me : this can't be that spooky. DK : it takes place in France. me : OH GOD, OH FUCK.

I am french and have lived in France all my life. I had to look up every single french words they tried to pronounce. 10/10 : a good podcast that makes you learn more about your country.

"The only thing worst than the horrors of 40k is real life" or something along those lines should be a Detective Ridiculous shirt.

Y’know how you can banish demons by speaking Latin? I think I could banish Bricky by speaking French

They didn't mention it, but there's a French movie from 2001 called Brotherhood of the wolf, that is based off of the beast of Gevuadon. The costume design of that movie also heavily inspired the costume design for Bloodborne!

Also, France has a history with wolves. In around 1300, there was a super pack of 300 wolves, led by the Wolf King, which terrorised Paris and the surroundings for 3 years. These wolves ate humans by preference, and it took a huge effort and ambush to finally defeat them.

The Beast of Gevaudan was France's Jacques the Ripper : - Escaped the authorities. - Scary but targetted the most vulnerable. - Some of their crimes attributed to them might be committed by other culprits. - Their reputation was greatly boosted by the contemporary newspapers. - Got adapted in comic books, novels and movies of varying qualities.

Tonite On Ridiculous Gear: Bricky embraces the Yiff And mutates Into The Beast Of Gévaudan, DK tries to hunt the Bricky-Beast hybrid by intensely following its toebean prints and Shy captures the forehead fiend by luring it with League Of Legend fanfiction

Fun fact about wolfdogs, Bricky. They're a lot more wolf than dog. In fact, they can be so physically similar to wolves that the differences are minimal and nearly unrecognizable. The dog part comes from the wolfdog's behaviour and domesticity when in captivity. Wolfdogs are also a lot more common in the wild than you'd think. Every black pelted wolf is a wolfdog or wolfdog descendent, because the genetic mutation that results in canids having black pelts first originated in dogs, then it got passed on to wolves through inter-breeding. So a person training wolfdogs to attack on command without people realising they're dealing with domesticized wolfdogs and not wild wolves is plausible, especially if we consider the fact that some wolfdogs, when bred with dogs that have different physical characteristics from wolves, can take on traits from both progenitors and look pretty wild. It could explain why the beast or beasts were considered "like a wolf, but not quite". It could have had any number of traits depending on what dog was used for breeding, including the reddish stripe on its back.

I only knew about this beforehand from the Powerwolf song, Beast of Gévaudan. The French version, Bête du Gévaudan, is pretty good, too

I love the monster videos so far. The cold cases were getting depressing but these are really fun.

A really cool point: a 2001 film was made based around this called 'Brotherhood of the Wolf'. The film itself was a Major inspiration for the clothing designs in Bloodborne!

Gonna guess that the actual kill count of the beast was much lower but because they were really panicked about it, they attributed basically every single instance of someone going missing or being attacked by a wild animal to the beast. There were other wolf attacks at the time, there were bears in the woods which might sometimes attack people and sometimes people would just go missing. When there was such a massive hysteria going on, I think odds are a lot of people in Gévaudan simply didn't consider all possible explanations for someone disappearing or dying in the woods and instead went "Sacre bleu, ze beast has struck again!"

A few extra fun things: 1. "A pikeman despatched from Normandy to join one of the hunting expeditions wrote to his patron in April 1765: ‘Snow, hail, thunderstorms, wind, wet feet ... I beg you, sir, if you have not already left for the Gévaudan yourself, forget about it. This is an abominable country, with terrible food." 2. Malnutrition before the harvest was a severe problem in the region, which would make tracking actual killings even harder, because death in general there was common. 3. Captain Duhamel used live children as bait for the wolf, so yeah, SUPER hated, and worthy of being led to a bog. 4. The famous wolf-hunter failed to kill even one wolf, which might explain why he ran away. 5. The boy who fought the wolf with his friends and got rewarded by the king became an artillery man, but I don't think he ever saw combat. His brother, who was the designated heir, might also have been a secret revolutionary, so Jacques Portefaix might have been one as well, though they apparently wanted a constitutional monarchy and not, you know...The Terror.

It's the Bretonnia with a Beastman outside experience

7 years of easy corpses to eat after the battles, could make a big wolf pack of man eaters.

