Beast: Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the Gvaudan Audiobook (Free)

Using modern biology and history to investigate some grisly deaths in the countryside of 18th-century France.

Something unimaginable happened from 1764 to 1767 in the remote highlands of south-central France. For three years, a real-life monster, or monsters, ravaged the spot, slaughtering by some accounts more than 100 people, mostly women and kids, and inflicting serious injuries upon many others. Alarmed rural communities-and their economies-were practically held hostage by the about Beast: Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery from the Monsters from the Gévaudan marauder, and regional officials and Louis XV deployed dragoons and crack wolf hunters from far-off Normandy and the King’s very own courtroom to destroy the menace. And with the creature’s reign of terror occurring at the introduction of the present day newspaper, it can be stated the ferocious attacks in the Gévaudan region were one of the world”s first media sensations.

Despite intensive historical documentation about this awesome predator, no-one seemed to understand just what it was. Ideas abounded: Was it an exotic animal, like a hyena, that acquired escaped from a menagerie? A werewolf? A wolf-dog hybrid? A new species? Some type of conspiracy? Or, as was suggested by the neighborhood bishop, was it a scourge of God? To this day, debates on the true nature of La Bête, “The Beast,” continue.

Beast requires a fascinating take a look at all the evidence, using a mix of background and contemporary biology to advance a theory that could solve probably one of the most bizarre and unexplained killing sprees of all time: France’s infamous Beast from the Gévaudan.