Something else to consider is that during wartime the fields of corpses were likely scavenged by wolves in the region. As seen with the man eating lions of Tsavo in the 1890s animals that get accustomed to eating dead humans may start preying on live ones once corpses run out.
semisapien The lions of Tsavo also happened because the railroad was being built. You suddenly have 10,000 workers encamped in the wilderness near lion hunting grounds. Im not that surprised all those people got eaten.
That part about the doubled dewclaws is interesting. There's a breed of dog from central France called the Beauceron that's mostly known for that trait. They up until recently had cropped ears, like some people did and still do with Dobermans and Pit Bulls. There's a breed of Dutch Shepherd that often has a brindled, or striped coat. The number of teeth is what confuses me the most though... that's not something that just anyone would throw into a report. Someone had to have examined it. There is something called Hypodontia, which is a congenital condition wherein an animal has less teeth than it ought to, but that's usually just one or two, not SIX. The inverse, HyPERdontia, is where you have more. So, hyena with extra molars? Might be like wisdom teeth, where it's really uncomfortable, and the animal would go after the softer parts of the body as a result, as well as being more aggressive due to pain.
The beast killed by Jacques Chastel, aka “the real beast”, underwent an autopsy that was carefully recorded (you can access it on the French wikipedia page, which is gloriously complete) The Notary Marin performing the autopsy was unable to clearly identify the animal but did say that it was a canid. To give you a sample the animal was 99cm long (excluding the tail), its back-legs were around 45 cm long, it weighted around 50kg, and it had 42 teeth. There were also reports that said the Beast displayed some behavior pointing to the fact that it was a tamed animal. So it was most likely a wolf/dog hybrid.
SongDog7 I t is interesting that you mention teeth, because teeth in hybrids are often unusual, that is to say, unlike either parent. Having said that , I could believe that it was a tiger that got loose. The tiger would have had an advantage in that the hunters were looking for a wolf or wolf like creature, thus devote energy pursuing wolf sightings, wolf tracks etc. We are all just guessing of course.
@@pseudopetrus That's what I think too, how they described it as having a long thin tail, reddish fur with black stripes, & a bone breaking bite a rich person's escaped tiger pet & no one of that time could comprehend what they were seeing.
@@PerceptionVsReality333 very unlikely it was a tiger (or any big cat for that matter) there is more evidence pointing to one or several canids. There's been several cases of big cats escaping private owners, or people abandoning them. The most well known cases are from Britain, but they never killed people (and not as many as the beast did too), they only attacked livestock. If the beast had in fact been a tiger it would be a unique and isolated case (the only person who would even be able to aquire a big cat in the whole of Gevaudan was Count de Moranges. He was the premiere aristocrat in Gevaudan and people would have been able to tell who the animal belongs to). However having a wild unidentified (but often recognized as a canid), animal attacking people for some time was a thing that happened several times in France alone. Many of the confirmed "wolf" man-eaters in Europe had features suggesting wolf-dog hybridization, identified after they were killed. The Wolves of Périgord and the Wolf of Sarlat, which acted concurrent to the Beast of Gevaudan's depredations in nearby regions at the same time the Beast did, were wolf-dog hybrids. The population of wolves back then was bigger than today and people often came in conflict with them. But if you want to go with the "exotic animal" theory then it's more likely it was an African Wild Dog - the Lycaon. The Lycaon measures up exactly to the autopsy proportions, /would/ have the white patch, makes the bizarre noises the Beast reportedly made, has red eyes as recorded in the autopsy, has four toes without dewclaws, has 42 teeth like a wolf, is known to have a short, compact rib-cage like in the autopsy to enable faster turning, and some have the black stripe on the nape. However the entire ordeal wreaks of human involvement, from the pattern of attacks based on date and location, to the lull in killings during the Chastels' imprisonment, and up to the very death of the Beast itself. This suggests a known animal capable of being trained to kill.The Chastel family were avid dog-trainers and wolf-hunters who had an affinity for the wilds and who lived on the fringes of society. And they were known for keeping big dogs. They even got in a clash with Antoine de Beauterne's men during the course of a hunt, and were subsequently thrown in jail. And you know what happened, then? The killings suddenly stopped, that is up until they were released again...Jean Chastel only took action and killed the Beast when it nearly took the life of his woman. And it took him all of about a week to do what France's best couldn't accomplish in years. The Beast walked right up to him during a hunt, stood there subordinately and he shot it.
@@er.mrinalkantidas6949 that's not a cryptid. actually, siren head was a creation of an artist and became very popular among young people. those who believe in sirenhead are just some afraid kiddos
That would make sense. After all, the original werewolves were wolf skin murders. Indeed, many warriors in Europe (including the Thracians and Roman Velites) wore wolf hides into battle. I can totally see how an 18th century murderer would follow that ancient trend. That way people can blame the wolves (or hyena or dogs)@Tenntakk
I dunno, the fact that this animal's features aren't spectacularly over-exaggerated makes me think they were attacked by large wolves with a brownish coat. The events where one girl was mutilated and the other described it as a "beast" before she died would get ANYONE's imagination running lol.
Yeah a pack might simply learnt (wrongly) that humans are easy prey. The fact that the beast targeted mainly children and women coincide with predators seeking smaller prey to attack.
If you look at many of the drawings of new species back then, they were often wrongly drawn with features familiar to the artist and/or the person that reported the species, either due to misremembering or even just outright not knowing what those particular aspects were at all.
I think they actually did a movie about this. I know the premise is very similar in "Brotherhood of the Wolf". Funny enough, the "beast" in that movie was a lion. Outside of the ridiculous cultish nonsense that was thrown in, the concept of a full grown African male lion loose in the French countryside is a fascinating idea.
My theory... Weirdo french lord wanted to breed his own attack dog, breeding abnormally large Dogs (mastiffs or wolf hounds) or maybe even turkish sheep dogs with wolf/dog hybrids, then the animals were probably mistreated and some how escaped ... and started tear assing through the french country-side. It would explain the animals lack of fear of humans and aggression which is evident of feral wild dogs and hybrid wolves who've lost their fear of humans.
You're not far off, in fact the autopsy positively identified the animal as a wolf-dog hybrid. But the person most likely behind all this wasn't a French Lord, but Jean Chastel - the same man who shot the "Beast" ending its killing spree. The Chastels are highly culpable suspects in involvement with the Beast. They were avid dog-trainers and wolf-hunters who had an affinity for the wilds and who lived on the fringes of society. They even got in a clash with Antoine de Beauterne's men during the course of a hunt, and were subsequently thrown in jail. And you know what happened, then? The killings suddenly stopped, that is up until they were released again... Jean Chastel only took action and killed the Beast when it nearly took the life of his woman. And it took him all of about a week to do what France's best couldn't accomplish in years. The Beast walked right up to him during a hunt, stood there subordinately and he shot it.
That reminds me there was a movie about this that sets the beast as some rich French Lords hyena, I don't remember the name of the movie but it was heavily based on it and it's theories was actually pretty plausible
I think Wolf- Mastiff hybrids are good candidates for “wolf-like” creature attack in old Europe. Mastiff-wolves can be very large, aggressive and more likely to associate with and attack humans. Additionally, predators often eat hearts, liver and other nutritious organs first, thus leading to the descriptions given for victims. However, I think a lot of the attacks are either false or exaggerated.
I think the hyena-theory made most sense, but this one wouldn't be impossible. At least some breeds of mastiffs can also be coloured brindle, which means they have stripes and are often dark brown.
The art does resemble a Amphicyonid (bear -dog) or Hemicyonid (dog-bear), but both Caniform groups died out 2 million + years ago. The supposed Waheela, a North American cryptid also resembles an amphicyonid.
ledernierutopiste well, in MANY other cryptid videos he made, the said monster was, for the sea ones, almost always a baskin shark, and for flying one, often a barn owl, that is where this channel’s même was born
Maybe the barn owls asked the basking sharks to make them a costume and then they wore the costume and killed people as a way to make peace with them🦉🦈
The most likely explanation is that some users saw a older video and mis identified them as a new vid and that there never was a video released on time. But these are just my thoughts tell me what you think is going on with people reporting to have seen trey's videos released on time down in the comments below
Now I’m not exactly sure if this counts given it’s typically attributed to real animals but if you wanted to do a bit of a different cryptid type thing you could do a video on the “big cats” of the uk which is basically a phenomenon of people reporting seeing big cats, usually black ones, in Britain where there are no native ones. It’s kind of interesting from a cultural perspective as Britain has very little dangerous wild life so what is a fairly normal creature in other countries becomes a thing of terror here. The used to be one allegedly living in my town but I think reports of it have dried up and the stories seems to have pretty much lost traction
I remember reading that it's believed that most of the sightings were just domestic cats viewed from a distance and therefore appearing bigger without anything for scale
@@bibtebo Yep, and that's combined with the rare exotic pet that do seem to pop up. Most of them are just domestic cats, including some very big feral ones.
@@Tareltonlives I did actually see a Scottish wild cat when in Scotland tho, they are basically the same size as a domestic, but wow are they rare, I got so lucky. Just felt the need to share since we are on the topic of cats in the uk
Some of the deaths described did strike me as a possible serial killer. Perhaps one who wore a wolf pelt to disguise themself and so if there was a witness in the distance, the witness would think it was a beast. Especially if they attacked during the twilight hours when visibility was low... That plus a possibly roaming hyena and the usual wolf attacks could've easily fed the hysteria of a strange beast.
Catie F I watched a documentary about this cryptid, and it arrived at pretty much that exact conclusion, but took it further. The ACTUAL Beast Of Gevaudan WAS just a man, but he was also a serial killer AND a rapist. He would rape women, murder them, and then use a trained wild animal, like a wolf or hyena, to savage and mangle the bodies and make it look like an animal attack.
Michael Henry So she survived the encounter? Wow, I missed that little bit of information. In that case, he may have been wearing some kind of wolf mask or something to hide his identity.
@@kevinnorwood8782 That calls into question the intelligence of that girl lmao. You're telling me she sees some "beast", the beast pulls his pants down, rapes her, leaves, and she thinks its some animal? Either the raping happened to other victims and not her, or she was not very bright.
@@michaelhenry3234 Good point. Maybe the raping DID happen to the later victims and not her, or maybe it was happening to another victim when the first girl reported the "beast" and all she saw was the strange animal the serial killer/rapist used to clean up the evidence and make it look like an animal attack.
@@kevinnorwood8782 Maybe. Did that documentary provide any solid evidence that it was a rapist? With the frequency of attacks and how spread out they were, I think the far simpler conclusion is that a unique looking wolf killed the first few victims and then every animal attack afterward was mistaken for the beast. Occam's razor, after all.
The moment you said people disguised as animals. I felt kinda dumb because that’s exactly what I was thinking it could be. Mixed with actual animal attacks. Then a sick individual disguised in a costume attacked children and women.
I mean would it be out of the question for some strange woodsman who lived "off the grid" to be mistaken for a beast? Making his own clothes I'd imagine youd use a vareity of pelts and furs.
Jimmy Jams yeah I was thinking any that saw the man if any dresses up. Were so overwhelmed they truly believed he was the todays equivalent of a werewolf or very large dog creature. But because no equivalent existed they used the best description they could. I do agree most were probably probably exaggerated attacks for a variety of social reasons.
I was listening to this thinking "this sounds like the plot to Brotherhood of the Wolf" and sure enough the movie was based on it. Thanks brain, I should trust you more.
