Daily Post Photo Challenge Creepy
This is a pile of bones from the catacombs in Paris. When the cemeteries of Paris became overcrowded in the late 1700s, 6 million individuals were disinterred and moved to the limestone tunnels which at the time, were outside the city limits. The bones are stacked neatly and are grouped together based on the cemetery they originally inhabited.
Meg Sorick, Author/Artist 
I find that very interesting and very creepy for the person or persons who’s job it was to transport and stack all those bones. Thank you for the pic and info
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I know, can you imagine?!?
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Isn’t it so creepy that each of these people were thrown together with no condolence?
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I know, all that’s left is a marker with the name of the cemetery they came from. The catacombs are officially the world’s largest grave.
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Looking at this makes me wonder what those people were like while they were alive. What thoughts and feelings did they have, were they married or single.
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Right? So many lives…
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My goodness this is creepy Meg!
Ossuaries are creepy 😀 hahaha
Thanks,
Anand
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Wow! I always thought of Paris in terms of romance. Now, maybe not so much.
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This is seriously creepy! Makes me wonder what was going on in the minds of the people who had this job!!
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Are all the skulls placed to look like figures or just this one photo you took?
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Not all of them. The most common arrangement, if there is one, is in the sign of the cross. The majority are just stacked in rows.
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The catacombs are on my to-do list the next time I visit Paris. I find them equally creepy and fascinating.
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The sheer size of them is amazing. The tunnels go on and on. Photos don’t do it justice!
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*chills* Yup, got my creep on, bigtime!
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Oh, geez. I would not want to be the person who stacked all those bones to make a wall.
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Well, now here is a creepy story for you for the catacombs: Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/POE/cask.html
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Brilliant!
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Also Meg, in case you missed this in the blogging commons, Kristina has started a spot for the “alums” — https://href.li/?https://blogging101alumni.wordpress.com/ — would be great to keep the group together.
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Definitely creepy!!!
Thanks for sharing it as I never knew much about the catacombs!
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I’ve wanted to visit the Paris catacombs for years, they look mindboggling. There’s a similar (but I suspect smaller) set of catacombs in Lima where they have sorted the bones into vats of femurs and skulls etc. Some of the skulls are in circular pits. Really freaky stuff.
Who thinks of these things? And, moreover, who thinks, ‘Ho hum, sorting bones, that’s the job for me!’
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I know, right? Of course in late 18th century France, maybe any old job would do! (Think Les Miserables)
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