Metropolitan Tombology (PARIS CATACOMBS) with Erin-Marie Legacey
Ologies with Alie Ward
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The Holy Innocence Cemetery
The Holy Innocence Cemetery in Paris is iconic but it's been around forever. In the 17th and 18th century there was a public panic about this cemetery because people become convinced it's making them sick, maybe even killing them. This idea that like the dead are contagious right they're spreading death. If you lived near a Parisian cemetery at that time again just open pits rotting humans just raw docked and dirt. Your milk would sour overnight and your soup would spoil and your wine would turn. So imagine you're about to dive into a perfect deli sandwich and a ghost farts on itbut every day Parisians were pissed.
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