Hello My family is in Luc, a town in the west of Lozère. In the regions of the first attacks. To begin with, Gévaudan has not existed since the French Revolution. The modern name is Lozère. It's a French department, number 48. But its unofficial name remains Gévaudan. The coat of arms of Lozère is simple (half fleur-de-lys for the King of France, half the colour of Occitania, the French region in the south of France, of which Lozère is a part), but the coat of arms of Gévaudan represents.... The beast. When you live in Lozère, the beast is everywhere. The big town near my home is Langogne. Near the train station, there is a sculpture of the beast. When I go to Marvejols in the east of the department, near the medieval town center there is a sculpture of the beast, etc.... In all the bookshops in the department there are books about the beast. Scientific seriousness, and mystical nonsense. Now concerning the documentary, it's generally correct. A few errors but they do not change the general content. I will clarify a detail that is well said in the documentary: from the first attacks, the population and the royal administration used the word "beast". Because the very many witnesses are unable to describe what they saw. At the time the wolf was common in France (I believe that the last 100% French wild wolf was killed in Lozère in the 1930s). But the witnesses all said: "It looks like a wolf, but it's not a wolf". So mystery. Another detail: there were many witnesses, many survivors of attacks, or witnesses of an attack. All the testimonies were identical. The beast attacked women and children above all because, as the men were at the hard work of the fields, the women and children especially, worked by watching over the herds. The attacks were sometimes so unreal that the victims did not understand the situation. Like that ; - A man moves on foot between 2 cities. At one point he comes across what looks like a big dog. The "dog" crouched on the ground, wagging his tail and growling as if he wanted to play. The man thinks that it is a herding dog and that the shepherd is not far away. Once it has passed in front of the animal, it jumps on its back and takes its neck in its jaws. The man survived with the intervention of other people walking on the path. Without them he would have died - In broad daylight, in a village, all the peoples see a large animal walking quietly in the streets. No one cares until this animal jumps into a garden and grabs a child in its jaw. There, the peoples understand that this nice big dog is in fact the beast. The beast leaves with the child in the forest despite the population chasing it. The child was never found ☹ But there are mysteries, as said in the documentary. Bodies are found naked (!), heads are cut off (!), and above all there is the story of a body found sitting, when the peoples touched the body, the head fell off. The head had been cut off and put back in place. For fun?? With all these details, as said in the documentary, serious modern historians think the beast was a cross between a dog and a wolf (like a German shepherd: it's like a wolf, but it's not a wolf). But apart from mystical or religious historians, everyone more or less thinks that there was also a man in history. A madman who could have raised and trained this animal. Who would have given freedom to the animal, but who sometimes could have accompanied him. This is what I can say about the beast while being in the area concerned. And for an American it will seem strange, but most of the farms in Lozère are from that time or older. Yes, families live in houses that have known the beast. This is not stranfe in Europe 😊
Hi from France ! true story, all the people killed are registered on church documents in this period. To this day, a lot of people wonder what kind of beast it was ! an incredible thing. Yes, some writers have made the hypothesis of a human doing this, a serial killer, but nothing appears conclusive about this. There are 3 french movies about this : la bête du Gévaudan (TV movie 1967, the best), La bête du Gévaudan (TV movie 2002), Le pacte des loups (cinema, 2001, very good action movie). There were 88 to 124 victims (according to reports and inquiries since this period) of the beast. There are also TV documentaries on this story.
Half of my family is French. My grandma used to tell me this story when I was a kid, I was both scared and fascinated. Many myths and conspiracy theories exist regarding the Beast of Gevaudan. Was it a werewolf? Or the Devil himself? Or a serial killer with a trained wolfdog? A big cat escaped from a circus? People are still debating about this.
