Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-5170510-20190918022535/@comment-35711173-20190918191837

I had thought the coat belonged to a soldier who was so hungry he did start eating people, and therefore he was transformed into the monster.

A blue coat like that would indicate a French/Indian wars Veterans or subsequent militia coat. "That be the coat of Jacob Smith. He disappeared."

If you have a choice between starving to death or doing activities like eating things that one would not normally think edible or stealing food from locals or foraging, I am going to start thinking out of the empty Continental Army ration box. If there is no other food, tree bark would be the first thing I would try, along with mosses and lichens. I know some of this can leave you sick or stoned, but that would be something that would happen.

This corpse could have come from a guy who did try eating something unhealthy out of desperation.