Wendigo Part 2

Necronomipod

Cool Down Media

Comedy, True Crime

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Grab a beer tonight as we wrap up our series on the Wendigo! First up: Swift Runner, the six-foot-three Cree trapper who led his wife, six kids, and elderly mother-in-law into the bush for the winter of 1879 and walked out alone. We’re talking starvation nightmares, marrow-boiled bones, and that gallows scene where he sang a Cree death song, cracked a joke about “Swift Runner’s stew,” and kicked the trapdoor himself. Then we jump over to Sucker Lake for Jack Fiddler, the legendary shaman, fourteen-time Wendigo slayer, and the guy locals begged to “fix” possessed relatives before they went full cannibal. You’ll hear how two mercy killings put him on a collision course with the Mounties, why he ended up cooking rabbit for his captors while still in leg irons, and how he slipped those irons, walked into the spruce, and hanged himself with the same snare line he’d used on suspected Wendigos. We wrap with the culture clash that followed. Missionaries, headline-hungry reporters, and a jury stuck between Cree tradition and Canadian law, and why modern psychiatry finally kicked “Wendigo psychosis” out of the textbooks. https://www.necronomipod.com https://www.patreon.com/necronomipod Sponsored by BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com/necro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In part two, we dive deeper into the terrifying real-world echoes of the Wendigo legend.
0:10.0	From swift runners descent into madness and cannibalism, to the haunting story of shaman Jack Fiddler,
0:18.0	we explore cases where belief in the Wendigo led to desperate and deadly actions.
0:23.4	As ancient traditions clashed with colonial law, questions of sanity, survival, and justice came to the forefront.
0:31.5	Was it murder or was it mercy?
0:34.4	I'm Mike.
0:35.4	I'm Ian.
0:36.5	And I'm Dave. If you thought the skank you took home from the bar last night had a high body count, stick around.
0:42.3	Wait until you hear how many bodies, Wendigo Hunter, Jack Fiddler, is alleged to have sent to the afterlife.
0:49.0	This is Necronomopod.
0:50.5	This is Necronomopod Pod. I was wondering, do you guys have any unwanted pets at your house that you're looking to get rid of?
1:29.5	I do not.
1:31.4	No.
1:32.6	There's a, I saw a zoo in Denmark is looking for unwanted pets for people to donate as prey for their large animals to eat.
1:44.9	Chickens, rabbits, guinea pigs form an important part of the diet of our predators,
1:49.7	especially the European links, which needs that whole prey.
1:53.5	So they'll take your animals for you, gently euthanize them, and feed them to the big cats, apparently.
2:06.6	People just living over in Europe with pets that they just fucking hate that much and don't want. Perhaps.
2:07.6	At least they euthanize them first and they're not like throwing them in there alive.
2:11.6	You know what I mean?
2:12.6	Like how you like, you feed a snake or something.
2:13.6	Yeah, you're like, fuck this, though, this rabbit in there.
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