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. The historical region of Gévaudan, with its capital in the cathedral city of Mende, can be found on old documents (such as the 19th-century map, above). Named for the Celtic Gabali ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It might sound like the start of a campy horror movie, but the Beast of Gevaudan was a terrifying reality for the French villagers of the little town. Though the monster vanished as quickly as it had ...

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