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Metropolitan Tombology (PARIS CATACOMBS) with Erin-Marie Legacey

Ologies with Alie Ward

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You Got Peanut Butter on My Chocolate

Starting in 1786 they start moving carticartfuls of human bones across the city from the cemetery of the innocence and over to the this entry point to these quarries. This is the very area that suffered some major sinkholes previously like there was one in the Ruda Aufehr which was 30 meters or 90 feet wide and deep but it swallowed buildings, carriages, horses I'm guessingSome human beings. So you have these new clean cleaned up safer tunnels and you have all these bones and so it's like the perfect solution. We're gonna take those bones and we're gonna just put them on their ground and someone's like yeah we'll have our own catac

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