Tales of Man-Eating Monsters S8 E8

In this episode, we share some spine-chilling accounts of four terrifying man-eating monsters and eerie folklore that will blow your mind! One of our hosts shares his frightening experience that will give you pause. Even if you don't believe in monsters, cryptids, or fantastical beasts, these tales will make excellent campfire stories that will . 

Transcript

Evan 0:05

Welcome back to MVPs. What the f***, what the f***, what the f***, what the f***? Paranormal Podcast, where we talk about, well, everything the paranormal encompasses. So you ready? Let's f***ing do this. All right, welcome back everyone. I'm Evanan here with mel and wes, and if you're tuning in this evening, then you know what the deal is. Tonight we're talking about your worst nightmares, the man-eating monsters. So settle into your comfy chairs with a nice warm glass of whiskey, because, whether you're ready or not, it's story time, fuckers so, evan, talk to me, bro, what you got.

Evan 0:44

Well, I got a couple stories to tell you guys about some interesting critters in the world that have allegedly allegedly killed people and or eaten maimed, you know something like along those lines.

Wes 1:00

So I noticed you said world. Does that mean we're going to take a trip around the world?

Evan 1:06

we are, we are so first on our list is called the beast of jevedon oh, that's a fancy word yeah, it's a place in france, apparently, I don't know I am familiar with this, are you? I am. Yes, this is a cool story, man. So the uh, the beast of jevedon is a creature that is allegedly responsible for at least 60 human deaths during the 1760s in france. Some reports put this number at over 100 deaths what oh yeah.

Evan 1:42

So some of the locals originally believed and probably maybe still do, I don't know that it was a werewolf or, more specifically, a sorcerer that shapeshifted into a werewolf-type creature in order to feed on human flesh.

Mell 1:57

Another shapeshifter.

Evan 1:58

Yeah, man, yeah, I thought it was a werewolf. Yeah, that's what they thought, or they believed, or maybe still do, I don't know. But uh, descriptions of it were so varied at the time that most researchers, you know, believe that there had to be at least two of these creatures, because they were getting such wildly different descriptions of this thing, especially on during of the color of its fur. Sometimes it was described as like red with gray patches on it, or a big gray patch all over it, or to be red with stripes all over it. Most of the times it was like red, black and white colors, though, but it was also said to remind the witnesses that seen this thing, it was, uh, that reminded them of like a bear or a hyena and a wolf and a panther, like all combined into one, like all at one time.

Mell 2:49

How would you?

Evan 2:50

So many.

Mell 2:51

How would you even combine those?

Evan 2:54

I don't know. I guess it had like features of each of those things you know all along its body, and some people even said it had like this panther, like tail that was so strong that it could use it as a weapon you know that hell yeah that I wouldn't doubt.

Mell 3:10

Have you guys ever been hit with like a long dog tail of like a box?

Wes 3:16

maybe just a pit bull tail or a boxer?

Evan 3:18

yeah, yeah, those things are devastating yeah, they're the shin killers for sure.

Mell 3:24

Oh yeah.

Evan 3:26

But some people said that it had cloven hooves on it. But you know, others say that this thing had claws that were so heavy and thick that it just merely resembled hooves. So it's hard to, you know, really pinpoint what this thing actually looked like.

Mell 3:41

Did they do any drawings or anything of it?

Evan 3:43

I think there are some drawings out there, yeah, so the head would be what? I think the head's more like a wolf hyena kind of looking thing, maybe, with like the body of a bear and the tail of a panther. Yeah, sounds wild.

Mell 3:59

I'm just saying Because the feet would be horse hooves right.

Evan 4:04

It's either hooves or, like claws, so thick that they just were mistaken for hooves.

Wes 4:11

Is it bipedal? I mean, who's really like standing there taking the test? Sir, can you hold?

Mell 4:16

on.

Wes 4:16

I really have to look at these hooves. Oh, those are claws. You're right.

Mell 4:24

Listen, I don't need. You're right. Listen, I don't need your sass, I'm just trying to get a visual.

Wes 4:31

That dude's trying not to die and you're like look at the hubs. Can you tell me what its feet look like?

Mell 4:38

Well, how long is that tail?

Wes 4:42

I don't like you, join my fan club you may have a sparsely attended funeral.

Mell 4:51

Do continue.

Evan 4:53

So this thing's first documented kill occurred on June 30th 1764. When a mostly eaten Like flesh eaten off of her 14 year old shepherdess was discovered in the woods. Whatever killed her had preferred human flesh to all of the lambs and baby lambs that she had been herding around. It just ate her. None of the lambs.

Evan 5:18

Oh, they spared the good stuff and just said you know, Just took the human Damn stuff and just said you know, just took the human, damn. Yeah. So after that it was like this long string of these similar deaths that kept happening all around the area, and majority of the deaths were all women and children that's kind of sus, don't you think? I mean, yeah, I mean a little bit, but no, men, no not yeah, not that I know of, not that the story goes anyways.

Evan 5:47

So this beast terrorized this area for like three years, leaving more than 100 people dead and many more were maimed by it.

Wes 5:56

Ooh, maimed by it. Oh yeah, so people had encounters with this, direct attacked encounters, allegedly survived, and that's where we're getting all these jacked up descriptions. Uh yeah, that's that's.

