A spine chilling web series: The Walten Files (TAPE 1)

If you are for a spine chilling and not a fan of jump scare horror movie or series, then this might be for you.

Few days back while browsing the YouTube, I came across with a reaction channel named Loey Lane. I have seen her previous videos reacting to horror and creepy things she found in the internet. The story of the Walten Files is one of the many compelling videos she had ever done. She made two reaction videos for the Walten Files and I've watched it. I tried to search for other videos regarding it and I came to the Martin Walls channel and there I got the unedited videos. He is the original uploader of the videos. Uploaded in April 27, 2020 with 5,964,807 views as I write this article. The first tape is 10 minutes and 19 seconds long. Walten files has three tapes and this is the first.

Below is the description of the uploaded video.

"Tape 1:

This is a compilation of Tapes created by the already extinct Bunny Smiles Company
I tried to get as much info as I could about what these tapes are, 
all I could find was that these tapes were handed to new employees 
back in 1974-1979 the rest of the tapes seem to be recorded by a new 
"Facility Caretaker" in the year 1982, Hopefully, I can find more tapes soon.

-Anthony"

The video starts with a company logo of BON'S BURGER. It described its purpose as the introductory tape for a new job as a Technical Support and Maintenance, and further explained the job description and the importance of it.

Let's take a brief look as the history of the Bon's Restaurant. Created by Bunny Smiles Incorporated (BSI), and started its operation on June 28, 1974 up to July 20, 1974 in Michigan.

The overall look of the informational video so far is great, and nothing weird happening to it. The first jingle is quite catchy, and it had lively vibe then it switched to a song "How much is that doggy in the window" with the characters being flashed one by one in a 2D image. Those are weird looking characters and I personally say creepy characters singing the song. Then the song changed to "Old Macdonald" song that we all know very well. At around -8: 32 mark, there was this weird sound of animal playing along with the old Macdonald song that lasted for about three seconds. The video then introduced the characters: Bon, Sha, Boozoo and Banny.

• Bon is the face of the Bon’s burger, he is blue and wears a red necktie.

• Boozoo is circus man with a mustache.

• Banny is a purple rabbit with pink tie.

• Sha is a sheep.

These characters were created to entertain children.

The video further explains the responsibilities of being the care taker of the facility such and cleaning, maintenance and repairs, and how to get used to the BSI technology.

Then a message from the founders, Jack Walten and Felix Kranken telling the new employees that ratings and money are not they were after for but a great experience at work is what they look forward to. A few more words of encouragement then the screen switched to an image of a storage facility with a caption that reads below:

Save, restore, secure!
The BSI Storage Facility, also known asK-9 is a Company Project to Storage all
valuable items From the “Closes for 
Good” Bon’s Burger’s Restaurant. Given the situations about the incidents 
inside 1974 Bon’s Burger LOCATION, any types of Props, Animatronics and Arcade 
Machines will be Carefully Moved, 
Inspected and Secured Inside a Bunker
Located deep down in Saint Juana’s Forest for Good.

A FACILITY CARETAKER will take Care of 
Securing the Facility and Keeping it Safe and Working Properly.

Question: What was the incident that happened in 1974 that caused Bon’s to close and kept all its property in a deep forest?

Then, a black screen and dead silence for about seven seconds. If I were to make a company introduction video, I wouldn't allow even a second of dead air. Bon showed up with an inaudible background. A reversed audio that if we put it the right way it says:

“You finally start to remember that old day, they will look out for you soon.”

Who is the person in audio referring to? This is just the start of the many mysterious messages and glitches in the video.

Next is a cartoon video that shows Bon having a sleepover party with his friends. In the cartoon video, Bon is telling a list of all his friends invited to his party. Sha, Boozoo and Billy (the clown). It was repeated to remind us who were the people invited with their pictures on the screen with Bon but when it came to Billy's picture, Bon's eyes went hollow and the photo of Billy on the screen is no longer a clown's photo but a real human's photo in black and white! And the narrator didn't mention the name of Billy. It just became silent. It looks familiar and I have a hint who he is. It's Jack Walten! What is he doing in the video? It was really creepy seeing the photo and what's disturbing was Bon's eyes were hollow!

Bon's friends came and the narrator explained that Bon spent all of his money for a really funny movie but the audio muffled and showed on screen, again, Jack Walten's black and white photo. The four friends watched the movie prepared by Bon and the screen started to play with a message on it that says, " LET ME OUT OF HERE", and the screen went black again with an inaudible audio. The friends now settled in for a night and asleep except Bon who then heard noises from the kitchen and started walking in the dark. He found a piece of photo, Jack Walten's photo with captions: "MISSING: Jack Walten, LAST SEEN: 06/11/1974". Jack's face in the photo was glitching while an eerie audio played in the background. Bon found a lighter, he was trying to light it. On his third attempt another character was standing and holding a lighter with a caption, "Ugh, stay!''

The video switched to a real life video of a man in a car finding his way into a deep forest. The time in the video is 12:44 am dated 10/10/1982. The man driving is talking and he said that he is the new caretaker of the Bunny Smiles Facility. He then explained why he is recording his way through the facility, according to him it is a sort of requirement of archive for the work history. He had been driving for 20 minutes to find the location in the forest. He made it to the location and mentioned a name, Chris. Chris told him that the facility wasn't working for some time. He entered into the facility and was greeted by a foul smell and found a mascot of Bon. It is a human like figure and he checked the diagnostics. The mouth started to move and everything is dark. His voice is echoing and the surrounding is eerie and creepy! He tested the right arm, and it started to move an then he checked the left arm.

The next image flashed on the screen is Bon with a hollow eye and it looks bad, then an eye inside showed up and a gushing blood flowed from it. The man is panting and running away from the facility. In the darkness a pair of glowing eyes can be seen and Bon appears. A hollow face image and a grotesque face of Bon with the words, " i can't feel anything, he thought i was her", is on the screen giving me a chill and scared me. A black screen and then an image of what seemed to be an ID. The name on the ID is Brian Stells a Facility caretaker.

To answer the question above, Bon attacked the head engineer of the animatronics, Susan Woodings. Yes, that's right. A robotic thing had killed a woman while she was fixing or after the fix.

Note: The story is inspired by Five Night's at Freddy's.

credits to

Loey Lane Channel
https://youtube.com/user/LoeyLane

Lead image from:
https://the-walten-files-new.fandom.com/wiki/Bon%27s_Burgers

Martin Walls Channel
https://youtube.com/c/MartinWalls