Other Humanoid · Fort William, Ontario · 1912
ON-1912ID case-ecb36d0371Added to map Oct 8, 2026
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- When
- Sep 12, 1912to the day
- Where
- Fort William, Ontarioto town level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
Witnesses report that Indians in the district are in a panic over reports of a cannibalistic "Windigo" abroad, with Native American women seeing a stranger near their camp and finding it stripped of valuables.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Humanoid
- Where
- Fort William, McKellar, Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay District, Northwestern Ontario, Ontario, P7E 1C2, Canada
mapped to town level · from the report's own words - When
- Sep 12, 1912
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 8, 2026
- Case id
- case-ecb36d0371
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- Image 7 of The Evening standard (Ogden City, Utah), September 12, 1912
Newspaper · 1912-09-12
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
Borrow on Internet Archive
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