Hell Beneath Holy Ground

They called it the Holy City… but under the marble floors of the Vatican, men screamed for

mercy in the dark. Beneath St. Peter’s Basilica, there are chambers few have ever seen.

(Follow now.) Long before it became a pilgrimage site, these underground rooms were used

as Vatican prisons— places where “heretics” and “blasphemers” were kept silent. Some were priests

who spoke too freely. Others were accused of witchcraft or forbidden research. Chained in darkness,

they waited for confession—or death. Records mention cells so small you couldn’t lie down…

and interrogation rooms that doubled as tombs. Follow for more unholy truths they

tried to bury. The Vatican called it purification. History remembers it as hell beneath