Why You're Not Allowed Inside the Catacombs Beneath Paris
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being in paris during a zombie apocalypse would be playing on hard mode
Lmfao. I know right
Not really, the Zombies would be to busy trying to find their body parts. Hey, that's my L4 vertebra, yeah, well you have my coccyx.
Skeletons aren't zombies
Hear hear
Just wait for skyrim skeletons to be real, everyone will be screwed
Corpse wax sounds like a heavy metal band name.
I have a cdr demo by a Dutch band called Corpse candle. Close!
Ikr lol
I think fight club stole this idea? I mean the selling fat rich people their own recycled fat back to them?
No Not heaven Metal. Death Metal
I'm gonna patent it
the movie “as above, so below” is about just this. it’s so fucking good.
I knew someone was gonna bring up that movie, that movie was so great.
@@Juliooo00 I want more movies like this
@@sensn90 same, it was very well done.
It’s soooo confusing tho but I had RUclips to help me understand the ending
@@Fingernamedkid7 they went through dante’s inferno. They had to admit their sins before making the leap of faith allowing them to return to the over world from hell. Pretty much the further down you go, the closer you get out
Necromancers will be so powerful in Paris as they could literally summon undead anywhere
I know, it's like Wolnirland from dark souls 3 🤣
@@eizendragon5141 fuck all those skeletons haha
@@tamiloxd7168 hahaha
@@eizendragon5141 bro there better be a huge cavern somewhere down there where a big skele-boi with some cool golden rings lives.
miraculous ladybug akuma when
the catacombs are the real life equivalent of finding a mineshaft under your house in minecraft
Watch As above so below it’s about the catacombs in Paris it’s really good (warning you might get scared)
Joseph 2020 pretty scary
@@Power4Woe i didnt watch but i wanted to know what happened by watching foundflix
Dude the mine under my house IS the freaking catacombs.
@@FMDedits just like your mom
Finland : we are the most metal country in the world
Paris : we're literally built on tens of thousands of bones and we used the corpses for soap
Finland : brutal.
If theres 3,000,000 dead people under Paris that would make it 100s of millions of bones. 618 million bones to be exact.
@@mathewfellows but you gotta substract some bones because surely there are some people who lost a leg or something like that before that
Norway: Hold my beer, we have the tumultuous history of Mayhem
@@Karma-xr1xg
Might even out since there won't be exactly 3mil (probably a little more)
@wargent99 I heard Finland was forced by the Nazis, and the Nazis burned the Finnish stuff down when they weren't cooperative (when Finland surrendered to Russia). So I feel like you're being malicious by trying to say Finland did something wrong. Probably not the reaction you expected lol. You wanted to trick innocent people into thinking Finland was bad.
"yo, something smells funky in here."
"oh, that's just my new scented candle."
"what scent is it?"
"...corpse wax."
EW
All cabdles and soap in those days where made of some soet of animal fat people are animals so its not that weird
@@wesleydamen2018 Really?
That's so goth! A candle brand/soap brand could make candles and soap called Corpse Wax! And have pictures of the catacombs on the label.
Probably smells better than Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina candle
Many people forget that Paris, while called _the City of Love_ and _the City of Lights,_ it's also known as _the City of Death._
So it should be called the city of life then 😅
Rome also has catacombs, which as far as I know is still in use today.
I like to call it the city of unwelcome tourists. As far as I've heard, Parisians hate them and are pretty rude to them 😂 ironically, Paris is the place most visited in the WORLD
its also the City of No Public Toilets and Expensive Coffee
@@freddythecat3203 No public toilets!? That’s just downright evil!
girls:ahh yes Paris the city of love
boys: ahh yes calcium city
c a l c i u m c i t y
Master Daniel M other way around. Dudes always got freaked out by my interests. Lol
@Azahel 452 w h a t
@Azahel 452 ... All of the calcium comes from the sceletons beneath the city, doesn't it ?
@Azahel 452 Oh thank god, sry, I didn't think of the soil lol
Everybody gangsta till the minotaur comes out.
@@ericolens3well, maybe not a "fighting game" but if you want a rouglike game that's filled with mythology, try Hades.
Or theseus and adriadne rofl
A descendant of Aquila
@@ericolens3 These aren't exactly "fighting" games, per se, but you might try looking into Assassin's Creed: Origins, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, and the newest one, Assassin's Creed: Valhalla.
Origins has special boss types where you fight beings from Egyptian mythology. Odyssey has Mythical creatures as special bosses, such as the Cyclops, the Minotaur, and Medusa, among others. And Valhalla has mythical creatures as well, although I don't know which ones. Valhalla is, as I'm sure you can guess based on the name, based on the world of the Norse (Vikings).
