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 ...

This would place the Beast of Gévaudan in the realm of the Loch Ness Monster – a time displaced, but real creature ... collection of wolves in the area. Images courtesy of Harvard University ...

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 ...

That was the question that Teen Wolf showrunner Jeff Davis faced when he decided that The Beast of Gévaudan would be ... Davis says he looked at pictures of pit bulls when drawing The Beast ...

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!

During the last day of June 1764, the 14-year-old Jeanne Boulet was killed near the village of Saint-Étienne-de-Lugdarès, at the time located in the region of Gévaudan. Just a month later ...