When I visited I was fascinated by the work, the passion put into caring for all the bones. About half way through, as I paused to look at one of the sculptures, admiring one particular skull I was struck by the idea that this was once a person. They had a name, a family, a home somewhere not far. That these were all people. That spooked me a bit. But it made the history of Paris more personal, more real. Thank you! Wonderful video.
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
You're very welcome! And I know exactly what you mean about the sudden realisation. It boggles the mind.
@GypsyWolf75 ай бұрын
Your video is SO MUCH BETTER than the History Channel's documentary on this place.
@TheMuseumGuide5 ай бұрын
Thank you!!!
@davidjohnrivingtonmcdonough3 ай бұрын
I hope so! The Channel you refer to is in the main false Info, take care.
@Put-pangea-back-together25 күн бұрын
Your videos are always fantastic
@TheMuseumGuide24 күн бұрын
Thank you so much!
@tamarrajames3590 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the lovely stroll in the catacombs. I think the Paris ones are the best examples extant. I would not be disturbed o have my bones displayed, or even used creatively (once I’m done using them). My ideal choice would be human composting, so my body and bones could become life giving to other things. I think the catacombs are strangely beautiful and inspirational. Most of us today have not lived with this kind of magnitude of death, but it could so easily happen again that we should learn from our ancestors.🖤🇨🇦
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
I agree - they are strangely beautiful! Thank you for watching.
@QuinnMallory-od1hwАй бұрын
Thanks for the video, I'd never be able to get there, also way too creepy for me. It's a very sad and sombre notion that so many people are forgotten to time in such a place. But since crematoriums, I don't think there will be any new arrivals. Maybe that's for the best.
@TheMuseumGuideАй бұрын
To be fair, they’re visited more than most! You’re very welcome.
@texelz Жыл бұрын
This has to be my most favourite KZbin channel of 2022!!! I absolutely love anything strange, macabre and weird
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Thank you David! I hope to be your favourite in 2023 as well. ;)
@RebeccaMcCall-fl1kn3 ай бұрын
@@TheMuseumGuide Still my favorite in 2024 🫶🏻 look forward to your videos
@leslietarkin5705 Жыл бұрын
Great video. The catacombs are really interesting. It's a deeply moving experience b/c you think about all these people. Who were they? What was their lives like? What time period did they live in? Were they happy? Where were they born b/c out 6mils people surely, not all of them were born in Paris. I would not like to be buried in a catacomb. I want to be buried in my family's cemetery. No, AirB&B should not have done the contest. It was disrespectful.
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
I agree - I am so surprised that Air Bnb was allowed to do this. Thank you for watching!
@annettewillis2797 Жыл бұрын
Another wonderful stroll. So informative even though I have been there twice! An underground city of the dead that reminds us all that life is fleeting. It is truly a fascinating place that can also flood if the Seine rises. Thank you so much. Your videos are always interesting!
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Please share them with anyone who might enjoy them. :)
@stardustsparkles22 Жыл бұрын
You earned a new subscriber! Id love to see more videos about the catacombs. I can't get enough of them.
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Awesome, thank you! I do also talk about them briefly in my video about strange museums in Paris. :) Top Ten Strangest Museums in Paris - A Guided Museum Tour kzbin.info/www/bejne/qYm4mn5soKeBhs0
@chrisball3778 Жыл бұрын
"Adventure seekers, the curious and the morbid"- AKA- good peeps. When I'm dead, I'm happy for my bones to be used for anything that serves some purpose and improves the lives of those still living. I personally like the idea of being part of some weird subterranean memento mori more than I like the idea of being ground up for fertiliser, but so long as what's left of me proves useful, that's the important thing. The idea of my lifeless husk being pointlessly maintained for decades in some hermetically sealed but ultimately useless 'eternal sleep' fantasy casket, beneath a manicured golf course cemetery dotted with identikit headstones nobody visits, is far more depressing to me than my last remnant being an anonymous skull gawped at by the occasional tourist.
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
I completely agree! I personally want a natural burial, but I would love a headstone in a unique and storied cemetery, like Highgate.
@Put-pangea-back-together25 күн бұрын
Thanks!
@TheMuseumGuide25 күн бұрын
Thank you so much!
@jenniferd6242 Жыл бұрын
So glad that you included As Above So Below! Definitly not one of the most top rated horror flicks, but I loved it.
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Totally agree!
@clarkharvell52428 ай бұрын
OMMMMMGGGGG I wanna go on an unsanctioned tour!!!!! That would be so amazing! I love history, I love things macabre! As I pass my 55th year I see my demise as being ever closer. We are here for such a short time and we toil away just trying to survive... It is so sobering. I find it interesting that these bones are respected, but the dead of Waterloo, (1815), were simply ground up to make bread after they had been in the ground long enough to have become skeletonized. Great video!!! Hello from Oklahoma, where there is no history.... sad face
@TheMuseumGuide8 ай бұрын
You have history in Oklahoma! But a lot of First Nations didn’t leave built history. That said, I understand the North American craving for old cities! Thanks for watching.
@martijnkeisers5900 Жыл бұрын
Another great video! I wish u and urs a wonderful Christmas, greetings from Amsterdam! 🎄🎄🎄
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Thank you! You too!
