I am french and have lived in France all my life. I had to look up every single french words they tried to pronounce. 10/10 : a good podcast that makes you learn more about your country.
honestly i'm just very surprised how much Bricky and DK were expecting us to hate them over the names. they're using a germanic language trying to pronounce one of the hardest romance languages. Do people actually get mad at others over name prononciation ? I think it's pretty cute and funny to hear them try their best :d
@@lmaoidkaboutnames6863 Having grown up as a francophone in an anglophonic area it is a surprisingly common trope that francophones get unreasonably angry over miss-pronunciation, I have even heard people say that they tried to speak french and francophones pretended not to understand them when the reality was they are actually just hard to understand
Tonite On Ridiculous Gear: Bricky embraces the Yiff And mutates Into The Beast Of Gévaudan, DK tries to hunt the Bricky-Beast hybrid by intensely following its toebean prints and Shy captures the forehead fiend by luring it with League Of Legend fanfiction
Beast hears Vi and Caitlyn getting together, so it sprints to see it only to realize that it's the works of ratatatat74 A.K.A Mr. Skulls, if you know you know.
The Beast of Gevaudan was France's Jacques the Ripper : - Escaped the authorities. - Scary but targetted the most vulnerable. - Some of their crimes attributed to them might be committed by other culprits. - Their reputation was greatly boosted by the contemporary newspapers. - Got adapted in comic books, novels and movies of varying qualities.
They didn't mention it, but there's a French movie from 2001 called Brotherhood of the wolf, that is based off of the beast of Gevuadon. The costume design of that movie also heavily inspired the costume design for Bloodborne!
A really cool point: a 2001 film was made based around this called 'Brotherhood of the Wolf'. The film itself was a Major inspiration for the clothing designs in Bloodborne!
Fun fact about wolfdogs, Bricky. They're a lot more wolf than dog. In fact, they can be so physically similar to wolves that the differences are minimal and nearly unrecognizable. The dog part comes from the wolfdog's behaviour and domesticity when in captivity. Wolfdogs are also a lot more common in the wild than you'd think. Every black pelted wolf is a wolfdog or wolfdog descendent, because the genetic mutation that results in canids having black pelts first originated in dogs, then it got passed on to wolves through inter-breeding. So a person training wolfdogs to attack on command without people realising they're dealing with domesticized wolfdogs and not wild wolves is plausible, especially if we consider the fact that some wolfdogs, when bred with dogs that have different physical characteristics from wolves, can take on traits from both progenitors and look pretty wild. It could explain why the beast or beasts were considered "like a wolf, but not quite". It could have had any number of traits depending on what dog was used for breeding, including the reddish stripe on its back.
Bruh, same. Like I'd be happy to see more cold cases sprinkled in to shake things up, but these monster videos really feel like where this series is hitting its stride.
Gonna guess that the actual kill count of the beast was much lower but because they were really panicked about it, they attributed basically every single instance of someone going missing or being attacked by a wild animal to the beast. There were other wolf attacks at the time, there were bears in the woods which might sometimes attack people and sometimes people would just go missing. When there was such a massive hysteria going on, I think odds are a lot of people in Gévaudan simply didn't consider all possible explanations for someone disappearing or dying in the woods and instead went "Sacre bleu, ze beast has struck again!"
Check out “Brotherhood of the Wolf”, it’s a beautiful movie. Great action/horror flick, and if you appreciate Monica Bellucci then you get great value for money😉.
A few extra fun things: 1. "A pikeman despatched from Normandy to join one of the hunting expeditions wrote to his patron in April 1765: ‘Snow, hail, thunderstorms, wind, wet feet ... I beg you, sir, if you have not already left for the Gévaudan yourself, forget about it. This is an abominable country, with terrible food." 2. Malnutrition before the harvest was a severe problem in the region, which would make tracking actual killings even harder, because death in general there was common. 3. Captain Duhamel used live children as bait for the wolf, so yeah, SUPER hated, and worthy of being led to a bog. 4. The famous wolf-hunter failed to kill even one wolf, which might explain why he ran away. 5. The boy who fought the wolf with his friends and got rewarded by the king became an artillery man, but I don't think he ever saw combat. His brother, who was the designated heir, might also have been a secret revolutionary, so Jacques Portefaix might have been one as well, though they apparently wanted a constitutional monarchy and not, you know...The Terror.
A bit of info on wolf-dog hybrids, they can get very large, depending on the breed, and such hybrids can be susceptible to recessive disorders like gigantism. Combine that with the often hyperspecialized jaws we've bred in some breeds, and you could have a particularly gnarly creature. They also tend to be super aggressive, like most feral dogs. I'm thinking something like a Wolf-Mastiff hybrid, if that's what it could be.
Actually the theory that it was a trained wolf or wolf-hybrid trained by Jean Chastel makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Where did he get it? He was notably a hunter and a loner, it’s possible he discovered as a pup or it was crossbred with one of his own hunting dogs. Why did it target women and children? That is what it had been trained to do. Why couldn’t so many people find it out in the woods and in patrol? Because it lived in the town. Likely hidden by the owner somewhere. Why was it such a tank? Because it’s owner would nurse it back to health. Maybe after the first time it was wounded he made some “armor” for it. Why did the killings stop? Because he put down his own pet realizing it was the perfect chance to be the “hero” of the story. That is also why it didn’t charge him.
It's funny that when wolves get a taste for human flesh they stop being interested in animals. Like when that bobtailed wolf literally seige down paris with a pack or the wolf war on the eastern front in ww1
This taking place so soon after the Seven Year War leads me to believe that it is indeed a wolf-dog hybrid. Back then it was really common for farm dogs and other domesticated animals to escape into the wild during times of conflict and turn feral, and wild dogs are extremely vicious and aggressive.
A wolf-dog hybrid would make a lot of sense, or potentially just an abnormally large feral dog. The thing about domestication is that it is a genetic quality. Mix that with something that isn't domesticated and/or take away the influence of selective breeding by humans and those domestic qualities fall away fast leaving you with a wild animal that isn't afraid of humans. An escaped menagerie animal would also help to explain its preference for attacking humans. Animals held in captivity can learn to associate humans with food and if it managed to escape might not know how to hunt for itself leading it to attack humans which its knows means food, once it figured out humans where easy prey, especially women and children, it probably won't have much reason to change tactics and kept preying on people.
