The Walten Files

**The Walten Files** is an animated series on YouTube created by Martin Walls. Three episodes have been created so far, with two non canon episodes, hidden episodes, and a trailer. It can be found on Martin Walls channel.

## Background

The Walten Files is a horror series of VHS animated tapes, similar to that of Squimpus Mcgrimpus or Local58. It's inspired by Five Nights at Freddys.

## Plot

### The 1970's

Jack Walten and Felix Kranken came up with an idea that hadn't been foreseen before, to create a restaurant aimed at kids with robotic entertainment. This idea had stuck with the two until it came into fruition in the summer of 1974, with the name, "Bon's Burgers" and would be under the management of Bunny Smiles Incorporated (BSI).

On May 2nd, 1974, one month before the opening of the restaurant, Felix took Jack's two younger children, Edd and Molly, to a school party. The school had hosted an alcoholic beverages area for the adults in which Felix gladly drank, as he was dealing with problems with his alcoholism and his wife leaving him earlier in that day. After the kids had their fun, Felix drove the Waltens' kids back home. However, due to how intoxicated Felix was, he began to speed up and crashed his car, killing both Edd and Molly. Out of irrational fear and guilt, he buried the two children in Saint Juana's Forest. After several hours, Jack attempted to call Felix, angrily asking him where his children were, to which Felix did not respond.

Jack Walten was declared missing on June 11th, 1974.

The restaurant would open on June 28th, 1974, 17 days after Jack's disappearance. Two days afterward, the restaurant would host its first birthday party. That night, Susan Woodings would make an audio recording logging the day and the irregularities she noticed in Bon, the leader of The Showstoppers (an animatronic band used and operated by Cyberfun Tech to entertain customers). She goes on to state that she'd hopefully fix Bon and close for the night. Sometime afterwards, Bon would mutilate Woodings and stuff her into Banny.

Charles, an unknown BSI employee, was murdered on July 14th, 1974 and stuffed into Boozoo.

Rosemary Walten would often visit the establishment in hopes to find her missing husband, though her attempts seemed to be futile. On July 19th, 1974 however, when she visited the restaurant yet again to gain some information about her loved one, a voice emanated from behind the main stage of The Showstoppers. When Rosemary went to the backstage, Bon was awaiting her, and proceeded to then dismember Rosemary and stuff her into Sha. It is assumed that Sophie Walten, the Walten's eldest daughter, most likely witnessed the event.

Sometime later that day, police reports were given from the Bon's Burgers location of an adult woman screaming from the backrooms of the restaurant. This prompted the employees to remove the animatronics from the mainstage. The last day they were open, July 20th, 1974, only two families were given access to visit the restaurant and the location later closed for good.

The restaurant was boarded up later on, based on a photo taken on October 31, 1974. Between this period of time, Felix Kranken created the Saint Juana's Storage Facility, a vault intended to store any items from the Bon's Burgers location. The vault was built and completed around November - early December 1974 based on a photograph taken on December 10th, 1974.

Another photo that was taken on January 23rd, 1975 showed that the animatronics from the restaurant had been moved into the facility.

After this, the only known source of revenue for the BSI franchise was received through multiple business offers such as merchandise, a TV show, and a movie.

On April 5, 1977, some detectives explored the Walten family house.

Log #785

"The house has remained abandoned for over 3 years now

Me and the team payed another visit to check if there was anything we could've possibly missed about this whole case

The girl doesn't wanna talk about the situation, I don't think she even remembers most of it.

As to Mr. Kranken, we caught him driving intoxicated once again, we revoked his driving license and he stayed in the station for 3 days, however he didn't say a single thing about the case, the man's a mess and his addiction seems to get worse and worse.

I'm led to believe there's something missing here. There HAS to be something that flew over our heads.

Me and Rogers have been checking the BSI documents for weeks now, no luck.

Back to the house, we weren't able to take any photos. It was a quick visit.

The place stinks, the walls are all rusty and that warm flower wallpaper covering them is now all torn apart. Something that caught our attention was a cute painting on the wall inside what appeared to be the girl's bedroom.

We checked the other rooms, nothing.

We found Jack Walten's office, but all there was in the room was a pack of cigarettes.

This investigation has gone to shit, I hear all sorts of crazy rumours around town about what happened to the Walten family, I hate it.

-Detective Derek Collins, log April 5th, 1977"

By 1978, Kranken wanted the animatronics in a new location, so he created a plan titled: "The Relocate Project", in which the main goal was to fix the animatronics and reopen the business, hoping it would actually be successful.

Between July 12 - 14, 1978, three BSI employees, Kevin W., Hillary B., and Ashley Parks were sent to the storage facility in order to reprogram the animatronics. This proved unsuccessful due to the immense amount of damage on the robots. Ashley had remarked that they received a key with no actual proper use and was curious to see if it had any use at all. It did indeed, when it unlocked the backdoor, which revealed many rooms full of animatronic parts and miscellaneous items.

She then found an unused animatronic named Billy, which had a cassette tape used for birthday parties. However the tape corrupted itself and Ashley was then murdered by Bon and stuffed into the Billy animatronic. Kevin and Hilary assumed Ashley had left early and went on with leaving the facility.

The caretakers of the storage facility noticed awful smells emanating from the backrooms, which prompted the caretakers to close the facility in 1978 or 1979.

### The 1980's

In October 1982, Brian Stells is hired by BSI to act as the new facility caretaker, a role that no one had for years, and on October 10th, 1982, Brian was ordered to record what he did that night on reprogramming the animatronics. He finds Bon and attempts to use his reprogramming device to check if it was still working. Things seemed to be going well, until Bon started acting a bit strange, eventually chasing Brian out of the facility, and killing him.

5 days later, Sophie Walten, the eldest child of the Walten family, and her girlfriend, Jenny Letterson, find an arcade style game made by BSI titled BunnyFarm. The game centered around doing miscellaneous tasks in order to receive fruits from the farm owner in order to save a festival. The game glitches out and shows disturbing and unusual imagery, which causes Sophie to quit the game.

The next day, Sophie plays the game again, where the mysterious and creepy glitches continue plaguing the game. But now, they begin to piece a story for Sophie, who has severe memory loss from pills that had been given to her. A story about how a few individuals lost their lives at Bon's Burgers 8 years prior, and the story of what happened to Edd and Molly when they were under Felix's care that night. This finally helps Sophie to remember what she had lost long ago, and after some discussion with Jenny, she is agreed upon to get help in remembering everything she forgot.

BSI then would shut down in Early 1983.

## Episodes

There are currently 3 episodes, with 2 bonus tapes.

* Company Introductory Tape
* Relocate Project
* Lucky You
* Bunnyfarm
* Guilty

## Trivia

* Martin Walls has stated that TWF was made to be as a "Fever Dream" more and that he disliked the "Scary Challenge" that it became due to Social Medias (Mainly Tiktok)