So, are you planning on continuing the series by chance? It’s easily my favorite series of yours. If you need ideas on cryptids, may I suggest the Black Demon? It’s a supposedly 20-60ft shark, so you’d get the bonus of ripping the megaladon is still alive theory to shreds
The striped Hyena explanation seems rather unlikely. Striped Hyenas are smaller than spotted Hyenas and are naturally fearful of men. They might attack a small child, but attacks on adults are almost unheard of. In addition, I doubt that in the 18th century French countryside it would be forced seek confrontations with Humans due to a lack of prey items. The absolute number of attacks make the explanation even less likely than it already is.
You'd imagine a smaller predator like a hyena, if being forced to hunt for itself instead of scavenging, would rather attack the livestock, than the bigger humans. If the predator was smething bigger it would make more sense for them to go after the bigger prey, because then it'd have no problem taking it down.
@@TheAkwarium I mean rich people always existed, something could have easily broken out of some menagerie or something. This wouldn' have been your average citizen owning something like that.
@@MysterySeeker I think people would have noticed, since if there was one rich person living between them all they'd know. Since people were able to tell that Chastel owned Mastiffs, they'd probably have noticed and recognized who the animal belongs to.
@@TheAkwarium Only if the animal belonged to someone rom that region, and didn't escape somewhere else and found their way to this particular area by coincedence. It's not like whoever lost an exotic dangerous animal would go around telling people he lost it, and end up getting blamed for any potential deaths. If you're rich enough to afford a hyena or whatever, you can just buy another one and not deal with angry crowds of people with pitchforks
Next Cryptid, Nandi bear! Another killer cryptid that gave me chills when I was a kid. As for the identity of the Beast, I really don't think a striped hyena was the main culprit. If you look at striped hyena attacks, there are very few that weren't sleeping children and also there are no reports of the stench that is synonymous with striped hyena. In fact if you read all of the detailed accounts of purported Beast attacks they share similarities with only one group of predator, the big cats. In particular, tigers. The like the tiger, the Beast was a solitary hunter that stalked it's human prey in forested areas; wolves are primarily pack hunters that run down their prey in open areas. The Beast was described as a huge russet animal with stripes, a long thin tail and sharp claws. Grey wolves have never been recorded with that particular pelage, they have bushy tails and don't use their claws for hunting. The Beast could magically disappear, tigers are known to ascend trees when hunted. There are many records of man eating tigers but only three reports of man eating wolves ( wolves that specifically hunted humans, not wolves that ate people because the opportunity arose.) So my hypothesis is that, back in Gevaudan, a tiger, (habituated to people) somehow escaped from a menagerie or circus and took up eating people and livestock to survive. People who glimpsed it's attacks, having never seen a tiger, would describe it as a huge reddish beast or animal with stripes. It's carrion was sometimes scavenged by wolves, it may have even had a pair of "follower" wolves that shadowed it's movements hoping to get the scraps. (Not needing to expend energy on hunting, these wolves grew bigger than the other local wolves. Plenty of regular food made them massive like the big captive wolves we see today). These were later shot and sent to the royal court. Eventually the tiger died in a lair, a cave or hidden den and it's body was never found. Anyway that's my theory :D
ok but like... tigers don't look like dogs tho( •_•) besides if people we're already captivating exotic animals like the tiger, then surely at least one person in france would've known what a tiger looks like but aye.. that's just my opinion *pew news outro*
Interesting theory, although the descriptions of the Beast as dog-like might not support that. That said, however, several large breeds of dogs have shorter faces: think mastiffs and the like. Not squashed snouts, but considerably less pointed than a wolf or some shepherd dogs. Also, cropping ears was common enough, so people panicking due to an attack or close sighting of the Beast who aren't familiar with the faces of large cats might well describe the creature as a dog of some kind. Large, heavier nuzzle, huge teeth, short(end) ears along with a large, heavy build would make people think more of a large canine a large version of a comparatively dainty domestic cat. Edit: Rather than dying in some obscure cave, it could be it worked its way out of the area due to all of the commotion and hunting going on, not to mention it could have been having trouble creating a territory because of humans and established wolves. If it had managed to find a remote location with decent non-human prey, it could have easily lived its life out with no local humans the wiser.
@1957khartung Least likely theory to be true. Mesonychids were long dead before the events of Gevaudan. The description of hooves being present on the beast rather than claws were probably heavily romanticized.
@@s.winter7455 Very unlikely though... We're talking about France here : Rich pple and all the cultural stuff were moslty located in Paris at that time. That part of France is especially poor and pretty isolated. I really doubt that pple from such a remote area with little money and means of transportation have seen a tiger.
Have you ever heard of the "man eating lions of Tsavo"? These were two lions that for some reason started killing humans in Kenya in the 1890's, and a lot of aspects seem similar. Basically, native animals that would sometimes attack a human changing their behavior and attacking many more humans than usual. The big difference is that the Tsavo lions were killed within a year, not giving them time to attain cryptid status. It could be that something similar happened here, but with two or three wolves. I wonder if there's a way to see if weather conditions were unusually harsh in that part of France during that time period, or if there was any other reason a wolf's normal prey would be scarce?
I remember watching a documentary on those lions, and I think it was stated that the railway workers were first shooting elephants, which enabled more bushes of thorny vegetation to grow. That might have driven away many of the grazers, and the lions may have also coincidentally got their canine teeth broken. This supposedly made it a lot harder for lions to chase down and kill their ordinary prey, so they became man eaters.
@@markcobuzzi826 Maybe for some reason there were fewer deer and such in Gevaudan in the 1760's? If that was the case, it would make sense for a wolf or wolves to start going after human. Incidentally, one of the Tsavo lions was apparently very hard to kill, taking as many as nine bullets before dying; kind of like the "beast" being shot but still escaping.
the autopsy report states it was definitely a canid (but not a wolf) unless the beast Chastel killed wasn't the actual one, in this case I am left wondering why? I mean with the royal disinterest in the case in 1767 what would be the point of not delivering a lion? Who would have faced danger from the beast being a lion and from what authority (from a royal perspective the affair was officially closed)? This seems to complicate things for the pleasure of complicating them (and considering the already dubious context in which the beast was killed I don’t think we need to complicate them anymore). Or the autopsy record lies which leads me to the exact same questions I had before with the addition of why bother writing a report at all?
TheAkwarium I don’t think they are saying it was a lion. They are saying that harsh conditions have caused otherwise regular animals to seek humans as prey. In the case mentioned it was lions, but wolves could easily be put in a similar situation.
One other feature of the killings is an eerie pattern in time and location. They happened in six distinct zones, the biggest with the most attacks was also the last before the killings stopped. The Chastel family lived in that area, and the animal Jean shot was very close to their house. The kicker is that this is classic serial killer behavior. They often start the spree far away, work back toward their home, and end up doing most of the dirty work in their own neck of the woods. It's been speculated that the Count of Morangies wanted to help destabilize the government with an atmosphere of panic among the common people, and commissioned Jean Chastel and his son to breed a wolfdog and train it to kill. Of course the case is stone cold, and will likely never be concluded beyond reasonable doubt, but the circumstantial evidence is still compelling.
the autopsy report of the animal Chastel killed identified it as a canid. It's also a strange coincidence that the attacks stopped right after he killed the "beast" add to that the fact that Chastel owned mastiff's and a wolfdog hybrid isn't that far fetched
@@alvianekka80 now to think about it we are currently in part 8 and no were-anything. About the closest thing i can think of is maybe Weather Report's Heavy Weather, who uses hypnosis to turn people into snails, though it's equally likely that it subliminally makes you go on a strangely specific drug trip, considering how it supposedly works.
Long legs, reddish color and a black streak in the back seems like a description of a Maned Wolf from South America Edit: I'm not saying the beast was a Maned Wolf, just pointing out the similarities with the description
@@Santi-ei3qf Europe is fairly close to Africa and a rich person importing a relatively common animal from there isn't too far fetched, but a fairly rare animal from halfway across the world seems a little unrealistic.
Interesting connection you made about how cryptids tend to be seen more during times of societal stress. I'll have to keep in mind to read a bit more about the general socital mood at the time when researching/reading about cryptids in the future. As I've never made that connection before myself. Cryptids as a societal coping mechanism, I feel there's a scientific paper of some sort waiting to be written there haha. Regardless great informative video as usual.
Thank you for covering this story! I’m French and as a child it terrified me. I think the creature was a wolf but I like the stories that appeared after. The region where the event happened are still marked by this event with statues and flags with the beast on it. PS: the fact when it was shot it would often escape is most likely due to poor gun powder quality and damp conditions. The fur may also have helped deflect the shot. I would look at documentaries and articles about it, there’s a lot more to the story.
also the fact that it's easier to say the animal had super powers than to just admit you missed it, considering some of the people were "experts" in wolf hunting
I've seen the Brotherhood of the wolf and it is actually a surprisingly good film. I highly recommended it. But if you're looking for suggestions for your next Cryptid video. May I humbly suggest the Jersey Devil.
dan lovejoy I haven’t watched any JD research vidoes myself, but Trey’s format is nothing short of captivating and entertaining whilst still being completely informative, which I’m guessing is probably why the op suggested it in the first place, and why I would really like to see it as well, but for the time being, I guess I’ll look into the JD research myself
@@shin0mega I can see that, and after considering it from that point I would like to see Trey's take on it as well. I was only offering a lesser known creature from the same area.
Do a video on England's Beast of Blythburgh. I live in the region and it's a still a household name 500 years on. Just a heads up: it's pronounced 'Blithe-bruh'.
I remember hearing about this Cryptid when I was little I was at my grandma and grandpa's house on a show called animal-X on animal planet and I am so glad you made video about this Cryptid because I forgot the name of it and I have been trying to find that show and thanks to your video I was able to find it also great job on the video keep it up
This would make a great movie! A cross between a crime investigation, a monster hunt, and a psychological thriller. I know you mentioned a movie at the end. Although I’m gonna check that out, I want to see a modern one
Don't forget the alluded supernatural nature of the beast! Still remember being very scared with the movie (even though I saw it as a kid so that was easy I guess).
been ages since I seen brotherhood of the wolf and had forgot the name of it till seeing this and thinking I think I seen this movie. But was not it a trained tiger in a armored suit in the movie.
I think a wolf/dog hybrid was what the people saw and were attacked by which later would be known as the Beast of Gévaudan. It's likely that a couple of rogue hyenas that have escaped from captivity were seen and blamed for some of the attacks as the hyenas would've probably attacked a couple of people for food as well as been seen consuming the already deceased bodies of other victims.
@@Spinoguy16 I know, but Gévaudan was hardly a rich region with no nobles, just peasants living there, hence why all the noblemen had to arrive there from Paris and the King also resided in Paris and Versailles.
We have to know during that time who would have kept exotic pets and who would have a bad fence with his dogs. I think more research needs to be done with this subject. What I was saying is that in recent instances when exotic cats got away they only attacked wild stock. The Gevaudan wolves had a taste for people which is rare, why eat bad tasting boney people when there are juicy sheep to attack. Or maybe the deer and other wildlife were overhunted and the wolves had to resort to attacking people? We need to know more facts.
