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Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

The Ghosts of the Catacombs of London

Horror Story: Ghosts, Mysteries, and Hauntings

Horror Stories

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

When the dead could no longer be buried due to lack of space, people turned to storing them in tunnels underground. This may explain the many ghost encounters underneath the city of London, England.

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0:00.0

In the early 90s, explorers were walking around the dark underground areas of Paris, France,

0:13.0

when they found a video camera on the ground. As with any other curious group of people,

0:19.0

they took it and analyzed what they found.

0:22.6

As it turns out, the video camera actually had footage in it.

0:26.6

The questions they had took the best of them and they decided to watch it.

0:30.6

And they were all confused.

0:33.6

Just noises.

0:35.6

Strange noises emanating from the recorded footage.

0:39.3

That's when they were able to figure out what it was.

0:43.3

The sounds were those of a man, and they were able to tell that he was lost and had no idea how to get out.

0:50.3

Everything seemed to point out that the man was going mad at the realization that he would never

0:56.4

be able to escape.

0:58.9

The footage ends abruptly when the man drops his camera.

1:05.6

To this day, nobody knows who he was, or if he ever managed to get out.

1:13.2

Catacombs.

1:14.8

When cemeteries became overcrowded and could take no more bodies, people had no choice

1:19.8

but to go deeper underground.

1:22.5

And they began to create subterranean passageways that were used to place dead bodies.

1:29.5

But if you're imagining a simple tunnel in the ground, well, it would be dead wrong. These places were elaborate,

1:37.0

sometimes designed like mazes and chambers that included burial areas where no light could get in.

1:43.3

The tale of the found footage in one of these is a legend

1:46.7

that takes place in the catacombs underneath Paris. There's a whole series of them around the world.

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