The events of the Beast of Gevaudan happened when the Marquis de Lafayette was 9 living with his grandmother and aunts in Auvergne, if I recall correctly (I will check for the sources again) an anecdote mentions that he was confined to his bedchambers for months because he declared to his relatives that he took the initiative to gather the local children so they could organize a hunting party to get the beast. Absolute foreshadowing of an absolute legendary man.
I literally just posted about this. There’s also hyaenodon or daedon, which would also fit description. As a Christian who believes earth isn’t millions of years old then I would suspect one of these. Even still scientist thought coelacanth was extinct millions of years and yet here we are
This is definately one of my favorite segments y'all do. Glad that there's some monster stories thrown in here too. Dk does a really good job presenting these! Keep up the awesome work!
So, in 2016, Jean-Claude Bourret, a journalist, laid down a hypothesis, that the beast would actually be a cross breed between a wolf and an old combat dog breed, descended from the roman legions of attack dogs, which were Mastiffs. Pact of Wolves, is a movie derived from the story btw. Fun movie too.
I’m french and this episode was awesome, my grandparents would told me this story when i was à kid and i was absolutly terrified at the time. Apparently the conspiracy theorie have pretty solid elements but yeah it’s still a mysteri at the end. Thanks dudes for this « madeleine de Proust » of an episode !
I do think the reason Powerwolf leaned so heavily into the more religious aspects of the tale is due to the fact that A LOT, of their music have religious undertones to begin with so that probably held some hand in that.
Weirdly enough, that picture Shy posted (actually an Andrewsarchus, fucking terrifying ancient mammal) caused me to look around a bit online of prehistoric animals in France and based on all the descriptions of the beast being gigantic, elongated snout, and "horse like hooves", it all points to a prehistoric family of "Hell Pigs" called Entolodonts. Of course they went extinct like 20 MYA but they were large omnivorous animals that would have no issue taking down a person.
Maybe you guys could talk about the Man Eaters of Tsavo aka the one of the worst Lion attacks. There’s even a movie of the event called the Ghost and the Darkness.
honestly if it’s not a bear or escaped big cat (both have gone on killing sprees), it does sound like a giant male razor back boar with a major grudge, has the smarts to back it up to
As one of your French viewer I can tell you that no French will be mad at your pronunciation but we might laugh a bit 😋 out of love of course 🥰🤣🥹 I am very happy that you guys choose a French legend 😁
you guys should do a vid about "Kisaragi station" sometime, its a unique albite short Japanese urban legend about a girl named Hasumi who shared the story in 2chan about how she was in a train that ended up in an unknown station. the entire story is set up in 2chan and is basically Hasumi telling the events that happened during this strange occurence, which just gets stranger and stranger.
18:56 - PowerWolf, writers of such songs as: 'Sanctified with Dynamite', 'Amen and Attack', 'Resurrection by Erection', 'Incense and Iron', 'Christ & Combat', and 'Warewolves of Armenia'
You know, I was there with everyone else rolling their eyes when Bishop Gabriel called the Beast an act of God....but a 30000 strong manhunt couldn't track it down while it was still killing. It let one of its victims go when the children showed bravery and righteousness. Trackers couldn't track it in spite if how active it was. If not act of God, its sounding like it's got some sort of supernatural edge.
I got the exploring series video on the brotherhood of the wolf, that one powerwolf song, and now this. The universe is telling me to run that beast of Gevaudan one shot I thought of 3 years ago
(Did conversions for Jacques' payment.) When you were talking about soldiers crossdressing, and just, "Yoo-hoo, I'm so delicious!" Made me think of Rhythm and Ambush (Part of Hands Up, should watch it). So I looked up some conversions, Jacques was given the rough equivalent of $115,000, his friends would have split roughly $99,000 between them. Probably especially given the time, I bet that kid had a pretty damned good life.
From what I know about the beast, there were found human footsteps up close to the footsteps of the beast, and not far from Gevaudan lived French army veteran who was for a long time prisoner in ottoman empire ( and had psychological trauma from that) and from that time he also had a pat ( probebly a hyena).
This brought back memories of "The Ghost and the Darkness". A movie about 2 lions that begin terrorizing workers trying to build a railway. I need to rewatch that now... Lol
I clicked on this thinking that I've never heard of such a monster. However, half way through the vid, the story started to sound really familiar. So I looked it up, turns out I saw an old horror movie about this thing. Brotherhood of the Wolf. Man I barely remember that movie and now I'm shocked at how it was based on a true story! Great vid guys! Thanks for another awesome detective ridiculous!
I love this story every time it's retold. I like to think the creature's motivations might have been driven by a very unique, rare or one-off mutation of the virus Toxoplasma Gondii. Or something akin to the nature of T-gondii. Certain predators find particular organs of particular species to be delicacies, and some of them will only eat the preferred organs. (Think orcas eating shark liver) ... add to that, most animals *don't* like eating humans. Their digestive tract isn't acclimated to it. A popular theory is that the beast became interested in human prey after scavenging corpses out of desperation. As for the species we'll never be able to confirm; an exotic/imported creature which grew up on a distantly foreign gut biome makes the most sense to me. The unfamiliar fauna of France might not have had an ecosystem that could properly support the beast's dietary needs, causing it to turn to more efficient prey/energy tradeoffs. And for my last add, a tiny simple theory, on the off-but-populad belief the beast was an escaped hyena... hyenas famously break and eat bones as a part of their diet. What if a hyena had devoured human teeth infused with dental filler? Dentistry of that time had no idea mercury fillings were highly toxic and could induce all kinds of psychological problems and even deterioration, and later, cancer. Such an un-picky hyena as this could have inadvertently swallowed toxic materials in human bones. It wasn't uncommon for surgeons to implant rudimentary metal 'devices' to help with broken bones and damaged muscles, so far as even adding hinges to the inside of an elbow or knee to prolong the usefulness of the limb. I love how open to theory this legend is.
