As I understand it, original descriptions are much more like what we think of as zombies. They look like emaciated corpses, pale white with sunken eyes, sick looking and starving. No deer head or antlers or really any animal features at all. I wonder how Western culture came to create the Wendigo we think of as a standard depiction today. Were they just like...well that’s just a zombie. Not Native enough :/// hmm, put like a deer head on it or something...maybe a skull? Oh, some legends say they get bigger every time they feed? A giant deer monster, then. The original depiction makes much more sense to me, despite me being more of a fan of the “””creature design””” of the European-created one. The original is more psychologically disturbing, because it’s supposed to be a *person.* A person suffering eternally for their sins, cursed with starvation and psychosis for the entirety of their existence. When you see the deer-monster version, it doesn’t seem human. It doesn’t seem like a punishment for sinners or something a human could ever be turned into, so there’s less psychological impact there. It doesn’t seem like that fate is any real threat to humans. It looks more like it’s own species of monster, and while it may be more horrifying in appearance imo, the ideas that the original descriptions convey are much more frightening. EDIT: I’ve said “Western” multiple times here and I want to add a disclaimer saying I’m not sure that western is the correct term. We use western in modern day to represent Europeans and Americans, but during colonial times, native Americans were more Westerners than the colonists were. So by “western” I mean white European colonialist.
The wendingo is more of a passive creature who literally doesn't have to do much but lure entire generations into burying their family members in its curse ground....talk about a commited funeral serviceman
@@the-silliest-goose That's the Wind-Walker mythology of many Inuit tribes. Since they're afflicted by a curse, they're not the same as the Canadian mountain wendigos. You'll sometimes see wind-walkers described as _windigos_ in earlier Western recording of the myth, which may signify confusion of the two myths due to their similarities. Wendigos are specific to the Canadian mountains whereas wind-walkers are specific to more tundrous regions.
@@dylanwight5764 can I have a source for this? I looked up the two names, all I got for Wind Walker was a reference to Ithaqua, part of H. P. Lovecrafts stories, and searching their names together just led results describing them as just different names for the same thing.
@@matthewbibby8921 "Wind Walker" predates Lovecraft's mythos. The earliest literary reference to it is in a 1913 (1910?) short story simply called "The Windigo", published in _The Lost Valley and Other Tales_ In the novel, the native guide tells of a "spirit which walks upon the wind" though he is not describing the Canadian wendigo so much as he's describing the spirit itself. Canadian and Alaskan wendigo mythology differs here. A "wind walker" is the spirit which can inhabit a person weakened by famine and slowly changes their morphology to that of the humanoid wendigo. The more southern Canadian cryptid is the stag-headed creature which is properly known as the wendigo. Alaskan Inuit tribes didn't have a proper word for wendigo since their mythology involved the malevolent "wind walker" spirit. It's likely that the word wendigo was just adapted by European settlers in the region. Fun little fact: The short story "The Wendigo" later inspired the Cthulu "Wind Walker/Ithaqua" tale. I'm not up to speed on my Lovecraft, though there's probably a lot of conflation between the two.
@@dylanwight5764... Riiight, so what's the difference? Or rather I guess from what you've said, what's the similarity that got people mixed up? Are the wendigos still cannibalistic? And... Are the windigos you mentioned a thing or just a mixup between the two words? (also I would very much like a link or reference still for this info, or at least, where you got the info yourself if it's not easy to find online )
Wendigo:Business been good lately? Pennywise:Nah man not the year sadly. Wendigo:Oh suckers. Revived some dead animals today. Heard they killed their old owners Pennywise:Oh cool, nice biscuits by the way what’s in them? Wendigo:Human flesh why? Gordon Ramsay:THIS IS F*CKING RAWWWW
@@mygenderisyes5771 wendigos are cannibals turned by evil spirits. They used to be human and are usually aware of what they’re doing, but mostly can’t ignore just how much pain they are in because they can only eat other people. Also fun little fact about them, the deer skull head version is actually inaccurate and is used to represent skin walkers, wendigos look like really skinny people and, according to a person who has family in the Algonquian tribe (not me, someone I’ve met), are made of ice
@@mygenderisyes5771 apologies. I’m just amazed that someone could find the wendigo cool, those things scare me shitless every time just because they’re mostly aware and usually don’t even fight it. If you want a good wendigo story, though, I highly recommend you check out darkness prevails reading of the flesh eater story, darkness has one of the best story-telling voices out there, and flesh eater is one of the most realistic and terrifying wendigo stories I’ve ever heard
@@secondheaven9545 oooh sounds interesting! I personally love horror, especially books like IT or The Shinning by Stephen king. Fuck it, every book by Stephen King
I think the cat in the hat died and was buried in the cemetary. He then came to life and dieced to commit pycholigal horror he made the live action movie
@evilangel7769 dude, you're willing to call someone "r-word" but you don't have the balls to say the actual word? Shit or get off the pot. If you're going to be awful enough to call someone "the r-word," own the fact you're an asshole and say retard. But the fact you won't say the whole word suggests you know it's wrong and a total dick move. SO DON'T SAY IT AT ALL.
I grew up hearing stories of the Wendigo from my grandfather. The twos stories are definitely related as one of the hallmarks of Wendigo is activity is it praying upon people who are lost in the deep woods. It will follow along behind a person matching their pace and stopping when they stopped. After a while the person when stopping, would hear a twig break or footsteps behind them. Then silence. The person would turn around to find nobody behind them. This would continue, the person gradually becoming aware that they aren’t alone. They would increase their pace becoming very frightened. After a bit longer the Wendigo would start allowing the person to catch brief glimpses of it, dark shadows ducking behind trees and whatnot. The person becoming panicked would start running, making themselves hopelessly lost. Once exhausted and beyond hope the wendigo would show itself and consume the the lost person. My grandfather taught me to always carry an iron nail in my pocket or stuffed into the side of hat for protection against the wendigo. Travel the lonely places of the northern woods and you may have a similar experience
@@VolumeImpact in most mythos sprits are repeld by pure iron as they can't touch something that has a connection with the underworld and iron along with some other items was believed to have come from the underworld
I grew up in northern Maine and had many Mi’kmaq friends who told me stories about Wendigos and I always thought they were just legends but eventually, when I got a little older and would go with friends exploring through the woods we heard a lot of crazy shit. Also, my brother is pretty sure he came very close to one.
In Michigan here, Wendigo is huge in Michigan as well. Here it doesn't have horns as someone else said, and it's basically distressed dead people. Such as people who have horrific deaths and don't realize they're dead. And that you only have to worry about them if you aren't "pure of heart"
Yeah if you come across one, well avoid saying the name out loud for one it may attract it to you. It's heavily associated with cold and starvation. So like....ya know, be careful.