One of the things I have noticed myself is that generally post wars, predatory fauna sometimes develop "man eating" tendencies. Like how tiger attacks allegedly skyrocketed after the Brits conquered India. Thus could be sensationalisation, scavenging behavior on available corpses, taking advantage of non normal prey items, and desperation from the conflict driving out existing food sources. Live stock were reported as being taken more often by tigers during the various wars for India (which were more like several campaigns against existing kingdoms that also had their own conflicts often leaving huge numbers of dead). I think that after 7 years of a particularly brutal war that some wolves in the region developed a taste for human flesh, as well as a return of more livestock also causing a growth explosion of local populations while also noting hat during the war anyone in france capable of firing a gun was usually on the front lines or more focused on combat. Another thing is the man eating lions of Africa, usually only pop up after sustained combat is over. When I went to Afghanistan, we heard that in some parts of the country where the fighting was really bad, striped hyenas and jackals would occasionally take people, and graves would be found dug up and remains strewn about. I do rember hearing about tiger attacks in Vietnam jumping up after the war really kicked off, and remember hearing about bears around gulags in Russia being prone to hunting lone people wandering around in the woods
Brotherhood of the beast is actually a pretty good film, but of course it takes a lot of liberties, I don't want to go into spoiler territory, but let's say none of theories you mention are int he film, but at the same time, it's also not really an undiscovered creature. I also like the theory of some serial killer being in the mix. At least I know of a famous case of a serial killer near where I come from that was related to licantropy and Wolf-like attacks. Romasanta. He was a man that around 1850's killed at least 9 people (women and children mostly), although he claimed to have killed more. The killings all involved deep bites and scratches and were abnormally vicious. When he was caught he claimed to have either a curse or an illness that made him turn into a wolf and attack people and that he remembered killing more than 13 people (although the number varied). I always thought that the myth of the werewolf stems in part from cases like that. In fact when there was clear evidence against someone in the werewolf trials (a focus of popular histeria similar to witch trials that happened alongside them), which was very few times point more to human killers than wolf attacks (although we have to be very careful as they were usual popular trials based almost totally on testimonies). and if you know one of the original telling of Little red riding Hood, the antagonsit was not a Wolf, but a werewolf and his actions were more akin to one of of demented killer (making a little girl drink the blood and eat the flesh of his murdered grandmother and then get nude in the bed with him).
This _was_ a pretty neat video! The Beast of Gévaudan is a pretty neat story, and I'm glad I got to hear about it (even if it's probably just a hyena). 1:20: The Seven Years' War was fought between a lot of other nations, too. It was the World War of its era. 5:45: I guess that "Mission Accomplished" banner was a bit presumptuous...
Thank you :D I'm happy you enjoyed it! Yeah I was thinking about the phrasing of that sentence while editing, the 7 Years' War was more of a proxy war between tons of different nations with the main two sides being France and GB. and yeah XD I should have gotten that George W Bush picture for that part
@Pecu Alex My personal "hypothesis" (more like imagining as I think it probably doesn't exist) is that it's a large species of monitor lizard, as they can be semi-aquatic and vegetarian. Of course size exaggeration would play a role. I think it's a more likely hypothesis than either a Dinosaur or megafauna hiding in a jungle.
He's alright. He just likes being left alone because he's self-conscious about the batwings and hooves and the goathead. But really he's an alright guy. Likes to fuck with the shoebies.
There was a great documentary I saw on this on tv. In the end they suggested the spotted hyena, but more than that. Because some of the survivors claimed having seen a man first and then suddenly being attacked by the beast (which is where the werewolf theory came in), they suggested this was a trained hyena. If I'm remembering the details correctly, the man who killed the hyena with a silver bullet had been excommunicated from his town, and he did have some connection the the managerie in Paris. They did tests with silver bullets, which cannot in fact fly straight, so to kill the beast with a silver bullet between the eyes like the man claimed, he couldn't have stood 50 feet away like he said he did, but rather a direct head shot. This man was obviously praised and welcomed back to his town as a hero, so the documentary suggests that this was a very convoluted revenge plot. I looked online to find that documentary again, but I can't find it. However, it seems that in 2016 it was suggested the beast could have been an immature male lion.
Hyenas can't be trained, but a spotted hyena is a MUCH better fit than a striped one, as they are not only willing but quite capable of killing a human being.
@@Tareltonlives Actually, hyenas are very intelligent and can be trained. Not like a dog, but if someone knew enough about the species, it is possible, though dangerous. I do agree that a spotted hyena would be far more likely fit than striped, as striped are smaller and typically much more timid animals.
It was probably a wolf and maybe someone's striped hyena that broke out. A lot of rich people would have menageries full of exotic animals and this was before we learned that it was probably not the smartest idea to keep an animal in a small cage for long periods of time without anything to do. I'd say it was a striped hyena since they aren't native to Europe.
Joshua Bartlett The people that survived were the people that saw the Striped Hyena (they described the Beast). The people that died were killed by Wolves.
@@joshuabartlett5575 They can get up to 120 pounds and since rich people want the impressive stuff they would want a big one. 120 is more than enough to kill a human especially when you consider how animals are generally stronger than humans due to their center of gravity being lower and therefore harder to throw off. Also a predator would use sneak attacks which would make up for smaller size.
I'm not sure how someone'd have been able to aquire a hyena in such a poor region though and the autopsy report clearly states it was a canid (not a wolf though) most likely a wolf/dog hybrid
Ok made a research and indeed it seems that striped hyenas can get quite large, but mostly don't. Indeed it could be that the hyena was quite a big one and was attacking people! That's fucking interesting mate
Honestly I feel like most sknwaler reports in Cryptozoology circles are interchangeable with werewolf and dog men sightings so a series about werewolf and werewolf-like cryptically overall would be pretty cool!
Thank you for this video. I found this very interesting. I also just recently discovered your channel and have been binge watching a lot of your previous videos.
Wonderful video Trey. I remember those werewolf paintings from the History Channel when I was younger, they still terrify me to this day. The ones with red mouths. Wolves are among my absolute favorite animals, yet werewolves are among my most feared monsters.
Pretty sure at least some of those deaths were murders disguised as monster attacks. The harsh and cold mindset that follows a war, combined with roaming mercenaries and men returning from the front lines, usually creates a rise in crime.
Here's an idea: a murderer takes advantage of a feral hyena. The killings can be blamed on the hyena since it's eating his victims. Same with wolves-the murderer can blame the wolves for his crimes since he can hide while the people find the wolves by the victims.
Another interesting cryptid I'd very recently heard about were these giant black snakes in excess of 15 feet and thick as a telephone pole that were sighted in northern Japan; I can't remember the specific area. From what little I could find, sightings began before Westerners arrived in Japan and seemed to all stop around the 1960's. No snake that has ever lived in Japan gets anywhere near that big, so I can't even guess what people were actually seeing.
Great video, beast of Gévaudan is my favourite cryptid. You better start doing christmas special by now, so you can make it in time :D. I think yeti or bigfoot would be interesting topic.
I feel like it was a hybrid of some kind, maybe just an unusually aggressive wolf or hyena, and that it did attack enough to cause hysteria above normal wolf attacks and that probably some sick individual(s) started using it as a cover to murder women. Psychos do that. Then it become like you said, just people hyping attacks to be the beast
@@Tareltonlives I don't find it likely that French farmers in the 1700's would be inclined to breed wolfdogs. More likely, a herding dog got frisky with the enemy; my guess is that in this situation the dog would be the mother, as pups raised in the wild without human contact- wolf or dog- tend to be shy and fearful. Perhaps the pup wasn't trained or socialized, but nevertheless came to associate humans with food.
@@GotPotatoes24 Many of the confirmed "wolf" man-eaters in Europe had features suggesting wolf-dog hybridization, identified after they were killed. The Wolves of Périgord and the Wolf of Sarlat, which acted concurrent to the Beast of Gevaudan's depredations in nearby regions, were wolf-dog hybrids. Natural, 100% wolves tend to shy away from humans. It's the hybrids that stir the pot. Yes, wolf predation and aggression on humans was more intensified in earlier centures, but usually this coincided with times of war, when the wolves would scavenge the battlefields to devour the dead. There was no such time of warfare prior to the events in Gevaudan in the 1770s. The Marin report, that is, the actual autopsy of the Beast, POSITIVELY identified that it was not an ordinary wolf. The autopsy is describing the result of wolf-dog hybridization. It had canine dentition. The lower body resembled a wolf, the front resembled a dog. Its rib cage was different than a wolf's. Its coloring was different than a wolf's. It had a squarish, more box-like head resembling a dog but an elongated snout, reminiscent of a greyhound or, in my opinion, a Charnaigre. A Charnaigre was a European hunting dog around during the time of these events. They were incredibly fast, agile, and could leap astounding distances.They pretty much disappeared around the 19th century. Here is a picture: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Charnaigre.JPG
I can actually top that: in the 1930's my grandfather was 10 years old and lived in a rural area in Norway. He had been misbehaving in school, and as punishment his mother sent him up alone into the mountains to stay in a little shack and watch over a flock of sheep for three months. People would drop off food for him twice a week, but beyond that this 10 year old kid was completely alone, in a time when the Norwegian countryside was rife with bears and wolverines. I'm very glad tings have changed.
@@Niobesnuppa no wonder why Norway invented black metal :/ My grandma used to take care of the sheeps all by herself since very young age (6 years old) in Northern Italy, in a territory with wolf presence (still present today), and it was the norm at the time. And it was wartime as well
I'd love to see a discussion of one of my favorite Prehistoric Critters, Early Sharks, Like the Really weird ones with those Dorsal Radar Dish looking things.
If one considers the wolf attacks in India in the 1990s, we can see that humans are rarely the best witnesses, even when they locals are familiar with wolves. Attacks on humans, particularly those carried out in the dark and not clearly seen, give rise to tall tales of monsters. There’s something deeply disturbing to humans about being prey.
That's interesting. I agree that under stress, the human being perceives the threat larger than reality. On the other hand, I would've thought that the locals would've easily recognized a wolf. Wolves already had a bad name in Europe and wouldn't have required further extrapolation, no? I'm not familiar with wolf attacks in India in the 1990s. Did those involve cases of misidentification?
The beast of Gevaudan wasn't the worst wolf attack serie in France , the worst was in the XVIIth century with the "beast of Touraine " . And there has been several other. It didn't take exotic animals so I don't think hyenas or unknown monsters are the best hypothesis . As it is said in this video , packs of wolves or dogs is still the most plausible idea
I have always thought the Beast sounded more like a hyena than anything else.. I was under the impression that it killed for something 30 years not 3.. There are stories of the Lough Ness Monster going back hundreds of years.. The first sighting was connected to St Columba when he first entered Scotland..
it remember something, my grand parent live in bourgogne and they have a big forest and few years ago a weird dog (at least i though it was a dog) showed up in the yard i wasnt able to tell wich race he was and the time i went inside to grab my phone to take a picture my uncle chased him away several year later i watch a documentary on the african fauna and i see the african wolf, and it looked just like the ''dog'' i saw at this moment
I watched that movie English subbed, It is meh. For some reason the main character has a native american sidekick who knows karate. Shoehorn in random fight scenes, meaningless romantic subplot and a grand conspiracy involving the French monarchy. Overall a competent action movie, interesting to watch the plot go along, but the pay off at the end isn't worth it.
I recently read an interesting account that the "Beast", was, alongside the hyena, a human serial killer dressed as an animal. The interesting fact is that none of the victims were apparently men above age 16-odd, considering the attacks happened in the countryside where men older than 16 are common. The brutality of the attacks and the fact that they did not stop when the wolf was shot has led some to believe that there was a human element alongside a beastial element.