As a huge Lion El'Jonson fan I'm so hyped for anything involving eerie, shadow-haunted forests and horrible monstrosities

Actually the theory that it was a trained wolf or wolf-hybrid trained by Jean Chastel makes a lot of sense if you think about it. Where did he get it? He was notably a hunter and a loner, it’s possible he discovered as a pup or it was crossbred with one of his own hunting dogs. Why did it target women and children? That is what it had been trained to do. Why couldn’t so many people find it out in the woods and in patrol? Because it lived in the town. Likely hidden by the owner somewhere. Why was it such a tank? Because it’s owner would nurse it back to health. Maybe after the first time it was wounded he made some “armor” for it. Why did the killings stop? Because he put down his own pet realizing it was the perfect chance to be the “hero” of the story. That is also why it didn’t charge him.

In the night no man can run From the beast of Gévaudan No escape from the fate of a martyr born in pain When all prayers said and done Tame the land of Gévaudan And the curse of the beast will remain!

It's funny that when wolves get a taste for human flesh they stop being interested in animals. Like when that bobtailed wolf literally seige down paris with a pack or the wolf war on the eastern front in ww1

A bit of info on wolf-dog hybrids, they can get very large, depending on the breed, and such hybrids can be susceptible to recessive disorders like gigantism. Combine that with the often hyperspecialized jaws we've bred in some breeds, and you could have a particularly gnarly creature. They also tend to be super aggressive, like most feral dogs. I'm thinking something like a Wolf-Mastiff hybrid, if that's what it could be.

I like how this was an april fools joke and it turned into a monthly extra and i love it

This taking place so soon after the Seven Year War leads me to believe that it is indeed a wolf-dog hybrid. Back then it was really common for farm dogs and other domesticated animals to escape into the wild during times of conflict and turn feral, and wild dogs are extremely vicious and aggressive.

There description of the beast almost perfectly matches the extinct species andrewsarchus, which is kinda neat!

So, in 2016, Jean-Claude Bourret, a journalist, laid down a hypothesis, that the beast would actually be a cross breed between a wolf and an old combat dog breed, descended from the roman legions of attack dogs, which were Mastiffs. Pact of Wolves, is a movie derived from the story btw. Fun movie too.

honestly if it’s not a bear or escaped big cat (both have gone on killing sprees), it does sound like a giant male razor back boar with a major grudge, has the smarts to back it up to

The events of the Beast of Gevaudan happened when the Marquis de Lafayette was 9 living with his grandmother and aunts in Auvergne, if I recall correctly (I will check for the sources again) an anecdote mentions that he was confined to his bedchambers for months because he declared to his relatives that he took the initiative to gather the local children so they could organize a hunting party to get the beast. Absolute foreshadowing of an absolute legendary man.

I do think the reason Powerwolf leaned so heavily into the more religious aspects of the tale is due to the fact that A LOT, of their music have religious undertones to begin with so that probably held some hand in that.

Had a dream last night that I was watching an adeptus ridiculous episode and Shy finally revealed her voice and she was British worst nightmare ever

18:56 - PowerWolf, writers of such songs as: 'Sanctified with Dynamite', 'Amen and Attack', 'Resurrection by Erection', 'Incense and Iron', 'Christ & Combat', and 'Warewolves of Armenia'

Drinking game: Take a shot every time DK says "beast of gevaudan"

I like when he said "The Beast of Gèvaudan"

From what I know about the beast, there were found human footsteps up close to the footsteps of the beast, and not far from Gevaudan lived French army veteran who was for a long time prisoner in ottoman empire ( and had psychological trauma from that) and from that time he also had a pat ( probebly a hyena).

I read that the slaying of the Beast is the origin of the idea of using silver against werewolves

Weirdly enough, that picture Shy posted (actually an Andrewsarchus, fucking terrifying ancient mammal) caused me to look around a bit online of prehistoric animals in France and based on all the descriptions of the beast being gigantic, elongated snout, and "horse like hooves", it all points to a prehistoric family of "Hell Pigs" called Entolodonts. Of course they went extinct like 20 MYA but they were large omnivorous animals that would have no issue taking down a person.

Maybe you guys could talk about the Man Eaters of Tsavo aka the one of the worst Lion attacks. There’s even a movie of the event called the Ghost and the Darkness.

