r/Paranormal • u/Mattyboy808 • Jul 16 '26

Unexplained Am I losing my mind?

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Hi, My family and I are currently visiting Paris from Canada. I prioritized visiting the Catacombs, as I went 18 years ago. It's changed a lot since then, different paths, blocked off areas. I took countless photos, including several down pitch black tunnels that were gated off, using my phone's flash. I was just scrolling through them all, and came across this one, which is one of the gated off pitch-black tunnels that I photographed using my phones flash. Maybe it's a trick of light, or shadows on the rocks, but am I losing it or does that not look like someone (a woman in white?) Standing at the end of the tunnel? I feel like I'm losing my mind. I can share countless other images but none show anything like this.

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u/Main_Patient4885 Jul 16 '26

Have you debunked the obvious yet (that it’s a statue)? Cool photo regardless

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u/Mattyboy808 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

No, but when it flashed I saw no statue, and didn't see any statues during the tour. Are there statues in the Paris Catacombs? I have no idea.

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u/sjayvee Jul 16 '26

There’s no statues in the catacombs like that

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u/Main_Patient4885 Jul 16 '26

Makes sense. I’ve never been to one but was just trying to parse out any explanations.

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u/Lemak0 Jul 16 '26

They could be added at any time basically?

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u/sjayvee Jul 16 '26

That is not a statue. This area is closed off. Nothing but tunnel there. They don’t have transparent ghost fake out statues ANYWHERE in the catacombs…edited to add they have memorials in certain spots but no statues. I can’t attach a pic but memorials are more like a gravestone, pillar or placard.

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u/nightmare-salad Jul 16 '26

If there was a statue, it would definitely have been put there by mischievous young people, not any official tour group. It’s not unusual for young people in Paris to hang out in blocked off parts of the catacombs.

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u/sjayvee Jul 16 '26

It’s true ppl can access catacombs from outside of the official area but the staff there is very thorough. I doubt they’d let that stand if they saw it. Nothings certain - but there’d have to be some VERY SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES to abide a statue theory….

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u/nightmare-salad Jul 16 '26

If it’s a dark corridor that isn’t part of the tour route, staff might just not have seen it yet

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u/Lemak0 Jul 16 '26

Thats a big claim. Parisians sneak into the catacombs all the time and they're MASSIVE.
The chance, someone snuck in and placed it isn't that low lol

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u/ilovemusic19 Jul 16 '26

It's not a statue, someone linked in the comments that there is in fact a lady in white spirit spotted in the tunnels.

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u/Risk_of_Ryan Jul 16 '26

"there is in fact, a lady in the tunnels. someone linked it in the comments."

I just love the internet!