In 1598, the city of Chalon in the French province of Champagne fell into the grip of fear, and children began to disappear there.
In those days, the disappearance of a child was common, but this time there were too many missing children. At first it seemed as if the children had simply disappeared from the face of the earth, but then there were rumors of a monster, half animal, half human, who roamed the wilderness in the area.
Considering that this was a time when many believed in the existence of witches, sorcerers, demons and other evil spirits, the news of the monster was taken seriously. The news that the city was attacked by a "lup garu" - "werewolf", quickly spread throughout the country. Thus began the story of the demon tailor from Chalon.
Children continued to disappear, and reports of the monster increased. Mass hysteria led to the fact that people began to lock themselves in houses as soon as darkness fell, out of fear of what might be beyond the threshold.
The general horror increased when the sinister wolf-man began to be seen devouring the corpses of children like an animal. Some of the children who managed to return alive said that a wheezing werewolf was chasing after them.
Numerous detachments of armed men went out to hunt the werewolf without any success. For some time it seemed that supernatural forces were doing their own will in the city with impunity.
But then more and more suspicions began to fall on one of the tailors, who worked in his atelier on the outskirts of the city. They began to say that screams were heard from his house.
The tailor himself was a rather eccentric person. He was rarely seen in town and was said to have a strange interest in the children who passed by his atelier. When it became known that he often went into the woods at night, a crowd gathered in order to find out what was going on and rushed to search his house. What looked like an ordinary shop turned out to be the seat of a nightmare.
Promotional video:
One of the rooms contained many barrels filled with children's bones. Another room looked more like a butcher's shop than a tailor's shop, with cuts of meat scattered everywhere, surrounded by flies. Some of the pieces were half eaten, but still belonged to human bodies. The yard was strewn with graves.
Blood and flesh were everywhere, and the house really looked like a hideous monster's lair. The tailor remained calm and denied that he had done anything wrong. The law considered otherwise. The man was imprisoned and tortured until she confessed to her crimes, namely the murder of about 50 children, as well as the dismemberment and devouring of their bodies.
Even then, he denied that he was a werewolf. In prison, he at times displayed incredible rage and strength, which only convinced him that he was the very monster. At the trial, there were witnesses who claimed to have seen him turn into a wolf. The tailor was found guilty and sentenced to be burned alive. In his last word, he swore blasphemously and fell into animal rage.
After his execution, the disappearances of the children stopped. The court tried to destroy all the records in order to completely erase this episode from history. Only crumbs of information have survived to this day. The name of the tailor is unknown and what prompted him to commit atrocities.
GUSAKOVA IRINA YURIEVNA