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Anonymous04/16/26, 18:19No.5116754
I just learned about the 'Beast of Gevudan" last night and I was wondering what /an/'s opinions are of what it could have been?
Yes, it was real.
>"Between 1764 and 1767, a mysterious creature known as the Beast of Gévaudan terrorized southern France, killing over 100 people and injuring many more, causing widespread panic and a royal hunt led by King Louis XV. Eyewitnesses described a massive, calf-sized wolf-like creature with red fur, dark stripes, and a long tail, often viewed as a werewolf or exotic animal."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan
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Anon04/16/26, 18:20No.5116755
>wolf-like creature
So it was a wolf...
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Anon04/16/26, 18:45No.5116763
it was probably a wolf, the french are a superstitious, cowardly lot, thats how a giraffe became the questing beast, and the crocodile became the tarasque
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Anon04/16/26, 21:08No.5116792
dog with mange
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Anon04/16/26, 21:27No.5116793
Hyena from some rich tards personal zoo
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Anon04/16/26, 21:53No.5116800
Hyena or Subadult lion
Pre revolution french nobility were really fucked in the head
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Anon04/16/26, 22:28No.5116810
It was just a man in a gorilla costume
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Anon04/16/26, 22:42No.5116813
It was probably a wolf that maybe killed a couple kids and was exaggerated into a monster by superstitious peasants
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Anon04/16/26, 23:30No.5116825
Hyena escaped from a menagerie or a young lion
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Anon04/16/26, 23:54No.5116829
Escaped spotted Hyena eating livestock, mixed with wolf attacks, and a serial killer.
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Anon04/17/26, 00:22No.5116833
From the descriptions I always thought it would be a South American Maned Wolf or a subspecies of it.
It's always been interesting because the documented accounts of the beast openly state it was not at all much like a wolf and that it looked strange. I never bought into the Hyena thing either because there's no written statements anywhere about the beast "laughing" and that would have been a pretty significant thing to document about it if it did.
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Anon04/17/26, 01:59No.5116852
The neck always screamed Hyena to me but the tail always throws that off for me I honestly don't know what the fuck the Beast of Gevudan was.
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Anon04/17/26, 08:51No.5116911
>red fur, dark stripes, long tail
Isn't that pretty likely a tiger? Tigers also are known to become prolific maneaters sometimes
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Anon04/17/26, 09:05No.5116917
The last dire wolf.
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Anon04/17/26, 10:58No.5116932
Watch the movie Pacte des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf). It reveals a theory about it in the ending. Not going to spoil it.
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Anon04/17/26, 11:13No.5116940
I suspect the death toll was greatly exaggerated to add to the legend
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Anon04/17/26, 14:15No.5116977
>I just learned about the 'Beast of Gevudan" last night
Have you watched the movie yet? It's excellent.
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Anon04/20/26, 11:07No.5117674
it was OP's ancestor
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Anon04/20/26, 14:13No.5117721
>red fur, dark stripes, and a long tail
Some asshole noble got his hands on a tiger and released it near the village to see what happened.
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Anon04/20/26, 15:14No.5117736
It was a escaped hyena
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Anon04/20/26, 16:44No.5117752
>killing over 100 people
that sounds kinda unlikely, unless it's straight up supernatural. or several wolf attacks that were just attributed to the same animal
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Anon04/20/26, 19:52No.5117797
>What was the Beast of Gravytown?
>read the wiki article
>described as wolf like
>colored like a wolf
>wolf attacks were rampant in the era in which the Beast was active
Must have been a cryptid.
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Anon04/21/26, 15:28No.5117994
Le pacte des loups was kino, there, I said it.
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Anon04/21/26, 15:30No.5117995
>being forced to retreat and let go of its prey because of 4/5 children beating it with sticksKWABeast
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Anon04/25/26, 07:37No.5119019
With all that sucess in actually killing people sounds like a tiger
>red fur
>stripes
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Anon04/25/26, 18:38No.5119145
Perhaps it was just a mutant wolf; sometimes individuals of a species are born that surpass the rest.Although the short legs make me think that perhaps it was a jaguar imported from America.
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Anon04/25/26, 19:09No.5119154
A werewolf
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Anon04/25/26, 22:16No.5119194
>A weird wolf looking thing
It always sounded like a hyena to me
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Anon04/25/26, 22:27No.5119197
People want to believe that it was an escaped hyena or a jaguar or whatever but the most likely answer is that it was just a big fucking wolf
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Anon04/26/26, 01:49No.5119242
Likely a series of wolf/wolfdog attacks, be it from one pack or several, combined with mass hysteria. I like the idea that at least the "main" beast was some giant fuckass wolfdog since those can be pretty vicious.That or the anomalies from Primeval are real and some ancient beardog or hyaenadont was running about France munching on the common folk. Would make a cool episode.
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Anon04/26/26, 01:52No.5119243
It was a sheep in wolves clothing.
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Anon04/26/26, 01:53No.5119244
It was a werewolf, I know that here is not /x/ but that things exist
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Anon04/26/26, 11:10No.5119301
>Eyewitnesses described it as large as a calf, with reddish fur, a black stripe on its back, and a large chest.A jaguar.
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Anon04/26/26, 15:44No.5119358
>far bigger than any wolf
>reddish-brown
>long, thin tail that was said to have a tuft of fur at the tip and had a single dark stripe that ran down its back
>witnesses specifically said it would pounce prey, climb on top of cattle, and heavily relied on sharp claws
This is a big cat. Like a sub-adult lion that slipped from a noble's menagerie
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Anon04/27/26, 07:18No.5119564
Overblown folktale about that time a big wolf found out people are free food.
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Anon04/27/26, 14:08No.5119627
Andrewsarchus
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Anon05/01/26, 10:56No.5120815
it was a giant civet
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Anon05/02/26, 20:38No.5121281
Id wager it had some form of gigantism, whatever it was
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Anon05/02/26, 20:52No.5121285
Sounds like a werewolf to me
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Anon05/03/26, 01:49No.5121346
First off wolf attacks at this time were very common. Particularly in France and Italy. The Turku Wolves in Finland for example killed 30. You’ll find rashes of wolf attacks all over France often numbering in 5-10 fatalities each during the period. Add in hysterical and dramatic Frenchmen lying and embellishing everything like they always do and you have le terrible monster.There’s the possibility of it being a rabies outbreak but the fact that the kids were eaten makes me doubt it.Most common scenario is a medium sized pack of wolves figured out human children were as easy a meal as their sheep were and did their thing. Foppish French Dandy nobles shot some wolves and called it a day. The job was half done. Some more kids got ate. Chastel shot another one. The pack fragmented and fucked off.I would also like to note that the whole menagerie and wolf/dog theories are a direct throwback to the Wolf of Gysinge which was a pet wolf that escaped and attacked 31 killing 12.The Russian wolf attacks are where the juicy shit is though. Russian wolves murder hard.
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Anon05/03/26, 15:15No.5121476
It was a large dog or dogwolf.
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Anon05/08/26, 13:15No.5122974
I'm partial to the Cryptozoologicon take of it being a giant mustelid.
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Anon05/14/26, 04:38No.5124920
IMO: It was a serial killer carrying out the attacks. Bodies were found and superstitious stories started being spread around until it became a legend.