I'm amazed that people forget these are man-made structures, meaning _people_ built them. The workers were there, with no electricity, digging away and putting up the brick and stone that holds the whole thing together. Wanna talk about scary? Imagine being down there for 16 hours a day, breathing rotten air (if you've ever been near a construction site for a subterrainean parking lot you know what I'm talking about), with a rickety oil lamp to light up your work and being constantly at the risk of having the whole damn think fall on your head. _That's_ fucking scary.
They are called the gates of hell for a reason. Dont expect you to discover what you are not meant to know. Let's see you mark every trail and go deep as deep gets...
@@katiemilady4232 Your fat ass is 5 Big Macs and a couple sodas away from having your man leave for that milk store.. In 20 years that brat of yours will end up saying the same thing 💯
@@blackirish781 Yeah isn't Paris basically rioting right now? I got a close friend and we just brought someone who lived there related to him back to the States because it's so turbulent there right now. Anyway I wouldn't go down in the catacombs myself but these videos are cool, I think it'd be really easy to get lost or like mugged even, cause people run into other people all the time down there. I am sure there's even some lesser known parts of it that are host to worse things like ... areas for criminal activity or like Satanic cults etc
I am actually a little familiar with the Paris Catacombs and can confirm that the footage is probably real but not in the way people think it is. Not only is exploring the Catacombs not a good idea but it is also illegal in Paris and it's illegal for a very specific reason. There is a group of explorers that frequent the catacombs that can confirm that 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. After looking at the footage i notice i can hear the sound of puddles as the man is running. whoever had this camera probably noticed the water levels rapidly rising and was in such a panic to find an escape he probably just dropped his camera on the way out. Honestly that's all I really think it is. Also fun little fact if you venture just far enough into the catacombs you might stumble upon a secret area where all the catacombs explorers frequently meet up to party with music and the like. Theres a bunch of cool things in that secret area from sculptures to replicas of famous paintings to an actual DJ Booth. In reality the Catacombs is not as scary as people make it out to be but it is still a bit dangerous.
My theory was since its really tight walls and level of oxygen probably isn't that high. He probably started to have some sort of halucinations. Just my theory
@misa smith Wow,..are you actually defending stupid behavior by calling this exploration? You cant really be serious or are you just simply not intelligent enough to know the difference between the two? Ill bet you are one that is easily hoaxed as well.
@misa smith So its quite obvious you have no argument to defend your illogical and absurd position so like every other idiot you resort to ad hoc word salad. Your critique of my gramatical abilities is not only incorrect but shows your inability to understand my point,...which by the way shows just how correct my assessment of you was so,....thanks for that.
@@CarayMay You are correct in that it is pointless to debate someone as delusional and so far removed from reality as misa smith is, but the point is for intelligent people to read what i have written in hopes they learn something.
After watching too many videos and reading up on the history of the catacombs, Its clear he is WAY too deep in them. There's no graffiti, and in the footage it's very clear he's not in his right mind, paranoia and fear quite literally taking him over. I think the idea of some kind of "creature" or whatnot is interesting but...not very plausible. I think he was in there for too long, and as I said he was WAY TOO DEEP and alone, the silence can actually affect your brain. You can hear voices, see things of course, you're going to panic and run. But then again we have so much left to discover in our world so maybe one day there's proof that something is down there, but for now I think his surroundings got to him
This is very true that too silent can be very unsettling. Our mail room blocks any noise after you shut the door for some reason and its just dead silent inside. I was hanging around there for a minute on my phone. I kinda freak out a bit beacuse I could not hear anything and run out.
@@kathrynbalance1294 hi a bit late .. Why explore alone? Aren't there just hi-lights and no one goes too far? Are there residents? Was it homeless people pi$$ed off at a trespasser ..?
He probably got into a part of the catacombs that had next to zero oxygen and especially gases that build up over time from no air flow at all, him being down 300 feet below street level, this is a very real possibility. This can cause someone to panic, and breathe faster thus killing them in the process from the deadly air. That's what I think happened. He wasn't being chased, wouldn't you panic if you couldn't breathe?
Even if the footage is fake this is beyond one of the most terrifying concepts I can ever imagine a person being in; the tight walls, thin air, pitch blackness- totally horrifying. You bet ur arse I’m never going down there!
what is really scary.... some of the newer bodies found there are from dyeing of thirst or hunger...…… that means they get lost and are stuck down there for days or even weeks.
Yeah. And there has been people that have gotten lost down there and spent hours getting back out.. It is a believable thing to get lost down there. But these days I'm leaning on the footage not being real.
Noted, when planning your trip into the catacombs, bring along one person whose sole purpose is to carry enough spare batteries to last until the sun explodes.
A sword is likely best, or spear. A gun would cause collapse in such brittle walkways. Yes, it would come down to the sword to survive. Batteries are most definitely a must. Backpack with food, and potable water. Other people are a must, too. Say you are trapped by collapse, what then? Never ever go alone in such desperate conditions. You will likely die alone, but another could reach help, which will reach you. Always record what you do, cause a maze can confuse, but video will always show the exact path taken. So batteries for that, too. Medical field kit for any cuts and or burns depending on if you somehow where so inclined to use torch and then burned self. Stead fast, and look for fairly recent collapses, likely, if this is a real incident, that individual buried himself down there under rock and refuse.
The catacombs are terrifying. Me and 2 friends explored for about 45 minutes and got the hell out. I’ll never go back down and, don’t suggest anyone else does.
@@TheDimz14 nah. But I’ve visited Edinburgh vaults and find the history interesting, and stayed only within the areas you’re allowed to visit with a tour guide. I’d do that with the Catacombs but can’t see myself ever leaving Scotland tbh, too poor for that
To people saying these images make them uncomfortable - please never go there. Friends and I thought it would be a funny expedition but it's traumatizing. It smells like death, and i don't mean it smells bad (of course it does) but it feels so overly cursed and ominous, every sound make you want to scream and cry. The holes can be so small you can't even go through, you get lost, you can't call the emergencies.. please, for the love of god. don't go there.
@C Ky No signal under there. (Unless you happen to have those military phones that have signal everywhere but i don't think civilians can buy them. No idea)
@@zyourzgrandzmaz1. He's Irish. 2. it's called an accent. 3. You have one too. 4. Y'all, Fleek, Lit, Your dialect is shit. Irish-English vernacular is pretty funny especially when taken into consideration that the language was forced upon the people, but that's ok, when people call us English it lets me know I'm dealing with ignorance before we even get started. And if you're going to shit on an entire nation, at least have the decency to punctuate you spanner.
I can actually relate with him, I pronounce three like that as well (and I hate it cuz I get teased a lot from it) dude just has a lisp possibly w/ the letter r, like me and I'm not even Irish (Just saying, No hard feelings tho lol)
I've heard the story of a teen girl who after attending a new years party in the catacombs of Ukraine got lost and perished, only to have her body found years later.. her body perfectly preserved because even the rats didn't go down that far... I can only imagine the level of fear wandering alone in the darkness for days, crying screaming to no prevail. That's terrifying to me.
@@maryfreebed9886 wait a minute, a girl was killed and chopped into pieces down in the catacombs??? I'd LOVE to travel over there and go exploring but only with a very experienced cataphile (sp???) and with a couple of guns.
All of the bodies would have been decomposed, it was built as an ossuary- you take the bones and reinter them someplace else. In some places you can see the bones stacked into piles, usually by bone type, like most ossuaries would. There's at least one ossuary church that I'm familiar with- the Sedlec Ossuary Church in Kutna Hora, Czechia (you should check out pictures of it, it's morbidly beautiful). Just last month they announced that if you wish to take pictures inside the church you need to ask for permission three days in advance to curb the onslaught of 'inappropriate selfies' that tourists have been taking.
Even if this footage is fake, it still freaks me out because it's a pretty convincing depiction of a situation that has happened to people before, and is likely to happen again in the future. There is precedent to show these unfortunate events do take place. Great video, Mike. I haven't seen anyone actually cover this one before. Very interesting.
No it's not. That is unless you are really aiming for it since all of entrances have been sealed and the ones that lead to the greater catacombs are constantly under close eye
Anita Remenárová which is too bad. I mean, I guess it ensures safety. But, there is a whole world under there of things we do not know that’s hundreds of years old. I know it’s a bad omen to travel where mass remains have been set, but I’d love to go down there.
@@DisDatK9 If you want to get lost, never to be seen again there are some entrances in the sewer and in the metro that according to rumors weren't found
Whether fake or not, Mr Friedland said he gave up after six miles...six miles! wow... I think I would have given up at the entrance, so kudos to him. Thanks Mike, another fascinating vid.
James Lee 😞😭 i know. They should of pumped him full of morphine and used a come along to break every bone in him to get him out Right away not let him stay there 😞 or just give him heroin or morphine to kill him😞 poor guy.
