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07-12-2009, 03:20 PM
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Beneath the streets of Paris lies a vast network of catacombs, containing the bones of an estimated six million former residents. The Les Halles district above was suffering from contamination of poor burials and mass graves in the churchyard cemeteries; there was much sickness in the area, and in some cases the ground level in the church yards had risen 10 to 20 feet just from the volume of the human remains in them; something had to be done. The decision was made to discreetly move the bones down here.   |
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07-12-2009, 03:42 PM
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Check out my post on this with video in the other section, used my own photos and vids for it as well.  http://www.documentingreality.com/fo...tacombs-15051/ This is a cool post, we'll leave this one here as mine is already in the vids section, that way both are covered. I loved it in the Catacombs, have you been? |
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07-12-2009, 03:43 PM
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cool place! i so wanna visit that! but my god how many bodies are down there?
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07-12-2009, 04:00 PM
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na id love to go there tho
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07-12-2009, 04:08 PM
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I know there"s about 6 millions of people in the Cata, as arama said.
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07-12-2009, 04:54 PM
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No, cant see your avatar.  It might be too big. |
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07-12-2009, 04:57 PM
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6 million bodies! crikey!
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07-12-2009, 06:16 PM
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When me and the current Mrs B went to Paris a few years ago I wanted to go there - denied! |
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07-12-2009, 06:44 PM
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they hold massive rave partys down there , and have to sneek in cuz the cops banned people from going down in "non tourist areas"
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07-12-2009, 07:12 PM
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Been there twice, well eerie atmosphere.
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