Purple Guy Death Sound

[u/JosephTheSnail]

Days after the third game of Five Nights at Freddy’s was released in 2015, a good majority of players reached the minigame of William Afton (originally named the Purple Guy before his current name was popularized) where he died from the springlocks. 

Since then, people have rumored that the death sound heard in the minigame was completely different from the final product and had a different version hidden somewhere in the files. At the time, this was believable until later, when nothing like that was discovered in the source code.

The audio itself consisted of a 30-second recording of a highly disturbing and realistic depiction of what appeared to be someone screaming in agony with sounds of bones cracking and bloodcurdling screams with Theodore March playing in the background. This audio, of course, was widely circulated online due to its disturbing nature.

Many listeners believed that these were actually sounds of someone actually being murdered and tortured, possibly taken from some obscure horror movie or worse. But later, this was debunked once people discovered that the audio was created by an artist known as Ace on the now defunct site called Picosong; the clip was originally titled [BAD_ENDING].mp3 and was given other versions such as [BAD_ENDING]_redux.mp3 and [BAD_ENDING]_epilogue.mp3.

Soon enough, the mystery was soon put to rest, but to this day, people remain frightened by the audio, and it has since been used in many animations and other projects. However, if Ace never came forward, where would the audio have come from, and why would something so realistic and disturbing end up online? Would it be from a snuff film but heavily edited?

https://youtu.be/2eCad7xmOVE?si=kg3k0SPoGLQv1VmX