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Ridiculous History

The Beast of Gévaudan, Part 2: The Birth of a Grisly Legend

Ridiculous History

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.34.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

As the investigation into the Beast became a national obsession, the French monarchy stepped in, offering rewards (and threats) in their attempt to capture the murderous creature. In part two of this episode, Ben, Noel and Casey explore the end of the tale (tail? Nevermind.) and the mystery of the case that remains unsolved in the modern day.

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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,

0:36.0

Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:40.4

Ridiculous history is a production of iHart Radio.

1:00.4

Welcome back to the show. Ridiculous historians. Thank you. As always, we're tuning in to our

1:15.7

our Halloween phase podcast critics will call it. Yeah, it's like a blue phase kind of

1:21.3

bit spookier. There we go. I know, by the way, area. That's right. I am today. I am Ben. Good,

1:27.4

good. That's our super producer, Casey Pagra, on the ones and twos.

1:33.9

So this is part two of our episode on the Beast of Jevoldal. Yes. And we were talking off my,

1:42.0

before we started part two, Gabe, I don't know how much of it made it on the air in part one,

1:48.0

but Gabe Luzier, who is our North star in the world of research, really surprised us with this,

1:56.9

with some of the research here. Like in a way that I don't know, no, it makes me feel like maybe,

2:02.7

maybe we're nerds. I'm not sure. Well, I mean, I think everyone who's listening to part one will

2:07.3

know that about 60% of the content of that episode is us gushing about the movie Brotherhood of

2:13.2

the Wolf. Hopefully everyone's watched it by now or maybe save it. I don't know. We can't control

2:17.6

what you do. But there's a section in the research that Gabe provided us about pop culture references

2:26.4

to this story, the Beast of Jevoldal. And he mentions a Robert Lewis Stevenson story that references

2:33.5

this event to some degree. And the movie teen wolf starring, starring Michael J. Fox. I kind of think

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