The best spooky places to visit while on holiday in Paris

Paris, the city associated with lovers and romance, also has some of the spookiest places that can be found on Earth. And no, Paris isn’t just home to the iconic Eiffel tower, but a lot more – including places that could wake up the adventure spirit in you.

So what are the Top 10 Spooky Places in Paris You Need to Visit?

1) The Catacombs of Paris (Les Catacombes)

Underneath all the lights of the city is a place of chilling darkness. Built in the 18th century, the catacomb is the largest graveyard in the world, tunneling for miles and miles underneath the city. It is a labyrinth, with walls lined with skeletons and the chambers filled with the bones of almost 6 million Parisians, who were buried when graveyards around the city had no place to hold the dead.

It is a creepy unnerving experience that you will remember for the rest of your life and not to be missed.  Only a part of these tunnels are open to the public, and there have been reports of people getting lost in this eerie labyrinth of human remains. The official tour takes around 45 minutes. Paranormal sightings, invisible touches, and voices in the walls have also been reported. You can experience your own tale there, once you make a visit to the place.

2) Notre Dame Cathedral

Notre Dame Cathedral is a medieval Catholic cathedral and one of the most famous of its kind in the world.
It is said to be the home of countless ghosts of kings, queens and monks. Sinister looking gargoyles and stone faces carved into the walls give the place a haunting feel to it. There have also been stories that tell about spirits of powerful French figures flitting in and out from between the gargoyles.

3) The Bastille Prison

The Bastille prison, associated with the dictatorial rule of the monarchy, was a formidable state prison. Many prisoners, notably, The Man in the Iron Mask were held there before it was stormed at the beginning of the French Revolution.

Of course, the main prison has been destroyed, but the Place de La Bastille is a square that now stands on the place the prison once was in. Some of the ruins of the original prison can be found in Boulevard Henri IV and both these places are said to be haunted by ghosts.

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4) Chateau de Chateaubriant

According to legend, Francoise de Foix, King Francis I’s mistress, was said to have been killed by her jealous husband, Jean de Laval on 16th October 1537. It is said that her ghost now appears in this castle at the stroke of midnight every year on 16th October. She is followed by a ghostly procession of knights and monks.

5) Jarden Des Tuileries

This place is reportedly said to be haunted by The Ghost of the Red Man. The Red Man, as he is popularly known, was murdered on the orders of Catherine de Medici, for knowing too many internal secrets of the royal family.

He is said to haunt this place, and it is believed that the appearances of his ghosts have foreshadowed many important events.

6) Le Manoir de Paris

It was built as a combination of a haunted house and a museum of the macabre. Actors who work here use themes from Paris’s dark, often brutal past, and induced an atmosphere of spookiness designed to terrify anyone who visits this place.

7) Cimetière du Père Lachaise

It is the largest of Paris’s cemeteries. Oscar Wilde, Frederic Chopin, Jim Morrison all rest here. This cemetery is a maze of paths lines with statues. It is quite easy to lose your way here, and maybe feel the whispers of ghosts from a long-gone past.

8) The Vampire Museum

This is the world’s only museum dedicated to vampires. Built and maintained by the vampirologist Jacque Sirgent, the collections include a mummified cat and a vampire protection kit. This is a place both strange and scary.

9) Musee Fragonard

Honore Fragonard’s macabre collection of limbs, figures and pickled organs, eerily preserved, can be found in this house. These sights are enough to send a chill down one’s spine.

10) Cimetière de Montparnasse

It is the second largest of Paris’s cemeteries, and is the resting place of the greats of Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir. Ghosts can be often spotted in the cemetery.

So next time when you visit Paris, be sure to check out these scary places of the City of Lights and Love. You can get Paris Trip Tickets Here Below.