Creepypasta Origins & Stories

Five Nights at Freddy

Backstory

There is a "Rules for Safety" sign in the East Hall Corner that is randomly replaced by newspaper articles throughout the
game. These articles reveal certain elements of the game's lore and backstory.

Missing children poster clean
The four newspapers appearing as hallucinations in place of the Rules for Safety sign.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza was once a popular restaurant for adults and children alike. However, due to a number of incidents
including the kidnapping and implied murder of five children by a man wearing an empty animatronic suit, sanctions by the
Health Department over the numerous reports of dirtiness and "The Bite of '87", the pizzeria has fallen on hard times.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is set to close by the end of the year, as potential buyers do not want to be associated with the
tainted reputation of the company.

The four mascots - Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken, and Foxy the Pirate had a particularly foul odor
and what appeared to be "blood and mucus" around their eyes and mouths, which concerned parents had interpreted as
"reanimated carcasses".

Phone Guy remarks in Night 1's phone message that the animatronics haven't been cleaned in their 20+ years of service,
which would explain the nasty odor. The stench could also be attributed to a popular theory that the missing children
were stuffed into the animatronic suits after they were killed and that their decomposing bodies were producing the
repulsive smell. Supposedly, due to the risk of their servos locking up from disuse, the animatronics have been left in a
"free-roaming mode" at night over the years. They used to be able to roam freely during the day as well, but
"The Bite of '87" caused the pizzeria to put a stop to this.

It was revealed that Phone Guy disappeared sometime before the events of the game, as heard during the phone call on
Night 4 and is implied to have been stuffed into a suit and/or killed. There are many theories as to what happened to
Phone Guy after the call cuts out, but one can be certain that he was attacked. There is also speculation about a more
complicated and twisted version of the plot, due to the phone message heard during Night 5.

Freddy Fazbear Pizzaria

Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, often abbreviated simply to "FFP" or "Freddy's", is the name of the fictional location in which
Five Nights at Freddy's and Five Nights at Freddy's 2 are set (technically, the two games are in different locations, but
they share the same name).

Freddy's is a family restaurant, reminiscent of ShowBiz Pizza Place and Chuck E. Cheese's, in that Freddy Fazbear's Pizza
provides entertainment via singing animatronic mascots.

The primary mascot and figurehead of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is Freddy Fazbear himself, accompanied by his bandmates,
consisting of Bonnie and Chica.

Despite Freddy's looking like a charming, family-friendly restaurant, it actually has a very dark and disturbing past.

History

According to the Phone Guy in Five Nights at Freddy's 2, the original restaurant was named "Fredbear's Family Diner,"
presumably a local family restaurant, before being bought and re-enfranchised as "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza." By the time
the events of the second game occurred, the original restaurant and owner have been gone for years.

According to several altered posters in the first game, an incident occurred when a man, dressed in an animatronic
(thought to be Golden Freddy's or Springtrap's) suit, lured two and eventually five kids in total into the back of the
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza seen in the second game; however, nowhere does it say that he actually murdered them. The suspect
was eventually caught, but in the end, neither the children nor their bodies were ever found.