There were two animals shot that were supposedly the real Beast, but the autopsy positively identified the second animal as a wolf-dog hybrid (the first one was a regular wolf, although a very large one). The attacks stopped after Chastel killed the "Beast" so there's no reason to believe the animal he killed wasn't the real thing. The Marin report, that is, the actual autopsy of the Beast, POSITIVELY identified that it was not an ordinary wolf. The autopsy is describing the result of wolf-dog hybridization. It had canine dentition. The lower body resembled a wolf, the front resembled a dog. Its rib cage was different than a wolf's. Its coloring was different than a wolf's. It had a squarish, more box-like head resembling a dog but an elongated snout, reminiscent of a greyhound or, in my opinion, a Charnaigre. A Charnaigre was a European hunting dog around during the time of these events. They were incredibly fast, agile, and could leap astounding distances.They pretty much disappeared around the 19th century upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Charnaigre.JPG Well of course women and children would be majority of the victims since they were the ones tending to the cattle. I do believe there was human involvement though, from the pattern of attacks based on date and location, to the lull in killings during the Chastels' imprisonment, and up to the very death of the Beast itself. This suggests a known animal capable of being trained to kill. So my best guess is either a large wolf or a wolf/dog hybrid. Folks forget that wolf predation against humans in Europe was a fairly common occurrence back in those days.
I read somewhere that the main hunter who killed the actual beast was involved,rumours said that he had a very large red Mastiff-Like dog which he bred with wolves and trained it to kill and the reason he killed it so easily was it probably recognised him and from there it was an easy kill.
@@thenumbah1birdman For the record, Chastel's son(s) did not own a menagerie of hyenas. They were a family of game-keepers. They hunted wolves, and they trained dogs. Antoine Chastel, the son most implicated as the murderer behind the Beast, was employed by a local nobleman, Count De Moranges. The Count owned a menagerie of exotic animals, including hyenas. If the plot to loose a man-eating beast onto the Gevaudan originated anywhere, it was here, conspired between Antoine Chastel and Count De Moranges. But it was most likely a wolf-dog hybrid. Chastel's Beast - examined by Notary Marin - was identified as a wolf-dog hybrid by its dentition and skeletal measurements and we have no reason to assume it wasn't the actual Beast, since all attacks stopped after Chastel killed it. It was only after Jean Chastel's lover was killed by the Beast that he began his pursuit, and in a matter of days accomplished what the local aristocracy, Captain Duhamel and his French army dragoons, Denneval the famous wolf-hunter, and Antoine de Beauterne, Gun-Bearer to the King and Lieutenant of the Hunt, had all failed to do for three years and counting. On a hunt arranged by Jean-Joseph d'Apcher, Chastel was approached by the Beast, which paused and stood in front of him, giving him time to close the Bible that he was reading/praying with, take aim with his rifle and shoot it in the throat. The tale goes that he shot it with a silver bullet, instantly killing it. That's not what happened. The reality is that Jean Chastel shot the Beast in the neck, wounding it. Nearby hunting dogs then closed in and finished off the Beast. Either way, there was definite human involvement, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Animals do not behead their prey. Period. Even if a wolf or wolf-dog wanted to do so in direct opposition of all instinct, it would lack the bite force to succeed. The Beast of the Gevaudan ignored livestock and specifically targeted human prey. It is held responsible for sixteen beheadings. Female victims were also sometimes discovered nude. All these things tell us that there was a human agent. It is noteworthy that no decapitations occurred while the Chastels were imprisoned. Consider that along with the Chastel family's behavior, the proximity of many of the attacks to their home, the fact that the Beast would also retreat into the woods nearby said home when given chase or when wounded, and the fact that Jean Chastel killed the Beast when no one else could...because it stood right in front of him subordinately, and we have our chief suspect.
You should definitely watch Brotherhood of the Wolf when you get a chance! -- while it includes a lot of Beast lore, the basic explanation ends up being an interesting variation of the 'social stress' theory, though I don't want to spoil it too far. Also there are some great action scenes.
My guess is that the "Beast" in reality was a pack of hyenas that escaped from some aristocrat's personal exotic zoo or something. The descriptions fits those of a hyena better without being hyperbolic, and the sharp increase in animal attacks at the time is likely because these hyenas were in the wild.
I personally would like to believe that it was a rogue barn owl
Wrong, it was obviously a basking shark.
It was a barn owl and basking shark hybrid
Spinoguy69 a basking owl
@@ScionStorm1 or perhaps a barn shark. I hear they were quite common during that time
Nope.
This is France.
It was hamsters.
Something else to consider is that during wartime the fields of corpses were likely scavenged by wolves in the region. As seen with the man eating lions of Tsavo in the 1890s animals that get accustomed to eating dead humans may start preying on live ones once corpses run out.
semisapien
The lions of Tsavo also happened because the railroad was being built. You suddenly have 10,000 workers encamped in the wilderness near lion hunting grounds. Im not that surprised all those people got eaten.
@@8JFJK8 True, though they started by scavenging bodies of workers who either passed out or died of heat stroke.
@The Martial Lord of Loyalty Good point.
There was no such time of warfare prior to the events in Gevaudan in the 1770s.
The maneless Tsavo lions do not have manes, but they are definitely more aggro than most lions.
That part about the doubled dewclaws is interesting. There's a breed of dog from central France called the Beauceron that's mostly known for that trait. They up until recently had cropped ears, like some people did and still do with Dobermans and Pit Bulls. There's a breed of Dutch Shepherd that often has a brindled, or striped coat. The number of teeth is what confuses me the most though... that's not something that just anyone would throw into a report. Someone had to have examined it. There is something called Hypodontia, which is a congenital condition wherein an animal has less teeth than it ought to, but that's usually just one or two, not SIX. The inverse, HyPERdontia, is where you have more. So, hyena with extra molars? Might be like wisdom teeth, where it's really uncomfortable, and the animal would go after the softer parts of the body as a result, as well as being more aggressive due to pain.
The beast killed by Jacques Chastel, aka “the real beast”, underwent an autopsy that was carefully recorded (you can access it on the French wikipedia page, which is gloriously complete) The Notary Marin performing the autopsy was unable to clearly identify the animal but did say that it was a canid. To give you a sample the animal was 99cm long (excluding the tail), its back-legs were around 45 cm long, it weighted around 50kg, and it had 42 teeth. There were also reports that said the Beast displayed some behavior pointing to the fact that it was a tamed animal. So it was most likely a wolf/dog hybrid.
SongDog7 I t is interesting that you mention teeth, because teeth in hybrids are often unusual, that is to say, unlike either parent. Having said that , I could believe that it was a tiger that got loose. The tiger would have had an advantage in that the hunters were looking for a wolf or wolf like creature, thus devote energy pursuing wolf sightings, wolf tracks etc. We are all just guessing of course.
@@TheAkwarium So it was just under a meter in length? Was there any discussion in that article of the training of the persons that did the autopsy?
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That's what I think too, how they described it as having a long thin tail, reddish fur with black stripes, & a bone breaking bite a rich person's escaped tiger pet & no one of that time could comprehend what they were seeing.
@@PerceptionVsReality333 very unlikely it was a tiger (or any big cat for that matter) there is more evidence pointing to one or several canids. There's been several cases of big cats escaping private owners, or people abandoning them. The most well known cases are from Britain, but they never killed people (and not as many as the beast did too), they only attacked livestock. If the beast had in fact been a tiger it would be a unique and isolated case (the only person who would even be able to aquire a big cat in the whole of Gevaudan was Count de Moranges. He was the premiere aristocrat in Gevaudan and people would have been able to tell who the animal belongs to). However having a wild unidentified (but often recognized as a canid), animal attacking people for some time was a thing that happened several times in France alone. Many of the confirmed "wolf" man-eaters in Europe had features suggesting wolf-dog hybridization, identified after they were killed. The Wolves of Périgord and the Wolf of Sarlat, which acted concurrent to the Beast of Gevaudan's depredations in nearby regions at the same time the Beast did, were wolf-dog hybrids. The population of wolves back then was bigger than today and people often came in conflict with them. But if you want to go with the "exotic animal" theory then it's more likely it was an African Wild Dog - the Lycaon. The Lycaon measures up exactly to the autopsy proportions, /would/ have the white patch, makes the bizarre noises the Beast reportedly made, has red eyes as recorded in the autopsy, has four toes without dewclaws, has 42 teeth like a wolf, is known to have a short, compact rib-cage like in the autopsy to enable faster turning, and some have the black stripe on the nape. However the entire ordeal wreaks of human involvement, from the pattern of attacks based on date and location, to the lull in killings during the Chastels' imprisonment, and up to the very death of the Beast itself. This suggests a known animal capable of being trained to kill.The Chastel family were avid dog-trainers and wolf-hunters who had an affinity for the wilds and who lived on the fringes of society. And they were known for keeping big dogs. They even got in a clash with Antoine de Beauterne's men during the course of a hunt, and were subsequently thrown in jail. And you know what happened, then? The killings suddenly stopped, that is up until they were released again...Jean Chastel only took action and killed the Beast when it nearly took the life of his woman. And it took him all of about a week to do what France's best couldn't accomplish in years. The Beast walked right up to him during a hunt, stood there subordinately and he shot it.
Fun fact: Brotherhood of the Wolf is also one of the many inspirations of Bloodborne.
So much so that the default hunter outfit was basically identical to the one in the movie.
@@snorlaxx420xx8 The Yharnam hunter outfit looks more like the outfits from the movie.
Cool that there is a chain whip in Bb, but shame there's no vertebrae shackle whip like in the movie.
woooudo what relevance does blood borne have to this dumbass
@woooudo In what way does that have anything to do with this cryptic? Idiot.
“Cryptids tend to show themselves around times of miss hysteria and social stress”
Wonder how many cryptids have emerged in 2020 huh
Not many but lots of goverment conspiracys and such raging from probable to completely absurd and a work of a mad man
What about that siren headed thing
I forgot what it's name was
@@er.mrinalkantidas6949 thats a creepypasta not a cryptid
A bipedal pig boar creature in a suit roamed the US white house for 4 years.
@@er.mrinalkantidas6949 that's not a cryptid. actually, siren head was a creation of an artist and became very popular among young people. those who believe in sirenhead are just some afraid kiddos
8:12 Ah, so it was a furry serial killer after all... How horifying.
Noir Treize very horrifying.
Indeed-the original Werewolves were men who wore wolf skins to murder people.
That would make sense. After all, the original werewolves were wolf skin murders. Indeed, many warriors in Europe (including the Thracians and Roman Velites) wore wolf hides into battle. I can totally see how an 18th century murderer would follow that ancient trend. That way people can blame the wolves (or hyena or dogs)@Tenntakk
@@Tareltonlives The dacians and most germanic people were also known for wearing bear and wolf pelts in battle.
@@rollothewalker5535 That's right! And then there's the Ulfsarks and Berserks!
The real Halloween special will be out in January.
😂😂
I dunno, the fact that this animal's features aren't spectacularly over-exaggerated makes me think they were attacked by large wolves with a brownish coat. The events where one girl was mutilated and the other described it as a "beast" before she died would get ANYONE's imagination running lol.
Yeah a pack might simply learnt (wrongly) that humans are easy prey. The fact that the beast targeted mainly children and women coincide with predators seeking smaller prey to attack.
If you look at many of the drawings of new species back then, they were often wrongly drawn with features familiar to the artist and/or the person that reported the species, either due to misremembering or even just outright not knowing what those particular aspects were at all.
