Unless Entom reveals a video of them flipping the pages of the book, I am not believing anything they say. Photos can easily be edited by anyone. But no one can edit the words on a book so easily in a video.

The fact that Scott himself literally came out and said "Ayo this shit is fake man" and people said he was lying is wild like why are you trusting someone on the internet who you dont even know over the GUY WHO CREATED THE SERIES

Y’know what’s interesting? How people actually, genuinely believed Scott was lying about this being fake. It’s all scrapped content, why would Scott lie about its authenticity? Also, if this was a physical book anyone in that group had access to, why not take pictures of this lost media holy grail instead of just… boringly describing it? Whole thing screamed hoax from minute 1

What i think is that the book was Entoms fan fiction that ended up getting leaked, and Entom joked around saying it was real but his friends didn’t get the hints, and entom saw the opportunity and decided to become a bit of a troll

all of the agony from the previous Fnaf hoax’s manifest into the Talbert files as one final stand to troll the community for neglecting them post 2015 the ultimate hoax.

No no it has to be real! These random people on discord say it's real, and random people on discord NEVER lie.

8:21 This whole message makes it clear Scott didn't write this.The vibe of every sentence constantly switches between asking for something and cursing someone out, it both implicitly and explicitly goes from "give me a chance" to "I quit" and back multiple times. Say what you will about Scott as a writer, he's a better writer than that. No one with an ounce of media literacy would credit Scott with such a nonsensical scrap of garbage.

I dont understand why people got so worked up in the first place. For arguments sake lets pretend Scott did write it, its not canon so any "lore" it would have had wouldn't matter anyways.

Absolutely insane that Scott Cawthon, THE GUY WHO MADE THE GAMES, literally made like 4 different statements saying "guys i didn't write this, scholastic didn't write this, it is fake" and there are still people who think he's lying for some reason. FNaF twitter is deranged lmao.

Quick little note: The “leaked” cover of the book I use throughout the video said “The Freddy Files” in the title, not “The Talbert Files.” I photoshopped it to say “The Talbert Files” to use it in the thumbnail and used it in the video for some reason, in hindsight I should have used the original version.

also, why would Scott deliberately lied about it? if Talbert Files comes out true, he would've said something like "Oh yeah, this is the old version, it don't like it because here's why" like he usually do on a cancelled/scrapped idea. I mean, he literally gave you a list of scrapped concepts and ideas for the FNaF Movie and list of upcoming projects like FNaF AR, VR and AAA game, why would suddenly an outdated book became too much for him to the point of lying about it? it's extremely out of character

Tldr; The Talbert Files is fake because it's too explainy[i might as well add it seems like how a fan would write the FNAF lore but 'explained'], the original 3 scripts for the Freddy Files were scrapped and never materialized into any form of book, and people didn't believe Scott[y'know, the CREATOR of FNAF] and called him a liar.

Entom was not a reliable source of info on Twitter - he made up so much nonsense from “deleted scenes” coming to the DVD to claims about the sequel filming long before it ever was.

I think Entom trying to doubling down and all his "friends" (who lets be honest appear to be more like cult members than actual friends) over what can easily be disproven as a hoax/fanfiction solidified my reasoning as to why you shouldn't trust people just because they're "popular" within a community. I don't get why Entom would use his fame and platform to completely screw over a community and watch it burn when he knew he could've easily put it to a stop. It makes me question his motives and reasoning for doing so and as a result I don't believe he is suitable to have a platform.

oh.. oh that's my drawing at 19:23 of The Mimic and Ballpit Springbonnie making out that's my legacy now

That hoax nearly caused another June 21st incident. Like holy crap, it's insane seeing this situation happen in real time.

lesson of the story: never reveal the lore to a community, they go crazy

8:21 This isn't that big of an evidence, but i'd like to point this out anyways. While Emmet's/Henry's letter here is very obviously aggressive and resentful, he still calls William "Will". No honourifics, not even his full name, just a nickname. I know it doesn't sound like a lot but when two characters use nicknames to refer to each other it usually means they're on good terms. To have a character use a nickname only to have them hate the other doesn't make much sense. It's not that big a deal but just saying, this type of inconsistency would only pass in fanfiction.

