The reward for the Beast’s head was up to 10,000 livres (the equivalent of well over $500,000 today) by early February. The bounty attracted adventurers from far and wide to try their hand in the hunt ...

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 ...

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!

Shortly before the beast began its spree, troops were still being used to ‘rehabilitate’ Protestants in the region of Nîmes. The 79-year-old bishop of Mende, the capital of the Gévaudan, issued a ...

Extravagant Hunts & Media Warfare. Jean-Baptiste Duhamel, a dragoon captain stationed near Gévaudan, mustered up a force of 20,000 plus citizens to search for the beast, with no success.

castles in spain. the divining rod. the wild beast of gevaudan. pygmalion's statue. the home of charles dickens. share full article. june 23, 1867.