30 Greatest Ever Moments In The Walking Dead
17. The Whisperers Appear
By the time the show entered its ninth season, the overall story had lost quite a lot of its horror roots, instead leaning more into all-out action than scares. With a new showrunner and fresh group of unsettling antagonists in The Whisperers, though, the series quickly righted itself.
Halfway through the season, Daryl, Aaron and Jesus head out to look for a missing Eugene, and find him distressed about the fact that a walker horde seems to be "following" him and communicating with each other to track him.
Later, trapped in a graveyard, the horrid truth is revealed when Jesus is suddenly killed and Daryl notices some of the walkers are real people wearing the faces of the dead. This reveal, mixed with a new, eerie score, make The Whisperer introduction a tough one to shake.