The Real Werewolves: When History is More Terrfying Than Myth.

🐺 WHAT IF WEREWOLVES WERE REAL? 🐺 Not as monsters, but as people. For centuries, the legend of the man-wolf has haunted our nightmares. But what if these stories were based on terrifying, real-world conditions that made people believe they were transforming into beasts?

On this episode of Pastpulse, we're hunting for the origins of the werewolf. We're diving into the dark intersection of ancient medicine, psychology, and ritual to uncover the shocking truths behind the myth.

WE'RE UNCOVERING THE SAVAGE TRUTH:

🧠 Clinical Lycanthropy: The very real, documented mental illness where people are convinced they are turning into wolves—and how this condition fueled mass hysteria and brutal witch trials.

🍄 The Berserker Rage: How Viking warriors may have used hallucinogenic drugs like henbane or amanita muscaria to induce a trance-like, animalistic fury on the battlefield, creating the first "wolf-men."

🌾 The Ergot Poisoning Theory: How a toxic fungus on rye bread (the same one linked to the Salem Witch Trials) could have caused violent convulsions, hallucinations, and the sensation of crawling skin—symptoms identical to a werewolf transformation.

⚔️ The Serial Killer "Werewolves": The chilling case of Peter Stumpp, a 16th-century farmer who confessed under torture to being a werewolf and committing cannibalistic murders, showing how the myth was used to explain pure human evil.

This isn't a fantasy. It's a forensic investigation into how our ancestors tried to explain the unexplainable, turning disease, drugs, and madness into the stuff of legend.

The truth is more terrifying than the fairy tale. If you're ready to face it, SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON & SUBSCRIBE to Pastpulse!

What do you think was the most likely cause behind the werewolf legend? Could a "clinical lycanthrope" exist today? HOWL YOUR THEORIES IN THE COMMENTS! 👇