@@gsfbffxpdhhdf7043 yeah towards the end after they dropped me and i felt like i wasnt getting out,then yeah shoot me up and end that misery.i cant imagine what he was thinking,man i wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy.
uqly tea yeah but like he probably just found a ladder left and is just watching, laughing at all of us theorizing about his fate while he relaxes in his sofa lol
ppl that say its fake forget that there ARE PEOPLE that live down there. and they will try to attack you. if it was fake the french tv show would not have gone as deep as the footage is if they could do it close to the top. The people down there have been known to try n attack tourists and take cams, maps and lights. thats clearly a cause of death. if he heard the ppl coming id run too
guy probably just spooked himself, dropped his cam n run... you know that feeling when you go downstairs late at night, its dark and quiet... then on the way back upstairs you find yourself scurrying up the last few steps because you feel something behind you.
But it was his only light source you would think your survival instincts would keep you from dropping it? Unless it was too heavy, I just can’t imagine running into pure darkness. Wouldn’t not being able to see where you are going just slow you down more?
@@raymondmichalak1026 he was running away from something. Hypothetically, if he thought something was chasing him, he prolly thought that dropping his light source would prevent his pursuer from tracking him since it was clear that only he had light and this his pursuer could follow him because of that
BS If it was shown on the tv show first then its definitely fake. Tv shows have budgets to make fake videos like this look real. He should have stopped the video right there when he said it was aired first on a TV show. That just gives away its credibility. And the name of the person wasnt given, sure they dont have a missing person report for him now do they because its fake. And why would he drop his source of light and run into darkness if he was scared. The video is shot dramatically which is what studios do. Its a 100% fake. And I can bet it was Freedland himself who shot it and sold the clip to scariest places in the world program and offered to do an investigation clip as well for them lol
*I believe he began to panic when he couldn't find his way back. succumbed to a lack of oxygen upon running. It's been over 25 years, his body likely deteriorated into just bones.*
"Oh look I found a videotape that might be evidence in a missing person case. Should I take it to the police? No, I think I'll give it to a cinematographer." Completely plausible.
It's illegal, a lot of people wouldn't report something cause what they did was illegal, second, the police isn't trained for that, i'm pretty sure the people who's job is to go down here or they know the way don't want to go cause it's dangerous, did go down here and it's useless or just the path got blocked.
@Olympia Fulcher I know what you tried to say but I can not accept it because here we have two hugely different scenarios that can not be compared like that. But yes on average person who does not think further than the first thought might *reasonably assume* it is possible.
Realistic theory: the catacombs usually flood when it rains, and the puddle sounds suggest that he panicked with the catacombs started to flood. Most likely he tried to find a way out but failed, and became just another skeleton in the sea of the dead. Scary theory: Given his panic, and how he started to run, it was suggesting someone or something was down there with him. Also him dropping the camera could show his effort to try to lose weight in order to run faster, or the camera was knocked out of his hands.
If he thought something was coming after him then he might have decided to just drop the camcorder. After all, running with it, with the light on, means anyone following him could clearly just follow the light. Perhaps it was a panic thing but I'm guessing the thought was, "I gotta ditch this light and do it RIGHT NOW!" and so he just drops it. If I recall, a lot of camcorders had menus that weren't easy (or quick) to navigate. There might not have been a simple "on/off" switch for the light. Faster to ditch it and run!
He said the recording lasts as long as there was time left in the cam after the person dropped it. Wouldn't the video have some evidence of the flooding if that was the case? And even if the video wasn't long enough to show the potential flood, how did the cam survive the water?
@ᴀᴋᴀᴍᴇ sʜɪɴᴏʟ the thing with found footage films is all of the footage we see has to survive to the end of the story. For example, Chronicle tells us at the end that the third friend edited all the footage together. So when one guy gets himself sucked down to hell in As Above, camera and all, all of the footage we see from him disappears with him. That happens a couple times in the movie and it broke my immersion.
You could have tried to have trace the camera. The serial number could be traced to a distributor and possibly an owner if there was a warranty... My bet is the trail will lead to Friedland.
yeah cameras were expensive back then, even I filled in my warrant for those old tape cameras, also the shops you bought them from often encouraged you to take out extended warranty and took down your details. Sounds like a BS story to me given that the entire footage has never been screened or published.
Yep, it's a fair bet if you could find the distributor, and then walked in there with Friedland they'd recognise him as a regular customer... now what would be the chances that a catacomb urbexer would happen to use the same camera shop in Paris as Friedland?
I also find it odd that Francis found two of the landmarks that were seen in the original video such as the skeleton painting and the room full of bones which seemed like it wasn't far from where the camera was dropped and decided to call off the search.
The thing is, while finding the skeleton painting, the catacombs are full of charnel houses (rooms packed with bones) so the room Francis found may not be the one in the video... if it is, then I agree, it's odd that two key locations have been found, which again flags up that it's fake.
I cant say about the authenticity of the Paris Catacombs but my father, as a child and his 2 friends stumbled on some in Sicily and scared the hell out of all of them. This was back in the 50's. They were exploring and found an entrance that brought them to a lower level of the town, into a church ruin. They thought they were opening huge cupboard doors thinking they would find old books or something and as they opened them them they encountered skeletons of dead priests etc In a panic they got disoriented and almost couldnt find their way out.. One of his friends was sick for months and the other two were so freaked out with fear that they never ventured near that area ever again.
In Sicily? Hmm...interesting. I wouldn’t think there wouldn’t be very deep tunnels under Sicily only because it’s an island. I’ve been there...but obviously I didn’t go anywhere underground. That’s creepy 😮. Now, Rome...that is definitely filled with a lot of tunnels and bodies, etc... After all they built the new city on top of the old city. There are plexiglass cut outs that you can walk over to look down on some of the foundations from the old city. It’s absolutely insane, in a really interesting and cool way. 😊✌🏻
Comment 2: I suppose if the tunnels were in the higher parts of Sicily...but not too close to Mt. Etna...as that would be almost impossible with the volcanic activity. I mean Sicily does go from 0ft above sea level to like 10,000ft at the highest peak of Etna. (Or something like that...don’t remember the exact elevation). Would have to know what town/city in Sicily these tunnels are supposed to be located. Still....interesting to say the least. 😊
Cam recorders back in the 90s were expensive, and I would assume the owner would have registered that camera with the manufacturer for warranty purposes, so WHY NOT contact the manufacturer with the serial number for that camera to see if the owner can be determined?
If the man wasn’t identified, and the cams don’t show any identification or any talking, thus making it impossible to contact, and the camera was dropped, making it hard for other people to track the user and the camera was almost impossible to get to if it was lost,
i was born in 1980, my family had a bunch of camcorders in the 90s, and i'm in a developing country (a.k.a. third world... lol) ...it wasn't that big a deal, like, you wouldn't have been able to call sony to help identify our corpses or wtv... 😂
We currently have, in real life, drones that are capable of scouring the Fukashima reactor cores. We have entire squads getting PhDs in micro robotics designed to survive nuclear radiation. The catacombs are nothing for a drone, so send some in.
Well, maybe because some people really know whats hidden in the lowest sections and prevents that people discover it. Im not saying gosths or demons, but animals like cocrodiles that can atack humans or the drons thinking that they are some kind of animal, or maybe there are gosths down there, who knows. And, why would any one want to go down there whit a drone? I dont think there is a pile of gold waiting, and, as i see it, if it isnt confirmed that down there habit some paranormal shit is pointless to go check it out. At least i see it like that.
@@Romulus_aint_shyt your reference to clipping had me believe you where talking about Minecraft like the entire rest of the comment section again. In it, you can exploit the simple programming, and literally clip glitch out of bounds and then you can move anywhere like your character is in development and can be placed anywhere in the world.
There's graffiti everywhere down there, everywhere!...meaning people have been down there extensively for decades. Kids used to party down there in the 80's.
I think they still do. There are probably areas that are frequented more often and maybe well known, so you don't get lost there. But there are certainly more deserted, less well explored and dangerous areas down there es well.
There's no graffiti where the tape was filmed, meaning nobody has been that deep. It's incredibly massive and hundreds of feet underground and almost 300 miles of mazes.
Alicia Marcel factssss. Most id do is that official your where you walk in one lil room so I can be like yo I seen it. I love creepy stuff and all that jazz but idk why some people want to push the limit and live it out. I’ll stay my happy ass up here where the air is fresh the sun is bright and the food and drinks are rollin
Dude, I relate. If some villagers came up to me and are like "don't go in there, it's cursed and everyone who explored has died" and I just be like "cool just point me to the first exit out of here and the nearest McDonald's"
Always makes me suspicious when film makers just so happen to be handed films of amazing footage. What a coincidence he found the exact room! Lol. Who found the camera and gave it to him again?
He can't continue because after the moment when the camera hits the floor, we don't know where the man went. And yes he found the room because on the original footage (unrealesed) the man filmed all of his travel, from the enter to the moment when he dropped the camera, so they just had to follow the video
That's who ALWAYS ends up with footage like this. But I guess they're the ones that would do something with it. We didnt have RUclips back then. So in a way I get why you would give information like this to a filmmaker. The police wouldn't do anything, news stations probably wouldnt be interested. All that leaves is the crazies.
