Is There a GPS in the Catacombs?

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In the 1870s there was a secret concert featuring a 50 piece orchestra playing some musical reflections on mortality. There are whole-ass rooms down there that cataphiles know about like one called the Plage or the beach because it has a wave mural and there's a disco ball lined salon demerors and an electro room but how would you even find all this stuff? Claudia Dana wants to know when does it start becoming archaeology and stop being something like grave robbing at what point does the removal of bones into one area is it completely dependent on what the culture at that time is says these are leftovers your soul is elsewhere these are not the sacred part of you yeah.

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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