I am far more willing to believe in cryptids and other beings from cultural lore than I am ghosts or demons, and I don't know why. My family is of Irish heritage, and as a result I have strong feelings about faeries, namely: leave them alone. You don't want their attention, not really. They're pure chaos and very possessive, so yeah: leave offerings out if you suspect there are any in the area, but otherwise you're better off not inviting them around. And give faerie rings a wide berth, they're portals to the faerie world and also they can decide to fuck you up if you walk through it or step on it. This has been your daily faerie PSA
I can see the god of the lost being a separate wendigo patrolling its own territory. As Wendigo's aren't really known to stray from their own turf its unlikely that its the same wendigo from PS. TGotL is most likely a older Wenigo seeing as in Algonquin folklore The older a Wendigo gets the more powers it obtains. Such a shapeshifting and speech. So thats my little theory on that
That was a cat thath belonged to his daughter. It got killer on a road. They burryed it in thath cursed indian semerary. It came back to life, and was not the same cat. It was just... Sad, i love cats, but, this is actualy one of the saddest films i watched... I realy cryed a lot.
Funfact. In Stephan King's book 11/22/63 about a guy that travels back in time goes to Derry Maine in the early 50's and runs into the kids from IT. Like no joke. So, what I'm saying is it wouldn't be unlikely if it was the Windigo in "the girl who loved Tom Gordon."
i’m native, from cree nation and we also have stories of people seeing the windigo when walking around reserves at night The one ik; during the cold winter a man resorted to cannibalism. the more he ate, the hungrier he got, to the point he ate off his mouth hence why it shows bare teeth. he ate his family and half his tribe (it’s said he was cursed by the creator)
@@athenabelle3091 yeah I get it hunger does that also just realized you've been avoiding its name I get that too it possess you when you say its name near it
Wendigo doesn't have antlers, or fur. That was made up by a filmmaker in 2001. Most legends have wendigo that were once men who because of greed were punished with unending ravenous hunger. Forever. None have antlers. It was a cautionary tale to share resources within the tribe during the winter so everyone survives.
I feel as if Stephen King wanted to make two different stories, one about zombies and one about killer pets and he just put them in one story and put a Wendigo in there while he was at it.
@@hardbumpy8400 i think the short story you’re thinking about might be LT’s Theory of Pets but lmk if it’s not. that’s just the short story that came to my mind
@@misseselise3864 he admitted doing a bunch of blow in his prime. Some people have very macabre ideas without ties to trauma. Cocaine is a hell of a drug, especially on the mind of an author. Much like Edgar allen Poe and many other drug and alcohol induced authors.
Oh god same My dad sometimes tells stories about this creature and hearing the word freaks me out and I always feel like something is behind me when I think of the creature
You forgot the Algernon Blackwood's literary version, not related to cannibalism and more focused on the effect of wild nature and loneliness on modern men.
I never thought that the story of “the girl who loved Tom Gordon” would be connected it’s one of my favorite books and the first Stephen king book I’ve ever owned and I can read it thousands of times and never get tired of it but I was shocked and excited to the that connection you made and now I can’t stop thinking about it, but I do struggle why the wendigo would go for her because she goes through so much struggle and hasn’t really shown any greed if anything I would think the wendigo would go after her brother for not being appreciative of what his mother is trying to do for him. In the story it shows how much she appreciates what she had and was working to get it back, another thing with her voice she hears it in her head before even going on the hike but it does change the more and more she gets scared which is common for younger kids. Her dreams on the other hand show so much and I truly wonder if it’s a different entity related to the wendigo that went after the innocent and in pain
Actually I correct myself, Russias Leshoi doesn't resemble Wendigo in most of characteristics other than forest dweller with supernatural powers. No eating people. My bad.
For clarity (since I wrote this over a year ago) the legend of the Wendigo is mainly referenced in the above mentioned tribes. Specifically, Algonquin. Of course, there are many more tribes in North America that hold belief in the creature, which I did not include in my original comment. It is not exclusive to just the tribes I listed. Also, in the novel Pet Sematary, it is referenced as Mi'kmaq because of the area the characters were living in. I realize that now. :) Hope everyone is staying safe.
I think the creature in 'The girl who loved Tom Gordon' might be a skinwalker or something like it. Skinwalker are sneaky and they like to play with humans, they can make you feel anything, in short they mess with your mind.
I wouldn't be able to take it seriously, given my exposure to the memes. Although I have family in Utah that works with Navajo people and they take skinnies 110% seriously. Like, load the shotgun serious. Which, come to think of it, is pretty hilarious: a guy commits atrocities and makes pacts with evil beings, gains demonic powers... and then gets taken out by a shotgun. Talk about a bad deal.
@@TwinklesTheChinchilla well there is also tradition that can harm them like you always hear about bullets with ash and I'm pretty sure it's the ash not the pellets, sort of a new age way to use offensable traditions against these things while utilising technology.
Skinwalker is sometimes used as another name for the Wendigo. Typically in the american southwest from what I've seen, while the term Wendigo tend to be used more on the northeastern region.
The depiction of the Wendigo as being stag-headed seems to be a very recent pop-culture re-imagining of the being. You can see similar revisionist adaptations of the Slavic Leshy, the American Jersey Devil, or Germanic Woodwose. The exact origin of the stag or buck-skulled Wendigo isn't clear, but may derive from obscure American tribal depictions, 20th or 21st Century re-imaginings, (like King's or Tom Chaney's Frostbiter), that depict it as similar to a satyr or centaur-like creature, (respectively), or older European influences such as Sylvanus, and other wilderness entities, that are crowned with vegetation, tree branches, or antlers. Regardless, older descriptions of the Wendigo either detail it as being a spirit that tempts or possesses an individual to commit atrocities like cannibalism, or as a giant- possibily once-human- that is extremely gaunt and akin to a massive mummy in appearence. Interestingly, the more common older retellings, (which do make for a nice allegory for starvation, greed, and the taboo of cannibalism), fall into an extremely common global archetype of the cannibal giant, which can be seen in such narratives from Jack and the Beanstalk, to the Nephilim in The Book of Enoch. Regardless, the skull-headed beast seems to be a modern stylist choice, not a common historical description.
Grant Wiley Esq. so if your mom was recovering from cancer, and someone made a joke about how she was literally dying during it, you wouldn’t be the tiniest bit offended? Making fun of someone literally starving themselves isn’t funny, and pointing out that it’s not funny isn’t being sensitive, it’s being a basic human being with morals. It’s not cool to be an angsty asshole in the real world dude.
They actually used to do that during the medieval(ish) age in Eastern Europe. Due to a lack of knowledge about anatomy and what happens to your body after death, they interpreted natural decaying symptoms as the dead coming back to life as vampires. Actually I think this used to be common throughout the world
I just came across this channel. I am SO happy I did!! I’m not a huge (gory type horror fan, but I love a good suspenseful thriller. Being able to understand them even more after your videos makes the experience much richer and interesting. I’m approaching Hour 3 of my binge of your content!! Great Job!
Small correction, the mythical Wendigo DOES NOT have a the head of a stag, this is a modern invention by Larry Fessenden for his movies, stemming from a false childhood memory of a teacher telling him a story about the wendigo being a deer monster.
I can’t believe he said Euginia Chooney style I know he probably doesn’t write the script but that means it was approved by a team of people. Comparing her to a WENDIGO
I can understand that it was in poor taste, but she is getting better if I recall correctly. Comedy have good timing, but we shouldn’t censor comedy. It may have been in “bad taste” but these comments are aggravating to read in such large volumes. He obviously meant nothing personal by it.
