The Beast of Gévaudan (Occult History Explained)
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- This terrible wolf haunted the isolated and furtive region of Gévaudan, France in the 18th century. While it was said to have met its end at the hands of a common farmer, it has been said that it always rises again.
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I like the theory that Chastel was a werewolf, and he himself was the beast.
Chastel was not the werewolf.
Either that or that it wasn’t a werewolf at all.
I like to personally think of it has an aggressive Wolf suffering from Gigantism.
@@anonymousgoblin792 Maybe a dire wolf?
I've come to the conclusion that it was a Liger. It was probably the possession of a wealthy local aristocrat which bred a male lion with a female tiger and the Liger escaped captivity. It's really not that far fetched of an idea when you consider the exotic pets that much of the French aristocracy owned during this period.
Man that would be a perfect plot
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Weird beast, we don't see anything like that today.
@@janoyantonio9585 You think?
@@PinkiTadinki there is definitely none by that description
Historical ?
German writer Markus Heitz wrote a fantasy book about this. In his tale, the beast was a Werewolf. Normally I don't find these scary, but the way he had written it down gave me chills.
A lion really fits the description, the people back then knew what wolves looked like and many described the beast as looking very differently
A lion doesn't really fit though. Most French historians lean more toward a spotted hyena, it has a more canine appearence
@josephguillerey4391 they also said the beast killed by attacking the necks and crawling on its belly to attack which really sounds like a lion. I wish we can know this stuff dang.
Even though I watched the original episode, I just love the artwork and the voice you have man, it’s like I’m listening to someone that’s spinning a tale around a campfire and giving us a history lesson keep it up man.
Ah thank you for saying so. Glad you enjoy the content 👍
I heard a theory that it was a hyena that a nobleman bought and it escaped. This is backed up by witnesses hearing "maniacal laughter," before an attack, which is how they sound when they bark. Also the victims skulls were crushed, which is also how hyenas kill, having one of the strongest jaws in the mammillian kingdom.
Lots of interesting theories. The counterpoint to the hyena theory is that hyenas couldn’t have likely survived the harsh winters and instead there were lots of kills during the cold seasons.
@@Quincy_Morris Awesome a response after I posted my thing 3 years ago. Anyhow I was about to post about how hyenas will naturally dig into a burrow. MAYBE survive a few light French winters to keep on killing? Then eventually froze and the hunters later killed another large wolf and put it in a museum? It's really too bad we will never know the true story.
Where’s Scot and his wolf pack to fend off the beast
Centuries in the future lol
Because this in yhe 90s
It remained unknown until Brotherhood of the Wolf was released on DVD.
Thats the movie I was thinking of thanks!!! I loved this movie.
The movie is pretty unknown outside Europe as well, and so is the original story - which became (relatively) famous in the US only when the hit CW series Teen Wolf put the Beast at the center of its final season - though they made up their own story for it. :)
One of my favorite movies and the reason I'm fascinated by this legend.
I did not understand what happend at the end of the movie
Best movie around.
One documentary I saw said the Beast was a spotted hyena. It's body is stuffed and at the Louvre. It's not on display because it is in such bad shape. But in the doc the museum people showed the doc crew the critter. So, apparently it was a spotted hyena.
but.. hyenas are so small
InitialPC they’re very strong.
That's fukin bullshit
I was thinking a Tiger makes sense why it also didn't attack people who kept eye contact.
@Mizrahi with Attitude yes they are but theyre not beast of gevaudan big
I really love this channel. Keep up the good work!
One thing's for sure: the argument that a farmer wouldn't know how to fashion his own bullets/ammunition is ridiculous. Basically EVERYONE made their own bullets back then, especially the lower classes. Everyone who shot guns also owned a bullet mold to pour the molten lead into, and a little cutter to clip off any excess lead, forming the bullet into a perfectly spherical ball. These pieces of equipment would be made to match the bore diameter for whatever caliber of gun/s the person used. So, you can definitely throw that argument out the window! In fact, the super-rich were probably just about the only people who didn't have to make their own bullets.
Love the vids as usual my boii.
Thank you 😊
I've heard theories that the beast may have been a hyena, but hearing the part about it being able to leap into trees and having a tassel at the end of its tail definitely makes it sound more like a lion.
Awesome keep up , please bring more about historical creatures
I once heard a theory that the beast was an escaped hyena, though the descriptions backing that one were a bit different.
ye but hyenas arent that big
@@albinademaj3479 As someone who has seen a spotted hyena in the wild, i can say they are quite big and extremly bulky.
