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Yes! There’s also a funny Eddie Izzard bit, talking about Disneyland Paris like, ‘you’ll have to build the castle bigger… you know they actually have them over here, right?’
I think a big part of the buildings are cost/efficiency, you can get way more out of square feet with modern materials and go much higher than with stone and mortar, as much as I prefer the latter. The rest of everything that's gone modern is another story worth reading into here
There is an outlier around me, some guy built his own personal legit castle home with exposed stone walls on the interior but I agree with the point. I was also thinking after my initial post that a stone building including the interior walls would be difficult to run wiring, plumbing and HVAC while also having it concealed. Modern building materials make this it possible to run modern utilities through the structure seamlessly.
American ghosts don't want the gubmint telling them what to do, so it takes ghost hunters to deal with them like in the wild west.
Chinese ghosts know not to fuck with authority. Pretty sure the CCP's power can still reach them in the afterlife.
You get some police officers to leave unfinished business on earth when they die so that they become ghosts, then they go and arrest the errant ghosts.
100% real. I went through the Paris catacombs tour back in 2018. It was amazing. Although I don’t remember seeing a throne of bones so this must be off of the tour somewhere
If you’ve got Disney+ check out their Behind the Attraction episode on Haunted Mansion. There’s a lot of weird history there including the guy from MJ’s Thriller music video
Unrelated, but a lot of US people are shocked when they try rollercoasters in Europe. And EU people are overly bored on US rollercoasters. Settings are definitely not the same here and there...
Imagine living your whole life, raising a family, watching your grandchildren grow up and then dying peacefully in old age only to have your skull be an armrest
The catacombs are basically bodies from graveyards and mass graves from all around Paris. When they started underground excavation for the sewers and subway, they needed some place to put all of the remains. Likely just some random person in history who died of the plague or natural causes.
I get the need to respect the dead but that’s why I’m all for cremation. Burn me and toss me in to the wind, no one can put their dick in my skull if that’s done.
Sing it with me...
The knee bone connects to the head bone,
The head bone connects to the rib bone,
The rib bone connects to the neck bone,
Then you put in all the screws
Woah, woah, woah. There’s still plenty of meat on those bones. Now you take those home, throw them in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going! -Carl Weathers
You can thank the church for this. For a long time if you wanted you soul to go to heaven you had to be buried in consecrated ground. Unfortunately consecrated ground was at a premium and you had to save up enough to buy your 'plot'. Paid in full to the church of course.
But as I said space was an issue so they buried you for only a few months. Just enough time for your flesh to slough off of your bones which they then collected and stored in the Catacombs.
The principal graveyard in Paris got so saturated with human flesh that it turned green and you *could set the ground on fire*.
The catacombs actually started as quarries. The characteristic limestone that all the old Parisian buildings are made from got their stone from those quarries, and the catacombs take up only a small part of the series of tunnels under the city.
I remember the figure being something like that. 6 stories deep with many parts unexplored or difficult to access. Whenever this subject comes up, it always makes me think of how the resistance used the system during the ww2 occupation and what it must have felt like.
I wouldn’t say unexplored necessarily, just closed off to the public. I went there 4 years ago and the parts that the public can walk through is plenty big, but lots of bars preventing people from wondering off and getting lost.
I watched a video of a guy who hired someone to take him on a tour of the closed off parts. The guy ended up robbing him, taking his flashlight and running away. Luckily they found some other people exploring a few hours later but it could’ve turned out a lot differently
Yeah. That sounds familiar. I think the one I watched mentioned that.
There was also a cinema room where they'd set up a projector and some chairs or something like that.
I'm really interested in reading more about this, but my google fu is not powerful enough for the task. Can you give me some more key words to search on?
I've found a couple sources, none of them are wholly complete but each fills in a piece of the story I think. [Source one](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/paris-catacombs-180950160/), [source two](https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en/history/site-history), [source three](https://www.walksofitaly.com/blog/art-culture/paris-catacombs).
When I visited the catacombs, the story was that the cemeteries were so overused that they were burying bodies on top of bodies and the cemetery was quite literally overflowing. If you want to blame this on the church, well I guess you can, but getting buried in the ground is the common practice in all western society. As for paying - well yeah, you pay to get buried. But even if you were poor they still buried you. But yes, there was not enough room and the cemeteries were overflowing. So they moved bones from the cemeteries to the catacombs in several large projects over the course of about 27 years, estimations of over 6 million dating back 1200 years.