I agree. I've only seen the movie, and it always just seemed like everyone was a complete moron. This helps me appreciate the story better. Like, if the burial ground is dangerous, then why are you showing it to people, old man!? 😂
I love wendigos so much in folklore, especially how they're portrayed in the game until dawn and pet sematary. It's just so interesting to see how other people interpret the creatures
I was hoping this would be more of a "deep dive" into the book rather than the movie, but still a great video! I would highly recommend reading the original to anyone that loves a good thriller and doesn't know what to read next.
Fun fact, my mom named me after Gaige in this movie, it was her favorite movie while she was pregnant with me, and I haven't been hut by a truck yet *fingers crossed lol*
Of all the things your mother could've been obsessed with while she's pregnant, it just had to be pet sematary where you're named after the kid who dies 💀
1:39 why is that image used for wendigo, it like the second or third time. it’s Cronus eating is children, the Olympians. Edit: god I sound like “that guy”
@Dylan Carroll this probably also makes me sound like "that guy" butFUCKING THANK YOU SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT!!! I've noticed that too and it annoys the hell out of the mythology nerd/pjo kid in me
One idea you missed in tying The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon into Pet Semetary, is actually another you touched on briefly. What if the stories are actually part of a larger, serialized tale. If the Wendigo sometimes takes over a human so completely they transform themselves. Rather than being the Wendigo of the Semetary. Could the lost, grieving, Lewis, have returned transformed to the landscape of Stephen King's world as ,"The God of The Lost?
I have been interested in myths and legends like the Wendigo, there is lore on "Lore" a podcast talking about it, the spirit of the Wendigo made a man kill his family and ate, he turned back to normal and talked to a ranger. The lore is in the video game Until Dawn but without the features from the book and drawings of the Wendigo. I love this creature.
@@shawnwales696 For the book and film, yes. But not the actual word as it contains a C. It's is spelled with an S in Stephen King's book due a child's spelling error in the story.
@@hotdogpepper8410 However, a spelling mistake on a book like that is a big one if it indeed was a mistake. Book writers most of the time have people who go over the writings to snuff out that stuff. The film being about a kid who comes back would make sense if that the kid who wrote the sign made a mistake, as kids do.
Hello CZ’a world! I am Mi’kmaq from Nova Scotia, Canada, (eastern seaboard if you don’t know the east coast) and I wanted to say Mi’kmaq pronounced like (mig)(Maw) , MicMac, Is the English word of Mi’kmaq, or Lnu’s (people of the land) thanks for today’s history lesson! Also, the Mi’kmaq people have their own language, been here for over 10,000 years with archeological evidence. The Alqounquan is just a bigger family that includes different tribes, such as the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Etc. Thank you CZ world ! Our people were almost wiped out but survived genocide and are still here today. We still practise a lot of traditional ceremonies. You ever see someone In a eagle feather headdress ? Yup that’s the Mi’kmaq, or dancing in a circle around a big drum? Mi’maq
My partners dad is a huge hammer horror/horror movie fan, he wanted to call my partner Boris (after Boris Karloff) but my partners mum refused to allow it 😂 so his dad got to choose his sisters name instead and got to name her Reagan (after the titular character in The Exorcist)
I think the main issue I have with this is, Wendigo lose a lot of themselves, mentally speaking, with brief periods of time where they can think and communicate as a human. They don't have too many moments where they can think past the overwhelming hunger and it only gets worse as time goes on. Most times they don't realize they've gained their intelligence at first and think their own voice is someone else's and because they hate who they used to be because it was due to their own actions they were cursed, so they spend so much time distancing themselves from everything including their old self, that their own voice scares and infuriates them so they run around in a frustrated rage trying to find whose talking, meanwhile screaming at the voice which they don't recognize the screams and eventually revert back to an animalistic, silent beast of hunger and frigid loneliness.
In Pet Semetary the Wendigo isn't necessarily controling the events, it's a far more ancient evil energy that controls the Wendigo(in the story) and the Wendigo isnt a physical entity either, its a energy
As I understand it, the wendigo was never traditionally thought of as having stag horns or head--that idea came from the guy who illustrated Algernon Blackwood's story "The Wendigo" and got it from a sort of Mandella-effect memory where he remembered one of his teachers telling him it had a stag's head, though the artist later claimed he was probably mistaken about it. At least, that's what I thought I remember hearing. Could be wrong. I will say... it looks a lot more badass with a stag's head!
This is so interesting! I'm a little surprised that there aren't any horror movies about the Donner Party. The true story makes the trail seem cursed because in addition to the cannabalism, dozens of people died trying to save the people in that area due to the horrible weather and difficult terrain. It's an incredibly scary story in addition to the infamous cannabalism.
I don't think he'd turn into a Wendigo. He eats people for pleasure and not because he is forced to. He eats it cooked with other foods so I don't think he'd get anywhere close. He is an interesting kind of monster though
The description of the Wendigo passing them in the forest in the book was fucking amazing, wish they could’ve really captured that in one of the movies.
The last one might be a skin walker... They change form (the strange bear) They take skins to change(missing dear head) They are tricksters(god of the lost)
Hmm, I never thought about that. Stephen King loves putting references and characters from multiple books into new works, so I could certainly see him doing it here. Two really terrific books. What I love about The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is its ambiguity regarding a supernatural element. So maybe...
I like the stag head depictions we often see nowadays, but in the algonquin myths I've read, people who become wendigo are pale and emaciated humans. but the spirit of the wendigo that possesses people to change them doesnt actually have a description. so I guess the stags head figure we usually see could work as a display for that possessing spirit
I am Mi'kmaq and it's pronounced Mig Ga maw The mig and maw are way more pronounced than the Ga but without the Ga it doesn't sound right, you almost have to say Ga faster than the other two
Check out my new theory on Pet Sematary's connection to The Shining: ruclips.net/video/ZfJlPQJxlcY/видео.html
All stephen king's stories are connected via the dark tower, unless your talking about the same story just at different times
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Great Video!
Fun fact: The wendigo in Native American history actually doesn’t have horns!! The Europeans added that feature to the stories to make it more scary!
I think it looks cooler with the horns though
Makes sense to add it if you’re gonna add anything to a creature like that
If you want to check out a more accurate depiction of the Native American wendigo, I'd suggest checking out the models from Until Dawn 👍
As I understand it, original descriptions are much more like what we think of as zombies. They look like emaciated corpses, pale white with sunken eyes, sick looking and starving. No deer head or antlers or really any animal features at all.
I wonder how Western culture came to create the Wendigo we think of as a standard depiction today. Were they just like...well that’s just a zombie. Not Native enough :/// hmm, put like a deer head on it or something...maybe a skull? Oh, some legends say they get bigger every time they feed? A giant deer monster, then.
The original depiction makes much more sense to me, despite me being more of a fan of the “””creature design””” of the European-created one. The original is more psychologically disturbing, because it’s supposed to be a *person.* A person suffering eternally for their sins, cursed with starvation and psychosis for the entirety of their existence. When you see the deer-monster version, it doesn’t seem human. It doesn’t seem like a punishment for sinners or something a human could ever be turned into, so there’s less psychological impact there. It doesn’t seem like that fate is any real threat to humans. It looks more like it’s own species of monster, and while it may be more horrifying in appearance imo, the ideas that the original descriptions convey are much more frightening.