Remind me a movie released in 2001 LE PACTE DES LOUPS with Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Mark Dacascos, Samuel le Bihan, synopsis : In 1766, the knight Grégoire de Fronsac, commissioned by Louis XV, was sent to Gévaudan to track down and kill a mysterious beast which had been terrorizing the region for two years, sparing neither women nor children. Accompanied by Mani, his blood brother, a Mohawk Indian from New France, Fronsac quickly faced the hostility of the nobles of the region.
A true story for which we will probably never have the solution, there are so many theories circulating, more or less fanciful. And as it remains very mysterious, it still fascinates today.
the French of the time knew what a wolf looked like, especially the Shepherds. And the few survivors said that he was not a wolf. Strangely they said it had metal plates, we think it was trained because the beast took rifle bullets several times and escaped the hunters' batu
Gévaudan is an ancient region in the south of the Massif Central. The places extend to the norh on the slopes of the Margeride Mountains between Cantal and Haute-Loire (Auvergne) and to the south on the Aubrac plateau in Lozère. Excellent movie about the beast of Gévaudan. "Le Pacte des Loups" (Brotherhood of the Wolf) de Christophe Gans (2001), although the last part is very fictionalized. : th-cam.com/video/RAGfNjIzldM/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ScreamFactoryTV
all French people know this story! for me it is a man who raised an animal either a cross between a dog and a wolf or an animal from Africa but there is a man behind these crimes
Exact et les recherches historiques récentes pointent du doigt un nobliaux local, qui serait le maître du "chien de guerre" qui était laché sur les bergers du coin. Un tueur en série qui se servait d'un animal pour tuer...
Absolument. Après avoir lu plusieurs ouvrages sur le sujet, c'est la théorie la plus communément admise. Une vengeance sur fond de guerre de religion après le retour d'exil d'un des frères Chastel...
It’s true and still a great mystery in France. 3 centuries later, this story is still haunting the people of Gévaudan. Chastel was really suspicious, I think he was no stranger to this beast... You should watch the Le Cajun’s channel, old but great videos. I learned a lot from him.
I always thought that he was a man who owned one or more wolves and that he simulated the rapes he committed (the victims were always women or children). Simulating wolf attacks was perfect to also erase clues by partially devouring the victims
A theory, it could also be an escaped lion or tiger type animal.. There was already circuses at that time. I am French, and I have long believed this theory most likely
Always a pleasure to see your réaction I grow up few km of gevaudan in Aveyron and has a kid everyone hear about this story and its was terrifing everyone and we talk about another legend of gevaudan the son of Wolves who is a kid raising by animals
Could be an horror movie, isn't it ? Well in fact a lot of movie/documentary on the subject has been produced in France, the funny thing is now we know that a silver bullet isn't efficient with a musquet... So if he truly killed the beast, he was very lucky... (if ? yep, there are théories that the beast was someone's pet...)
Hi😊 This story is quite well known in France and a great source of inspiration for books and movies. The best one imo is « Le pacte des loups » (Thé wolves’ pact) by Christophe Gans (2001) with Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci. It’s quite clear the exhibition in Versailles was a conscious coverup allowed (and likely demanded) by King Louis XV to ease turmoil across the country and tone down mockery across Europe, as many sources show the king and his huntsman knew they didn’t catch the real beast. But hey, it’s how politics works, isn’t it? Cheers😉
there is a theory which says that the one who killed him was his owner and that he had trained him to kill for this vanger (a story of loss of heir) and as he was noble he had been covered by the nobility but as people started to get really angry, he killed his beast.
This story is true, the archives still exist, the parish records of the victims of the beast(s), official documents from the court of Louis XV and other local documents from the authorities of the time and area.
If you are interested in this story, you may be interested to see the movie Brotherhood of the wolf (original title : “Le pacte des Loups”). The director Christophe Gans proposes an interesting and credible theory about the facts behind the myth. He also points out that it has happened 25 years before the French Revolution… Given its been sold to the international market, I think it is available in a dubbed version in addition of the original with subtitles… Note that the Gevaudan doesn’t exist anymore as a region of France. It’s been entirely adsorbed after the Revolution by what is now known as Lozere department in Occitanie region.