For some reason I keep thinking that someone imported hyenas into France. Just based on the original description.
The description reminds me of an extant creodont
I think they actually did a movie about this. I know the premise is very similar in "Brotherhood of the Wolf". Funny enough, the "beast" in that movie was a lion. Outside of the ridiculous cultish nonsense that was thrown in, the concept of a full grown African male lion loose in the French countryside is a fascinating idea.
6:10 - So THAT'S where the whole, "only silver can kill a werewolf" idea came from!
Or maybe that myth pre-existed and became attached to this one by people who liked the idea of pairing them.
Mercury used to be called quicksilver and well mercury has a habit of killing things
Black wolf 2 yeah but how do make a bullet out of mercury
Make an alloy or hollow out the tip and seal with wax
Can anyone remember a movie that pretty much was based on this beast, but in the movie the beast was actually a hyena
My theory...
Weirdo french lord wanted to breed his own attack dog, breeding abnormally large Dogs (mastiffs or wolf hounds) or maybe even turkish sheep dogs with wolf/dog hybrids, then the animals were probably mistreated and some how escaped ... and started tear assing through the french country-side.
It would explain the animals lack of fear of humans and aggression which is evident of feral wild dogs and hybrid wolves who've lost their fear of humans.
You're not far off, in fact the autopsy positively identified the animal as a wolf-dog hybrid. But the person most likely behind all this wasn't a French Lord, but Jean Chastel - the same man who shot the "Beast" ending its killing spree. The Chastels are highly culpable suspects in involvement with the Beast. They were avid dog-trainers and wolf-hunters who had an affinity for the wilds and who lived on the fringes of society. They even got in a clash with Antoine de Beauterne's men during the course of a hunt, and were subsequently thrown in jail. And you know what happened, then? The killings suddenly stopped, that is up until they were released again... Jean Chastel only took action and killed the Beast when it nearly took the life of his woman. And it took him all of about a week to do what France's best couldn't accomplish in years. The Beast walked right up to him during a hunt, stood there subordinately and he shot it.
@@TheAkwarium holy shit... interesting.
It would explain alot of the circumstances of the case.
This is why we can't have nice things.
That reminds me there was a movie about this that sets the beast as some rich French Lords hyena, I don't remember the name of the movie but it was heavily based on it and it's theories was actually pretty plausible
It's not your theory you ridiculous internet goof.
Last time I was this early trey was still talking about Cthulhu.
???
@@vagledip5190
One of Trey's first videos is about cuthulu.
@@cormacb2326 oh, i remember (and it's cthulhu)
Oh man that fuck me up for days
how to you edit your comments ?
I think Wolf- Mastiff hybrids are good candidates for “wolf-like” creature attack in old Europe. Mastiff-wolves can be very large, aggressive and more likely to associate with and attack humans. Additionally, predators often eat hearts, liver and other nutritious organs first, thus leading to the descriptions given for victims. However, I think a lot of the attacks are either false or exaggerated.
Like the black death was exaggerated?
I think the hyena-theory made most sense, but this one wouldn't be impossible. At least some breeds of mastiffs can also be coloured brindle, which means they have stripes and are often dark brown.
The way the art looks it makes me think of Amphicyon
The art does resemble a Amphicyonid (bear -dog) or Hemicyonid (dog-bear), but both Caniform groups died out 2 million + years ago. The supposed Waheela, a North American cryptid also resembles an amphicyonid.
@@appalachianmenace69420 Some of it does a bit, but the art of what are supposed to be regular wolves ALSO looks like that.
Obvious comment about a barn owl and baskin shark
i'm out of the loop what is that meme ?
ledernierutopiste well, in MANY other cryptid videos he made, the said monster was, for the sea ones, almost always a baskin shark, and for flying one, often a barn owl, that is where this channel’s même was born
@@jeanduhamel9101 oh ok i got it, i heard him talk about basking shark more than once yeah lmao !
@@ledernierutopiste yo Wammu !
Maybe the barn owls asked the basking sharks to make them a costume and then they wore the costume and killed people as a way to make peace with them🦉🦈
Lol
Loving those JoJo references bro 😂
It’s kinda like Jack the riper in England, in the way that they both were blamed on murders they probably didn’t commit.
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shut the fuck up nerd
@@cartethhhh shush
Cryptid Profile: Trey’s On Time Videos
+PB Lobster Rude. But enough for an *Oof !* Meme.
XD True tho
PB Lobster Trey, the Jontron of paleontology
The most likely explanation is that some users saw a older video and mis identified them as a new vid and that there never was a video released on time.
But these are just my thoughts tell me what you think is going on with people reporting to have seen trey's videos released on time down in the comments below
Is cryptip, not Legendary Creatures
**keeps watching as trey slowly keeps getting consumed by jojo**
"GOODBYE TREY-JO!"
We got another one lads
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@@josuemendez4420 No wonder so few people lived after the Beast got them, they got blown up by Bites Za Dusto!
@@PlanetZoidstar 😂😂😂
"A monster lol"
-King Louis XV
lmao *yeet* it
Lol
"Le monstrèu hon hon hon"
I highly recommend "Brotherhood of the Wolf". It has a very interesting take on what the beast might have been.
Love that movie
I just bought the movie off Amazon. Haven’t seen it in 10 years, turned out to be just as good as I remembered
Just rewatched it last week awesome movie
Yes. I was trying to remember the name of that movie thru this whole video!
What do they say the beast is?
4:13 this is half a step away from "You were expecting a Barn Owl, but it was me! Dio!"
Lol
Now I’m not exactly sure if this counts given it’s typically attributed to real animals but if you wanted to do a bit of a different cryptid type thing you could do a video on the “big cats” of the uk which is basically a phenomenon of people reporting seeing big cats, usually black ones, in Britain where there are no native ones. It’s kind of interesting from a cultural perspective as Britain has very little dangerous wild life so what is a fairly normal creature in other countries becomes a thing of terror here. The used to be one allegedly living in my town but I think reports of it have dried up and the stories seems to have pretty much lost traction
Seconding-Darren Naish has done a lot of great stuff on BBCs and ABCs
I remember reading that it's believed that most of the sightings were just domestic cats viewed from a distance and therefore appearing bigger without anything for scale
@@bibtebo Yep, and that's combined with the rare exotic pet that do seem to pop up. Most of them are just domestic cats, including some very big feral ones.
Com Lag all I know is that at a town event someone held a poll about if ours was caught and we voted that it should be released into the wild
@@Tareltonlives I did actually see a Scottish wild cat when in Scotland tho, they are basically the same size as a domestic, but wow are they rare, I got so lucky. Just felt the need to share since we are on the topic of cats in the uk
Some of the deaths described did strike me as a possible serial killer. Perhaps one who wore a wolf pelt to disguise themself and so if there was a witness in the distance, the witness would think it was a beast. Especially if they attacked during the twilight hours when visibility was low...
That plus a possibly roaming hyena and the usual wolf attacks could've easily fed the hysteria of a strange beast.
Catie F I watched a documentary about this cryptid, and it arrived at pretty much that exact conclusion, but took it further. The ACTUAL Beast Of Gevaudan WAS just a man, but he was also a serial killer AND a rapist. He would rape women, murder them, and then use a trained wild animal, like a wolf or hyena, to savage and mangle the bodies and make it look like an animal attack.
Michael Henry So she survived the encounter? Wow, I missed that little bit of information. In that case, he may have been wearing some kind of wolf mask or something to hide his identity.
@@kevinnorwood8782 That calls into question the intelligence of that girl lmao. You're telling me she sees some "beast", the beast pulls his pants down, rapes her, leaves, and she thinks its some animal? Either the raping happened to other victims and not her, or she was not very bright.
@@michaelhenry3234 Good point. Maybe the raping DID happen to the later victims and not her, or maybe it was happening to another victim when the first girl reported the "beast" and all she saw was the strange animal the serial killer/rapist used to clean up the evidence and make it look like an animal attack.
@@kevinnorwood8782 Maybe. Did that documentary provide any solid evidence that it was a rapist? With the frequency of attacks and how spread out they were, I think the far simpler conclusion is that a unique looking wolf killed the first few victims and then every animal attack afterward was mistaken for the beast. Occam's razor, after all.
The moment you said people disguised as animals. I felt kinda dumb because that’s exactly what I was thinking it could be. Mixed with actual animal attacks. Then a sick individual disguised in a costume attacked children and women.
Exactly what I was thinking too. And the victims who lived couldn't tell a difference either.
I mean would it be out of the question for some strange woodsman who lived "off the grid" to be mistaken for a beast? Making his own clothes I'd imagine youd use a vareity of pelts and furs.
Jimmy Jams yeah I was thinking any that saw the man if any dresses up. Were so overwhelmed they truly believed he was the todays equivalent of a werewolf or very large dog creature. But because no equivalent existed they used the best description they could. I do agree most were probably probably exaggerated attacks for a variety of social reasons.
keegan112099 nope make it easy for him to do his “work.” If people believed it was some four legged creature as well.
Damn furries
I was listening to this thinking "this sounds like the plot to Brotherhood of the Wolf" and sure enough the movie was based on it. Thanks brain, I should trust you more.
"Why is this on my recommendation?"
*sees jojo's references*
"Oh"
Where WHERE
Yare yare daze
Ah yes a Jojo reference
William also 8:15
Also 5:58
7:37 wait, i know! A basking shark!!
Nay it's an owl
Very small rocks!
It was obviously a Barn Owl stupid
nope just a doggo
Best post I've read in awhile. Gave me a good laugh for those of us that have watched Trey's videos.
What about the weird “laugh-like howl”? That would be more or less perfectly explained by the beast being a hyena.
Or some psycho in wolf skin letting out some death metal cackle-like howl
@@ksoundkaiju9256 it was E.L. Wallace in a furry suit!
@@ksoundkaiju9256 Victorian era furries...
@@keegan112099 not victorian, georgian
keegan112099 Serial Killer Fursonas. Sounds like an X Files episode.
There are a lot of jojo refrences in this video
@I boop ur nose it is a jojoke
*Ora*
This comment thread's a train wreck
@I boop ur nose you would get it
@@Raccon_Detective. *confused Ora noises*
11:55, the 1400 elephant is my favorite, he looks like his nose makes kazoo noises
I feel like the 1424 elephant is more likely to make a kazoo noise
Haha I agree with you about the 1400 one, I was thinking the same thing!
So, are you planning on continuing the series by chance? It’s easily my favorite series of yours. If you need ideas on cryptids, may I suggest the Black Demon? It’s a supposedly 20-60ft shark, so you’d get the bonus of ripping the megaladon is still alive theory to shreds
The striped Hyena explanation seems rather unlikely. Striped Hyenas are smaller than spotted Hyenas and are naturally fearful of men. They might attack a small child, but attacks on adults are almost unheard of. In addition, I doubt that in the 18th century French countryside it would be forced seek confrontations with Humans due to a lack of prey items. The absolute number of attacks make the explanation even less likely than it already is.
You'd imagine a smaller predator like a hyena, if being forced to hunt for itself instead of scavenging, would rather attack the livestock, than the bigger humans. If the predator was smething bigger it would make more sense for them to go after the bigger prey, because then it'd have no problem taking it down.
the region was piss poor back then, I'm not sure how someone would have been able to even aquire or afford an exotic animal
@@TheAkwarium I mean rich people always existed, something could have easily broken out of some menagerie or something. This wouldn' have been your average citizen owning something like that.