The games themselves don't focus primarily on the Mythological aspects, but they do offer, as all the games in the Assassin's Creed series, the chance to learn a bit about actual history, be it people, places, buildings, groups, or events. older games in the series provided short-ish bios that you could read from the menu at any point in the games once you had encountered the thing, place, event, group, or person in question at least once, and would update with more info for certain things if something happened to them that was particularly important in history, or the plot of the game (for the plot of the game, it would always alter the way they died from truly historical to just mentioning how you killed them, but that's only for the characters in the games that you have to kill for the plot. Others who die in their historical way in-game are remembered as such, if that makes sense).
As for the three particular Assassin's Creed games I mentioned above - Origins, Odyssey, & Valhalla, they are much more of an RPG-style than any of the previous entries in the series. but they also offer much larger worlds to explore, and, for the first time ever in the series, mythological beings.
@@ericolens3 why not start making that game? Some of the greatest games concepts available to date have come from solo creators.
When I went into the catacombs the non-tourist way (for legal reasons this is a joke), I was surprised that they way we went in wasn’t patrolled or something. I don’t speak great French, and one of the guides who couldn’t really speak English explained why there weren’t policemen, but I didn’t get most of it. To get to this entrance, you had to climb over a wall that was very much in public without any cover. I’m sure we would have gotten in trouble if anyone passing by called the police. Anyway, it was a great experience going through the catacombs, and I saw some interesting stuff. If you’re going, make sure you get a guide. A FRENCH guide. Someone who has been down there before and knows their way around.
They should open up the catacombs to the public, to kill off some of the more stupid people. Like a darwinism thing.
@@theodour8617 but they are open you can go through the official portion they allow. I think it is too risky to leave it all open because who wants to patrol 350 km of tunnels. I sure wouldn’t.
That's just the beginning of As Above, So Below
@@MicahGaede holy shit mane it is 😩😩😩 shit fr starts like that
That sounds super fun but id be dying inside from the thought of being lost- if i knew it it’d be fun tho! definitely something id visit there but probably not that way unless i lived there
"yo shut the window, your letting the deadass smell in"
Dont worry, I'll just burn some scented candles! I wonder where they got all this wax from...
@@evantyler8647 your skin was so replenished from your ancestors butt skins
@@evantyler8647 Speaking of which, thinks its time to lather my buttcrack with the rendered fat of my ansestors
Gotta stay squeaky clean!
Getting replies months later about people washing their cracks with their ancestors sure is a trip
Imagine just chilling in the basement and seeing a mound of bodies come through the wall
And you like that dog who says"this is fine"
Totally normal, why make a joke like that?
Ur already sitting on it..
You now become one of the largest soap business in Paris.
>666 likes
So many tunnel jokes in this episode, Mines still better though.
I Dig that kind of humor!
You must have tunnel vision, trying to undermine other peoples' joke authority.
Ha
That's well funny
Good one
They should get a big group of people to go down there and map everything out. I'm sure as a team that big, they will be successful in making discoveries that have been hidden for so long.
Some of those tunnels are sunken down, other are flooded or so small that only an arm would fit through. Even the "official maps" used by the maintenance and authorities are vastly incomplete even though people have been mapping it for decades.
Sorry for i might be dumb, but why cant people just tie a rope between them and the entrance of the cave so that they could follow the rope back in case they got lost?
@@joskethegreat4154 Then you would only be able to travel at a fixed distance.Also, a rope is way too flimsy and tangible to be a proper guiding stone, they can be easily untied, discarded or misplaced. Not to mention the damn thing is like a maze, the rope could lead you to other dead ends instead of the exit
Maps exist, but they're not easy to find. Cataphiles really retain information, they won't post the maps and entrances on the internet or make them easily available. They don't want anyone and everyone to start exploring, putting their lives in danger, or trashing the place.
@@Kaigokuiwu Ok, maybe not a rope but a cable could definitely give you some great length and it could also act as a guide if it's left as an emplacement if has a pattern over it.
It’s a shame a Call of Duty zombies map based on Paris’ catacombs hasn’t come to fruition yet..
It would be so hard to get to round 100
And imagine the bosses it would be terrifying
@@ivanmarkov3315right? So many options for bosses and Easter eggs.
@@ivanmarkov3315 narrow corridors would definitely make it hard, gotta have a few open areas to train but has to be hard at the same time
@@toewstokane9023 Yeah it would be crazy especially with something involving bones and skulls
This is one place that really fascinates me due to its history. Just amazing what past cultures and civilizations were involved in.
It’s the Xenomorph god himself !
@@Nafisatou99 i would wall that door up
@@Nafisatou99 In Paris?
Seriously?
Olivier R ay, same!
