FNAF's Time Travel Ball Pit Explained! (Into the Pit)

The newest entry in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise is here, the game adaptation of the short story Into the Pit! Today, we're breaking down all the science behind this story, and trying to explain the time traveling ball pit!

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[MusiciansRule]

The most common alternative theory to the ball pit being a time machine is that the ball pit is a reservoir full of the Agony of William Afton's victims so Oswald is immersed in the memories and PitBonnie is a demon made of Agony that wants Oswald and his loved ones to join the reservoir. But that's just a...you know the rest, LMAO! I just suspend my disbelief with FNAF now because the ideas are just too wild for me to think deeply about.

[DiamondzFinder_]

I just figured the way PitBonnie became Oswald's dad is just by making it look like he was, just an illusion basically.

[TheChiptide]

Hey everyone, just wanted to give you an update, I said in the video that part 2 would be next week, but I recently moved into a new apartment and have been having some internet issues, so it’s possible that won’t happen. I might need to do another compilation video next week, and then have part 2 of this the week after. Sorry for the delay, but I’ll do my best to make sure it’s worth it!

[hhprincess]

The real scientific question is how a 10 year old could singlehandedly pull a GROWN MAN out of a pit and fight off a animatronic but his dad couldn't

[technofurs]

or you read the books where the ball pit is revealed to just be a nightmare-hellscape-inducing agony-filled pit

[CosmicStarVA]

Hi! Big fan of the vids you make! Something important to note is that the Ballpit has been explained

TLDR: The BallPit is a memory realm made through Remnant

at the end of each Fazbear Frights book is a series of epilogues called the 'Stitchwraith Stingers'
these are an ongoing story that connect to only some of the Frights stories with one of the main ones being Into the Pit


If you read through the epilogues (mainly the later ones), it's revealed that the Ballpit contains TONS of a substance called 'Remnant'


Remnant is what it sounds like- its the remnants, whatever was left over, from something that is or was alive
Powerful Emotions and Memories can both lead to Remnant manifesting
Remnant has the ability to infect something and make it almost real and alive again, although a bit different-


Side Track:

bring in Eleanor, the main antagonist from the Frights story 'To Be Beautiful', and twist antagonist of thee Stitchwraith Stingers

Eleanor has a special heart shaped pendant made of Remnant (Remnant infused metal turned into the pendant)- this Pendant is able to cause a supernatural faccade on its wearer

in 'To Be Beautiful', Eleanor slowly dismembers a girl while she sleeps day after day- the girl does not notice because she is wearing the Pendant, making her body seem normal- once the pendant is removed, the girl crumbles into a pile of trash, meanwhile Eleanor steals back the pendant and she gains the appearance of the girl

Later on in the Stitchwraith Stingers- it is revealed through going inside the Ballpit, that it is filled with the remnant of Eleanor's previous victims (dead and alive)
this allows our main protagonist, Detective Larson, to travel through the memories of each victim, letting him interact with the world, but it never changes what really happens


Conclusion:

The BallPit is full of remnant, we do not really timetravel- we visit a memory, the memory of the Missing Children's incident, a source of Agony (a very powerful kind of Remnant)
PitBonnie is not Afton and he is not our Dad, PitBonnie is a manifestation of Remnant, a demon comprised of Memories- PitBonnie is what Afton is seen as, a Monster

How is PitBonnie seen as Afton's dad?: see 'To Be Beautiful', Remnant is able to mask physical appearance through a memory (how does PitBonnie know how to drive? Memories)


Extra Facts + ITP Game Spoilers:

The Stitchwraith, 'Count the Ways', 'To Be Beautiful', and 'Fetch', all appear in the Into The Pit game- this means that the Stitchwraith Stinger Epilogues and stories connected, are canon to the ITP game and mainline timeline

Memories are a big theme within the Frights Epilogues, its very much worth reading them in order to understand Remnant and how the BallPit works


things like the MCI victims being killed in a party room, as well as other differences, are explained through the BallPit being a memory realm- it does not change or retcon anything

the Memory Realm cannot affect anything in the real world unless that thing is physically brought there (usually)

[sleepy-fcrf]

The funny thing about the Agony interpretation is that Oswald can actually just leave the pizzeria and live in 1985 at any time, meaning he is actually literally time traveling.

