--- title: You Could Spend Halloween in Paris' Catacombs description: Competition winners vie for a chance to spend Halloween amid the remains of over six million dead in Paris' famed underground tombs. canonical: https://time.com/4072773/airbnb-paris-catacombs-grave-halloween/ author: Joanna Plucinska article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-14T07:07:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:00.695Z og:title: Want to Spend Halloween in the World's Biggest Grave? og:description: Paris' famed catacombs to be opened to contest winners og:url: https://time.com/4072773/airbnb-paris-catacombs-grave-halloween/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1056019b7f50861d/69886834428a9e3a05ccf9d2/457239582.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: FRANCE-HERITAGE-CATACOMBS og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Want to Spend Halloween in the World's Biggest Grave? twitter:description: Paris' famed catacombs to be opened to contest winners twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1056019b7f50861d/69886834428a9e3a05ccf9d2/457239582.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Winner of This Competition Will Spend Halloween in What Is Basically the World's Biggest Grave ## Video: Dogs in Costume: Halloween Dog Parade [Watch (HLS stream): Dogs in Costume: Halloween Dog Parade](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/jEhRhyl1.m3u8) (1:54)  _Published 2013-10-30. Each year, New York's Thompkins Square Park hosts a Halloween Dog Parade, with more than 400 dogs in attendance._ by [Joanna Plucinska](https://time.com/author/joanna-plucinska/) ## Joanna Plucinska Oct 14, 2015 7:07 AM UTC  Skulls and bones are stacked at the Catacombs of Paris on October 14, 2014 Skulls and bones are stacked at the Catacombs of Paris on October 14, 2014Patrick Kovarick—AFP/Getty Images by [Joanna Plucinska](https://time.com/author/joanna-plucinska/) ## Joanna Plucinska Oct 14, 2015 7:07 AM UTC Airbnb is offering up its most ghoulish accommodation yet — the underground catacombs of Paris, where the skulls and skeletons of over 6 million dead are entombed. And you can now [vie for the chance](https://www.airbnb.com/night-at/paris-catacombs?locale=en) to sleep spend Halloween night there. All you need to do is explain, before Oct. 20, why you would be courageous enough to complete the overnight stay. “Before bedtime, a storyteller will have you spellbound with fascinating tales from the catacombs, guaranteed to produce nightmares. Finally, enjoy dawn with the dead, as you become the only living person ever to wake up in the Paris catacombs,” Airbnb says. Guests will also get a private concert and a “a dazzling culinary experience” in the mass tomb. The underground tunnels were first built in the 1780s after more conventional cemeteries, filled to overflowing, became a public health hazard. 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