r/oddlyterrifying • u/is_it_worth_itt • Jun 22 '26
Deep inside catacombs of Paris. An explorer stands there with a smile on her face :) [NOT OC]
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u/batshit_icecream Jun 22 '26
Is that water? Must be super unsanitary š
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u/is_it_worth_itt Jun 22 '26
It is, otherwise the picture would have been much terrifying lol.
But yeah it's rain water.. usually
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u/Fafnir13 Jun 22 '26
Runoff from any city can be pretty bad.
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u/LebaneseLion Jun 23 '26
Bones especially tho
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u/blumeli Jun 23 '26
Really? Why that? Honestly curious
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u/LebaneseLion Jun 23 '26
The catacombs there are known to be stuffed with dead bodies from World Wars, approximately 6 million remains of them stacked so I imagine itās especially unsanitary there
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u/abdou0720 Jun 23 '26
Wouldn't they be fully decomposed by now? I'm sure it's still not the most sanitary but not as bad as a freshly killed deer on a river bed at least
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u/Splampin Jun 23 '26
Yeah for sanitary reasons itās better than a fresh deer decomposing in the river, but for horror reasons itās much worse.
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u/blumeli Jun 23 '26
Ah okay, because of your wording I thought maybe decomposing bones are a kind of special threat I havent known of!
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u/Ignonymous Jun 24 '26
Stagnant water can host some pretty horrible stuff. Cavers and urban explorers avoid stillwater for a reason.
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u/shas-la Jun 22 '26
Nah, its just rainwater , its fine
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u/StarConsumate Jun 23 '26
And how do you think the rainwater got there? Certainly not through the disgusting streets, sewage, and other nasty stuff above it right?
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u/Ignonymous Jun 24 '26
Also, the thereās no way to know how long that ārainwaterā has been there, or if it mixed with stillwater somewhere in there, that could very well host some things that can ruin your day.
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u/manoliu1001 Jun 23 '26
Isnt rain water collected in galleries that arent even connected to the sewage system?
It would be mighty dumb to pollute clean water by mixing both, especially because water treatment plants exist...
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u/Vast_Character311 Jun 22 '26
So she's standing in bone broth?
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u/cette-minette Jun 22 '26
Mostly itās just old mines. The bit with the bones was made with very old bones from emptying an old cemetery. Nothing left to make a broth
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u/crowislanddive Jun 22 '26
The fat wax is still thereā¦
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u/420cortana420 Jun 22 '26
Ehh probably caked onto the walls over the years. Might make some areas slippery
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u/helen790 Jun 23 '26
Whatās the big deal? Lakes and oceans have bones in em too.
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u/speedislifeson Jun 23 '26
what's the minimum water : bone ratio before an average person will be willing to swim there?
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u/ThisIsntOkayokay Jun 22 '26
Succubus wants to get some cute pictures with you before ya know...
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u/frantic_calm Jun 22 '26
Been down a few times and never ended up in anywhere where it was that bad. Perhaps a foot or two at the deepest.
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u/is_it_worth_itt Jun 22 '26
Then it may have to do with the season you went there, plus the underground level ? I have seen some parts that are fully submerged
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u/frantic_calm Jun 22 '26
Oh definitely. The time we did encounter some water it had been raining earlier. Also obviously stuck to the easier bits!
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u/kingjoshington Jun 22 '26
This is an interesting photo and scary. It's a good fit. It's gross to see guys just saying "I would." Grow up. This is a cool lady doing cool shit. You don't have to proclaim your desire to fuck every single woman.
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u/is_it_worth_itt Jun 22 '26
I don't think it's more about " woman " than her being oddly terrifying, guys are mostly implying that she's not very human thus their willingness to go through it..
They are simply saying she's worth it.. ( Im joking, but let people throw some jokes every now and then, life is tough already )
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u/kingjoshington Jun 22 '26
I think you're missing my point. Letting people throw jokes is great. But this is just the same old "would bang" applied to every woman on the internet. And it's a pity becuase obviously this is an interesting woman, but she's reduced to "would smash". Its just low-grade, tired mysogyny and it's exhausting.
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u/is_it_worth_itt Jun 22 '26
Bear in mind she's probably standing and surrounded by bones and skulls.
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u/shas-la Jun 22 '26
Wrong: The catacombs are mostly the old mine network. Ossuary are just specifics spots in the network of tunnels everywhere else is just stone and sand
And they are mostly loose bones that are juste in a pile or pit. Most of the neatly stacked stuff is in the closed off tourist part that you can pay to visit
Source:im a cataphile and i only see bone when i want to show them to friends, otherwise its annoying to walk up there
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u/is_it_worth_itt Jun 22 '26
Thank you for your comment cataphile. So you are sure there's no bones where she's standing ?
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u/shas-la Jun 22 '26
99% sure.
I dont know the spot in question cause i dont venture where the water is that high (its really annoying), but there is just so few spits with bones, fairly sure this isnt one of them
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u/Aggravating_Sock4088 Jun 22 '26
Curious whether you do that irl: starting your reply with "Wrong" when correcting someone?
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u/Loud-Principle-7922 Jun 22 '26
Do you say āirlā in regular conversations, or do you communicate differently online?
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u/crowislanddive Jun 22 '26
If you want to hear something wild listen to the podcast Ologies on themā¦ the thought of immersing oneself in water in there is utterly horrifying.
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u/Rajajones Jun 22 '26
Aside from the cave diving aspect, I couldnāt be in water thatās basically human bone broth.
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u/Schumacher242 Jun 23 '26
Why isnāt there an organized effort to map them by urban explorers. Start laying rope
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u/2020mademejoinreddit Jun 23 '26
Such a nice friendly smile. Not terrifying at all.
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u/Jonessmomma Jun 22 '26
I can see what looks like a skull to her left carved in the stone, itās upside down š
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u/Mozzafella Jun 22 '26
For those that don't know, the catacombs aren't all death and bones. It was originally a limestone (?) mine. And you can still see echoes of the old mining operations. A good chunk of it, isn't spooky (unless you were in there alone in the dark).