@@MysterySeeker I think people would have noticed, since if there was one rich person living between them all they'd know. Since people were able to tell that Chastel owned Mastiffs, they'd probably have noticed and recognized who the animal belongs to.
@@TheAkwarium Only if the animal belonged to someone rom that region, and didn't escape somewhere else and found their way to this particular area by coincedence. It's not like whoever lost an exotic dangerous animal would go around telling people he lost it, and end up getting blamed for any potential deaths. If you're rich enough to afford a hyena or whatever, you can just buy another one and not deal with angry crowds of people with pitchforks
Next Cryptid, Nandi bear! Another killer cryptid that gave me chills when I was a kid.
As for the identity of the Beast, I really don't think a striped hyena was the main culprit. If you look at striped hyena attacks, there are very few that weren't sleeping children and also there are no reports of the stench that is synonymous with striped hyena.
In fact if you read all of the detailed accounts of purported Beast attacks they share similarities with only one group of predator, the big cats. In particular, tigers.
The like the tiger, the Beast was a solitary hunter that stalked it's human prey in forested areas; wolves are primarily pack hunters that run down their prey in open areas.
The Beast was described as a huge russet animal with stripes, a long thin tail and sharp claws. Grey wolves have never been recorded with that particular pelage, they have bushy tails and don't use their claws for hunting.
The Beast could magically disappear, tigers are known to ascend trees when hunted. There are many records of man eating tigers but only three reports of man eating wolves ( wolves that specifically hunted humans, not wolves that ate people because the opportunity arose.)
So my hypothesis is that, back in Gevaudan, a tiger, (habituated to people) somehow escaped from a menagerie or circus and took up eating people and livestock to survive. People who glimpsed it's attacks, having never seen a tiger, would describe it as a huge reddish beast or animal with stripes.
It's carrion was sometimes scavenged by wolves, it may have even had a pair of "follower" wolves that shadowed it's movements hoping to get the scraps. (Not needing to expend energy on hunting, these wolves grew bigger than the other local wolves. Plenty of regular food made them massive like the big captive wolves we see today). These were later shot and sent to the royal court. Eventually the tiger died in a lair, a cave or hidden den and it's body was never found.
Anyway that's my theory :D
ok but like... tigers don't look like dogs tho( •_•)
besides if people we're already captivating exotic animals like the tiger, then surely at least one person in france would've known what a tiger looks like
but aye..
that's just my opinion
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Interesting theory, although the descriptions of the Beast as dog-like might not support that. That said, however, several large breeds of dogs have shorter faces: think mastiffs and the like. Not squashed snouts, but considerably less pointed than a wolf or some shepherd dogs. Also, cropping ears was common enough, so people panicking due to an attack or close sighting of the Beast who aren't familiar with the faces of large cats might well describe the creature as a dog of some kind. Large, heavier nuzzle, huge teeth, short(end) ears along with a large, heavy build would make people think more of a large canine a large version of a comparatively dainty domestic cat.
Edit: Rather than dying in some obscure cave, it could be it worked its way out of the area due to all of the commotion and hunting going on, not to mention it could have been having trouble creating a territory because of humans and established wolves. If it had managed to find a remote location with decent non-human prey, it could have easily lived its life out with no local humans the wiser.
@1957khartung Least likely theory to be true. Mesonychids were long dead before the events of Gevaudan. The description of hooves being present on the beast rather than claws were probably heavily romanticized.
S. Winter These are peasant farmers from the 1700s though. The educated weren’t the ones attacked, it was the farmers in the countryside.
@@s.winter7455 Very unlikely though... We're talking about France here : Rich pple and all the cultural stuff were moslty located in Paris at that time. That part of France is especially poor and pretty isolated. I really doubt that pple from such a remote area with little money and means of transportation have seen a tiger.
Have you ever heard of the "man eating lions of Tsavo"? These were two lions that for some reason started killing humans in Kenya in the 1890's, and a lot of aspects seem similar. Basically, native animals that would sometimes attack a human changing their behavior and attacking many more humans than usual. The big difference is that the Tsavo lions were killed within a year, not giving them time to attain cryptid status.
It could be that something similar happened here, but with two or three wolves. I wonder if there's a way to see if weather conditions were unusually harsh in that part of France during that time period, or if there was any other reason a wolf's normal prey would be scarce?
I remember watching a documentary on those lions, and I think it was stated that the railway workers were first shooting elephants, which enabled more bushes of thorny vegetation to grow. That might have driven away many of the grazers, and the lions may have also coincidentally got their canine teeth broken. This supposedly made it a lot harder for lions to chase down and kill their ordinary prey, so they became man eaters.
@@markcobuzzi826 Maybe for some reason there were fewer deer and such in Gevaudan in the 1760's? If that was the case, it would make sense for a wolf or wolves to start going after human. Incidentally, one of the Tsavo lions was apparently very hard to kill, taking as many as nine bullets before dying; kind of like the "beast" being shot but still escaping.
the autopsy report states it was definitely a canid (but not a wolf) unless the beast Chastel killed wasn't the actual one, in this case I am left wondering why? I mean with the royal disinterest in the case in 1767 what would be the point of not delivering a lion? Who would have faced danger from the beast being a lion and from what authority (from a royal perspective the affair was officially closed)? This seems to complicate things for the pleasure of complicating them (and considering the already dubious context in which the beast was killed I don’t think we need to complicate them anymore). Or the autopsy record lies which leads me to the exact same questions I had before with the addition of why bother writing a report at all?
TheAkwarium I don’t think they are saying it was a lion. They are saying that harsh conditions have caused otherwise regular animals to seek humans as prey. In the case mentioned it was lions, but wolves could easily be put in a similar situation.
Jayne Strange they had broken teeth which caused them to become man eaters
One other feature of the killings is an eerie pattern in time and location. They happened in six distinct zones, the biggest with the most attacks was also the last before the killings stopped. The Chastel family lived in that area, and the animal Jean shot was very close to their house. The kicker is that this is classic serial killer behavior. They often start the spree far away, work back toward their home, and end up doing most of the dirty work in their own neck of the woods. It's been speculated that the Count of Morangies wanted to help destabilize the government with an atmosphere of panic among the common people, and commissioned Jean Chastel and his son to breed a wolfdog and train it to kill. Of course the case is stone cold, and will likely never be concluded beyond reasonable doubt, but the circumstantial evidence is still compelling.
the autopsy report of the animal Chastel killed identified it as a canid. It's also a strange coincidence that the attacks stopped right after he killed the "beast" add to that the fact that Chastel owned mastiff's and a wolfdog hybrid isn't that far fetched
like the secret jojo arc about catching a mythical wolf.
Yare yare daze.
I reject my humanity, Jojo!
*turn into a werewolf*
@@alvianekka80 now to think about it we are currently in part 8 and no were-anything. About the closest thing i can think of is maybe Weather Report's Heavy Weather, who uses hypnosis to turn people into snails, though it's equally likely that it subliminally makes you go on a strangely specific drug trip, considering how it supposedly works.
You sound like your in a old radio
that wasn't intentional XD but I hope the audio isn't too bad again I don't have my typical mic set up right now
I thought my headphones had broken lol 😂
@@moss_and_ivy3517 Crap that stinks, I can't really tell if its bad or not while editing... hopefully its watchable
@@TREYtheExplainer Don't worry about it it's still a great video 😁 And it doesn't sound that bad it's just there in the background
TREY the Explainer finally uploaded
More Cryptid Profiles!
Nup we want Paleo Profiles
How about more videos about evolution
Thunderbird would be interesting
all cryptids are aliens ruclips.net/video/AmNzkxVwAYg/видео.html
Yes I absolutely agree this was so awesome and informative 😊😄
Probably just a Barn Owl or a Basking Shark.
Or a basking owl
Or a Barn Shark
i'm out of the loop, what is this meme ?
It's about many cryptids are owls and sharks ( maybe whales ) in earlier videos.
Thank me later 2 years ago comment
@@baldeaglesarentbald1921 ok
Hey trey have you ever considered doing a cryptid profile on the mokele mbembe?
It's right up his alley. He's already done other dinosaur things.
oh do I have news for you guys
The what? I’m a cryptid researcher
@@Alecarcticpenguin dinosaur in the Congo
@@bamboozlednoodle6513 thank you!
I really like this one. It’s surprisingly realistic and explainable which is super cool for a cryptid.
Long legs, reddish color and a black streak in the back seems like a description of a Maned Wolf from South America
Edit: I'm not saying the beast was a Maned Wolf, just pointing out the similarities with the description
That doesn't explain the size described
Also wasn't it in france
@@Santi-ei3qf Europe is fairly close to Africa and a rich person importing a relatively common animal from there isn't too far fetched, but a fairly rare animal from halfway across the world seems a little unrealistic.
Spain owned most of South America at this time + the animal probably wouldn't have survived a 18th century boat ride.
Its a hyena
Interesting connection you made about how cryptids tend to be seen more during times of societal stress. I'll have to keep in mind to read a bit more about the general socital mood at the time when researching/reading about cryptids in the future. As I've never made that connection before myself. Cryptids as a societal coping mechanism, I feel there's a scientific paper of some sort waiting to be written there haha.
Regardless great informative video as usual.
Jojo references in this video: 4:11, 6:00, 8:15,
OH M> GOOOD
*Sees Beast of Gevaudan*
.....I T 'S A N E N E M Y S T A N D !
Cryptids are just stands. And since we (normal people)don’t understand stand. They think its a monster.
*Son of a bitch!*
Awaken! My Fandom!
Me: oh hey he mentioned Kira
*sees crude drawing of Hol Horse and Polnareff*
Me: ah
just when I thought I couldnt love this channel any more than I already do.. BAM, my man hits us with JoJo references..
Thank you for covering this story! I’m French and as a child it terrified me. I think the creature was a wolf but I like the stories that appeared after. The region where the event happened are still marked by this event with statues and flags with the beast on it.
PS: the fact when it was shot it would often escape is most likely due to poor gun powder quality and damp conditions. The fur may also have helped deflect the shot.
I would look at documentaries and articles about it, there’s a lot more to the story.
also the fact that it's easier to say the animal had super powers than to just admit you missed it, considering some of the people were "experts" in wolf hunting
Was about to start binging your older episodes but then you uploaded 👍
I've seen the Brotherhood of the wolf and it is actually a surprisingly good film. I highly recommended it. But if you're looking for suggestions for your next Cryptid video. May I humbly suggest the Jersey Devil.
It is kinda cheesy, but the action scenes are amazing. Mark Dacascos (the native american kung fu guy) was so good in it.
I'd be more interested in hearing about the Jersey mermaid. JD has been researched to death.
dan lovejoy I haven’t watched any JD research vidoes myself, but Trey’s format is nothing short of captivating and entertaining whilst still being completely informative, which I’m guessing is probably why the op suggested it in the first place, and why I would really like to see it as well, but for the time being, I guess I’ll look into the JD research myself
@@shin0mega Jersey Devil is good idea. Descriptions look so odd that I hardly understand which animal was misinterpreted
@@shin0mega I can see that, and after considering it from that point I would like to see Trey's take on it as well. I was only offering a lesser known creature from the same area.
Do a video on England's Beast of Blythburgh. I live in the region and it's a still a household name 500 years on.
