“I saw him there,” Nesbit wrote, “and he came up to me with an awful grin on his face. He told me that he had taken my soul and would be eating it soon.”
Nesbit described the Wendigo as being six feet tall, with dark skin covered in fur, red eyes, sharp teeth, and fingers that ended in black claws. According to her account, the monster had a long snout and long hair that trailed behind him like tentacles. From what we know about the creature from various stories involving the Wendigo, it seems likely that this creature might have resembled a giant werewolf or something similar.
However, when Nesbit returned to the physical world after seeing the monster, she found herself very ill. She was vomiting blood for several days, before dying of pneumonia and tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight.
As for where the Wendigo comes from… Well, I’m guessing that it could have been a demon of some sort, but more than anything else, it sounds like Evelyn Nesbit may have met something straight out of Lovecraft’s own nightmares.
What mysteries of Chateaugay Lake haunt you?