Airbnb offer: Stay the night with 6 million skeletons in Paris catacombs

Home rental website Airbnb is offering the one-night stay as a competition prize, with the winners enjoying a “real bed”, dinner with private concert, breakfast and, presumably, a few nightmares.

A storyteller will also weave tales from the crypts before you head off to sleep, the listing said.

Airbnb is thought to have paid around $400,000 to gain overnight access and they’re holding a competition to see which lucky pair gets to spend the night there.

The tunnels, rich in gothic history, were originally filled with human remains from Parisian cemeteries at the end of the 19 century, when local authorities saw a link between decomposing bodies in the overflowing Parisian cemeteries and a number of public-health problems.

The tunnels measure about 1.2 miles.

Elsewhere, visitors are advised: “Think in the morning that you might not survive until the evening, and in the evening that you might survive until the morning”.

A few 20 metres under the sewers and metro system, the Catacombs lure a few 500,000 visitors a year and have already been rented out to film crews and for fashion shows.

To win, you must tell the host (via the Airbnb website) as to why you are fearless enough to stay the night in the Catacombs, before October 20.

Writers like Victor Hugo, Gaston Leroux and Anne Rice have all drawn inspiration from the spooky network of tunnels.