EDIT: I’ve said “Western” multiple times here and I want to add a disclaimer saying I’m not sure that western is the correct term. We use western in modern day to represent Europeans and Americans, but during colonial times, native Americans were more Westerners than the colonists were. So by “western” I mean white European colonialist.
@@Fnaffan2004 In native culture, it looks more like a rotting corpse
Burying the cat in the hat here would be an entirely new horror movie in of itself
Yeah, the Cats 2019 movie.
yeah the cat in the hat is already scary
I agree
He'd be best friends with pennywise
I don’t want too think about that
The wendingo is more of a passive creature who literally doesn't have to do much but lure entire generations into burying their family members in its curse ground....talk about a commited funeral serviceman
People turn into a Wendigo when they consume human flesh.
@@the-silliest-goose That's the Wind-Walker mythology of many Inuit tribes. Since they're afflicted by a curse, they're not the same as the Canadian mountain wendigos. You'll sometimes see wind-walkers described as _windigos_ in earlier Western recording of the myth, which may signify confusion of the two myths due to their similarities. Wendigos are specific to the Canadian mountains whereas wind-walkers are specific to more tundrous regions.
@@dylanwight5764 can I have a source for this? I looked up the two names, all I got for Wind Walker was a reference to Ithaqua, part of H. P. Lovecrafts stories, and searching their names together just led results describing them as just different names for the same thing.
@@matthewbibby8921 "Wind Walker" predates Lovecraft's mythos. The earliest literary reference to it is in a 1913 (1910?) short story simply called "The Windigo", published in _The Lost Valley and Other Tales_
In the novel, the native guide tells of a "spirit which walks upon the wind" though he is not describing the Canadian wendigo so much as he's describing the spirit itself. Canadian and Alaskan wendigo mythology differs here. A "wind walker" is the spirit which can inhabit a person weakened by famine and slowly changes their morphology to that of the humanoid wendigo.
The more southern Canadian cryptid is the stag-headed creature which is properly known as the wendigo. Alaskan Inuit tribes didn't have a proper word for wendigo since their mythology involved the malevolent "wind walker" spirit. It's likely that the word wendigo was just adapted by European settlers in the region.
Fun little fact: The short story "The Wendigo" later inspired the Cthulu "Wind Walker/Ithaqua" tale. I'm not up to speed on my Lovecraft, though there's probably a lot of conflation between the two.
@@dylanwight5764... Riiight, so what's the difference?
Or rather I guess from what you've said, what's the similarity that got people mixed up? Are the wendigos still cannibalistic?
And... Are the windigos you mentioned a thing or just a mixup between the two words?
(also I would very much like a link or reference still for this info, or at least, where you got the info yourself if it's not easy to find online )
is it a bad thing that I imagine Pennywise and the wendigo being coffee buddies? I mean they do live close to eachother
Wendigo:Business been good lately?
Pennywise:Nah man not the year sadly.
Wendigo:Oh suckers. Revived some dead animals today. Heard they killed their old owners
Pennywise:Oh cool, nice biscuits by the way what’s in them?
Wendigo:Human flesh why?
Gordon Ramsay:THIS IS F*CKING RAWWWW
@@kunimip8925 oml yes
@@kunimip8925 Gordon Ramsay: "I have tasted dead horse shit and I rather be stuffing my face with that. GET THE FUCK OUT. "
Living Failure YOU F*CKING DONUT
@@kunimip8925 well this went from 5 to 11 really quickly...
I see why Courage the Cowardly Dog was so scared
@rawguy24 In their belly. Well the first one at least.
@@mygenderisyes5771 wendigos are cannibals turned by evil spirits. They used to be human and are usually aware of what they’re doing, but mostly can’t ignore just how much pain they are in because they can only eat other people. Also fun little fact about them, the deer skull head version is actually inaccurate and is used to represent skin walkers, wendigos look like really skinny people and, according to a person who has family in the Algonquian tribe (not me, someone I’ve met), are made of ice
@@secondheaven9545 i did know some of that but thank you for the facts
@@mygenderisyes5771 apologies. I’m just amazed that someone could find the wendigo cool, those things scare me shitless every time just because they’re mostly aware and usually don’t even fight it. If you want a good wendigo story, though, I highly recommend you check out darkness prevails reading of the flesh eater story, darkness has one of the best story-telling voices out there, and flesh eater is one of the most realistic and terrifying wendigo stories I’ve ever heard
@@secondheaven9545 oooh sounds interesting! I personally love horror, especially books like IT or The Shinning by Stephen king. Fuck it, every book by Stephen King
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"It dont bite"
"YES IT DO"
-same energy
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Mom my stomach hurt
Back in my day we didn’t have stomachs”
@@DumboAndGlumbo haha 😁😁😁😁
And in English...?
André Linoge same, I’m lost
People: Build speed bumps and speed traps
Wendigo: Well. So much for those 300 years
Yes and use police officers to ticket them for speeding.
300th like
NO ONE LIKE THIS BECAUSE THE LIKE NUMBER IS TOO PERFECT!!!
The Wendigo is one of those supernatural creatures that I am both fascinated by but also afraid of. The various iterations are horrifying.
I think the cat in the hat died and was buried in the cemetary. He then came to life and dieced to commit pycholigal horror he made the live action movie
@evilangel7769 sorry spelling is not my strong suit
No wonder the Mike Myers movie sucked
What is the movie's name
@@heheep cat in the hat
@evilangel7769 dude, you're willing to call someone "r-word" but you don't have the balls to say the actual word? Shit or get off the pot. If you're going to be awful enough to call someone "the r-word," own the fact you're an asshole and say retard. But the fact you won't say the whole word suggests you know it's wrong and a total dick move. SO DON'T SAY IT AT ALL.
I grew up hearing stories of the Wendigo from my grandfather. The twos stories are definitely related as one of the hallmarks of Wendigo is activity is it praying upon people who are lost in the deep woods. It will follow along behind a person matching their pace and stopping when they stopped. After a while the person when stopping, would hear a twig break or footsteps behind them. Then silence. The person would turn around to find nobody behind them. This would continue, the person gradually becoming aware that they aren’t alone. They would increase their pace becoming very frightened. After a bit longer the Wendigo would start allowing the person to catch brief glimpses of it, dark shadows ducking behind trees and whatnot. The person becoming panicked would start running, making themselves hopelessly lost. Once exhausted and beyond hope the wendigo would show itself and consume the the lost person. My grandfather taught me to always carry an iron nail in my pocket or stuffed into the side of hat for protection against the wendigo. Travel the lonely places of the northern woods and you may have a similar experience
Jan Petrie gunna get me an iron nail
why an iron nail?
How about a nail GUN?(worked to deep 6 that lead bad guy in "The Equalizer" w/Denzel Washington)
@@VolumeImpact in most mythos sprits are repeld by pure iron as they can't touch something that has a connection with the underworld and iron along with some other items was believed to have come from the underworld
Bruh
*You should be playing the creepy shop-keeper in every movie....and I mean that as a compliment!*
W h a t a r e y a b u y i n
Web Puppy resident evil ?