Can't possibly understand how people are so torn up over this, if it was fake then NONE of the newly introduced lore would be cannon. If it was an earlier draft, then.. Yeah, it's an earlier draft. Stories change over various development processes, simple as that. Then again it's twitter being twitter

this whole thing feels so reminiscent of early fandom 2014 - 2016 eras of infighting, leaks, and hoaxes, it is unreal

Honestly, Scott would never have given such data to the community even if it was unused, he would have kept everything and then reused it, especially at the time, he was (and still is) very resourceful. (btw the M&L soundtrack really brings back some memories, its already 20 years old)

9:47 thanks for telling people that Emmett Tucker came from Player two in fazbear Fright. (Also, he quits smoking)

Forever grateful that you liked the visual I made for W.A's Journal Entry lol

The fact this “book” gives so much info dumps and names to random characters tells me this is fake as hell or a scrapped novel like Silver Eyes at the most.

To add to the mounds of evidence refuting the validity of The Talbert Files, to my understanding uncorrected proofs are almost always a final version of a book that just needs proofreading for errors and corrections, NOT an early version that might get fully rewritten later on. Sometimes they even send a few copies out to reviewers, and I really can't see why they'd send such an early version out as an uncorrected proof/essentially done if there wasn't even a guarantee the book would stay mostly the same after that.

Honestly probably should’ve knew something was up when it actually mentioned the DCI Them DCI kids have never been mentioned once after Fnaf 2.

Abaigael is a tragedeigh of a name if I've ever seen one.

If it wasn’t the content farms, top 10 gaming, Illumix, TheftKing, Jonochrome, LadyFizi, and PinkyPills that make the FNAF community look bad, it’s the false claims that this book contained “the original story” only for Scott to go out of his way to say it’s all fake, and cause more issues. While I can understand the frustration, at the same time, this “book” is supposed to be “scrapped” so people shouldn’t have to take it seriously, like the TFTP book Felix the shark. That book contained scrapped stories that weren’t canon. It didn’t have to be taken seriously, but Matpat did, and we know how that turned out. Overall, at this point, something controversial brewing in the FNAF community isn’t a surprise, but I try my best to not to engage with controversial people or stuff, because it’s bad enough they exist only to make the good people and stuff that we have look bad.

I dont know how anyone could've thought this was real when Scholastic didnt C&D DMCA the shit out of any of this. Like yeah maybe Scott wouldn't mind much but Scholastic absolutely would.

even if Scott wrote that book but scrapped it for some reason , its still not canon , so stop glazing 😭

I was waiting for someone to make a coherent talbert files explanation vid and this does not disappoint :>

FNAF lore psyop wasn’t on my bingo card for 2024 suppose I should’ve guessed tbh with it being the ten year anniversary only our community could rip itself apart like this

I don’t get how people can write up the PERFECT unfiction project and then ruin it by trying to pretend it’s real. Like, this one is obviously far for convincing, but I’ve seen a LOT of good projects turned hoaxes that devolve into the creators crying on the floor like a baby throwing a tantrum going “NO! IT’S REAL! IT’S CANON! LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT IT! *LOOK AT IT!!!!”*

2:20 thanks for telling people where the name “Talbert,” came from

Anything that happens in the month of April has a chance to just be a late or multi day April fools joke

they shoulda called the nightguard in the beggining of the fnaf movie ''steve callahan'' lmao

I really love the cryptid idea of the sister location robots

"guys its real on god. scott is a MOST POPULAR WORD IN THE 1800'S" "show proof since you said you saw. the book, the emails, the discord convos." "scott is lying *roblox man face* "

Great video! It was super informative and i enjoyed it a lot ^^ 💖 The theorycrafting culture of Fnaf was it's best feature but it also became one of it's worsts We are so interested in solving all misteries and confusions of the lore that a lot of people even try to get into scrapped material for theorizing about the story If the book was real, i feel like it would have done a lot of damage to the fnaf theorising community bc a lot of people would have started to do theories on scrapped information, something even Matpat had the error of doing once Scrapped content is scrapped for a reason, and while it can be fun to theorize about what it could tell us about the original plans for a story, it's kinda sad that a community like fnaf would, for the most part, not be able to separate "Unused and non canon ideas" from "Clues about the official canon story" As a piece of Fanfiction the Tallbert files are great, and the format of being a "Lost fnaf book" is a super cool way to show a fan interpretation of Fnaf story, like the vhs videos, animations, comics and all of that I hope people stop harassing Enton and/or their assosiates/friends Angry fans can be very cruel

Ik people reuse old ideas but what are the chances Scott comes up with these ideas more than 3-4 years in advance WHILE RELEASING GAMES AND BOOKS and somehow suddenly thinking to include them in different stories Idk if the community is stupid or insanely naive

The whole cryptid idea is awesome

I feel terrible for scott.

