The Wendigo

In the frozen backwoods of northern Ontario, a small group of hunters—Dr. Cathcart, his nephew, the seasoned woodsman Hank Davis, and the melancholy French‑Canadian guide Défago—are camped after a fruitless moose hunt. Their evenings are filled with cracked jokes, old voyageurs songs, and the quiet routine of cooking and fire‑keeping, while the surrounding forest seems to close in around them. Even the local Indigenous cook, known only as Punk, watches the darkness with a wary reverence born of ancient stories.

When the group decides to press deeper into the untracked terrain, an unsettling stillness settles over the lake and the trees, and a sense of being watched grows palpable. The men begin to hear strange whispers carried on the wind, and Défago’s melancholy song turns into a haunting lament that seems to awaken something older than the woods themselves. What starts as a routine expedition soon forces each traveler to confront fears that blur the line between natural danger and the terrifying legend of a creature that devours both flesh and sanity.