Today on the Grave Talks, Pretty Gritty Ghosts, Tacoma's Haunted History, a conversation with Chris Doddinger.

What do Sea Monsters haunted ships in a creepy high school gym have in common?

Well, they're just a few of the stops on the tours led by Chris Stoddinger,

owner, operator, and lead guide of pretty gritty tours in Tacoma, Washington.

Today, Chris takes us on a virtual journey through the haunted corners and forgotten history of Gritty City,

where ghost stories and local lore lurk around every turn.

From the misty trails of Point Defiance Park said to be haunted by a young spirit,

to the shadowy halls of the Foss Seaport, Tacoma's haunted past is anything but quiet.

And down the road in Bucoda, a town with a population barely over 500, you'll find a haunted

1939 gymnasium and its most unsettling resident, a haunted doll named Abbey.

These aren't just ghost stories.

They're the restless echoes of a past that refuses to stay buried.

Today on the Grave Talks, pretty gritty ghosts, Tacoma's haunted history, a conversation with Chris Doddinger.

So, Chris, thank you so much for taking the time to chat with me tonight about hauntings in Tacoma, Washington.

I'm really excited about this.

Me too. I'm always excited to talk about this particular topic.

Now, you have pretty gritty tours.

So I wanted to ask you about where you came up with that name and I kind of stumbled upon it.

Tacoma is known as Gritty City or Grit City.

And it's really a term of endearment.

It is.

I mean, we don't shy away from the fact that we are an industrial blue-collar port town.

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