The Beast of Gevaudan: Willem Dafoe Strikes Again

This week for spooky szn, Liz and Dakota look at a number of mysterious best attacks that occurred in the French region of Gevaudan in 1764.  With reports of over 100 gruesome maulings and deaths, what happened there, so many years ago, remains a mystery to this day. 

Episode Notes
https://www.history.com/news/beast-gevaudan-france-theories#:~:text=Between%201765%20and%201767%2C%20an,and%20captivated%20a%20horrified%20world.&text=Between%201764%20and%201767%20a,to%20La%20B%C3%AAte%20du%20G%C3%A9vaudan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_G%C3%A9vaudan

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/beast-gevaudan-terrorized-france-countryside-180963820/

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/could_be_worse_the_beast_of_gevaudan_and_the_french_werewolf_epidemic

https://specifipedia.com/the-beast-of-gevaudan-a-monstrous-murder-mystery/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbressan/2017/06/28/terror-and-geology-the-beast-of-gevaudan/?sh=2df800db22c4

https://historyandimagination.com/tag/jeanne-boulet/

https://www.medievalists.net/2021/01/sheep-rearing-medieval-france/

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