People and legends😁. But in this specific case everything is true... except, perhaps, the exact appearance of the "beast", the GoPro was invented too late🙃. A sculpture was made in 2016, based on the research work of a great French journalist (Jean-Claude Bouret) and based on the 31 measurements taken during the autopsy in 1767. The beast is not very large and would come from the crossing of an old breed of fighting dog used by the Roman legions and a wolf. I know the place and the “Parc des loups du Gévaudan” ( a wolves reserve ) in Lozere but I have never encountered the beast while picking mushrooms😅.
Cette théorie est fort possible car les animaux comportant une "raie noire tout le long du dos" dans le règne animal, ont des gènes d'espères préhistoriques proches (un peu comme le cheval de Prewalski) ils ne sont pas forcément grands mais ont des gènes "primitifs" assez proches de leurs "ancêtres" préhistoriques. Donc cela peut être une sorte de loup-chien plus primitif que les loups traditionnels.
These days I'd be more scared to be attacked to death in the street by an unmuzzled pitbull that was trained for that, than by a wolf in the Alpine countryside. The dog attacks because it is trained to do so, the wolf is afraid and runs away. Difference between nature and men.
all the theories were on the table at the time, my favorit one is "a man wearing a wolf pelt and killing people. because the beast is too clever to be an animal". and yes this story is famous in france was the subject of some films, and the truth is we dont know, that why it's cool
Hello
My family is in Luc, a town in the west of Lozère. In the regions of the first attacks. To begin with, Gévaudan has not existed since the French Revolution. The modern name is Lozère. It's a French department, number 48. But its unofficial name remains Gévaudan. The coat of arms of Lozère is simple (half fleur-de-lys for the King of France, half the colour of Occitania, the French region in the south of France, of which Lozère is a part), but the coat of arms of Gévaudan represents.... The beast.
When you live in Lozère, the beast is everywhere. The big town near my home is Langogne. Near the train station, there is a sculpture of the beast. When I go to Marvejols in the east of the department, near the medieval town center there is a sculpture of the beast, etc.... In all the bookshops in the department there are books about the beast. Scientific seriousness, and mystical nonsense.
Now concerning the documentary, it's generally correct. A few errors but they do not change the general content.
I will clarify a detail that is well said in the documentary: from the first attacks, the population and the royal administration used the word "beast". Because the very many witnesses are unable to describe what they saw. At the time the wolf was common in France (I believe that the last 100% French wild wolf was killed in Lozère in the 1930s). But the witnesses all said: "It looks like a wolf, but it's not a wolf". So mystery.
Another detail: there were many witnesses, many survivors of attacks, or witnesses of an attack. All the testimonies were identical.
The beast attacked women and children above all because, as the men were at the hard work of the fields, the women and children especially, worked by watching over the herds.
The attacks were sometimes so unreal that the victims did not understand the situation. Like that ;
- A man moves on foot between 2 cities. At one point he comes across what looks like a big dog. The "dog" crouched on the ground, wagging his tail and growling as if he wanted to play. The man thinks that it is a herding dog and that the shepherd is not far away. Once it has passed in front of the animal, it jumps on its back and takes its neck in its jaws. The man survived with the intervention of other people walking on the path. Without them he would have died
- In broad daylight, in a village, all the peoples see a large animal walking quietly in the streets. No one cares until this animal jumps into a garden and grabs a child in its jaw. There, the peoples understand that this nice big dog is in fact the beast. The beast leaves with the child in the forest despite the population chasing it. The child was never found ☹
But there are mysteries, as said in the documentary. Bodies are found naked (!), heads are cut off (!), and above all there is the story of a body found sitting, when the peoples touched the body, the head fell off. The head had been cut off and put back in place. For fun??
