The walten files lore

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Jenny 5:38 - “Apparently there was this one employee that drove to some forest a few days ago; not too far away from here actually. He hasn’t been seen around ever since he drove to that place… The word got out quickly. Some family members say it was his first day.” Reference to Brian Stells

Jenny 6:18 - “Reminds me of this other girl… This young employee named Ashley- young adult, Very pretty- She became some sort of urban legend around here. People say she died inside of some old bunker from the company. Her body was never found. Most say she was privately buried, others say she’s still inside that place.” Reference to Ashley

Plaque at 7:03:     “bobbie the hippo was the original owner

Of the

Town, he had two sons, Pete the Hippo

and Johnny the Hippo

Bobbie Made the promise of creating the

Best quality barn in the world

R.I.P

Bobbie.

Older year - Other Year”

Bon’s Burgers (Billy) 8:12 - Sha can be seen glitched on the “FUN FACT” screen. She is distorted and marked with a red substance over her left eye.

Bon’s Burgers (Billy) 8:52 - a photo of Jack Walten can be seen in the background. Top left corner.

Bon’s Burgers (Billy) 9:18 - The drawn Billy can be seen here with what seems to be multiple layers applied at the same time.

Bon’s Burgers (Billy) 9:20 - The distorted and drawn Billy disappears and a realistic Billy is shown in the back of the left side, looking similar to the way he did in the video Ashley took.

Bon’s Burgers (Billy) 9:36 - After picking up the first gift box, Sophie is treated to an image of what appears to be Sha amongst the tables.

Bon’s Burgers (Billy) 10:09 - After being placed on the second gift box, Sophie receives a picture of Bon somewhere in the restaurant.

Bon’s Burgers (Billy) 10:33 - After picking up the third gift box, Sophie is shown a picture of a drawn animatronic that is white with a blue stomach and snout.

Bon’s Burgers (Billy) 11:10 - The rocket remains on screen for a moment longer than anything else, possibly trying to subliminally hint to Sophie about the existence of Rocket.

Bon’s Burgers (Billy) 12:42 - After Sophie picks up the gift box she received from winning tic-tac-toe, Sophie is given the image of a corpse (I assume it is Ashley due to this being Billy’s level).

Bon’s Burgers (Billy) 13:07 - After Sophie is taken back to the main game world before the game crashes, a sprite of Rocket has been added to the screen. When Sophie touches him, the game crashes, causing the footage to stop.

**October 16th 1982:**

Save file screen 14:21 - A realistic looking image of a zoomed in still of Rocket’s head can be seen for a brief second. His eyes are fully open and his mouth is slightly ajar.

Corrupted file screen 14:25 - “OH NO! there is a high chance ‘Bnnyfrm.ppx’ file data has been corrupted or it’s information has been altered/replaced by a third party. we recommend you unplug the machine immediately. opening the file may lead to unknown glitches and errors in the levels. if you do want to continue, however, we warn you that the machine could suffer major changes and, at it’s worst case, a complete shutdown, deleting all valuable information in it. do you wish to continue?” This is displayed above a 3D model of Bon’s head.

Plaque at 15:18 - “He promised to take care of the 2 kids during

that day. he told the parents that everything was

okay

It’s sad that we can’t really remember you,

Sophie.

But soon we’ll live together, forever and ever :)

R.I.P

The two lovely red children.

May 11th 1962 - May 2nd 1974

August 22nd 1965 - May 2nd 1974”

The Hippo House (Banny) 16:57 - A missing poster for Jack Walten appears on the left tree, accompanied by a white person with a yellow hat and a blue collar.

The Hippo House (Banny) 18:33 - After Sophie is taken back to the living room, the father hippo is absent and a photo of Felix can be seen in the top right corner.

The Hippo House (Banny) 19:57 - As soon as the picture puzzle is finished, it is quickly replaced with a realistic looking image of Banny’s face, looking slightly dirty (maybe bloody).

The Hippo House (Banny) 20:00 - The words “Susan Woodings” are displayed before an audio file recorded by her plays.

