The Story of the LOST FNAF Trailer

Overview

The video explores the mystery of a purported second lost Five Nights at Freddy’s trailer.

• It starts by describing the widely known FNAF1 trailer, featuring Bonnie running down the hallway and the full animatronic lineup performing on stage.
• The host then introduces a claim that an earlier, “scarier” version of the trailer may have been released on June 14, 2014 on Scott Cawthon’s channel (under the name “Five Nights at Freddy’s”). This claim came to light through comments on that trailer.

Key Controversy and Investigation

• A commenter (“Walmeet”) referenced an earlier or alternate trailer and suggested the animatronics had a more frightening design—particularly red “Hall 9001”-style eyes (as written in the subtitles).
• Viewers questioned what “Hall 9001” meant, causing confusion and prompting additional analysis.
• The video suggests this may have been an incorrect reference to “Hall 9000” from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
• The “red eyes” theory was compared to an image that appeared as a screenshot on the FNAF Steam page, increasing speculation that the “lost trailer” might be real.

How Researchers Tried to Find It

• For a long time, no one could locate the deleted trailer anywhere.
• Eventually, a Reddit user (“Golden both for the win”) used a Wayback Machine archive of Scott’s old Google+ page (dated April 2, 2016) to find listings of unlisted/deleted videos on Scott’s YouTube account.
• The listing reportedly showed three potentially relevant videos:
  1. “Five Nights at Freddy’s gameplay” (likely just the gameplay video)
  2. “Five Nights at Freddy’s” (possibly the same as the known trailer)
  3. “Five Nights” (no thumbnail and not viewable), which became the main evidence for the “lost trailer”

Resolution / Debunking

• On July 16, 2020, Walmeet posted on Twitter acknowledging a mistake, stating he had misremembered.
• He implied that the original FNAF1 trailer already existed, meaning the claimed second “lost” trailer might never have been truly separate.
• Even with this correction, the video notes that it remains unclear what the “Five Nights” video actually contains—and it may never be fully known.

Presenters / Contributors

• Scott Cawthon
• Walmeet (commenter; later Twitter correction)
• Golden both for the win (Reddit user who used Wayback Machine to find evidence)
• Reddit user(s) / viewers (collectively discussed in the video; no additional specific names given)