Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.
Between 1764 and 1767, something killed roughly a hundred people in the Margeride mountains of south-central France, mostly women and children tending stock, in attacks so ferocious the king sent professional hunters and dragoons. Contemporary accounts describe a wolf-like animal larger than any wolf. It was finally shot in 1767 and the killings stopped. What it actually was, an unusually bold wolf or wolves, a wolf-dog, something escaped from a menagerie, is still argued by historians. The deaths were entirely real and well documented; the nature of the beast is the mystery.
The Gévaudan, Lozère (Occitanie, France). Source: A real, documented 1760s killing spree; the animal never identified. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.
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