Revealing Paris's dark underground secret from @erekosima43
The creator starts at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, contrasting the city's romantic image with the dark secret of the catacombs beneath it, which hold 6 million bodies. He then descends into the tunnels, explaining their origin as a solution to overflowing cemeteries in the 1700s. The narrative then shifts to a modern mystery from 2004, where police discovered and then lost a secret movie theater in the catacombs, concluding on the duality of Paris as a city of love above and a city of the dead below.
Creator: @erekosima43 on Instagram
Video format
Vlog
Video outline
- Reveal a hidden world
- Explain its grim origin
- Introduce an unsolved mystery
- Deliver a thematic conclusion
Narrative framework
The Hidden World Chronicle
Narrative framework logic
To reveal a secret, darker, or more complex reality hidden beneath a familiar, often idealized, surface. The narrative works by creating a stark juxtaposition and then exploring the history and mysteries of the hidden world, culminating in a thematic resolution rather than a literal one.
Topics: Travel, History, Internet Mysteries
Concepts: Strange but True, Breakdown, Value Vlog
Formats: Vlog
Elements: Voiceover, B-Roll Cutaway, Montage Editing, Text Overlay
Account types: Personal Brand
Transcript excerpt
I'm in Paris. And most people don't no, there's a city underneath the city. This is 100 Things Before I Die, episode 18. If you were staying in Paris Paris is known as the city of love. There's probably somebody proposing right no. A tourist that just took 200 photos of the same view or newlyweds on their honeymoon. Not knowing they're walking over 6,000,000 dead bodies. About 20 meters beneath the streets of Paris is one of the largest collections of human remains on earth. Nearly 200 miles of tunnels with millions of bones hidden inside of it. In the late seventeen hundreds, Paris had a problem. The cemeteries were dangerously overcrowded and graves were overflowing. The smell of rotten bodies bad become a public health crisis. So in 1786, city officials begin to move human remains underneath the city. Down here, the walls are made of people. And the crazy part, almost no one knows whose bones are whose. Only about a mile is open to the public leaving over 100 miles of tunnels completely off limits. But here's where things get weird. In 2004, police were running a training exercise in the catacombs. They noticed a camera pointed at them. Someone was watching. They followed the wi
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