Now I've never been into the catacombs, but feel down a rabbit hole and ended up researching them way to much. From what I found, the catacombs act a lot like storm drains when it rains, and can fill up with water up to the stomach rather quickly. Seeing how the water was flowing past the camera, I think the explorer just noticed the water level rising and panicked, making a break for an escape ladder and leaving his camera behind.
Doubtful. His camera was his only source of light and keeping it with him would have helped him find an emergency ladder faster than searching in pitch darkness in a maze.
I swear on my life and everything that I love. I saw/heard this footage years ago (with headphones in) and *immediately* before he drops the camera and starts running, you can hear a woman’s voice say “are you scared?” Its literally making my eyes water just thinking of it. I listened to it dozens of times, with my eyes open, and closed, and at different speeds. I don’t know if the footage was messed with in some way, but I KNOW I heard that voice ask “Are you scared?” the very second that he drops his camera and runs. I cannot even imagine that kind of fear and helplessness.
@@rogthepirate4593 the English language is taught alot in Europe including France and it isnt rare to find French people able to speak English Also tourists are a thing
@@jackbluehq6653 Compared with other european countries, I mean. France is somewhat unique in that they're really stuck up about the purity of their language in media etc, and I've met plenty of french people who simply refuse to speak other languages (to tourists, for instance), despite understanding them perfectly well.
@@rogthepirate4593 even still I wouldn't be to surprised if a french person had spoken English to a foreigner who speaks English Sure there maybe many French civilians who prefer to stick to their own language like what you said, but I'm still sure there are French people who understand and speak English and also wouldn't mind speaking English, atleast to communicate with someone who doesn't know French
My heart skipped a beat when that film crew stopped at the latter, said the hatch was stuck, and then that they'd have to backtrack 5 or 6 miles. Just a taste of what the person in the footage went through, if indeed it is real.
Fake or not, that wall painting creeps the hell out of me. But to Friedland's credit, Baggans isn't exactly a respectable name in the "weird mystery shit" community... If I was gonna go down there again at his age, it'd have to be for someone a lot more legit than Zak.
That painting isnt painting its marks of the tortured people back in 1600-1800 i bet they puted them there and wanted information thats how things worked back then
The movie 'As Above So Below' was inspired by the video and honestly is pretty damn good. Definitely worth a watch if you're interested in the catacombs.
Occam's razor says the most logical, least complicated explanation is likely the correct one, so it's clear this guy was being chased by a demon, and fell into a pit that led to Hell.
I agree! It has great rewatch value too. Easily one of my favorites. Can't even count how many times I've watched it. I wish there were more horror films about the catacombs.
So this Freeland guy found the exact spot the guy recorded somehow... miles and miles of tunnels going in every which way... but he just happened to find that spot.... interesting.
Imagine being lost down there in the dark with no light and all that history of death down there with you and your mind running wild. You wouldn't last long.
Omg yes agree! I Literally would had given myself a heart attack. Like my body would be on the main path and easily discoverable because I would had dropped dead 💀... I call bullshit on video unless this person had zero family or friends because as much as it’s aired , nobody’s claimed him yet 😞
The only thing that makes me believe this is bullshit, is the fact that the footage was given to a filmmaker. Why would you not take it to the police? Or to the media? Why a filmmaker, of all people? It just doesn't make sense. Also, the fact that the person who originally found the footage is "anonymous". Of course...
Sure was convenient that as massive as the catacombs are, Freedland and their crew stumbled upon 2 of the main sights in the original video. Terrifying to think of nonetheless though, i dont do tight spaces.
Regarding batteries running out when you're exploring, it reminds me of a rule of thumb I once read about concerning cave diving: divers use a third of their oxygen going in, so they have a two-thirds supply to get back with. If I were exploring the catacombs, I'd use a similar rule of thumb concerning the batteries. About the video: The Blair Witch Project came out in 1999; this seem very much in that vein - even the figure on the wall reminds me of the mysterious crosses in The Blair Witch Project. It could be coincidence, but what we see of the catacomb video seems rather derivative, to me. I doubt it's real.
i know this comment is from five months ago but as someone who has worked with tape cameras from the early 90’s, some of them had the ability to play back the tape straight from the camera but it looks like the one he was holding had no view finder, which means whoever was filming would have had to convert the tape to video on a computer later to watch it back. my guess is he didn’t have that equipment with him.
The moment you said it was found by a film maker and said film maker goes down to the exact spot that was filmed and he said he omitted footage makes it a definite hoax.
I always wondered how the guy who found the camera wasn't terrified or lost the footage shows he is so deep in the catacombs probably fake I hope so...
Great video Mike and I agree with you about not going in there. I would definitely not go down there with a guy name Zack Bagans who wears Michael Jackson style jacket with Elvis Presley shades. Have a great rest of weekend and keep the great videos coming.
One day there needs to be a massive group that goes down there and explores the damn thing. Lots of equipment to keep track of where you’re at, nobody staying alone, taking every single precaution and marking everywhere you’ve gone.
I don't think so... my family bought their first camcorder in 1993 (and it was hundreds of dollars, was a pretty decent camcorder I now possess... you place the piece in a VHS tape, plays on VCR, I don't know the technical terms). I remember getting it, it was a big deal to me- I was 6 almost 7 years old, one month before my 7th birthday. It was paid in cash, no link to my parents or forms they filled out. I'm pretty sure the paper receipt (an old written receipt on transfer paper- it was from a place similar to Radio Shack, next door to it back then) is still in the massive case. Those old cameras were huge. My camcorder actually still works, believe it or not, but it doesn't have anything linking it to the owner or a registration of sorts, that I'm sure of. I'm in Wisconsin though. I don't know how it operated making such purchases in larger cities though or in France. Just saying my experience is all ;)
@@mrs.elentz2336 Thanks for the great explanation! I am in Australia and serial numbers were more common on appliances, the purchaser sending in a guarantee or warrant card after purchase, thereby linking him or her to the item and its serial number. I sometimes forget how different things can be in the US.
The serial # can pinpoint when and where the camcorder was put through production. It's also a way to figure out where the recorder was sent and where it was bought. But chances are it was bought with cash.
3:52 Wrong, the footage was actually first mentioned much earlier in the mid 1990s in the Fox tv show called Sightings, I remember the tv host said something like they recently received a video from an unknown source that shows a person lost in an underground tunnel and they asked their tv viewers to contact them if there is any further informations on the video .. I went to check the wikipedia page for the Signtings TV episodes and found that Season 4 Ep5 aired in 1995 did contain a description of "haunted catacombs", i believe thats the one mentioning the lost man footage ... I think people got the wrong impression that it was first mentioned in 2000 because Rob Gavagan wrongly mentioned that piece of information in his own youtube video on it ...
Also pretty fishy he never showed his face or voice, and he didnt tell anyone he was going? and he dropped his only light source to run blindly in the dark? If someone found a camera like that why wouldnt they give it to the police instead of some random guy? Why is there no full footage anywhere? Why did he decide to record in the middle when he could of backtracked if he recorded in the beginning? Why are they trying to make it seem as scary as possible like " oh he probably saw something" and the guy just so happens to pass a really creepy monster painting when they are trying to make it seem as scary as possible to begin with. Idk it screams fake to me.
When you don’t see any more graffiti, you’ve gone too far
I say more like uncharted territory , I wonder with the technology we have can someone track there steps or able to trace there steps underground ?
JT Suave I think it’s because of the shit connection they get due to it being under
@pedra it goes in every diretion it's a onnection of tunnels and huge, no one really knows how huge because a lot of tunnels are flooded
@@DatastreamDiaries and collapsed
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but on 90's i dont think have a lot of graffitis on catacomb walls...
People today: “OMG, the catacombs are scary!“
People in the 17th century: "Gonna have breakfast and go build some catacombs."
@Ann-Marie Paliukenas I know and agree - not scary really.
Also, this video is definitely a hoax made by the French TV.
I'm amazed that people forget these are man-made structures, meaning _people_ built them. The workers were there, with no electricity, digging away and putting up the brick and stone that holds the whole thing together. Wanna talk about scary? Imagine being down there for 16 hours a day, breathing rotten air (if you've ever been near a construction site for a subterrainean parking lot you know what I'm talking about), with a rickety oil lamp to light up your work and being constantly at the risk of having the whole damn think fall on your head. _That's_ fucking scary.
@@Palmieres I am amazed people are afraid of spiders and don't know there are people who eat spiders for breakfast.
@Dank Waifu I ain't afraid no gh.... Oh wait that's from a different movie
They are called the gates of hell for a reason. Dont expect you to discover what you are not meant to know. Let's see you mark every trail and go deep as deep gets...
3 essential things he was missing:
1. He forgot torches
2. He forgot a bucket of water
3. He didn't have an iron pickaxe
He also forgot food and building materials just in case
Might as well take some milk too
He also forgot to visit some random wizard for a sword. Because it's dangerous to go alone. :D
LOL torches. Flashlights.