There was a really good movie about the hunt for the Beast that came out in 2001 called Brotherhood of the Wolf! It had more of a fantastical/conspiracy angle to it, but also Monica Bellucci! The action scenes were amazing as well! Definitely recommend! Also, Powerwolf rocks! Beast of Gévaudan was actually the alarm music on my phone for most of the summer! 🤘
First time listening to Detective Ridiculous, good episode. Only reason I research the Beast of Gévaudan was because i watched the movie The Cursed, which has references to The Beast but the Time frame for the movie is so wild. Like it doesn’t know what time period it’s taking place in
if im not mistaken, a movie about this "beast" is the origin of the modern werewolf image as human wolf hybryd instead of a regular dude that can turn into a regular wolf.
As a guy who loves cryptids these last two episodes have been great. I would love for yall to go to WV to see mothman! I am currently planning a trip to see it.
Third request to cover some of the Missing 411 in America’s national Parks. Alternatively, if y’all want more Cryptid stuff, I recommend The Battle of Ape Mountain for some Bigfoot stuff!
Damn that's a good story,got me scared of a BIG Beast at the other side of the world. I think it was a weird hybrid, that was really tough and lucky to not get killed....till it wasn't
Have you guys ever heard about the Hoia Baciu forest from Romania? It is considered to be the most haunted forest on Earth and has about a hundred things about it that make it a scene out of a nightmare. I really liked this videos and you will find no shortages of mysteries about this place that, as far as many seem to belive, is the closest thing we have to wh40k Warp in the real world. Hope you guys will cover this topic on a future Detective Ridiculous video. Love to you guys from Romania.
The French and wolves go way back. Earlier during the late middle ages, there were times when wolves literally laid siege to Paris. Like being eaten by a band of wolves roaming the streets was a legitimate concern. The leader of the wolf pack was actually named and he was defeated by the city's defenders. They literally fought a battle with the wolves, and even after still had to actively defend the city from encroaching packs of roving canines. England was devoid of this problem because they exterminated their wolf population, and the Germanic states were presumably too well-armed for this to really be a terrible issue there, or perhaps it simply wasn't as well-documented, but the French seemed to get it worst. But it doesn't stop there; during several engagements on the Eastern Front of the Great War, this problem grew so bad that the Tsar's and Kaiser's troops actually teamed up specifically to kill the wolves plaguing both sides' armies. Wolves have been pushed back from civilization for very good reason, but they haven't been nearly as much of a problem in the age of modern firearms. Still, their ambush tactics can be deadly if they get you alone out in the wild. Edit: tremendous fucking Powerwolf song btw. Truly a podcast of culture.
Soooo does batsquatch count? It is exactly what it sounds like and apparently lives around Mt. Saint Hellen and was once seen by an entire classroom who saw it flying through the air in brand daylight.
As a french, you did better at the name than other trust me DK 😂 Great episode like always, your videos are amazing and I'm looking forward for the next one !
In the night no man can run From the beast of Gévaudan No escape from the fate of a martyr born in pain When all prayers said and done Tame the land of Gévaudan And the curse of the beast will remain!
To the father and the son Came the Beast of Gevadun Terminator, a traitor Half wolf & half machine To the prior and the nun Came the Beast of Gevadun A believer, redeemer All fatal mad & mean *BEAST OF GEVADUN*
I've never heard of any pig going for the throat, I always thought they stomped and shredded things with their hooves and only ate them after they were already dead.
@@MoreLikeDanny and the fact that they had MASSIVE jaws! It would make sense that if an Entelodon was gonna kill something human-sized, it would tear the head off or drag its prey by its head
Just a point about the "500 people killed" statistic for the Beast. The Wikipedia articles source for that claim comes from a PDF called "The Fear of Wolves: A Review of Wolf Attacks on Humans" by the Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning, that was deleted on December 7th 2022 (19 days ago) and now needs to be viewed on the Wayback Machine. The section on the Beast of Gevaudan, is a whole three paragraphs long and only says there were 210 attacks with 49 wounded and 113 killed according to a guy called "de Beaufort" from 1987.
To Bricky last point about hybrid Dog/Wolf I mean Ligers Tiger/Lion cross is larger then its 2 parents so potentially the right breed of dog with the right breed of wolf could make a Beast. But I think it's more likely a combination of a large wolf , human killers using it as cover and just plain old superstition. Everyone for years after from that area would have wanted to be part of the story. "Oh yea my friends daughter was killed" "oh once I even shot it." The real accounts from the fake would get mixed up or embellished in the retelling.
I find the Beast of Gevaudan to be a fascinating story and I've studied this one for a very long time. I have still not figured out what it was, and the best anyone can do is a guess. I believe that is what is so intriguing about the story. The best guess I can give would be (Maybe Spanish) War Dog. The Spanish mastiff had a weight of 240 to 270 pounds and stood 3 and a half to 4 feet tall, or at least the stories tell of this size. Ever seen the size of an Cane Corso? Celtic warriors used them, and they were larger than men. On Columbus 2nd trip he took to battle the natives with 20 Mastiff and a couple hundred conquistadors against thousands of natives. It is said that the sheer terror from just 20 dog's ripping men apart was what won them the battle. (I'm sure the black power rifles were a Boone also) Colombus said that ONE of the dogs was worth 15 of the soldiers and their bite was so powerful they could rip an arm from a man and crush a skull inside their massive jaw's. Those dogs were bread and trained for war, just imagine something so powerful, trained and smart in the countryside and the people have only been around average size dogs. The giant mastiff would have had rust colored fur, a black stripe down it's back, a bushy tail and if you look at the mouth it does look like a pig snout. It would have known what soldiers were and it would not have shown itself around soldiers. They would boil boar hide and wrap the war dogs in it, that boiled hide would have protected from the weaker black powder rounds fired at it and when the creature was taken down it was with a different type of rifle and a much more powerful bullet.
It took a beast to terrorize the French. For the Brits, t'was another brit (Jack the ripper). And for Americans it's taxes. To each their own fear I guess !
