Wendigo Disease: Wendigo disease is a viral infection originating in the North Eastern territories of North America. Due to how difficult the virus is to detect and its very specific triggering mechanism to spread through out the body and symptoms to appear it is unknown how far the virus has spread globally. The virus is known to elements within both the Canadian government and that of the USA; however it is unclear due to secrecy if either is aware of the other being aware of the virus. It is believed the disease was known to the indigenous peoples of the continent but was believed by them to be caused by an evil spirit and became the basis for various "cannibal ice giant" myths. When the disease takes hold of the body it causes rapid caloric burning resulting in muscular deformation giving the body the proportional strength of a monkey, spinal deformation resulting in the appearance of elongation causing the victim to hunch over or result to crawling on all fours, paleness
A Northwest Territories Ghost Story
Ojibwa First Nation
retold by
S. E. Schlosser
The storm lasted so long that they thought they would starve. Finally, when the wind and swirling snow had died away to just a memory, the father, who was a brave warrior, ventured outside. The next storm was already on the horizon, but if food was not found soon, the family would starve.
Keeping his knife and spear close, he ventured out upon the most-frequently used game trail, watching intently for some sign, in the newly-fallen snow, of animal footprints or movement of any kind. The forest lay deep and oddly silent under its gleaming coating of ice and