Trevor Collins

They were both convicted and were subsequently burned at the stake.

There's not a lot of other details to talk about here, though the idea of if these guys were tortured, it's possible that's where the confession came from, but also the other possible ideas of shared delusion or poisons.

We'll get into kind of the theories behind some of these cases at the very end, but that is one of the very first that kind of helps kindle the fires of this terrible thing that lasted way longer than it should have, several hundred years.

But this leads us to a man named Peter Stump.

This is one of the most famous cases of an accused werewolf in essentially all of history.

Though his name is Peter Stump, he has been reportedly referred to in records as Abal, Abil, and Ubel Griswold.

So three different first names, Griswold.

It's theorized that he earned the name Stump, S-T-U-M-P-P, after his left hand had been cut off, which is a terrible nickname to have.

But it's like it's like if I called you clicks because you played FPS games on your computer.

I'm like, oh, I'm going to call him taps.

Right.

And then hundreds of years from now, people start calling you taps like that's actually kind of cool.

But you're named for something that happened to you.

Stomp.

Yeah, that's 500 years on.

That's harsh.

But this story gets pretty harsh.

Again, there's a lot of wild themes.

I might kind of gloss over some of them, but I'm going to give you all the details.

Okay, so historians believe that Stump was a wealthy farmer from Bedburg, Germany.