Honestly insane to me that people believe this is real. I was in a (non-FNaF) server bringing up why they'd wait so long if it was real and one person kept making up excuses. Said person was also apparently a friend to...SOMEONE in this rabbit hole but not in the server it came from so like, dude. Use common sense. You and potentially your friend were played, admit it and move on. People wanting to spite almost everyone involved in this mess are nuts.

If this was real than DirectDoggo could've predicted Phone Guy's name being Steven in Dayshift af Freddy's

I heard about The Talbert Files on Reddit, but I had no idea what it was until now

“No you wouldn’t know my Freddy files, it goes to another school”

Isn't Stephen Callaghan the villen from BIG HERO 6

This entire thing reads like someone heard fnaf lore only through word of mouth and then was asked to rewrite what they heard while on cough syrup

...I was going to leave a long-ass comment talking about why people wanted this to be real and made a big deal about it, but it turned into a rant. Tl;dr: I get why people wanted this to be real and why people made a big deal about it, even though it doesn't even really matter. Especially given the current state of the series and its lore. But acting like we found the Holy Grail and being so fiercely defensive about it when Scott said we hadn't wasn’t going to get us any closer to solving the lore of this franchise.

I think this goes to show everything wrong with the fnaf fandom. They should just accept that an answer is final and not trolls nor hidden messaging on it lol

22:08 I did not expect to make a cameo in this video. XD

I read the title as "The Tablet files"

Ima protest and get rid of the fake book

while watching this, my friend spotted a bunny on the sidewalk

This guy is the best at the lore, you’ll be the next Matt Patt

I honestly don't even know about The Talbert Files when this all first started. It was confusing when I saw it being talked about on Twitter.

Worth mentioning, the “Henry built the mediocre melodies” is another Game Theory, and that is a fairly recent theory. Also why in the world would Scott say “do whatever you want”, then encourage them to “cover it up.”

Actually, in the twisted ones graphic novel, Henry does build a small little frog animatronic for Charlie, so maybe this 4:58 is somewhat true

Wait... It's already been 5 years since pizzeria simulator? Time goes too fast

I only know about this because it was a huge deal on Reddit

Didn’t even realize that bis music is playing

If I were a credible leaker who wanted to quit, making a fake final "ultimate" leak would be a great troll.

This whole situation plays out like a lost episode creepypasta

For some reason I always thought the night 4 from fnaf 1 was kinda funny because phone guy does not even sound scared when he says "Oh no" 😂

Nah it's real, why should I believe Scott when I can instead believe anonymous strangers on Twitter

let me prove that I watched this video before yall (becuse I am a member): the talbert files are fake becuse the cover looks almost the exact same as the OG cover

Why would Entom do this? It’s so terrible of them.

just use the compression algorithm thing on the images to see if they're edited

0:44 BONK BOY THE GOAT!!!

great video, finally somebody knows what they are talking about

Making a fanfic to hide a leak sounds like help wanteds “make a game to hide the severity of all the bad stuff that happened” I dunno man…

I find it so odd that the “drama” flew by me. I had no idea what the Talbert files were until after Scott mentioned it not being real.

i like to see this(the talbert files) as a ellabrorate fan fiction its really entertaining that way

1:21 I thought that was a sad face for a moment

18:31 Mario and Luigi Super star saga music?

Sounds like it's a good thing that this book never came out. Feels like this would have added more confusion to the lore already there.

0:42 Agreed Twitter is used to torture Afton

How did I not know this existed

Cassidy was on the page with the little girl with black hair, who the community found her name to be Cassidy. And she was recieving a gift/ (maybe even life), from the puppet! Or am I misremembering the Survival Logbook?

"it all went down on twitter" _15 seconds prior_ *insert Reddit screenshot of Scott's response*

As if the theorizing wasn’t crazy enough for this fandom. 😅

Someone should send the troll enigma machine codes not violence

14:01 what is this? The smile tapes!?!?!

How would Steven Callahoon benefit from the MCI since he's a strange to them?