Evan 6:11

That's what I gathered, yeah interesting it says that all of the survivors weren't weren't sure of what sort of creature had attacked them. Most of them were reported it to be like, they said, like a wolf, but not a wolf. That's literally the description they gave. Okay, after all of this was taking place, that stories began to circulate around that they were under attack from something much crazier than just some ordinary wolf. So eventually, during this time, the court of King Louis XV, I believe, they sent royal hunters out into this area to destroy, to capture and or kill this beast, you know, and the reward for that beast's head was up to like, I think at one point it got up to like 10 000 I don't know how you say that word livers, liveries, I don't know. Anyway that it was, you know well, worth over like half a million dollars today, jesus. Yeah, like it was a big bounty on this thing's head for the head of a panther wolf.

Wes 7:29

Yeah, jeez, man, I want to hunt one right now.

Evan 7:33

I know, man, you think that reward is still payable I don't think so just head on over, man, and put this hunt on so this bounty, obviously you know it attracted all kinds of people from far and wide to come and, you know, get their, put their hand in and try and hunt down this beast. And there were a bunch of different sightings of it and the beast had apparently been shot on several different occasions but each time it escaped, you know, unscathed or wasn't hurt enough to kill it. The hunters that were out there taking part in all of this, they ended up killing lots of wolves and they even went so far as using poison to kill, you know, whole wolf packs at a time. Even after killing all of these wolves in the area, all of the beasts' killings continued.

Mell 8:19

Well, clearly somebody didn't get the memo that it looked like a wolf but wasn't a wolf.

Wes 8:27

That's what I'm saying, that it looked like a wolf but wasn't a wolf. That's what I'm saying. It's like a wolf, you know, but it's, it's not a wolf.

Evan 8:31

So stop killing the fucking wolves. Yeah, so in the the spring of 1767 was, you know, the lat? That was the last year that, uh, these killings were going on. But at this time, during the spring of 1767, this beast was eating people on a weekly basis. At least one person a week was getting eaten by this thing. And so in the summer of 1767, this guy named Jean Chastel he was one of the wolf hunters that were there and he killed this large, abnormally large, extremely strange looking wolf. It wasn't like, it didn't look like a normal wolf. Apparently, it had a bunch of abnormalities all over it and and it definitely wasn't common to any of the wolves that they had in the local region there. Allegedly, this guy shot this animal with ammunition that he had melted down from a silver medal of the Virgin Mary.

Evan 9:29

There it is yeah, that's, that's what I'm saying there. It is the werewolf story. Allegedly that's according to the legend you know. So who knows if that's actually true or not, but this guy really did kill a really big, strange looking wolf, and after he killed this wolf, these killings did stop.

Mell 9:49

After he killed this big giant wolf.

Evan 9:51

After he killed this giant, you know, deformed looking panther wolf, yeah.

Wes 9:58

The were panther wolf.

Mell 10:00

Panther bear horse wolf.

Wes 10:01

Yeah, yes, don't forget about the hooves.

Evan 10:03

Apparently the wolf that he killed had this unusual black and red fur all over it and several morphological differences, like he had real short front legs on him.

Mell 10:14

So he was just deformed. So maybe he was just angry because none of the other wolves wanted to play with him and he felt like he had something to prove look, he ain't fucking the murderous rudolph, it ain't.

Wes 10:29

Yeah, come on, man, I mean maybe none of the other wolves wanted to play with him. You don't know, I don't.

Evan 10:39

I wasn't there, so the real shitty part of this whole story is this guy, jean chastel, didn't receive any of that reward or reverence for killing this wolf why, I don't know well, I'm sure he was a local hero though he was he probably didn't have to pay at the brothel okay, now fuck the hero

Mell 11:00

bullshit where's the money?

Wes 11:02

that's what I'm saying that was a lot of cash back then. That's a good amount of cash right now yeah man absolutely do you think he kept the wolf? Do you think he took it to the taxidermist?

Evan 11:11

apparently he did. Apparently they did mount it at the taxidermist yes, good for you.

Wes 11:16

Yeah, see, so he got his prize. Man, he's a hunter. Yeah, he knows why he's out there. He's just doing his best. Yeah, he's doing his job, man.

Evan 11:26

So you know after he killed this thing, the attacks did end and while it was assumed that this beast that Shastell did kill was the beast, many doubts remained that that was merely just a wolf. Like, a lot of people doubted that it was a wolf that he actually killed. They thought it was something else, like locals yeah, all the locals said that's no wolf, that's a panther wolf. Yeah, I don't know what that is, but it ain't no wolf so?

Wes 11:52

so what do you think? Do you think it was this crazy? Uh, you know, jacked up wolf, this dude shot. Or do you think they were just dealing with a serial killer and they also had wolves?

Evan 12:03

that's a really hard. You know that's a hard thing you know what I mean I mean, have you ever heard of a lone wolf killing over a hundred people over the course of three years? Like that's crazy, dude. That's a lot of people to be murdered over three years.

Wes 12:17

Yeah, but I mean people would be, you know, relatively easy prey. You know, if it was, you know, a solo wolf and he didn't have the help of the pack and all of that, it would be easier to transition to people and it was the 1700s we didn't have modern weapons and stuff.

Evan 12:33

Yet. I mean, if you're out there with a musket and you miss, like well hold on. Let me reload take five minutes to reload this bad boy also, can you hold up your hooves, I'd like to investigate yeah, man, just let me reload this musket.

