beneath one of the most romantic places.

network of underground ossuaries underneath the city of Pairs holds the remains of around 6 million people. The tunnels were originally mine tunnels. The Paris Catacombs were built to solve the problem of the city’s overflowing cemeteries. 

Urban legends speak of people who dared to explore too far, wandering off the official path and into the maze of tunnels that stretch for hundreds of miles. They vanish without a trace, swallowed by the Catacombs, never to return. The walls seem to close in on them, trapping them in the dark with the dead forever.

Deep within the Catacombs, there are rumors of hidden chambers, ancient crypts, and secret rituals performed in the dead of night. Some say the cataphiles—urban explorers who seek the thrill of the forbidden tunnels—have uncovered disturbing relics, shrines made of bones, and messages scratched into the walls by those who never escaped.