Terrifying Hitman Stories With Confessions No One Should Have Heard
September 11, 2026
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5 min readTerrifying Hitman Stories With Confessions No One Should Have Heard
A man named Luis Alberto Montes spent five years working as a hitman for a cartel in Tamaulipas. He killed many people — rivals, informants, debtors, men and women. He did it quickly, a clean shot to the head, and he says he didn't feel anything at the time. But the things that still wake him up drenched in sweat are not the people he killed. It's the other things. The things he saw that he believes shouldn't exist.
The shadow that came for revenge
Around his third year, Montes was sent with two other men to abduct an accountant accused of stealing. They tied him to a chair in his isolated house. While his partner Chato interrogated the man, all the lights in the house began flickering at once, as if something were playing with the electricity. Then the air turned freezing cold. They could see their own breath. Footsteps started upstairs — slow, heavy footsteps coming down the stairs one by one. A partner named Flaco searched the entire upper floor and found no one. But as soon as he came back down, the footsteps started again in the exact same place he had just checked.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Timestamped Outline
- 2 (01:31) **Luis Alberto Montes: A Hitman's Testimony Begins** - Luis introduces himself as a former cartel hitman from Tamaulipas who worked for five years before escaping and changing his identity.
- 3 (03:36) **First Paranormal Encounter: The Accountant's House** - Luis describes a job abducting an accountant where supernatural events interrupted the interrogation.
- 4 (08:20) **The Haunting Escalates** - After the accountant incident, Luis began seeing apparitions regularly during night jobs.
- 5 (09:17) **The Final Job: A Hand on the Shoulder** - During his last year, Luis was sent alone to execute a sleeping man but was physically stopped by a supernatural presence.
- 6 (10:37) **Escape and Lingering Mark** - Luis planned his escape for months, saved money, and disappeared to central Mexico with a new identity.
- 7 (12:22) **Sergio Maldonado: The Lookout's Story Begins** - Sergio, an 18-year-old lookout for a Sinaloa organization, explains his low-level job watching streets and reporting suspicious activity.
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