This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence.

Listener discretion is advised. Some stories were never supposed to be told.

Stories that exist in the twilight, between science and the supernatural,

between history and the horror.

Stories that speak of terrifying things.

Stories that you want to hear.

Stories that you need to hear.

Stories that will sink their teeth in

and never let you go. My name is Mike Brown, and this is pleasing terrors. Terror's.

Episode 21, Hungry Spirits. The oldest stories of the Windigo originated in the distant past long

before Europeans came to North America. They told of a monster, giant and sighs, who moved on the wind and stalked

the forest, its stomach churning with an insatiable hunger that could never be Satan, an all-consuming

hunger for human flesh. Despite its vast size, it moved slowly and not all at once.

It was hard to see and great danger lay in the fact that it could be amongst the people

before they were aware, that its passing might only be

recognized by the devastation that was left in its wake.

The people of the First Nations in what would later become Canada and the United States, and the

Europeans with whom they would come in contact, would learn that the Windigo was not a titanic mythological creature,

but was in fact a monster of many parts and many faces.

They would learn in moments of fear and violence and death that the most terrifying

faces were often those with which they were the most familiar.

The Wendigo was subtle.

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