@@rollothewalker5535 not thaht big do.
@@rollothewalker5535 Problem is that the hyena associated with the beast was a Striped Hyena, not A spotted Hyena and records even mention during the Beast of Gevaudan craze a Striped hyena was shot and killed under the assumption that it was the beast
Hyenas don't have long tails
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Thanks so much 😊
The Legends of History it’s no problem 😊 I look forward to future videos 😁
He sounds like the French driver from Talladega Nights
I actually love this story. It's so awesome!!!!
GOD this is the best channel on youtube I hope you make more occult history and crypt ids and battles!
I've come to the conclusion that it was a Liger. It was probably the possession of a wealthy local aristocrat which bred a male lion with a female tiger and the Liger escaped captivity. It's really not that far fetched of an idea when you consider the exotic pets that much of the French aristocracy owned during this period.
Or the size of a Liger when full grown.
I need a tribute to this beast with powerwolfs new song please someone
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Thank you this is great!
Thank you for this interesting video, this is a fascinating subject, though the facts themselves were rather scary.
I really adore your videos 💜🔮
Patrica Brigg's book "Hunting Grounds" brought me here.
I like the theory that chastel made his dog attack people
Maybe the one ppl knew about or Maybe another ”dog” he had kept hidden for example Maybe a hybrid or hyena
Even if it wasn't a gigantic canine, that young boy still deserved that reward for bravery, especially if it was a lion.
Hi mate, i really enjoy your vidios! Would you ever think of doing one on the book of enoch or nefflim? 😁
Nephilium? Oh there's some on here that are good! Happy CZcamsing-
It was ManBearPig. Obviously.
Duh.
Are you cereal?
Or Grills Bears
Either a large small subspecies or the escaped lion(s) theory make the most sense.
Great video, thank you!
Yeah, it was probably a lion. The idea of a serial killer (even using trained animals) seems little bit too crazy to me. The beast used its claws during the attack, so it couldn't be a canid.
blog.nationalgeographic.org/2016/09/27/solving-the-mystery-of-the-18th-century-killer-beast-of-gevaudan/
Please do a video on Saint George of Lydda.
It was Fenrir starting the Ragnarok. Nah, just joking. For me it could be only one of those giant wolfdogs (a hybrid between a normal dog and a wolf)
Do a video about Zalmoxis
That’s very interesting
If you’ve seen Teen Wolf, you have heard a bit about this before. It’s not explained the same way tho, but anyways😂😂
Or if you have any interest in werewolves at all... Or cryptids
ahah yepp
I love teen wolf
Teen Wolf explains it in an almost completely made-up way, to be precise. 😂
Really wish Deucalion would've fought the beast
Didn’t they make this into a movie? “the Brotherhood of the Wolf” was its title, I believe. I remember there being a lion that was somebody’s pet, and it was dressed up as some nightmarish monster, and people believed it to be a Wolf.
Yeah I remember that movie, decent flick from what I remember.
There was a history Channel special back in 2009 "The Real Wolfman". Where the team went to the Natural History museum vault and examined the taxidermist remains of the Beast of Gevaudan. And the data came back it was a Hyena. Many people don't realize Hyenas are feline not cannid.
That is not true. The report established by French experts in the fifties reconstructed a hybrid between a lion and a wolf that the Roman soldiers used to breed.
Plus Hyenas do not climb trees or kill large victims
I feel so sorry for animals back in those times even today in a lot of places humans can be so Very cruel. Love these videos
13:45 - I read there were two n I also read skull measurements taken from (one or both I forgot) showed it was part dog.
well this was a good story, i always thought the beast was a hyena, due to people saying it had spots. yet, a lion would be just as dangerous, or it could have been a direwolf, really huge prehistoric wolves though i would have to do more research to see if direwolves actually existed. still this was a great story. really loved it
They mentioned The Beast of Gevaudan on MTV Teen Wolf, 1st time I've heard about it LOL
That's where my curiosity came from too lol.
"Mentioned" - It's a pretty huge plot in the fifth season.
Brotherhood of the wolf is much better than teenwolf
There's a really cool movie about this story called The Brotherhood of the Wolf.
Brotherhood of the Wolf is the Fictional movie of this. Came out in 2001 made in France so it's Dubbed or Subbed.
I saw it when it premiered state-side. Neat movie . . . .
One of my favorites. Vincent Cassel was great.
I too saw it in theaters. Was a fascinating and engrossing story. Much better on the big screen imo.