Wes 12:52

You give you a pedicure. I don't know. I think you know. Just based on the conversation, there's probably a pretty good chance. You know that they just happen to have wolves. But they were dealing with some ruthless fucking serial killer man. They had their own Jack the Ripper going on.

Evan 13:11

I mean, that kind of you know would make more sense to me than some supernatural wolf running around you know murdering people, but I don't know.

Wes 13:20

You know, you never know, you never know. Although, man, if they got this thing, if he got it stuffed like he did the taxidermy work on this thing, why can't we see this? Is this still in existence? Are there any paintings of this?

Evan 13:35

I believe it's in some museum.

Wes 13:37

to be honest with you Really what, yeah, but black and red fur. I mean, that's spot on with a lot of the people's descriptions that had encounters with it.

Evan 13:49

Right, yeah, that's what they said was black and red fur.

Mell 13:52

Like red as in like red, red or red as in like ginger, I mean.

Evan 13:56

I don't know.

Wes 13:57

I'm thinking like a deep wine, red. Maybe, a burgundy, yeah, burgundy, a good Merlot.

Mell 14:06

We're stupid. Yeah, burgundy, a good merlot or stupid.

Wes 14:07

Oh man, Only on sight.

Mell 14:10

So it ended after he shot him and stuffed it.

Evan 14:14

Yeah, the killings, the mass killings around the area and the region ended after this guy shot this thing.

Mell 14:21

Or maybe he was the serial killer.

Wes 14:25

Ooh, was he a local or did he come in from outside? He came in from out.

Mell 14:31

Uh-huh, ma see, ma, so I don't know, he did it.

Wes 14:38

Guilty.

Mell 14:39

Guilty as charged.

Evan 14:41

Next case.

Wes 14:42

Hang him.

Evan 14:43

Oh man, so fun story. It's a cool story. It's interesting. You know, you never know what was real, what wasn't real, but it was documented that that all those killings and murders did happen in that region of france during that time yeah, I knew about the, the werewolf aspect, but I never deep dove into it, so I didn't find out all these little, uh little tidbits of information it's rooted in history.

Mell 15:06

It's not just like word of mouth, it's actually been documented in historical record yeah, it's pretty interesting man when you can find that in history. I think that's far more fascinating than some of the bullshit that people make up absolutely.

Evan 15:22

oh yeah, for yeah, for sure. Well, if you enjoyed that, you'll really enjoy this next one.

Mell 15:27

Ooh, Ooh, stay tuned, folks. All right, you tickled my fancy.

Evan 15:32

So this next story hits a little closer to home here. This one comes to us out of the great states of Kentucky and Tennessee. Ooh shit, I know where you're going. This is the beast of the land between the lakes he went there, oh my god so those of you out there that are listening that don't know, land between the lakes is a. What is it? Is it just a national park, or is it like? I think it is wildlife management area or all-in-one kind of thing I think it's kind of.

Wes 16:07

It's kind of a mix between those.

Evan 16:10

Yeah but it's like a park 350 000 acres yeah, and it's split between uh kentucky lake and lake barkley yeah, it's a.

Mell 16:19

It's a national forest there we go.

Wes 16:24

It's a gem. I love it out there.

Evan 16:25

It's awesome, incredible it's a beautiful place really is? It's just right down the road from us. So, anyways, there's this alleged creature that roams out there that they call the beast of lbl, and this thing is said to resemble a gigantic, you know, like seven feet tall, half man, half wolf, that walks on two legs and has five fingered human hands, vicious claws on them, kind of thing, what's with the wolves. Hey, the wolves are freaking. Scary man.

Wes 16:58

They're scary, that's. That's what's up with them.

Evan 17:02

And a seven foot tall one that walks like a man, that's what's up with them. And a seven foot tall one that walks like a man, that's really scary.

Wes 17:06

Probably wouldn't be as scared if he was like it's a seven foot tall goat, like he wouldn't be as scared of that I mean.

Evan 17:12

that would be terrifying.

Wes 17:13

Seven foot tall poodle? I don't know, that would be scary as well actually. Yeah, I'm not messing with a seven foot poodle. Yeah, that's bad. I don't know, I guess anything. Seven foot tall.

Evan 17:26

That's what I was thinking. Yeah, pretty much.

Mell 17:30

Do proceed.

Evan 17:31

This thing apparently has massive crushing jaws and glowing eyes, and some people claim it to be some sort of Native American skinwalker type thing. I don't know Of thing. I don't know. I don't know where they're getting that from, but who knows? Anyways, early accounts from French explorers and traders in this region say that they were warned of some thing that the Shawnee fur traders warned them about called. I don't know how to say this word, I'm just gonna say it. It's like loop guru. I don't know how you say that.

Wes 18:15

I think you nailed it.

Evan 18:16

Anyways, the Shawnee traders out there warned them of this crazy creature in the region, and a later legend claims that this monster is the spirit of a shape-shifting Shawnee shaman who was killed in wolf form by the inhabitants of his village for abusing powers or something. His spirit is said to still walk the woods in search of revenge. Yeah, so, um. Other accounts of this beast of lbl from the early days of american expansion into kentucky tell of lots of hunters disappearing in the woods, strange and unnatural howls that, uh, you know, echoed through the night in the forest. And at this time, during this time, there was, like bison that still roamed wild in kentucky, I believe, and, uh, the hunters would sometimes encounter these mutilated carcasses of these bison that were lying, just like half eaten, you know, and their throats had been ripped open by these massive claw marks. Now, who's to say that wasn't just a pack of wolves or coyotes or something else that was, you know, roaming around killing these bison back in the day?

