Fort Kent is just a dot on the map on Northern Alberta on the way to someplace bigger, like the air force base at Cold Lake, but 100 years ago,  local folklore says a local doctor, stricken with grief and surrounded by death,  succumbed to the Spirit of the Wendigo and began eating his fellow townspeople. 

50 years prior and about 200 kms southwest, a Cree guide named Swift Runner was hanged in the Northwest Mounted Police settlement of Fort Saskatchewan for eating 6 of his family members over the course of one winter.  Did the hunger spirit, the Wendigo, infect him too? 

Or was it something else; a psychological condition called Wendigo psychosis? 

Research links: 

Fort Kent:

https://www.lakelandtoday.ca/opinion/have-you-seen-the-fort-kent-wendigo-1903318

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Kent,_Alberta

http://www.outdoorsmenforum.ca/showthread.php?t=251021

https://www.ghostvillage.com/encounters/2009/08102009.shtml

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/exploring-canadian-monsters-alberta/

Swift Runner :

http://www.murderpedia.org/male.R/r/runner-swift.htm

https://www.glenbow.org/index.cfm

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/cree/

http://www.prairieghosts.com/wendigo.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Saskatchewan

https://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-wendigo.htm#didyouknowout

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