Just a heads up: it's pronounced 'Blithe-bruh'.
that's part of the Black Shuck legend? I'd like to see a video on that
I remember hearing about this Cryptid when I was little I was at my grandma and grandpa's house on a show called animal-X on animal planet and I am so glad you made video about this Cryptid because I forgot the name of it and I have been trying to find that show and thanks to your video I was able to find it also great job on the video keep it up
FINALLY, ANOTHER CRYPTID PROFILE
This would make a great movie! A cross between a crime investigation, a monster hunt, and a psychological thriller. I know you mentioned a movie at the end. Although I’m gonna check that out, I want to see a modern one
'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is exactly that! Plus some sick action scenes!
Don't forget the alluded supernatural nature of the beast! Still remember being very scared with the movie (even though I saw it as a kid so that was easy I guess).
been ages since I seen brotherhood of the wolf and had forgot the name of it till seeing this and thinking I think I seen this movie. But was not it a trained tiger in a armored suit in the movie.
@@scottmm78 that sounds almost as cool as laser sharks!
watch cujo
it's an old movie
I think a wolf/dog hybrid was what the people saw and were attacked by which later would be known as the Beast of Gévaudan. It's likely that a couple of rogue hyenas that have escaped from captivity were seen and blamed for some of the attacks as the hyenas would've probably attacked a couple of people for food as well as been seen consuming the already deceased bodies of other victims.
Rouge hyenas would have stuck to cattle and sheep. Someody's attack dogs ran off and made nice with wild wolves.
Todd sperling I'm just saying that there's a chance that a couple of people were attacked by a rogue hyena that had probably escaped from captivity.
I'm not sure how someone would have been able to aquire a hyena in such a poor region though
@@Spinoguy16 I know, but Gévaudan was hardly a rich region with no nobles, just peasants living there, hence why all the noblemen had to arrive there from Paris and the King also resided in Paris and Versailles.
We have to know during that time who would have kept exotic pets and who would have a bad fence with his dogs. I think more research needs to be done with this subject. What I was saying is that in recent instances when exotic cats got away they only attacked wild stock. The Gevaudan wolves had a taste for people which is rare, why eat bad tasting boney people when there are juicy sheep to attack. Or maybe the deer and other wildlife were overhunted and the wolves had to resort to attacking people? We need to know more facts.
One of the things I have noticed myself is that generally post wars, predatory fauna sometimes develop "man eating" tendencies. Like how tiger attacks allegedly skyrocketed after the Brits conquered India. Thus could be sensationalisation, scavenging behavior on available corpses, taking advantage of non normal prey items, and desperation from the conflict driving out existing food sources. Live stock were reported as being taken more often by tigers during the various wars for India (which were more like several campaigns against existing kingdoms that also had their own conflicts often leaving huge numbers of dead). I think that after 7 years of a particularly brutal war that some wolves in the region developed a taste for human flesh, as well as a return of more livestock also causing a growth explosion of local populations while also noting hat during the war anyone in france capable of firing a gun was usually on the front lines or more focused on combat.
Another thing is the man eating lions of Africa, usually only pop up after sustained combat is over. When I went to Afghanistan, we heard that in some parts of the country where the fighting was really bad, striped hyenas and jackals would occasionally take people, and graves would be found dug up and remains strewn about.
I do rember hearing about tiger attacks in Vietnam jumping up after the war really kicked off, and remember hearing about bears around gulags in Russia being prone to hunting lone people wandering around in the woods
I love how much jojo is referenced in this. Even the "character designs" of the hunters were... exceptionally SBR.
Brotherhood of the beast is actually a pretty good film, but of course it takes a lot of liberties, I don't want to go into spoiler territory, but let's say none of theories you mention are int he film, but at the same time, it's also not really an undiscovered creature.
I also like the theory of some serial killer being in the mix. At least I know of a famous case of a serial killer near where I come from that was related to licantropy and Wolf-like attacks. Romasanta. He was a man that around 1850's killed at least 9 people (women and children mostly), although he claimed to have killed more. The killings all involved deep bites and scratches and were abnormally vicious. When he was caught he claimed to have either a curse or an illness that made him turn into a wolf and attack people and that he remembered killing more than 13 people (although the number varied). I always thought that the myth of the werewolf stems in part from cases like that. In fact when there was clear evidence against someone in the werewolf trials (a focus of popular histeria similar to witch trials that happened alongside them), which was very few times point more to human killers than wolf attacks (although we have to be very careful as they were usual popular trials based almost totally on testimonies). and if you know one of the original telling of Little red riding Hood, the antagonsit was not a Wolf, but a werewolf and his actions were more akin to one of of demented killer (making a little girl drink the blood and eat the flesh of his murdered grandmother and then get nude in the bed with him).
This _was_ a pretty neat video! The Beast of Gévaudan is a pretty neat story, and I'm glad I got to hear about it (even if it's probably just a hyena).
1:20: The Seven Years' War was fought between a lot of other nations, too. It was the World War of its era.
5:45: I guess that "Mission Accomplished" banner was a bit presumptuous...
Thank you :D I'm happy you enjoyed it!
Yeah I was thinking about the phrasing of that sentence while editing, the 7 Years' War was more of a proxy war between tons of different nations with the main two sides being France and GB.
and yeah XD I should have gotten that George W Bush picture for that part
What about an episode on the Mokele-mbembe?
Wasn't that the reptile-ish african one? Often said to be living in or near water?
@@rb4121 Yes.
@Pecu Alex My personal "hypothesis" (more like imagining as I think it probably doesn't exist) is that it's a large species of monitor lizard, as they can be semi-aquatic and vegetarian. Of course size exaggeration would play a role. I think it's a more likely hypothesis than either a Dinosaur or megafauna hiding in a jungle.
An alien invasion would be more probable than any actual aquatic sauropod living in a modern tropical jungle.
@@KonguZya Or just different stories of elephants and hippos that got mixed up.
YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A WOLF BUT IT WAS ME DIO
ORA.
Fuck you dio
Could you do a Cryptid Profile on the Jersey Devil?
He's alright. He just likes being left alone because he's self-conscious about the batwings and hooves and the goathead. But really he's an alright guy. Likes to fuck with the shoebies.
Its probably the same thing as Mothman or Flatwoods. Large bird. Only it's sighted carrying prey, like a goat kid or deer foal.
There was a great documentary I saw on this on tv. In the end they suggested the spotted hyena, but more than that. Because some of the survivors claimed having seen a man first and then suddenly being attacked by the beast (which is where the werewolf theory came in), they suggested this was a trained hyena. If I'm remembering the details correctly, the man who killed the hyena with a silver bullet had been excommunicated from his town, and he did have some connection the the managerie in Paris. They did tests with silver bullets, which cannot in fact fly straight, so to kill the beast with a silver bullet between the eyes like the man claimed, he couldn't have stood 50 feet away like he said he did, but rather a direct head shot. This man was obviously praised and welcomed back to his town as a hero, so the documentary suggests that this was a very convoluted revenge plot.
I looked online to find that documentary again, but I can't find it. However, it seems that in 2016 it was suggested the beast could have been an immature male lion.
Monster quest is the documentary you are thinking of.
@@ShinyHunterGojia """documentary"""
Fontebassfishing no it wasn't it was the real wolfman or something similar it had Ken Gerhard in it
Hyenas can't be trained, but a spotted hyena is a MUCH better fit than a striped one, as they are not only willing but quite capable of killing a human being.
@@Tareltonlives Actually, hyenas are very intelligent and can be trained. Not like a dog, but if someone knew enough about the species, it is possible, though dangerous. I do agree that a spotted hyena would be far more likely fit than striped, as striped are smaller and typically much more timid animals.
It was probably a wolf and maybe someone's striped hyena that broke out. A lot of rich people would have menageries full of exotic animals and this was before we learned that it was probably not the smartest idea to keep an animal in a small cage for long periods of time without anything to do. I'd say it was a striped hyena since they aren't native to Europe.
Joshua Bartlett
The people that survived were the people that saw the Striped Hyena (they described the Beast).
The people that died were killed by Wolves.
@@joshuabartlett5575 They can get up to 120 pounds and since rich people want the impressive stuff they would want a big one.
120 is more than enough to kill a human especially when you consider how animals are generally stronger than humans due to their center of gravity being lower and therefore harder to throw off.
Also a predator would use sneak attacks which would make up for smaller size.
I'm not sure how someone'd have been able to aquire a hyena in such a poor region though and the autopsy report clearly states it was a canid (not a wolf though) most likely a wolf/dog hybrid
@@bolbyballinger wait wait im pretty sure striped hyena are not that large. Arent you talking about spotted hyenas?
Ok made a research and indeed it seems that striped hyenas can get quite large, but mostly don't. Indeed it could be that the hyena was quite a big one and was attacking people! That's fucking interesting mate
Do an episode on skinwalkers!
That would be good
Honestly I feel like most sknwaler reports in Cryptozoology circles are interchangeable with werewolf and dog men sightings so a series about werewolf and werewolf-like cryptically overall would be pretty cool!
No Wendigo
Allen Jay or chupacabra
Dear god please no
Thank you for this video. I found this very interesting. I also just recently discovered your channel and have been binge watching a lot of your previous videos.
Wonderful video Trey. I remember those werewolf paintings from the History Channel when I was younger, they still terrify me to this day. The ones with red mouths.
Wolves are among my absolute favorite animals, yet werewolves are among my most feared monsters.
Pretty sure at least some of those deaths were murders disguised as monster attacks. The harsh and cold mindset that follows a war, combined with roaming mercenaries and men returning from the front lines, usually creates a rise in crime.
Here's an idea: a murderer takes advantage of a feral hyena. The killings can be blamed on the hyena since it's eating his victims. Same with wolves-the murderer can blame the wolves for his crimes since he can hide while the people find the wolves by the victims.
A common theory is that the killer bred large mastiffs. This is mostly to explain the "beasts" intelligence.
@@seb24789 That also makes a lot of sense-they would be less traceable than direct murders.
Another interesting cryptid I'd very recently heard about were these giant black snakes in excess of 15 feet and thick as a telephone pole that were sighted in northern Japan; I can't remember the specific area. From what little I could find, sightings began before Westerners arrived in Japan and seemed to all stop around the 1960's. No snake that has ever lived in Japan gets anywhere near that big, so I can't even guess what people were actually seeing.
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@@wolfe440 Thanks. Godzilla's my boy. :)
Melvin Shine Same here! Loved him ever sine I was a little kid; can’t wait for the new movie to come out.
Great video, beast of Gévaudan is my favourite cryptid. You better start doing christmas special by now, so you can make it in time :D. I think yeti or bigfoot would be interesting topic.
I remember watching something on this awhile back, and I think 🤔 it turned out to be a spotted hyena, that someone bought and trained to do this
That was the theory the pair of investigators in that show settled on, at any rate.
Ok
I love jojo and was so happy trey put the characters in the video
remember kid always bring a silver bullet loaded revolver with you when going to the forest alone
Oh, I do.
Not to mention the wood stake and garlic necklace which are a given
I feel like it was a hybrid of some kind, maybe just an unusually aggressive wolf or hyena, and that it did attack enough to cause hysteria above normal wolf attacks and that probably some sick individual(s) started using it as a cover to murder women. Psychos do that. Then it become like you said, just people hyping attacks to be the beast
Wolfdogs are often very unstable and dangerous-maybe someone tried to breed wolfdogs and they went feral
@@Tareltonlives I don't find it likely that French farmers in the 1700's would be inclined to breed wolfdogs. More likely, a herding dog got frisky with the enemy; my guess is that in this situation the dog would be the mother, as pups raised in the wild without human contact- wolf or dog- tend to be shy and fearful. Perhaps the pup wasn't trained or socialized, but nevertheless came to associate humans with food.
