The Mysterious Creature That Killed Over 100 People in France | Beast of Gévaudan 1764

Between 1764 and 1767, something terrorized the remote French province of Gévaudan.

Over the course of three years, more than 100 people were killed—most of them women and children. Dozens more were mauled and survived with horrific injuries.

The attacks were brutal: throats torn out, heads severed, bodies partially devoured.

But it wasn't a typical wolf. Hundreds of eyewitnesses described a creature unlike anything they'd seen before:
• The size of a calf or young cow (130-150 pounds)
• Reddish-brown fur with dark stripes down its back
• A massive head with enormous jaws
• A long tail ending in a tuft, like a lion
• Eyes that seemed to burn like fire

The creature showed no fear of humans. It attacked in broad daylight. It targeted the vulnerable. And it seemed almost impossible to kill.

King Louis XV sent his best hunters. Military dragoons organized hunts involving 40,000 men. Professional wolf hunters tracked it through the forests. Thousands of wolves were killed.

But the Beast kept hunting.

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