Hello everyone and welcome to the first ever scary interesting podcast.

To start things off strong, I've chosen three stories that are exceptionally creepy, brutal, and tragic.

In each of the stories, something terrifying happens to some unsuspecting person simply by virtue of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

If you're new here, my name is Sean, and now more than ever, viewer discretion is strongly advised.

The catacombs of Paris are dark and sinister at the best of times.

These were once-old Roman quarries that were re-excavated in 1777 at the order of King Louis

the 16th because the graveyards of the French capital were overflowing so severely that the

ground beneath newer burials had started to collapse onto the older ones.

They would go on to re-burry many of the capitals dead as quickly as possible, usually at night to avoid conflict, and from 1785 to 1814,

they crammed skulls and other human remains into narrow limestone passages, forming a labyrinth over 125 miles long and 65 feet deep.

In total, the catacombs are thought to contain the remains over over 6 million people.

It's possible to visit the catacombs today, but unless you have experience, you should

only go with a guide who will take you through properly lit tunnels to pre-planned spots.

Even then, it suggests that you don't go if you're claustrophobic or easily scared,

and they warn you against wandering off because it's easy to get lost in the

vast network of tunnels. Why anyone would descend to the darkness of the catacombs in the dead of

night with nothing but a candle to light their way, it's hard to say. But on November 3rd, 1793,

Filibert Asperre did exactly that. Fillebert was born in France 1732, and we don't know much about its early life.

What we do know is that during the French Revolution, a 61-year-old Philibert had taken on the role of doorkeeper at the Valde-Gras military hospital in Paris.

Inside, nuns tended to the injured, and although the king and his wife had already been executed, civil war raged across France, with counter-revolutionary still looking for vulnerable spots to attack.

Filibert's job was to guard against insurgents and keep the patients of the hospital safe.

And even through the revolution, bodies were still being moved from unsafe graves near the

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