Cryptids: Wendigo

Update: 2025-06-28

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Welcome back to Spookish Season 3! We are kicking off the new season with an episode on the Wendigo! Heather teaches of its origins in folklore, references in pop culture, and modern day sightings. Listen now!

Music via FesliyanStudios

Sources for today’s episode:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Algonquin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_people

http://www.native-languages.org/algonquin-legends.htm

http://www.native-languages.org/windigo.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1xCrsKIB24

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/religion-and-philosophy/wendigo-folklore#:~:text=Another%20common%20version%20states%20that,warning%20against%20resorting%20to%20cannibalism.

https://www.mpm.edu/educators/wirp/nations/ojibwe/oral-tradition#:~:text=She%20took%20these%20home%20with,Heights%20IL:%20Waveland%20Press.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgK0iZStpNA

https://www.facinghistory.org/ideas-week/more-monsters-deeper-significance-wendigo-stories

https://www.iflscience.com/how-wendigo-psychosis-turns-people-into-cannibals-possessed-by-flesh-eating-monsters-71376

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/religion-and-philosophy/wendigo-folklore#:~:text=Another%20common%20version%20states%20that,warning%20against%20resorting%20to%20cannibalism.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10685673/

https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/10597tx/how_my_father_survived_an_encounter_with_a_wendigo/

Wendigo Encounter. : r/ParanormalReddit · r/Paranormal50+ comments · 2 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/scarystories/comments/bwr7w9/wendigo_story/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptids/comments/z0sx25/me_my_girlfriend_and_her_mom_just_encountered_a/

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