The Hippo House (Banny) 20:02 - “BSI Technical Support Audio Log #3. June 30th, 1974. Joanie’s birthday party finished an hour ago. I decided to stay and help the employees clean the place. This week has uh, been uh, strange. Especially since the opening. I find it weird that they opened the place even though Mr. Walten disappeared a few weeks ago. I hope he’s doing alright. Rosemary came in today and asked if we had seen him around. Uh, I’m pretty worried about it. Felix seems very concerned and worried too. Uh, yeah, uh the birthday, the birthday party, yes! Everything went according to plan. Uh, this was the first birthday party in the restaurant, and I feel it turned out pretty well! Uh, I noticed a few irregularities in the stage, and in the audio animatronics. As the engineer, and the person who basically built the animatronics to begin with, it was easier to notice these. Uh, especially in Bon. Something felt off. The limbs weren’t moving properly, they looked stiff and odd, mainly in his right arm. I’m going to take a few more minutes to take him to the backstage, just to make sure everything is okay. I’m the only one left, Chris left some hours ago and Felix didn’t even show up. I’ll leave and close the restaurant when I’m finished. I’m sure that’s not going to take long.” During this, photos of Susan, Jack Walten, a table set for a birthday party, Banny, Bon, and the backstage door are shown,

The Hippo House (Banny) 21:27 - A sprite with a photo of Susan over the face is shown on screen, presumably backstage. Sophie uses it to pick up a wrench and she approaches the Bon sprite. The background is replaced with a realistic photo of Bon towering over the camera. The screen is replaced with a black and white image of a more withered bon reaching towards the screen. It flashes between the standard black and white and the reversed black and white image. Then Susan’s photo is put back on the screen, and the eyes fall in multiples, leaving behind black pits. We are then shown a distorted Susan’s face, and watch as it decays slightly. A picture of Banny’s face is superimposed over it.

The Hippo House (Banny) 22:31 - An obviously breathing Bon sprite picks up a gift box in the back room, and Sophie receives a picture of Susan slumped in the corner with the text, “I am still alive, but I can’t move and am having trouble breathing and my stomach feels weird,” in the bottom left corner.

The Hippo House (Banny) 22:47 - Sophie gives the gift to Banny, whose face changes and Banny starts to breathe as well.

The Hippo House (Banny) 22:55 - The Hippo House (Banny)  - “LEVEL COMPLETED!! great job SOAPIE!! YOU JUST MADE SUSAN BEAUTIFUL!!!!” is shown on screen. This is a call back to Rosemary’s death, as after her body is put inside Sha, she is regarded as beautiful now.

The Hippo House (Banny) 23:01 - A close up image of Banny’s head is slowly dissipated and replaced with Susan’s corpse’s face.

Main Level Screen 23:42 - Rocket can be seen at the bottom of the screen, between the hay bales.

Main Level Screen 23:46 - A missing poster for Susan Woodings can be seen on the house.

Letter 24:15 - “Linda ~~Kranken~~ Thompson. do not touch.

October 30th, 1964. Felix has been acting weird lately. He’s been drinking more than usual. I am very worried about him. I don’t know what to do. He came home at 4am… I don’t know what to do.

August 23, 1965. I know I haven’t talked here as much as I used to. This month has been so so so so crazy. I moved in with Felix last week. He was very happy about it.Yesterday Jack and Rose had their third child. A little girl! Her name is Molly. Molly Walten. Jack and Felix have been sharing the ‘restaurant idea’ with a company that’s interested in the project. The name’s CYBERFUN TECH.

December 25, 1970. Christmas was nice, they built a doll, a gray rabbit, for Ed and Molly. Molly named it Rocket. Felix drinked a lot yesterday, this has been a problem for a while. He is a good person but he doesn't want to address this. It’s getting worse and worse but he doesn’t notice. He feels bad about it but doesn’t try to change.

January 3, 1973. It’s getting worse, he is so submersed with their project that he doesn’t realize how much damage he is doing to himself, how much damage he is doing to me. He keeps going to places to drink, sometimes he even stays in the warehouse at night for the sole purpose of drinking. He doesn’t listen, he never listens, I don’t know what to do.

I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO. I AM SO WORRIED. I [REDACTED] MAKE IT I JUST CANNNOT (unintelligible)

May 2nd, 1974. DEAR FELIX: By the time you’re reading this, I shouldn’t be home. I know you’re confused, I am confused too. What you said last week it hurt me a lot, but it opened my eyes, hopefully this opens your eyes too. Our relationship isn’t healthy, I don’t think it ever was. I am leaving Brighton this morning. You’re at the warehouse with Jack and the rest as I’m writing this. By the time you get home I’ll be in Hurricane. I know you are busy today doing Jack a favour. (Something related to a school party, I can’t remember) but please go there when you have the time. As to me, I’ll try to build my own life while I still can, you should do that too. I love you Goodbye. -Linda I am sorry, linda. I am so sorry.

I am sorry.”