4:33 this image eerily looks like one of my teachers. Uncanny😅

okay, so the first thing is...idk this Entom person at all. but I don't think that Scott would just say "oh wow do whatever you want with this book you just found" because he is exactly aware, how insane this community has become about lore. there is no better word for it. Scott is super ignorant with emails, he often forgot to answer to questions of his own people who worked for him and fulfilled his request in exchange for money, if they asked 3 things at once. so they had to ask again. this lead to mistakes, some were addressed. the next thing is. the leaks. if two people know about something, then it's not a secret anymore. IF, and if is underlined five times, I had anything like that book in my hands, and Scott said "oh yeah, this is an early valid book you somehow got" I'd discuss it with him at max. the entire thing bleeded out at the fanfic part. and the fact that Scott makes a contract / NDA with all of the people he worked with, so neither of them can leak his project, which includes the lore, wether scrapped or not. an NDA usually lasts for years at least. I myself saw TWO fake "scott emails" on reddit and people jumped at each other's throat in the comments about, wether it's fake or not. there is no need to spread anything scrapped even with your closest "friends", when the story is still developing, because it mixes up people and ends up as misinformation - which this community is famous for. they basically just build misinformations on each other and trigger themselves with it, wether it's lore, or people they want to cancel, but don't know anything about, since they never met in person. people don't even know Scott himself at all, because why would they? his real personality is clearly not the one he is trying to show online, because news flash, everyone, or almost everyone acts differently online. I'm already sick and tired of leakers and "insiders" in communities. so neither of these are people are getting my trust.

3:23 not so related but i realized something Since theres 2 Jeremy's The kid that possess Bonnie and the guard who suffered the bite of 87 does that means that they are related?

2:51 i hate that im deep enough to perfectly understand what he is talking about

August 12th 2036. The Heat. Deaf The universe.

if 1:54 is actually written in the Talbert files it's kind of funny how it says Talbert is essentially misdirecting the reader on everything in the book, the same thing the creator of the files did

I don't remember where I read it, but what it said about what had happened is kinda funny, actually. So, aparently, Entom was keeping the book a secret, to try to confirm if it was real or not, then post it. But, someone in his team "accidentally" leaked it before Entom could prove it. Yeah, I don't know if I believe it, especially since I don't remember the source of this information, but ok.

In the phone call phone guy set the used a YELLOW suit and if you look closely Withered chica you can tell her endoskeleton looks similar a spring lock suit and withered chica also has a split jaw just like Fred bear this means William (could) of used a chica costume

Tbh imo, if Notes from an Investigator (I’m on Chapter 5) is inspired by the Talbert Files, then this leaves me to believe that this was an early concept for how the story of FNAF was going to go. If every single piece of FNAF media is canon in one singular timeline (which is what this google doc claims to be), then I can understand why the story is a bit complex. After all, Scott said back in 2015 that the books (The Fazbear Frights books at the time) were not canon and stated that the main timeline, the game timeline, is finished. And he also added that sometimes the lore can become so crowded that you can’t tell an original story anymore, and that the games and books should be considered completely entirely separate continuities to avoid confusion. Originally, the books were canon to the games, but Scott seemingly didn’t have any ideas anymore, so he decided to split his ideas into completely separate ideas, and they all exist in their own continuities. The Tales from the Pizzaplex series way later on *are* canon to the mainstream. In conclusion: My thoughts are that the early concept of the Freddy Files explains an old concept idea for the FNAF lore that possibly got scrapped and Scott didn’t want to reveal everything considering Scott doesn’t want to flat out reveal things

it's funny how much more believable this would be if they just tried a little harder when faking pictures and writing the text

Hey, does anybody know what the song at 2:19 is? I tried looking through the OST's of Security Breach (Ruin too) and Help Wanted 1 and 2 but no luck finding it. It sounds like one of the Princess Quest themes, maybe I didn't look hard enough cause some playlists aren't fully complete but I'm unsure.

i never believed it tbh lmaooo looked sketchy af

it feels too honest it says a lot of names and gives a little too much information to be real I know Scott and I know how much he loves to keep us guessing

I'm still watching this 11m later,

I’m going to be so honest, this is probably the funniest hoax in fnaf history😭😭

I love the tweet that says: "Why would a group of people create a hoax to troll people for no reason?" Here, let me present you this little niche page known as 4chan.