In all cryptozoology, the Beast of Gevaudan stands in its own class, because it is so well documented.  As Brockis states,

 

Compared with other monster mysteries she was unique, leaving graves, witnessed parish records, and archives of official documents, many of them included in this book, proving her real and guilty beyond doubt.[1] 

 

     The beast terrorized the French countryside from 1764 to 1767.  Pourcher published numerous unfiltered firsthand accounts, which testify convincingly to the beast’s real existence and strange characteristics.

     Based on these firsthand accounts, we know today that the beast resembled a mesonychid, that is, a prehistoric predator known from 60 million year old fossils.  The mesonychids of the fossil record were ungulates, which means they had the beginnings of hooves to supplement their toes.  As such, they were related to horses, cows, sheep, etc.  However, unlike most ungulates, the mesonychids ate meat.  They were also sexually dimorphic, meaning that one gender was larger than the other.[2] 

     Much about the Beast of Gevaudan was consistent with these and other mesonychid features.  The beast apparently had hooves.[3]  Sometimes a smaller individual of the same type was seen alongside the beast, acting as her companion,[4] which suggests sexual dimorphism.  She could run by leaping 28 feet in one jump, a feature of artiodactylid ungulates such as deer and antelope, but less common among modern carnivores.  When it had the choice, it preferred eating humans over sheep and cows,[5] perhaps because it was averse toward eating its own ungulate kin.  Carnivorous animals generally do not eat species of close kin.  The fact that she avoided cattle suggests she was related to cattle.  The mesonychids led solitary lives.  So did the beast.  The mesonychids superficially looked like wolves.  So did the beast.  Even the beast's great size supports that she was a mesonychid, for the largest meat-eating mammals of all time were mesonychids.[6]

     The beast killed on days sacred to the occult – on the witch sabats of Mabon (Sep 21), Yule (Dec 21), and Litha (Jun 21); and its last kill was on the 18^th of June – 18 being 6+6+6, or 666, June being the 6^th month.[7]  She also had 6 toes on each foot,[8] and in this, she resembled certain giant monsters of the Bible,[9] as well as some of the earliest legged vertebrates from Devonian fossil beds.  She angrily spat blood at people and cows that opposed her.[10]  Some even thought that she was a spirit or demon, because musket balls reportedly failed to penetrate her.  But many accounts clearly record that she was shot and stabbed multiple times, that she bled, and that she yelped in pain, but always ran away and recovered.[11]

     Although the beast resembled a wolf, she was quite a bit larger.  She was much too cowardly to be a lion or tiger.[12]  Some even thought she was a monkey, because she was somewhat bipedal, like an ape.  She usually walked on all fours, but occasionally walked on two feet, when crossing a river or rearing up for an attack.  She also batted with her paws like a monkey.[13] 

     Others thought she was a hyena, and this remains the most likely of all natural explanations.  However, certain key differences make this problematic.  Hyenas laugh.  The beast grunted like a dog wanting to bark.[14]  Hyenas are not very sexually dimorphic.  The beast might have been.  Hyenas live in large packs.  The beast was always solitary, or with just one companion.  Hyenas are pursuit predators.  The beast was an ambush predator.[15]  Hyenas grow no larger than 190 pounds.  The beast was the size of a calf or donkey.[16]  Hyenas can keep their mouths closed.  The beast's jaw was always gaping.[17]  Hyenas are proportionately tall for their length.  The beast was long but low to the ground, being the height of a wolf but much longer.[18]  Hyenas cannot jump.  The beast could jump over walls and make leaps of 28 feet.[19]  Hyenas have mid-sized scrawny tails.  The beast’s tail was very long and extremely thick.[20]  Hyenas' front legs are much longer than their hind legs.  The beast was the opposite, her hind legs being longer than her front legs.[21]  Though the beast did have a long black stripe down its back,[22] this does not make her similar to a striped hyena, as striped hyenas have multiple stripes, and they are vertical from the back to the stomach; in contrast, the beast had a single horizontal stripe along the length of her back.  Also, female hyenas have a very large clitoris – as big as a penis.  The clitoris is so large that it makes female hyenas look like males.  Yet the beast was always described as a she.  Moreover, a multitude of testimonies from the time of the attacks consistently and repeatedly reported that the beast did not eat the entire carcass of its prey, but only ate the chest cavity, the blood, parts of the head, and sometimes muscle tissue.[23]  This is in stark contrast to hyenas, which eat the whole carcass, even the bones, hooves, teeth, and other parts that other carnivores pass over. 

          The Beast of Gevaudan was real and unlike any animal alive today.  It was either a resurrected mesonychid or a frankenstein monster.  No natural explanation is satisfactory.  Did space aliens bring the mesonychids back to life, as they apparently did other species?

Read more about the evidence for intelligent life before humans.

The creationist narrative in Genesis 1 is contradicted by many ancient Christian texts.  Instead of an Almighty Creator God, ancient Christian texts espouse that the universe is born from blind arrogance and stupidity.  The angels caused evolution to occur from species to species.  There are many gods, (or aliens?), and the Christian God is just one among them.  Satan the Devil writes scripture, and thus the Bible was polluted with Genesis 1.  Archaeology and modern scholarship demonstrate that Genesis is indeed corrupted.  Cavemen walk with Adam and Eve.  Esoteric prophecies reveal the coming of Christ, and also reveal the dark forces that govern the cosmos.  Such are the ancient Christian writings.

Science vindicates the truth of these ideas.  Evolution often happens too fast for Darwin’s theory.  Gaps in the fossil record indicate that some kind of unnatural force acts together with natural selection.  Astrobiology reveals that intelligent life probably evolved long before us.  The fossil record reveals strange clues that aliens abducted species and transported them across oceans, and that DNA from diverse lineages was combined to spawn hybrid species.  Evidently, aliens influence evolution, and they are the gods of the world’s religions. 

This is not fiction.  All these facts are thoroughly documented in the links above.