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The game Five Nights at Freddy’s gained an immense cult following not just for its jump scares, as popularized by the then-burgeoning “let’s play” YouTube channels back in 2014, but for the swath of theories and hidden lore behind the series’ murderous animatronics and the history of the haunted Freddy Fa