Mell 19:30

I don't know well in the beginning of the 20th century this is a story that I heard when I first got to Fort Campbell. They said that it was the beginning of the 20th century, early 1900s there was this group of old folks and they were sharing their encounters of the beast of LDL and one guy said that he was running out of one of his horse stalls because he was trying to hurry up and get all of the animals into the stalls and the beast of lbl stopped right in front of his, spread out its arms like it was gonna grab him.

Mell 20:13

it howled or maybe hug him you know, wolves need hugs, they, they're angry.

Wes 20:19

Yeah, I don't know. You know he's lonely.

Mell 20:21

Could be. The other wolves didn't want to play with him, so, anyway, it spread its arms out like it wanted to grab him, but then at the last minute it howled and then ran past him into the sunset and he said he wet his overalls during the episode hell yeah, brother, well, and now you know he's not bullshitting man, because nobody's saying they're not in the early 1900s to say it in early 1900s a man ain't gonna say I wet my overalls unless he wet his overalls

Mell 20:57

um another man said that he would hear it wail a lot at night, but it didn't sound like a wolf or coyote. It was more deeper, longer, stronger sounding than would come out of any animal that he had ever heard.

Wes 21:16

So I heard it man.

Mell 21:19

You've heard it Well.

Wes 21:19

I mean, I heard, so I heard it, man, you've heard it. Well, I mean I, I, I heard something stop it yeah, at land between the lakes, yep swear to god tell it uh, tell the story no I don't I mean I don't want to.

Evan 21:30

Yeah, no, seriously um, yeah, tell them of course.

Wes 21:33

What are we talking about here? All right, so I was, I was deer hunting man, I was deer hunting and I was deer hunting man, I was deer hunting and, uh, I was deer hunting on the Kentucky side of LBO and, um, I went out I get, we were still working together, evan at the store, okay, and I took off after work, you know. So I had maybe an hour to hunt, you know, but I drive all the way out there, I get out of my truck, I got my climbing stand on my back and I'm walking down the edge of this. It was already harvested corn at the time, you know. So it's just an empty field.

Wes 22:03

Walking down the edge of the field, it's probably, I don't know, two 300 yards long, and I'm about two thirds of the way back there and the woods was just dead man, it was super quiet and this it was more like a roar, you know, than a howl, um, but it was super quiet. And this it was more like a roar, you know, than a howl, but it was super deep and it was really really loud, man, almost more like, uh, like you know, when you hear cows move, they do that, that real deep, freaking move you know, it was, it was kind of like that, but but guttural.

Midnight Gas Station Werewolf Encounter

Wes 22:36

I I don't know really how to explain it, but it came from behind me back the way that I parked my truck and I stopped there for a minute and was like what the hell was that? And it did it again and I just walked back to the truck and I threw my climber in and I, I went home. I didn't even hunt that night.

Mell 22:52

As a matter of fact, I've never hunted out there since man stop so for those that don't know, like if wes isn't going to hunt out somewhere there's got to be a reason.

Wes 23:02

There's a problem. I won't go back. I won't go back, really, and I don't know what it was, but there's no. There's no cattle, there's nothing out there, there's nothing in those woods that can even make that freaking noise. Man, yeah, so I don't know what it was have you guys ever heard of jan's tales?

Mell 23:19

no, no, no jan's tales is stories put together of experiences. It's a collection by this person named uh jan thompson and they're as, as from what I could find they were like the original source I could find for the beast of lbl. Well, apparently thompson stated that in the early 1980s they used to work midnight at the gas station that was just like right by the kentucky dam and it's right in the beginning of lbl in grand rivers. Well, he had two visitors that made him think they were possibly werewolves, but he thinks it's more like the Beast of LBL.

Evan 24:11

Okay.

Mell 24:13

He said after he started to shake so bad that he couldn't take it anymore. They were and it was him and I guess like two officers or something that were stuck there for like eight hours because they were too afraid to leave the booth. The two officers one was like shaking and was in a state of shock and confusion so wait, hold on, hold, on pause.

Evan 24:45

These guys were running like a you know convenience store thing or this guy was, and there was two officers in there with him that ran and there was like there was like werewolves outside of this convenience store.

Mell 24:58

Well, from what I understood, Thompson would hear him, okay, and he wasn't sure he was in the gas station. I don't know if Jan Thompson is a male or a female, so I'm just going to say he. But anyway, the two officers ran inside the gas station and they were scared shitless, and so they heard it and then ran inside. Well, he heard it, jan thompson heard it. Then the two officers ran in. One officer had to sit on the curb to put his head between his legs and vomit, and the other officer came in what the hell yeah, um, to get some water for his partner.

Mell 25:42

There were no other customers and the officers said I don't even know how to put this they saw this like nasty shadow, like thing that would wait around the corner, and they tried to call for help, but they didn't know if anybody was going to believe them of what they saw. And it was so it was kind of like a cross between a werewolf, but they got that feeling that it was intelligent and it was a. It was going to do them harm. They wanted to warn the campers and everything else like that and call for backup, but they that when they went to one camping area everybody was dead. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I'm tracking.

