A sociologist and folklorist, Michel Meurger looked less at the beasts than at the people who saw them. In 1982 he co-wrote Monstres des lacs du Québec with Claude Gagnon, a study touching the Ponik sightings at Lac Pohénégamook. That same year he investigated La Bête de Noth with Jean-Louis Brodu and suggested a lynx quietly released to control disease among roe deer. In 1983 he did fieldwork in the Cézallier. There he proposed wolves behind the kills, and a panic that fixed on a lioness. On the Valais Monster, he argued the press word monster fed a collective psychosis.
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Pro earlyResearcher who argued the press created a collective psychosis around the case
Pro earlySociologist who studied the case and did fieldwork in the Cézallier in 1983
Pro earlyFolklorist, co-author of Monstres des lacs du Québec
Pro earlyInvestigator who did fieldwork at Noth and proposed a released lynx