The Freak: It Knew Where I Was A professional operative, trained for resistance and chaos, faced an impossible target known only as "the freak." This entity moved at an unnatural speed, displayed an anomalous thermal signature, and located him in a hidden position without any sensory cues. How did it know exactly where he was before a single shot was fired? In this episode, we hear the chilling account of a man hired for a twenty-thousand-dollar job to eliminate a mysterious target in an abandoned factory. Armed with a silenced Beretta, a CZ-75, a Remington 870, an M14, a butterfly knife, brass knuckles, and a grenade, he prepared for a routine operation that quickly spiraled into an encounter with the inexplicable. Person: Unnamed operative Payment: $20,000 Location: Abandoned factory Time of arrival: 10 PM Target's arrival: 12:11 AM - The operative was offered $20,000 for the job, with $10,000 paid upfront. - He brought a silenced Beretta, a CZ-75 automatic, a Remington 870, an M14 with a scope, a butterfly knife, brass knuckles, and one grenade. - The target, referred to as "the freak," was 6 feet 10 inches tall and entered the factory running at an unnatural speed. - Thermal imaging showed the target's heat pattern shifting every few seconds, a detail the equipment wasn't designed to describe. - The target turned directly towards the operative's hidden position in a lateral room, despite no sound, light, or infrared leakage from his location. To listen ad-free and access premium episodes, start your 30-day free trial at obomedia.com. OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories a scary story podcast for the late night hours. Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies. Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news. Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on. © 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquiries: business@obomedia
