York County is stirring with chilling reports of a creature long dismissed as a campfire myth. New sightings near Rock Hill have revived talk of the region’s most unsettling forest legend — a gaunt, starving humanoid known in Appalachian folklore as a Wendigo.

Although the Wendigo originates in Algonquian stories from the far north, the spirit drifted southward centuries ago as tribes migrated and European settlers pushed into the Carolinas. By the 1800s, the creature had fused with York County’s own Cherokee-rooted horrors — the Spear-finger, Raven Mocker, and the Stone Man — becoming a symbol of winter hunger, deep woods, and desperate isolation.

Now, as temperatures drop and the nights lengthen, the stories are back.

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