Bedburg

You look at a case where the state decided that no, no, no, we absolutely need a threat, and that's-- we, we have to talk about the case of Peter Stumpp in Germany.

Yes, the werewolf of Bedburg.

So this is, this is one of the most famous and, and gruesome cases in European history.

There was no asylum for Peter Stumpp.

They were also thinking that there was hallucinog- hallucinogens that were contributing to his thought processes.

And then Peter Stumpp is another farmer from Bedburg, Germany.

He was a wealthy farmer that had an enchanted belt that turned him into a werewolf, he says.

Um, the belt was never found, though.

It was in the midst of religious wars and a renaissance of the arts, but most common folk, most families lived on farms.

They kept pigs, raised cattle, grew fields of grain and brewed beer, and the town of Bedburg was no different.

It was a community on the outskirts of town, right on the edge of the woods, the last stop before the wild.

It was not uncommon for a farmer to walk out and find one of his sheep torn to pieces.

This pattern of violence was horrifying, but it was not a mystery.

They knew that wolves were to blame.

Farmers in places like Bedburg could sometimes hear their haunting calls in the distance, filtering through the trees as they tossed and turned in their beds at night.

Wolves were once common across Europe's forests and in its folktales.

You are describing exactly what my family has been going through in this region for centuries.

So now that we're talking about werewolves, let's continue with the story of the werewolf of Bedburg.

So we're going to Germany, okay, 1589.

And this story is disturbing, even if you don't believe one word of the supernatural part.

So this story centers around a man named Peter Stump.

Now, his name is going to be spelled differently depending on the source, but essentially he was a farmer living in Bedburg, Germany.

Now, he would eventually become known as one of the most infamous alleged, wink, wink, for entertainment purposes only, alleged werewolves in European history.

Now, this wasn't one of those like Internet posts of my neighbor's a werewolf, a Reddit story.