The Beast of Gevaudan

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this Strange Matters Short, Sean discusses the man-eating creature known as the Beast of Gevaudan. This violent animal terrorized a region in France for several years as it killed as many as a hundred men, women, and children. During this time the local populace was nearly hysterical with fear, forced to venture outside to make a living knowing all along that there was a huge beast roaming the area attacking anyone it can across. In an attempt to take down this violent creature, a French officer organized large hunting parties of thousands of soldiers to patrol the area. Professional wolf hunters were hired to track down and kill the Beast. Despite all this, the Beast of Gevaudan evaded any attempt to kill it and continued its reign of terror.

After three years of setbacks, embarrassments, and dozens of deaths, the Beast was reportedly finally brought down by a local farmer when he shot and killed a large wolf near his village. Through the years there have been multiple accounts and theories as to what the Beast of Gevaudan really was. Most think it was a pack of large and man-hungry wolves, while others believe it could have been an exotic or imported predator introduced into the region. There has been more outlandish claims of a werewolf or an ancient species still roaming the land. Whatever the true identity of the animal actually was, the Beast of Gevaudan is one of the most unique and unusual cases in history of a creature that specifically enjoyed hunting and slaying humans.
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0:00.0	And the Hello and welcome to another episode of the Strange Matters podcast.
0:24.0	Here are Strange Matters, we discuss everything that is bizarre, mysterious, and unexplained.
0:29.0	Is Sean here and I will be your host for this discussion.
0:33.0	In this episode of Strange Matters, I will be talking all about the
0:37.0	legendary and mysterious man-eating animal known as the beast of Jebu-Dhan.
0:42.0	This beast was some type of creature that terrorized southern France for several years,
0:47.0	attacking and killing dozens of men, women, and children.
0:51.0	I would like to thank our listener Toby for suggesting this story and it really is a pretty
0:55.7	creepy and unique case. I can't recall coming across any other situation similar to this where
1:01.7	some type of animal was running rampant in a region for years
1:04.5	killing people like this. It is pretty hard for us in the modern age to imagine
1:09.6	what this must have been like. Most people just go about going to their jobs or
1:13.9	going to school without much worry for their well-being, but for the people in
1:18.4	Jeavudin during this time it must have been absolutely terrifying.
1:22.3	Just to make a living these people
1:24.5	literally had to go outside to attend their livestock and work their fields,
1:28.2	all the while knowing that there was some type of huge monster of an animal
1:31.6	running around eating their neighbors.
1:34.7	Now being a host of this podcast I have looked into my fair share of dark and creaky material.
1:40.7	We have discussed cases of disturbing deaths, psychotic serial killers, and even the end of the world.
1:46.0	But it's things like this beast of Jevudin that really creep me out.
1:50.0	Now I'm naturally a bit of a jumpy person so when I'm out walking alone at night or in the woods and
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