The Wendigo is a very strange, frightening creature whose essence is very blurred. It is a large part of the folklore of the Algonquin Indians living in Canada.
Most often, wendigo is represented as a forest monster - tall, insane and violent. He especially loves human flesh. But there is another aspect, according to which the wendigo is something like an evil spirit and it settles in a person if he, out of need or out of curiosity, tastes human meat.
In addition, wendigo has another unusual ability, it can capture the minds of people and literally make them mad or sick, directing their actions like a brain parasite.
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One of the most famous Wendigo stories is about an Indian named Swift Runner. In 1878 or 1879, this Indian lived with his family somewhere in a remote wasteland in Canada, and one day he came to the city of St. Albert and told a horrifying story.
According to him, this winter was very harsh and once the food was completely over, and the temperature dropped to such a point that it was pointless to go outside, you would quickly freeze. Runner had a wife and six children, and his mother and his brother also lived with them. Because of the frost, they began to starve. So days, weeks passed …
“Wait,” the townspeople told him, “You’re probably making it up, you don’t look emaciated at all, you’re strong and vice versa you look like you ate well.”
"Of course," Quick Runner replied, "Because all winter I've been eating my loved ones, chewing their flesh and gnawing their bones."
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The townspeople were horrified and soon the police were sent to the Runner's house. She found there the gnawed remains of all members of the Runner's family, which confirmed the accuracy of his words. Later, Runner said that it all began after his youngest son died of hunger. After that, he began to kill his relatives and eat their meat.
Rumors soon spread that the Runner had gone mad and possessed by a Wendigo. He was seen snarling, whining and howling like a wild beast. But for a long time he did not suffer so much, he was arrested and executed.
There are also modern cases of wendigo obsession. On July 30, 2008, Timothy McLean boarded a bus to travel to Winnipeg, Manitoba. McLean was returning home from Edmonton, where he participated in the carnival parade.
On the bus, McLean snuggled up in his chair and dozed off, and soon his neighbor Vince Lee attacked the sleeping man with a knife. Lee, completely insane in appearance, stabbed McLean to death with a knife and terrified all the other passengers of the bus and its driver.
Killed Timothy McLean with his son.
The bus driver immediately stopped, opened the door and rushed outside to get help, and before that closed the door from the outside so that the killer would not escape.
However, Lee was not going to run away, he carefully separated Maclean's head from the body with the same knife, and then began to cut the body itself and dig into the insides. Passengers vomited and vomited from the bloody spectacle, but Lee was unperturbed and cut the meat, chewed it, and put some pieces like an ear in a bag and pocket. In reserve.
When the police arrived at the scene and took him into custody, the killer had already eaten a fair amount of the victim's flesh. And no, this is not a legend or a story, but a completely real case, which the press later wrote about.
Vince Lee worked at McDonald's and, according to his boss, was an ordinary guy, friendly, quiet and reserved in emotion. He never had conflicts with other people.
According to passengers, before the attack, Lee was sitting next to McLean, but he could not interfere with him, McLean was dozing and listening to soft music on headphones. Lee sat and kept looking, looking at him and suddenly something in his head went overboard.
What does the wendigo have to do with it, you say? But at what.
When the investigation of this terrible incident began, it turned out that just a few days earlier, Lee had bought several copies of the Edmonton Sun newspaper at once, where there was an interview with a man named Nathan Carlson, who is considered a great specialist on Wendigo. Because of this, it was rumored that Lee, after reading this long article, became obsessed with Wendigo and went insane.
Carson himself was deeply shocked by this incident and later admitted that he could not sleep well for several weeks after learning about it.
