  
Beast Of Gevaudan
Location of Sightings:
Gevaudan (Lozere) - France
Earliest - Latest Reported Sighting:
1764 - 1767
Description:
This creature was reported being as big as a large calf or
young cow, it was covered with a fur that was reddish,
the head was big and wolf-like, and more brown than the
rest of the body, the jaws are always gaping, the ears are
short and straight, the chest white and very broad, the tail
very long and thick, the tip white, the back paws very big
and long, according to some having hooves like a horse,
those of the front were shorter and covered with a long fur,
having six claws to each paw.
Once when the creature was sighted crossing a river, it
raised itself on its hind legs and waded over like a human
being. Furthermore it was very agile and extremely strong.
It was sometimes sighted in locations very far apart on the
same day. When hunting it crawled almost with its belly to
the ground. One shepherd claimed it could stand up on its
rear legs and was strong enough to lift a fullgrown sheep
with its arms. Dogs fled in terror from it as most other
animals.
One odd fact worth noting, is that some measurements
of distances between footprints showed the creature
could make leaps of over 28 feet on level ground, when
running.
Odors described during or right after
encounters with this creature:
None reported
Sounds - Speech:
Often made a sound more like a horse neighing than a
wolf howling. Growls - Howls like those of a mean dog,
or one in pain or distress.
Interesting Sighting Details:
There were two mysterious cases reported during the times
of the creatures attacks. Three women were going to church
near the wood of Favart, when a dark man offered to escort
them through the woods. They refused and before leaving
he touched one of them with a fur-covered hand. Soldiers
arriving on the scene just after the incident warned the
terrified women not to go into the woods, because the
creature had just been seen there.
Two women of Escures also on the way to church had a
similar experience in an area where, unknown to them, the
creature had just been seen by several people. This time
they saw that the man accosting them was covered in fur
only when his shirt blew open in the wind. It was said at the
time the creature was called an instrument of the Devil, and
besides killing, was trying to stop people from going to Mass.
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Webmasters Comments About This Case:
One can certanily see the spirtual connection to the beast
if we are to believe the stories of the meetings that occurred
between the women and the strange man, who had fur
covering him. Since spirtual creatures can assume any form,
it would of been nothing to change from the wolf-life beast
into the form of something humans would of not found so
scary, only to change back into the beast once inside the dark
woods.
One reason the creature would of done this is the following.
I have read numerous times when there has been a ghost,
demon or other spirtual attack and even a visualization. The
creatures draw energy off their victims or those near them.
The women would of became frightened easily once inside the
dark woods, espicaly when they would of noticed the man was
covered with fur, etc. Once they became scared and released
their psychic energy given off in fear. The creature would of
gotten some badly needed energy, to change and keep it's
varied forms more easily.
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