The movie is not very well-known outside Europe, but it's actually an international production with an international cast and it was filmed in English. You can still easily find the DVD on Amazon. :)
Been trying to find that movie...
I feel like I've heard the music playing in the video before
There was a movie about this beast. I cant remember the name but it was good. Brotherhood of The Wolf, I found it!
Yeah most people are talking about teenwolf lol
I love your voice 😥😥💙💙
The beast was later determined to have likely been a Hyena. It was said to have made a sound that sounded like a laugh.
Which Hyena?
Quite unlikely. Hyenas aren't the size of a donkey and don't have long tails.
@@rollothewalker5535 It's called stylized artwork.
@1957khartung No I'm not. The beast was described as making a sound akin to laughter. Not many animals make that kind of sound. It was in a documentary.
@1957khartung Not a mesonychid, lol. They were long dead even before the ice age started. Most probably a liger. Explains the large size, colour, claws so big that may look like hooves, long tail, and others.
Gevaudan is the king of the monsters: the only one who had a country worried and sending part of its military to hunt it. I am honestly disappointed to see how it's not commonly represented in popular media; should be as famous as Dracula
Realisitically, most of the attacks were caused by multiple wolves at once. That would explain why people viewed the beast as so damn big. And a few other attacks would've been caused by escaped zoo animals (asian lion and hyean, which explains a few other descriptions of the beast) and wild armored war dog (which explains a few other descriptions of the beast). So it was tough conditions in the french countryside that made packs of wolves more aggressive and bold.
I’m going with the trained dog? Hyena? For a serial killer, which would be pretty brilliant, actually. I could be wrong, but I remember seeing something where some of the autopsies indicated sexual assault.🤔 send the dog in first, then come in later🤷♀️. The hysteria surrounding the beast would be perfect cover. I think the farmer is the guilty party.
sexual assault cases were not easy to tell back then the wolf could of attack the genitalia or injured it many creatures go for the genitalia of a person possible it could of been confused for sexual assault
The source of both the name of the monster "tarasque" from D&D, AND the premise for "The Brotherhood of the Wolf" film . . . .
Radiyas 13 how did it inspire the Tarrasque? I’m confused...mind explaining?
leucrotta is like la bete du gevaudan you mean
Lead would be misdiagnosed as silver back then. Such metals were easily mistaken way back then.
I still think it's a wolf dog hybrid
Reminds me of Ralph from Rampage (the movie).
Always thought it would have made a cool movie
If I'm not mistaken they made a move about it called Brotherhood of the Wolf
Oh puh-lease.! Bullet molds were part and parcel of a gun kit! If you couldn't fashion bullets, you didn't shoot your gun!
You melt the metal in a long handled spoon over the fire, pour it in the mold (that were like scissors w/ the mold at the end). Once poured- wait to harden then open the handles and drop out a hot bullet. When cooled fully you shave off the bump where you poured it and the shavings go back in the box that holds your lead.
IKR? It’s not like they trotted down to Walmart to get bullets. That would be just something everyone knew how to do.
@@mangot589 Not everyone, quite the opposite actually. Only hunters knew how to make their own ammo....and they weren't that numerous. Farmers (and other artisans) wouldn't have known how to make bullets because they didn't own guns or rifles in the first place - to defend their cattle and sheep from predators they used dogs.
There was a documentary on this where it was a trained hyena. It's been a while since I have seen it, and if I remember correctly the animal was stuffed. There was a hyena that was stuffed, and I think the conclusion was that it could have been the beast. It does at lease seem a little plausible.
Send me a link
@@ronmaxwell2296 So far all I can find a copy of is in Italian czcams.com/video/zcg5CKG8Gzo/video.html
If you have a History Channel subscription it is here too www.historyvault.com/collections/unsolved-mysteries-and-legends/the-real-wolfman
Those are shapeshifters in form of a Wolf
Some people say the Beast Emily is a striped hyena but we'll never know what is the actual creature is fastened a Cryptid
Still surprised you didn't mention the theory that the beast was a hyena.
I think that this is another example of the single cause fallacy. Why not have multiple causes? An exotic animal, possibly with rabies, on the loose; a particularly large wolf pack; rabid dogs attacking people; and good old fashioned mass hysteria could turn isolated incidents into a nightmare.
Not a hyena, not a wolf, not a lion but a hybrid according to French experts
Has any of you seen "Le pact des loups" ? Amazing french movie about this creature.
Brotherhood of the Wolf w/Mark Decascos?
Yes. That one.
For some reason the movie Brotherhood of the Wolf comes to mind..
