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Ridiculous History

The Beast of Gévaudan, Part 1: Murders In France

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

For three years, a monster terrified the backwater region of Gévaudan. From 1764 - 1767, people found the mutilated corpses, one by one, across the countryside. The press of the time, unable to cover political stories, brought the story of The Beast to France at large. A legend was born.

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0:00.0

Picture Miami. Picture its beaches. Picture three radio journalists assassinated in cold blood.

0:09.2

This is silenced, the radio murders.

0:12.4

You left the body there for reason. It was the calling card. It's like the mafia used to do.

0:17.2

The mastermind has never been caught. To find him, we had to go deep into a world of drugs and darkness.

0:24.4

And there were these hints of a much bigger conspiracy.

0:30.8

I'm Osvalotian. Listen to silenced, the radio murders. On the iHart radio app, Apple podcasts,

0:37.5

or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:40.5

Ridiculous history is a production of iHart Radio.

1:00.0

Oh, yes, it finally happened. It is October 1st as we record this, which in my mind means

1:17.0

it's already Halloween. Hi, I'm Ben. Halloween is every day, I think, for us,

1:23.2

especially on stuff they don't want you to know. The other show that we hang out on, but yeah,

1:27.6

I don't know about you, but there's so many things about Halloween that just do it for me.

1:31.2

The holiday itself, obviously, I think we are all fans of spooky stuff, but just the weather change,

1:35.6

you know, going from being in Georgia, going from brutally hot and oppressive to this kind of like

1:41.5

very brief, beautiful, grace period of, you know, breezy fall weather before. It just gets obnoxiously cold.

1:48.0

So yeah, really big fan and big fan of the types of episodes that we get to cover

1:53.5

for this particular season, yeah? Yeah, agreed. Yeah, I love this Ray Bradbury-esque

2:00.7

a terminal weather. I love the idea that something spooky this way comes. We have decided to dive

2:07.7

into some spooky episodes this month, maybe not 100% spooky episodes, but we're going to do our

2:14.2

best. We're going to have some fun with some monsters with some creepy stuff. And if there's

2:19.3

anything that comes up that might not be 100% appropriate for the youngest people in the audience,

2:24.2

we'll give you a heads up at the top of the show. With that being said, I think this is an all-age

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