The Unsettling Catacombs of Paris - The Empire of The Dead

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Paris is the city of love, the city of lights death is on display
A parallel city, a labirinth, stop tis is the empire of the dwead. passageways for their future role as an underground sepulchre

2 km of catacombs, open to the public built in the 18 th century. Ossuary.
A vast network of cavers, tunnels chambers and old quarries shred in darkness. 200 miles 321-mostly un mapped. kilometer possibly 7 million people. this largely uncharted territory. 12 years.

Often equipped only with head lamps and homemade maps,
If you have no source of light, you will get lost as you get engulfed by complete pitch darkness.
Although the Paris Catacombs have been a popular space in Paris since opening to the public in 1809
Tunnelling in Greece dates back at least to 2000 B.C. when many tunnels were excavated for the exploitation of the minerals of Lavrion and Sifnos and Thassos Islands. Innovative methods of tunnelling were applied for the construction of many other tunnels of the prehistoric, classical, hellinistic and roman era.

Roman architecture and the survival of the local architectural and cultural practices contributed to the creation of an idiosyncratic provincial identity 
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Access points and pathways

Lime stone quarry tunnels possibly even since Roman times.

Loius the xvi hired an explorer to map and stabilize the quarries due to collapses

The catacombs of Paris began as tunnels for stone mining

7 to 6 milions of bodies

illigal in 1955
1980 police patrolling the tunnels

began to spread became one giant tomb
nearby cemeteries overflow 17 th century

accros 200 miles of catacombs
almost all unmapped

no one knows the full size

only a small section is open to the public

much is deemed unsafe

illegal to enter the rest of the tunnels Lime stone

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whenever it rains the catacombs actually gets really flooded very very fast. Meaning the water can sometimes even go up to waist-length during this downtime. When this happens, explorers are encouraged to run as fast as they can to the nearest exit ladder to safety, however because the Catacombs is practically a maze this is a bit of a challenge

#catacombs #paris #mystery

[brianmoyachiuz]

Illegal access to the catacombs? Come on, it's not like there's necromancers trying to raise an army there, right? 😂 Right? 😰

[azahel]

Oh, a video about where I live!


No, I don't live in the catacombs, but it's always an option if everything goes wrong....

[teeprice]

I went to a rave down there back in 1996. I have no idea how long it took them to get the generators, lights and so on down there; I was told they actually moved all that stuff around from time to time, to avoid the patrols. They also threw the raves on different levels. When I went, it was two levels down and the chambers were a mix of bones and skulls, and bare stone walls with wonderfully old stairs.
There are a LOT of stories about people who live down there, including a small tribe of cannibals descended from people who were around during or before the Roman times. Wandering around down there was interesting, but after a while I got a bit claustrophobic and really wanted out of there.

[OUSE]

I get a vibe that this dude is one of the most authentic people on YouTube. Facts and only being recorded as the one true history of the world, no matter who's feels get hurt seems to be his mission and I love it. Thank you Metatron, the world desperately needs more educators and influencers such as yourself.

[sinead]

As an overly imaginative child, I was eleven when I went into the catacombs under Paris. I was part of an American institute for foreign studies trip (1978). I was the youngest child (by a couple years, I tested well and was chosen anyway). I had night terrors for years after going there.

[DucaCremisi]

Small add on the Catacombs, Catacombs were used mostly as refuge or as a religious place, many were built during the persecutions of Christians.
Some Catacombs are still visitable and well maintained, but many times, a lot is uncharted or extremely sparsly uncovered.
So it's extremely dangerous, and many times happened to people to simply get lost.
And it's mainly for that reason that people aren't allowed.
Many times for preservation and archeological reasons.
And some are considered holy places, so are limited.
There are still a lot of subterranean catacombs and "cities", that get uncovered pretty often.
There are some that were used until recently and some still to this day.
One good example, are the galleries in Naples, used even in WW2.
Just a small add-on, great video as always compaensano!

[georgepatton]

I wonder if, somewhere in the walls of this aincent catacomb, lies the skeleton of an unfortunate gentleman named Fortunato

[patrickverlinden]

There are people spending lots of leisure time down there, they are called the Cataphiles.
They don't like outsiders to explore the tunnels, unless these outsiders came with a cataphile guide.
They even built a movie theatre underground (and illegaly tapping electricity from a public building above)
Also keep in mind that the ossuarium is only a part of the tunnel system.

The entrance of the unofficial labyrinth can be a sewer lid, a disused train tunnel, or an abandonned building.

[timhefty]

Id also like to add that darkness itself can play tricks on your mind, as well as lights casting shadows

[MrCoconut]

spooky season videos are always a welcome

[gwotaku]

This is going to show my age but back in the 90's, as a kid, I was obsessed with the catacombs because of The Highlander TV series. They filmed a couple episodes there and as someone from the Caribbean, the catacombs were super fascinating.

[gstvntt]

This is THE ONE YouTuber I truly hope and believe never gets "exposed" for horrible behavior such as we see happen on an almost daily basis nowadays, the respect and integrity you show both on your content and in the way you speak is remarkable and I hope you continue this way and grow even further. Have a good one and keep on spreading those wings.

[chrissermoon]

Love that there are vids every day this week!

[sussudioharvey]

It was alleged 1993… but no one is sure. Remember that it was in 1999 that the Blair Witch Project came out. A lot of amateur film makers tried to copy that style of filming. And was that camcorder actually sitting there in a wet environment for many years without the film being destroyed by the conditions or picked up right afterwards just in time to be part of a Show? Again a time when the “ Paranormal reality “ tv shows very popular.

[pedrocpontes]

Greatest human achievements

3 - wheel
2 - fire
1 - Metraton daily videos

[sparklestars]

I’ve been to catacombs. They don’t bother me. I like that when they had to dig up and relocate the bones of the dead they respected them enough to make the “walls” neatly, even creating patterns. Behind the walls might simply be a mixed pile but at least what visitors saw that care was taken.

[keithkannenberg]

I've visited the Paris Catacombs. Only the part that you can visit and tour legally, of course. Walking through underground tunnels that are lined with skulls and bones is an experience. It was actually somewhat overwhelming when I stopped to think about it. This wasn't some Halloween display but actual human remains. Not something that one sees every day. Definitely a worthwhile thing to visit in Paris.

[appelflapdrol]

Never been beneath Paris but the catacombs and crypts near Rome were pretty insane, complete skeletons dressed in their original monestary clothing, surrounded by hundreds of human skulls...
When you visit your home country, please do arrange a tour and vlog it for us! You might even get some special access thru the channel

[MsxAlRox]

Ready for a good quality content as always

[ninavale.]

In Poland, in one of the cities we have a chapel decorated entirely with bones. Aptly names Skull Chapel..and it's like a thirty years war victims, Prussian-Austrian war and all the cholerą epidemics back in the olden days. I've only been there once as a child, and yeah it's not something you easily forget.