Seriously have u watched every fucking video on RUclips?
Her: "Isnt this the most romantic city?"
Me: "We are standing above countless corpses."
Her: "I know."
Me: .......
You never found yourself flirting at a wake?
@@scallopohare9431 no, im respectful.. ill wait until her husband is buried..
@@scooby45247 grrrrr:D
@@scooby45247 dunno why but I found that funny 😂😂😂
Technically we are everywhere we walk
Plot twist, its actually where dads go for milk when they never come back
Ah now I know where my dad is finally😧😩
Hopefully mine is dead down there!
And they're all sitting down there with loads of unopened cartons of milk and cigarettes. Who knew?
@@katiemilady4232 Your fat ass is 5 Big Macs and a couple sodas away from having your man leave for that milk store.. In 20 years that brat of yours will end up saying the same thing 💯
@@sierraking3881 Someones obviously projecting, holy fucking shit!
too much effort to go down there is, no light,water and alot of dirt--stay up top and drink wine and eat cheese
Have you seen what Paris looks like now? The catacombs are probably nicer
@@blackirish781 BOOM SHAKALAKA!
@@blackirish781 Yeah isn't Paris basically rioting right now? I got a close friend and we just brought someone who lived there related to him back to the States because it's so turbulent there right now. Anyway I wouldn't go down in the catacombs myself but these videos are cool, I think it'd be really easy to get lost or like mugged even, cause people run into other people all the time down there. I am sure there's even some lesser known parts of it that are host to worse things like ... areas for criminal activity or like Satanic cults etc
@@voteZDLR there have been riots across France since the fall, and migrants living on the streets have trashed all the major cities, it's sad
@@blackirish781 Yeah that's what I heard, we just evacuated some guy's daughter from there because of all the conflict.
I am actually a little familiar with the Paris Catacombs and can confirm that the footage is probably real but not in the way people think it is.
Not only is exploring the Catacombs not a good idea but it is also illegal in Paris and it's illegal for a very specific reason. There is a group of explorers that frequent the catacombs
that can confirm that 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.
After looking at the footage i notice i can hear the sound of puddles as the man is running.
whoever had this camera probably noticed the water levels rapidly rising and was in such a panic to find an escape he probably just dropped his camera on the way out.
Honestly that's all I really think it is.
Also fun little fact if you venture just far enough into the catacombs you might stumble upon a secret area where all the catacombs explorers frequently meet up to party with music and the like.
Theres a bunch of cool things in that secret area from sculptures to replicas of famous paintings to an actual DJ Booth.
In reality the Catacombs is not as scary as people make it out to be but it is still a bit dangerous.
What about all the bones...was it only a little dangerous for them?
@@glitchfeedtritacticallifeg802 The bones are from the corpses tossed in there in the old century
@@SuddenlyIndebt fair enough.....seems like you would know...honestly if I lived in that area I already know I'd have explored them.
My theory was since its really tight walls and level of oxygen probably isn't that high. He probably started to have some sort of halucinations. Just my theory
The camera layed there until it ran out, if the water was rising it wouldve probably broken the camera or atleast the water wouldve been filmed
Every body gangsta until the minecraft cave sounds start to play
Imagine if someone built speakers down there and they randomly play those
Also nice, 69
Aw what happened to 69 likes?
yup
no but WHY are the minecraft cave sounds SO terrifying
I like how everyone is making jokes about this but if they were actually lost in the catacombs they would be scared shitless just like I would be
The difference being, those of us that joke about things of this nature arent stupid enough to do them.
@misa smith Wow,..are you actually defending stupid behavior by calling this exploration? You cant really be serious or are you just simply not intelligent enough to know the difference between the two? Ill bet you are one that is easily hoaxed as well.
@misa smith So its quite obvious you have no argument to defend your illogical and absurd position so like every other idiot you resort to ad hoc word salad. Your critique of my gramatical abilities is not only incorrect but shows your inability to understand my point,...which by the way shows just how correct my assessment of you was so,....thanks for that.
This is so pointless it's almost cute.
@@CarayMay You are correct in that it is pointless to debate someone as delusional and so far removed from reality as misa smith is, but the point is for intelligent people to read what i have written in hopes they learn something.
This is nothing..
Once i lost my house in minecraft
Edit: thanks for 1 like
PepeHands
I lost some of my wolves in minecraft... It broke my heart
I once got lost in the nether never again
I refuse to go back down there
Dammmmnnn
Yeah, that's far more scarier.
*Gives me conniptions.*
Dude If you're lost in the mines Just dig up
You'll eventually get to the surface
Ikr?😤
but youll need a diamond shovel
What if you run into lava
Someone is gonna get wooshed here
And u gonna need some dirt blocks also
After watching too many videos and reading up on the history of the catacombs, Its clear he is WAY too deep in them. There's no graffiti, and in the footage it's very clear he's not in his right mind, paranoia and fear quite literally taking him over. I think the idea of some kind of "creature" or whatnot is interesting but...not very plausible. I think he was in there for too long, and as I said he was WAY TOO DEEP and alone, the silence can actually affect your brain. You can hear voices, see things of course, you're going to panic and run. But then again we have so much left to discover in our world so maybe one day there's proof that something is down there, but for now I think his surroundings got to him
This is very true that too silent can be very unsettling. Our mail room blocks any noise after you shut the door for some reason and its just dead silent inside. I was hanging around there for a minute on my phone. I kinda freak out a bit beacuse I could not hear anything and run out.
I, personally have been very deep into the catacombs. This is the best explanation
@@kathrynbalance1294 cap
@@kathrynbalance1294 hi a bit late .. Why explore alone? Aren't there just hi-lights and no one goes too far? Are there residents? Was it homeless people pi$$ed off at a trespasser ..?
He probably got into a part of the catacombs that had next to zero oxygen and especially gases that build up over time from no air flow at all, him being down 300 feet below street level, this is a very real possibility. This can cause someone to panic, and breathe faster thus killing them in the process from the deadly air. That's what I think happened. He wasn't being chased, wouldn't you panic if you couldn't breathe?
Nope he isn't that far in the upside down skeleton painted on the wall is seen in the video
Yes. In the dark? And lost? Good point, I didn't know about the gases.
@@steff.7028 never even considered that....
Stefanie Hall / . ) and she
Very interesting! Thanks
Even if the footage is fake this is beyond one of the most terrifying concepts I can ever imagine a person being in; the tight walls, thin air, pitch blackness- totally horrifying. You bet ur arse I’m never going down there!
what is really scary.... some of the newer bodies found there are from dyeing of thirst or hunger...…… that means they get lost and are stuck down there for days or even weeks.
Not to mention 7 million dead people! Unreaaaaaaaal!
yh dont go there
Arse 😂
Yeah. And there has been people that have gotten lost down there and spent hours getting back out.. It is a believable thing to get lost down there. But these days I'm leaning on the footage not being real.
Noted, when planning your trip into the catacombs, bring along one person whose sole purpose is to carry enough spare batteries to last until the sun explodes.
And bring an oxygen tank and gas mask
Dont forget the shotgun
Bring a diamond sword
Lol yes bring a blessed shotgun with blessed salt
A sword is likely best, or spear. A gun would cause collapse in such brittle walkways. Yes, it would come down to the sword to survive. Batteries are most definitely a must. Backpack with food, and potable water. Other people are a must, too. Say you are trapped by collapse, what then? Never ever go alone in such desperate conditions. You will likely die alone, but another could reach help, which will reach you. Always record what you do, cause a maze can confuse, but video will always show the exact path taken. So batteries for that, too. Medical field kit for any cuts and or burns depending on if you somehow where so inclined to use torch and then burned self. Stead fast, and look for fairly recent collapses, likely, if this is a real incident, that individual buried himself down there under rock and refuse.
I'm really surprised that the city has never tried to map the catacombs out. I'm sure if enough people worked together on it it could be done
They should make an event like when they stormed Area 51.
@@migalorsdarwin1930 "Storm the catacombs. We can't all get lost."
They have. You can buy tourist maps of up to 3 miles deep. Bones and all.
They have.
probably its too narrow
"Your sanity is now dangerously low. Make sure to stay in the light and try to make progress."
that shit was scary
Amnesia?
@@L16htW4rr10r yeah
*Gives me conniptions.*
*_Tinnitus intensifies_*
This happened way back in 199🌲
Real isopod hours
I remember that yr
turbovirgin
I remember them days, homie got the cough cough and died SMH got his job now so not too bad
199? Before Rome had even fallen? Damn dude, didn't know they had cameras back then.
What if we kissed 😘
iN tHe pArIs cAtAcOmBs
🤪🤪
What if we kissed on the red target cement spears
When you accidentally no clip into the Paris catacombs
@@suuuwooo2783 😍😍😜🤤🤤🤤😫🤪🤪
Ghost aids *mhm*
The catacombs are terrifying. Me and 2 friends explored for about 45 minutes and got the hell out. I’ll never go back down and, don’t suggest anyone else does.
