Five: The Beast of Gévaudan - Divine Wrath

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🗓️ 17 March 2017

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Between 1764 and 1767, in what was then known as Gévaudan, a mountainous, forested region of France, terror struck. Over 100 men, women, and young children were brutally massacred and devoured by a monster that is truly the stuff of legend, and deserving of it's title of 'The Beast'. Join us as we explore the horrifying truth behind this terrible event. Was it a werewolf? A serial killer? Or something else entirely? Buy the Book! Beast: Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Maneaters: Solving the Mysteries of the Monsters of the Gévaudan by Gustavo Sanchez Romero & S.R. Schwalb Digital Hard Copy Other Resource Materials Account of the Attacks The account of Pierre Chateauneuf Marie-Jeanne Valet National Geographic Article

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0:00.0	Hey guys, just a little disclaimer before the show starts. This episode does have quite a few violent images, violent scenes associated with it.
0:10.5	This is not a story like Rendlesham Forrest, like the Jersey Devil, where people got a little spooked, but in the end, no one actually got hurt or no one living, human
0:22.4	got hurt at least. Unfortunately, the story that we're going to tell you involves a loss
0:32.4	of life on a massive scale. We're not going to get too gory into it. We're not going to, you know,
0:39.7	revel in the blood and the guts and the gore. But the simple facts of the deaths and the killings
0:46.0	themselves are quite disturbing. So keep that in mind. I wish I could tell you a specific
0:51.8	time stamp to jump by, but it's pretty much just peppered
0:55.1	throughout. So, without further ado, here is the Beast of Gavudan.
1:14.4	Hello, and welcome to the Not Alone podcast.
1:16.0	I'm Sam Fredrickson.
1:17.4	And I'm Jason Moisoso.
1:21.0	Jason, what are we talking about?
1:22.1	What are we doing today?
1:26.4	We're talking about the beast of Gave-Unde.
1:33.7	No, no, no, no. Gavudan gevudan uh french names so we're going to go ahead and apologize from the beginning we just don't know how to pronounce half of these things
1:39.9	i did my best we looked it up my brother French. I could have reached out to him.
1:44.4	I didn't.
1:45.1	I'm sorry, Ben.
1:47.5	We are going to butcher a lot of names here.
1:50.2	Kind of like how the Beast butchered a lot of kids here.
1:54.9	And women.
1:55.5	And women.
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