YES
“You don’t pay with money here...”
Ya he looks like the guy to sell you a cursed object
I grew up in northern Maine and had many Mi’kmaq friends who told me stories about Wendigos and I always thought they were just legends but eventually, when I got a little older and would go with friends exploring through the woods we heard a lot of crazy shit. Also, my brother is pretty sure he came very close to one.
In Michigan here, Wendigo is huge in Michigan as well. Here it doesn't have horns as someone else said, and it's basically distressed dead people. Such as people who have horrific deaths and don't realize they're dead. And that you only have to worry about them if you aren't "pure of heart"
Yeah if you come across one, well avoid saying the name out loud for one it may attract it to you. It's heavily associated with cold and starvation. So like....ya know, be careful.
@@haileyjones-guthrie6489 Goes into the woods were animals live and hears noises that animals make, no fucking way
I learned early on that if you f around, you will find out. I like the lore of the Wendigo, but I am not dumb enough to go pursue it.
I am far more willing to believe in cryptids and other beings from cultural lore than I am ghosts or demons, and I don't know why. My family is of Irish heritage, and as a result I have strong feelings about faeries, namely: leave them alone. You don't want their attention, not really. They're pure chaos and very possessive, so yeah: leave offerings out if you suspect there are any in the area, but otherwise you're better off not inviting them around. And give faerie rings a wide berth, they're portals to the faerie world and also they can decide to fuck you up if you walk through it or step on it.
This has been your daily faerie PSA
I can see the god of the lost being a separate wendigo patrolling its own territory. As Wendigo's aren't really known to stray from their own turf its unlikely that its the same wendigo from PS. TGotL is most likely a older Wenigo seeing as in Algonquin folklore The older a Wendigo gets the more powers it obtains. Such a shapeshifting and speech. So thats my little theory on that
What is "TGotL"
Its an abbreviation for "The god of the lost"
@@kingdracox3008 Thank you
Good theory sounds About right
No, the cat in the hat WAS buried in the cemetery. That explains the entire movie...
He was a normal cat before...
mrsubject1 My dog is Next
Along with Mike Myers' career.
That was a cat thath belonged to his daughter. It got killer on a road. They burryed it in thath cursed indian semerary. It came back to life, and was not the same cat. It was just... Sad, i love cats, but, this is actualy one of the saddest films i watched... I realy cryed a lot.
@@catshark0076 you're a fucking child you shouldn't be watching horror.
You look like emo Abraham Lincoln
Zz' Rot Portal I can’t tell whether he’s gay or not no shame just curious
Gaybraham lincoln
Kiss my Corpses same
His voice is like if someone with a severe nasal congestion got a tumor in their left nostril and it's making me so angry.
good vid tho
4:15 “and for the LOVE OF GOD...not cat in the hat” that would be a NIGHTMAREEEEE😂😂😭
nyahahaha
Funfact. In Stephan King's book 11/22/63 about a guy that travels back in time goes to Derry Maine in the early 50's and runs into the kids from IT. Like no joke.
So, what I'm saying is it wouldn't be unlikely if it was the Windigo in "the girl who loved Tom Gordon."
And i love the girl who loved Tom Gordon
Or the Wendigo and everything else are all just Pennywise
@Timothy McCaskey Right? Stephan is a whole other name. LMAO People, PROOFREAD BEFORE YOU SEND
Most of Stephen Kings books are connected somehow in an expanded universe (or universes if you will)
SB W the real MCU
The Wendigo is one of my favorite mythological creatures... sadly, pop culture has taken it over.
Indeed, as a Western European, I find it the myth very interesting.
Yeah though there are some good ones everynow and then tho mainly bad ones
Me thought its swedish myth
Cannivelt i myself like the version from until dawn
Oof
Should I do more episodes of Horror History?
yes
Yes, please ! I loved it !
CZsWorld yes
Yes
Yes u should
What if a kid buries their pet gecko or fly in the pet sematary, they wouldn’t be very harmful 😂
Until the fly climbs into your ear and lays eggs in your head!! >:)... That is unless the gecko saves you cus Gecko always good
Yeah like what about a fish
@@realpokemontrainer5566 Flying Ghost Fish!
@@eweystewy but then the fly will die in the ear..
well they did say the pets arent super harmful they are just a bit more aggressive
They're pronounced "Mikmaw".
The joys of living 15 minutes from a Mi'kmaq reserve.
Same! I had classes in school for Mi'kmaq history!
KALMIA ; so…you took a class literally called Mi’kmaq History I or something?
@@JK-ei7wr It was called Mi'kmaq studies/history, yes :)
KALMIA ; damn. What grade was it?
@@JK-ei7wr Grade 10! This is in canada btw lmao
i’m native, from cree nation and we also have stories of people seeing the windigo when walking around reserves at night
The one ik; during the cold winter a man resorted to cannibalism. the more he ate, the hungrier he got, to the point he ate off his mouth hence why it shows bare teeth. he ate his family and half his tribe (it’s said he was cursed by the creator)
Swift runner
Tommy Criton oh, my cousins and i always get it whitigo
@@athenabelle3091 so is it true is it able to be friendly
Tommy Criton i don’t really think so? i feel like there’s a lot of negative energy when it comes with whitigo- if that makes sense
@@athenabelle3091 yeah I get it hunger does that also just realized you've been avoiding its name I get that too it possess you when you say its name near it
"Not long after, the young boy Gage ran into the street and was killed, and I mean freaking yeeted"
Wendigo doesn't have antlers, or fur. That was made up by a filmmaker in 2001. Most legends have wendigo that were once men who because of greed were punished with unending ravenous hunger. Forever. None have antlers. It was a cautionary tale to share resources within the tribe during the winter so everyone survives.
It's a good thing they didn't bury catdog
Or puppycat
Or bury Mickey mouse either I'd be pretty scared if that happened.
Walt buries Mickey, Mickey comes back, kills Walt, and goes on to become the evil entity pulling the strings of modern Disney.
@@LedosKell yeah that'd be terrible
@@LedosKell I love bed time stories with Dad tell me more!
I feel as if Stephen King wanted to make two different stories, one about zombies and one about killer pets and he just put them in one story and put a Wendigo in there while he was at it.
He did both in two separate stories,a short story I forget the name of and Cell,one about a cellphone signal turning people into zombies
@@hardbumpy8400 Cujo? or the cat from hell? lol
stephen king is great but i wonder what kind of trauma he experienced as a kid
@@hardbumpy8400 i think the short story you’re thinking about might be LT’s Theory of Pets but lmk if it’s not. that’s just the short story that came to my mind
@@misseselise3864 he admitted doing a bunch of blow in his prime. Some people have very macabre ideas without ties to trauma. Cocaine is a hell of a drug, especially on the mind of an author. Much like Edgar allen Poe and many other drug and alcohol induced authors.
I'm Native American from this region and it's pronounced mih' gmaw
Devon Newell same I'm scared of him
Oh god same
My dad sometimes tells stories about this creature and hearing the word freaks me out and I always feel like something is behind me when I think of the creature
@@toastaddict5328 you to feel that ?