With all these details, as said in the documentary, serious modern historians think the beast was a cross between a dog and a wolf (like a German shepherd: it's like a wolf, but it's not a wolf). But apart from mystical or religious historians, everyone more or less thinks that there was also a man in history. A madman who could have raised and trained this animal. Who would have given freedom to the animal, but who sometimes could have accompanied him.
This is what I can say about the beast while being in the area concerned. And for an American it will seem strange, but most of the farms in Lozère are from that time or older. Yes, families live in houses that have known the beast. This is not stranfe in Europe 😊
Hi from France ! true story, all the people killed are registered on church documents in this period. To this day, a lot of people wonder what kind of beast it was ! an incredible thing. Yes, some writers have made the hypothesis of a human doing this, a serial killer, but nothing appears conclusive about this. There are 3 french movies about this : la bête du Gévaudan (TV movie 1967, the best), La bête du Gévaudan (TV movie 2002), Le pacte des loups (cinema, 2001, very good action movie). There were 88 to 124 victims (according to reports and inquiries since this period) of the beast. There are also TV documentaries on this story.
My guess is it wasn't a beast... well it may have been or several even, but in any case a man or men, instead of some animal.
Half of my family is French. My grandma used to tell me this story when I was a kid, I was both scared and fascinated. Many myths and conspiracy theories exist regarding the Beast of Gevaudan. Was it a werewolf? Or the Devil himself? Or a serial killer with a trained wolfdog? A big cat escaped from a circus? People are still debating about this.
Remind me a movie released in 2001 LE PACTE DES LOUPS with Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Mark Dacascos, Samuel le Bihan, synopsis : In 1766, the knight Grégoire de Fronsac, commissioned by Louis XV, was sent to Gévaudan to track down and kill a mysterious beast which had been terrorizing the region for two years, sparing neither women nor children. Accompanied by Mani, his blood brother, a Mohawk Indian from New France, Fronsac quickly faced the hostility of the nobles of the region.
The 1st part is taken of this movie (the shepherd attacked by the beast and found dead).
A true story for which we will probably never have the solution, there are so many theories circulating, more or less fanciful. And as it remains very mysterious, it still fascinates today.
the French of the time knew what a wolf looked like, especially the Shepherds. And the few survivors said that he was not a wolf. Strangely they said it had metal plates, we think it was trained because the beast took rifle bullets several times and escaped the hunters' batu
Other mystery for you : la forêt de Brocéliande : Forest linked to historic sites and medieval Arthurian legends, with guided tours.
Gévaudan is an ancient region in the south of the Massif Central. The places extend to the norh on the slopes of the Margeride Mountains between Cantal and Haute-Loire (Auvergne) and to the south on the Aubrac plateau in Lozère.
Excellent movie about the beast of Gévaudan. "Le Pacte des Loups" (Brotherhood of the Wolf) de Christophe Gans (2001), although the last part is very fictionalized. : th-cam.com/video/RAGfNjIzldM/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=ScreamFactoryTV
Fully agree, it’s a nice movie.
all French people know this story! for me it is a man who raised an animal either a cross between a dog and a wolf or an animal from Africa but there is a man behind these crimes
Some have a yeti, some have a bigfoot, we have... a dog 🤔?!!
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Exact et les recherches historiques récentes pointent du doigt un nobliaux local, qui serait le maître du "chien de guerre" qui était laché sur les bergers du coin. Un tueur en série qui se servait d'un animal pour tuer...
Absolument. Après avoir lu plusieurs ouvrages sur le sujet, c'est la théorie la plus communément admise. Une vengeance sur fond de guerre de religion après le retour d'exil d'un des frères Chastel...
It’s true and still a great mystery in France.
3 centuries later, this story is still haunting the people of Gévaudan. Chastel was really suspicious, I think he was no stranger to this beast...
You should watch the Le Cajun’s channel, old but great videos. I learned a lot from him.
