Welcome to 189.16 – The Scream, with your host Forrest Nash who on his first day at the Gallows Creek KFAM Radio Station is forced into the worst form of first day pressure by having to act in as the 911 Operator for the evening. As the small Police Force (3 Officers to be precise) are taken out of action, who are callers set to be the next victim of the Whistling Man meant to call? This is where you come in. Your job is to prevent any more deaths by saving callers from seeing the incoming blade at the receiving end of hearing the Whistling Man’s whistles. But who exactly is the Whistling Man? Well as you get further into the game, his identity becomes clear and the results may shock you. This is Vincent’s guide on the Whistling Man Killer identity in Killer Frequency.
Killer Frequency Lore Summarized
The Whistling Man is the sole antagonist of Killer Frequency or at least that is what you expect as you are playing through the game, trying to save every caller. But the truth is, whilst the Whistling Man is committed wicked crimes, their motives are that of someone who has been pushed past their breaking point. Most Serial Killers do not have motive that you can rationalize, often being deluded by religious ideologies, acting on extreme sexual urges, or acting on negative bias (often homophobic, sexist and racist).
Our initial thoughts are that the Whistling Man has somehow been brought back to life, resurrected to complete his killings. But this is not that kind of Horror Game. Whilst a name is first put on the Whistling Man to be Edward Marshall Mooney, speculations that his ghostly figure has returned to haunt Gallows Creek quickly spreads. With the Whistling Man vanishing from the locked Secrets Archives after getting trapped by Maurice. It is not until you find the Janitor’s Closet in the KFAM Building that the mystery begins to solve itself. Yes, Clive the Janitor is a red herring, put in place to add a more plausible identity to the killings. With the Closet being covered information and tracks on past and incoming victims, Clive is looking like the Whistling Man.
Related: How to Save Everyone in Killer Frequency.
But upon delving into the documentations located around the Basement Storage area, you learn of the mysterious death of George Barrow in 1968. Taking place at most, 18 years after Edward Marshall Mooney, George’s death points out a shocking conspiracy. Gallows Creek appears to have covered up how George died and that whilst initial reports state that he drowned, his body showed that George had be frantically running through the woods and that his toxicology came back clean. What is bizarre is that the official reports state that George drowned because he had been drunk. But this was not the case at all.
Who is the Whistling Man?
George Barrow had fallen into water and upon hitting his head, he drowned. His body later being moved tells us that someone was trying to create a narrative that George accidently died by his own luck. However, the truth is that George was victim to a dumb prank where Teddy Gallows and friends pretended to be the Whistling Man to scare Marie, George and Rink. However the prank went too far like they always do. George was petrified as he ran through the woods, getting to the top of a cliff. Teddy tried to approach to reveal his identity for the prank but George fell, hit his head and drowned.
George’s death resulted in Marie Campbell, George’s girlfriend enacting revenge against all those who tried to cover up his death. As she was present throughout the entire night where George died, she knew the truth but the official report never told the world what actually happened to him. Because of this, Marie Campbell became the copy-cat killer of the Whistling Man. She put on the mask that is always used to prank others, but this time, she would do what Teddy did to George and this time…it would not be by accident.
If you are wondering who Marie is in relation to the entire game you have played so far, Marie posed as ‘Dawn’ and called into the Show multiple times. She would try to manipulate Forrest and Peggy into giving her what she wanted – her next victim, whilst also teasing them in a way by hinting that she knew who would be next on the list. Marie is also Peggy’s sister, who was disowned by her parents after the George incident that left Marie alone with nothing but the thought of revenge left to fester for 20 years until finally lashing out.
The truth is that there are two main antagonists in Killer Frequency – Marie Campbell and Teddy Gallows Jr. Teddy acted on selfish intentions, where he bribed, blackmailed and destroyed multiple lives in order to get to where he stands now – becoming Mayor of Gallows Creek. Whilst Marie looked for justice against those who wronged George. The route she went down however, was to kill anyone who took part in the covering up of George’s death. Marie involved her son, Henry Barrow as the second Whistling Man. This explains instances when callers recalled fighting someone with a larger, muscular build whilst others were either attacked by multiple Whistling Men or could fight Marie off due to her smaller build.
That was our explanation of the events that unfolded in Killer Frequency. We hope you enjoyed the game and this read. For more Indie Horror Games, see our GJ recommendations of Amanda the Adventurer, Amnesia: The Bunker and Deppart Prototype.
