European Vacation: The Beasts of France - Part Two

The Devil Within

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True Crime

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🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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THE DEVIL WITHIN Mini-Series: The Beasts of France Description: France is a country of cathedrals, castles… and cryptids. In this chilling six-part series from The Devil Within, we journey into the haunted forests, fog-laced vineyards, war-ravaged trenches, and bone-lined tunnels of France to uncover a dark and forgotten legacy: the loup-garou. Part folklore, part true crime, The Beasts of France explores six terrifying cases—some legendary, others all too real—where the line between man and monster vanished. From the infamous Beast of Gévaudan that terrorized the countryside in the 1700s… to the Black Beast that stalked soldiers during WWI… to a secret cult beneath Paris in the 1970s that believed the werewolf wasn’t a myth—but a destiny. PART ONE: 1 The Beast of Gévaudan – A brutal string of killings in 18th-century France blamed on a creature that couldn’t be caught… or killed. 2 The Werewolves of the Jura – A cannibalistic hermit confesses to transforming into a wolf—and sets off a legal and spiritual panic. 3 The Beast of the Vosges – In 1994, livestock mutilations and phantom sightings resurrect France’s most ancient fears. PART TWO: 4 The Werewolf of Bordeaux – A calm, lucid man is arrested for murder—and insists he was simply answering the call of the wolf. 5 The Black Beast of Normandy – World War I soldiers report a hulking predator in the fog of battle… and it may not have left. 6 The Devil’s Breath – A Parisian cult, a forgotten detective, and a series of disappearances that point to something living beneath the City of Light. Submit your own sightings, stories, or artifacts tied to werewolf lore: 📩 Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠ 📸 Follow on Instagram: @thedevilwithinpod (⁠https://instagram.com/thedevilwithinpod⁠) 🎧 Subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Because some monsters are born. Others are made. And in France… they walk among us. #TheDevilWithinPodcast #BeastsOfFrance #WerewolfLore #FrenchHorror #TrueCrimePodcast #DarkHistory #LoupGarou #CryptidPodcast #OccultFrance #ParanormalPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.9	Bordeaux. The year is 1603.
0:51.7	The city stands at the crossroads of reason and faith, a port of wealth, wine, and whispers.
1:00.2	And in the dungeons of the Palais de Lombrié, a man waits to die.
1:06.0	He's not been tortured. He's not raved or lashed out, but he believes deeply, irrevocably, that he is a wolf,
1:17.0	and that he has killed. It began with bones, a vineyard near the outskirts of Bordeaux, the kind where vines grow and even
1:29.3	rows like soldiers. A field worker discovered something strange among the roots. A human femur
1:36.0	cracked at the joint and gnawed at the ends. At first, they blamed wolves. But then came the second discovery.
1:46.3	Ribs, a partial skull, a child's shoe.
1:51.8	Veterinarians were called.
1:53.6	The bites weren't consistent with animals.
1:55.9	Too shallow, too deliberate.
1:58.8	One of the bones had been split with something sharp, like a knife.
2:03.7	The townspeople panicked, children vanished from farms, dogs refused to go into the rows of vines,
2:10.3	flocks scattered at dusk with no visible predator.
2:15.9	Then came the sighting.
2:18.6	A merchant's son claimed he saw a man, shirtless, crouched in the vineyard at Twyling, licking blood from his fingers.
2:27.0	Police found him the next morning, curled near the edge of a stream.
2:31.6	His clothes torn, his face smeared with something red. His name,
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