The idea of a foreign big cat really does explain most of it; an animal they aren't familiar with, its ability to evade people, preying on singular weaker individuals and not going back to feed on the corpse, ranging over a large area, focusing on humans in an unfamiliar environment...
@@riccardocalosso5688 However, what about the description which was more canine in appearance and they would have mentioned striped fur and the fur would have been described as orange rather than reddish brown also the tigers would have gone after the cattle too.
Interestingly some of the drawings showing the snout and the fact one of the early descriptions indicated it had hooved hind legs made me think of something I had seen on one of those discovery paleontology documentaries if you do an image search for Andrewsarchus Mongolensis its strikingly similar to some of the drawings
>be me >listening to some cheeky Powerwolf >discovered the Beast of Gevaudan is a good song >Adeptus Ridiculous video with the same title pops up in sidebar >no WAY, has TH-cam glitched? >YES WAY >the episode even shouts out the song
Man Powerwolf is some great shit, but through in some Morgana Lefay and Symphorce and you're gonna be feeling things you've never felt before. Ah I miss music lmfao, anyways good video it's really interesting to hear about myths of ages past.
There's a film called The Brotherhood of the Wolf that came out back 2001 that is based on this, I swear the Bloodborne Yharnam hunter gear design was Inspired by that film.
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I am french and have lived in France all my life.
I had to look up every single french words they tried to pronounce.
10/10 : a good podcast that makes you learn more about your country.
As someone with major French heritage, i can confirm, this is indeed a French moment. :D
Bro, French people aren’t real. Fake News
honestly i'm just very surprised how much Bricky and DK were expecting us to hate them over the names. they're using a germanic language trying to pronounce one of the hardest romance languages. Do people actually get mad at others over name prononciation ? I think it's pretty cute and funny to hear them try their best :d
@@lmaoidkaboutnames6863 Well said! Honest attempts at my first language get sympathy, not anger.
@@lmaoidkaboutnames6863 Having grown up as a francophone in an anglophonic area it is a surprisingly common trope that francophones get unreasonably angry over miss-pronunciation, I have even heard people say that they tried to speak french and francophones pretended not to understand them when the reality was they are actually just hard to understand
Tonite On Ridiculous Gear: Bricky embraces the Yiff And mutates Into The Beast Of Gévaudan, DK tries to hunt the Bricky-Beast hybrid by intensely following its toebean prints and Shy captures the forehead fiend by luring it with League Of Legend fanfiction
Beast hears Vi and Caitlyn getting together, so it sprints to see it only to realize that it's the works of ratatatat74 A.K.A Mr. Skulls, if you know you know.
This was a rollercoaster of a comment to read at work jfc lmao
@@FaiDro You're welcome mate
@@MLGHazrad More like Lobsterkiahlart
i mean, thats just Bloodborne
The Beast of Gevaudan was France's Jacques the Ripper :
- Escaped the authorities.
- Scary but targetted the most vulnerable.
- Some of their crimes attributed to them might be committed by other culprits.
- Their reputation was greatly boosted by the contemporary newspapers.
- Got adapted in comic books, novels and movies of varying qualities.
However, it got caught
Joseph Vacher was the french ripper- The Beast of Gevaudan was an actual animal of some kind
- Have a metal song about them
@@80Elminster I'm betting a Bengal tiger
@@TheKnightlyScarling No, it wouldn’t have survived the winter.
"The only thing worst than the horrors of 40k is real life" or something along those lines should be a Detective Ridiculous shirt.
"The only things more horrifying than the legions of the warp are DK's hobbies"
I’d buy it
truth is stranger than fiction
the only thing worse than the horrors of 40k is france
@@Thatonedudeyouknowtheone idk man you ever seen detroit
Y’know how you can banish demons by speaking Latin? I think I could banish Bricky by speaking French
Shy might try this
baguette hon hon hon cheese wine!
Oui
I think one of two things would happen bricky would be banished or that will send him into a frenzied rage and I don't think we will want to see that
😂
They didn't mention it, but there's a French movie from 2001 called Brotherhood of the wolf, that is based off of the beast of Gevuadon. The costume design of that movie also heavily inspired the costume design for Bloodborne!
Ah so that's the name of the movie. Didn't onow that it was inspired by this legend
Just scrolling down like "somebody else saw that movie to right?
Oh shit, you are so right! LOL!
Surprised they didn't mention it and since the movie is pretty old I didn't know then that it's based on this cool story
I knew the more he told the story I was like this sounds more and more like the movie.
me : this can't be that spooky.
DK : it takes place in France.
me : OH GOD, OH FUCK.
what ?
@@iliantant7322 it's a joke about the country of France.
@@valhallasrevenge that the problem i am french and i don't get it
@@iliantant7322 the fact that you don't seem to understand how someone can make a joke about France, is the most French thing i've heard in a while.
@@valhallasrevenge no no we french love talking shit about our country it is just i don't get the joke where does that come from?
A really cool point: a 2001 film was made based around this called 'Brotherhood of the Wolf'. The film itself was a Major inspiration for the clothing designs in Bloodborne!
The movie is real good, it combines several of the theories as the beast in that was kind of a trained armored cryptid
Ah so that's the name of the movie. Didn't onow that it was inspired by this legend
Yeah I saw the exploring series video on it, those tricorn hats and shroud things they wore were just 👌👌🤌🤌
That's a dope movie too, starring one of my personal fav martial artists, Mark Dacascos. Been meaning to re-watch it at some point.
I wouldn't be shocked to learn it was also the inspiration for the outskirts in Witcher 1.
Fun fact about wolfdogs, Bricky. They're a lot more wolf than dog. In fact, they can be so physically similar to wolves that the differences are minimal and nearly unrecognizable. The dog part comes from the wolfdog's behaviour and domesticity when in captivity. Wolfdogs are also a lot more common in the wild than you'd think. Every black pelted wolf is a wolfdog or wolfdog descendent, because the genetic mutation that results in canids having black pelts first originated in dogs, then it got passed on to wolves through inter-breeding. So a person training wolfdogs to attack on command without people realising they're dealing with domesticized wolfdogs and not wild wolves is plausible, especially if we consider the fact that some wolfdogs, when bred with dogs that have different physical characteristics from wolves, can take on traits from both progenitors and look pretty wild. It could explain why the beast or beasts were considered "like a wolf, but not quite". It could have had any number of traits depending on what dog was used for breeding, including the reddish stripe on its back.
