SHOCKING! Dark Secret Hidden in Tunnels Under The City of Light

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Millions of tourist flock to Paris every year to visit the Louvre or see the Eiffel Tower up close.

While tourists take photos on the city streets, under their feet, lining the walls of nearly two hundred miles of tunnels lie the skeletons of 6 MILLION people. Joseph Scott Morgan recounts his recent visit to the tunnels under the "City of Light" and explains how the area became the final resting place for millions of people.

And in a shocking turn, the Professor finds a skull that appears to have a gunshot wound to the head!

Transcribe Highlights

00:01.76 Introduction
02:26.06 Handrail phobia
05:00.55 Church and alter made from bones
09:48.76 Touring Notre Dame
15:19.56 A mantel made of stone
19:30.53 Bones stacked according to type
25:11.72 WW2 - Nazi's in one place, French resistance in another
30:08.31 Looking for trauma on the bones
35:44.67 Skull showed trauma
38:17.26 Conclusion

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:05.5	Bodybacks with Joseph Scott Moore.
0:10.4	In my own arrogance, I think I've seen a thing or two along the way.
0:16.3	But as soon as you do that in life's journey, I believe, life has a funny way of humbling you.
0:23.6	That's why I go back to the old adage, particularly as it applies to forensic science,
0:28.6	anyone that says that they've seen and done everything or that they have all of the answers.
0:34.6	Well, they're lying. you never see everything and you never have all of the answers.
0:46.8	Recently, I've returned from a trip to Europe and as part of that trip and as part of a fulfilling a demand on the part of my wife,
0:58.7	Kimmy, who said that I need to do this, we visited the catacombs of Paris. And my lord, my lord,
1:09.8	what an eye opener.
1:11.7	I want to talk a little bit about that today and give you some of my thoughts and some of the insights into what I saw, felt, and even smelled in that environment.
1:31.3	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Bodybacks.
1:43.3	Dave, I've gotten to a point in my life now where I am very keen to be careful where I step. Using handrails and I hate handrails.
1:46.4	I'm not a germaphobe, but Kim is always, you know, getting after me about using handrails
1:51.9	when I'm going down.
1:52.6	And the only thing I can think about touching handrails is the idea that somebody is out there
2:00.6	that has not, that's not as hygienic as I would prefer for them to have been.
2:06.2	And they're kind of inoculating the surfaces with whatever it is that they have.
2:10.3	It's kind of like going to a drive-through.
2:14.7	Again, another disgusting.
2:16.6	And somebody's got these really long fingernails and they hand your food
2:20.7	out to you through the little window and it's like how how exactly do you clean your hands and
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 25 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CrimeOnline and iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.