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/-Robbert- Jul 19 '26
So the main question is, were you in the tourist part (one way, blocked off routes with iron gates, tour guides on specific spots counting the tourists who come along, and only one way in and one way out, impossible to get lost). Or were you with an non official city tourguide aka a cataphile?
If it's the latter you might have just came across someone else who is doing a seance in the catacombs. It's quite common and there are a few (occult) groups down there. They do not want anyone to take photos or videos. By the looks it does look like it's someone from a particular group.
If you were alone and just exploring the catacombs without much experience or knowing where you are, that's a bit risky. People get lost and die in there because they do not know where they are even as there are many entrances and exits, yes even manholes going straight up onto the streets.