The Beast of Gevaudan

The Beast of Gevaudan was an unidentified creature that is believed to have killed c.100+ people in a 3 year span in France. The descriptions of the Beast(s) are incredibly contradictory, with accounts of the beast walking on 2 legs, resembling hyenas, resembling wolfs, and even resembling boars. Most scholars think that their are at least 2 animals involved in the killings. Several of the victims have decapitated (wolves are incapable of decapitation due to their biting power, while Hyenas are most capable of doing that). The beast(s) have an unusual preference for human flesh, with accounts stating that the beast(s) even attack the Sheppard and totally ignore the sheep in the field. The king sent his hunters and even his army to hunt the beast. One hunter shot an unusually large wolf-dog hybrid and the killings stopped....for a few months. The killing soon resumed when another creature stared another reign of terror. The 2nd creature was shot by some peasant. The body of the creature was soon sent to the king, but the king was disgusted by the smell of the corpse. The corpse was then buried in an unknown location. Several explanations have been offered from a human serial killer, werewolf, hyena, and the man that shot the second beast somehow trained the monster into killing. In my personal opinion, the beasts are actually 2 creatures that are separate species with purely coincidental killing sprees. The 1st beast was to my opinion a wolf-dog hybrid while the 2nd one was an escaped hyena.