Except it’s in my walk-in closet in my extremely modern basement
9:36 - *"They may well have perished"*
Agreed, they may well have PARIShed
you're everywhere
Get out
Watch As above so below it’s about the catacombs in Paris it’s really good (warning you might get scared)
pls stop D:< lol
Where’s a random guy with a mustache
I live in Paris and I had the opportunity to visit the catacombs with a cataphile. An incredible experience. The tunnels are quite deep under the surface, it took some time of climbing down to reach the network. It's so deep even rats don't go down there, there is no food for them.
We entered through a hole by an abandoned railway in the south of Paris.
We walked with water up to our waist for some time, as it had rained and a lot of water had infiltrated. I was able to see a very, very deep underground well full of water. We also visited a few famous rooms, but most of them very small. It's not the mine of Moria: ceilings are very low and paths are narrow. It's quite oppressing (even me with my tiny frame and my love for tunnels was feeling oppressed down there).
People down there mostly listen to electro music and smoke weed (air was a bit thick...). Chill people. Older cataphiles don't really welcome noobs ("tourists") and use artificial smoke to lose them and discourage them!
But this underground culture is very respectful of the place and plays a part in making sure the catacombs are preserved. Not a single piece of litter or bad smell down there!
I think I remember seeing the tomb of that guy spoken about in this video. I barely saw a fraction of the whole network, it's so big and meandering. And we were in there for 6 hours!
To exit, we crawled in a tiny hole (forwards, then upwards), and then crossed tunnels of cables (belonged to a phone company), climbed a few ladders and exited into the street through a maintenance trap door. I was covered with dirt! Good times.
I would have loved to go back but I didn't have the connections (guide was the friend of a friend, and not interested in getting an apprentice...). I don't think I could find the entrance again today. Plus, entrances are often condemned by the authorities and cataphiles have to find new ways in.
You could have mentioned that in the North of Paris, the stone is a different one than the south: therefore stone quarries are open and not tunnels. One of them became a very cool park called Les Buttes Chaumont. That's why there aren't tunnels in the North of Paris.
Imagine using a smokescreen to run away from people because you feel superior to them in the catacombs . What a bunch of clowns
@@cd5433 hahaha, made me laugh for a good amount of time. True and funny.
The best place to catch tb or fall on the mob, serious
this was such an interesting comment, thank you for sharing your experience with us!
I'm actually a cataphile and what i love about the undergrounds is that it's so peacefull. And there's so much to do, like there is a room where you can just take clay from the grounds and do some sculpture. There is so much art in there
“Cataphile”
Weird
Could I introduce you to The Magnus Archives 'buried'
I do NOT envy the folks who had the job of exhuming those bodies.
Really that’s crazy
Aaron Stark Dead boring, I would have thought.
You guys are killing me with the puns.
Yes, that was intended.
@@aaronstark5060 intendead*
Everyone's the Crypt Keeper in this thread 😂
"It is awfully considerate when people decide to DIE in a mass grave" lmao
Talk about being thoughtful. I can see the epitaph, 'he always wished to save everyone from troubles' or something like. Very conveinient.
I just got a really unnerving feeling. I've been to Paris. I've stood on many a famous street, and I just realised, I would've been standing on a literal mountain of corpses and tunnels. Quite terrifying, indeed.
Imagine how many layers of dried blood there is mixed with dirt.
Hmmn are they though ? because it the corpse were in such an advanced stage of decomposotion i doubt that there will be blood , more like decompositon fluids. Also , the dead moved to the catacombes were wax , so all the flesh decomposed , forming that structure
Definitely allot of blood since not all of them were in Advanced Decomp + They were throwing anyone who died recently inside also its not like people just stopped dying 😱 Idk why they dug a maze tho instead of a giant hole
@@upperplaygrounds6913 to support the weight of the city a big hole and the town would fall in.
@@upperplaygrounds6913 they didn't dig up a maze to put an ossuary there, the maze was already existing : a hollowed out giant quarry
Oh, that bit about the corpse wax being used for candles and soap was horrifying.
U should hear what your soap is made of. Lmao
@@paul20g20 I would guess my soap is made from rendered animal fat, shea butter and lavender/essential oils, not human remains :P At least I hope any products I buy aren't made from human fat, I definitely don't want corpse wax soap or Fight Club soap, no people in my cleaning products please lol
Heyyy free soap... don't knock it till youve tried it rofl
Human fat is just a specific kind of animal fat.
