Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, Lynn Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, October 18, 2021. Happy birthday to Laurel. On the show today, news, listener questions, and in our main segment Jim gives us part three of our inside look at how Walt Disney World was

developed more than 50 years ago. Let's get started by bringing in the man who reminds you that the old English word for body was

Ban Kofan, which translates literally to Bone Cave.

Sleep tight, kids. It's Mr. Jim, how's it going? Okay, so we're going for

Halloween. It did you? Thank you. I have a whole thing of Christmas as well.

Okay, cool.

Well if we're going to talk about bone caves, let's talk about real bone caves, like the

catacombs in Paris, Disney fans, they love to talk about the utilities that run

under the magic kingdom.

Whereas the catacombs of Paris are this man-made network of tunnels that connected the ancient

stone quarries that surrounded the city of a lion and lend they were and still are constructed out of no lie the remains of no more than six million people.

Wow. The Catacomb Project was instigated back in 1774 where on the heels of an extremely damp spring there was this

gruesome series of incidents in Paris where the basement walls of structures had been built

right next door to cemeteries. The walls would give away and suddenly all these skeletons

would come spilling into, well, the 17th century equivalent of the Rickroom.

Awkward? All right? I don't know who who exactly when they came downstairs to discover their basement full of skeletons

were like, hey, opportunity to do some redecorating.

You know the skulls look good here. It's it's giving out the right vibe for the basement. Yeah, yeah definitely.

Have you ever been or seen photos of a skeleton? It's kind of like the equivalent of walking through a space made out of Legos if all the Legos were skull and femur shaped

Have you ever seen the actual catacombs in Paris? I have seen photos and I remain very happy that I am thousands of miles away. I mean, did you ever back when it was still

dueling dragons had lost continent at Universal? I ever go through the cue of that attraction.

Yeah, first of all that was the cue of that attraction. The cue.

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