Bus beheading threat

edmontonsun.com - Alberta - Bus beheading threat:

"A harrowing bus ride from Fort McMurray is over for two brothers who feared they were going to be victims of a knife-wielding man in a manner similar to a gruesome attack last month in Manitoba.
Josh and Andrew MacDougall were heading to Edmonton from Fort McMurray on a Greyhound Monday evening when a large man with tattoos boarded the bus. The MacDougalls were on the way home after working on the rigs."

A " near miss" or a copycat?

Bus beheading similar to Windigo phenomenon

Well look at this.....

CANOE -- CNEWS - Daily Feature: Bus beheading similar to Windigo phenomenon:

"Nathan Carlson has barely slept since July 30.

'Ever since it happened, I haven't been able to get it out of my head,' Carlson says haltingly. 'I just don't know what to think of it, quite frankly.'

The Edmonton ethno-historian is one of the world's leading experts on Windigo phenomenon, and the recent horrific beheading and alleged cannibalism on a Greyhound bus bound for Winnipeg from Edmonton rocked him to his very core."

Man who beheaded bus seat mate defiled body, police tape says

Man who beheaded bus seat mate defiled body, police tape says
TORONTO, Ontario (AP) -- A police officer at the scene of a grisly beheading on a Canadian bus reported seeing the attacker hacking off pieces of the victim's body and eating them, according to a police tape leaked on the Internet Saturday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/02/canada.bus.stabbing.ap/index.html

Police catch man after he beheads girlfriend on Greek island
Police shot a man five times after he allegedly killed and beheaded his girlfriend on the Greek island of Santorini on Sunday.
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/03/greece-beheading.html

So why am I posting this here?
Well internet rumor has it that the Canadian incident was mind control.
Maybe as Bob Geldof sang in " I Don't Like Mondays".....
"The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload."
You know it's always struck me as odd that he mentions that in a song written in 1979 or thereabouts.

Or maybe the beheader was possessed by a Wendigo.
" The Wendigo is a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquin people. It is a malevolent cannibalistic spirit into which humans could transform, or which could possess humans. Those who indulged in cannibalism were at particular risk, and the legend appears to have reinforced this practice as taboo."

" The latest sighting in Ontario (that I know of) of such a creature was back in 1997 by an American trucker near St-Catherines. So maybe all the Windigo is, is an eastern relative to Sasquatch? Again, we might never know."
http://www.bigfootmuseum.com/bigfoot/aka_windigo.php

As far as Santorini goes, a friend of mine took his honeymoon there and as he finished booking it, his travel agent said, " Have fun, but watch out for the Vampires."
" Greek folklore abounds with tales of the undead, the vrykolakes who are said to be particularly prevalent in the area around the volcanic island of Santorini, called by some the "Island of the Vampires"...when it's not being claimed as the site of sunken Atlantis!"
http://gogreece.about.com/cs/santorinitravel/a/offbeatgreece.htm

So what is it?
Mind control, Wendigo, vampires or just plain nuts?