Episode 185: The Legend That Starves - The Wendigo

Podcast: Evil Everywhere: A True Crime and Horror Podcast · Dark Energy Productions, LLC

Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

What if the most terrifying monster isn’t something lurking in the woods but something you could become? The Wendigo or Wendigo is a cryptid who’s lore began with the Algonquian speaking Indigenous peoples, associated with insatiable hunger, greed, and the terrifying fear of losing your humanity. Unlike the antlered monsters we see in modern media today, traditional Wendigo folklore often focuses more on a hunger that can never be satisfied, and a transformation that turns a human away from its own humanity. But this legend goes beyond folklore. There are stories of people who have murdered their own f...