Sally's Italian Food and Arcade

I remember Sally's Italian Food and Arcade, I used to love working there back in 1994. Just seeing the kids run around and play just felt like a really novel concept, seeing the children having fun, whether it be birthday parties, a surprise, or a family trip. However they went out of business after just 28 days. It closed after multiple files were reported of a woman screaming in the middle of the night in the back of the restaurant. Now that I've introduced you to the location, I want to talk about the shady stuff that happened with the location.
Back in 1978, 3 people named Rosemary Douglass, Jack Ortega, and Aiden Walls had the idea of starting up a restaurant with photo-realistic animatronics using research they did in college. It took 16 years to do so. As soon as the location opened, Aiden Walls went missing. After 2 weeks, Rosemary was on a constant search for Aiden. I saw her out in the forest calling his name after buffing the floors. Once the report of screaming in the back of the restaurant was filed, Rosemary went missing and the location closed down.
Fast forward to present-day, that's when I went urban exploring and stumbled across the old Sally's location. I pried open the door and head inside. They didn't even bother cleaning the place out, it smelt like rotten pepperoni and a dead body combined to have the most rotten stench. I saw old arcade machines, most with quarters still in them. I went to the employees only room. I was a little creeped out by the place, like a liminal space. I grabbed an old time card and punched my clock in just for fun. I went to the back of the room and found a basement door that wasn't revealed to me when I was working there. I opened the door to find a medium-sized compartment.
It was filled with VHS tapes, some labels included, "Reprogramming Phase" or "Company Introductory Tape". I had enough room in my backpack so I took them all. I went back to my apartment and watched the tapes on my Grandma's VCR. I was almost expecting something along the lines of a snuff tape, but I didn't get that. Instead, I unearthed evidence on a grander scale on what the company did.
The first tape was an instructional tape I remember when I was working at the place. It was introducing the animatronics to us, something I forgot to mention. First off, there's Sally, Sally the Shef, at least that's what they told the kids that were dumb enough to not spell chef right. Then there was Wallace, Wallace the Waiter, the company didn't even bother giving Wallace a personality, we in the workplace called him "Shell" because that's what he was, a shell of a human, or in this case, an animatronic. They didn't make anymore of them. I'm guessing budget reasons, but one of the tapes said "Prototype 01 Testing".
The tape continued on and it got distorted, slowly, but surely. The robotic TTS voice speaking started becoming low-pitched, especially when it said anything about the animatronics. The tape suddenly cut when it mentioned the 3 founders. I put the next tape in, which was footage of 3 people exploring an old storage facility owned by the company. The facility is still in working order, I'll maybe explore it at a later date. The 3 people were Ashley Jomina, Frederick Mawish, and Sophia Walls. They volunteered to stay 2 days at the facility in order to get the 2 animatronics to be reprogrammed for a relocate project to reopen the location. I am currently watching this tape and I will keep this forum updated on my findings.
Good Bye...
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