Bro I looked at the footage for 2 seconds my heart started pounding so much. I don’t like caves..they scare the hell out of me....
It's that creepy?
@@elavke5441 Pitch black narrow tunnels full of bones doesnt sound creepy to you?
@@TheDimz14 nah. But I’ve visited Edinburgh vaults and find the history interesting, and stayed only within the areas you’re allowed to visit with a tour guide. I’d do that with the Catacombs but can’t see myself ever leaving Scotland tbh, too poor for that
@@ZombieSazza wow look at this alpha. no one believes you lmao
He panicked and hyped himself up to the point where his own echo caused him to imagine he was being chased.
Could be
Plausible
Nope, definitely the minotaur.
@@youtubeSuckssNow the Minotaur was killed by Theseus
Yessssir. Nobody seems to understand things they've never experienced.
To people saying these images make them uncomfortable - please never go there. Friends and I thought it would be a funny expedition but it's traumatizing. It smells like death, and i don't mean it smells bad (of course it does) but it feels so overly cursed and ominous, every sound make you want to scream and cry. The holes can be so small you can't even go through, you get lost, you can't call the emergencies..
please, for the love of god.
don't go there.
I disagree. I thought it was very solemn. There's definitely a feeling in there and I really felt like a guest in a strange place.
@C Ky No signal under there. (Unless you happen to have those military phones that have signal everywhere but i don't think civilians can buy them. No idea)
You're just coward bro
@@Pablovru not gonna lie, i am
@@Pablovru
Coward or not, the place does look like a sewer and it prolly smells like one so... yeah
3:43 "It's been reported that the footage is from Nineteen Ninety-Tree..."
Ah yes, 199🌳, I have fond memories of that year.
Edit this to fond
The fact English people can't speak proper English hurts me
@@zyourzgrandzmaz1. He's Irish.
2. it's called an accent.
3. You have one too.
4. Y'all, Fleek, Lit, Your dialect is shit.
Irish-English vernacular is pretty funny especially when taken into consideration that the language was forced upon the people, but that's ok, when people call us English it lets me know I'm dealing with ignorance before we even get started. And if you're going to shit on an entire nation, at least have the decency to punctuate you spanner.
I can actually relate with him, I pronounce three like that as well (and I hate it cuz I get teased a lot from it) dude just has a lisp possibly w/ the letter r, like me and I'm not even Irish
(Just saying, No hard feelings tho lol)
@@Sashimitch_ Sorry, I didn't mean to offend anyone. Me and everyone I know pokes fun at each other like that all the time, I didn't mean any harm.
I've heard the story of a teen girl who after attending a new years party in the catacombs of Ukraine got lost and perished, only to have her body found years later.. her body perfectly preserved because even the rats didn't go down that far... I can only imagine the level of fear wandering alone in the darkness for days, crying screaming to no prevail. That's terrifying to me.
You don't know how decomposition works do you
She didn't die because she got lost. She died of being chopped to bits by a man wielding an axe. He has since been convicted.
@@maryfreebed9886 I've seen the pictures of the poor girl.. her body is perfectly intact.. maybe your talking about a different case.
@@brycetsawyer I think so too, now that you mention it.
@@maryfreebed9886 wait a minute, a girl was killed and chopped into pieces down in the catacombs??? I'd LOVE to travel over there and go exploring but only with a very experienced cataphile (sp???) and with a couple of guns.
Had this on my bucket list, then watched “As above so below” and scratched it off
Jordo that movie scared the shit outta me☠️
I want to go but only in the area we're aloud to tour. Not deep in them.
There’s a movie similar to it called “the pyramid”..definitely check it out
that movie legit scarred me, especially la taupe😂
I love that movie!
modern man: gets lost in the catacombs
ancient greecians: hold my string
sklort mcfungus. Lol.
Lol 😂
Maybe he found the Minotaur, and that's what was chasing him.
I was thinking that, bring some string or wool in bright colours and hope the rock you pin it under secures it... :o
greecians? Really? Greeks :D
Imagine being down there at the time where all the bodies weren't completely decomposed..
All of the bodies would have been decomposed, it was built as an ossuary- you take the bones and reinter them someplace else. In some places you can see the bones stacked into piles, usually by bone type, like most ossuaries would. There's at least one ossuary church that I'm familiar with- the Sedlec Ossuary Church in Kutna Hora, Czechia (you should check out pictures of it, it's morbidly beautiful). Just last month they announced that if you wish to take pictures inside the church you need to ask for permission three days in advance to curb the onslaught of 'inappropriate selfies' that tourists have been taking.
@@TheLadyCreepypasta I don't think you get it
@@adityaprabhu5158 How so? There simply wouldn't have been decomposing bodies?
@@TheLadyCreepypasta my bad, read the original comment wrong
@@adityaprabhu5158 It's all good! :)
idea: play the footage backwards. then you can find ur way back.
It’s on a VHS tape......
@@143fluffypancakes you can still play vhs tapes backwards...
Just like tfil
@Mario and then the battery drains out before you know your way back
Dude zoomers are totally unaware of the reality of the world before they were born lmfao
Even if this footage is fake, it still freaks me out because it's a pretty convincing depiction of a situation that has happened to people before, and is likely to happen again in the future. There is precedent to show these unfortunate events do take place.
Great video, Mike. I haven't seen anyone actually cover this one before. Very interesting.
No it's not. That is unless you are really aiming for it since all of entrances have been sealed and the ones that lead to the greater catacombs are constantly under close eye
can’t they play it in reverse?
Anita Remenárová which is too bad. I mean, I guess it ensures safety. But, there is a whole world under there of things we do not know that’s hundreds of years old.
I know it’s a bad omen to travel where mass remains have been set, but I’d love to go down there.
@@DisDatK9 If you want to get lost, never to be seen again there are some entrances in the sewer and in the metro that according to rumors weren't found
@@f.b.lagent1113 they tried but so many of the tunnels look so similar they can't tell what ones are what.
"Paris home of......well French people "
Well true
Not anymore
I hate my existence - not lately. They’ve been invaded as has much of the rest of Europe.
@@caesar349 I know I know :')
caesar349 Like when they occupied and invaded North African countries and stole their resources?
@@user-wz4gs2ds7l that happend years ago
Whether fake or not, Mr Friedland said he gave up after six miles...six miles! wow... I think I would have given up at the entrance, so kudos to him. Thanks Mike, another fascinating vid.
Thank you!
the guy who went 6 miles is also the guy who took the video public, the same guy who was a photographer. in other words he went .5 miles max not 6
@James the Truther terrible the way that john jones died in that cave,i couldnt even imagine.
James Lee 😞😭 i know. They should of pumped him full of morphine and used a come along to break every bone in him to get him out Right away not let him stay there 😞 or just give him heroin or morphine to kill him😞 poor guy.
@@gsfbffxpdhhdf7043 yeah towards the end after they dropped me and i felt like i wasnt getting out,then yeah shoot me up and end that misery.i cant imagine what he was thinking,man i wouldnt wish that on my worst enemy.
"Paris, the capital of France, home of... well, French People"
me: INtereSting
"down there, if your light dies, you die with it"
tight line. . .
Bane: hold my beer
Mike: you will fecckinnn diieeee
This guy: "this mf spitting bars"
If I had to go down there I'm going with 6 other people and we are all bringing 10 flashlights and a bunch of water and food
He probably found the philosopher stone but got trapped for greediness.
Underrated comment.
As above, so below
I watched this movie while piss drunk, didnt understand shit but it was fun
@@ricardosouza3119 same
What’s the philosopher stone
This guy probably just at home chillin lol
David Esquer he’s most likely starved to death. without light and in high panic, you’re dead.
uqly tea yeah but like he probably just found a ladder left and is just watching, laughing at all of us theorizing about his fate while he relaxes in his sofa lol
Yeah tbh
Spencer Woods wtf does that mean lol
Toyota NFS El UwU I know what fortnite is just wtf y’all talkin about
Imagine you're walking in water in the dark and you stop, and hear footsteps running towards you
Auh,No
probably thats the reason
ppl that say its fake forget that there ARE PEOPLE that live down there. and they will try to attack you. if it was fake the french tv show would not have gone as deep as the footage is if they could do it close to the top. The people down there have been known to try n attack tourists and take cams, maps and lights. thats clearly a cause of death. if he heard the ppl coming id run too
Friedland looks like Dr. Oz's doppelganger but with crackhead energy
LOL
Thank you! I couldn't place his face lol.
So true 😂
I immediately thot that also! And it sounds like him!👍
Dr oz already had allot of crackhead energy so that's saying allot
Dude looks like Charlie sheen and Quentin Tarantino’s lovechild
Hahaha I was just thinking that same thing 😂🤣 😂🤣 😂🤣 😂
Add some Williem Dafoe
💀👍
More like Charlie sheen and dr. Oz
I cannot unsee that now
guy probably just spooked himself, dropped his cam n run... you know that feeling when you go downstairs late at night, its dark and quiet... then on the way back upstairs you find yourself scurrying up the last few steps because you feel something behind you.