I always thought that he was a man who owned one or more wolves and that he simulated the rapes he committed (the victims were always women or children). Simulating wolf attacks was perfect to also erase clues by partially devouring the victims
A film was released in 2001 about the Beast of Gevaudan. "Le Pacte des loups"
A theory, it could also be an escaped lion or tiger type animal..
There was already circuses at that time. I am French, and I have long believed this theory most likely
Always a pleasure to see your réaction I grow up few km of gevaudan in Aveyron and has a kid everyone hear about this story and its was terrifing everyone and we talk about another legend of gevaudan the son of Wolves who is a kid raising by animals
Could be an horror movie, isn't it ? Well in fact a lot of movie/documentary on the subject has been produced in France, the funny thing is now we know that a silver bullet isn't efficient with a musquet... So if he truly killed the beast, he was very lucky... (if ? yep, there are théories that the beast was someone's pet...)
Hi😊
This story is quite well known in France and a great source of inspiration for books and movies. The best one imo is « Le pacte des loups » (Thé wolves’ pact) by Christophe Gans (2001) with Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci.
It’s quite clear the exhibition in Versailles was a conscious coverup allowed (and likely demanded) by King Louis XV to ease turmoil across the country and tone down mockery across Europe, as many sources show the king and his huntsman knew they didn’t catch the real beast. But hey, it’s how politics works, isn’t it?
Cheers😉
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My theory is that the Beast was Jack the Ripper's grandfather.
there is a theory which says that the one who killed him was his owner and that he had trained him to kill for this vanger (a story of loss of heir) and as he was noble he had been covered by the nobility but as people started to get really angry, he killed his beast.
This story is true, the archives still exist, the parish records of the victims of the beast(s), official documents from the court of Louis XV and other local documents from the authorities of the time and area.
If you are interested in this story, you may be interested to see the movie Brotherhood of the wolf (original title : “Le pacte des Loups”).
The director Christophe Gans proposes an interesting and credible theory about the facts behind the myth. He also points out that it has happened 25 years before the French Revolution…
Given its been sold to the international market, I think it is available in a dubbed version in addition of the original with subtitles…
Note that the Gevaudan doesn’t exist anymore as a region of France. It’s been entirely adsorbed after the Revolution by what is now known as Lozere department in Occitanie region.
People and legends😁. But in this specific case everything is true... except, perhaps, the exact appearance of the "beast", the GoPro was invented too late🙃.
A sculpture was made in 2016, based on the research work of a great French journalist (Jean-Claude Bouret) and based on the 31 measurements taken during the autopsy in 1767. The beast is not very large and would come from the crossing of an old breed of fighting dog used by the Roman legions and a wolf.
I know the place and the “Parc des loups du Gévaudan” ( a wolves reserve ) in Lozere but I have never encountered the beast while picking mushrooms😅.
Cette théorie est fort possible car les animaux comportant une "raie noire tout le long du dos" dans le règne animal, ont des gènes d'espères préhistoriques proches (un peu comme le cheval de Prewalski) ils ne sont pas forcément grands mais ont des gènes "primitifs" assez proches de leurs "ancêtres" préhistoriques. Donc cela peut être une sorte de loup-chien plus primitif que les loups traditionnels.
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what a coincidence I'm going on vacation in this region next weekend 😅
dont go outside if its a full moon! :P
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These days I'd be more scared to be attacked to death in the street by an unmuzzled pitbull that was trained for that, than by a wolf in the Alpine countryside. The dog attacks because it is trained to do so, the wolf is afraid and runs away. Difference between nature and men.
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Even if the beast of gevaudan had been human i think you can still call him a beast :)
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Sorry, but I don't have any living relatives from the 1700s.
J'ai vos dents. I have your teeth. 😁
all the theories were on the table at the time, my favorit one is "a man wearing a wolf pelt and killing people. because the beast is too clever to be an animal".
and yes this story is famous in france was the subject of some films, and the truth is we dont know, that why it's cool