Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "What was the Beast of Gévaudan?" video.

  1. Thank you for covering this story, and for uncovering yet more of its associated drawings/engravings/coloured lithographs, some of which I still had to see! :) However, respectfully, I would like to point out that you have got some aspects of the story garbled. It is one I have read many accounts of for many years, in both books and on the internet. I think that Bedtime Stories does one of the best and most detailed retellings on YouTube. Well, for example: you said the first guy, the King's marksman, shot a large wolf. Yes, he did: and he gave instructions for it to be stuffed and transported to the King, while he went and shot its mate and at least one of its cubs. Looks like they got rid of quite a few wolves which may, indeed, have been bothering the area, hence the multiple attacks. Some of which were fended off by the likes of the kid Jacques Portefaix and his friends with pikes, which you do not mention But with regard to the hybrid theory: once they got the corpse, or at least the skin (and head/skull?) Back to Paris, some expert noted that it had double sets of dewclaws, which apparently is a sign of canine interbreeding. And the other beast, the one which was shot almost 2 years later by Jean Chastel (most sources say that either a silver(ed) bullet or one blessed at a shrine was used). Well, the skin of that was preserved as well, and kept at the local noble's chateau, where apparently it was examined by all sorts of surgeons and doctors. Pity none of them thought to do some naturalists' drawings! 😏 But apparently some of them thought it was a hyena. And the preserved remains were destroyed years later in a fire, something like that. So nothing remains but the engravings which were based on accounts, probably drawn years later. I have never believed any of the so-called "rational theories": they are garbage. Serial killers training dogs - C'MON!! 🙄🙄🙄 La Bête looked nothing like a mastiff, Chastel's or anyone elses. Mastiffs don't have wolflike faces and pointed snouts. The only thing they had in common was that the mastiff you showed was red, and the Beast was said to be russet coloured - *with a paler underside*. Hence, no doubt, the rumours! 😏 Wasn't a lion, either, sub adult or not. Lions have short faces, not long snouts. Come on - are we disregarding the testimonies of so many eyewitnesses, in order to make what they saw , conform to what we think it should be?? 18th c peasants on the whole had a better knowledge of animals, and spent more time watching animals, than we do. They would have known what a lion is, because it is a heraldic beast!! It looked to them more like a wolf than anything else, ergo it was no lion. Trust the dozens of witnesses! *It was a cryptid. An unknown animal. * Need I really underline that more?? It looked so weird, that if we decline supernatural explanations like "werewolf", it must have been something like a prehistoric beast, a very rare Ice Age survival I did a bit of Googling earlier, for "hoofed carnivores" (for some witnesses said it had hooves or very strange feet) and I came up with a variety of things there... Can't post them bcos YouTube at the moment has the habit of deleting posts with external links, but I thought the prehistoric Mesonychid Andrewsarchus, or something like that, was a pretty good fit! Had that black stripe down the back and paler underside, too: long narrow toothy snout, right kind of broad and formidable build. Take a look for yourselves!
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