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| Subject: | | Re: History CH "The real Wolfman" |
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AustraliaMegalania
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Sun, Nov 1 2009, 11:23pm
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i find it interesting that whatever this animal was, it seemed as though it was only interested in attacking humans, as some reports claim the victim was in a field with sheep/cows, and yet only the person was harmed. this heavily supports the idea that somebody trained an animal to attack people.
another interesting thing was that at the time nobody could identify the animal, only that it was large and had "lupine features" with immense tails. hardly what you'd expect to hear about hyenas.
In some articles avaliable about this subject is that there were similar attacks four decades apart, Four decades after the Gévaudan attacks, more attacks occurred between 1809 and 1813 in Vivarais, when at least 21 children and adolescents were killed by another beast. From 1875 to 1879, more attacks occurred in L'Indre. All these killings, including the Gévaudan attacks, seem to have occurred mostly in four year periods. Attacks by wolf-like creatures continued to be reported in France up until 1954. |
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| Subject: | | Re: History CH "The real Wolfman" |
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KodiakKeith
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Mon, Nov 2 2009, 1:41am
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Wolves develop patterns. There is a pack of wolves in central Alaska that specializes in Dall Sheep of all things. If an injured or crippled wolf took down a woman or child and found it easy, it might very well continue doing that and form a pattern. If it was a female, it might train cubs to do the same.
In fact, if you think about it, it's a very wolfy pattern to take the weaker members of whatever species it's hunting. It shouldn't surprise us that this animal specifically hunted women and children, the smallest of our species. |
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| Subject: | | Re: History CH "The real Wolfman" |
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MJLehde
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Mon, Nov 2 2009, 8:01am
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AM, now this is interesting and something that I confess that I had not heard before. These other outbreaks you write of, was any "beast" killed to end these sprees and if so what sort of animal was it thought to be? If this has gone on till 1954 in a 40 year cycle I wonder how we made it through the 1990s without any new reports. I don't mean to sound sarcastic when I say that but these stories, werewolf or the like, do seem to often have a cycle to them. The Michigan Dogman is said to be more visible in either the seventh year of the decade or every seven years depending on who tells the tale. People being people and always looking to turn a buck,,,or Franc,,, or Euro as the case may be, I am surprised that it didn't become a bizzare tourist draw in France during the 1990s. |
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| Subject: | | Re: History CH "The real Wolfman" |
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Gerry Bacon
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Mon, Nov 2 2009, 7:54pm
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Interesting. My first thought is, were there any wars, famines or diseases rampant at that time. If there were many human deaths, enough so that not all of them received proper and prompt burial, those corpses may have been scavenged by wolves leading some to actively choose to prey on humans.
As for a four year killing span, what would be the life span of a wild wolf? If we assume a young male may have struck out on its own when a year or two old, would a four year career as a man eater for a lone wolf be too short a life span?
I'm just speculating, since I don't know the answers. |
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