The international trend of exploring abandoned properties has gained a strong foothold in France but many of the targeted properties are not abandoned at all Five teenagers climbed into an abandoned factory in Unieux Urban exploration is the exploration of old buildings It began to spread online in the early 2000s in large part thanks to individuals sharing photos on social media told French national research body CNRS that France in particular has some key locations for the practice “There are lots of castles and abandoned factories, “ he told Le Journal CNRS “These abandoned sites are usually where the absence of real estate pressure explains why they are not demolished or restored “[Urbex practitioners] consider these places to be like metaphors for disappearance that demonstrate how nature returns despite man’s best efforts.” Read more: Abandoned, not forgotten: Urbex trend and the lure of French châteaux In addition to the danger of entering abandoned factories also visit homes - which are not always as abandoned as they think one famous Urbexer known as ‘Jo Urbex’ shared a YouTube video of his visit to the cellar of the so-called ‘Alchemist’s house’ The title of the video was J’ai filmé des choses atroces dans ce temple or I filmed horrible things in this temple The story made the news since the urban explorer discovered human remains in the property’s cellar.  The police visit that followed came as a surprise to the property's new owner “I told them that as far as I know all my ex-boyfriends are still alive,” Catherine Katkoff told Le Figaro reminding her that it is illegal to keep human remains in a house Ms Katoff told the gendarmes that if there were holes at the ends of the bones then it was a medical skeleton “which when my father was young were made of real bones.” the interest of the gendarmerie in the case vanished the interest of the Urbex community is not so easily satisfied “This might be the sacrificial knife…,” a breathless Jo Urbex tells his cameraman as his eye runs over some tools in the dark of Ms Katkoff’s cellar - the ‘Masonic temple’ “I told them that there was an owner,” Ms Katoff told Le Figaro I know that they have seen the messages because they mention them in their videos but they have blocked me.” She has since placed a sign outside the house saying ‘Ceci n'est pas une maison abandonnée il y a des biens de valeur’ (this is not an abandoned house So far nobody has been successfully prosecuted for entering the property since they say that they can get in through a hole in the cellar It is not illegal to enter a property in France so long as the owner does not voice opposition and the person entering does not break anything to get in that characterises forced entry,” lawyer Mathieu Masse told Le Figaro “That is why Urbexers have no choice but to claim that they get into homes that they claim are abandoned because there was a hole or that a window had blown open.” Read more: Couple who wrecked French chateau after pretending to be buyers jailed  If a home has acquired fame as an interesting location Jo Urbex told Le Figaro that he recognised it was difficult to put a stop to the visits “Talk to them,” said Jo Urbex “When houses are left empty for 30 years people imagine that there is no owner.” “Just outside the house I saw a lady once,” she said “I approached her to ask her to leave and she said to me ‘do you know what happened inside this house?’”  Ms Katkoff offered to let the gendarmes use her father’s old house for training although even this has not stopped the Urbex visits from happening at night Police are reported to be concentrating on people likely to wish direct ill of Karen Carter who was fatally stabbed on April 29 Teaching staff may soon be able to search students’ belongings Police investigating a report of a body being dumped in a river in France's Loire region made an unusual discovery on Monday -- a 2.2 meter (7.2 foot) catfish wrapped in a sheet A police spokesman told AFP a local resident in the village of Unieux in south-central France called police to report having seen several people dump a body wrapped in a sheet in the Loire River on Thursday He called police after hearing reports that a 39-year-old woman had gone missing in the region But when police investigated they discovered the body was in fact the corpse of the enormous fish The police spokesman said it was not known why the fish's body had been dumped and that it was left at the site Haaaa !It must be a case of KIDNAP...I mean FISHNAP In the Arab world...there are occasional news of men being kidnapped...In south Asia -pacific region ,,,Women are often kidnapped for various reasons..But in the West,,they kidnap FISHES Maybe they get huge ransoms for Fishes which are obviously more valuable then Western Men and women.... Maybe they fed the women to the catfish :)