'Whether it's real or just a product of the spooky atmosphere that's a mystery that continues to intrigue explorers like me.'
Well, you wouldn’t really be surprised to see a ghost down there, would you? In the middle of the 18th century, nowhere stank as much as Paris did. Sewage wasn’t the only reason for this. Instead, the streets of the French capital were filled to the brim with dead, rotting bodies. So, what’s the best solution? It’s obvious. Piles upon piles of bodies neatly crammed into a winding labyrinth that wriggles beneath the city that hundreds of years later became a popular tourist destination.
’ But it was a tad harder to do so in 1793 when doorkeeper Philibert Aspairt left through the basement door of the Val-de-Grâce military hospital into the Catacombs, for reasons that to this day, no one knows. Holding just a single candle, Aspairt swerved around the spindly corridors of the subterranean chamber for an unclear amount of time before his light went off.
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