Charles Henry Scholliers
pretty much yeah
that's the way i heard it was pronounced
And for the love of God. Don't bury the Cat in the Hat... Jesus, that "is" terrifying.
Funfact: Cujo is buried in the Pet Sematery
cause we need a even more depraved ZOMBIE St. Bernard
The worst of the 3rd Dimension I always thought it was just rabies
Aww shit here we go again
cujo was an english mastiff?
@@avoniasatchell8553 no, he was a saint bernard in the book.
Cujo was beheaded and then cremated at the end of the book. Would have been cool if they buried him up in Semetary though.
Mic'maq,
Paddywack,
Bury a dog's bones,
This wendigo is coming to your home.
Well, that's better than Freddy's nursery rhyme
Snap you like a KitKat
Adam P. Murray 1 2, Freddy’s coming for you, 3 4 better lock the door.
#korn
He pronounced mikmaq wrong it's pronounced mig-maw
There’s 3 types of the Wendigo:
1. The main one/First one/Indian legend
2. The Stephen King one
3. The Rake type of one, found on the internet
I've imagined a Disney version where a princess turns into that creature.
I’m guessing #3 is the kind in Until Dawn?
@@ireallyneedtherapy1126 until dawn, fallout 76, and supernatural all had the rake style of wendigo
You forgot the Algernon Blackwood's literary version, not related to cannibalism and more focused on the effect of wild nature and loneliness on modern men.
There are many different depictions of the wendigo considering several tribes have folklore of it.
I never thought that the story of “the girl who loved Tom Gordon” would be connected it’s one of my favorite books and the first Stephen king book I’ve ever owned and I can read it thousands of times and never get tired of it but I was shocked and excited to the that connection you made and now I can’t stop thinking about it, but I do struggle why the wendigo would go for her because she goes through so much struggle and hasn’t really shown any greed if anything I would think the wendigo would go after her brother for not being appreciative of what his mother is trying to do for him. In the story it shows how much she appreciates what she had and was working to get it back, another thing with her voice she hears it in her head before even going on the hike but it does change the more and more she gets scared which is common for younger kids. Her dreams on the other hand show so much and I truly wonder if it’s a different entity related to the wendigo that went after the innocent and in pain
Ah man don’t bring Eugenia into this man she’s in recovery ...
BABYAPPLES She wasn’t when this was made though.
She
JaveyDones it was still insensitive
I Like That Joke
dark humor is the best humor
"And for the love of god, NOT the Cat in the Hat!"
lmao
Okay, but the thought of the Cat In The Hat being buried at the Mic-Mac burial ground is legitimately terrifying.
Cat in the hat is already terrifying man if he got buried there I would literally die
The wendigo is actually an Algonquian, Mi’kmaq, Innu, Siksika, And Abenaki demon/legend. Not just Mi’kmaq. 😊
In Russia wendigo is Leshoi.
the wendigo legend is everywhere.
Dont forget it's a Navajo legend aswell
Actually I correct myself, Russias Leshoi doesn't resemble Wendigo in most of characteristics other than forest dweller with supernatural powers. No eating people. My bad.
For clarity (since I wrote this over a year ago) the legend of the Wendigo is mainly referenced in the above mentioned tribes. Specifically, Algonquin. Of course, there are many more tribes in North America that hold belief in the creature, which I did not include in my original comment. It is not exclusive to just the tribes I listed. Also, in the novel Pet Sematary, it is referenced as Mi'kmaq because of the area the characters were living in. I realize that now. :) Hope everyone is staying safe.
Mic mac Donald's slogan: I'm diggin' it
Can I get uhh Dig mac?
@@RealShrimpu only if you take a chocomutt cookie with it
Except for the one on the end, thats taken. 😏
Hmmm I wonder how pennywise would say that and not be cringy
Hahahaha. Love it.
I think the creature in 'The girl who loved Tom Gordon' might be a skinwalker or something like it. Skinwalker are sneaky and they like to play with humans, they can make you feel anything, in short they mess with your mind.
I wish there was a proper skinwalker movie, so much potential
I wouldn't be able to take it seriously, given my exposure to the memes. Although I have family in Utah that works with Navajo people and they take skinnies 110% seriously. Like, load the shotgun serious. Which, come to think of it, is pretty hilarious: a guy commits atrocities and makes pacts with evil beings, gains demonic powers... and then gets taken out by a shotgun. Talk about a bad deal.
@@TwinklesTheChinchilla well there is also tradition that can harm them like you always hear about bullets with ash and I'm pretty sure it's the ash not the pellets, sort of a new age way to use offensable traditions against these things while utilising technology.
Skinwalker is sometimes used as another name for the Wendigo. Typically in the american southwest from what I've seen, while the term Wendigo tend to be used more on the northeastern region.
The depiction of the Wendigo as being stag-headed seems to be a very recent pop-culture re-imagining of the being. You can see similar revisionist adaptations of the Slavic Leshy, the American Jersey Devil, or Germanic Woodwose. The exact origin of the stag or buck-skulled Wendigo isn't clear, but may derive from obscure American tribal depictions, 20th or 21st Century re-imaginings, (like King's or Tom Chaney's Frostbiter), that depict it as similar to a satyr or centaur-like creature, (respectively), or older European influences such as Sylvanus, and other wilderness entities, that are crowned with vegetation, tree branches, or antlers. Regardless, older descriptions of the Wendigo either detail it as being a spirit that tempts or possesses an individual to commit atrocities like cannibalism, or as a giant- possibily once-human- that is extremely gaunt and akin to a massive mummy in appearence. Interestingly, the more common older retellings, (which do make for a nice allegory for starvation, greed, and the taboo of cannibalism), fall into an extremely common global archetype of the cannibal giant, which can be seen in such narratives from Jack and the Beanstalk, to the Nephilim in The Book of Enoch. Regardless, the skull-headed beast seems to be a modern stylist choice, not a common historical description.
The depiction was from a movie I don't remember what movie it was, all I know is that it was made by the dude who made until dawn.
You've gotta respect Stephen King, his imagine and the way he wrote his books here really on another level
Oof, that Eugenia Cooney joke was super unnescessary :/
Love your vids, tho!
yeah it was in pretty poor taste :/
Was thinking the same thing. I’ll let one joke pass in poor taste but if there are more I can’t keep watching. :/
Fucking peace then! Quit being so goddamn sensitive..
Yea. Turned me off to listen to this person's stuff and am stopping this at almost 1.30 seconds in... Dude wtf
Grant Wiley Esq. so if your mom was recovering from cancer, and someone made a joke about how she was literally dying during it, you wouldn’t be the tiniest bit offended? Making fun of someone literally starving themselves isn’t funny, and pointing out that it’s not funny isn’t being sensitive, it’s being a basic human being with morals. It’s not cool to be an angsty asshole in the real world dude.
Thats why we need concrete on top of graves
HeyLittleBitty that’s actually mentioned in the novel when King describes the difference between grave liners and sealing vaults
Alyssa Black oh nice. I didn’t know that 🙂
They actually used to do that during the medieval(ish) age in Eastern Europe. Due to a lack of knowledge about anatomy and what happens to your body after death, they interpreted natural decaying symptoms as the dead coming back to life as vampires. Actually I think this used to be common throughout the world
My pants are filled with beans precisely true also!
