Mike is the Disturbed Survivor of a Childhood Massacre. Occasionally posters change to reveal newspaper articles about a series of children disappearing and having been murdered by a figure wearing a Freddy costume. The bodies were never found, though. Rumor and reports from health inspection, who claim that the four animatronics smell rotten, leads the player to assume the bodies were stuffed into the animatronics. This is their method of killing the player.
However, five children went missing but there are only four animatronics... except for the mysterious Golden Freddy. The strange figure acts more like a hallucination than the rest, and can teleport right into the office under the right circumstances. He still results in a game over if he appears.
Speculation runs high that Golden Freddy is actually a manifestation of Mike's memories of having survived the killer that claimed four other children. Whether his return to the restaurant is him confronting his fear or just the machinations of the hau
