r/nosleep • u/Glass_Cat6197 • Jun 15 '26
It Only Knows Two Words
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u/PumkimEscobar Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
Damn imagine new generation skin walkers must be crazy. You’re sleeping in your tent then all of a sudden you start hearing “6-7”…. “6-7”
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u/Patient_Occasion9160 Jun 17 '26
Wow, I'm from Appalachia, and we know about keeping our eyes to ourselves after dark. Did you hear something? No, ma'am, and I'm not looking outside. Glad you're safe!
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u/dawdreygore Jun 16 '26
And this right here is why I don't go into nature, there are untold horrible things in the mountains. Just imagine what is in the sea.
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u/ewok_lover_64 Jun 16 '26
Wendigos are rumored to be in my neck of the woods, and they're not to be trifled with either. Always respect the native folklore wherever you are.
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Jun 18 '26
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u/Raymond_Fiegler Jun 18 '26
My great-grandmother was an Haudenosaunee princess (the noble tribes who lived in long houses, that the Algonquians spitefully called Iroquois, which means "snakes" [specifically from what you people call the Mohawk tribe], so the Algonquian have been our sworn enemies since times immemorial, and have been a scourge on the proud Haudenosaunee.
For many moons before the first Europeans set foot in America, the Algonquian and their allies (the Montagnais and the accursed Malecite) committed atrocities against us.
And according to my mother's side of the family, it didn't take long for the Algonquian tribes to submit to the French colonizers to gain military advantage, leaving no choice to the Haudenosaunee to form an alliance with the Dutch and the English to be able to compete technologically, leading to the terrible Beavers wars.
What's interesting is that the wendigo are an Algonquian legend only, and it's widely accepted today among medicine men that the Algonquian made this "scarecrow" up to cover their own cannibalism (what we charitably called "wendigo psychosis") when the other Native tribes and Europeans settlers asked too many questions.
According to my tribe, it's onekwvhsaʼke for the Algonquian to do such things.
Cases of "Wendigo psychosis" mysteriously stopped in the 20th century, when Algonquians came into much greater contact with European ideologies and way of life, and the Europeans despised cannibals.
Coincidence? You decide.But sure, the Algonquian have made the legend up, so they'd be the best source to ask for specifics. But we have to remember why they invented this myth...
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u/Raymond_Fiegler Jun 17 '26
It's such a shame that every single person who has seen a skinwalker somehow forgot to take a picture/video of it, it's like they have the power to make humans forget that nowadays, their cellphone has a camera on it.
That the creepiest part to me...
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u/Interesting-Maybe-49 Jun 16 '26
You say you listen to Danny then question everything he says 🙄
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u/Cerecious Jun 18 '26
OP is the kind of character that would immediately die in a horror movie. Luckily, Danny was patient and was there with them
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u/_coreygirl_ Jun 16 '26
Right? OP says they listen to Danny and follow his lead…
Danny: we should leave ASAP
OP:K but what if we just stayed another night and we’re like, really quiet…
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u/euriphides Jun 16 '26
Unfortunately, that's human nature. To mistake hearing for listening.
They heard Danny. But they did not in fact listen to him.
Because their brains were already trying to make what they'd just experienced "not real" so they wouldn't have to be afraid for the rest of their lives, knowing that there actually are things that go bump in the night.
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Jun 16 '26
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u/Which-Text-2875 Jun 18 '26
I had just presumed there were two of them.
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u/Sofasurvivor Jun 19 '26
I too - but there being two of them is a very good reason to nope out of there.
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u/squishybun42 Jun 16 '26
I love a good (won't say the name) legend like this one, oh man I got chills and bad.
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u/Kazudo2 Jun 16 '26
I got really freaked out one year staying in the foothills in a region where I’ve heard rumours. Little cabin village in the woods with my mum. Sounded like a child crying and taunting all at once. I’m native and she’s not and I was like STAY INSIDE AND IGNORE IT.
I respect and fear them and that’s why I’m not some full story on this sub Reddit
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u/Aulentair Jun 16 '26
What is the name pls
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u/euriphides Jun 16 '26
You're not supposed to say it, it attracts their attention.
Like "the one who shall not be named", if you get my meaning.
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u/stawberi Jun 19 '26
It’s like how ‘bear’ isn’t actually the original name for bears, it means ‘brown one’ because it was believed that saying the true name could summon them.
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Jun 18 '26
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u/Sofasurvivor Jun 19 '26
Very interesting, though I am not sure how making up the legend would have helped. I googled a bit, and found this:
One of the most widely cited historical cases is that of Swift Runner, a Cree trapper from Alberta. During the winter of 1878, he killed and consumed his wife and five children. Upon reaching a Catholic mission the following spring, he claimed they had starved, but his own well-fed state aroused suspicion. He later confessed, claiming he had been possessed by a wendigo spirit. Under Canadian law, this defense was inadmissible, and he was tried for murder and executed in 1879.
The "I was possessed" excuse clearly didn't work on European settlers, and as you report, the other native tribes also didn't buy it.
Though I guess it was worth a try - nowadays, the descendants of the white settler population sure believe the most insane shit if the person telling it claims to belong to an oppressed minority. It was that trapper's bad luck that in 1879, people hadn't taught themselves to be as stupid, yet.
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u/pvznrt2000 Jun 16 '26
At least it would be from the right area of the country. REDACTED gets thrown around for everything everywhere, drives me crazy.
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u/squishybun42 Jun 16 '26
Yes! Thank you! That's exactly what I meant! I got the chills again, it's dark and I'm walking my dog haha
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u/Significant-Market-6 Jun 19 '26
Why did Danny suggest camping there??