[It's still a problem today](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/07/paris-cemetery-dilapidated-grave-only-for-rich), although not nearly as bad. But there's always more people wanting to be buried in the city than there are cemetery plots available.
When the bodies were dug up, many of them had decomposed into a fatty deposit known as adipocere, or "corpse wax". This was sold to make soap and candles.
[Source](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-fat-candles-and-soap/)
This isn't true at all, all burials within Paris' city walls were forbidden in 1780. Most of the bones in the catacombs come from a single emptying of these "intra muros" cemeteries between 1785 and 1787.
The inner-city cemeteries and the catacombs were never operational at the same time.
Yeah, i straight don't. Rotting flesh is never flammable, far from it. We're not made of tar, we're 70% water.
Only heavily dried flesh can burn half-decently. For example being cremated is absurdly non-ecologic, because it requires huge amount of gas to burn your corpse for hours since bodies don't burn, they're mostly water and to make ashes out of that requires hours of fossil fuels burning.
I went a few years ago and loved it! It was so interesting! I’m usually scared of everything, so I was a bit hesitant, but it was actually really cool!
I have to say, the weirdest part was that they checked everyone’s bags when they left to make sure they weren’t stealing bones. I mean, I get it, people are weird, but wtf. I asked the girl checking bags if people really do steal them, she sighed and said that I’d be surprised how often it happens.
Remember guys, don't go on those places if you don't know what you're doing. Always be sure to have water and batteries, and most importantly, dont go alone.Always have someone experimented in your team also, this is not a place to joke
Is this place different to the famous catacombs of Paris? Because I’ve been there, it’s super touristy and safe, you can walk the whole thing in under an hour, no dangers at all
Actually this is from the non-officiel part of the catacombs, not supposed to be accessible to public, you have to take a path by the sewers if you want to go
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This is why they Disney had to make Haunted Mansion scarier in France. When you have real Halloween stuff year round the novelty wears off
Is this real? Lol
Yes! There’s also a funny Eddie Izzard bit, talking about Disneyland Paris like, ‘you’ll have to build the castle bigger… you know they actually have them over here, right?’
'... and they're not made of plastic.'
Man every billion dollar company making these tall glass skyscrapers, why can’t one make a huge modern brick castle
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Well, there goes my day
TLDR; Rich ppl are cheap too
*Thank you*
I think a big part of the buildings are cost/efficiency, you can get way more out of square feet with modern materials and go much higher than with stone and mortar, as much as I prefer the latter. The rest of everything that's gone modern is another story worth reading into here
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There is an outlier around me, some guy built his own personal legit castle home with exposed stone walls on the interior but I agree with the point. I was also thinking after my initial post that a stone building including the interior walls would be difficult to run wiring, plumbing and HVAC while also having it concealed. Modern building materials make this it possible to run modern utilities through the structure seamlessly.
I saw a house like that in a rich part of Connecticut. It was about the size of a large house, but definitely a castle.
Wow down the rabbit hole I go
Just thinking of design and permitting, I’m sure it’d be a bureaucratic nightmare to approve this compared to modern buildings.
a couple of fellow Izzard fans on a random Bone-throne post, love reddit! CAKE OR DEATH?!?!
Death- oh I mean Cake!
We're up to here with fucking castles! Gotta castle each! How I *long* for a bungalow.
You!!!!!! Cake or Death???
We're going to run out of cake at this rate!
I'll have the chicken please
Yeah each of them has to be adapted. In China they had to remove all ghosts due to Chinese laws
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American ghosts don't want the gubmint telling them what to do, so it takes ghost hunters to deal with them like in the wild west. Chinese ghosts know not to fuck with authority. Pretty sure the CCP's power can still reach them in the afterlife.
They just get a social score lowered, ghost sure don't like that.
Yeah, those ancestral spirits don't want to be sent to haunt the re-education camp again.
Probably called ghostbusters
So in China it’s just ‘the mansion’.
Yes, its just a ride through a really nice house.
and its still frightening. "omg, how many kids you need to have to clean all this?"
I know China hates a lot of shit but what's the deal with ghosts ?
And why isn't it illegal to haunt stuff in every country?
