Chapter 47

Sometimes, around the year 1764, a horrible creature was devouring French citizens, yet the mystery of this ravenous animal has never been solved. 

The man-eater that appeared like a wolf picked the province of Gévaudan (now the department of Lozère) as its hunting ground, with more than a hundred deaths attributed to the Beast of Gévaudan. 

Some people speculate it was a monstrously large wolf, Kanima, wild dog; some a werewolf, some even concluded that it's a lost hyena. 

Nevertheless, its end is attributed to a shot by Jean Chastel, who is honoured with a monument in La Besseyre-Saint-Mary, while a young woman who wounded it in a showdown gets an even more dramatic statue in Auvers.

The Museum of the Beast of Gévaudan (Musée fantastique de la Bête du Gévaudan) in Saugus, located not far from the base of the town’s iconic Tour des Anglais, takes you through twenty-two dioramas over four floors that aim to immerse you in the terror and