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 26:48 - Before Boozoo reappears, a face can be seen in the background.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 27:19 - A black and white image of a face appears in a text box with some jumbled letters

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 27:45 - a faded white sprite gives the same error as above when Sophie touches it. The letters seem to be the same.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 28:02 - Sophie finds another faded white sprite, but nothing happens when she touches it.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 25:22 - When the Bon sprite touches the Boozoo sprite, the Boozoo sprite is replaced with a red body and a mask-like face.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 28:33 - A brief screenshot of a computer spreadsheet flashes on screen.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 30:38 - Bottom row reveals a black and white corpse with black tears streaming from its eyes

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 31:42 - In the background of the picture on the right is a dark sprite lurking.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 32:09 -  The right image has two frowning red dolls (representing Molly and Edd), a black doll being held by Billy (representing Felix), and a small toy car which appears to have ‘crashed’ into Billy’s foot. This is a representation of the night Felix accidentally killed Jack’s children after drunkenly picking them up from the school party.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 32:28 - A before (left) and after (right) image of Jack Walton pre- and post- death.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 32:47 - Withered Boozoo congratulated Sophie for completing the minigame. His face is covered with a picture of Jack’s face.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 33:05 - White eyes on a black background. At 33:15 the rest of Jack Walten’s corpse face is shown while the words, “Missing 0 7 14 ”are repeated.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 33:27 - An image of Boozoo’s bloody withered face is presented on screen with heavy breathing.

Lily’s Birthday (Boozoo) 33:37 - Withered Boozoo (full body) lurches towards the screen before another close up of his face while the word “listen” is repeated several times. Here you can see human teeth in the mouth and human eyes in the sockets. Following the blocking from the previous scenes, this heavily implies that Jack Walton’s body was stuffed into the Boozoo animatronic. Due to the heavy breathing from the last notation, Jack may have been put in the animatronic alive, similar to Susan/Banny.

Main Level Screen 34:14 -A gray rabbit can be seen behind the door on the right. More than likely Rocket.

Main Level Screen 34:19 - Jack’s missing poster is displayed on the post near the fence.

Main Level Screen 34:40 - Two red sprites can be seen in the woods at the bottom of the screen. (Edd and Molly)

Main Level Screen 34:44 - Susan’s missing poster is displayed on the tree on the left.

Main Level Screen 35:03 - An image of Sha’s cartoon form is shown for a brief moment standing before a wall of roses. (This could have possibly been the intended level background, as it fits more with the visual theme that has been consistent thus far.)

Hide and Seek (Sha) 35:07 - As the game continues to deteriorate, we have a drawn but more realistic version of Sha showing the metal parts of the endoskeleton instead of the cartoonish version that has been consistent with the game. The sky is also red, giving it a more sinister visual.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 35:18 - An image of withered Bon appears amongst the trees in the background.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 35:31 - Sha disappears and some of the background is replaced with the walls of the backstage area at the Bon’s Burgers restaurant.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 36:11 - Top left corner is the white with blue snout animatronic bear. The fence has been broken, and in the top right corner are two graves, one marked with an ‘E’ and the other marked with an ‘M’.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 36:43 - The graves in the top right corner have been replaced with two red sprites and the bear has disappeared from the top left corner.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 37:09 - Jack’s drawn face can be seen layered with the background at the bottom of the screen.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 37:14 - The graves are back and a rocket sprite has been placed between them. Also, the roses have moved from the bottom left to the bottom right.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 37:31 - There is a paper lying on the floor of the barn, possibly another missing poster.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 38:04 - A dismembered Sha is displayed on screen as she says, “You found me.” This mirrors Rosemary’s death, who resides in Sha.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 38:08 - Jack's face can still be seen at the bottom and now withered Sha is displayed on the right.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 38:32 - The roses have moved to the forest area of the level

Hide and Seek (Sha) 38:58 - As Sophie hides in the now dark forest and waits for withered Sha to come find her, I can’t help but be reminded of Brian’s death.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 39:28 - Sha/Rosemary ask, “Am I still beautiful to you, Sophie?”

Hide and Seek (Sha) 39:32 - Withered Sha’s face has Rosemary’s black and white dead face superimposed onto it.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 39:35 - The door to the backstage area at Bon’s Burgers is displayed as Sha says, “Found you!” Various barn animals can be heard here and the text, “I know where He is, Rosie,” and, “follow me,” is displayed at the top of the screen. This shows how Rosemary was lured to the backstage area.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 40:08 - The backstage area is shown. Blood splatters the wall and cartoon Sha with Rosemary’s face and some text is displayed. (Sorry, I couldn’t make this one out) Rosemary’s screams can be heard. The closed captioning says, “MISSING: Rosemary Walten LAST SEEN: 07-19-1974”

Hide and Seek (Sha) 40:23 - A bloodied and realistic Sha is displayed over a black background. More blood appears on her face as she shakes back and forth while Rosemary continues to scream.