I only knew about this beforehand from the Powerwolf song, Beast of Gévaudan. The French version, Bête du Gévaudan, is pretty good, too
same here
Feared no sword and feared no gun
Morgul Blade has a pretty epic song too
I really enjoyed the French version of the song as well!
EEEYYY Powerwolf!
I was gonna make the same comment, beat me to it. They're super fun to listen to.
I love the monster videos so far. The cold cases were getting depressing but these are really fun.
Bruh, same. Like I'd be happy to see more cold cases sprinkled in to shake things up, but these monster videos really feel like where this series is hitting its stride.
Gonna guess that the actual kill count of the beast was much lower but because they were really panicked about it, they attributed basically every single instance of someone going missing or being attacked by a wild animal to the beast.
There were other wolf attacks at the time, there were bears in the woods which might sometimes attack people and sometimes people would just go missing. When there was such a massive hysteria going on, I think odds are a lot of people in Gévaudan simply didn't consider all possible explanations for someone disappearing or dying in the woods and instead went "Sacre bleu, ze beast has struck again!"
I like how this was an april fools joke and it turned into a monthly extra and i love it
As a huge Lion El'Jonson fan I'm so hyped for anything involving eerie, shadow-haunted forests and horrible monstrosities
Check out “Brotherhood of the Wolf”, it’s a beautiful movie. Great action/horror flick, and if you appreciate Monica Bellucci then you get great value for money😉.
The Beast of Gévaudan was actually just a Calibanite Lion lmao
A few extra fun things:
1. "A pikeman despatched from Normandy to join one of the hunting expeditions wrote to his patron in April 1765: ‘Snow, hail, thunderstorms, wind, wet feet ... I beg you, sir, if you have not already left for the Gévaudan yourself, forget about it. This is an abominable country, with terrible food."
2. Malnutrition before the harvest was a severe problem in the region, which would make tracking actual killings even harder, because death in general there was common.
3. Captain Duhamel used live children as bait for the wolf, so yeah, SUPER hated, and worthy of being led to a bog.
4. The famous wolf-hunter failed to kill even one wolf, which might explain why he ran away.
5. The boy who fought the wolf with his friends and got rewarded by the king became an artillery man, but I don't think he ever saw combat. His brother, who was the designated heir, might also have been a secret revolutionary, so Jacques Portefaix might have been one as well, though they apparently wanted a constitutional monarchy and not, you know...The Terror.
It's the Bretonnia with a Beastman outside experience
Also Bricky is a Powerwolf fan..more respect for this man
7 years of easy corpses to eat after the battles, could make a big wolf pack of man eaters.
A bit of info on wolf-dog hybrids, they can get very large, depending on the breed, and such hybrids can be susceptible to recessive disorders like gigantism. Combine that with the often hyperspecialized jaws we've bred in some breeds, and you could have a particularly gnarly creature. They also tend to be super aggressive, like most feral dogs.
I'm thinking something like a Wolf-Mastiff hybrid, if that's what it could be.
Actually the theory that it was a trained wolf or wolf-hybrid trained by Jean Chastel makes a lot of sense if you think about it.
Where did he get it?
He was notably a hunter and a loner, it’s possible he discovered as a pup or it was crossbred with one of his own hunting dogs.
Why did it target women and children?
That is what it had been trained to do.
Why couldn’t so many people find it out in the woods and in patrol?
Because it lived in the town. Likely hidden by the owner somewhere.
Why was it such a tank?
Because it’s owner would nurse it back to health. Maybe after the first time it was wounded he made some “armor” for it.
Why did the killings stop?
Because he put down his own pet realizing it was the perfect chance to be the “hero” of the story. That is also why it didn’t charge him.
It's funny that when wolves get a taste for human flesh they stop being interested in animals. Like when that bobtailed wolf literally seige down paris with a pack or the wolf war on the eastern front in ww1
This taking place so soon after the Seven Year War leads me to believe that it is indeed a wolf-dog hybrid. Back then it was really common for farm dogs and other domesticated animals to escape into the wild during times of conflict and turn feral, and wild dogs are extremely vicious and aggressive.
A wolf-dog hybrid would make a lot of sense, or potentially just an abnormally large feral dog. The thing about domestication is that it is a genetic quality. Mix that with something that isn't domesticated and/or take away the influence of selective breeding by humans and those domestic qualities fall away fast leaving you with a wild animal that isn't afraid of humans.
An escaped menagerie animal would also help to explain its preference for attacking humans. Animals held in captivity can learn to associate humans with food and if it managed to escape might not know how to hunt for itself leading it to attack humans which its knows means food, once it figured out humans where easy prey, especially women and children, it probably won't have much reason to change tactics and kept preying on people.
The events of the Beast of Gevaudan happened when the Marquis de Lafayette was 9 living with his grandmother and aunts in Auvergne, if I recall correctly (I will check for the sources again) an anecdote mentions that he was confined to his bedchambers for months because he declared to his relatives that he took the initiative to gather the local children so they could organize a hunting party to get the beast. Absolute foreshadowing of an absolute legendary man.
There description of the beast almost perfectly matches the extinct species andrewsarchus, which is kinda neat!
holy shit yeah. it does
Holy shit it does! That is freaky.
I literally just posted about this. There’s also hyaenodon or daedon, which would also fit description. As a Christian who believes earth isn’t millions of years old then I would suspect one of these. Even still scientist thought coelacanth was extinct millions of years and yet here we are
Holy crap you are right.
Man the various animals humanity has faced even pre historic animals of the PAST. Which is wicked.
This is definately one of my favorite segments y'all do. Glad that there's some monster stories thrown in here too. Dk does a really good job presenting these! Keep up the awesome work!
