i plan to go spend a week in the paris catacombs, 30 meters deep underground with no electricity, light or cell phone network. now, i suppose i need:
>food for a week
>water for a week (or a water purifier, theres plenty of flooded tunnels)
>something to charge my phone and flashlight
>some kind of potty
>some sleeping bag or matress
and a way to prevent passerbys from stealing all of the above. what do you recommend, PrepHole?
You’re going to get skellington’d.
boned either way.
You’re going to get skellington’d.
I HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU!!!
You’ll get bored after a day or two.
do it and post when you come back
this
either that or you will get raped by skeletons
Are u gonna have a camp set up for the week or keep moving thru?
dunno yet. depends on just how much equipment i'll take with me.
What difference would it make?
like, if its too bothersome to move around i'll probably just set up a tent in one of the big rooms or something, probably the german bunker or Z room
Bring a rope. If you listen to someone say "I've got a bone to pick with you", get the frick out as fast as you can.
If you can't carry it with you you're going to lose it.
You'll probably also get lost trying to get away from tourist areas.
R.I.P.
Why do you need to charge your flesh light, you going to stick it in some skeletons mouth and frick it for a week you sick twisted bastard?
Only place you can find genuine european DNA.
ill come with you as security
Bring calcium tablets as an offering to the skeletons so they won't shank you.
Do not go alone. Not on your first time at least. Get ready to be fined by the gendarmerie (L'IGC) which is gonna be the less dangerous thing you are going to face.
Use a map. good luck finding one reliable. Under any circumstances go below level 1. Level 2 , roughly the middle one, is accesible on foot but you can accidentally fall onto level 3. That one is almost entirely flooded and virtually impossible to get out without diving equipment.
This is a classic urbex tip: bring some mask for protection against dust and mold.
What perils do the catacombs hide within?
French catacombs are nothing to lose your head over.
>>
a literal gateway to hell.
i saw it in a movie.
don't listen to these other boneheads, there's nothing to worry about down he- i mean down there, nothing at all, in fact you shouldn't bring any of that stuff, just drop everything and visit right now, it's completely safe!
bring a divine weapon to keep the skeletons from respawning, the necromancers are a hassle to get to
My favorite episode was when Hank was about to find Walter and Jesse in the RV, and Hisenbones turned to the camera and said “looks like we’re totally boned!”
upvoted and gilded, to the top!
Get some string and do Hansel’s trick in case you get lost. It’s going to be really exciting for sure. Who knows what you might find in there.
- Use a hammoc and picrel (piton) rather than a sleeping bag. Cold, hard stone is insanely terrible to sleep on. Nothing like grass or even dirt.
- Use waders !! (decathlon's are field-tested). It's fine to use pants for a day but for 7 days it's ridiculous. Plus no chance your shoes survive that long if you both swim and crawl, which you will (i've destroyed several). Just remove the waders when sleeping, or when going outside or whatever
- Yellow LED is better than white LED, lantern is better than flashlight, candles are comfy too
- You have to consider boredom. Your pic says you're aiming for GRS, which is good because it has plenty of people to meet with (at night). Just go share a some weed, a beer, a fondue, it's a very normal thing to do. I get that you planned to stay alone, but darkness and no sound from anywhere beside your steps get lonely quick
- You shouldn't force yourself to stay isolated or carry 7 days of food/water. Maybe it sounds cool from afar, but really it's like challenging yourself to live 7 days in a sewer drinking filtered sewer water.
Overall you'll have a 10x better time carrying beer and sausage around, sharing it with others who will share you spots and stuff.
There's plenty of ways to make this memorable and people have stayed in the GRS sometimes 60+ days, but don't challenge yourself to ALWAYS AT ALL COSTS stay underground. You're not a youtuber doing a challenge
forgot pic
uh. so im not the only cataphile lurking on PrepHole. c'est bon à savoir. tu y traîne souvent?
En fait je sais pas toi mais quand j'y retourne j'ai l'impression d'avoir fait le tour, j'y allais énormément dans les années 2017-2020 (2 fois par mois en moyenne ptet ?) mais au bout d'un moment ni les gens ni les réseaux de banlieue n'apportaient de nouveauté donc ça niquait mon rythme de sommeil pour rien et j'ai arrêté au fil du temps. Je suis descendu même pas 3 fois cette année
>Skellies already got this one and now he's used to lure new people in
It's over.
i'll speak in english so the mods dont nuke the thread, but we could go down whenever you guys want, have a little walk. i had a great time with kheys from the 18-25 once, and i can only suppose that going in with anons would be even better. i recently made a plebbit account u/KtaEnjoyer specially for the catas. hmu if you ever want to hang out
yeah, it would be pretty cool. as long as one of the anons doesnt skin you alive, that is.
Mother fricker don't be speaking skeleton tongue in here
Hide your most precious or illegal stuff near your campiste. Squat a remote room but you will meet people. Don't film a basic youtube vlog.
Do you have some experience with caving or with the catacombs ?
I visited most of the GRS and XIIIe but there are still parts I want to see. I do some tract hiding/hunting during days but was a tourist not log ago.
Probably fake or not in Paris catacombs, the corps wouldn't have the time to rot before being found.
Odessa
>Yellow LED is better than white LED, lantern is better than flashlight
why? is it just for the atmosphere? i can imagine wielding a lantern in the middle of bones and stuff is really cool, but isnt it less practical than a modern flashlight?
You'll meet people with carbide lamps and it is indeed cool but absolutely optional. What i meant by lantern is something you can place on a table and have everything lit rather than something you'll put in the corner, that will blind people and create unpractical shadows. Yellow is comfort, I guess, but it costs nothing and the difference is huge. It's hard to explain but white just feels temporary and cold. It's impossible to make any place look comfy using white LEDs.