@Gunnercv17 күн бұрын
Nice
@mistermornevanderberg5 ай бұрын
I have always wanted to see this part of Paris, but due to circumstances I don’t think I will ever make it. So thanks for this interesting video
@TheMuseumGuide5 ай бұрын
You’re welcome 😊
@marie-sophieemilypatricawa183010 ай бұрын
As for the question if I would want that... All I say is Hallstatt in Austria a small mountain village where the cemetery is so small that after 25 yrs your time is up you will be dug up and placed in a small charnel house with an elaborately painted skull.... The skull bears your name dob and dod.... Granted not so much done any more but in the past common knowledge and I think it is awesome
@arikathehuman2025 Жыл бұрын
This is awesome. I will definitely check it out when I visit Paris. Could you do more tours on more modern/contemporary art museums?
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Definitely!! I have a tour of the Pompidou written and filmed. :)
@stardustsparkles22 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for an interesting and informative video. Have a good weekend.
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Thanks, you too!
@leonorarobins3426 Жыл бұрын
Interesting video! Happy holidays!🎉🎉
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Happy holidays! Thank you for watching!
@daveandgena3166 Жыл бұрын
This was a very welcome video! Thank you!
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@Maria_Barcelos Жыл бұрын
The best Christmas gift! 😍
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Happy holidays! I’m blushing 😊
@lmp8932 Жыл бұрын
I would like to visit the Catacombs but this was a pretty good second, thank you! Claustrophobia and distance (I'm in Australia) prevents a visit in person. When I die why should I care what happens to the corporeal? I am not religious, so no I wouldn't mind my skeleton placed in something like this, or even ground up for fertiliser. so many skeletons, so many 'once' people, the size of the Paris catacomb is mind boggling.
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
It's unbelievable! It's under so much of the city.
@tiffanyannhowe1712 Жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks!
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
You're welcome!
@esthersantiago7152 Жыл бұрын
Great video!! Feliz Navidad!
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Merry Christmas!
@VampMedusa2 ай бұрын
I can only hope to see this place before my end And there is ALWAYS hope 🤘🏻
@richardsingh58272 ай бұрын
Good work
@michaelwhite8031 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating.
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
Thank you! This is one of my favourite places in Paris.
@michaelwhite8031 Жыл бұрын
I can see why. Great video.
@sonofgod4966 ай бұрын
That was cool
@TheMuseumGuide6 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@Zzsmuf2 ай бұрын
Merci
@TheMuseumGuide2 ай бұрын
De rien!
@davidjohnrivingtonmcdonough3 ай бұрын
6m where have we heard that before, this is what they tell us, I think in this case it's a lot more, take care!
@TheMuseumGuide3 ай бұрын
It really isn’t! Look into the history. :)
@ladyacid6546 ай бұрын
I think we need a sort of revival of this kind of resting site. Land is at a premium and new cemeteries will be harder and harder to justify in built-up cities. Cremation reduces the amount of space taken up, but requires a pretty high amount of energy and releases pollution. Eco-burials and human composting still remain pretty limited and unfortunately controversial. But making a home, or empire, for the dead that is respectful, artistic and a solemn reminder that in death we are pretty equal is a decent solution. Especially since there are underground spaces unused in the forms of old mines, caves or defunct sewer systems.
@TheMuseumGuide5 ай бұрын
I think it’s an interesting idea, but I don’t think it would fly!
@brikwil Жыл бұрын
So interesting! I have friends who have visited, but all they could say was "Wow" too. Would I mind if my skeleton were on display like that? Not in the least!
@TheMuseumGuide Жыл бұрын
I agree! Thank you for watching.
@Angelicwings14 ай бұрын
I want to go so badly.
@TheMuseumGuide4 ай бұрын
It’s seriously cool
@Angelicwings14 ай бұрын
@@TheMuseumGuide just seeing the videos I am in awe.
@cortrichards8179 Жыл бұрын
I would absolutely love to have my skeletal remains on display for tourists to see. I don't see anything weird or disrespectful about it at all, but, I am not religious either, and that may have something to do with it. But then again, I am admittedly one of those individuals who loves the bizarre and macabre, and to be really honest, I have already died once in my current life, so I am already well aware of what happens when we die, and where we go. I am positive many people will find that last sentence rather disingenuous, but I assure you it is only the truth. I tend to be rather blatant and overly honest, and that can be both good and bad. I should probably just shut up and stop leaving weird comments that might possibly freak others out, eh? Lol, but I can't help myself! I get so excited over History, and this kind of History is my absolute favourite, as I have probably said in other comments many times over. I, for one, just love your channel, and look very forward to more. Thank you so much for sharing with us all, Jessica. You are a fabulous tour guide.
@tishamorgan83889 ай бұрын
I find the idea of Airbnb advertising a night in the catacombs to be somewhat tacky and in bad taste.
@TheMuseumGuide9 ай бұрын
I’m inclined to agree, but the Catacombs did agree to it!
@johnransom114610 ай бұрын
Airbnb stepped over the line with this one. Corporations always do
@TheMuseumGuide10 ай бұрын
The Catacombs have been used for many commercial purposes- but this one was a bit wild! Thanks for watching.
@lordmakАй бұрын
I could believe the story but why all over the world are human remains treated like ornaments? This makes no sense. Stack the remains yes but turn them into art! Seriously. Human farming comes to mind and like sheep we are just food
@TheMuseumGuideАй бұрын
You should have a Google at the book Heavenly Bodies!
@rmbc19719 ай бұрын
Airbnb shameful
@TheMuseumGuide9 ай бұрын
Let’s not forget the Catacombs agreed to it!
@1960dave19609 ай бұрын
I think a musical soundtrack of Boney M , would be suitable for this video….💀☠️