Hide and Seek (Sha) 40:33 - Flashed on the screen in quick succession are, in order: Banny with Susan’s face peeking through, Boozoo with the human teeth and eyes, Ashley’s face shown over Billy’s tic-tac-toe level, wiggling withered Sha with Rosemary inside. This cycles twice before switching to the game start screen (40:36). One red girl sprite and one red boy sprite flash on the screen.

Magic Fountain of Memories 40:44 - If you follow the well’s eye movement, they match the ‘searching for friends (customers)’ facial movements. The well is searching for Sophie.

Magic Fountain of Memories 41:03 - The white bear with the blue stomach rises from the well. He says, “Come one and come all. Welcome to my magic fountain of memories. Step right up and enter your most repressed experiences and get ready to be amazed by my magic. Let’s take a small trip down memory lane, shall we? Tell me, what is it you would like to remember?:

Magic Fountain of Memories 41:26 - Sophie draws two stick figures holding hands. The background around the well goes red and we’re taken to a phone call between Jack and Felix

Magic Fountain of Memories 42:52 - ‘05-05-1974’ is displayed on screen along with a picture of what Sophie describes as her old house.

Magic Fountain of Memories 43:06 - The Rocket cartoon gets compressed to the side as he says, “All that’s left to do is to-” and he gets cut off by a ringing phone as the screen now displays an image of an older telephone. The text “May 2nd 1974 15:23” appears above it, and to the right is a silhouette with red on it. The audio transcript follows.

“Felix - Hello?

Jack - Felix!

Felix - Jack? What is it?

Jack - Listen, I was wondering if you could do Rose and I a small favor tonight?

Felix - I don’t know Jack, today has been, uh-

Jack - Please, it’s about Edd and Molly. They have a school event tonight - a school party, and they have no one to pick them up. I need to stay at the workshop to finish some paperwork and Rose is uh, taking Sophie to the dentist. We were wondering if you could pick them up for the event and take them home later?

Felix - T-tonight?

Jack - Yeah, if it’s possible of course.

Felix - Sure, I can do that.

Jack - Really?

Felix - Yeah, sure.

Jack - Wow, thanks bunch man, you’re a lifesaver Felix. (Oh the irony)

Felix - Heh, it’s nothing.

Jack - Alright, so come pick them up at 5, and get them home at 9. Rose should be home by then. If she’s not, you call me. Got it?

Felix - Got it”

Magic Fountain of Memories 44:27 - The bear says, “ Be weary, for this memory seems to be buried deep within your mind. You must find them Sophie.” As hinted at before, the pills have made/allowed her to forget certain events. This is one of possibly more.

Magic Fountain of Memories 45:26 - When Sophie opens the gift box from the bear, she is shown a flyer that reads, “BRIGHTON HIGH SPRING PARTY! May 2nd 1974 LET’S CELEBRATE SPRING SEASON WITH A DELIGHTFUL AND ENTERTAINING PARTY!!” I can’t read what else it says.

Magic Fountain of Memories 46:11 - Distorted laughter/crying can be heard as the red sprite children come and circle the Bon sprite. Sophie is led to a car.

Magic Fountain of Memories 46:41 - “May 2nd, 1974 1720pm” Edd and Molly as the sprite children appear. Edd tells Molly they need to get ready to go as they morph into a more realistic version of themselves, though their proportions are still off. Molly searches for Rocket and a sprite for Felix appears. He says, “Kids it’s time to get going. Are you ready?” Molly finds Rocket and the trio get into a car. Footage is shown of a driver’s perspective as they go down the road.

Magic Fountain of Memories 47:49 - The Rocket sprite appears and leads Sophie to her next destination with the words, “foll ow foll ow” and “o ver here over he re”.

Magic Fountain of Memories 49:12 - As Sophie passes her sprite through the overhang, it changes from Bon to the red sprites of Edd and Molly together.

Magic Fountain of Memories 49:30 - The more realistic Edd and Molly are shown on screen as Edd asks Molly if they can leave now that they’ve found Rocket. They go off to find Felix.