@@Keznen I agree human fat is a specific kind of animal fat but human meat is also just a specific kind of meat, I'd be pretty unhappy if my local butcher sold me a couple pounds of prime people meat lol :P
“I mean it is awfully convenient when people are considerate enough to die in a mass grave” 😂
nobody like or dislike cause
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Watch As above so below it’s about the catacombs in Paris it’s really good (warning you might get scared)
I toured the Catacombs in 2009, they may have changed that since then. It was really cool. I even found a skull with a Harry Potter scar 💀⚡️
Cool about the HP scar! A small portion of the catacombs is still generally open for tourism (though I’m sure covid has changed that for now!) but the rest is closed off; with a lot of people dubbing that small section as ‘the catacombs’ as a whole despite it being comparatively very small. Some folk, dubbed ‘cataphiles’ are kinda pros at getting into the cordoned off areas without getting caught. Try Marie-Aurelie Fulcanelli’s RUclips channel!
The one you toured is the only part of the catacomb open to the public. It's a very small portion of the whole catacombs and it's only illegal to enter catacombs if you are found in any part of the catacombs outside that section of it
Imagine you got cut in half by some murderer guy and then centuries later someone finds your remains and goes, "oh cool Harry Potter mark"
I'd think it's cool too dont get me wrong
@@G59forlife. Lol 😂
7:11
For the AoT Fans out there , this is the city that the attack on titan towns and settlements were designed after. You can even feel a titan running through those houses....its that accurate.
Edit: 7:19 you can notice the circular pattern of the placement of the house much like in Wall Maria and Wall Sina.
Cool, thank you
Nerd
True it looked familiar when the pictures flashed 🤣
wow i never knew, might have to visit one day lol (ps down with the jaegerists)
Nerd
...and I thought that a "Cataphile" was someone who molested cats.
loOl
What a catastrophy
@@benpearson49 :-D~
@@benpearson49 Catalinophile
@@bardofasher3576 youre going to the catacombs
Title: "Why you're not allowed in the catacombs beneath Paris".
Me, who has been in the catacombs beneath Paris: "What?"
Yes police, this comment right here
Watch As above so below it’s about the catacombs in Paris it’s really good (warning you might get scared)
Ladies and gentlemen, we got em
@@Power4Woe why do you keep spamming this?
@@LaddRusso91 because they can
"Corpse wax"
Me, a deathling: Ah yes adipocere
Why hello there fellow deathing! I became a mortician because of her
Hello there fellow ask a mortician fans ;)
I'm very happy that i see you in this comment section
Has Caitlin make a video about this topic?
@@rabsaque she has
@@user-tk3ou5ru1n Hit me bro i can't find it!! lmao
I'm Parisian and went to the Lycée Montaigne that you mentionned in the video, when I went there we used the catacombs to skip classes. There was an access to the catacombs in the school basement, so we would go down, walk a few minutes to an exit nearby (a manhole in the street) and then went back the same way.
Ok cool but I can’t get over your entire city could just fall into the ground. Its insane nobody has done anything like fill it or stabilize it
@@elysse5983 What do you mean? It is stabilized, and when there is some places that became risky, they make sure to do repairs to stabilize it.
@@marinamartinho7972 oh thank goodness
The guy in the video didn’t say and said it as if at any day it could sink
I was already making peace with never seeing paris bc hell no im not risking this crap
@@elysse5983 ... Quite a few of the tunnels have been filled with concrete.
Imagine dying and people going "yeah we're gonna bury you right there where you suffered your final moments" and in the netherworld you're just like "bruh"
They just find his bones half buried in a mineshaft and go “Well nature had a plan” and bury the other half.
That our being soap, take your pick I guess
Thanks Paris
"Parisians"..
So... if Paris was a tiny little town, would the people of Paris be called Parisites?
Nice
Nice
Watch As above so below it’s about the catacombs in Paris it’s really good (warning you might get scared)
Lawl
Actually, the first people who settled near the actual Paris were called Parisii. Quite close
The streets of London are paved with stone quarried all the way in Australia from Stony Creek in Melbourne. The band the Orbweavers wrote about it as the ships needed to take on ballast for their return journey.
TFIL RUclips channel went down there after getting in touch with a caterphile. He left them down there and they only got back out due to the constant footage they had taken on the way in. But they did pass a group of people singing and playing guitar and found a room used as a cinema.
The thing is they tour guide leaving them was just to make a good video. As they still didn't showed his face so. also it was pretty easy to access it imo it was in very public.
I am parisian myself and I went several times to the catacombs to party during my youth (the illegal ones) and it is actually much sturdier and actually super cool. There is 2 known entrance and a lot of chambers full of fun alcohol and amazing party
holy crap thats like super cool
My cat keeps scratching itself, I guess I have to buy my catacomb.
HA!
HA!
🤦🏼♀️
Not bad
Nice one.
The French are something different aren't they.