HeyLittleBitty I’ve finally paid more attention as I’ve re-read the book
0:20 imagine if you just saw a wendigo T-Posing in the mist like it was prop hunt, XD
It do be assuming it's dominance
Pfffffftt
LEAKED INFORMATION FROM STEPHEN KING for new pet cemetery
Cat in the hat vs wendigo
I'll make the popcorn for the fight let's do it
No joke, I’d watch that. My moneys on the Cat in the Hat
Wendigo wins !! I'd rather see the Windigo vs. the Grinch..now that's a fight ! Lol.
*Chuckles nervously *
With the help of the help of thing one and thing two Cat in the Hat beat the Wendigo
Big Mic Mac 😂 And for dessert? A Frostee from Wendy-go's. 😆
Now we're talking
@@CZsWorld you pronounced it wrong, it's Mic-Maw, not Mic-Mak
Really... that's the best you can do?
Hah... i’m sorry trust me i’m laughing in the inside
Shut the fuck up, Leo!
The human voice making you laugh this made my day
Ronald MCdonald I just ate McDonald's
What do you think of micmac XD
Love Big Macs
I just came across this channel. I am SO happy I did!! I’m not a huge (gory type horror fan, but I love a good suspenseful thriller. Being able to understand them even more after your videos makes the experience much richer and interesting. I’m approaching Hour 3 of my binge of your content!! Great Job!
That dog is so cute even with the blood on his face
He may be possessed by evil, but he's still a pretty good boy.
Epic gamer moment
Only shibas and Akitas are cute
CZsWorld he is not good
HE IS BEST BOY
😅
The wendigo is in The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. A really boring novel for Stephen King. King should do a prequel to Pet Semetary btw.
GARBAGE DAY
I haven't read it since it first came out but I thought it was just a bear.
*G A R B A G E D A Y ! ! ! !*
There is a new one coming out on April 5 I believe
I read Gordon Ramsey instead of Tom Gorodon Lmao
Small correction, the mythical Wendigo DOES NOT have a the head of a stag, this is a modern invention by Larry Fessenden for his movies, stemming from a false childhood memory of a teacher telling him a story about the wendigo being a deer monster.
True, but it does look pretty cool with the antlers.
I can’t believe he said Euginia Chooney style I know he probably doesn’t write the script but that means it was approved by a team of people. Comparing her to a WENDIGO
It was a joke.
Templar Blonic sez: DEUS VULT! It doesn’t matter the punchline is comparing someone with a serious eating disorder to a hideous creature
I can understand that it was in poor taste, but she is getting better if I recall correctly.
Comedy have good timing, but we shouldn’t censor comedy. It may have been in “bad taste” but these comments are aggravating to read in such large volumes. He obviously meant nothing personal by it.
@Miss Misery Agreed, friend. This endless mob of people is aggravating and even worse than the tasteless joke itself.
"Should've stayed home and played Apex Legends, timmy, my man."
I love you man!
The story is much more coherent with the wendigo in it. Otherwise it looks like people making obviously stupid decisions.
Yeah I agree. The main character was fucking idiot but with the influence, it makes more sense
It is explained with the wendigo in the book
I agree. I've only seen the movie, and it always just seemed like everyone was a complete moron. This helps me appreciate the story better. Like, if the burial ground is dangerous, then why are you showing it to people, old man!? 😂
@@albinoshamrock8871 I totally agree. the addition of a wendigo makes EVERYTHING make more sense now
I love wendigos so much in folklore, especially how they're portrayed in the game until dawn and pet sematary. It's just so interesting to see how other people interpret the creatures
I was hoping this would be more of a "deep dive" into the book rather than the movie, but still a great video! I would highly recommend reading the original to anyone that loves a good thriller and doesn't know what to read next.
Any theories on who would win?? Mordeo or Wendigo....FIGHT!
Same bloke?
Mordeo wins
The Birch
The terminator would win
Look see would win
I had a pet human deer..
It ran away..
*Me yelling out for it*
I went to the police and they asked
*When did it go?*
*face palm*
Hehehe I get it
Not sure, when di' go?
You should talk about the history of the horror movie “Cat in the Hat”.
Fun fact, my mom named me after Gaige in this movie, it was her favorite movie while she was pregnant with me, and I haven't been hut by a truck yet *fingers crossed lol*
Wow, that's... Kinda messed up ngl
Of all the things your mother could've been obsessed with while she's pregnant, it just had to be pet sematary where you're named after the kid who dies 💀
@@infjelphabasupporter8416 not necessarily, i look just like him, blonde blue eyes
@@IZZLEbro Still, messed up. Maybe even more.
@@infjelphabasupporter8416 I guess
1:39 why is that image used for wendigo, it like the second or third time.
it’s Cronus eating is children, the Olympians.
Edit: god I sound like “that guy”
It's used because it shows cannibalism, fam.
Because you *are* that guy
@Dylan Carroll this probably also makes me sound like "that guy" butFUCKING THANK YOU SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT!!! I've noticed that too and it annoys the hell out of the mythology nerd/pjo kid in me
Nvm just did some research into the painting and found that it was an interpretation of the myth, my bad
Dont feel bad i was thinking the same thing.
OK I did my homework Professor CZ and liked this video!
A+
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@@radremixerdaren1066 BITCH
I turned around
Rebel
One idea you missed in tying The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon into Pet Semetary, is actually another you touched on briefly. What if the stories are actually part of a larger, serialized tale. If the Wendigo sometimes takes over a human so completely they transform themselves. Rather than being the Wendigo of the Semetary. Could the lost, grieving, Lewis, have returned transformed to the landscape of Stephen King's world as ,"The God of The Lost?
King has gone on record as saying that most of his stories take place in a shared universe
I have been interested in myths and legends like the Wendigo, there is lore on "Lore" a podcast talking about it, the spirit of the Wendigo made a man kill his family and ate, he turned back to normal and talked to a ranger. The lore is in the video game Until Dawn but without the features from the book and drawings of the Wendigo. I love this creature.
The Wendigo looks cool, but I’m excited to see how they portray it in Pet cemetery 2019
Pretty sure it's spelled sematary
@@shawnwales696 For the book and film, yes. But not the actual word as it contains a C. It's is spelled with an S in Stephen King's book due a child's spelling error in the story.
@@hotdogpepper8410 It is because a child in the story wrote the sign, so it was intentional on Kings part
@@hotdogpepper8410 Maybe it was. Maybe I read the wrong thing. Who knows. It's all he says she says
@@hotdogpepper8410 However, a spelling mistake on a book like that is a big one if it indeed was a mistake. Book writers most of the time have people who go over the writings to snuff out that stuff. The film being about a kid who comes back would make sense if that the kid who wrote the sign made a mistake, as kids do.
The q in Mi'kmaq is silent, it is pronounced Mig-Maw
this is 100% correct.
My favorite interpretation of the Wendigo is the exposed stag skull and some other bones exposed.