*Powerwolf Intensifies*

I love the story of the beast of gevaudan. I think its probobly one of the earliest cases of cryptids in history.

If they do a bigfoot episode I want them to list every variant they can find; grassman, skunk ape, all of them.

As one of your French viewer I can tell you that no French will be mad at your pronunciation but we might laugh a bit 😋 out of love of course 🥰🤣🥹 I am very happy that you guys choose a French legend 😁

Geralt of Rivia: "Hi, I'm here to help. For some coins, of course."

if im not mistaken, a movie about this "beast" is the origin of the modern werewolf image as human wolf hybryd instead of a regular dude that can turn into a regular wolf.

You know, I was there with everyone else rolling their eyes when Bishop Gabriel called the Beast an act of God....but a 30000 strong manhunt couldn't track it down while it was still killing. It let one of its victims go when the children showed bravery and righteousness. Trackers couldn't track it in spite if how active it was. If not act of God, its sounding like it's got some sort of supernatural edge.

I’m french and this episode was awesome, my grandparents would told me this story when i was à kid and i was absolutly terrified at the time. Apparently the conspiracy theorie have pretty solid elements but yeah it’s still a mysteri at the end. Thanks dudes for this « madeleine de Proust » of an episode !

My dad always thought the beast was an Enteledon, AKA the Hellpig. His reasoning was "it looked like a wolf pig"

you guys should do a vid about "Kisaragi station" sometime, its a unique albite short Japanese urban legend about a girl named Hasumi who shared the story in 2chan about how she was in a train that ended up in an unknown station. the entire story is set up in 2chan and is basically Hasumi telling the events that happened during this strange occurence, which just gets stranger and stranger.

Oh cool, they made a cryptid out of the powerwolf song.

A wolf-dog hybrid would make a lot of sense, or potentially just an abnormally large feral dog. The thing about domestication is that it is a genetic quality. Mix that with something that isn't domesticated and/or take away the influence of selective breeding by humans and those domestic qualities fall away fast leaving you with a wild animal that isn't afraid of humans. An escaped menagerie animal would also help to explain its preference for attacking humans. Animals held in captivity can learn to associate humans with food and if it managed to escape might not know how to hunt for itself leading it to attack humans which its knows means food, once it figured out humans where easy prey, especially women and children, it probably won't have much reason to change tactics and kept preying on people.

I got the exploring series video on the brotherhood of the wolf, that one powerwolf song, and now this. The universe is telling me to run that beast of Gevaudan one shot I thought of 3 years ago

Third request to cover some of the Missing 411 in America’s national Parks. Alternatively, if y’all want more Cryptid stuff, I recommend The Battle of Ape Mountain for some Bigfoot stuff!

This is definately one of my favorite segments y'all do. Glad that there's some monster stories thrown in here too. Dk does a really good job presenting these! Keep up the awesome work!

*Powerwolf intensifies*

This brought back memories of "The Ghost and the Darkness". A movie about 2 lions that begin terrorizing workers trying to build a railway. I need to rewatch that now... Lol

DK explaining the concepts of warthogs and subsistence farming to bricky like a lore video was too funny

I don't know how but DK got me interested in cryptids

(Did conversions for Jacques' payment.) When you were talking about soldiers crossdressing, and just, "Yoo-hoo, I'm so delicious!" Made me think of Rhythm and Ambush (Part of Hands Up, should watch it). So I looked up some conversions, Jacques was given the rough equivalent of $115,000, his friends would have split roughly $99,000 between them. Probably especially given the time, I bet that kid had a pretty damned good life.

Is DK french? Cause the way hes pronoucing some French words is fucking amazing. Also Bricky if you want the french to go away just wave a german flag at them and they'll surrender

