April 7 in strange history
What strange thing happened on April 7? Here is the story from our files for this date, each checked against sources.
The Paris Catacombs (1786)
The full story of the Paris Catacombs: overflowing cemeteries, collapsing quarries, night-time bone transfers from 1785, the 1786 consecration, Héricart de Thury's walls of skulls, and the legend of Philibert Aspairt.