well, I've never told this besides my family which they never believed me,
but the reason I knew what Lar'ja Thwei saw a Wendigo or Rake, is because when I was little I saw something like that as well, I mean, why do you think I know so much about it from the description, or not know but be so sure,
okay, I was about 4 or 5 maybe, and we would go visit my Grandfather to his ranch out of the city, he had a house by the woods and he had a cow and a couple of horses, nothing big or anything, just a couple of animals he had, and we would go visit him regularly,
one night, I woke up and went to the kitchen to try and find some cookies or something, and the kitchen had a window to the back, and my grandpa always left the lights around the house on,
i was near the window and I went to take a look and i saw the thing, white, supper skinny, bald, blackish eyes, red lips, like blood red, Im not saying it was blood, but they looked really red, didn't look human, i mean the way it was moving, i saw it for like a minute before it disappeared, I know it wasn't a dream because I was eating, Im pretty sure my fear or darkness or aliens is from that maybe, and, no one will believe someone saying that, so I never really talked about it,
later on when I remembered it and had the internet I started to research, and that's when I came across the wendigos legends, which was the closest description and stories of what I saw,
It might have been my imagination, or a dream, who knows, but is really weird to dream or imagine of something so specific that other people have legends about, that's what makes it weird, the fact that it exists in people's stories