This Peculiar PrairieThe Wendigo of Northern Alberta
31min2020 JAN 7
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Fort Kent is just a dot on the map on Northern Alberta on the way to someplace bigger, like the air force base at Cold Lake, but 100 years ago, local folklore says a local doctor, stricken with grief and surrounded by death, succumbed to the Spirit of the Wendigo and began eating his fellow townspeople. 50 years prior and about 200 kms southwest, a Cree guide named Swift Runner was hanged in the Northwest Mounted Police settlement of Fort Saskatchewan for eating 6 of his family members over the course of one winter. Did the hunger spirit, the Wendigo, infect him too? Or was it something else; a psychological condition called Wendigo psychosis? Research links: Fort Kent: https://www.lakelandtoday.ca/opinion/have-you-seen-the-fort-kent-wendigo-1903318 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Kent,_Alberta http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/showthread.php?t=251021 https://www.ghostvillage.com/encounters/2009/08102009.shtml https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/exploring-canadian-monsters-albert...