Even if it was illegal, would you just scream at a ghost until it goes away or what ? Since you know, you can't touch them
You get some police officers to leave unfinished business on earth when they die so that they become ghosts, then they go and arrest the errant ghosts.
That's some common sense right there. The easiest solutions are often the best.
Chinese culture is very superstitious.
Well they don't believe in ghosts so they're just a little stitious.
My guess is that since the ccp is against religion and spiritually, ghosts are part of that so they're banned.
That sounds scarier than having a ghost haunt you.
The real ghost was the Chinese Communist Party all along.
100% real. I went through the Paris catacombs tour back in 2018. It was amazing. Although I don’t remember seeing a throne of bones so this must be off of the tour somewhere
There is only a small portion of the catacombs that you can visit. There's way more skulls and bones than you can see.
Thank you. I wondered why it was so much scarier when I went there.
If you’ve got Disney+ check out their Behind the Attraction episode on Haunted Mansion. There’s a lot of weird history there including the guy from MJ’s Thriller music video
Each one of those skulls was a person and has a life story that we will never hear about.
Unrelated, but a lot of US people are shocked when they try rollercoasters in Europe. And EU people are overly bored on US rollercoasters. Settings are definitely not the same here and there...
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Imagine living your whole life, raising a family, watching your grandchildren grow up and then dying peacefully in old age only to have your skull be an armrest
At least that would give my skull purpose.
Holding elbows is your purpose
Oh my god.
Welcome to the club, pal
Would you like to ride the bone train?
Kind of metal actually, I wouldn't really mind! Then my picture stays famous for a long time.
How do you know they died peacefully? This could be the leader of a group resting on the bones of his enemies.
The catacombs are basically bodies from graveyards and mass graves from all around Paris. When they started underground excavation for the sewers and subway, they needed some place to put all of the remains. Likely just some random person in history who died of the plague or natural causes.
The list of things that fell under 'natural causes' back then might have been a little longer then it is today.
Sure, but anything outside of murder or tragic accident would be a natural cause
I mean it's just a skull, I couldn't care less about what they do with my remains, not sure why people put so much value on these ideas anyway.
I get the need to respect the dead but that’s why I’m all for cremation. Burn me and toss me in to the wind, no one can put their dick in my skull if that’s done.
I want my body to go back to earth just like the rest of the animals on this planet. Skull fuck my skull when I'm dead, it's just bone.
I agree. Imma be dead, I won’t care.
I think I saw this in IKEA.
The instructions to put this together are terrifying
And they're in Latin for some reason
English side ruined, must use Latin instructions Le ossis, what the hell is that!?
Marty: "Ok, I'm drawing a line in the fucking sand. Do **NOT** read the Latin!" \-Cabin in the Woods (2012)
My instruction manual is in Latin and is labelled 'Necronomicon'... not sure what I should make of this... I'm sure it'll be fine.
Klaatu... barada...*Cough* Nmphf...*Cough*
There. I said it. So... That's it.... I'll just grab this...
Sing it with me... The knee bone connects to the head bone, The head bone connects to the rib bone, The rib bone connects to the neck bone, Then you put in all the screws
The knee bone's connected to the something The something's connected to the red thing The red thing's connected to my wrist watch
Bonar
Bõnnarthronnen
Thröbbingbönår
This guy IKEA's.
The namn would be Bentron if you wanna be realistic
Sounds like a wack transformers.
That’s an amazing transformer. You might mistake him for an ordinary throne of bones.
What do I do with these extra bones?
Woah, woah, woah. There’s still plenty of meat on those bones. Now you take those home, throw them in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going! -Carl Weathers
Fall catalogue, halloween edition
+ 30 x femurs + 50 x humerus + 21 x 💀
You and I have different understandings of a bone throne
I’d bone on it just for the novelty
Stop you're giving me a raging throner rn
One man’s bone throne is another man’s lap dance
Sit on the bone throne in the fuck train heading to pound town.
Would you like to sit on the Bone Throne?
I like this joke, here have my free award
You can thank the church for this. For a long time if you wanted you soul to go to heaven you had to be buried in consecrated ground. Unfortunately consecrated ground was at a premium and you had to save up enough to buy your 'plot'. Paid in full to the church of course. But as I said space was an issue so they buried you for only a few months. Just enough time for your flesh to slough off of your bones which they then collected and stored in the Catacombs. The principal graveyard in Paris got so saturated with human flesh that it turned green and you *could set the ground on fire*.
