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 ...

Deadly wounded, she managed with her last breath to describe the attacker as 'a horrible beast.' Authorities started to note an unsettling pattern. Already September 8, 1762 the young son of the ...

(Ghost stories scare up new life at these historic hotels.) The answers with the most support come from the animal world. Others suggested the beast could have been an escaped creature that was ...

These days werewolves can be fun, exciting and even a little sexy, but in early modern period Europe, they were deemed a very real and dangerous ... du Gévaudan (The Beast of Gévaudan).

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 ...

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