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The Red Tailed Hawk
I may be wrong, but the red tailed hawk has been robbed. The voice of the bald eagle has been a red tailed hawk for over a hundred years now.
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Explore UFOs in WA
zhlédnutí 246Před 21 dnem
If you are interested in exploring the incredible story of the Maury Island Incident and Harold Dahl’s encounter with UFOs and the Men in Black, then you can’t miss this 1.2 mile walking tour through Des Moines, WA. Explore Seattle Southside has a guided audio tour of the area that takes you to key locations and narrates important events tied to the infamous 1947 UFO sighting and the first docu...
UFOs in Washington
zhlédnutí 622Před 28 dny
Did you know that Washington is the birthplace of the term "flying saucer" and the first recorded incidence of the Men in Black? Right here in our very own Seattle Southside, on June 21, 1947, a local captain named Harold Dahl claimed to have seen six flying discs come out of the water near Maury Island. Harold later recanted this story, saying that a mysterious man in black had warned him to n...
The Atomic Man - Harold McCluskey
zhlédnutí 178Před měsícem
Do you know the story of Harold McClusky? He was a worker at the Hanford site in 1976 when an acccident exposed him to over 500 times the amount of radiation deemed safe in a lifetime.  He survived the incident and went on to be known as “the Atomic Man.” #wa #washington #history #trivia #didyouknow #hanford #explorewashington #atomicman 
The concrete ship by DuPont
zhlédnutí 271Před měsícem
A lot of people have been asking about the old concrete ship that you can explore at low tide out by Du Pont. It’s the remains of a concrete vessel that was once used by the Foss company and originally built in 1919. It was scuttled, intentionally as a breakwater in the 60s and has remained there ever since. There are at least 5 other ships there as well but this is the only one you can climb...
The Triple Nickles
zhlédnutí 370Před 2 měsíci
Do you know about the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion? The triple nickels as they were known were an all black paratrooper battalion that flew out of Pendleton Oregon and was tasked with fighting forest fires started by over 9000 incendiary Japanese balloons that have been sent across the ocean on the jetstream. @The Wandering Historian surely knows way more about this. #wa #history #pendlet...
Stadium High’s Missing Cafeteria
zhlédnutí 417Před 2 měsíci
Did you know that what was once the Stadium High school cafeteria has since been converted into the library? During the 2005 remodel, the change was made, and they discarded an old panoramic saucer that used to be attached to the exterior of the building. #tacoma #washington #stadiumhighschool #history #didyouknow #253 
The Finley Ghost
zhlédnutí 544Před 2 měsíci
Have you heard of the Finley Ghost? Visiting the ghost off of S Havana in Finley WA was one of the great things to do in the Tri-Cities, People have been going to the Columbia River for years to try and contact the ghost that waits along the shore. There is definitely something waiting for them there but if you don't know the mystery of it yet we can't tell you. #wa #tricities #pasco #ghoststor...
Top of the Ocean in Tacoma
zhlédnutí 706Před 3 měsíci
Top of the Ocean, a fantastic restaurant from Tacoma was built in 1946. On April 3rd, 1977 is was deatroyed by arson, but some clues remain to tell the passersby that it once was there on Ruston Way. You can read up some more on this icon here: www.historylink.org/File/9818 #tacoma #wa #explorewashington #history #truecrime #topoftheocean
The Miss Veedol - first ever non-stop flight across the northern Pacific
zhlédnutí 196Před 3 měsíci
The glory of the first ever trans-Pacific nonstop flight goes to Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr who flew all the way from Misawa Japan to East Wenatchee. They accomplished this Herculean feet of aviation in October 1931 and they almost didn't make it every step of the way, from being jailed to having to walk out on the wing and jettisoning their equipment, there were challenges that anyone ...
Harold Bromley in Tacoma
zhlédnutí 216Před 3 měsíci
Harold Bromley in Tacoma
Johnson & Cox in Tacoma
zhlédnutí 272Před 4 měsíci
Johnson & Cox in Tacoma
Lost Spirits Distillery
zhlédnutí 363Před 4 měsíci
Lost Spirits Distillery
Wright Park in Tacoma
zhlédnutí 493Před 4 měsíci
Wright Park in Tacoma
A Steilacoom Ghost Story
zhlédnutí 428Před 4 měsíci
A Steilacoom Ghost Story
Old Woman’s Gulch in Tacoma
zhlédnutí 493Před 4 měsíci
Old Woman’s Gulch in Tacoma
National Realty Building In Tacoma
zhlédnutí 243Před 4 měsíci
National Realty Building In Tacoma
What is the concrete pillar in Tacoma on 25th?
zhlédnutí 512Před 4 měsíci
What is the concrete pillar in Tacoma on 25th?
White Sturgeon in WA
zhlédnutí 312Před 5 měsíci
White Sturgeon in WA
Three Fingered Jack's Saloon
zhlédnutí 297Před 5 měsíci
Three Fingered Jack's Saloon
Is the Brick the oldest bar in Washington?
zhlédnutí 225Před 5 měsíci
Is the Brick the oldest bar in Washington?
What is Washington State's Oldest Bar?
zhlédnutí 549Před 5 měsíci
What is Washington State's Oldest Bar?
The Old Parkland School
zhlédnutí 258Před 5 měsíci
The Old Parkland School
Monkeyshines in Tacoma
zhlédnutí 413Před 5 měsíci
Monkeyshines in Tacoma
What is Tacoma’s Oldest Bar?
zhlédnutí 418Před 5 měsíci
What is Tacoma’s Oldest Bar?
Ray Gamble
zhlédnutí 260Před 5 měsíci
Ray Gamble
Rats in the PNW
zhlédnutí 364Před 5 měsíci
Rats in the PNW
Eastern or Central WA?
zhlédnutí 437Před 8 měsíci
Eastern or Central WA?
The Northrup Murder
zhlédnutí 385Před 8 měsíci
The Northrup Murder
Rock Lake in WA
zhlédnutí 532Před 8 měsíci
Rock Lake in WA

