the werewolf is one of the most iconic
and terrifying of all myths and legends
and while many are safe in the belief
but they are just a fantasy there are
documented cases of real-life werewolves
in fact there is even a medical term for
it clinical lycanthropy if it sounds
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Giles ganya Giles ganya lived a secluded
forest life in 15th century France one
day he fell in love with a woman from
the nearby village of Dole and she
joined him in his forest abode
however Giles found his new life
challenging as he had always lived off
the land and fended for himself
providing for his new wife was not
something he was used to it wasn't long
before children began to go missing from
the nearby village each night a new set
of parents would wake up to find the
child's bed empty and one morning the
mutilated remains of a ten-year-old boy
were found in the woods at first the
authorities believed they were dealing
with some kind of ferocious animal but
then during a combing of the forest the
search party came across a gruesome
scene a dead child crouching over the
body was at first thought to be a wolf
but torchlight revealed it was Giles
after being arrested
Giles confessed to the killings stating
he had abducted four children to feed
himself and his wife he claimed that one
night while hunting he was approached by
what he thought was the devil who gave
him an ointment that would allow him to
transform into a wolf and that's when
the killings began
whatever Charles's motivations his
crimes were all too real and he was
burned at the stake in 1873 Manuel
Blanco Romasanta born in 18th century
Spain Manuel Blanco Romasanta had a very
strange upbringing he was raised a girl
up until the age of six which is
believed to have led to a number of
issues with his mental health and sense
of self Manuel grew up to live a life of
further misfortune his wife died at a
young age and this prompted him to
become a traveling salesman he struggled
to make a living and when he found
himself at the mercy of debt collectors
he fled to Portugal to start a new life
as a guide navigating people through the
treacherous mountain passes
although suspicion soon fell on him when
several women and children he had been
guiding mysteriously vanished an
investigation found that Manuel had in
fact murdered five people including a
twelve-year-old girl in order to sell
their belongings and even more
disturbingly to sell soaps he had made
of their fat during his trial Manuel
stated he was afflicted with lycanthropy
believing he had committed the murders
while in his wolf form he was sentenced
to life imprisonment and has gone down
in history as Spain's first recorded
serial killer Jeanne Grenier during the
spring of 1603 the farming villages of
Gascony France were under siege children
were mysteriously vanishing sometimes
when they were accompanied by friends
and even in one case a baby was snatched
from his cradle and never seen again
then one night 13 year old margarita
patia came home covered in blood her
wounds were so savage her family thought
she'd been mauled by a wolf after coming
down Marguerite assured them that her
attacker had been a boy of around her
age who would come bounding from the
forest like an animal to attack her but
she managed to fend him off with a stick
before he could kill her
just days after this incident 14 year
old Jean Grenier confessed to his town
that he was in fact the one behind the
carnage Jean was immediately arrested
and he told the jury that he had been
given a wolf pound and when every
warrant he suddenly felt the urge to
hunt and prey upon children Jean was
ruled to be insane
and was locked up for life at the friary
a gentle feint for someone who had
committed such heinous crimes and caused
mass terror in the farming villages of
Cass knie Peter Suber
Peter Suber was born in the 15th century
in the quiet farming community of
Rhineland and Germany at the time nobody
could have predicted but he'd become
known as the werewolf of bed Berg from
1564 to 1589 Peter claimed 18 victims
all women and children whom he horribly
mutilated with his own bare hands and
teeth in some cases he partially ate his
victims raw he would also kill livestock
in the same manner when he was
eventually captured by the authorities
he was tortured into confession and told
his captives that he had practiced black
magic from a very young age and that the
devil himself had given him a bound
which allowed him to transform into his
words a greedy devouring wolf
Peter was publicly executed in an
exceedingly brutal fashion his flesh was
first peeled from his body with redhot
pincers all of his bones were then
broken with an axe handle and finally he
was beheaded as a warning to any other
potential werewolves Peter's hand was
engraved with a wolf sign and placed on
a post
the Beast of Gevaudan unlike the other
entries in this list the case of the
Beast of Gevaudan
is unique in werewolf history because it
does not Center on a serial killer with
delusions of being a monster the culprit
in this case really was a beast an
unknown creature that committed more
carnage than any of the previously
mentioned werewolves combined the story
begins one night in 1764 within the
French farming village of Javad on a
girl tending to her family's cattle saw
a horrifying creature walk out to the
forest towards her
luckily the cattle charged the Beast
keeping it at bay the animal went on to
rip through the region killing men women
and children tearing people to pieces
and in one case tearing a girl's head
clean off in one bite not only did the
Beast not act like any animal the
villagers hadn't came to perform but it
also looked completely different to
those who managed to escape with their
lives described the Beast as looking
like a wolf but being the size of a
carol with thick red fur and massive
fangs the beasts killing spree became so
severe that eventually King Louie the
15th sent professional wolf hunters to
end the nightmare
though many wolves were killed in the
hunt the Beast itself eluded capture
leading one of Francine's most prominent
wolf hunters to state to the king this
beast is no wolf in the two years since
it had emerged the beasts had killed 113
people and injured 30 more until one day
it was finally shot by a local hunter
straight through the heart with a silver
bullet however the story only gets
stranger no definitive answers have been
brought forward on what the Beast truly
wants there are two conflicting theories
as to what happened to its body the
first says that villagers burned it and
the second that it was stuffed and put
on display in a museum but due to its
vile stench it was thrown out there are
many theories about what the Beast wants
and unsurprisingly some consider it to
be a historical documentation of a
real-life well
what do you think so that's five
terrifying tales of real-life werewolves
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