Footage of 'lost' man in Paris catacombs has people calling it the 'scariest thing they've ever seen'

While Paris is many people's idea of an ideal tourist destination, there are some parts of the city which you absolutely should not be in a hurry to visit.

Beneath the beautiful and historic city lies a maze of tunnels filled with the remains of over six million people.

The Paris catacombs sound mightily creepy, and while you can actually take tours down there a majority of the network of tunnels are not part of the adventure.

Paris' catacombs aren't for the faint of hearted. (Getty Stock Image)

Miles of tunnels beneath the Parisian streets are best left unexplored, not least because there are actually some people who live down there and they'd really rather not have tourists poking around.

There are claims that people living down in the catacombs will attempt to steal torches and maps from people who attempt to venture in, leaving a person with no light source or ability to pick a path further into the darkness.

There are a number of people who've become lost in the catacombs, though they usually manage to find an exit and eventually return to the surface.

Only one confirmed death has occurred down there, that of hospital worker Philibert Aspairt in 1793.

Not everybody who went exploring in the catacombs came back out alive again. (Frédéric Soltan/Corbis via Getty Images)

It's thought that he lost his light source and couldn't find his way out of the darkness, his body was discovered 11 years later a short distance away from one of the many exits in the catacombs which could have resulted in his survival.

After such a long time down there the only way he could be identified was his hospital keyring and his jacket buttons.

Evidence of other people in peril down in the catacombs has been found from time to time.

In the early 1990s a discarded camcorder was discovered in the Paris catacombs which appeared to show a man exploring the tunnels beneath the French capital.

The found footage showed someone running through the Paris Catacombs. (ABC)

Then at one point he just starts running, sprinting deeper into the darkness of the catacombs as though being chased by something.

Then he drops the camcorder, which lands on the ground and shows his feet disappearing off down a tunnel.

As you can imagine, the idea of getting lost underground in a maze of tunnels with no idea how to get out had people creeped out.

One person said you could 'add to my anti-bucket list' going into the catacombs, while others guessed that the guy 'panicked because he was lost' and started running.

Before you go expecting that the catacombs have claimed another victim, proving something like this is genuine is hard to do.

Nobody ever came back to claim the found camcorder as theirs, nothing was ever shown to be chasing him and no body was ever found.

It's possible he was a panicked man who got lost under Paris and started running, dropping his camera before eventually finding a way out, or the whole thing is a bit of a hoax.