Historical Mysteries

[EHocking]

Is there always not money to be made?

Anyway, check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_Gévaudan

Yes, I read that as I was unaware of the subject before this thread.

I still go with: wolf, hysteria

 

[Metullus]

Just for the sake of discussion assuming there is any wild animal needed to account for the killings, you seem to have made a slight mistake in assuming all lions have big bushy manes, female lions don't and they are the hunters. And I am almost certain that most of the folk there would have had no idea what a lion looked like regardless of it having a manky, tangled, wet mane or not.

The man-eaters of Tsavo were mane-less males...

 

[ahhell]

Marginally related there is the pictish beast.

Pictish Beast - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Picts it seems carved various animals all over Scotland, most are pretty easy to figure out what they are but this one which is the most common, nobody quite knows what it is meant to be.

 

[Darat]

Eh? That's the undomesticated bagpipes.

 

[catsmate]

Marginally related there is the pictish beast.

Pictish Beast - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Picts it seems carved various animals all over Scotland, most are pretty easy to figure out what they are but this one which is the most common, nobody quite knows what it is meant to be.

Minor Cthulhu spawn?

 

[Thermal]

The "morning after" appearance of that hottie you picked up while drunk?

Personally, I think the bottlenose dolphin makes the most sense.

 

[ahhell]

The "morning after" appearance of that hottie you picked up while drunk?
Personally, I think the bottlenose dolphin makes the most sense.

Funny because that is more or less the story of a kelpie, sort of sea horse that shapeshifts into a hottie when she comes on land.

 

[Helen]

A selkie, in the midst of turning from seal to woman, or vice versa?

 

[Carrot Flower King]

Marginally related there is the pictish beast.

Pictish Beast - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The Picts it seems carved various animals all over Scotland, most are pretty easy to figure out what they are but this one which is the most common, nobody quite knows what it is meant to be.

That's a haggis in breeding season, as any fule kno.

 

[jimbob]

Minor Cthulhu spawn?

That's what Darat said

Eh? That's the undomesticated bagpipes.