The Wendigo is an Algonquian Native American Legend described as a monster spirit who has possessed a human being and made them become monstrous. The first Wendigo was a lost hunter when during a brutally cold winter, his hunger drove him to cannibalism. After feasting on another human’s flesh, he made a deal with the Devil and transformed into a crazed beast, roaming the forest in search of more people to eat. The human person remains frozen within the Wendigo where its heart should be as it crawls about the earth looking for its next meal. The only way to kill a Wendigo is to kill the human within it as well. They live in cold weathered areas like Minnesota, Canada, and lake Windigo in Wisconsin.
This modern depiction features the Wendigo as a beast that likes to play with its victims by mimicking voices and sounds. It hunts and devours adults for food while looking for its next host to create another Wendigo. Halloween is its favorite time of year because it gets to hunt down and instill fear into those that comically dress up as Natives or Indians reminding it of its own culture. Due to the amount of drugs in our society (prescription, alcohol, etc) adults are no longer viable sources of life. That is why this beast will pray on adults and the occasional hunter for food while its real target are children. As a child when you would look out the car window and almost see a figure running along side the car in the woods... that was a Wendigo trying to lure you out.
