student if anything.
I don't know, but that one screen that said you got the bad ending, you crashed the car and killed them tapped into some fear. It struck deeper then anything else in the video
@@KingSlimeProductions bear in mind Jack already left a few dozen voicemails by then so he’s reached the point where he’s pretty much just railing on Felix until the guy picks up.
@@KingSlimeProductions he WAS frantically asking though lol. it was very effective for me
@@KingSlimeProductions agreed, this series is pretty cool but the writing and voice acting for the dialogue isn’t great
"I know where he is Rosie" is not something a daughter would say to her mother. Also, at the start of tape 3, you hear the Morse code for S-O-S.
This. It seems really weird that Sophie would call her own mother "Rosie". I just dont buy that.
@@Valentina-rj7pf unless she's her stepmother
Is could be Felix, since maybe he gone insane
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The sound design really gets me, like the visuals are terrifying sure but, the sound
trueeee
the visuals wouldnt scare me that much without the sound design
Honestly the thing that makes it spooky is really how polarizing the whole kids animatronics thing is with the creepy story.
especially rosemary's screams...and that strangely hollow tone when charles' distorted face is shown? creeps to the max.
yes! without the sounds the pictures would almost be comedic. who ever the sound designer was for this did a great job
Can’t forget that songs from Everywhere At The End Of Time starts playing during the bunker archives...which give me a type of PTSD
This form of horror is my favorite, specifically how it’s very stop motion looking and all around just unsettling. Love your work man! Keep it up!
Appreciating all the subtle nods to internet horror that came before - Petscop, of course Five Nights at Freddy's, various SCPs, LOCAL58, and more.
yess all time that i was watching the 3rd video i was thinking about petscop
...Petscop? What is that
@@michaelsilver253 a UA-cam horror series about a guy playing a video game that seems innocent but is really some creepy murder stuff
what scps were referenced?
Nah it was local 57
The thing about jumpscares is that they are far more terrifying in the moment than just spooky visuals and ambiance, but they give closure. They "wear off." By not jumpscaring the viewer, the most unsettling things are prolonged, forcing you to give more thought to them and therefore using your imagination against you.
I think there’s a name for that actually! Something like the “bomb effect.” I know that Alfred Hitchcock talked about it actually
I am absolutely terrified by jumpscares, and on the tape 1 scene with the distorted tv noises i kept telling myself that a jumpscare will follow up and kept covering the screen leaving me in a more tense mood rather than just being scared at once, so i must agree to what you said
i agree, jump scares just trigger fight or flight to hard, but you sprinkle a bit of dread in there and its solid. alien isolation is a great ex sample.
@@mr_edys hi I am a coward who’s dad left , are there any jump scares at all through the video? I
Are there any jumps scares in the video I’m scared
The FNAF fandom has been producing some real masterpieces lately. As much as fnaf freaked me out as a kid, the eerie horror and sense of dread in this is far more effective.
watch the FNAF VHS tapes by Squimpus McGrimpus. it makes the walten files look like kirby
@@gaysexer Huh. Someone said the Walten Files made the FNAF games look like Kirby too.
FNAF games < Walten Files < FNAF found footage
@@justin2308 i mean yeah. the lore of fnaf is more disturbing then the games. walten files is more disturbing then the games but not more disturbing then the VHS tapes
@@gaysexer scariest thing about the lore is trying to put it together lol
Because you actually have to play FNaF, not have Nexpo talk to you seducingly while he tells you about how someone was found dead inside of an animatronic.
even 2 years later watching this its still great top tier content great editing voice over just amazing got me back into the walten files
i think, storyline wise, even if this was inspired by fnaf after the fact, this is remarkably more consistent and interesting than the fnaf lore. the creators behind this seem to know exactly what they’re doing, and know what they’re whole story is, rather than tagging new ideas on last minute. this is fantastic and personally much scarier than fnaf ever could be.
Scott wasn't expecting to make more than one game, of course his lore is more fucked up
@@TheBluePhoenix008 while this is totally fair and you’re right, even post sister location the details could have been ironed out and set in stone. instead he jumped on fan theory culture and just made whatever the most popular theory was canon, which doesn’t always end up working. regardless i think walten is much more interesting to begin with. game theory said about it that fnaf is a story about animatronics who do bad things, while walten files is a story about *people* who do bad things. i think that’s much more interesting personally.
@@Kedamohno I agree tbh.
@@Kedamohno i think that's the problem though, scott was just too much of a pushover. he didn't really know what he wanted to do with the lore and he loved the fan community too much for his own good. i think it ended up handicapping the story a bit. again, i think even post-sister location he could've ironed things out and set at least **something** in stone, but nope. just my opinion though.
The thing that slightly ruins this is the shitty voiceovers. The Lore is great though.
the creepy part is that Sophie didn’t put her actual name in the game,, SHE PUT IN SOAPY yet they still started to recognize her
yesss
Don't you actually know anyone? That's not creepy, it's human interaction
@@MrMancreatedgod I know you wanna sound smart but that's the whole point. THAT'S WHY IT'S CREEPY. You tried to do something there and failed.
@@MrMancreatedgod mmm yes totally normal for a pre-programmed video game to have "human interactions".
@@MrMancreatedgod dude, it’s in a game. Wdym “human interaction”??
I think the only thing you are wrong about in these theories is that Sophie lured her mother to bon. Remember what was said to lure her to the back. They said "I know where he is Rosie." Rosie is short for Rosemary, most likely a pet name. There is no way a child would use a pet name for their parent rather than just mom or dad. I think it far more likely that it was felix or someone else close to her who said that.
That's exactly what I was thinking
this!!! this makes a lot of sense
Yeah, that was the main thing that made his theory unlikely for me as well. I doubt that Sophie, who at the time I believe would be 13/14 years old, would be calling her mom by her first name.
I think what actually happened is shown at 32:12…
Bon is stuffing Rosemary’s body into Sha when suddenly the lights are turned on and someone is standing by the door. Sha is covered in blood, and anyone walking in would be able to see what’s going on.
I think that’s Sophie. Rather than her being a part of it, she WALKED IN on Bon killing Rosie. The door says “employees only”, maybe she was an employee BEFORE the killings. That could also be why she needs memory suppressants, and why Felix is trying to brainwash her: she’s the only one who knows the truth about the animatronics.
I don’t know why Nexpo glossed over that part and didn’t bring it up, it stood out to me the second I saw it.
@@austinswanson Martin walls has debunked this by stating that sophie is not the shadow man