Mell 26:32

Yeah, I'm tracking what you're talking about motor home yeah, yeah and so when the cops went in there to warn people hey, there might be wolves in the area or we're hearing these strange noises everybody was dead. They had been ripped to shreds.

Evan 26:49

Yeah.

Mell 26:49

It was a motorhome.

Evan 26:50

There was four people in there, I believe.

Mell 26:52

Yeah, there was the motorhome. The frame had been torn, the doors were hanging by one hinge like kind of crooked, and then when they looked through the window they could see some sort of zigzagged movements. And then there were bloody handprints that slid down the thin metal walls and there was blood everywhere. The people were ripped up inside what used to be three bodies. It was a family on a happy vacation, but the clothing was ripped. Their bodies and the body parts were not just separated, but they had been torn out of the sockets, and that takes a lot of strength. That's not just something you just do. You know what I mean.

Evan 27:43

Yeah.

Mell 27:44

And there was a pile of bowels. All of their bowels were put in a pile, with pieces of loose flesh still clinging to the muscle.

Evan 27:55

I mean, you don't want to eat that? No, you can put that over there to the side. That's a scrap pile.

Mell 28:00

It was a was a father, a mother and a young son I was.

Evan 28:04

I had read that there was a daughter as well.

Wes 28:07

Yeah, found in the tree the daughter, daughter's half-eaten body was lodged up in a tree yeah, yeah, like way, like 20 feet in the tree, like it was way up there, tucked up in a, in a saddle or whatever. That's crazy.

Evan 28:19

Yeah, I read something that that whole police incident was supposedly or allegedly somehow like covered up by the authorities.

Wes 28:30

Yeah, by the men in black. Yeah, it was.

Evan 28:33

I don't know something about a cover up for that whole incident, but I haven't read too much into that.

Wes 28:38

I don't know much about that dude, I looked, I tried to find the you know like the police reports and just something, man, I couldn't find nothing, nothing they said that they looked at me.

Mell 28:49

You know, could it been a bobcat, a bear, could it have been the?

Wes 28:54

coroner said it couldn't have been a bear because the I guess the but the bite pattern that they found the snout would have been far too elongated to even be a bear. Even if it was a bear, which it couldn't be a bear you know, yeah, I mean definitely.

Evan 29:09

I don't think there's any bears around here.

Wes 29:11

I mean, I guess there's like I mean like they're dropping them in out in east tennessee.

Mell 29:15

That's wild it was the coroner that was just like well, it can't be this, it can't.

Hindu Flesh-Eating Monster

Evan 29:20

It's not a bobcat, or it would have had this and the bobcat tearing people's limbs out of their sockets not to mention keep in mind their bowels were put in a pile yeah, I mean, even if it was like, even like a mountain lion, a mountain lion is not going to do all of that like that's, that's but I mean, it would tuck your ass up in a tree that is one thing it would do and then jan thompson said that she, uh, he or she, whatever it was, they could hear it.

Mell 29:47

So they didn't want to leave the gas station before the police officers ran in and they said it sounded like a kind of a growl. But it had like a clicking sound and a rough clicking growl, as if it's like kind of like a car with a bad muffler.

Evan 30:04

They said have you heard the story about the same beast from the 1973, the group of Murray State University?

Wes 30:15

kids, yeah.

Mell 30:17

I didn't get the full story, I just knew it was a bunch of kids from Murray College, yeah, from Murray State University College kids, yeah.

Evan 30:21

Yeah, I didn't get the full story, I just knew it was a bunch of kids from Murray College, yeah, from Murray State, up there. They kind of went. They went out there in LBL and, you know, went camping. They were driving this old Vita bus out there. This was 1973 after all.

Mell 30:31

So Well, were they hippies.

Wes 30:34

I mean pure rock stars. I hope so.

Mell 30:37

I mean pure rock stars.

Wes 30:38

I hope so.

Mell 30:42

Well, if they were hippies, it's because you know that smell of patchouli and stuff it attracts bear slash, horse panther dogs Wrong story. It attracts hooven, beasts, hooven beasts that sound like cars with bad mufflers.

Evan 30:57

Yeah. So in the middle of the night, out there, these kids, you know, these college kids are, you know, camping in the middle of the night they hear these like shuffling sounds around their campsite and it's moving all around, you know, in the leaves they get out and they shine their flashlights around. You know they don't see nothing. They're like what the hell is that? That's weird. And then all of a sudden they start hearing these deafening howling sounds, like so close right up and next to them and it was wild and insane howling. It was like all around them all at one time. Um, they were like it's like a wolf howl, but like with unnatural, like blood curdling quality that sounded almost like laughter at times, really.

Evan 31:39

Yeah that's what they said. So these dudes obviously scared shitless. Playing it smart, they ran to the van or the VW bus. They take off, tearing down the road, they're hauling ass and then all of a sudden, in the taillights behind them, they see that there's this shadowy figure chasing after them. You know, chasing them down. It's barely visible back there. And as they take the corner, you know, leaving out of the campground area and headed down the road, they feel this massive jolt into the side of the bus. They peel free of it and they get all the way. They didn't stop at all. They drove all the way back to campus, didn't even stop once. They get all the way back to campus and they see these massive like claw marks torn down through the metal next to the engine compartment of the bus.

Mell 32:27

You know what? That reminds me of jeepers, creepers hell yeah, it does. Scary as shit and they're in like this coke can of a vehicle yeah, in the middle of nowhere, yeah bro, and those vw buses.

