The Wendigo Cave Scream Recordings, Ontario 1992

In February 1992, a handheld recorder picked up a shriek echoing off the limestone walls of Deadman’s Cave, north of Thunder Bay. The cavers who captured it described a single, humanlike wail that kept repeating deeper in the darkness, too deep for their flashlights to catch. Locals called it the voice of the Wendigo, a creature whispered about every winter. The authorities confiscated the tapes, but the lead caver’s logbook details how the scream rose and fell every hour, and then stopped for good the moment the recorder broke. The missing audio remains locked in the police evidence room-still marked, Wendigo Cave Case, February 18.