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Haunted Paris

Halloween in Paris? Welcome to the City of Fright.

Spending Halloween in Paris? There's more to do than the typical Zombie fancy dress, if that's not your thing. Celebrate the occasion with a festive tour of Paris' most haunted spots.

Discover the gruesome relics, famous corpses and spooky stories that litter the streets of Paris with our creepy Halloween tours , cemetry walks , and other haunts.

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Spooky sights to celebrate Halloween in Paris

Dead famous walk

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Paris has some of history's most influential characters buried on its soil; the Père-Lachaise cemetery alone shelters hundreds of writers, artists and politicians. But these are the lucky ones. Other famous figures did not always get to their final resting place in one piece. This itinerary uncovers some of the city's more macabre relics... 

Le Musée des vampires

• Paris et sa banlieue

For goosebumps and chills, one of the best places to come is Paris's (and the world’s) only vampire museum, which is nestled down a suitably gloomy alleyway near Porte des Lilas on the edge of the city. Run by eccentric, self-proclaimed ‘vampirologist’ Jacques Sirgent (an English teacher and Bram Stoker translator by day), you’ll find all sorts of odd objects and trinkets inside the museum (just one, packed room, with a large, gothic-style garden)...

Purgatory walk

A walk through Revolutionary Paris View Time Out Paris walk: The path to purgatory in a larger map If you can keep your head while all those around you are losing theirs, get on the blocks for our Revolutionary Walk, a unique promenade through the goriest spots of regicidal fever. You'll need: stout shoes, water and a fervent imagination. Start at Place de la Concorde, Métro Concorde. The key date here is 21 January 1793...

Ghosts and vampires walk

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Q: What should you do in Paris if you're after a night of shock and disgust? A: Try paying the bill in a Saint-Germain restaurant. Or, failing that, sign up for a Ghost and Vampires walk with the Mysteries of Paris tour company. Starting outside Notre-Dame and ending up at Les Halles, the walk is a whirlwind introduction to the ghoulish history lurking beneath the stones and behind the locked doors of the Right Bank. By the end of the night, you'll have been acquianted with... 

Le Manoir de Paris

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Cimetière de Montmartre

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Truffaut, Nijinsky, Berlioz, Degas, Offenbach and German poet Heine are all buried here. So, too, are La Goulue, the first great cancan star and model for Toulouse-Lautrec, celebrated local beauty Mme Récamier, and the consumptive heroine Alphonsine Plessis, inspiration for Dumas's La Dame aux Camélias and Verdi's La Traviata. Flowers are still left on the grave of pop diva and gay icon Dalida, who used to live on nearby rue d'Orchampt.

Les Catacombes

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This is the official entrance to the 3,000km (1,864-mile) tunnel network that runs under much of the city. With public burial pits overflowing in the era of the Revolutionary Terror, the bones of six million people were transferred to the catacombes.The bones of Marat, Robespierre and their cronies are packed in with wall upon wall of their fellow citizens. A damp, cramped tunnel takes you through a series of galleries before you reach the ossuary, the entrance to which is... 

Musée Fragonard

• Natural history

In 18th-century French medical schools, study aids were produced in one of two ways. They were either sculpted in coloured wax or made from the real things - organs, limbs, tangled vascular systems - dried or preserved in formaldehyde. Veterinary surgeon Honoré Fragonard was a master of the second method, and many of his most striking works are now on display here. Homme à la mandibule is a flayed, grimacing man holding a jawbone in his right hand - an allusion to the story of Samson... 

Cimetière de Père-Lachaise walk

The Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris's largest cemetery, is probably still best known to foreign visitors as the final resting place of one James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of the Doors. But ask a local what this 48-hectare site in the 20th arrondissement means to them, and they're more likely to mention the Mur des Fédérés or Molière than the Lizard King... 

