The attacks occurred near Gysinge (within present-day Sandviken Municipality) in Uppland, near the border of Dalarna and Gästrikland in central Sweden.
[2] With the exception of one 19-year-old woman, all victims of fatal attacks were children between the ages of three and a half and 15; in addition, the 15 injured victims were mostly children, except for one 18-year-old male.
Historical accounts indicate that before becoming a man-eater, the wolf was captured as a pup in 1817, and kept in captivity for several years before escaping.
[3] The incident was dramatised in the BBC Two TV series Manhunters in the final episode, "The Man-Eating Wolves of Gysinge", which aired on 16 December 2005.
[4] The episode took artistic liberty in portraying the number of wolves involved in the attacks, showing two animals instead of one.