Cryptic Detective

Beast Of Gevaudan, France 1700s


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Join me as I tell you the story of the beast of Gevaudan, France. In the early 1700s tales of a very large wolf attacked and killed over 100 villagers. To this day no one can explain what happened exactly.


Content Warning: Talk of death, gore, and attacks


Reference Links:


Beast Attacks/History/Eyewitness Accounts of Gevaudan, France:

https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrEt2gSOCNmKm4nfEkPxQt.;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzMEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1713612946/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2fhistory%2fbeast-gevaudan-terrorized-france-countryside-180963820%2f/RK=2/RS=fBtL4XZAxyE8gQKUWbZCSUwrm1c-


https://museumhack.com/beast-gevaudan/


https://allthatsinteresting.com/beast-of-gevaudan


https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-beast-of-gevaudan-1764-1767/


https://www.historicmysteries.com/unexplained-mysteries/beast-of-gevaudan/22582/


Dire Wolf:

https://www.britannica.com/animal/dire-wolf


https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/dire-wolf.htm


https://www.science.org/content/article/legendary-dire-wolf-may-not-have-been-wolf-all


https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03082-x


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Cryptic DetectiveBy Rachael Vazquez