"How An Ancient Volcano Helped A Man-Eating Wolf Terrorize 18th Century France" by D. "Sherlock Holmes and the Beast of Gevaudan" by C. "The Marin Report - Minutes written by Master Etienne Marin, Royal Notary of Langeac", by E. Taake for National Geographic Newsroom, 2016 "Solving the Mystery of the 18th-Century Killer “Beast of Gévaudan”" by K-H. "The Beast of Gevaudan: Hunting the Monster of 18th Century France", by M-M. "The Real Story of the Beast of Gévaudan", by A. "How The Beast Of Gévaudan Turned The Idyllic French Countryside Into A Place Of Unprecedented Slaughter", by K.Fraga for All That's Interesting, 2021 "When the Beast of Gévaudan Terrorized France" by L. On this episode, we're talking wolves, dogs, and wolf-dogs, along with hyenas, lions, politics, hunting, King Louis XV, and religious fervor in pre-Revolution France. With an estimated victim count of at least 60, mostly small children, the Beast of Gévaudan was certainly real but what exactly was it? Appearing suddenly out of the rocky, forested hills of Gévaudan province, it would seize a victim and disappear, leaving only blood and mangled bodies behind. In the late 1760s, rural France was terrorized by a beast. "What to Know About the Gardner Museum Heist", by N. "Milton art thief Myles Connor steals scenes in Netflix doc on Gardner museum heist", by D. "25 Years After Gardner Museum Heist, Video Raises Questions" by T. Smith for Boston Women’s Heritage Trail, n.d. "About Isabella and her Museum", staff writer for ISGM, n.d. "This Is a Robbery: The World's Greatest Art Heist", Netflix documentary, 2021 In the thirty-odd years since the theft, not one piece has been recovered, despite a $10 million reward. By dawn the next morning, the thieves and the art had vanished, and clues were few and far between. Patrick's Day weekend in 1990, two thieves disguised as police officers broke into Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole 13 works of art, ranging from a Vermeer masterpiece to a decorative eagle. "A Cultural Leap at the Dawn of Humanity" by E. "Tsavo Lions: Were bad teeth to blame for these man-eaters’ taste for humans?" Staff writer for the Field Museum blog, 2018 "The Man Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures" by J. Patterson (who narrowly escaped being eaten himself). We'll get into how they behaved, attacked, escaped, and were ultimately hunted down by the project's construction manager, J. On this episode, we're discussing those lions, aka The Tsavo Man-Eaters, aka The Ghost and The Darkness. There, two of the local lions - both oversized, fearless, and very smart - spent nine months terrorizing the labor camps with nighttime attacks, killing between 35 and 135 laborers and injuring dozens more. In 1898, an ambitious railway project intended to connect Kenya and Uganda to the coast ran into trouble when construction hit the Tsavo River valley in Kenya. Victorian baby killer Amelia Dyer evidence found in loft (BBC) "Baby Farming" – a tragedy of Victorian timesĪmelia Dyer: The Victorian nurse who strangled babies by Sarah Lee Minutes of Evidence Taken Before The Select Committee on Infant Life Protection Billīaby Farming (The Adoption History Project) Regulating sexual behaviour: the 19th century (UK Parliament) The Baby Farmer (Thames Valley Police Museum) It's a horrifying look at a system wherein lack of protection under the law, lack of body autonomy, and lack of option led to inhuman decisions and massive human suffering.
In reality, it was a way for people to make a lot of money, providing they didn't mind killing infants. The practice of "baby farming" - on paper - looks almost like a direct ancestor to adoption agencies or foster care. When there's money to be made, there will always be people who will go too far to make it. Please skip this episode if you'd like to avoid hearing about that subject. Content Warning: In this episode, we talk about the deliberate murder of infants for profit.