I See Dead People!
Becky | September 8, 2006 12:00 am
We had to see the Catacombs, I mean come on, 6 million dead Parisian skeletons underground arranged artistically, who wouldn’t want to see that? These caverns used to be mining areas back in the olden days, but in the 19th century, the cemeteries were apparently overflowing, literally, so over several years they carted these bones down underground at night (so not to freak out the citizens that were living there at the time). They then made them neat towards the front by arranging designs with the long bones and skulls, and then opened the area up like in an amusement park. It was weird and kinda spooky. Initially, I found myself just walking along trying to find different bones or commenting on the artistic use of a femur here instead of a humerus. It was like it wasn’t real. They go on for miles. But then it hit me, especially when I started seei
ng the bones of toddlers or babies. I mean these were living people, just like you or me. Very surreal. I even felt a bit sacrilegious taking pictures. I definitely want to be cremated when I die and have my ashes spread somewhere, just so someone in the future doesn’t see me somewhere in some cavern.
2 Responses to “I See Dead People!”
Les catacomes are awesome. I actually did them by myself the last week I was in Paris, which is odd since I practically lived right next door to them.
Yeah! I know it can get scary but it can be even worse if you think about the Mc Donald’s that is next to it, the one on the street, I will never, EVER eat there, for some reason I mix the skeletons with the hamberguers, ja!
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