[theletterm]

Came for the science. Stayed for the fanfic.

[matercan]

This channel always gives the wildest, scientifically-based explanations to gaming's questions and i'm here for it

[GingyPreston]

For some reason while you were going over the rules of time traveling, I thought of the Truman Show, and then a minute later you reference the Truman show

[suzie_do_you_copy]

"Springtrap is your dad :)" man, I can't wait to see a compilation of this channel out of context 💀💀

[lacey_moon]

I don't know if you make FNAF videos because it's what your Patrons want to see, or because you're genuinely a part of the fandom and enjoy it like we, the fans, do, but I appreciate you making these videos nonetheless!!

[spacealien]

I know its a bit pedantic but I feel like its important to point out the character in the story isn't Springtrap its called the Yellow Rabbit. Its also sorta unclear if an actual human is even in that suit of if its a supernatural entity so I don't know if the Yellow Rabbit could have ya know... did adult things with Oswald's mom to make Oswald.

[SE]

Naw springtrap just used sound Illusion disc to look like his dad

[ciboria]

I wonder if we are adding rules to a scenario where they dont apply;
Its not the grandfather paradox, because nothing happened to his dad before the current Oswald did what he did.
(If my dad got kidnapped tomorrow, I would still exist.)
Its only if he was kidnapped before the trigger (entering the ball pit), then its a causality issue.

Instead its more of an elaborate kidnapping
Pittrap taking Oswalds dad out of the present into the past, then using tech to look like him [insert posivility of Mind Illusion Disc here]
Oswald then works to get his dad free from the past and take him back to the present.

The ball pit is a stationary object, that allows Oswald to go back to the past, but time moves at the same rate as ours (you can't go from Day 4 to Night 1 in the past).

TLDR;
The method of the dad-napping isn't creating a paradox by itself, nor do the actions of the past seemingly change the world to a problematic state.
(We burn that pizzaria when we get there)

[jadedcode]

I found out about your channel from the V.A.N.N.I. Mask explanation video. I stuck around for your Pokemon and Minecraft videos. I love the insane effort you put in your work. I hope your channel continues to grow!

[DragoSonicMile]

"Ugh, I don't know. Time travel always gives me a headache." ~Max Tennyson.

[MrAppleSalad]

It can't be a dream, Pit Bonnie bites Oswald's arm at the end of the game / story and in both instances his dad notices it and comments on it. In the game there's also an ending where Pit Bonnie kills Jeff, so it's clearly not dreamt up by Oswald. It's more likely that the ball pit is where Afton hid one of the bodies of the kids he killed, and now the pit is filled with spirit juices that latch to Oswald when he jumps inside. He lives through the memories of the kids that suffered at the hands of Afton, and Pit Bonnie is a child's interpretation of the monster that killed them.

[philipharwood]

My theory for how Springtrap becomes Oswalds dad is that when Springtrap drags his dad into the ball pit, from Springtraps perspective any amount of time occurred within the ball pit. And as such Springtrap would have an endless amount of prep time. Whether that be turning Oswald's dad into a robot, uses an illusion disc or whatever. And then once he's done, Springtrap emerge from the ball pit at the exact point he first enters, where Oswald pulls him out. However when Oswald enters the ball pit, he enters at a time before Springtrap even left. Which also explains why Springtrap seeming exists in both 1985 and the future simultaneously. And after Oswald rescues his dad, Springtrap never manages to fulfil his plan and thus the Springtrap from the future ceases to exist, and everything returns to normal... besides the broken Springtrap tangled up in the ball pit ropes lol. But, I hope my explanation makes sense, and i explained it well

[TheHaddonfieldRegistry]

This is the channel I was most excited to cover the new game