I Solved FNAF's BIGGEST Mystery

In today's video I discuss one of FNAF's biggest unsolved mysteries... Midnight Motorist from Pizzeria Simulator. This is probably one of the most wild theories I've ever posted. FNAF has been in my life for so long, so it was really cool looking back and theorizing about past games. I hope you enjoy the video :)

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[FuhNaff]

REMINDER: This is just a theory! DON’T take anything I say as fact! I just like adding new perspectives to the lore :) Thanks for watching everyone! 💙

[RodriPlays]

Imagine if Scott just made a random pile of dirt just to make the fanbase go crazy.

[ryanstanley]

lowkey love that matpat and fuhnaff are still pumping out theories. it’s nice during such a long period of no fnaf game news

[silentshade]

John’s videos are always full of the raw analysis and theory crafting that made FNAF so captivating to all of us. Love it

[meganimanic]

I was right on board until you said he had died twice. I think a lot of it adds up and is a pretty reasonable theory, I enjoy the effort put into it.
I don't agree that Crying Child has died twice, however, I would propose an alternative:
What if he was just straight up captured? We know that when a kid gets captured by a Funtime animatronic they aren't killed, at least not right away. One of the novel stories, the one about the goth chick who likes Edgar Allen Poe stories, gets captured in a Funtime Freddy, but she is alive in his stomach hatch for a period of time.
So what if the same thing happened to Crying Child? And when Afton went to fetch his quarry from him, he discovered his son inside. He would have been released, but would also have been heavily disciplined and would explain why he's forced to be around Fazbear's Pizza while still being terrified. If he acts out or says anything about what happened to him, he'd get his own Dad in trouble.
I think that makes a bit more narrative sense and still supports this theory without necessarily implying Crying Child was "killed" two times.

[DragoIV-bfdt]

I’m convinced the entire fnaf theory community has gone completely insane

[lankyliv]

midnight motorist has been the most infuriating puzzle since it came out. i’m excited

[WeatherReportsHat]

I'm not sure I believe this theory, but this was such a good watch. It's great to see an entirely new and fresh perspective. Theory crafting isn't really about being right, it's about coming up with ideas, and this was a really great idea.

[SetsuneW]

Was thinking about this a few days later, and now Glamrock Freddy specifically having a stomach hatch Gregory climbs in and out of seems like a deliberate echo of the plot detail you theorized. Like it's repeating history, maybe without either of them realizing it.

[ipacx]

I've got 1 problem with this theory; If we assume that the Crying Child was killed by Funtime Freddy, then rebuilt and then killed again by Fredbear, there is a problem. Why would William Aftom create the Funtime animatronics so early in the timeline? He had no motive since they were made to capture children. William must have created Funtime Freddy after the bite of 83 and after the murder of Charlie and both of these events happen after the midnight motorist minigame events. So to my knowledge Funtime Freddy couldn't have killed the Crying Child because he didn't exist yet.

[Goonmaster]

Can’t wait for mat pat to make a 2 hour video while pausing every 5 seconds

[todadude]

So awesome that we're still discovering things even after years thanks for this video John! 😁👍

[Shadow]

The biggest thing that makes me doubt this, is the wording that the Freddy plush uses when telling the crying child not to go near the stage. "Remember what you saw" not "Remember what happened to you" or "Remember what he did to you". The wording heavily implies that he saw someone else get killed or something by either Fredbear or Spring Bonnie.

[Parziphone]

Honestly I love your theories, thank you for keeping theorizing. The lengths you go to trying to make sense of an aspect of the story that doesn't make sense gives me life. Thank you so so so much I love you

[clemi]

Okay but at no point do we saw that the crying child dies in midnight motorist. All we know for sure is that he ran away from home? The only confirmed death that night is Charlie. It’s an interesting theory but there’s no proof of them dying the same night. It’s just as possible that the crying child was merely captured that night and later released by Afton. Remember that in one of the stories of into the pit there’s a similar case scenario where a teenager girl spend hours trap in in Funtime Fredbear before she was killed. It’s not necessarily an instant kill scoop like for Elisabeth.

[Boigboi]

I want to like this theory, I really do, but that would mean that not only did the Crying Child die twice, we also didn't even see his first death. Do agree that it would explain 4 and the SL room a whole lot more. Midnight Motorist has been such a difficult thing to figure out that we come to conclusions like this. Also, props to pointing out the band-aid on CC and Gregory, don't think I've seen anyone else mention that since the Encyclopedia came out.

[dejosserman]

the only problem i have with this theory is: how did the crying child get into a hospital after being bitten if hes a robot? the doctors would catch on pretty quickly that hes made of metal and not of flesh and bone

[TheLeonardoPontes]

MatPat: Ok, I finally have the full timeline explained, I'll be releasing it in the next couple of wee--
John: I'm about to end this man's whole career...

[rwic]

i love the way that you actually explain how you came to the conclusion of your theories, and i dont mean explaining proof, i mean the way you explain your thought process (like when you heard the glass sound effect and also the thumbscrew)

[sambish]

1:19 "This isn't the first time we've seen an umarked pile of dirt in this franchise" this isn't even the funniest sentence I've heard from a fnaf video that makes sense in context but it definitely needs to be noted.