I Walked Along and I Spotted the Black Line Above Our Heads

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"It's a real gut punch I'm not gonna lie you're kind of reverently walking along just trying to process each individual who comprise this collection they all had birthdays and secrets and hopes and sorrows we're to see the ones that like have injuries," says Jarrett. "I just think how we feel we have dying from accidents from worse and then there's this sad shift where you go from wondering about each bones owner to just the fate of all of humanity and how we relate to each other."

Let’s get spooky. Venture below Parisian streets and into the catacombs: hundreds of miles of subterranean tunnels housing millions of human skeletons, some fashioned into sculpture. Alie tracked down Dr. Erin-Marie Legacey – author of “Making Space for the Dead,” professor of French history and one of the world’s foremost experts on this eerie place. We chat about everything from miasmas to sinkholes, boggling cemetery history, smells, skulls, hidden chambers, (very) underground parties, and how we view our bodies post-life. Also: Alie takes a trip to see them herself.

Dr. Legacy’s book, “Making Space for the Dead: Catacombs, Cemeteries, and the Reimagining of Paris, 1780-1830” on Bookshop.org and Amazon

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