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 ...

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 ...

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!

Amid daily harsh realities of disease, starvation, and the threat of male violence, Mende has become the latest in Gévaudan to be attacked by a mysterious and insatiable beast that mainly targets ...