Wes 32:41

They can only go so fast yeah, you don't know that one might have been souped up. He might have turbocharged it. I don't know.

Evan 32:47

Yeah, twin turbos so that one is left, you know, unknown. Nobody knows what the hell that is. Ain't nothing been killed out there? That was crazy.

Wes 32:59

No wolves, no man and like, how much time do we spend out there, man? So much time yeah that that like how thing that I heard. That's the only thing. I've never ran into.

Evan 33:11

This thing I've never seen it, you know yeah, but like you said earlier, I never do 350 000 acres like it so big. It's a massive chunk of land, but it is crazy and it is creepy, it's very creepy. It's kind of like just lingers in the back of your mind every time you go out there and you're walking around in the woods, especially at dark, you're like, oh fuck.

Wes 33:31

Yeah, yeah, when you're like two and a half miles back and you're walking back with a red lens flashlight.

Evan 33:40

You're like oh man, this is a bad start thinking about all the things that are real.

Wes 33:43

You know you're like, oh man, these hogs. You know damn cougars and coyotes. And then you start thinking about you know the shit that you don't know, the beast, the beast, you know, it's always in the back of your mind, if there's any cryptid in LBL, it wouldn't be a Bigfoot or just a basic werewolf.

Mell 34:03

It needs to be something special, just needs a better description, that's all.

Wes 34:08

Well, you don't get a lot of descriptions from this thing because it kills everybody. It comes in contact Bro.

Mell 34:13

it had a whole bunch of college students in the VW van. It tried to kill them they just you know, know they got away the power of the bus was too strong number one twin turbos there's no power in vw buses number two. Come on, you don't think there's not one person in that fucking bus that wasn't looking out the window saying it's getting closer, it, it's almost here. Really, I'm not saying a horror movie Everybody's looking forward. No, they're going to.

Wes 34:44

And they all had their seatbelts on.

Evan 34:48

They definitely didn't smoke any weed that night either, not at all yeah.

Wes 34:52

None.

Mell 34:53

What? No, they did LSD.

Wes 34:55

Or acid. Yeah, they were dropping tabs. Turns out there was no beast.

Evan 35:05

No, it was a bad trip, that's all it was so, mel, did you have anything that you wanted to add into this?

Mell 35:14

I did find a Hindu flesh-eating monster.

Evan 35:21

Hindu right.

Mell 35:23

Lay it on us, but apparently it's pretty big and they're called rukshasas. Have you ever heard of them?

Evan 35:29

No.

Mell 35:30

In Hindu mythology. They are bloodthirsty demons that were banished from the realm of the gods and they have to live on earth as some sort of beast, and they make mankind its prey. They are as evil as evil can be, and they claim that a few of them formed alliances with noble armies and fought in battle with them back in the ancient times.

Evan 35:59

All right, you've piqued my interest.

Wes 36:01

That's badass.

Evan 36:03

Yeah.

Mell 36:04

There's actually lots of sculptures and paintings of Rakshasas, so their shape is basically human, but they're exceptionally tall like giants, almost exceptionally tall like giants. Almost their limbs are like twice as thick as a regular person's, but they have fangs that come out of the corner of their lips. They've got claws for fingers and toes. They have bull-like horns that grow from not just the sides of their head, it can come from the front or the back.

Wes 36:39

Like a unicorn.

Mell 36:40

But there's multiple horns because, it's a weapon as well. Their eyes are kind of like piggish, but they glow and they have manes, and the stronger ones have multiple heads. What they fly, they spit, fire. They possess dead corpses and then we'll use those to attack the enemies fucking.

Wes 37:05

Oh, my necromancers now we've got to draw. Yeah, we've got to draw the line these things can't just do everything.

Mell 37:12

Yes, they can, and apparently they can magic, for their magic is illusion. Now they're tricksters too, but they're extremely difficult to kill I imagine they, they are. They get their strength at night, but they have an insatiable taste for human flesh insatiable taste for the dead Cue Rob.

Wes 37:36

Zombie.

Mell 37:39

Not only do Hindus believe in this, but Buddhists do as well, and Buddhists claim that the Buddha himself encountered one who threatened to eat the Buddha if he couldn't answer the riddles. But you know, buddha is all knowing, and so they were able to protect it. The females they make themselves super beautiful to lure in the men, and then they eat them alive. Dang what? They eat them alive from the middle.

Wes 38:14

It's good that they don't start eating you at the feet, though.

Mell 38:17

Yeah, that would be frowned upon but they want you to. That would suck the thing is, is they want you to suffer?

Wes 38:25

then they should start at the feet. Yeah, they're fucking up no, they.

Mell 38:28

They start in the, they rip your innards out, and then I mean they torture you as they eat you yeah, but I'm not gonna suffer for very long if you're ripping my innards out. I'm going to die pretty quickly. You'd be surprised. That is not true. You want me to suffer, you start at my toes. A person can live for a while, even though they've been abdominally eviscerated.

Evan 38:47

I guess you would be the one to know.

Mell 38:48

I would Wait, wait, that came across really weird people.

Wes 39:01

That came across really weird I don't eat innards. Yes it did. Yeah, yes, yes, it did. That was. That was weird as fuck. The end, allegedly. That's crazy. Yeah, that's a weird creepy.

