Awesome Or Off-Putting: The Beast of Gévaudan
Awesome or Off-Putting is a weekly delve into cryptozoology, ufology, medical marvels, scientific wonders, secret societies, government conspiracies, cults, ghosts, myths, religion, strange facts or just the plain unexplainable. This week:
Cryptozoology One might think that if France ever got its own monster, it wouldn't be overly intimidating. Maybe a giant strawberry-filled crepe wandering the countryside squirting farmers with its delicious pink innards, or maybe it would be a really angry smurf. Such simple expectations would be dead wrong, as French folklore has
The Beast of Gévaudan - a bloodthirsty wolf-like creature said to be the size of a cow, with an unending taste for women and children.
The death tolls of those two groups alone surpasses 80.
Geri Halliwell’s Baby Apparently Abused Already
Geri Halliwell - or Ginger Spice or That Woman Who Won't Go Away, as she's more commonly known - is claiming that a golf club worker hit her three month old baby. While child abuse, alleged or not, is in no way a funny subject, we'd like to point out that Geri Halliwell had maybe better get used to it, since as soon as her daughter starts school she's bound to be the victim of all kinds of horrible abuse. But then again, that's sort of what happens when you give a kid a shit name like
Bluebell Madonna, isn't it?