Innocent Scapegoat or Deal with the Devil? The Terror of Bedburg (Episode #58)

From 1564 to 1589, the town of Bedburg, Germany, was terrorized by a series of horrifying events. It began with livestock disappearing, only to be found later, mutilated as if savaged by some wild beast. The situation worsened when people—including pregnant women and children—started to vanish, meeting the same gruesome fate.  -------------------- MUSIC Theme Music by Dethlehem (dethlehem.bandcamp.com) -------------------- SOCIAL LINKS Website: www.mysteriouspals.com Email: [e-mail] Youtube: @MysteriousPals Facebook: @mysteriouspals Instagram: @mysteriouspals X/Twitter: @mysterious_pals Podcast Feeds: www.mysteriouspals.com -------------------- EPISODE RESOURCES

• "A true discourse. Declaring the damnable life and death of one Stubbe Peeter, a most wicked sorcerer who in the likenes of a woolfe, committed many murders, continuing this diuelish practise 25. yeeres, killing and deuouring men, woomen, and children. Who for the same fact was taken and executed the 31. of October last past in the towne of Bedbur neer the cittie of Collin in Germany. Trulye translated out of the high Duch, according to the copie printed in Collin, brought ouer into England by George Bores ordinary poste, the xi. daye of this present moneth of Iune 1590. who did both see and heare the same." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a13085.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections
• ‌Allan, Laura. “This Man Actually Went to Trial for Being a Werewolf - and Was Convicted.” Ranker, 7 Nov. 2017, www.ranker.com/list/peter-stump-the-werewolf-of-bedburg/laura-allan
• ‌Bores, George. “The Damnable Life and Death of Stubbe Peeter.” Umb.edu, 2023, www.faculty.umb.edu/gary_zabel/Courses/Phil%20281b/Philosophy%20of%20Magic/Arcana/Witchcraft%20and%20Grimoires/weredoc.html
• ‌Cowie, Ashley. “Germany’s Brutal Werewolf Belt and the Gut-Wrenching Execution of Peter Stumpp.” Ancient Origins Reconstructing the Story of Humanity’s Past, www.ancient-origins.net/history/german-werewolf-009397
• ‌Crabtree, Matt. “Inside The Grisly Werewolf Panic That Swept Europe More Than A Century Before The Salem Witch Trials.” All That’s Interesting, 15 Aug. 2023, allthatsinteresting.com/werewolf-trials
• Flight, Tim. ‌“12 ‘Real’ Werewolf Cases throughout History.” History Collection, 14 May 2018, historycollection.com/12-real-werewolf-cases-throughout-history/
• Mitchell, Robbie. “Peter Stumpp: the Cannibal Werewolf of Bedburg.” Historic Mysteries, 21 Oct. 2023, https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/peter-stumpp/37197/
• ‌Nadel, Darcie. “Peter Stumpp: The Werewolf of Bedburg.” HubPages, 13 June 2017, discover.hubpages.com/education/Peter-Stumpp-The-Werewolf-of-Bedburg
• ‌“Peter Stumpp.” Wikipedia.org, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., July 2005, en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stumpp
• ‌Radford, Benjamin. “Werewolves: Lore, Legend & Lycanthropy.” Live Science, Live Science, 30 Oct. 2012, www.livescience.com/24412-werewolves.html‌
• The Raven Report. “How the Werewolf of Bedburg Passed from Man to Myth.” The Raven Report, 18 Sept. 2017, theravenreport.com/2017/09/18/how-the-werewolf-of-bedburg-passed-from-man-to-myth

-------------------- IMAGES Episode Thumbnail: Unknown Author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Peter_Stump.jpg) -------------------- TIMESTAMPS 00:00:00 - Beginning 00:00:42 - Introduction 00:01:43 - The Werewolf of Bedburg 00:36:42 - Common Theories 00:47:47 - Our Theories 00:55:40 - Closing -------------------- ABOUT THE MYSTERIOUS PALS The Mysterious Pals is a mysterious show about history and friendship. #mystery, #history, #crime, #unsolved, #peterstumpp, #werewolf, #werewolves, #lycanthrope, #witchcraft, #witchtrials, #germany, #halloween, #mysteriouspals, #staymysterious