Yes
Oui
I’m 19%. French.. but trust me ppl from Paris are scary asf
@@Nubcake47 how are you 19% french😭😂
In France we have the largest underground dungeon in the World, the finest gastronomy ever, the pinacle of Fashion and had a one of thé most badass men in History, le géant de Ferret a man who is told to have killed a batallion of British soldiers with only an axe during the century long war
Imagine walking the streets of Paris and suddently half of Paris start disappearing in front of your eyes. Good to know this. I’d never buy a building in Paris.😅Ya never know.
Good thing you know now! Saved you a few million euros
TheSecretWindowSpot imagine setting up a whole movie theater and bar in the catacombs just for it to get crushed by somebodys house 🙃
Why has the government now not done anything. I cant imagine the parisians are like meh its fine.
You'd be surprised, but a lot of cities in Europe have tunnels under them... you know, most European cities are a few hundred years old, and if you can build up you can also dig down. Though most of us know rooughly where the tunnels are when you build /just check historical maps), on rare occasions we do find old tunnels.
It is not unheard of once they start building, everything stops for a few months because they found something for arecheologists to have a look at before they can continue. They don't even need to dig for building something, not long ago our central church had to fix its floors and renovations stopped for several weeks because they found a piece of the older parts of the city walls. Europe, we are used to it ;)
Me: *is a claustrophobic*
Also me: "yes yes, this is a good video to watch"
Excised and Anatomised omg Me too
Shall we meet up an go down there
As someone who has been in catacombs (not Parisian, but ones still in use), I would NOT recommend you going. I'm not claustrophobic at all, but even I started panicking a few times. It's totally different from just being in regular caves.
I guess Parisian home owners just have to get used to having a deep cave under their homes....
Cellar vie! 😆
@@ericolens3 Love the sound of champignon cheese... never tried it myself (although those underground
mushrooms growing in the same soil as all those dead bodies, isn't quite so appealing! I would definitely stick to the Camembert 😋
Watch As above so below it’s about the catacombs in Paris it’s really good (warning you might get scared)
Whahaha!!!!!
Que cellar cellar.
Went in the illegal part last year, a friend who descended in the catacombs since 2 years was our guide. We had dinner in one of the famous rooms built by cataphiles. We had some wine and cigars with some candles. That was quite the experience. Some parts had so much water in them we almost had to swim through. One fun thing though is that when coming out, the grid we wanted to come out through was blocked by heavy bins. We finally managed to knock them over but it was quite the thrill
What
I've never been to Paris but this is giving me anxiety lmao
A little bit off topic but I think you’d rock a cowboy hat.
Watch As above so below it’s about the catacombs in Paris it’s really good (warning you might get scared)
@@Power4Woe
Don't spam. It's unbecoming.
@@Power4Woe stfu
british cowboy
@@sardinez u mean bri ish
We used to have caves under our town which were great fun to explore when I was a kid, they were created during the 1800s when the castle was built, we used to climb over the fence to explore them and use string to remember our route, but when the pub and half the one way system collapsed into it they filled it with concrete and only a small section under the historic castle remains and it now costs a ton to have a tour of it.
Where was that?
A castle? Let me guess, Transylvania?
@@nvmffs yep only known place on earth to have castles.
@@silkuk8417 It wouldn't be guessing if it were, would it ?
@@nvmffs haha true 👍
The search and rescue dog trying to look for someone lost in the catacombs: 👁👄👁
lol^^
Umm they would not use a cadaver dog. Lol 🤦🏽♀️
Must be special dogs to ignore all those bones...LOL
That was a great summary! - I would love to be part of that select group who venture down there... with a map of course. It's fascinating. I've been to the public part of the Catacombs and you can see many tunnels that branch out, closed with locked gates. It definitely makes you wonder what else is down there!
After watching "As Above So below"
I don't think I want to go down there.
17th encounter
caroline anderson Shit I need to start counting
ok lets say 10th encounter.
Hello again, brother
Come on the worst thing you’ll find down there is probably the gate to hell
As a medical professional I loved this one, 10 thumbs up! Nobody ever realizes what an extensive task getting rid of dead bodies entails, and the horrors of doing it incorrectly.
Couldn't you just burn it, it's e
way more hygienic but people are so complicated about it
I recommend the movie “as above so below” it is based off the catacombs and the gate to hell idea it is very entertaining especially with friends
As fun as a rave down in the catacombs would be, it seems like getting all the sound equipment and (presumably) lighting equipment down there would be a pain...
When my wife and I were in Paris a few years ago I tried to get into the catacombs (my wife opted out) they were closed because of one of Paris' many labor strikes. We had a very full itinerary so there was no time set aside to try again on another day. Pity. I think it would have been fascinating. Maybe if we ever go back I'll get my opportunity.