The Brotherhood of the Wolf is a really cool movie based upon this legend.
Yes. A most satisfactory story indeed. Movie was good too.
I think this legend was somehow an inspiration of the movie Brotherhood of the Wolves
Belongs in Bloodborne
Concerning the supposed silver bullet, perhaps one needs to go back to medieval beliefs about the nature of minerals and such. For instance the alchemists' drive to make gold was less about creating wealth than it was to create a beautiful, incorruptible substance thought to have religious significance.
I do not know right now what beliefs may have existed about silver.
Probably a large cat. Maybe a lioness or a Tsavo lion, which would be huge, maneless, and with man-eating tendencies. It's a fascinating mystery.
Yes, that's what even National Geographic thinks - a lion.
It is possible that the creature was a hybrid between a lion and a Leopard. Menagerie's had to have both creatures, and they are known to interbreed with one another in captivity. And I'm sure that if a living cub was found from this union then the rare kitten would be worth quite a lot of coin. It was also a common thing for royals to have their own private zoos.
So if a big cat hybrid escaped during transport to a high ranking figure's personal menagerie and escaped within the thick woods and target rich environment of Gevaudan, with fallow, roe and red deer as well as wolves, boar, bear, livestock and the shepherds tending the herds. It would stay within the region, targeting livestock and human's more often b/c its not used to fighting wild animals for a meal, as well as being used to being fed by humans.
As far as animal attacks, those on livestock and humans have been done by inexperienced youngsters, or animals that are too old to catch normal prey. This has been the case on multiple occasions in Africa and India when people have been attacked and killed by lions, leopards and tigers.
These incidents followed the Seven Years' War. European battles in that war were fought in Saxony, Prussia and a number of other places.
I was born and raised in the wilderness and have a great deal of knowledge of animals. There are many aspects about The Beast that do not make sense according to known animal behaviour. For one thing, wild predators seldom target humans as prey, especially when there are sheep, goats, poultry , etc. in a rural farming area. We hear of the terrible attacks on humans yet a rogue animal of this nature would surely also attack herds yet we have no reports of that that I know of.
I wonder if there was more than one beast, perhaps the sub-adult male lion suggested as well as large wolves. Could they have escaped from a menagerie in one of the areas where battles were fought in the war? Unused to hunting wild prey, did they learn to scavenge corpses after the battles, thus making human flesh their preferred food?
So, as a writer and researcher, I would look at records from the war, if any estates containing menageries were damaged or abandoned. It also makes sense that the wolves, said to be extra large and perhaps not exactly like wild wolves, could have been specially bred or crossbred in a menagerie. It would not take a lot for such animals to travel from Germany to the south of France.
There's a French movie loosly based on this, *"Brotherhood of the Wolf"* _(Le Pacte des loups)_ from 2001
I like the narrator voice.
This is such an interesting story & there's a fantastic film made about it that came out several years ago. One thing that stands out as odd is the reported human fatalities attributed to wolves. It seems more likely that wolves would attack livestock than actual people-those numbers seem high. I think the wolves were being blamed for things they didn't do just like wolves & coyotes are now.
whats the name of the film
Welp, sounds an awful lot like a Maned Wolf to me, they grow to upwards of a meter in height and a meter and a half in length, reddish brown fur, sometimes spots on its side, tuffed tail, long legs that it uses to leap great distances
Except maned wolves are weak, spindly fruit eaters.
@@samrizzardi2213 They also eat fruits, yes, but from what i know they are actually omnivores, and i dunno, maybe one somehow got to france somehow and aquired a taste for human flesh, being omnivorous means they are opportunistic. Lets also not forget it's still a big, wild animal, it could probably still be able to hunt a human, or at least a woman/child especially young ones, it made sense in my mind, judging from the fact that those represented most of the victims. But you do make a good point, it had to be the "perfect storm" for it to have happened.
At least this was a carnivore, not like Australia's military actions against Emus.
Everyone in the comments is like "Teen wolf" as I think "RIP Ne0;lation".
My understanding is chastel was given the silver from the church after being blessed by a priest
It was either a serial killer who knew how to make it look like a monster did it or most probably the area had a huge number of wolves of certain unique size
Anyone here cuz of PowerWolf?
anyone here from Teen Wolf ?
Nice clip. There where so many victims in an so large aerea of land that this could not caused by a single animal/biest. 100 death and about 100 more woundet victims, no, there must be more than one. In that time every one knows a wolf. Wolfs hunts as a pack not alone. The most possible theorie to me ist a hybrid dog mayby camouflaged in fur and trained by men to kill people.