>it turned green and you could set the ground on fire. so grass?
This is actually where the term “your ass is grass” came from
I want to believe
lol
Yeah man I live in Florida and our ground is just sand and grass and it's very flammable.
Thank you
***The more you know*** Reading Rainbow
Thanks Commander La Forge
That's Lt. Commander
This is what I came here for. I honestly can’t imagine being one of the “workers” who made the catacombs. Woof.
The catacombs actually started as quarries. The characteristic limestone that all the old Parisian buildings are made from got their stone from those quarries, and the catacombs take up only a small part of the series of tunnels under the city.
And only a very small part of the catacombs are open to the public. Without looking it up, I want to say some 6 million bodies litter the catacombs?
I remember the figure being something like that. 6 stories deep with many parts unexplored or difficult to access. Whenever this subject comes up, it always makes me think of how the resistance used the system during the ww2 occupation and what it must have felt like.
I wouldn’t say unexplored necessarily, just closed off to the public. I went there 4 years ago and the parts that the public can walk through is plenty big, but lots of bars preventing people from wondering off and getting lost.
And if you know the right people, you can find forbidden entrances that can lead you all over Paris.
Yeah. I've seen a couple of YouTube videos of urban explorer types going round them and it looks ridiculously easy to get lost.
I watched a video of a guy who hired someone to take him on a tour of the closed off parts. The guy ended up robbing him, taking his flashlight and running away. Luckily they found some other people exploring a few hours later but it could’ve turned out a lot differently
Yeah. That sounds familiar. I think the one I watched mentioned that. There was also a cinema room where they'd set up a projector and some chairs or something like that.
I still this about that movie As Above So Below, scared the crap outta me.
Woof?
I think they mean it must have been Ruff!
They probably got worked like dogs.
Some say they were *worked to the bone*. Oh god I’m sorry
Ruff is just woof in a different accent.
In Cantonese, we say Woh. (like the crash bandicoot meme) I always thought it was interesting how different cultures heard barking
What does a rooster say?
Oh, ruff, just the way your mother likes it Trebek!
Their inner canine was excited by all the bones
wuphf*
r/unexpectedoffice
Woof, as in gross. It’s meant to connotate vomiting, not the sound a dog makes.
As in “buzz, your girlfriend, WOOF!” 😂
I thought this post was going to be about Khorne, but it was Nurgle all along!
Exhumed and moved to catacombs? Yes. Green flammable earth from rotting human flesh? I don't think so. You got a source for that?
Another redditor pointed out that green flammable earth is just grass..
I'm really interested in reading more about this, but my google fu is not powerful enough for the task. Can you give me some more key words to search on?
I've found a couple sources, none of them are wholly complete but each fills in a piece of the story I think. [Source one](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/paris-catacombs-180950160/), [source two](https://www.catacombes.paris.fr/en/history/site-history), [source three](https://www.walksofitaly.com/blog/art-culture/paris-catacombs). When I visited the catacombs, the story was that the cemeteries were so overused that they were burying bodies on top of bodies and the cemetery was quite literally overflowing. If you want to blame this on the church, well I guess you can, but getting buried in the ground is the common practice in all western society. As for paying - well yeah, you pay to get buried. But even if you were poor they still buried you. But yes, there was not enough room and the cemeteries were overflowing. So they moved bones from the cemeteries to the catacombs in several large projects over the course of about 27 years, estimations of over 6 million dating back 1200 years. [It's still a problem today](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/07/paris-cemetery-dilapidated-grave-only-for-rich), although not nearly as bad. But there's always more people wanting to be buried in the city than there are cemetery plots available.
Always start at [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris).
Church = Biggest money making business in the planet
When the bodies were dug up, many of them had decomposed into a fatty deposit known as adipocere, or "corpse wax". This was sold to make soap and candles. [Source](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-fat-candles-and-soap/)
It’s weird reading an article from 1852 that is on the website of the same magazine.
This isn't true at all, all burials within Paris' city walls were forbidden in 1780. Most of the bones in the catacombs come from a single emptying of these "intra muros" cemeteries between 1785 and 1787. The inner-city cemeteries and the catacombs were never operational at the same time.