I had a strange experience! I was also there about the time of the strikes, but they were open on the day we booked! Someone else had booked for us, so I hadn't seen the website/booking website. Anyway, once inside, we got those audio guide things to listen to, then I noticed a guide telling another group some facts, so I tried to listen and she told us we weren't allowed to listen to her! (She was telling them something about info she was given when she bought an apartment in Paris). That group was also allowed into more private parts of the catacombs. I was confused as to why they got a better tour, and when I asked (politely), the guides acted like I was crazy and were rude to me. Found out later there were multiple ticket options and we had the cheap ones. I didn't see anything interesting that I hadn't already seen on Google before and it was extra frustrating watching the other groups get their "better" tour! So ja, if you get the chance to go in future, get the more expensive tickets if you can!
Also because I was frustrated, I walked through quickly and finished early so they searched my bag, thinking I had just taken the tour to steal some bones!
I went to Paris before Covid and made it into the catacombs. It was a very mind-boggling event for me because there was neat stacks of human bones for miles. It took my group 45 minutes to explore the whole area, but it was a great experience, if you ever go back that is something you should do.
Got my chance(s) in the 90's... Took a tour-bus to Paris when my ship was docked in Cannes...
Anyway, I did get the more expensive tour... It was AWESOME... The pic's and vid's you see are still kind of "filtered" if that makes sense. There's no better way to let the gravity sink in than to walk through and see and touch the tunnels.
AND if you should ever get into an underground tour that's a bit "dodgy" (no matter where)... Keep at least one spare light source that's reliable and old-school... like an old lantern you can wrap in foam in your pack... AND chalk. I prefer "Sidewalk chalk" because a stick will last longer... As you enter the underground (cave, caverns, old mines, anything really) and reach an intersection step near a clean spot on a wall and right at a specific level of your body (I use my shoulder mostly) mark a triangle pointing exactly back the way you came... Don't worry about which way you're going. That's no good. It sounds good, but it's terribly unreliable, especially when you're worried about the longevity of your light and starting to shit pants... Point the thing back down the tunnel the way you came in... This will automatically indicate the way OUT... white chalk is usually best, but not always, so several colors should be brought in a small bundle together... and protect it. This way, as the rocks change colors, you can pick colors that stand out. AND repeat this process at EVERY intersection... EVERY branching off... ALWAYS on the same side of the tunnel you've used, so you know right where to look and how high the next mark should be... This could save your life one day (because I know how tempting it is to go check out dodgy places with dodgy people)...
Don't ask me how I know about this sort of thing, and I won't have to lie to you. ;o)
Omg almost spit coffee out when you mentioned washing ass with dead relative wax yer killing me laughing my ass off here.
Well, if your ass falls off from laughing, at least you'll know where to look for soap to wash the wound!
The Nazis did the same thing with concentration camp inmates. There's apparently still some of the bars of soap, made from the inmates about - if you're able to get your MIT's on them.
Corpse soap and candles? Well that's just a bizarre idea....
Bit like ground Mummy as was done
When I was a child, I had a recurring dream that I was standing in an underground tunnel that was carved out of rock, facing the opposite tunnel wall, where standing human skeletons were lined up side by side, as far as I could see, down the length of the tunnel. As I stood and watched, two men dressed in lab coats came into view, one held a lantern, and the other had a clipboard. The two would stop at each skeleton, the man holding the clipboard would make a few notes, then they would move on to the next skeleton in the row, and repeat the ritual, taking notes. I can't recall how many times I had this dream, but the last time that I had it, (during the dream) I realized that I was actually one of the skeletons, that the wall that I was standing against was also lined with a row of skeletons. It was the creepiest dream, and I had never heard of the Paris catacombs. When I was a child, I don't believe that the catacombs had been explored much, or mentioned. I wonder where the seeds for that dream originated. It scared the crap out of me.
"..He struck gold investing in the sex-chat industry. Reminds me of my own youth. Only I didn't make any money."
AHHAAHHAH.
Go and look at the pretty dead people:
"You certain that he's dead?"
"Yeah, he's pretty dead."
"Are you saying that he's not quite dead, or that you've taken a fancy to a corpse?"
"Yeah."
Idg the reference but yay
@@reapermaster1233 No reference. Just me channeling Montey Python.
@@ripvanwinkle9648 pretty good
@@ripvanwinkle9648 That's exactly how I read it too... are you sure it's not something already? come onnn.
@@ripvanwinkle9648 I thought it was the princess bride reference for a second
I'm french.
Fun fact : teenagers still go into the catacombs for fun sometimes at night, it's difficult to find an entry and way more difficult to go out of it. They often go there in hope to find skeletons or more scary things, even if it's really dangerous.
