Wow, I didn't know that movie was based on anything historical, fact or fiction. Thanks for the post, and welcome

Call this far fetched but here's a thought:
What if the beast was the offspring of a normal big wolf and a werewolf? It could happen.

Originally posted by ShadowedRedemption
Call this far fetched but here's a thought:
What if the beast was the offspring of a normal big wolf and a werewolf? It could happen.

Have you seen this movie Brotherhood of the Wolf?

There it shows one version, what could this Beast of Gevaudan be - it was not a Wolf at all, but a Lion, covered with some kind of "armour" - and this Lion was a pet to someone in the Brotherhoood, and not a lone killer.

Well - Maybe...

The beast killed indiscriminatly for many years with only one person claiming to have wounded it.
Werewolf, i dont think...nor hybrid wolf-werewolf.
Maybe a big cat loose in the area...something escaped from a travelling zoo perhaps.

The beast killed indiscriminatly for many years with only one person claiming to have wounded it.
Werewolf, i dont think...nor hybrid wolf-werewolf.
Maybe a big cat loose in the area...something escaped from a travelling zoo perhaps.

Arcanum919

Great Find!



But, in the records of cryptozoology, there are indications that perhaps all land mesonychids did not become extinct. Things that sound like they might be hoofed predators are reported from places such as South America, where there is a beast called the tapire-iauara. The horned cats reported from islands near Java could be mesonychid predators. That region of the world is where many of the world's new animals are discovered, and islands are often known to preserve living fossils. In contrast to this, Europe is that last place we would expect to see a surviving mesonychid, but a strange hoofed predator was the object of an extended scare in France, this creature was dubbed the Beast of Gevaudan and was thought to be a strange sort of werewolf in local folklore.

If u look at the picture of the Mesonychid and u compare it with the drawings of the beast from france, they look really simarliar. The mesonychid has the large snout short and sharp ears the large cow like size,large paws and those distinctive coat linings. They seem similar but highly unlikely it was the mesonychid. It was definately a large wolf or wolf dog hybrid.

Originally posted by east
If u look at the picture of the Mesonychid and u compare it with the drawings of the beast from france, they look really simarliar. The mesonychid has the large snout short and sharp ears the large cow like size,large paws and those distinctive coat linings. They seem similar but highly unlikely it was the mesonychid. It was definately a large wolf or wolf dog hybrid.

Right, the depictions are very similar but realistically the idea doesn't make a whole lot of sense. The other sightings of these creaters in contemporary times have been reportedly limited to large, dense, and unexplored tropical regions such as the Amazon and parts of Southern Africa. I suppose the possibility would remain though that someone brought it back with them to France. Of course then this creature would have had to escaped and travelled well inland and then decided to hang out in this particular region.

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Jamiehall
Way to be on the ball. Welcome to ATS. I hope this wasn't your first visit, if it was, I hope you come back under more pleasant circumstances.

Souljah
Bad form.

Edit: As far as the beast is concerned, my money's on escaped lion.


[edit on 12-6-2005 by WyrdeOne]

Originally posted by WyrdeOne
Souljah
Bad form.

Bad Form?



I dont get it...

Didn't descriptions and old renderings show the wolf to have an abnormally long tail?
I know rumour and superstition was rife then, I believe that due to this creature's cunning and guile, french villagers thought that it must be demonic.
If memory serves me, the animal's head was all wrong too! It may have been a cruel and sad mishapen trick of nature.

It looks a bit like the apparant jersy devil. Correct me if i'm wrong but it looks like a relative of it. Its really intresting. Nice post!



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It's not the Jersey Devil.

Lok at this realistically.

If it's the size of a cow,a wolf or dog is out of the picture.
It's not a panther, they arent near the size of a cow.
I've raised cows, and god knows every other farm animal, and some non farm animals for 11 years, and I've never seen any animals the size of a cow that match those descriptions...except

Lion, ok, possible, def huge, as long as a cow, not as tall.
Werewolf..ok if they exsist, they would be, from all lore, 8-9ft tall, so a beast that size is every bit the size of a lion, or tiger.
Hyena, not as big as a lion, length wise, but close height wise, and theyre stocky little #ers, and they match the description, but there are no Hyenas in the UK.

So my bet, is on one of those 3.

I heard about the beast on an episode of Animal X on Animal Planet a couple of weeks ago. They said it was a wolf/dog mix trained to kill.

Originally posted by IronMan
Didn't descriptions and old renderings show the wolf to have an abnormally long tail?

Could be a cheetah hybrid then, they have pretty long tails compared to all other animals.

Originally posted by Webmonkey336
I heard about the beast on an episode of Animal X on Animal Planet a couple of weeks ago. They said it was a wolf/dog mix trained to kill.

Dont think its a dog mix, dogs dont get anywhere that big! Only cat animals tend to be that big.. Otherwise its a whole other animal were dealing with.

Maybe its just a huge wolf just like there are huge people then there are huge wolf.

Does it go with packs or is it a loner?