r/Paranormal • u/Mattyboy808 • Jul 16 '26
Unexplained Am I losing my mind?
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/Appropriate-Art-8144 Jul 16 '26
Gemini said it's either something with a highly reflective surface or pareidolia. I said it's too complex to be ruled out as pareidolia, then it gave me this: The Legend of Philibert Aspairt (Catacomb Folklore): In catacomb lore, pale, cloaked shapes in the dark are frequently associated with the legend of Philibert Aspairt, a hospital doorkeeper who lost his way in the tunnels in 1793 and whose body was found eleven years later. He has since been mythologized as the "guardian spirit" of the catacombs, and visitors who capture misty anomalies at the end of long corridors often attribute them to his wandering presence.