I lived many years in Paris and still go there sometime, I never been to the catacombs myself but my mother told me stories of her youth, she told me that during her studies there were a entire nightclub she was frequently going to with friends. And that this section disappeared from a day to another with no trace.
If you look at the detailed map you can see than many tunnels have been walled up or even filled with concrete, preventing any access.
I'm a filmmaker in the commercial market. I love doing films but getting a little bored with commercials etc. You've inspired me to record my first short documentary this winter in the stone villages of northern Portugal. Thanks for the inspiration.
3:00 That's the Decider for me, I was toying with the idea of my ashes being put in the recycle bin, but now I have decided that being made into a bar of soap is the way to go... Thanks Thoughty2 !
Ioana * .... wtf does that have to do with anything?
You could use your body's fat for a bar or two of soap, and the carbon from your bones, for a Diamond, weighing in at over 1 carat, as an everlasting memorial, with your name, date of birth & date of death, engraved on it.
@@davidarundel6187unfortunately, I’m fairly certain that’s illegal. (At least in the US)
15:26 imagine exploring the forbidden underground catacombs at night, being creeped tf out and all the sudden u stumble into a fucking 1000 people rave party
I watched this channel religiously in like 2012 when I was a child but had completely forgotten about it until this came up in my recommended today. It’s so great how far it has come, and I love how it still has the same intro. I have resubscribed :)
Thoughty2: *there are more dead in paris than liveing*
Me a Parisian:.......... :) nice to know
I mean isn't it obvious anywhere there is gonna be more dead than living people hahaha especially such crowded cities
03:00 "How your dead relatives help you stay clean and read the paper after dark."
Thoughty2: "Hey, Thoughty2 here..."
Me: "42 what??"
Yep
I've never been to Paris, but I once went on a tour through some catacombs underneath a Franciscan monastery and another set underneath the main Catholic (I believe, don't remember for sure) church in Peru. The ones underneath the second aren't used anymore, but I was told that a monk had recently been buried in the Franciscan one, which we explored more thoroughly. We obviously were only allowed to see the long-dead bodies that were just bones, but it was still kind of creepy to think about it and see dark tunnels off to the sides.
My friend explored over 50 miles of the catacombs, slept inside for over 7 days, the pictures he has are honestly unbelievable, I still can't believe he actually did it
Source?
I couldn’t bring myself to go down there when I had the opportunity. It’s neat to hear about others adventures though.
Have you ever seen the movie "Perfume: Story of a Murderer"? It takes place in 18th century Paris. There is a scene involving a collapse of an area of shops over the river Seine. While it's not about the catacombs beneath Paris collapsing, it does give you a feeling for the time period and what a collapse would be like (it's got a great cast, Dustin Hoffman and Alain Rickman, bot favorite actors of mine.)
If you liked the movie, you should read the book! It’s brilliant :)
didn't know they made a movie ... might watch it
(never read the book either ^ç^)
Yes I've seen it!
Really good movie!
Amazing film!
When I was in 6th grade, I was in the catacombs of Paris with my family. Like in the open parts were you’re allowed. I never understood why they were so many skeleton and people calling it on of the most scary places in the world. Now older me is just like, well...
When he said 'you too can be a part of a large community' I thought he was about to start talking about how people get lost in there and join the dead lmaoo
''On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood." - Vigo the Carpathian
whose real name is Robert Dupont from Paris but that doesn't really strike fear so he changed it after visiting the catacombs
^ç^
I was literally (randomly) thinking to look up the catacombs this week... then... Boom! Thoughty2 just uploads this 🤯😁
You could say you had a thought and thouvhty replied 😂
@@ethanbridge7271 lol 😂
to be honest i thought you could visit them my whole life
Its because this time last year catacombs where popular and the youtube algorithm recoccomends catacombs and im guessing thought 2 follows it so he knows what going to be popular and featured in recommendations but there's also the fact that people live of food and i just made some bs up
The reason isn't the reason why it was the only thing I did was the one that was sent to yourselves and was sent to the shop in about it before we started the order 💯 we
I am absolutely blown away by the home owner is responsible for the ground beneath them. Living in the states, I've never once considered the ground beneath me. I can't begin to fathom the amount of money it would cost to maintain that, then I think about the neighbors if they're maintaining their ground as well. As much as I am infatuated with France and have fantasized a life living in Paris, this fact has disillusioned that for me. 😅😭
Glad to be here as a member! :)
My copy of Stick a flag in it just arrived gonna start reading soon. Keep doing what you're doing love your bits of knowledge in video form
They might have “Paris-hed” 👀
Don’t ever sin, I want you nowhere near hell
Watch As above so below it’s about the catacombs in Paris it’s really good (warning you might get scared)
@@Power4Woe bro shut up
Me: Eating lunch
Thoughty2: Corpse Wax
Thoughty: Most certainly wont be me.
