Pretty Gritty Ghosts: Tacoma’s Haunted History, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE! PART TWO
Some cities carry their history more quietly than others. Tacoma isn’t one of them.
Through Pretty Gritty Tours, guide Chris Staudinger explores the darker side of Tacoma’s past—stories tied to locations where something doesn’t feel entirely settled.
From the wooded paths of Point Defiance Park, where visitors report an unexplained presence, to the historic Foss Seaport, where activity has been described after hours, the city offers more than just local history.
And just outside Tacoma, in Bucoda, a small-town gym built in 1939 has its own reputation—along with a doll some believe carries a presence of its own.
These aren’t isolated stories. They’re part of a larger pattern—places where the past doesn’t seem entirely finished, and where history may still be finding ways to be heard.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Grave Talks, part two of pretty gritty ghosts. |
| 0:05.8 | Tacoma's haunted history, a conversation with Chris Doddinger. |
| 0:11.2 | There's another place in Tacoma I wanted to talk about Blackwell Mansion. |
| 0:18.5 | Now, this was William and Alice Blackwell's home in the late 1800s. |
| 0:27.4 | Yes, 1891. |
| 0:29.1 | It's a fantastic home. |
| 0:32.2 | And it's still standing. |
| 0:34.5 | And it's big. |
| 0:35.4 | It looks really big. |
| 0:36.4 | Could you kind of describe it a little bit? |
| 0:38.8 | It's 9,000 square feet of this richly carved Minnesota white oak in a towering mansion right in the downtown of Tacoma. |
| 0:52.4 | And it has sort of that like luxurious Chicago vibe to it |
| 0:58.1 | and was built for these two people |
| 1:01.9 | that were some of the earliest investors in the idea of Tacoma. |
| 1:07.6 | And what was his business to provide him such an enormous, wonderful home? |
| 1:16.5 | He was in hospitality, and William and Alice ran the first hotel in the city of Tacoma, |
| 1:25.0 | were sort of the advocates and stewards for the Northern Pacific Railroad. |
| 1:30.6 | And when Tacoma was selected to be the terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad's northern branch, |
| 1:37.9 | Tacoma became the it town. |
| 1:40.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:41.8 | The end of the line. |
| 1:43.1 | And William and Alice were the hotel curators and owners and operators. |
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