True Horror With Anthony Head: Werewolves

Anthony Head, international actor and star of Buffy The Vampire Slayer sets out to find out the truth behind the werewolf myth. Are they real or just the stuff of myth, folklore and Hollywood movies? Most of us are familiar with the idea of a werewolf: someone who can change into a wolf-like creature with an appetite for blood, but how did these tales come about and how have they become accepted as fact?
Anthony Head travels around Europe, first to Greece where he delves into a 2,000-year-old account of werewolves and human sacrifice, and then to France where he uncovers the medieval tale of the most devastating attack by a werewolf – the Beast of Gévaudan – who tore off the head of his victims. But not all tales come from the past and a modern tale of one of these terrifying beasts is revealed to Anthony Head. He meets with werewolf experts and discusses the possibility of whether werewolves are a form of delusion and a product of a disturbed mind, a person with a genetic problem or shape-shifting monsters.