Thoughty: That'll throw them off my scent.
Yeah, I've never had the inkling of going to Paris. This is one reason I would consider maybe going though
I went to England, and spent a few days in Paris. It’s actually very nice. Way better than England.
@@johncamp7679 cool story bro
There are a great many reasons one should at least spend a few days at a time in Paris. It depends on the time of year, though... They have a WONDERFUL wine tasting festival along the Champs Elysee. There are tons of out of the way shops that cater to nearly any palette or craving you might have. AND if you're just a bit jovial about your poor command of the language, but authentically TRY to work on your French, they're actually not nearly as rude or mean as the stereotypes. Tours are offered at various spots, but taking a local (who has the time) to lunch is also a good way to find out places you really should see and things you really should do (instead of the dumb touristy crap like the tower and louvre... like everyone else) before leaving Paris... It's how I found out about the Catacombs in the 90's when I went. ;o)
yeah I'd say this and the rats really made me interested.
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 I speak French, it was cute curriculum in school. I'm Canadian. The main reason I would not go is because I'm truly not interested. I prefer Latin America because I also speak Spanish and the ruins, temples, and pyramids are incredible and the food is amazing.
The letter ''Ne cherchez pas'' means more something like ''don't try to understand/nothing to see here/don' t waste your time''
@I C Just a french expression, idk if you got it in english now that i think about it
You basically say that to another person when you both saw/know/hear something that was soooo outragous/dumb/unexpected, which made the person you say it to in a state of disbelief
Manux x yeah we understand
So, basically, it's like all the times Rick tells Morty "don't think about it" when something weird happens.
@I C cherche pas, mec
"We should take the corpses and push them somewhere else" 🤣
imagine the smell when the bodies were still decomposing....
No
This man could talk about anything with his amazing voice and I'd be entertained.
We just happen to be lucky enough that he has some of the most interesting and entertaining content on RUclips.
I feel privileged to get this for free
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I get the feeling they weren't hosting family movie nights in that cinema.
You did a great job in collecting so much informations and facts about Paris and the catacombs ! I'm amazed by your work and while French I wasn't aware about these facts and stories. 10/10 👍
At 11:16, the sinkhole in Rue d'Enfer - the road hs now been renamed Avenue Denfert-Rochereau, but the original name, Rue d'Enfer, ironically meant "Hell street"
Im personally more interested in how's he gonna possibly manage to change this title 5 or 6 times.
Why who does the title offend?
This dude got badges for his mustache.
one of my favourite topics told in an interesting and new way, definitely subscribing
I read a book about the catacombs of Paris. Very scary and creepy. Why would anyone want to look down there where the chance of getting lost is extremely high. So, I and many more, are with Thoughty2 when he said, “1 won’t go down there.”
tl;dr its trespassing because if you own a house above it, you also own the catacombs beneath it
* buys a house * thank you for your purchase sir, and as per law, you get an added bonus of an estimated 300 dead bodies under your house.
"what the fu-"
@Clam Smasher not like anyone is counting them anymore...
I would build a basement and make the world's most epic man cave😎
Hey it's free real estate.... I'll see myself out.
Do we get a part of china too ?
"Out of sight, out of minnnnnnnn........d." - my favorite :D
I just wanna say that I love your channel, and I have been binge watching your videos recently. Great work. 👍❤
2:51 some guy in France washing himself with grandma
How not to get lost in a maze: Pick a wall, left or right. Follow that wall. To find your way back out, turn around and follow the same wall back to the exit.
over 350km of tunnels... and your proposing I stick to the left or right wall... which would mean I'd need to go twice the length to get back to the start.... For +700km...
May not work in a 3d maze. IDK.
Only works if you stay by that wall tho. A better idea already used is a string/rope/wire line at the entrance and just follow it back when you’re heading out. Just don’t let it get cut or snapped then you’re lost. Think I seen a few movies like this or som
@@Bryophytan No, I was saying you wouldn't get lost, not that you would make it through all of the maze.
@@RunMan254 thats how the Labyrinth in greek mythology was "beaten"
Nightscape got stuck in there after a guide robbed him and left him in there. There’s a good video on utube of it
Let me get this straight: You comment something that is unrelated to the fact that I have two DANGEROUSLY DASHING girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest RUclipsr ever, having two hot girlfriends is really incredible. Yet you did not mention that at all. I am quite disappointed, dear mar
@@AxxLAfriku ok
AxxL Your birds are munters
@@AxxLAfriku two hot girlfriends? guess you were dating a two lesbians eh?
@@AxxLAfriku Top kek
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