Episode 3: Paris Catacombs. Your Forever Death Home

Macabre Traveler

In this episode, Jen and Kristin drag along our friend and patron of the podcast Lauren Ocello to the Paris Catacombs. Did you know how and why the catacombs were first created? Because the bodies were PILING up in the streets of Paris so much the wine was turning bad. Solution? Create the biggest Poltergeist nightmare EVER by moving between six to seven million bones from their resting places to some smelly old Roman mines. GREAT IDEA, EVERYONE.

Luckily for creeps like us (and all the spoiled milk and wine and, you know, general sanitation of Paris), it was, and now we have the amazing gift of the catacombs. We talk about how people have been exploring the catacombs (and throwing secret parties) for over a hundred years, how to explore them (legally) now, and people who have gotten lost… sometimes forever. Of course, we talk about what else you can do in Paris — like eat lots of amazing unpasteurized cheese and charcuterie, drink beautiful wine, and spoil yourself with pastries. We also talk about where to find the COOLEST curiosity and oddity shop in Paris, museums and bars we loved, and other can’t miss spots in Paris for the tres creepy chic in all of us.

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Francis Freedland Paris Catacombs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gYIXUGBqK8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkiaJDtt4II
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/de7yub/the_missing_man_in_the_catacombs_of_paris/

Sources
Natasha Geiling’s “Beneath Paris’ City Streets, There’s an Empire of Death Waiting for Tourists” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/paris-catacombs-180950160/
PARIS CATACOMBS: THE 6 MILLION DEAD PEOPLE BELOW PARIS https://amyscrypt.com/paris-catacombs-death-underneath-paris/#:~:text=The%20Paris%20Catacombs&text=Just%20below%20the%20streets%20of,some%206%20million%20dead%20Parisians.
Teenagers rescued from Paris catacombs after three-day ordeal, from France’s Press Agency in Paris https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/14/teenagers-rescued-from-paris-catacombs-after-three-day-ordeal
Leonora Epstein’s 9 Creepy Things You Should Know About Paris' Underground City Of Death https://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/9-creepy-things-you-should-know-about-paris-underground-city
Urban legends and black masses: The eerie secrets of the Paris Catacombs https://www.thejournal.ie/paris-catacombs-1824046-Dec2014/
Most Bone-Chilling Paris Catacombs Legends And Myths from The Tour Guy’s Blog (Sean Finelli) https://thetourguy.com/travel-blog/most-bone-chilling-paris-catacombs-legends-and-stories/

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