That's a possibility
But it was his only light source you would think your survival instincts would keep you from dropping it? Unless it was too heavy, I just can’t imagine running into pure darkness. Wouldn’t not being able to see where you are going just slow you down more?
That was too accurate
@@raymondmichalak1026 he was running away from something. Hypothetically, if he thought something was chasing him, he prolly thought that dropping his light source would prevent his pursuer from tracking him since it was clear that only he had light and this his pursuer could follow him because of that
BS If it was shown on the tv show first then its definitely fake. Tv shows have budgets to make fake videos like this look real. He should have stopped the video right there when he said it was aired first on a TV show. That just gives away its credibility. And the name of the person wasnt given, sure they dont have a missing person report for him now do they because its fake. And why would he drop his source of light and run into darkness if he was scared. The video is shot dramatically which is what studios do. Its a 100% fake. And I can bet it was Freedland himself who shot it and sold the clip to scariest places in the world program and offered to do an investigation clip as well for them lol
I never get tired of learning about the Paris Catacombs.
Same here!
You should come down here. It's really fun.
@@MysteryMan404bro tryna lure us into his lair💀
*I believe he began to panic when he couldn't find his way back. succumbed to a lack of oxygen upon running. It's been over 25 years, his body likely deteriorated into just bones.*
Lol imagine somwonw finding his remains and just like * *probably just another body* *
*O O F*
Maybe not. He still has his clothes and shoes. It wont deteriorate without the elements outside.
Imagine he is knocking on your door rn?
Taguro Boi probably A backpack 🎒
"Oh look I found a videotape that might be evidence in a missing person case. Should I take it to the police? No, I think I'll give it to a cinematographer." Completely plausible.
I understand you but I'm sure police wouldn't do anything about it
This is Gake n Fay
Exactly!!!!!!
Remember that going into the catacombs is illegal. So it is very unlikely he would go to the police telling that he found it in the catacombs.
It's illegal, a lot of people wouldn't report something cause what they did was illegal, second, the police isn't trained for that, i'm pretty sure the people who's job is to go down here or they know the way don't want to go cause it's dangerous, did go down here and it's useless or just the path got blocked.
Robots could explore it, even more so the sorts of robots we have now that can handle all sorts of surfaces.
Yes they could maybe they should..... maybe they should........
I don't know about that. Maybe but could a robot still get a signal so far below the surface?
@Olympia Fulcher Mars isnt underground.
@Olympia Fulcher I know what you tried to say but I can not accept it because here we have two hugely different scenarios that can not be compared like that. But yes on average person who does not think further than the first thought might *reasonably assume* it is possible.
@Olympia Fulcher Well, do we have the way? If no, then why is that? Oh right..
Realistic theory: the catacombs usually flood when it rains, and the puddle sounds suggest that he panicked with the catacombs started to flood. Most likely he tried to find a way out but failed, and became just another skeleton in the sea of the dead.
Scary theory: Given his panic, and how he started to run, it was suggesting someone or something was down there with him. Also him dropping the camera could show his effort to try to lose weight in order to run faster, or the camera was knocked out of his hands.
Because cameras really slow you down, Not!
If he thought something was coming after him then he might have decided to just drop the camcorder. After all, running with it, with the light on, means anyone following him could clearly just follow the light. Perhaps it was a panic thing but I'm guessing the thought was, "I gotta ditch this light and do it RIGHT NOW!" and so he just drops it. If I recall, a lot of camcorders had menus that weren't easy (or quick) to navigate. There might not have been a simple "on/off" switch for the light. Faster to ditch it and run!
He said the recording lasts as long as there was time left in the cam after the person dropped it. Wouldn't the video have some evidence of the flooding if that was the case? And even if the video wasn't long enough to show the potential flood, how did the cam survive the water?
If something was behind or following him, it must have been filmed with the cam after he dropped it. Which wasn't.
@@Make-Asylums-Great-Again In the 90s camcorders could be pretty heavy.
“As above, so below”
= one of the better horror movies I’ve seen in a while; based in the Paris catacombs.
That movie was complete trash
I liked it
Well I thought the script was good
But they could've used a lil more lighting on the exterior shots.
Good movie. Commentators above are quite harsh
Could have been better, there were some immersion breaking plot holes though.
@ᴀᴋᴀᴍᴇ sʜɪɴᴏʟ the thing with found footage films is all of the footage we see has to survive to the end of the story. For example, Chronicle tells us at the end that the third friend edited all the footage together. So when one guy gets himself sucked down to hell in As Above, camera and all, all of the footage we see from him disappears with him. That happens a couple times in the movie and it broke my immersion.
This is like Hotel California,
You can checkout anytime but never leave LoL
What a reference!
*the guitar solo begins*
You could have tried to have trace the camera. The serial number could be traced to a distributor and possibly an owner if there was a warranty... My bet is the trail will lead to Friedland.
yeah cameras were expensive back then, even I filled in my warrant for those old tape cameras, also the shops you bought them from often encouraged you to take out extended warranty and took down your details. Sounds like a BS story to me given that the entire footage has never been screened or published.
Yep, it's a fair bet if you could find the distributor, and then walked in there with Friedland they'd recognise him as a regular customer... now what would be the chances that a catacomb urbexer would happen to use the same camera shop in Paris as Friedland?
*My god, he's a genius.*
I also find it odd that Francis found two of the landmarks that were seen in the original video such as the skeleton painting and the room full of bones which seemed like it wasn't far from where the camera was dropped and decided to call off the search.
The thing is, while finding the skeleton painting, the catacombs are full of charnel houses (rooms packed with bones) so the room Francis found may not be the one in the video... if it is, then I agree, it's odd that two key locations have been found, which again flags up that it's fake.
Still fantastic content, I give it
tirty tree stars.
Dirty tree*
@@wesdryden2086 not wrong how it was said, that's exactly how the presenter talks 🤗 thick Irish accent like my Nan
@@natalielee25 That ain't a thick Irish accent...
Tirst, second, trud, torth, tith, tixt, teventh, eighth, ninth, tenth
I cant say about the authenticity of the Paris Catacombs but my father, as a child and his 2 friends stumbled on some in Sicily and scared the hell out of all of them. This was back in the 50's. They were exploring and found an entrance that brought them to a lower level of the town, into a church ruin. They thought they were opening huge cupboard doors thinking they would find old books or something and as they opened them them they encountered skeletons of dead priests etc In a panic they got disoriented and almost couldnt find their way out.. One of his friends was sick for months and the other two were so freaked out with fear that they never ventured near that area ever again.
It's real
@L M what if you have a phobia of skulls?
In Sicily? Hmm...interesting. I wouldn’t think there wouldn’t be very deep tunnels under Sicily only because it’s an island. I’ve been there...but obviously I didn’t go anywhere underground. That’s creepy 😮. Now, Rome...that is definitely filled with a lot of tunnels and bodies, etc... After all they built the new city on top of the old city. There are plexiglass cut outs that you can walk over to look down on some of the foundations from the old city. It’s absolutely insane, in a really interesting and cool way. 😊✌🏻
Comment 2: I suppose if the tunnels were in the higher parts of Sicily...but not too close to Mt. Etna...as that would be almost impossible with the volcanic activity. I mean Sicily does go from 0ft above sea level to like 10,000ft at the highest peak of Etna. (Or something like that...don’t remember the exact elevation). Would have to know what town/city in Sicily these tunnels are supposed to be located. Still....interesting to say the least. 😊
Wdym the authenticity the catacombs are literally just real bruh
Cam recorders back in the 90s were expensive, and I would assume the owner would have registered that camera with the manufacturer for warranty purposes, so WHY NOT contact the manufacturer with the serial number for that camera to see if the owner can be determined?
David because the video is faked for attention, don’t be unsatisfied there is no person in the video that got lost
I believe his body was found, so they must’ve identified him from remains but not released his name.
If the man wasn’t identified, and the cams don’t show any identification or any talking, thus making it impossible to contact, and the camera was dropped, making it hard for other people to track the user and the camera was almost impossible to get to if it was lost,
i was born in 1980, my family had a bunch of camcorders in the 90s, and i'm in a developing country (a.k.a. third world... lol) ...it wasn't that big a deal, like, you wouldn't have been able to call sony to help identify our corpses or wtv... 😂
@TheEditor107 2nd language
200+ miles of tunnels and Mr. Freeland after venturing through 6 of them, finds the spot. Nah, nothing fishy about that
He did have a map.
@@davidlynch9049 How would they ever know where to find that exact spot on the map tho?
@@ImJustinSane69 I'd guess that he asked the explorer who found the camera where it was found. It would give him a starting point at least.
We currently have, in real life, drones that are capable of scouring the Fukashima reactor cores. We have entire squads getting PhDs in micro robotics designed to survive nuclear radiation. The catacombs are nothing for a drone, so send some in.
