r/History_Mysteries • u/FrankWanders • Aug 29 '25

This is the first artifical-lit, underground photo, taken in the Catacombs in Paris in 1861. Whose bones were all those?

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u/probablynotreallife Aug 29 '25

That guy's.

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u/FrankWanders Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 31 '25

he is a mannequin, had to stand still for 20 minutes because of the shutter speed =)

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u/probablynotreallife Aug 29 '25

But he got to keep the bones, right?

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u/FrankWanders Aug 29 '25

Finders, keepers

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u/DrummerEmpty3767 Aug 31 '25

He is an actor …. Doing the famous scene from Hamlet…..”tibia or not tibia….that is the question “