According to Native American legend, the wendigo is a horrifying, cannibalistic creature that dwells in the forests and waters of the Great Lakes region, hunting for its next human meal.
If recent sightings are any indication, there are wendigo in Wisconsin.
The latest episode of the Travel Channel series In Search of Monsters (watch it on Amazon here) tells the story of several harrowing Wisconsin wendigo encounters in recent years around the state. It includes interviews with the witnesses, as well with Wisconsin paranormal researchers Chad Lewis and J. Nathan Couch.
What is a wendigo?
“The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tightly over its bones,” says Basil Johnson, an Ojibwe teacher. “With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash-gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody. Unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the Wendigo gave off a strange and eerie odor of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption.”
Imagine coming face to face with that in the woods.
In “The Wendigo” episode, Chad Lewis talks with witnesses who encountered something matching the description above at a lakeside camp near Spooner, Wisconsin.
Then another sighting is recounted, one which was first reported to Goatman expert J. Nathan Couch about a bizarre 2014 sighting of a strange creature near Holy Hill.
Wendigo encounters in Trego and Rice Lake are also featured.
If you missed the episode you can watch it right here.
Have you witnessed something similar to these wendigo sightings in Wisconsin? Share your story in the comments below or send us a message.
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Someone please contact me. My wife and I had a incounter last night on 8-19-19 the scariest thing we have ever happened to us in Two Rivers
I’m still looking for answers to what me and my wife seen a few days ago in Nipissing Swamp State Natural Area please help
What did you and your wife see?
David Wagner I would love to hear exactly what you’s seen in two Rivers and where because I myself have seen something unexplainable
i grew up in the country of ettrick wi. Me and my dad went to pick up my sister from confirmation it was dark and it looked like a ghost ran in front of us all 3 of us seen it.
Can someone explain to me why I saw a face in a river that wasn’t my face. Man that was scary and the face went back to normal, I mean how?
Either I’m going crazy or I wasn’t feeling good
What camp?
the picture isnt a wendigo it looks like a skin walker, correct me if im wrong but im pretty sure a wendigo has a skeleton of something on its head, although im pretty sure they are pretty similar to each other. But there might just be different kinds of wendigos out there, i have never seen one before, so i do not know. again, correct me if im wrong
I saw something kind of like this a couple years back outside of Gleason.. Just thought maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me..