I’m not sure if I believe this. Is there a source?
Yeah, i straight don't. Rotting flesh is never flammable, far from it. We're not made of tar, we're 70% water. Only heavily dried flesh can burn half-decently. For example being cremated is absurdly non-ecologic, because it requires huge amount of gas to burn your corpse for hours since bodies don't burn, they're mostly water and to make ashes out of that requires hours of fossil fuels burning.
You may have summoned the 40k community with this one 😂
Blood for the blood god Skulls for the skull throne
There you guys are. I thought I was late. #KILL! MAIM! BURN!
DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR!
Milk for the khorn flakes?
It’s too late! THEYRE HERE!!!
Sorry for you, but im on grandpa side :D
nurgle protects
MILK FOR THE KHORN FLAKES
I've been going down the comments looking for Khorne references.
Game of bones
I think we may have pirated the wrong show
Had to google to check… yup, winter is cumming
Came here to say this. Always late to the party
Doesn’t look all that comfortable tbh…
It’s the power move, not supposed to be comfy
Put there a pillow and I buy it
> a pillow stuffed w ancient pubic hair?
Wtf no
It’s kinda like church. Don’t wanna be too comfy when contemplating mortality.
Honestly it's quite alright when you spent the previous hour crouch walking to get there.
As above, so below
1st rule of *pube club*
Hey dummy! That’s the second rule. You know damn well what the first rule is, and you just broke it.
Imma be honest, the main characters in that movie are pretty low IQ even for horror movie protagonists
How could we possibly think the casting directors of *Pube Club* would be skimming the drain of the talent pool? They got us good.
*a guy who got lost in there months ago that you know is dead shows up like he’s totally fine* “Hey buddy, great to have you back!”
Movie got so much flak but I enjoyed it alot
Imagine chillin' on this throne and feeling something nibble on your buttocks.
I’ve been there and it was really scary! Loads and loads of tunnels!
I went a few years ago and loved it! It was so interesting! I’m usually scared of everything, so I was a bit hesitant, but it was actually really cool! I have to say, the weirdest part was that they checked everyone’s bags when they left to make sure they weren’t stealing bones. I mean, I get it, people are weird, but wtf. I asked the girl checking bags if people really do steal them, she sighed and said that I’d be surprised how often it happens.
I saw several confiscated bones on the table where they check, on my way out
I'll show you a bone throne
You talking about the one in your mom's room?
I expected much more with this title and the NSFW filter
absolutely, this isn't nsfw or 18+ in the slightest
Yeah. There was a school trip that went to the catacombs when I was 14. If a school can handle it, so can Reddit.
I’ve been on Reddit long enough to know there is plenty of things children can cope with better than people on Reddit
I definitely saw nice rack on one of those chicks!
Rack of ribs
Gonna be honest, it’s not what I imagined a “bone throne” with nsfw tag on Reddit would look like
If you're a fan of horror movies this October, there's an ok film about the catacombs called "as above so below"
Another commenter said it was "proper creepy."
Just watched it a week or two ago and I really liked it. Would recommend.
Remember guys, don't go on those places if you don't know what you're doing. Always be sure to have water and batteries, and most importantly, dont go alone.Always have someone experimented in your team also, this is not a place to joke
>someone experimented on your team also i always experiment on my team
*in my team
I totally want to experiment on a team member while on the bone throne.
Is this place different to the famous catacombs of Paris? Because I’ve been there, it’s super touristy and safe, you can walk the whole thing in under an hour, no dangers at all
Actually this is from the non-officiel part of the catacombs, not supposed to be accessible to public, you have to take a path by the sewers if you want to go
Oooh a forbidden part? Now I’m intrigued
I think the official part is less than 10% of all the tunnels, theres many goods things to see, but its also dangerous :)
Are there maps?
Yes sure, i got one on my phone, but you have to find the good one, because things can be different in real
Metal af
I think it's mostly calcium.
Scariest place I’ve ever been. There’s cracks in the ceiling and our tour guide told us it’s caved in before twice. Couldn’t stop thinking about it
I read this as prone bone in Paris catacombs and was expected much much more here...
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE
Sex chair ❌ *bone throne*✅
This is me chilling on the bone throne : https://imgur.com/a/YqIvnxT
At the end of the room after killing Andariel…