posted on Apr, 11 2011 @ 08:23 PM
Hey everybody, I'm new here and, upon finishing watching the "Scariest Places on Earth" documentary featuring the man lost in the Paris catacombs,
I just had to do some more research on it. I happened upon this site and would like to add my two cents.
I personally think that the video is real:
Hundreds, probably thousands of people do illegal exploring in those tunnels every year. Whether they're thrill-seekers, college kids doing it on a
dare, or people just interested in seeing the history that's down there, most of them probably bring cameras, especially in today's technology and
YouTube age. We're bound to eventually see video of people getting lost and panicking, and that means that we're also bound to eventually see a
video of panic that spirals out of control and ends in a presumably tragic way.
I can think of two reasons why he dropped the camera:
1. He thought that he was being chased so his fight or flight reflexes kicked in, forcing him to drop the camera as it was a hindrance to his being
able to run as fast as possible (both arms need to be pumping in order to move as fast as possible, and even if it was a small camera his mind just
told him to drop it). Chances are he recognized his mistake right away but was too terrified to stop running.
2. He knew he wasn't being chased, but was in full panic mode anyway. As someone who suffers from anxiety and panic attacks, I can attest to the
fact that when you're in a full-blown panic attack you honestly don't care about any inanimate object that you might happen to be holding. He was
probably just so completely freaked and out of his mind with panic that he didn't even care that the camera was his only light source.
I somewhat believe in the paranormal, but in this case there definitely wasn't anything that was actually chasing him, despite what he may have
thought. It was just 100% panic. He had probably been lost for quite some time by the start of the video but was keeping his cool because he knew
the outcome of panic. Gradually the fear built up, he probably began thinking thoughts that he shouldn't have (i.e. when my lightsource goes I'm
quite literally screwed, does anybody even know I'm down here, what will my girlfriend and parents be thinking when I don't come home, might I
suffocate down here, are there ghosts down here, etc), his breathing probably accelerated, then he might have seen a shadow or something that spooked
him so badly that he kind of went mad.