anyone know any information about this beast?

in the 1760's (1765-1767). This little beastie killed and partially ate hudreds of people in the 75-mile area known as Gevaudan in Southern France. It was killed by a silver bullet (supposedly,no other kind of bullet could do the job) and it's carcass was paraded through town...

Hi

An interesting vision of this beast is the movie bye Christophe Gans (with Mark Dacascos) entitled Le pacte des loups . I hope it has been translated into English and spread into the anglo-saxon world. That's a great movie.

A pearl in the french cinema landscape.

Olivier

P.S. Watch that : http://www.mythes-et-legendes.net/gevaudan.php3

Deffinately one of the most interesting maneating animal stories. Here's some info, I'll post more if I can find what I'm looking for.

http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/siren/5...rt_maulers.html

WOW!

That is freaky! Thank you for sharing it. I want to learn more about this critter now. Wolves are usually shy around humans so I find it hard to believe that a wolf did all this. Are there wild cats in that part of France?

I don't think there are any cats capible of killing adult humans there (unless a wild one escaped), but dogs and wolf/dog hybrids are often very bold.

YEAH One of my favorite mysteries, The Beast of Gevaudan.

In 1764, a wolf like creature began a reign of terror killing around 100 people over the next 3yrs. See link-

http://www.meta-religion.com/Paranormale/C...of_gevaudan.htm

For a more detailed link- http://www.wolfology.com/id106.htm

There's also a 'very loosely' based movie The Brotherhood of the Wolf, dedicated to this true story. The documentry after the movie is well worth watching.

My money's on a wolf/ dog hybrid.

Mine too. That, or an escaped exotic.

These are actually very old drawings of Chupacabra's...

Are you joking?

No,I'm serious.I have seen this pictures on many believable websites and they ALL say the same thing.

Ha ha Canadian, The King sent some of his top wolf hunters out after the beast, men experienced in hunting wolves. They claimed it was a wolf but not a wolf, Hybrid!

Hi, everyone.

157 victims : a huge number in three years.
Different hypothesies : A serial killer / A wolf / A team of crazy individuals.
These three ones have been considered as the most probable (realistic).
BUT, the injuries on the bodies of the victims do not correspond to the jaws of a wolf nor to the strength of human beings.

The movie Le pacte des loups gives another version which could be interesting : at that time, there was a hunter in the Gévaudan who used to travel a lot around the worls to hunt animals which did not exist in France.

He would have brought a lion from Africa.

Why not?

Olivier

Nope, pretty sure most, if not all of those drawings were done a long time ago in France. The chupacabras is an American monster. I don't know how "believable" a site that claims that depictions of the beast of Gevaudan are chupacabras is. I think that if you look at the one that looks like a mutant poodle you can see some old French writing. Found some more info:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/9638/gevaudan.html

Fine then,don't believe me.I checked 9 different sites on this and they all say the same thing.Only one said that it was a wolf.But if you don't want to believe me then that is your opinion.If you compare the drawings to wolves,then you will notice a big difference between the two.Especially the tails on them.

i read the beast of gevaudan might be a chupacabra but some people say they only live around mexico

Yes,for the most part they live in Mexico.Although have been seen various times in Canada the USA and a few times in other parts of the world.This could be a Chupacabra that someone smuggled in there,but it escaped and killed a bunch of people...

"I checked 9 different sites on this and they all say the same thing.Only one said that it was a wolf.But if you don't want to believe me then that is your opinion.If you compare the drawings to wolves,then you will notice a big difference between the two.Especially the tails on them."

Well, then, can you show me those 9 sites that said this? Goodness, just because it may not be a wolf doesn't mean it's a chupacabras!

Hi Oliver,
I don't believe it was a lion as many experienced men hunted the beast and all said it was wolf like. There's a big difference between wolves and lions and even the locals claimed wolf.

Just to clear this up,They didn't just say that this isn't a wolf,they said that other rare reports not commonly seen also say that this is a Chupacabra.

Well, then can you at least give me some info on these "other rare reports not commonly seen also say that this is a Chupacabra". I would really like to know where this odd idea came from. Are you by any any chance refering to the creatures known as "maulers"?

What do you mean "Maulers"?

I'll try to find some info for you...

"Maulers"



Thanks. I am interested in seeing your scources.

I remember reading a site about England in the 17th century, about attacks that were similar to chupa attacks in mexico.

France i don't know, but i do believe Canadian because I read it myself.

theres another gevaudan topic on here somewhere....

I think that the whole "blood sucking monster" myth may be seen in many parts of the world, but it usually doesn't really concur with zoology. It's probably just something a lot of people end up telling stories about because it's scary to most people.