Is the pizzeria in the game and movie real?

Created by Scott Cawthon, the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise got its first game in 2014, becoming a worldwide success. The plot gained 7 more main titles, as well as several spin-offs and a film: “Five Nights at Freddy’s – The Neverending Nightmare”, which hits theaters next Thursday, the 26th. Remember the trailer!

The dark story full of mysteries takes place in a pizzeria called Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, which shortly after the launch of the game that opened the doors for macabre animatronics to gain fans around the world, was the target of a rumor that stated that the restaurant was not it existed only in fiction, but also in the real world.

Does the pizzeria in the game and movie really exist?

To better understand, it is necessary to remember that in “Five Nights at Freddy’s” players control a security guard who agreed to work as a night watchman for five nights at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, a place that was closed due to several news reports that reported strange events that had taken place. the restaurant as a focal point affecting the popularity of the place, as one of the headlines reveals, stating that children disappeared there and were never found.

Still, the environment, which has not received visitors for some time, seems harmless at first. However, the tranquility doesn’t last long, as the game soon begins to give the first signs that there is great danger lurking around the restaurant, as the four animatronics (Freddy (the bear), Bonnie (the rabbit) Chica (the chicken) and the fox Foxy) who were used to entertain and serve customers come to life and begin to behave somewhat suspiciously against the watchman.

Therefore, for the player to be able to make his character survive the night service at the pizzeria, he must pay attention to the security cameras spread throughout the restaurant, check the door locks, keep the lighting working and the ventilation accesses correctly closed to prevent for the gigantic robots, which previously worked using electric motors, to approach and transform you into one of their own.

With this in mind, the idea that the pizzeria really existed gained strength on social media some time after the release of the first game, not only because of the lack of details about the origin of the animatronics, which fueled the desire of theorists on duty to discuss how they They stopped being cute animals and became haunted, but also because of a fact found by fans of the franchise on Google.

This is because, at that time, some people started to share that they had found the place in Google Maps. The information was a half-truth, as when typing the name of the pizzeria into the search tool, it was possible to find the location with images of the possible Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.

However, this only happened because someone marked the location on Google Maps and added fake photos, modified on an image editing platform. The original records belonged to the Papa’s Pizza Parlor restaurant, supposedly located in the State of Utah, in the USA, as revealed by the TecMundo portal.