I love this story every time it's retold. I like to think the creature's motivations might have been driven by a very unique, rare or one-off mutation of the virus Toxoplasma Gondii. Or something akin to the nature of T-gondii. Certain predators find particular organs of particular species to be delicacies, and some of them will only eat the preferred organs. (Think orcas eating shark liver) ... add to that, most animals *don't* like eating humans. Their digestive tract isn't acclimated to it. A popular theory is that the beast became interested in human prey after scavenging corpses out of desperation. As for the species we'll never be able to confirm; an exotic/imported creature which grew up on a distantly foreign gut biome makes the most sense to me. The unfamiliar fauna of France might not have had an ecosystem that could properly support the beast's dietary needs, causing it to turn to more efficient prey/energy tradeoffs. And for my last add, a tiny simple theory, on the off-but-populad belief the beast was an escaped hyena... hyenas famously break and eat bones as a part of their diet. What if a hyena had devoured human teeth infused with dental filler? Dentistry of that time had no idea mercury fillings were highly toxic and could induce all kinds of psychological problems and even deterioration, and later, cancer. Such an un-picky hyena as this could have inadvertently swallowed toxic materials in human bones. It wasn't uncommon for surgeons to implant rudimentary metal 'devices' to help with broken bones and damaged muscles, so far as even adding hinges to the inside of an elbow or knee to prolong the usefulness of the limb. I love how open to theory this legend is.

I can't believe it took over an hour for Bricky to start throwing out ManBearPig theories.

BEAST OF GÉVAUDAN: I'm eat this woman Bulls: Are you sure about that

this was the story that inspired "the brotherhood of the wolf". great book, ok movie.

To be honest, I enjoy Bricky and DK on a monster hunt a lot more than I do listening to true crime stories.

I’m pretty sure I had heard it was a tiger. Some rich Frenchman got a tiger and it escaped and began hunting humans which tigers are known to do.

I think I remember this story. I watched Overly Sarcastic Productions' video about Werewolves and the origins of this monster trope

This was so good to listen to, I immediately came home and watched this again on yt

Me a paleontologist when the espisode starts: “man this sounds like an Andrewsarchus” 39:02 I AM NOT DISAPPOINTED

Great recounting of the story, love it.

There's a film called The Brotherhood of the Wolf that came out back 2001 that is based on this, I swear the Bloodborne Yharnam hunter gear design was Inspired by that film.

Oh, that there's an Eldenborne. I haven't watched any Detective Ridiculous yet, but I'm getting the feeling that I should check this one out...

To Bricky last point about hybrid Dog/Wolf I mean Ligers Tiger/Lion cross is larger then its 2 parents so potentially the right breed of dog with the right breed of wolf could make a Beast. But I think it's more likely a combination of a large wolf , human killers using it as cover and just plain old superstition. Everyone for years after from that area would have wanted to be part of the story. "Oh yea my friends daughter was killed" "oh once I even shot it." The real accounts from the fake would get mixed up or embellished in the retelling.

As a guy who loves cryptids these last two episodes have been great. I would love for yall to go to WV to see mothman! I am currently planning a trip to see it.

There was a really good movie about the hunt for the Beast that came out in 2001 called Brotherhood of the Wolf! It had more of a fantastical/conspiracy angle to it, but also Monica Bellucci! The action scenes were amazing as well! Definitely recommend! Also, Powerwolf rocks! Beast of Gévaudan was actually the alarm music on my phone for most of the summer! 🤘

Just a point about the "500 people killed" statistic for the Beast. The Wikipedia articles source for that claim comes from a PDF called "The Fear of Wolves: A Review of Wolf Attacks on Humans" by the Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning, that was deleted on December 7th 2022 (19 days ago) and now needs to be viewed on the Wayback Machine. The section on the Beast of Gevaudan, is a whole three paragraphs long and only says there were 210 attacks with 49 wounded and 113 killed according to a guy called "de Beaufort" from 1987.

I clicked on this thinking that I've never heard of such a monster. However, half way through the vid, the story started to sound really familiar. So I looked it up, turns out I saw an old horror movie about this thing. Brotherhood of the Wolf. Man I barely remember that movie and now I'm shocked at how it was based on a true story! Great vid guys! Thanks for another awesome detective ridiculous!

Heard the word wolf so many times that I thought this was the episode on Russ

Man Fenrir got so lost he found france.

Dude I loved this episode. 10/10 adric crew

Looking at the current trend of animals in DR, I can't wait for the episode on the Ghost and the Darkness

As a french, you did better at the name than other trust me DK 😂 Great episode like always, your videos are amazing and I'm looking forward for the next one !

Damn that's a good story,got me scared of a BIG Beast at the other side of the world. I think it was a weird hybrid, that was really tough and lucky to not get killed....till it wasn't

I like this cryptid, because it specifically terrorized the French.