Maybe there's a reason? Like how humans can't go inside the deepest sea? Idk or maybe humans are just lazy or dumb. I sure am that.
@@evelynneclipse2069 I dunno how waves work or anything like that, like the remote control signals. Might have to do with that and depth or something!
Well, maybe because some people really know whats hidden in the lowest sections and prevents that people discover it. Im not saying gosths or demons, but animals like cocrodiles that can atack humans or the drons thinking that they are some kind of animal, or maybe there are gosths down there, who knows.
And, why would any one want to go down there whit a drone? I dont think there is a pile of gold waiting, and, as i see it, if it isnt confirmed that down there habit some paranormal shit is pointless to go check it out.
At least i see it like that.
How you gonna keep comms with the drone.. underground... idiot
@@jerod5636 Youre just as dumb.
He noclipped out of reality and was in the back rooms, the poor guy walked too far.
Drunk Raccoon what does that mean?
More Minecraft loons. They never quit loving that boring game....
Caius Madison ?
@@Romulus_aint_shyt your reference to clipping had me believe you where talking about Minecraft like the entire rest of the comment section again. In it, you can exploit the simple programming, and literally clip glitch out of bounds and then you can move anywhere like your character is in development and can be placed anywhere in the world.
Caius Madison btw Minecraft ain’t boring
There's graffiti everywhere down there, everywhere!...meaning people have been down there extensively for decades. Kids used to party down there in the 80's.
I think they still do. There are probably areas that are frequented more often and maybe well known, so you don't get lost there. But there are certainly more deserted, less well explored and dangerous areas down there es well.
Secret raves
If you get lost it doesn't matter if others feel at home there. YOU are still lost.
Yeah there is actually a full on DJ booth some people made down there for secret parties lol.
There's no graffiti where the tape was filmed, meaning nobody has been that deep. It's incredibly massive and hundreds of feet underground and almost 300 miles of mazes.
0:33 nobody ever talks about the face here so maybe thats why he became spooked
Maybe
Some people are just too nosey. You couldn’t pay me to go in those tunnels.
Alicia Marcel factssss. Most id do is that official your where you walk in one lil room so I can be like yo I seen it. I love creepy stuff and all that jazz but idk why some people want to push the limit and live it out. I’ll stay my happy ass up here where the air is fresh the sun is bright and the food and drinks are rollin
*tour
Dude, I relate. If some villagers came up to me and are like "don't go in there, it's cursed and everyone who explored has died" and I just be like "cool just point me to the first exit out of here and the nearest McDonald's"
Nope im down for an adventure life is too short to not go for the unknown. You will live many lives make the best out of this one!
Right because researching history is just being nosey............SMH
Always makes me suspicious when film makers just so happen to be handed films of amazing footage.
What a coincidence he found the exact room! Lol. Who found the camera and gave it to him again?
I mean it can be a coincidence. Besides people who explore the catacombs exists. So there's a chance that it's real. Not everything is fake.
He can't continue because after the moment when the camera hits the floor, we don't know where the man went. And yes he found the room because on the original footage (unrealesed) the man filmed all of his travel, from the enter to the moment when he dropped the camera, so they just had to follow the video
That's who ALWAYS ends up with footage like this. But I guess they're the ones that would do something with it. We didnt have RUclips back then. So in a way I get why you would give information like this to a filmmaker. The police wouldn't do anything, news stations probably wouldnt be interested. All that leaves is the crazies.
@@sydzappa5082 how do you know that if the footage is u released?
@@ispartacus1337 lol so the man's a liar or a crazy?
Dude was playing Outlast in real life...
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@@kuyakaru9557 ye mate
Maybe that was Miles running from Chris Walker 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yo😂😂😂😂😂
Imagine getting lost under with all those corpses😱
Now I've never been into the catacombs, but feel down a rabbit hole and ended up researching them way to much. From what I found, the catacombs act a lot like storm drains when it rains, and can fill up with water up to the stomach rather quickly. Seeing how the water was flowing past the camera, I think the explorer just noticed the water level rising and panicked, making a break for an escape ladder and leaving his camera behind.
not how it works, rainwater takes months to join the catacombs cuz they get filtered by the ground first
Doubtful. His camera was his only source of light and keeping it with him would have helped him find an emergency ladder faster than searching in pitch darkness in a maze.
@@blake7587i think the theory is he was already by one and was just so psyched out that he dropped it and didnt care to retrieve it
I think he was running deeper notice there was no graffiti
The claustrophobia makes me want to throw up
alcohol should help
Watch nutty putty cave
@@dootdoot94xo44 very true - check out Nutty Putty cave disaster - even worse
This is nothing
I lost my dad over for 22 years
That profile pic is adorable where did you find it?
@@CA-vy8et lol
Legend has it he still roams the milk aisle...
Rique can’t wait to inherit that OT CHECK
26 here
Great spot for a first date
A great Kevin x Grim Reaper fanfic idea
Emillie Hines I would run so fast from the man who tried to lure me into this death trap 😱
I hope you’re being sarcastic
With my ex then yes!
What if we kissed under the Paris Catacombs 😳
I swear on my life and everything that I love. I saw/heard this footage years ago (with headphones in) and *immediately* before he drops the camera and starts running, you can hear a woman’s voice say “are you scared?” Its literally making my eyes water just thinking of it. I listened to it dozens of times, with my eyes open, and closed, and at different speeds. I don’t know if the footage was messed with in some way, but I KNOW I heard that voice ask “Are you scared?” the very second that he drops his camera and runs. I cannot even imagine that kind of fear and helplessness.
probably edited. I mean, the likelihood of someone speaking english in france is kinda low. They're weird about it.
@@rogthepirate4593 the English language is taught alot in Europe including France and it isnt rare to find French people able to speak English
Also tourists are a thing
@@jackbluehq6653 Compared with other european countries, I mean. France is somewhat unique in that they're really stuck up about the purity of their language in media etc, and I've met plenty of french people who simply refuse to speak other languages (to tourists, for instance), despite understanding them perfectly well.
@@rogthepirate4593 even still I wouldn't be to surprised if a french person had spoken English to a foreigner who speaks English
Sure there maybe many French civilians who prefer to stick to their own language like what you said, but I'm still sure there are French people who understand and speak English and also wouldn't mind speaking English, atleast to communicate with someone who doesn't know French
N’ai pas peur.
Nous serons avec toi si tu descends.
Pour toujours.
My heart skipped a beat when that film crew stopped at the latter, said the hatch was stuck, and then that they'd have to backtrack 5 or 6 miles. Just a taste of what the person in the footage went through, if indeed it is real.
Fake or not, that wall painting creeps the hell out of me. But to Friedland's credit, Baggans isn't exactly a respectable name in the "weird mystery shit" community... If I was gonna go down there again at his age, it'd have to be for someone a lot more legit than Zak.
Why isn't he respectable or legit for that matter?
That painting isnt painting its marks of the tortured people back in 1600-1800 i bet they puted them there and wanted information thats how things worked back then
@Miguel Mauro tell me more where I can see that and what the video name
What about Bilbo?
Some random Templar guy or Frodo
The movie 'As Above So Below' was inspired by the video and honestly is pretty damn good. Definitely worth a watch if you're interested in the catacombs.
Cait Caitlin already watched it 2 years before
Thanks
Idk if I have the courage to lol
One of the best movies out there.
If ghosts exist, that would be the place. Millions of dead bodies over hundreds of years. Spooky stuff.
Dude I find living humans way more scarier because of their evil activities
Occam's razor says the most logical, least complicated explanation is likely the correct one, so it's clear this guy was being chased by a demon, and fell into a pit that led to Hell.
No
Shut the hell up dumbass. Logical my ass
@@universalchode7232 fucking idiot
@@universalchode7232 I think the joke went over your head, my friend
i understand your humor, good one
Not to be that guy but the film “As Above So Below” is one of the best horror flicks in recent years and depicts the Catacombs in a terrifying way.
I watched that without reading the back and knowing nothing about the catacombs. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! Lol 😅
I agree! It has great rewatch value too. Easily one of my favorites. Can't even count how many times I've watched it. I wish there were more horror films about the catacombs.
When they found the Templar body preserved I knew shit was gonna get real.
The movie Catacombs with Shannyn Sossaman terrifies me.
Great movie, man.
So this Freeland guy found the exact spot the guy recorded somehow... miles and miles of tunnels going in every which way... but he just happened to find that spot.... interesting.
He had the whole video. They retraced the guys steps supposedly
It's true because they reached that deep part where the guy definitely got stuck at in the pitch darkness 💀💀
Fun Fact: The host for the show 'Scariest Places on Earth' is Linda Blair. The girl from the Exorcist movie.
Random but cool fact nonetheless +1
Another fun fact: a lot of what occurred on the show was staged. I still think this footage is real though.
Imagine being lost down there in the dark with no light and all that history of death down there with you and your mind running wild. You wouldn't last long.
