When the Beast arrived in Gévaudan, the region was in the cold clutches of the Little Ice Age. The Seven Year’s War had ended in 1763, leaving France defeated and in economic peril. Gévaudan, a ...

The beast of Gévaudan terrorized French villagers for three years, killing around 100 and injuring nearly 300. Wikimedia Commons The monster’s first victim was Jeanne Boulet, a 14-year-old girl ...

The beast of Gevaudan, locally called La Bete, is referred to by the French as the “greatest enigma of history.” This grizzly horror unfolded at a very volatile period in France’s government. The ...

An unknown beast prefers the taste of human flesh, killing over 100 villagers in the South of France. Tens of thousands of citizens scoured the forests and country side looking for the beast out ...

There's a ton of mystery and lore that surrounds vampires, those blood-sucking creatures of the night, but what really inspired those tales? One related event caused the New England Vampire Panic!

martial arts-style confrontations are all deftly melded in "Brotherhood of the Wolf," an attempt to elucidate the French urban legend of the Beast of Gevaudan. This is a home-grown French actioner ...

By the end, the Beast of Gevaudan had killed over 100 people.To this day, no one is entirely sure what it was, a wolf? a hyena? or something supernatural? The Beast is a popular myth in France ...