So, in 2016, Jean-Claude Bourret, a journalist, laid down a hypothesis, that the beast would actually be a cross breed between a wolf and an old combat dog breed, descended from the roman legions of attack dogs, which were Mastiffs.
Pact of Wolves, is a movie derived from the story btw. Fun movie too.
I’m french and this episode was awesome, my grandparents would told me this story when i was à kid and i was absolutly terrified at the time.
Apparently the conspiracy theorie have pretty solid elements but yeah it’s still a mysteri at the end.
Thanks dudes for this « madeleine de Proust » of an episode !
I do think the reason Powerwolf leaned so heavily into the more religious aspects of the tale is due to the fact that A LOT, of their music have religious undertones to begin with so that probably held some hand in that.
A lot Their songs are either: Vampires, werewolves, or sex.
Or christianity, mayve a little war if the wolves were good bois, as a treat
Weirdly enough, that picture Shy posted (actually an Andrewsarchus, fucking terrifying ancient mammal) caused me to look around a bit online of prehistoric animals in France and based on all the descriptions of the beast being gigantic, elongated snout, and "horse like hooves", it all points to a prehistoric family of "Hell Pigs" called Entolodonts. Of course they went extinct like 20 MYA but they were large omnivorous animals that would have no issue taking down a person.
Had a dream last night that I was watching an adeptus ridiculous episode and Shy finally revealed her voice and she was British worst nightmare ever
Pretty sure she is actually mute.
Yeah that would be wild because I don't think it's by choice brother
Maybe you guys could talk about the Man Eaters of Tsavo aka the one of the worst Lion attacks. There’s even a movie of the event called the Ghost and the Darkness.
honestly if it’s not a bear or escaped big cat (both have gone on killing sprees), it does sound like a giant male razor back boar with a major grudge, has the smarts to back it up to
However, they mentioned it’s canine in appearance. They would have called it a pig-like creature rather than a canine-like one.
I read that the slaying of the Beast is the origin of the idea of using silver against werewolves
I love the story of the beast of gevaudan. I think its probobly one of the earliest cases of cryptids in history.
As one of your French viewer I can tell you that no French will be mad at your pronunciation but we might laugh a bit 😋 out of love of course 🥰🤣🥹 I am very happy that you guys choose a French legend 😁
I am angry about their pronounciation tho >:(
@@dervhein-prv You have to have a French education to pronounce French shit even remotely accurate.
@@thepastmaster5643 Ah c'mon, French isn't that hard ! I mean, everyone can pronounce " Simön sire de beaufleuray baillis de montgarnontin ", right ?
@@dervhein-prv Eeeh... "Ze-mon ser de bou-fler-y ba-lees de mont-gar-mon-tan"?
@@thepastmaster5643 Close enough to understandable. See ? Not that hard !
you guys should do a vid about "Kisaragi station" sometime, its a unique albite short Japanese urban legend about a girl named Hasumi who shared the story in 2chan about how she was in a train that ended up in an unknown station. the entire story is set up in 2chan and is basically Hasumi telling the events that happened during this strange occurence, which just gets stranger and stranger.
18:56 - PowerWolf, writers of such songs as: 'Sanctified with Dynamite', 'Amen and Attack', 'Resurrection by Erection', 'Incense and Iron', 'Christ & Combat', and 'Warewolves of Armenia'
Don't forget Coleus Sanctus, or "Holy Ballsack"
You know, I was there with everyone else rolling their eyes when Bishop Gabriel called the Beast an act of God....but a 30000 strong manhunt couldn't track it down while it was still killing. It let one of its victims go when the children showed bravery and righteousness. Trackers couldn't track it in spite if how active it was. If not act of God, its sounding like it's got some sort of supernatural edge.
Nah, just makes it sound like a big cat and a bunch of soldiers/ randos who don't know what they're looking for
Given how superstitious this whole story is I think most of the accounts are rather suspect.
I got the exploring series video on the brotherhood of the wolf, that one powerwolf song, and now this.
The universe is telling me to run that beast of Gevaudan one shot I thought of 3 years ago
(Did conversions for Jacques' payment.)
When you were talking about soldiers crossdressing, and just, "Yoo-hoo, I'm so delicious!" Made me think of Rhythm and Ambush (Part of Hands Up, should watch it).
So I looked up some conversions, Jacques was given the rough equivalent of $115,000, his friends would have split roughly $99,000 between them.
Probably especially given the time, I bet that kid had a pretty damned good life.
How much is that in todays money because it’s been around 200 years
From what I know about the beast, there were found human footsteps up close to the footsteps of the beast, and not far from Gevaudan lived French army veteran who was for a long time prisoner in ottoman empire ( and had psychological trauma from that) and from that time he also had a pat ( probebly a hyena).
This brought back memories of "The Ghost and the Darkness". A movie about 2 lions that begin terrorizing workers trying to build a railway. I need to rewatch that now... Lol
Drinking game: Take a shot every time DK says "beast of gevaudan"
Man I don’t wanna die
I clicked on this thinking that I've never heard of such a monster. However, half way through the vid, the story started to sound really familiar. So I looked it up, turns out I saw an old horror movie about this thing. Brotherhood of the Wolf. Man I barely remember that movie and now I'm shocked at how it was based on a true story!
Great vid guys! Thanks for another awesome detective ridiculous!
Geralt of Rivia: "Hi, I'm here to help. For some coins, of course."
I love this story every time it's retold. I like to think the creature's motivations might have been driven by a very unique, rare or one-off mutation of the virus Toxoplasma Gondii. Or something akin to the nature of T-gondii. Certain predators find particular organs of particular species to be delicacies, and some of them will only eat the preferred organs. (Think orcas eating shark liver) ... add to that, most animals *don't* like eating humans. Their digestive tract isn't acclimated to it. A popular theory is that the beast became interested in human prey after scavenging corpses out of desperation. As for the species we'll never be able to confirm; an exotic/imported creature which grew up on a distantly foreign gut biome makes the most sense to me. The unfamiliar fauna of France might not have had an ecosystem that could properly support the beast's dietary needs, causing it to turn to more efficient prey/energy tradeoffs. And for my last add, a tiny simple theory, on the off-but-populad belief the beast was an escaped hyena... hyenas famously break and eat bones as a part of their diet. What if a hyena had devoured human teeth infused with dental filler? Dentistry of that time had no idea mercury fillings were highly toxic and could induce all kinds of psychological problems and even deterioration, and later, cancer. Such an un-picky hyena as this could have inadvertently swallowed toxic materials in human bones. It wasn't uncommon for surgeons to implant rudimentary metal 'devices' to help with broken bones and damaged muscles, so far as even adding hinges to the inside of an elbow or knee to prolong the usefulness of the limb. I love how open to theory this legend is.
