Other Canine · Lozère, France métropolitaine
FRA-NDID case-a69c5ad64bAdded to map Oct 24, 2026
- Creature
- Other Canine
- When
- Date unknownno date given
- Where
- Lozère, France métropolitaineto county level
- Reports
- 1 document1 independent
The account
The Beast of Gévaudan was described as wolf-like, cow-sized, with reddish hair, a greyhound-shaped head, and large fangs.
See the source ↓ one document so far, so there is no trail to follow yet
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Details
- Creature
- Other Canine
- Where
- Lozère, Occitanie, France métropolitaine, France
mapped to county level · from the report's own words, generalized to a larger area - When
- Date unknown
- Account
- Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
- Backed by
- 1 independent source
- Added to map
- Oct 24, 2026
- Case id
- case-a69c5ad64b
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Source trail (1)
Every link goes to where we found the account. The earliest we found is marked; it is the earliest found, not necessarily the original.
- ancient knowlege of the saquatch/dog men phenomena and statistical comparison between india and france in historical wolf attacks part 1
Reddit · 2017-10-29
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.
Further reading
- On the Track of Unknown Animals, Bernard Heuvelmans (1959)
The founding work of cryptozoology.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Cryptozoology A to Z, Loren Coleman and Jerome Clark (1999)
Encyclopedia of reported creatures.
Borrow on Internet Archive - Abominable Science!, Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (2013)
Skeptical history of the Yeti, Nessie and others.
Borrow on Internet Archive - In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, Karl Shuker (1995)
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