How tf you know?? You not even from france
@@kamelleon9131 The Story is well known throughout Europe and many parts of the World. You only need a good map to see that there must be more than one creature. Some Attacks took place nerly at the same time many miles in between...
@@udorechner6846 okay can you tell me what happened there exacly?? And a wolf can hunt alone
0:50 - girl's cattle chased beast away she was tending.
1:25 - people's throats were torn, their heads gnawed or eaten.
People have encountered giant wolves before. That would be intimidating.
Ohhhhhh, i used to pronouce it as Gehvahdn instead of Jevodahn
Cool
The reason silver is effective against wolves is because it is the alchemical Lunar metal.
If they had Circus's there or close by it could have been an escaped lion. Mor maybe a Tasmanian Wolf got there somehow. This is a very intriguing story. Thank you. I'm going to try finding more on it from some books I have. It could have been a human male wearing a skin or something. I feel that could be the most likely to me. Blessings. Keep up the excellent research. It is very much appreciated. 🙂🇨🇦🌿🕊🌿
That gnawed people's heads off???
@@dravenocklost4253 Possibly. Who knows? Any better ideas?
@The Gray Ghost Ok. I was never in Australia, or anywhere where there were tigers, or, tigers or wolves of those species. They were just uneducated theories as I don't know how Tasmanian Wolves or Tigers were or w/e. It just seemed the colours and markings that were explained seemed to fit what I'd seen on a film.
@The Gray Ghost Possibly and it could be a Liger or Tigon.
@The Gray Ghost I didn't think either of us were wanting to be nasty. Just commenting on possibilities. I really do not know much about Tasmanian Wolves, Tigers or anything Tasmanian. Just a few clips I saw and though possible maybe is all. Have a great day 🙂✌
The captain's name was Duhamel, not Dumal.
If you've read the Dresden Files books, then it's clear it was a Loup Garou
So this is brotherhood of the wolf.
Making the bullet back then was not as complicated. You only needed a fore, some lead and a mold( usually sold with the gun)
The statue of heroin Marie-Jeanne is dope af!
I think it was a dire wolf!
The brotherhood of the wolf
Is actually somebody from the Vanitas no Carte Fandom here 😂
Hello, here to fill in some gaps.
My understanding is that Chastel and two of his sons led Antione's men into a bog on purpose. It was a joke, one that Antione didn't appreciate. He had all three of them thrown in jail and they were released when he returned to the king. The chastel family is very interesting in that some in the village said john was a devout religious man, others refereed to him as "the son of a witch". Some even suspect that John and/or his son Antione chastel were the creators and masters of the beast. John allegedly had a large red mastiff dog and some say he could have cross bred it with a wolf and raised the pup to be a killer.
After the attacks resumed, John melted down a silver coin of the virgin mary and crafted it into a bullet -- it's not that he thought silver would kill the beast but that shooting it with a blessed bullet would. Supposedly, John went out at night and sat in a tree and read the bible while waiting for the beast. Sure enough it walked into a clearing and looked at him, he then shot and killed it.
He even tried to take the corpse to the king in order to receive a reward, but the body had decomposed by the time he reached the castle and the king ordered it to be buried. Chastel received no reward. Also, others question how john managed to kill the beast so easily and why didn't he just go out and do that before? This adds credence to the theory that he was somehow involved as perhaps the animal recognized him.
Anyway, this is a fascinating story and you should all look into it. There are so many intricate details that go into this bout of mass hysteria.
Anyone thinks that it was a Tasmanian Tiger it kind of fits the description (wolf,red fur ,flat head, large, stripes)
You forgot the girl who fended it off with a pitchfork on a bridge! There was a statue made of her in honor.
My friends cat is the beast of gevaudan he acts like it
Alot of these theories are wierd.
If there were so many giant wolves, surely their existence would have been revealed? Giant animals dont just appear out of nowhere to be that big they at least have a steady food source.
Of course a farmer could know how to fashion a bullet. They are known for possessing firearms.
And regarding the beast, as I said, whatcwas their food source?
Liliger/Liger or a Lion .. The tassel tail, tremendous size, red fur and roar clearly explains this, even the spots can match the hybrids I mentioned :^) Not a wolf or hyena
Can't be a liger/Lililger since ligers and Liligers didn't exist back then(The first liliger was born in 1943 and The first liger cub litter was born in 1799 in India whereas the first attacks from the beast were documented in 1765)