Plus trop depuis 1-2 ans ça me manque même un peu
>Just go share a fondue, it's a very normal thing to do.
With the skeletons?
You're going to get raped by a tunnel dwelling jean pierre garcon who's bloodline hasn't seen the sun since the french revolution. Better than being gangraped by 500 north african immigrants, nice job making the safe choice in paris anon.
>frog anon asks genuine PrepHole-related interesting question
>everyone itt is making reddit-tier skeleton jokes instead of actually giving him advice
the absolute state of PrepHole. anyway, just bring 12 liters of water, some MREs, an external usb battery or dynamo and camping toilets. i suppose people wont try to steal your toilets/water/food, so just hide your valuables inside of your sleeping bag or, better yet, wear your vest while you sleep and hide them in your inside pockets
As Paris has slipped further into third world status, it has encountered a serious rat infestation. Nothing seems to be helping, most likely due to a competency crises and lower standards of living brought in by new immigrants.
I’ve never been in the catacombs, but generally rats do stay in sewers in the winter, ostensibly because it’s warmer underground. Unfortunately PrepHole is completely unaware as to how to deal with rodents (the assumption on the board is that bears are the only threat to food, and rodents don’t exist in the wild, despite what many have witnessed first hand).
Ursack makes bear and critter proof bags, and they’re probably the most popular brand. Armored Outdoor Gear makes one specifically for rodents, called the RatSack. Odd that they make something specifically for rodents since bears are the only threat, right?. The Ursacks are very expensive because they’re bear proof, while the RatSack is much cheaper but still pricey.
You might be able to get away with a hard plastic case. A cloth bag won’t cut it.
>catacombs
>sewers
theres no light, so almost no plants, so almost no foods, so almost no insects, so almost no animals. its WAY cleaner that you'd expect it to be. you can still see a few rats in some areas, but they're scrawny.
theres no light, so almost no plants, so almost no foods, so almost no insects,
Just like a sewer
You'd be shocked at the amount of waste food that's floating around in sewers. Rats live for that shit.
no, almost the opposite of a sewer
>Unfortunately PrepHole is completely unaware as to how to deal with rodents
Easy, don't live in a filthy city or a filthy farm
Damn, I thought it was just a meme that Europe didn’t contain any wildlife but I guess not.
Rats are not country mice, they’re city rodents.
If there's lots of food coming off trees seeds lots of rats can live there, they'll always look for humans though.
Acktchually the number of rats is surprisingly low, but not due to a lack of food or water. It’s mostly due to access. Every storm drain leads into a sewer, and it’s very easy for rats to nest in one to escape the cold. They absolutely would do the same in the catacomb (it’s an ossuary, not a catacomb, and 99% of it is really an old quarry with no remains at all, pic rel) but there aren’t many easy entryways, even for rats.
But all it takes is one errant rodent to frick up your food.
>third world status
its so weird how most people have no idea what this actually means, yet say this phrase constantly. "developing country" means what you want to say
>ackshually
You know what they mean. They mean poor low IQ brownoids
>developing
Funny how they literally never become fully developed.
If you were on oldgay from /b, you'd know what to do. Bring back a skull to frick.
The kefirs will kill u
about that...
Hope you make it out OP. Never read much about any catacombs, is there anything interesting in terms of this
>mysteriously stopped investigating
etc.
If you find cool shit, share it with us man! You should probably bring a gun with you or something, definetly stuff to defend yourself.
>Hope you make it out OP.
anon...
WE DONT KNOW FOR SURE NOT TILL THE SKELETONS RATTLE ANON
Rattle rattle, homie
Rattle rattle, homie!
OP has been reduced to a pile of bones.
good luck, and post pic with your dick in a scull
Did you do it yet?
OP are you alive?
op, a few months later
Did OP actually frickin die?
What the frick happened to his clothes?
Mold, from soggy decomposition. Nobody knows the real origin of this photo but it's been passed off as from the Odessa catacombs.
I heard OP kicked over that rock cairn and was crushed when the roof collapsed.
>water purifier
The water down there is going to be seriously dirty. If you decide to purify it, make sure you do it properly. But a 20L can of water should be enough, and it's not that hard to carry.
Still alive or dead? Post pics and vids OP
Kek there was a youtuber who covered a story like this recently, OP fricking died
Is this the first time that PrepHole has had an anon die?
No but its hard to keep track for obvious reasons
Didnt find news coverage, anyone got source ?
Clack clack rattle rattle, OP.
What is up with exploring the catacombs besides being off limits? Not sure I understand it but it I always comes across as le edgy exploration?
cause it's epic gay
It literally killed OP. Just think about that.
They are extensive, man made caves and passages. They are hundreds of years old in some places. They are the closest you'll get to IRL dungeon crawling.
RIP OP
Imagine not being able to watch the eclipse because of some fricking skellingtons.
Bump.
Good luck op, look forward to pics when you get back.
It's just very humid and smells like an old cellar. I don't see anything interesting about it, going down there and avoiding the tourists and finding a safe space is a huge hassle. These days most areas probably have security cameras too.
say hello to the demi-humans for me
https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/paris_75056/paris-un-jeune-homme-de-19-ans-grievement-blesse-apres-avoir-chute-dans-les-catacombes_60795107.html
op dat you?
Is he dead?
guy in article cracked his head after falling in a hole trying to get in the catacombs. just says injured, not dead
only news article I could find from 2024
hope the guy recovers ok in the end but man slipping off a ladder at the entry has gotta be one of the lamest ways to injure yourself in the spooky forbidden catacombs
I can't believe OP fricking died