Magic Fountain of Memories 50:32 - As they enter the DRINKING ZONE, they find a sprite with Felix’s picture on it sitting at the bar. A voice says, “Uncle Felix sure drank a lot that day.” Molly tells him that he shouldn’t be drinking, to which he replies, “It’s okay. I’m just feeling a little dizzy. It’s getting very late. Your parents must be worried. Let’s go.”

Magic Fountain of Memories 50:58 - The bear tells Sophie to watch as an image of a car is shown. We’re taken back to actual footage, the transcript to which is provided below. The text, “May 2nd 1974, 21:53,” is shown in the top left corner.

“Edd - How much is left until we get home?

Felix - Not much, just- I’m just kinda lost, I think.

Molly - Uncle Felix? Were you drinking? Our teacher says drinking is not good.

Felix - No, no, no. I’m just. I’m just. I’m just feeling dizzy is all. It’s not that big of a deal, alright?

Edd - Alright...

Molly - I wanna go home.

Felix - Molly, we’re- we’re almost there.

Edd - Don’t you think you’re driving too fast?

Felix - Listen I’m just- I’m just trying to get you two quickly- home quickly, alright? Look I’m- I’m sorry. I’m just- I’m not feeling too good right now and I really just- just- I just want to lay in the bed and go to sleep.

Molly - It’s alright. (text on screen says, “It’s all your fault” x4) We get that today wasn’t the best for you. We understand. Everything is going to be okay!

Felix - Haha, thanks Molly.”

Magic Fountain of Memories 52:45 - The screen goes dark and the sound of a honking horn can be heard driving by. The tires screech and the screen shows a flash of a fence.

Magic Fountain of Memories 52:52 - The screen shows a drawn face, completely bloody, accompanied by the words, “OH NO! YOU GOT THE BAD ENDING!” “you couldn’t finish the barn tasks in time!!!” quickly changes to, “you crashed the car! You killed them!!” as the screen flashes between a human face, cartoon Molly’s bloody face, and cartoon Edd’s face. The human face starts to cry black tears. Felix’s face flashes on screen, screaming and crying.

Magic Fountain of Memories 53:22 - Rocket’s model appears before the screen before cutting to a picture of two small graves and the stuffed animal between them. The cartoon bear appears on the right side, saying, “They didn’t go home that night. He buried them here. He was too scared. But they found a way out eventually.” The bear disappears and two sad red child sprites appear on the grave before moving towards/ in the Rocket doll.

Magic Fountain of Memories 54:07 - Rocket stands with the two children’s souls inside. Screen fades to black with only Rocket remaining.

Magic Fountain of Memories 54:25 - Phone ringing. Answering machine beep.

“Answering machine - You have 25 new messages. Beeeep

Jack - Felix, pick up the phone. Now. I need you to pick up the phone. It’s been three hours since I told you to get Edd and Molly home. What happened to my children? If anything happened Felix, you must tell me. You haven’t called me in three hours. I need to know what’s going on. I’ve tried to call you all night. What the hell is wrong with you? I- I’ve been trying to contact you all night. I’ve been calling everyone for you. Just what the hell’s wrong with you? Three hours, you didn’t call. I asked you to do one simple favor for me. I need to know where are they, where did you-

Answering machine - beeeeep.”

Magic Fountain of Memories 55:31 - Bear “But that’s not all, is it? There’s still something you forgot to remember. They’ve been waiting for you.”

Magic Fountain of Memories 56:51 - Rocket comes on screen carrying something. When he approaches the Bon sprite, we’re treated to another look at withered Bon. He flashes a few times before the screen is only on his face (in black and white), splashed in red.

Magic Fountain of Memories 57:20 - Withered Bon, covered in blood with human eyes and teeth, moves his hands back and forth while black and white images of Edd and Molly are flashed on screen.

Magic Fountain of Memories 57:37 - The Rocket doll sits on a chair, then two frightened looking faces appear, one on either side of him. When it cuts to black, there is the second half of the youtube link from earlier, DTYwsiz09I. The full link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDTYwsiz09I

Extra Info/Original Video/Document Links:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tnNHGfbQy03GAsAocD89PHxDg0K5gK36cZNyxcJcJBw/edit - Original Document Shown Above

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egPO9kUJehU - The Walten Files 3: BunnyFarm

Other videos to watch and make lore on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2PqTT9wl9M - The Walten Files 1: Company Introductory Tape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTFnNOL4hwg - The Walten Files 2: Relocate Project

The hidden link if you're lazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDTYwsiz09I - Guilty

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