Evan 39:07

I never heard of demon, goblin creature. Whatever the hell it is I got. I got another short one we could talk about if you guys want to go for it. Go, all right. So, jesus Mel, you crack me up. This one comes to us from Eastern South Africa, and this is known as the. I don't quite know how to say this word, but it's Malawi.

Mell 39:29

Malawi.

Evan 39:30

Malawi. I think it's a place, an area, region in Africa. The Malawi Terror Beast is what they call it, so it was located in the district of Dawa.

Mell 39:45

Are you talking about Malawi, like the country?

Evan 39:48

Yeah, malawi, that's it, the country. Yes, I don't know how to say these things, man, I'm not from Africa.

Mell 39:55

Okay, this is true because you're very white.

Evan 39:57

Yeah, white as shit. Anyways, in 2003, this thing caused some pretty widespread panic and chaos all across this region.

Mell 40:06

Did you say 2003?

Mysterious Beast Attacks in Africa

Evan 40:08

Yeah, Very recent. Yes, yes, I did All right. So this thing, this actually resulted in several deaths and prompted military action within the region. Um, so, in the district of dawa in eastern south africa, um, there were some reports emerged of an unidentified animal attacking and mauling residents in the region. The unidentified creature attacked 19 different residents and killed three of them at first. And, uh, so this you know. Naturally, this is an area of the world where animal attacks are, you know, quite common. We're talking about africa here. So, however it was, you know the brutal ways in which these people were killed and maimed that struck fear into basically the entire nation there. The three deaths that it started with were of two elderly women and a three-year-old baby.

Mell 41:03

Each of these people had their skulls completely crushed in them and their intestines and their genitals were all devoured.

Wes 41:15

That's weird, Like that's just a weird place to start yeah, very weird, very freaking weird they ate their. We was yeah, yeah well you know two, two elderly ladies and uh some hoo-hahs and some we was, yeah, so it crushed their skulls in you know like down to the you know meat just nothing but a pile of meat there, and then ate their intestines and all of their privates.

Evan 41:33

It crushed their skulls in you know like, down to the you know meat Just nothing but a pile of meat there, and then ate their intestines and all of their privates. Jesus.

Wes 41:44

And that was it. That's how they left.

Evan 41:45

That's how it left them Just like that Skulls crushed in intestines and privates were eaten, nothing else.

Wes 41:52

What do you think happened first?

Mell 41:55

I'm going to say the skull got crushed in first. Could it have been a hyena?

Wes 41:58

I don't know yet that was the first thing that popped into my brain too, so get stranger All of those that were lucky enough to survive their attacks.

Evan 42:08

Remember I told you there were 19 people attacked but only killed three of them.

Mell 42:12

Oh, so all of these people saw this.

Evan 42:15

Oh yeah, oh yeah, they did.

Mell 42:17

And they didn't have blow darts or spears.

Evan 42:20

I don't think so.

Mell 42:21

Well, they're slacking, they're fucking up buddy.

Wes 42:24

Or maybe guns. I don't think it's 2003. Maybe they had some guns.

Mell 42:27

I know, but I'm still thinking.

Wes 42:29

No, I don't know what. They didn't have no boomerangs.

Mell 42:40

What's here? Oh no, addle, addles, come on, man listen, my biscuits not completely done in the middle right now.

Evan 42:44

Go fair enough, all right. So those lucky enough to survive these attacks suffered horrific disfigurements um. Several of the victims lost either both legs or both hands, and two people lost both of their ears and eyes. One unfortunate woman had her nose and her mouth completely torn off by this creature.

Mell 43:08

To gouge out their eyes and rip both ears off. That's not like one swipe. Imagine being the guy who survived this attack without and lost both of his legs I could deal with losing both legs, but if you just got attacked by this random ass beast that just ravaged your village and then you lost your eyesight and your hearing, bro, I would be that that's a whole level of p PTSD that is just a whole nother level because you're so, you can't see where you're going and you know, none of those fuck fucks are going to help you out, because they're all running in different directions and then you're just standing there.

Evan 43:51

Speaking of running. In the wake of this attack, over 4000 people left the area of dawah to seek refuge in the town halls but in the early 2000s there was a lot of ethnic cleansing and wars that were going on.

Mell 44:07

Who's to say it wasn't just rebel factions going through towns with machetes and then they're afraid, faces off.

Evan 44:14

Well, because there was survivors of the attacks.

Mell 44:18

That's what I'm saying. How do you know that the survivors wouldn't I mean you wouldn't want to put out this rebel faction that's going to blame them?

Evan 44:29

I mean, I guess.

Mell 44:30

I don't know. Maybe it would put them on the map. Maybe they think it'll increase tourism. It would put them on the map. Maybe they think it'll increase tourism. All you hunters can come out here to Malawi and our village and get you, get your privates yeah. But while you hunt this, you know, please partake in our fruit stand.

Evan 44:52

Well, the officials you know, as official as it gets over there in that region of the world. The officials claimed that it was a hyena that was attacking these people. However, the people that saw this thing claimed that it was not any kind of hyena they'd ever seen.

Mell 45:09

And they wouldn't know.

Evan 45:10

Yeah, I would say they wouldn't know To this day what the beast was or where it went, remains, you know, a mystery. They never caught it, unless you believe the hyena theory. Nobody knows hyenas run and pat I mean yeah, typically, and they laugh, yeah, they make, they make funny noises.

Mell 45:31

So one hyena, I would think a village could could kill it or at least hyenas are pretty badass.

