1954
The wendigo turned the knob and entered the cabin. He attacked the couple and started carting them off when he heard a noise. He turned around and saw a child. He dropped the unconscious parents and approached the child and took a swing, cutting him across his chest.
The child cried out in pain and fear and yelled for his mother. That's when the wendigo remembered. Long before he became what he was, he had had a son. He left the child. He would have apologized for taking his parents, but he had long since lost the gift of speech.