Cimetière du Montparnasse

• Montparnasse

Formed by commandeering three farms (you can still see the ruins of a windmill by rue Froidevaux), the Montparnasse boneyard has literary clout: Beckett, Baudelaire, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Maupassant, Ionesco and Tristan Tzara all rest here.There are also artists, including Brancusi, Henri Laurens, Frédéric Bartholdi (sculptor of the Statue of Liberty) and Man Ray. The celebrity roll-call continues with Serge Gainsbourg, André Citroën and actress Jean Seberg.

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Paris Ghost Walking Tours

Ghost tours | haunted walking in paris.

Popularly hailed as one of the world’s most romantic cities, Paris is surely part of everybody’s bucket list. With its culture, history, and undeniable beauty, even a short visit will automatically capture the heart of every visiting traveler. But this glimmering City of Light holds a dark side, too. If you’re up for a spooky encounter, the Paris ghost tours will help you take a look at the city from a different lens—ghosts, cemeteries, and many creepy stories!

Find out the city’s spookiest mysteries and violent history with Ghosts, Mysteries, and Legends Night Walking Tour of Paris . This tour will also take you to places with known haunted presence, such as Palais du Justice and Place de la Vert Gallant. Test your courage and visit a tunnel that’s lined with about 6 million real skulls and bones in Paris Catacombs Skip the Line Walking Guided Tour. An expert will also accompany you for some storytelling as to how this skeleton-filled tunnel came to be. Solve the “Mona Lisa of the Seine” murder mystery case as you work on several clues by booking the Mona Lisa’s Murder Night Game .

Don’t let your creepy tour ruin your overall impression of Paris because there are still a lot of other things you can enjoy in this romantic city. An exciting ride on a Paris hop on hop off bus tour is perfect if you love to explore different attractions while onboard a tour bus. Never miss the chance to experience an unforgettable cruise ride along the waters of Seine River with these river cruise tours in Paris . Also, some secret walking tours in Paris are ready to help you discover hidden places around the city as you immerse in the Parisian life. And if you want to occupy your day with memorable trips and activities, a full-day tour in Paris is what you need.

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Top paris ghost & vampire tours.

• As every city, Paris, the City of Light, has its share of dark secrets, and Paris Catacombs are one of them.
• The guided tour of the catacombs of Paris reveals fascinating and sinister facts of the city in equal measure. Read more
• The tour elaborates how millions of human remains ended up in the underground labyrinths.

What You'll Do:

• Skip long lines to enter the Paris Catacombs and explore the realm of death that long remained secret.
• Tour sections of the underground labyrinth that are closed to the general public.
• Discover how so many skulls and bones arranged in neat order found their way to the catacombs.

What It Includes:

• Guided tour led by a licensed and professional guide.
• Fast track entry past long queues in front of the entrance.
• Exploration of the sections that are off-limits to ordinary visitors.

Travellers Talk:

• Could not have been better.
• Learned more about the french revolution in this 2h than I did during my school-years.
• This place was so much more than we thought it would be!

Is It Right:

• The activity is tailor-made for the adventurers and fans of dark mysteries.
• The guided tour is also recommended to fans of unorthodox places and history.
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Ghosts, Mysteries and Legends: Night Walking Tour of Paris

• Before becoming the Capital of Culture, Paris was a frightening place where dark rituals, mass executions and various tragedies took place.
• The tour reveals murders, occult mysteries and other chilling facts that used to be an everyday occurrence in Paris in the past. Read more
• The itinerary covers places where some of the scariest events in the history of the city and France took place.
• Hear stories that reveal a Paris far different than the one we have a chance to admire today.
• Walk from one place to another where terrible events occurred in the history.
• Learn about violence, diseases, mass murders and occult events that used to be a part of an ordinary day in the French capital.
• A knowledgeable and specialized tour guide.
• A group of up to 25 visitors.
• This was not a ghost tour, it was ten times better.
• It was fun to get a tour of the darker side of Paris.
• Very historical and interesting.
• If you are a fan of horror stories and dark mysteries, you will enjoy partaking in the guided tour.
• Fans of history also enjoy the experience very much.

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