There was a really good movie about the hunt for the Beast that came out in 2001 called Brotherhood of the Wolf! It had more of a fantastical/conspiracy angle to it, but also Monica Bellucci! The action scenes were amazing as well! Definitely recommend! Also, Powerwolf rocks! Beast of Gévaudan was actually the alarm music on my phone for most of the summer! 🤘
First time listening to Detective Ridiculous, good episode. Only reason I research the Beast of Gévaudan was because i watched the movie The Cursed, which has references to The Beast but the Time frame for the movie is so wild. Like it doesn’t know what time period it’s taking place in
I don't know how but DK got me interested in cryptids
if im not mistaken, a movie about this "beast" is the origin of the modern werewolf image as human wolf hybryd instead of a regular dude that can turn into a regular wolf.
Man Fenrir got so lost he found france.
He was on his gap year, backpacking through Europe
I like when he said "The Beast of Gèvaudan"
As a guy who loves cryptids these last two episodes have been great. I would love for yall to go to WV to see mothman! I am currently planning a trip to see it.
This was so good to listen to, I immediately came home and watched this again on yt
Oh, that there's an Eldenborne. I haven't watched any Detective Ridiculous yet, but I'm getting the feeling that I should check this one out...
Third request to cover some of the Missing 411 in America’s national Parks. Alternatively, if y’all want more Cryptid stuff, I recommend The Battle of Ape Mountain for some Bigfoot stuff!
I agree, the missing 411 stories can get pretty spooky. Probably some of my favorite out of the cryptid/conspiracy stories.
Those documentaries on the missing 411 are so good
Damn that's a good story,got me scared of a BIG Beast at the other side of the world.
I think it was a weird hybrid, that was really tough and lucky to not get killed....till it wasn't
Have you guys ever heard about the Hoia Baciu forest from Romania?
It is considered to be the most haunted forest on Earth and has about a hundred things about it that make it a scene out of a nightmare. I really liked this videos and you will find no shortages of mysteries about this place that, as far as many seem to belive, is the closest thing we have to wh40k Warp in the real world. Hope you guys will cover this topic on a future Detective Ridiculous video. Love to you guys from Romania.
Great recounting of the story, love it.
Looking at the current trend of animals in DR, I can't wait for the episode on the Ghost and the Darkness
*Powerwolf Intensifies*
The French and wolves go way back. Earlier during the late middle ages, there were times when wolves literally laid siege to Paris.
Like being eaten by a band of wolves roaming the streets was a legitimate concern. The leader of the wolf pack was actually named and he was defeated by the city's defenders. They literally fought a battle with the wolves, and even after still had to actively defend the city from encroaching packs of roving canines. England was devoid of this problem because they exterminated their wolf population, and the Germanic states were presumably too well-armed for this to really be a terrible issue there, or perhaps it simply wasn't as well-documented, but the French seemed to get it worst.
But it doesn't stop there; during several engagements on the Eastern Front of the Great War, this problem grew so bad that the Tsar's and Kaiser's troops actually teamed up specifically to kill the wolves plaguing both sides' armies.
Wolves have been pushed back from civilization for very good reason, but they haven't been nearly as much of a problem in the age of modern firearms. Still, their ambush tactics can be deadly if they get you alone out in the wild.
Edit: tremendous fucking Powerwolf song btw. Truly a podcast of culture.
If they do a bigfoot episode I want them to list every variant they can find; grassman, skunk ape, all of them.
Soooo does batsquatch count? It is exactly what it sounds like and apparently lives around Mt. Saint Hellen and was once seen by an entire classroom who saw it flying through the air in brand daylight.
As a french, you did better at the name than other trust me DK 😂 Great episode like always, your videos are amazing and I'm looking forward for the next one !
In the night no man can run
From the beast of Gévaudan
No escape from the fate of a martyr born in pain
When all prayers said and done
Tame the land of Gévaudan
And the curse of the beast will remain!
Ah I see someone has good music tastes~
Dude, legit thought that this was something made up for that song, didn't know it was an actual thing
@@zarlsalamandersspacemarine302indeed
banger song, they did Bête du Gévaudan(a version in Fr*nch), I swear it is better... despite fr*nch being a waste of time, it makes the song better.
To the father and the son
Came the Beast of Gevadun
Terminator, a traitor
Half wolf & half machine
To the prior and the nun
Came the Beast of Gevadun
A believer, redeemer
All fatal mad & mean
*BEAST OF GEVADUN*
I think I remember this story. I watched Overly Sarcastic Productions' video about Werewolves and the origins of this monster trope
DK explaining the concepts of warthogs and subsistence farming to bricky like a lore video was too funny
BEAST OF GÉVAUDAN: I'm eat this woman
Bulls: Are you sure about that
My dad always thought the beast was an Enteledon, AKA the Hellpig. His reasoning was "it looked like a wolf pig"
That crossed my mind too. But you'd think something like that wouldn't be so hard to track down.
@@alexanderthegreat6682 And they were long extinct by the time the Ice Age started.
I've never heard of any pig going for the throat, I always thought they stomped and shredded things with their hooves and only ate them after they were already dead.
@@MoreLikeDanny Well they weren't pigs to start. Not like that matters.
@@MoreLikeDanny and the fact that they had MASSIVE jaws! It would make sense that if an Entelodon was gonna kill something human-sized, it would tear the head off or drag its prey by its head
I can't believe it took over an hour for Bricky to start throwing out ManBearPig theories.
