SYMHC Classics: Beast of Gevaudan
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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🗓️ 5 October 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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This 2014 episode covers attacks on women and children of Gevaudan in the 1760s, which sparked a huge push to hunt and kill the mystery beast behind them. While efforts to track the animal struggled, France was gripped in terror.
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Saturday, everybody. |
| 0:03.8 | It is our favorite month of the show and the best month of the year, in my opinion. |
| 0:08.1 | And to kick it off, we are going back to a previous October episode, the Beast of Jevodone, |
| 0:13.5 | which came out on October 22nd, 2014. |
| 0:16.7 | So in the course of this episode, we make a passing reference to a website about whether |
| 0:21.6 | England was at war with France. |
| 0:24.1 | And if you get to that point and you're like, what are they talking about? |
| 0:27.7 | Several years ago, we basically joked about how England and France were at war with each |
| 0:31.5 | other so frequently that there should just be one of those websites where you could put |
| 0:34.8 | in a year, and it would tell you yes or no where they at war. |
| 0:38.6 | After we made that joke, two different listeners made one of these websites. |
| 0:42.9 | One of those websites is still active. |
| 0:44.5 | We will put a link in the show notes. |
| 0:46.8 | So enjoy. |
| 0:50.5 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio's How Stuff |
| 0:54.6 | Works. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:02.9 | I'm Tracy B. Wilson. |
| 1:03.9 | No, I'm Pauline Frye. |
| 1:06.0 | So recently, I asked for a Halloween episode suggestions because I had this whole list |
| 1:12.8 | of Halloween episode suggestions and really none of them were peaking my interest at all. |
| 1:17.9 | That happened. |
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