Evan 45:38

They are badass and they have big jaw strength is ridiculous.

Mell 45:41

That's great, but you got I mean easily crush a skull. You got 25 villagers with weapons. I mean come on.

Wes 45:48

Yeah, but with what weapons They've got? Blow darts and addle addles, or did they have guns?

Mell 45:53

They have machetes.

Evan 45:54

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not going to fend off a fucking hyena with a machete.

Mell 46:05

If it's coming at me and it's going to eat my wee-wah.

Wes 46:08

I am absolutely a slash, slash, slash Wee-wah.

Evan 46:10

You'll never take me alive, not me and my wee-wah.

Evan 46:14

That's crazy, though, so how long did it go on for think it was just. It was just a couple months during the early months of 2003 and these people, like, like thousands of people, left that. It left that little town in that area you know to go, and they took refuge in the town halls and stuff and they were. They only returned home when they had armed guards to take them home, like they were that scared of it but then it just never, and never had like it, stopped as quick as it started pretty much.

Evan 46:41

It stopped a little while afterwards and you know it. Uh, people went back to their homes you know what that reminds me of?

Mell 46:47

did you guys ever see that movie, the ghost in the darkness?

Wes 46:49

yes, such a good movie man.

Mell 46:52

I like the movie flick I've actually seen the pair of lions yeah I went to chicago and it's in the field museum I'd want to go, man.

Wes 47:01

I've seen the pictures of the taxidermy, though, and I'll be honest with you, man.

Mell 47:05

I look at those lines and I'm like you guys don't really intimidate me, you know yeah, well, for those that don't know, uh, or who hasn't seen the ghost in the darkness, it back in Kenya and, like the late 1800s, early 1900s, there were these two. There were. It was a pair of male lions and in nine months they hunted humans and they killed over 130 people. Yeah, michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, they were the two in the movie, but they had to bring in the specialists from outside to hunt them and kill them, and the real bodies, they stuffed them in there in the Field Museum in Chicago Illinois. They hunted the humans for the kill, not to eat. That's what she said. So that's what this story kind of reminds me of.

Evan 47:56

In Chicago Illinois, they hunted the humans for the kill, not to eat the human.

Mell 47:58

So that's what this story kind of reminds me of.

Evan 48:01

Yeah, this thing only ate their wee-wahs.

Mell 48:06

And the reason why that to me is just so disturbing is because you guys have hoo-hoos and they can bite off a hoo-hoo, but to this sounds awful to eat the wee-wah out. I mean, how does that even work?

Evan 48:23

The whole groin out of there, I guess. I mean there's nothing really to bite off.

Mell 48:28

Really Everything's tucked neatly inside.

Evan 48:30

I don't know, man, I don't know how it works. You know what else could crush a skull though A rock, a damn evil-ass, or maybe an ape chimp.

Wes 48:41

Yeah, and those will take your nose and your ears.

Evan 48:43

Yeah, they will. That's what I immediately thought of when I heard this story. I was like man that sounds like one of those evil chimps over there whatever they are that fight each other. They wage war on each other, you know. Oh God yeah, yeah man, that stuff is crazy. They like rip each other's faces off and shit all the time yeah, and they're incredibly strong.

Wes 49:00

They can crush a skull with their hand yeah, they get war parties together and go to the other monkeys freaking house and terrorize them, that's nuts.

Evan 49:10

Wage war on them.

Mell 49:11

It's wild extremely intelligent, so they know how to chimps, chimpanzees, I don't know if those are like in this area of africa or not.

Evan 49:21

I don't know. I didn't do that much research on it.

Mell 49:23

I'll admit it malawi has gorillas, african gorillas.

Evan 49:28

Um, oh they've got the chimps, chimpanzees yeah, all right, yeah, see it could have just been a chimpanzee could have been a rogue chimp out there just crushing people's skulls and eating their wee-waws. Vicious, just vicious, little bastards.

Mell 49:42

It's just awkward. It's just unnecessarily awkward.

Cultural Sensitivity and Listener Interaction

Evan 49:47

That's all I got for you tonight. If you guys were offended by anything that we said tonight about your country or anything like that, we're Americans, we have the tact of bowling balls thing like that.

Mell 49:57

Uh, we're americans, we have the tact of bowling balls. If you are from africa, we, we, we need to know, and particularly been to malawi, we kind of want to know your take, your, your, your take and um. I also want to point out, uh, for our listeners, if you didn't know, if you want to send questions, if you go on our website and you go down to the bottom and right any of the pages on our website, there's a little microphone button. You can click that microphone button and ask us questions and it will send it to us and we will answer your questions. We'll actually play your question and we'll answer it. So, wherever you are, if you have a question for us, send us a voicemail message. Uh, we want to hear from you guys, we'll play your voice. You'll be on the pod with us shit.

Wes 50:48

Yeah, that's dope as fuck man, I didn't even know that was a thing. Yeah, can I go on there and do you?

Mell 50:52

absolutely can wasp, and I know you will hell yeah well, that's it for tonight for our man-eating monsters.

Evan 51:00

Hope you enjoyed.

Mell 51:02

What's the lesson today, Wes? How are you going to take us out of this?

Wes 51:05

All right. If you're going to go to Africa, protect your hoo-ha, go, fuck yourself.

Mell 51:12

As you talk about hoo-has, protect your hoo-ha and just fuck yourself. Perfect, great.