@@GotPotatoes24 That would made sense-I am aware of feral dogs interbreeding with wolves
@@GotPotatoes24 Many of the confirmed "wolf" man-eaters in Europe had features suggesting wolf-dog hybridization, identified after they were killed. The Wolves of Périgord and the Wolf of Sarlat, which acted concurrent to the Beast of Gevaudan's depredations in nearby regions, were wolf-dog hybrids. Natural, 100% wolves tend to shy away from humans. It's the hybrids that stir the pot. Yes, wolf predation and aggression on humans was more intensified in earlier centures, but usually this coincided with times of war, when the wolves would scavenge the battlefields to devour the dead. There was no such time of warfare prior to the events in Gevaudan in the 1770s. The Marin report, that is, the actual autopsy of the Beast, POSITIVELY identified that it was not an ordinary wolf. The autopsy is describing the result of wolf-dog hybridization. It had canine dentition. The lower body resembled a wolf, the front resembled a dog. Its rib cage was different than a wolf's. Its coloring was different than a wolf's. It had a squarish, more box-like head resembling a dog but an elongated snout, reminiscent of a greyhound or, in my opinion, a Charnaigre. A Charnaigre was a European hunting dog around during the time of these events. They were incredibly fast, agile, and could leap astounding distances.They pretty much disappeared around the 19th century. Here is a picture:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Charnaigre.JPG
Your voice is very calming. Do a cryptid profile on two toed Tom.
5:58 i dint know polnareff lived in The mid ages
Beast of Gévaudan, feared no sword and feared no gun
Sent from heaven, the seventh of creatures...
🤘
A 15 years old girl tending cattle alone in the 18st and by alone I mean without even a single dog; best idea ever.
I can actually top that: in the 1930's my grandfather was 10 years old and lived in a rural area in Norway. He had been misbehaving in school, and as punishment his mother sent him up alone into the mountains to stay in a little shack and watch over a flock of sheep for three months. People would drop off food for him twice a week, but beyond that this 10 year old kid was completely alone, in a time when the Norwegian countryside was rife with bears and wolverines. I'm very glad tings have changed.
@@Niobesnuppa no wonder why Norway invented black metal :/
My grandma used to take care of the sheeps all by herself since very young age (6 years old) in Northern Italy, in a territory with wolf presence (still present today), and it was the norm at the time.
And it was wartime as well
@@brainyskeletonofdoom7824 Meanwhile, in 1940's Northen Italy
BTW Sono Italiano pure io!
Hai sentito del Saltriovenator?
@@Niobesnuppa I bet he never misbehaved after that.
@@Oozaru85 or he killed his parents when he grew up XD jk
Just trick it into eating chocolate
Got e'm
Evil mastermind
Straight up military strategist.
There gonna get *clapped*
No, use Grapes
God being a serial killer would have been wonderful before the 1900s.
Bruh
I have killed exactly as many people as I have wanted to...
You are touched.
Your drawings make me think that this was all the work of an enemy Stand.
I'd love to see a discussion of one of my favorite Prehistoric Critters, Early Sharks, Like the Really weird ones with those Dorsal Radar Dish looking things.
It's pronounced "nin-gen", not "nin-jen".
As in "ningen", the Japanese word for "human".
Can confirm. It's supposed to be a hard "g"
Also the Japanese word for human can be used to say human-like or humanoid based on context. Which explains the name.
Anyone watching Dragon Ball Super would know this
NINGEN
*Muffle Scream of a wild Zamasu at the Distance*
not to mention "ninjin: means carrot...:-D
If one considers the wolf attacks in India in the 1990s, we can see that humans are rarely the best witnesses, even when they locals are familiar with wolves. Attacks on humans, particularly those carried out in the dark and not clearly seen, give rise to tall tales of monsters. There’s something deeply disturbing to humans about being prey.
That's interesting. I agree that under stress, the human being perceives the threat larger than reality. On the other hand, I would've thought that the locals would've easily recognized a wolf. Wolves already had a bad name in Europe and wouldn't have required further extrapolation, no? I'm not familiar with wolf attacks in India in the 1990s. Did those involve cases of misidentification?
The beast of Gevaudan wasn't the worst wolf attack serie in France , the worst was in the XVIIth century with the "beast of Touraine " . And there has been several other.
It didn't take exotic animals so I don't think hyenas or unknown monsters are the best hypothesis . As it is said in this video , packs of wolves or dogs is still the most plausible idea
Half ancient roman war dog half wolf.
I personally think feral dogs are more likely than a hyena or lion.
I'd been hoping you would do this one. I'm so glad you did.
I have always thought the Beast sounded more like a hyena than anything else.. I was under the impression that it killed for something 30 years not 3..
There are stories of the Lough Ness Monster going back hundreds of years.. The first sighting was connected to St Columba when he first entered Scotland..
Much underrated RUclips channel
Someone’s gotten into jojo lmao
Were growing.
I’m sad that I don’t understand this reference 😟
Yess another cryptid profile! Trey, I'd love to do some art for your channel!
NOOR DRAWS dude yes do it
it remember something, my grand parent live in bourgogne and they have a big forest and few years ago a weird dog (at least i though it was a dog) showed up in the yard i wasnt able to tell wich race he was and the time i went inside to grab my phone to take a picture my uncle chased him away
several year later i watch a documentary on the african fauna and i see the african wolf, and it looked just like the ''dog'' i saw at this moment
The Ghost and the Darkness: France Edition
Not a insult just some criticism, I would try to fix whatever is wrong with your audio. Otherwise great video!!!!!
*DROP EVERYTHING! TREY UPLOADED A VIDEO!*
JOJO references well I guess Trey is a man of culture as well.
Trey could you make a video on the beast of bladenboro? It's a more recent cryptid. Great video btw!
that thing killed a bullmastiff and a horse, pitbulls and other dogs
i love how deeply you analyse things
I watched that movie English subbed, It is meh. For some reason the main character has a native american sidekick who knows karate.
Shoehorn in random fight scenes, meaningless romantic subplot and a grand conspiracy involving the French monarchy.
Overall a competent action movie, interesting to watch the plot go along, but the pay off at the end isn't worth it.
Most French think this is a conspiracy to overthrow the French king.
the movie really falls apart in that last third.
I recently read an interesting account that the "Beast", was, alongside the hyena, a human serial killer dressed as an animal. The interesting fact is that none of the victims were apparently men above age 16-odd, considering the attacks happened in the countryside where men older than 16 are common. The brutality of the attacks and the fact that they did not stop when the wolf was shot has led some to believe that there was a human element alongside a beastial element.
There were two animals shot that were supposedly the real Beast, but the autopsy positively identified the second animal as a wolf-dog hybrid (the first one was a regular wolf, although a very large one). The attacks stopped after Chastel killed the "Beast" so there's no reason to believe the animal he killed wasn't the real thing. The Marin report, that is, the actual autopsy of the Beast, POSITIVELY identified that it was not an ordinary wolf. The autopsy is describing the result of wolf-dog hybridization. It had canine dentition. The lower body resembled a wolf, the front resembled a dog. Its rib cage was different than a wolf's. Its coloring was different than a wolf's. It had a squarish, more box-like head resembling a dog but an elongated snout, reminiscent of a greyhound or, in my opinion, a Charnaigre. A Charnaigre was a European hunting dog around during the time of these events. They were incredibly fast, agile, and could leap astounding distances.They pretty much disappeared around the 19th century upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Charnaigre.JPG
Well of course women and children would be majority of the victims since they were the ones tending to the cattle. I do believe there was human involvement though, from the pattern of attacks based on date and location, to the lull in killings during the Chastels' imprisonment, and up to the very death of the Beast itself. This suggests a known animal capable of being trained to kill. So my best guess is either a large wolf or a wolf/dog hybrid. Folks forget that wolf predation against humans in Europe was a fairly common occurrence back in those days.
I read somewhere that the main hunter who killed the actual beast was involved,rumours said that he had a very large red Mastiff-Like dog which he bred with wolves and trained it to kill and the reason he killed it so easily was it probably recognised him and from there it was an easy kill.
@@tite2100 his son also had a striped hyena (which have historically been trained) in his menagerie
That seems more plausible considering some accounts were more hyena-like and some accounts were more wolf-like
@@thenumbah1birdman For the record, Chastel's son(s) did not own a menagerie of hyenas. They were a family of game-keepers. They hunted wolves, and they trained dogs. Antoine Chastel, the son most implicated as the murderer behind the Beast, was employed by a local nobleman, Count De Moranges. The Count owned a menagerie of exotic animals, including hyenas. If the plot to loose a man-eating beast onto the Gevaudan originated anywhere, it was here, conspired between Antoine Chastel and Count De Moranges. But it was most likely a wolf-dog hybrid. Chastel's Beast - examined by Notary Marin - was identified as a wolf-dog hybrid by its dentition and skeletal measurements and we have no reason to assume it wasn't the actual Beast, since all attacks stopped after Chastel killed it. It was only after Jean Chastel's lover was killed by the Beast that he began his pursuit, and in a matter of days accomplished what the local aristocracy, Captain Duhamel and his French army dragoons, Denneval the famous wolf-hunter, and Antoine de Beauterne, Gun-Bearer to the King and Lieutenant of the Hunt, had all failed to do for three years and counting. On a hunt arranged by Jean-Joseph d'Apcher, Chastel was approached by the Beast, which paused and stood in front of him, giving him time to close the Bible that he was reading/praying with, take aim with his rifle and shoot it in the throat. The tale goes that he shot it with a silver bullet, instantly killing it. That's not what happened. The reality is that Jean Chastel shot the Beast in the neck, wounding it. Nearby hunting dogs then closed in and finished off the Beast.
Either way, there was definite human involvement, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Animals do not behead their prey. Period. Even if a wolf or wolf-dog wanted to do so in direct opposition of all instinct, it would lack the bite force to succeed. The Beast of the Gevaudan ignored livestock and specifically targeted human prey. It is held responsible for sixteen beheadings. Female victims were also sometimes discovered nude. All these things tell us that there was a human agent. It is noteworthy that no decapitations occurred while the Chastels were imprisoned. Consider that along with the Chastel family's behavior, the proximity of many of the attacks to their home, the fact that the Beast would also retreat into the woods nearby said home when given chase or when wounded, and the fact that Jean Chastel killed the Beast when no one else could...because it stood right in front of him subordinately, and we have our chief suspect.
I literally had to close pornhub for this.I hope its worth it
You can't nut this month
@@pleadthe5th989 I do not participate at stupid stuff
also i cant last that long
C'mon it's no nut November!
@@someguy9597 Whats with all thus no nut november i dont frickin care😂I'll nut whenever i want
You should definitely watch Brotherhood of the Wolf when you get a chance! -- while it includes a lot of Beast lore, the basic explanation ends up being an interesting variation of the 'social stress' theory, though I don't want to spoil it too far. Also there are some great action scenes.
My guess is that the "Beast" in reality was a pack of hyenas that escaped from some aristocrat's personal exotic zoo or something. The descriptions fits those of a hyena better without being hyperbolic, and the sharp increase in animal attacks at the time is likely because these hyenas were in the wild.
I agree. The bigger back legs description sounded like a hyena