Omg yes agree! I Literally would had given myself a heart attack. Like my body would be on the main path and easily discoverable because I would had dropped dead 💀... I call bullshit on video unless this person had zero family or friends because as much as it’s aired , nobody’s claimed him yet 😞
You really wouldn't
The only thing that makes me believe this is bullshit, is the fact that the footage was given to a filmmaker.
Why would you not take it to the police? Or to the media? Why a filmmaker, of all people?
It just doesn't make sense.
Also, the fact that the person who originally found the footage is "anonymous".
Of course...
Yeah but not everyone wants to be known. Some just wants to be anonymous.
Fame kills people lives
He needs to be anonymous because if the police know he was in the catacombs he would be arrested because going in the catacombs is illegal
@@toxic_pint4266 200 IQ
Kerem Kayapınar yeah but still it’s a little weird how the guy drop the camera tho.
Nine teen ninety tree🎄
One thing for sure, you wont catch my happy ass down there!
@Basedand Chadpilled yes I am. It's a choice. 😁😁😁
Sure was convenient that as massive as the catacombs are, Freedland and their crew stumbled upon 2 of the main sights in the original video.
Terrifying to think of nonetheless though, i dont do tight spaces.
they found it by watching the video in reverse and then trying to retrace the steps.
...AND...they had a map! So...suspicions.
@@Wistful77 yep! I wanna know who made the map
It’s not crazy to believe that. There was a chance to find it. A small one, but still a very much possible one.
It's fake you children
nineteen-ninety *tree*
Matthew XIAO [08D] 😂😂😂
Accent exists Ron.
This “guy” is fucking MIKE!
Remove the Nobody
@@mijikanijika done, my bad lol i was so cringe 6 months ago
Imagine digging up and you randomly dig up into someone’s home or in the middle of the road LOL
Covered in bones
This isn’t Minecraft my man, you can’t just dig upwards through multiple feet of concrete. Lol sorry if that came off as a bit rude
You think people dig their way out and not just go out the same ways people come in? lol, I need your meds
@@Juelicks LMAOOOOOO. Literally took the words outta my mouth
Regarding batteries running out when you're exploring, it reminds me of a rule of thumb I once read about concerning cave diving: divers use a third of their oxygen going in, so they have a two-thirds supply to get back with. If I were exploring the catacombs, I'd use a similar rule of thumb concerning the batteries.
About the video: The Blair Witch Project came out in 1999; this seem very much in that vein - even the figure on the wall reminds me of the mysterious crosses in The Blair Witch Project. It could be coincidence, but what we see of the catacomb video seems rather derivative, to me. I doubt it's real.
"It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
Stick a Zork in me I'm done 🤣
I love the people that understand this reference :)
That Minecraft mod?
I'd start going backwards. 🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️
Edit: I actually wouldn't be in this situation 😗
Dabi Todoroki I agree...why even go there? enjoy life
yeah but it's not only a straight hallway
Idk about 1990 cameras but why didnt he just watch his own video to find his way back?
valdezmodesto you can’t rewatch film tape
@@jesusbooty4179 you could on some cameras
Roxy Hart I’m not trying to argue but I genuinely didn’t know you could on some cameras that dope
@@jesusbooty4179 I don't know what type of camera I used back then but yeah, I remember you could rewind and watch through the camera "peephole"
i know this comment is from five months ago but as someone who has worked with tape cameras from the early 90’s, some of them had the ability to play back the tape straight from the camera but it looks like the one he was holding had no view finder, which means whoever was filming would have had to convert the tape to video on a computer later to watch it back. my guess is he didn’t have that equipment with him.
This is the most informative comment section ever
I think Barry Allen is the only man capable to solving this mystery
He prefers Lewis's card to mine...
Dude looks like Dr. Oz after meth.
199TREE! 🌲
Utopian Lion was sitting here trying to figure out your comment and all the tree references then he literally said it not even 1 min later lol.
HerbalTerrorist420 hehehehe😯😮😆😄😄😄😄😄
damn beat me to it xD
He said 1990 tree not 199 tree😭
The moment you said it was found by a film maker and said film maker goes down to the exact spot that was filmed and he said he omitted footage makes it a definite hoax.
Especially since they have not released the whole footage.
He didn't say that it was found by a film maker, though.
"Why would he drop his only light source?"
To ensure his fake footage was well lit.
How would anyone know if he also had a flashlight?
😄
Any one whos not a fool would use a head lamp
drops camera and runs, takes out flashlight
Bingo
I always wondered how the guy who found the camera wasn't terrified or lost the footage shows he is so deep in the catacombs probably fake
I hope so...
well who picked up the camera I would start my investigation with him
The man's name was Marcel Lapointe and he was eaten by a shark.
TheUnatuber case closed
Rip
Ohhhhh! So a "film maker" happened upon a lost footage tape... I see... yeah def legit
Hahaha your comment made laugh 😂😂😂
Great video Mike and I agree with you about not going in there. I would definitely not go down there with a guy name Zack Bagans who wears Michael Jackson style jacket with Elvis Presley shades. Have a great rest of weekend and keep the great videos coming.
Thanks Michael, you too!
Zack Bagans is an undisputed master of...
Yea I wouldn't go down there.
Haha i was just laughing at his outfit, what the hell is he wearing .;)
I read that as I would not go down ON a guy lol
Sounds like a lost Dr. Seuss book
BWAhaha y’all are killing me!...what is the bagget dude supposed to be anyway is he forreal?
Bruh I bet they were mining for diamonds and thats why its illegal to enter it..
Bruh maybe drop the minecraft references and get an original comment shitcock.
@@yourmotherandthesandpeople2298 oof
man was just trying to get back to his house in terraria
@@rafwaffe8985 Woah.
@@yourmotherandthesandpeople2298 Heretic
Bruh this so dumb
The game says to never dig straight down
@Fucketh Thou which makes it that much more humorous
@M481M fug
@@thatonedankboi yes
One day there needs to be a massive group that goes down there and explores the damn thing. Lots of equipment to keep track of where you’re at, nobody staying alone, taking every single precaution and marking everywhere you’ve gone.
What about the serial number of the camcorder? In those days this linked to the identity of the owner.
I don't think so... my family bought their first camcorder in 1993 (and it was hundreds of dollars, was a pretty decent camcorder I now possess... you place the piece in a VHS tape, plays on VCR, I don't know the technical terms). I remember getting it, it was a big deal to me- I was 6 almost 7 years old, one month before my 7th birthday. It was paid in cash, no link to my parents or forms they filled out. I'm pretty sure the paper receipt (an old written receipt on transfer paper- it was from a place similar to Radio Shack, next door to it back then) is still in the massive case. Those old cameras were huge. My camcorder actually still works, believe it or not, but it doesn't have anything linking it to the owner or a registration of sorts, that I'm sure of. I'm in Wisconsin though. I don't know how it operated making such purchases in larger cities though or in France. Just saying my experience is all ;)
@@mrs.elentz2336 Thanks for the great explanation! I am in Australia and serial numbers were more common on appliances, the purchaser sending in a guarantee or warrant card after purchase, thereby linking him or her to the item and its serial number. I sometimes forget how different things can be in the US.
@@douggief1367 this happened in France though
The serial # can pinpoint when and where the camcorder was put through production. It's also a way to figure out where the recorder was sent and where it was bought. But chances are it was bought with cash.
It's fake you fools
3:52
Wrong, the footage was actually first mentioned much earlier in the mid 1990s in the Fox tv show called Sightings, I remember the tv host said something like they recently received a video from an unknown source that shows a person lost in an underground tunnel and they asked their tv viewers to contact them if there is any further informations on the video .. I went to check the wikipedia page for the Signtings TV episodes and found that Season 4 Ep5 aired in 1995 did contain a description of "haunted catacombs", i believe thats the one mentioning the lost man footage ... I think people got the wrong impression that it was first mentioned in 2000 because Rob Gavagan wrongly mentioned that piece of information in his own youtube video on it ...
yet no one had been reported missing to the police
Also pretty fishy he never showed his face or voice, and he didnt tell anyone he was going? and he dropped his only light source to run blindly in the dark? If someone found a camera like that why wouldnt they give it to the police instead of some random guy? Why is there no full footage anywhere? Why did he decide to record in the middle when he could of backtracked if he recorded in the beginning? Why are they trying to make it seem as scary as possible like " oh he probably saw something" and the guy just so happens to pass a really creepy monster painting when they are trying to make it seem as scary as possible to begin with. Idk it screams fake to me.
That one dude looks like Dr. Oz’s bro
Two Quacks
Joey Grey 🦆 🦆
That "he" drops his camera - his only source of light - means it's absolutely fake. I think Freedland saw a good way to get some attention.
I got trapped in an Olive Garden for a whole lunch, I still am traumatized. It's been 3 years, will it ever stop?
Terry Robinson Your stomach must have been horribly traumatized...
Thoughts and prayers
Never ending salad and bread?
You Will make IT dude
@Jerry Atrix awwwwww! Nooooooooo! 😱