Last Updated on December 11, 2025 by Angel Melanson
What’s in the box?! Five Nights at Freddy’s fans finally have an answer! Director Emma Tammi’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 recently hit theaters and it brings Freddy Fazbear and Co. back to the big screen for some more violent, animatronic shenanigans. It’s a big horror movie full of big scares. It’s also full of Easter eggs, one of which solves a mystery that has long plagued fans of the games. Nearly a decade later, we know what’s in the box from Five Nights at Freddy’s 4.
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Warning: The rest of this post contains minor spoilers for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Proceed at your own risk.
In the movie, Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail) is struggling to cope with the legacy left by her father, child murderer Willaim Afton, played by Scream alum Matthew Lillard. At one point, Mike (Josh Hutcherson) convinces Vanessa to try and take control of her dreams to cope with the memory of her murderous father. Before settling in for her sleep, she takes several items out of a box and puts them on a shelf. That box probably looks familiar to fans of the games.
Released in 2016, Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 famously contains a locked box (seen above) that cannot be opened and contains the message, “Perhaps some things are better left forgotten, for now.” Vanessa’s box is identical to that box and, as as Reddit user Equivalent-Job-8908 recently laid out in the official Five Nights at Freddy’s subreddit, it’s clear that this is the box from the game, while also revealing what’s been inside of it the whole time.
“In the movie, when Vanessa was setting up her surroundings for her dream sequence, she takes things out of a box that is an EXAACCTTTTT replica to the FNAF4 box, and out of it, she takes out Garette’s plane, along with a mirror and some marbles. This scene was shown in the trailer but they never showed what the box looked like, and it was always in the shadows. But in the movie, it is LITERALLY the FNAF 4 box, so I think all this time, it was just a box where Afton would store trophies of his victims.”
And there we have it! We know that Afton killed Garette and, indeed, Vanessa sets his plane on the shelf during the sequence. While the other items are still shrouded in a bit of mystery, it’s crystal clear that the box was something of a trophy case for Afton, collecting trinkets from his victims over the years.
It makes sense that the mystery would finally be solved in this way as Scott Cawthon, the creator of the games, wrote the screenplay for FNAF2 personally. Why not take this opportunity to solve a longstanding mystery for fans in a unique way? In any event, at long last, we need no longer wonder what’s in the box.
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is in theaters now. For more, get the lowdown on the FNAF2 menu that is available at Popeye’s.