Hello CZ’a world! I am Mi’kmaq from Nova Scotia, Canada, (eastern seaboard if you don’t know the east coast) and I wanted to say Mi’kmaq pronounced like (mig)(Maw) , MicMac, Is the English word of Mi’kmaq, or Lnu’s (people of the land) thanks for today’s history lesson! Also, the Mi’kmaq people have their own language, been here for over 10,000 years with archeological evidence. The Alqounquan is just a bigger family that includes different tribes, such as the Mi’kmaq, Maliseet, Etc. Thank you CZ world ! Our people were almost wiped out but survived genocide and are still here today. We still practise a lot of traditional ceremonies. You ever see someone In a eagle feather headdress ? Yup that’s the Mi’kmaq, or dancing in a circle around a big drum? Mi’maq
I was named after Gage and my brother was named after Vincent price me and bro both agreed to name our kids after horror characters
My friend’s little brother was named after Gage from Pet Cemetery too
My partners dad is a huge hammer horror/horror movie fan, he wanted to call my partner Boris (after Boris Karloff) but my partners mum refused to allow it 😂 so his dad got to choose his sisters name instead and got to name her Reagan (after the titular character in The Exorcist)
Vincent was also the name of the college kid that was killed on the first day of Louis working at the doctor’s office
You remind me of emo Peter parker. I dig it.
I think the main issue I have with this is, Wendigo lose a lot of themselves, mentally speaking, with brief periods of time where they can think and communicate as a human. They don't have too many moments where they can think past the overwhelming hunger and it only gets worse as time goes on. Most times they don't realize they've gained their intelligence at first and think their own voice is someone else's and because they hate who they used to be because it was due to their own actions they were cursed, so they spend so much time distancing themselves from everything including their old self, that their own voice scares and infuriates them so they run around in a frustrated rage trying to find whose talking, meanwhile screaming at the voice which they don't recognize the screams and eventually revert back to an animalistic, silent beast of hunger and frigid loneliness.
From what I know the wendigo is actually still pretty smart
In Pet Semetary the Wendigo isn't necessarily controling the events, it's a far more ancient evil energy that controls the Wendigo(in the story) and the Wendigo isnt a physical entity either, its a energy
And hopefully Mickey mouse wasn't buried in the pet semetary either.
1:36 that was the God Saturn eating his son, I know because I recreated it for an art class lol
coattail why was he eating his son?
Skye Brown hungry
@Braden Kruger so greek mythology said in Roman names?
@Braden Kruger fun fact they didnt change thanatos name because they didn't want death in their mythology
@Braden Kruger thx
Kid: * walks on the road
Truck: *LMAO YEET*
As I understand it, the wendigo was never traditionally thought of as having stag horns or head--that idea came from the guy who illustrated Algernon Blackwood's story "The Wendigo" and got it from a sort of Mandella-effect memory where he remembered one of his teachers telling him it had a stag's head, though the artist later claimed he was probably mistaken about it.
At least, that's what I thought I remember hearing. Could be wrong. I will say... it looks a lot more badass with a stag's head!
You really had to do Eugenia cooney like that, huh.
What if I would bury my hopes and dreams , or my will to live at the pet cemetery ("semetary"). Would they come back?
This is so interesting! I'm a little surprised that there aren't any horror movies about the Donner Party. The true story makes the trail seem cursed because in addition to the cannabalism, dozens of people died trying to save the people in that area due to the horrible weather and difficult terrain. It's an incredibly scary story in addition to the infamous cannabalism.
Ravenous is a kind of a “black comedy” that is loosely based on both the Donner Party and the Wendigo. It’s a weird movie, though.
My primary school named the classrooms after Native American tribes and when he showed the spelling of mi’kmaq I couldn’t help but laugh
Im curious about your thoughts on the show hannibal, and the wendigo
I don't think he'd turn into a Wendigo. He eats people for pleasure and not because he is forced to. He eats it cooked with other foods so I don't think he'd get anywhere close. He is an interesting kind of monster though
I've seen Silence of the Lambs, but not the show.
@@CZsWorld The show is great you should check it out.
PLEASE DO MORE HORROR HISTORY.
I've been subbed for a long time but used to go by the RUclips name "Death"
Don't worry, this is the 1st episode.. So more are coming!
You used to go by the name of Death... and then decided "The Germanic American88" was better?
Darkest Dweller lmaoooooo
@@darkebuddha 😂😂😂
@@darkebuddha considering im german and live in america yeah id say thats better than Death
I was on board until Eugenia Cooney was mentioned. Bit of a low blow to be honest.
It was a joke. Nothing more.
1:14
Templar Blonic sez: DEUS VULT! It was a bad, shitty joke
Lets get outraged and cancel RUclips for this crime against our pety feelings
exactly. it wouldve been so easy to Not do that and yet ..
The description of the Wendigo passing them in the forest in the book was fucking amazing, wish they could’ve really captured that in one of the movies.
Also just AKA Fred Gwynne said it's power has phases like the moon
When did Fred Gwynn ever say that in the movie?
NES WARRIOR
Maybe it's in the book not the movie?
@@wyattguilliams2621 could be, it's been a while since I read the book, but the person said Fred Gwynn, and Fred Gwynn isn't in the book.
1:06 He only did chest, but skipped: leg day, biceps, shoulders and neck day.
Pronunciation of Mi'kmaq was taught in my Eastern Canadian school as "Mig-maw"
1:10 Aye dog I love the channel as much as the next guy but that Eugenia Cooney insult was a little outta pocket
nah it was kinda funny
The last one might be a skin walker...
They change form (the strange bear)
They take skins to change(missing dear head)
They are tricksters(god of the lost)
The part about the cat in the hat make me laugh so hard
You want some MicMacDonalds?
Yes please
I’ll take a big MicMac with a side of fries
No thanks. Those Angry Meals do sour things to ya.
@@tariqondatrack2366 That's how you turn into a Wendigo
Ive read the book and i had one big question in my mind: What if the dead's body was cremated? Would they still come back?
Maybe they just float around as particles hahaha
Hmm, I never thought about that. Stephen King loves putting references and characters from multiple books into new works, so I could certainly see him doing it here. Two really terrific books. What I love about The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is its ambiguity regarding a supernatural element. So maybe...
I'm not feeling the out of place jokes my dude
I like the stag head depictions we often see nowadays, but in the algonquin myths I've read, people who become wendigo are pale and emaciated humans. but the spirit of the wendigo that possesses people to change them doesnt actually have a description. so I guess the stags head figure we usually see could work as a display for that possessing spirit
I always thought the girl who loved Tom Gordon was pure psychological and was all in her head, but I think I'm going to have to read it again
The joke about eugenia....very distasteful......
Dark humor
@@andrewmilton5183 nha, dark humor and just beeing straight up mean is two very different things.
It was a joke. Which means dark humor
@@andrewmilton5183 are you thick?
Keep it basic Allie Nope
Ever since your poll showed us your audiences age you've been appeasing so hard to them.
Is it the same age range as the Onision fanbase?
Dagoberto Pimentel what the heck is your picture!
If your audience is primarily one age group, it’s kind of intelligent to pander to your most influential demographic
thats what you do when you know your audience. cry harder
I am Mi'kmaq and it's pronounced
Mig Ga maw
The mig and maw are way more pronounced than the Ga but without the Ga it doesn't sound right, you almost have to say Ga faster than the other two
Dope!
So like Miggamaw?