Folklore Forensics
The Wendigo Murders: Indigenous Folklore and True Crime History
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Three hunters vanished into the winter wilderness. And the man who returned with their remains claimed he was no longer human.
In the winter of 1879, a hunting party returned to Rat Portage, Ontario, reduced to three survivors and carrying the story of a man who had killed and preserved his companions in the deep snow. Similar deaths would follow across the Great Lakes region, isolated camps…