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REMASTERED – Episode 18: Hunger Pains

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The Story of the Wendigo

Most of the indigenous cultures that whisper about the wendigo refer to it as a spirit of winter at the very least. In his book called observations on hudson's bay, 17, forty three fur trader james isham recorded an entry for something called the whittoco. And other hunters from the same period warned of evil, cannibalistic monsters in the area. To day, modern historians and mental health experts have looked back on the trail of stories and given that sort of behavior a name, wendigo psychosis.

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