• Swift Runner

  • Jan 30 2023
  • Length: 30 mins
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • The Wendigo is known to be a creature of indigenous folklore, but the psychosis that creates cannibals out of starvation victims has caused real deaths. The Donner Party wasn't the only group that fell on hard times during a challenging winter.

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    Sources:

    https://thecinemaholic.com/susan-robin-bender-found-or-missing-is-she-dead-or-alive/

    https://charleyproject.org/case/susan-robin-bender

    Swift Runner by Colin A. Thomson

    https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/wendigo

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/wendigo

    https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged

    https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/kuru#:~:text=Kuru%20is%20a%20rare%20and,the%20highlands%20of%20New%20Guinea.

    https://creemythology.weebly.com/cree-death.html

    Music by Marc v/d Meulen

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