Just a point about the "500 people killed" statistic for the Beast. The Wikipedia articles source for that claim comes from a PDF called "The Fear of Wolves: A Review of Wolf Attacks on Humans" by the Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning, that was deleted on December 7th 2022 (19 days ago) and now needs to be viewed on the Wayback Machine. The section on the Beast of Gevaudan, is a whole three paragraphs long and only says there were 210 attacks with 49 wounded and 113 killed according to a guy called "de Beaufort" from 1987.
Yeah it’s probably not 500 but that’s still a huge amount of people.
Oh cool, they made a cryptid out of the powerwolf song.
Dude I loved this episode. 10/10 adric crew
Me a paleontologist when the espisode starts: “man this sounds like an Andrewsarchus”
39:02 I AM NOT DISAPPOINTED
I love how y’all peer into some of the lesser known cryptids, I would recommend one that my place has (upper Indiana), the Michigan Dog man
These DR vids are so good, I wish DK would make this a 2-3 times a month event.
To Bricky last point about hybrid Dog/Wolf I mean Ligers Tiger/Lion cross is larger then its 2 parents so potentially the right breed of dog with the right breed of wolf could make a Beast. But I think it's more likely a combination of a large wolf , human killers using it as cover and just plain old superstition. Everyone for years after from that area would have wanted to be part of the story. "Oh yea my friends daughter was killed" "oh once I even shot it." The real accounts from the fake would get mixed up or embellished in the retelling.
I find the Beast of Gevaudan to be a fascinating story and I've studied this one for a very long time. I have still not figured out what it was, and the best anyone can do is a guess. I believe that is what is so intriguing about the story. The best guess I can give would be (Maybe Spanish) War Dog. The Spanish mastiff had a weight of 240 to 270 pounds and stood 3 and a half to 4 feet tall, or at least the stories tell of this size. Ever seen the size of an Cane Corso? Celtic warriors used them, and they were larger than men. On Columbus 2nd trip he took to battle the natives with 20 Mastiff and a couple hundred conquistadors against thousands of natives. It is said that the sheer terror from just 20 dog's ripping men apart was what won them the battle. (I'm sure the black power rifles were a Boone also) Colombus said that ONE of the dogs was worth 15 of the soldiers and their bite was so powerful they could rip an arm from a man and crush a skull inside their massive jaw's. Those dogs were bread and trained for war, just imagine something so powerful, trained and smart in the countryside and the people have only been around average size dogs. The giant mastiff would have had rust colored fur, a black stripe down it's back, a bushy tail and if you look at the mouth it does look like a pig snout. It would have known what soldiers were and it would not have shown itself around soldiers. They would boil boar hide and wrap the war dogs in it, that boiled hide would have protected from the weaker black powder rounds fired at it and when the creature was taken down it was with a different type of rifle and a much more powerful bullet.
I like this cryptid, because it specifically terrorized the French.
The Marquis De Lafayette actually tried to kill it when he was like 10.
It took a beast to terrorize the French. For the Brits, t'was another brit (Jack the ripper). And for Americans it's taxes. To each their own fear I guess !
I’m pretty sure I had heard it was a tiger. Some rich Frenchman got a tiger and it escaped and began hunting humans which tigers are known to do.
I heard that too except I heard it was a lion.
The idea of a foreign big cat really does explain most of it; an animal they aren't familiar with, its ability to evade people, preying on singular weaker individuals and not going back to feed on the corpse, ranging over a large area, focusing on humans in an unfamiliar environment...
That is very likely. My alternative option is it was a bear. Only one of those big animals could withstand multiple shots and still gtfo
@@riccardocalosso5688 However, what about the description which was more canine in appearance and they would have mentioned striped fur and the fur would have been described as orange rather than reddish brown also the tigers would have gone after the cattle too.
@@farmerboy916 However, there is cattle, why didn’t it go after the cattle?
*Powerwolf intensifies*
This concept would make for a cool survival game kinda like the long dark I feel
Interestingly some of the drawings showing the snout and the fact one of the early descriptions indicated it had hooved hind legs made me think of something I had seen on one of those discovery paleontology documentaries if you do an image search for Andrewsarchus Mongolensis its strikingly similar to some of the drawings
>be me
>listening to some cheeky Powerwolf
>discovered the Beast of Gevaudan is a good song
>Adeptus Ridiculous video with the same title pops up in sidebar
>no WAY, has TH-cam glitched?
>YES WAY
>the episode even shouts out the song
Man Powerwolf is some great shit, but through in some Morgana Lefay and Symphorce and you're gonna be feeling things you've never felt before. Ah I miss music lmfao, anyways good video it's really interesting to hear about myths of ages past.
Plan a camping trip to the Pine Barrens in NJ and look for the Jersey Devil >.>
this was the story that inspired "the brotherhood of the wolf". great book, ok movie.
I was hoping that DK would mention Powerwolf and I’m glad he did
43:06 IT'S SO FLUFFY, I'M GONNA DIE! (Stares directly into the camera) Separate statements.
Joke on you Bricky, I'm worst then french, I'm french-canadian.
1:05:52
The Ridiculous Boys (tm) posing with the Mothman statue would be top tier.
To be honest, I enjoy Bricky and DK on a monster hunt a lot more than I do listening to true crime stories.
There's a film called The Brotherhood of the Wolf that came out back 2001 that is based on this, I swear the Bloodborne Yharnam hunter gear design was Inspired by that film.
I'm not sure about a Warthog. The image sounds more like a Puma.
Props to everyone who got that reference
Oh, youuuuu! 😂
I think the next Detective Ridiculous episode should be about the Beast of Bray Road or alternatively the Dogman from The Land Between the Lakes
Dropping a like just because they mentioned Powerwolf 💯💯💯💯
As a nassive werewilf nerd, I knew this one! Still a great episode!
Wolves are usually 30-60 pounds in my area. If it's about 3 1/2-4ft at that weight; 100 lbs is about right, for a 6ft wolf.
Amazing episode holy hell
My brain at the end: what if it’s a wolf human hybrid!! O.O
Also my brain: ah, that’s a werewolf 😑