meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Conspirators Podcast

Ep. 17 – The Beast

The Conspirators Podcast

The Conspirators Podcast

Society & Culture, History

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 24 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

For three years during the mid 18th Century, the Gevaudan region of southern France was terrorized by a real life monster. To this day, no one knows precisely what the creature was, or where it... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Rapping presents before you try and find the end of the tape again take time to treat yourself at McDonald's

0:05.4

Introducing the big and cheesy with without bacon a hundred percent beef patty delicious cheese sauce

0:10.3

Crispy onions even more cheese sauce and a freshly toasted snowflake bun, available

0:14.6

until the 3rd of January.

0:17.2

So from 11 a.m. participating restaurants only, subject to availability. The The Jevodon region in the south of France doesn't exist anymore.

0:41.0

After the French Revolution of 1789, it became part of the Department of Lozier.

0:45.0

It's a mountainous area broken up by patches of marshland and rocky terrain.

0:50.0

The people who lived there prior to the revolution were mainly farmers and poor peasants,

0:57.0

well removed from the wealthier and ostensibly more sophisticated Parisians far to the north. In Paris the concepts of spirits and

1:05.0

witchcraft and things that went bump in the night were largely discounted as

1:08.0

superstitious nonsense. Simple fairy tales told to frighten children.

1:14.0

But in Jevident, by and large the people still believed in the old ways.

1:19.0

They believed in ghosts and witches, curses and devils.

1:24.0

And they believed in monsters.

1:26.0

Oh yes, they believed in monsters, all right.

1:30.0

Between 1764 and 1767, the people of Jevedan were terrorized by their very own monster.

1:37.8

This isn't some fairy tale either.

1:40.1

All this really happened.

1:42.7

During those three years, a creature straight out of people's worst nightmares stalked

1:47.2

the locals and may have been responsible for killing and eating more than a hundred people.

1:53.8

As the story spread and word of the creature became more well known throughout France, it became

1:57.9

known as Le Bette de Jervadon, the Beast of Jevident Or more often simply, Le Bette, the Beast.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Conspirators Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Conspirators Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.