43:06 IT'S SO FLUFFY, I'M GONNA DIE! (Stares directly into the camera) Separate statements.

Have you guys ever heard about the Hoia Baciu forest from Romania? It is considered to be the most haunted forest on Earth and has about a hundred things about it that make it a scene out of a nightmare. I really liked this videos and you will find no shortages of mysteries about this place that, as far as many seem to belive, is the closest thing we have to wh40k Warp in the real world. Hope you guys will cover this topic on a future Detective Ridiculous video. Love to you guys from Romania.

There is a really good movie called "Le Pacte des loups" that gives a pretty good explanation for it.

Amazing episode holy hell

Seeing them talk down Dragoons kinda hurts as an Age of Empires III fan

First time listening to Detective Ridiculous, good episode. Only reason I research the Beast of Gévaudan was because i watched the movie The Cursed, which has references to The Beast but the Time frame for the movie is so wild. Like it doesn’t know what time period it’s taking place in

These DR vids are so good, I wish DK would make this a 2-3 times a month event.

Wolves are usually 30-60 pounds in my area. If it's about 3 1/2-4ft at that weight; 100 lbs is about right, for a 6ft wolf.

I will say some of these images are of Andrewsarcus which is a mystery in itself as we only have a Single specimen which is the top part of the skull

If I were to solve this case, I'd conclude the beasts of gevaudan was most likely a mixed dog breed between a red mastiff and a wolf that Jean Chastel had trained to kill. It's only when he and his son were imprisoned by two of Jean François gamekeepers that the grisly murders ended.

The French and wolves go way back. Earlier during the late middle ages, there were times when wolves literally laid siege to Paris. Like being eaten by a band of wolves roaming the streets was a legitimate concern. The leader of the wolf pack was actually named and he was defeated by the city's defenders. They literally fought a battle with the wolves, and even after still had to actively defend the city from encroaching packs of roving canines. England was devoid of this problem because they exterminated their wolf population, and the Germanic states were presumably too well-armed for this to really be a terrible issue there, or perhaps it simply wasn't as well-documented, but the French seemed to get it worst. But it doesn't stop there; during several engagements on the Eastern Front of the Great War, this problem grew so bad that the Tsar's and Kaiser's troops actually teamed up specifically to kill the wolves plaguing both sides' armies. Wolves have been pushed back from civilization for very good reason, but they haven't been nearly as much of a problem in the age of modern firearms. Still, their ambush tactics can be deadly if they get you alone out in the wild. Edit: tremendous fucking Powerwolf song btw. Truly a podcast of culture.

That’s Yuki, he’s 87% wolf, and according to his apparent mom will totally harm you given proper circumstances

My brain at the end: what if it’s a wolf human hybrid!! O.O Also my brain: ah, that’s a werewolf 😑

You guys should do an episode on the raven guard chapter

More Detective Ridiculous! Yes!

Given how often the beast was referred to as having a hog like face, and the shear size of it. My guess is it was actually a wild boar with something against humans. Wild Boar can grow to crazy sizes if they can continue to get enough to feed themselves they practically dont stop. There have been boars weighted at over 3000 pounds. Boars are also extremely smart wildly territorial and will eat just about anything. They also dont really seem to care about getting hurt, there is a reason boar hunting was only really done by nobility back in medieval times. If you didnt have a small army at your back its gonna fucking kill you. Hell even with a bunch of knights, if the little piggy doesnt get one shot itll take as many people, horses camping supplies ect to hell with it before it dies. There is a reason gannon from legend of zelda is traditionally a boar demon. Wild Boars are gonna do what they want and there would be nothing a bunch of peasant farmers would be able to do.

I think it was a Thylacane. The description of it matches us.

Interestingly some of the drawings showing the snout and the fact one of the early descriptions indicated it had hooved hind legs made me think of something I had seen on one of those discovery paleontology documentaries if you do an image search for Andrewsarchus Mongolensis its strikingly similar to some of the drawings

There is a story about a tiger that was attacking people exclusively in India and they had to hunt it down and kill it. The hunter that killed it noted it had extreme tooth injuries and humans were likely the only prey it could easily kill. This pretty sounds similar to that. Perhaps whatever it was, it may have had an injury that made it resort to exclusively attacking humans and focus on eating softer meat like the neck. And if it was large it would have to eat frequently.