Was This North Texas Mystery Creature Actually a Wendigo?

This creature was actually caught on film.

Texas Monsters

Texas is "home" to many cryptids, or stories about them. We've covered everything from the real, but misidentified chupacabras to the East Texas Woolybooger and quite a few in between. The case we're here to discuss today is, what may be a sighting of a wendigo.

The Culprit

Wendigos are typically depicted looking something like an emaciated moose with only a skull and antlers for a head, that either walk upright or have the body of a man. Just the physical description is terrifying enough, but wendigo are actually said to be humans who have developed a taste for eating other humans. Some say they are all of this and also an evil spirit.

The Evidence

In June of 2022 a mystery creature was caught on film near the Amarillo Zoo. Thousands of guesses were made about it's identity, including the possibility that it was a Native-American skin-walker.  Skin-walkers are from Navajo culture and are described as "a witch that can shape-shift into other animals".

The Conclusion?

I can certainly see where some identified the mystery animal as a skin-walker, but it also could be the side profile of a wendigo. It is almost certainly neither of these things, but a cannibalistic wendigo is the more exciting and strange of all of these possibilities. The figure looks smallish in relationship with the fence, even child-sized, but I still don't think I'd want to run into it.

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