Komentáře

  • @treeslayer2275
    @treeslayer2275 Před dnem

    Ahhh man got me dang

  • @tacomatechlordonerightousd8603

    What is the picture thumbnail of?

    • @PrettyGrittyTours
      @PrettyGrittyTours Před dnem

      @@tacomatechlordonerightousd8603 a flood mitigation tunnel or sewer

  • @owen1607
    @owen1607 Před 2 dny

    it’s a metal wall and flood barrier next to a buried water pipe and they have a several minute time lapse voiceover about the engineering like it’s the fucking Apollo spacecraft or something lol

  • @carolharmon4638
    @carolharmon4638 Před 2 dny

    Wow that last jump scare got me. I loved it. Hopefully you don't quit as I love a good scare.

  • @GotDamBoi
    @GotDamBoi Před 2 dny

    i love ur channel bro keep it up

  • @roknrolbilly
    @roknrolbilly Před 3 dny

    🎼🎶

  • @yettawat1564
    @yettawat1564 Před 3 dny

    Wow!

  • @yettawat1564
    @yettawat1564 Před 3 dny

    So interesting -I had no idea!!

  • @brandyjean7015
    @brandyjean7015 Před 4 dny

    Huzzah for Red Tailed Hawk!

  • @brandyjean7015
    @brandyjean7015 Před 4 dny

    A stinky topic for sure, but glad it is being dealt with!

  • @Musabe009
    @Musabe009 Před 4 dny

    Shut up Franklin not now 😂😂😂 wasn’t expecting that 😂😂😂

  • @MTCali70
    @MTCali70 Před 4 dny

    Sounds like Hellywood- always lying and deceiving 😮

  • @thewhomphlew
    @thewhomphlew Před 4 dny

    We've met at the seaport museum a year ago.. my grandpa was Mayor Big John. Family boat is adjacent to the seaport museum. We talk to the director and manager regularly as their security. I called 911 when one of their kayaks was stolen this morning.

  • @mattwilliams3504
    @mattwilliams3504 Před 5 dny

    I snuck up to the windows and doors when I was a kid. Nobody ever seemed to be there. The doors were alwats locked.

  • @whatabouttheearth
    @whatabouttheearth Před 8 dny

    11:38 Cover up for a YB39-YB47 flying wing aircraft development? I'd say Fred Chrisman, the spook investigated by District Attorney Jim Garrison because he was the first person Clay Shaw called after he was indicated in DA Garrisons JFK investigation, made this shit up in 1947 as a cover up for YB39-YB47 flying wing aircraft development to get ahead of the story in case too many people saw damaged test flights. Now think about that, Kenneth Arnolds drawing, early flying wing aircraft like the YB47, later flying wing aircraft like the stealth bomber, and modern black triangle UFO sightings (aka "TR3B", etc). I would hypothesize that UFOs are ALL covert human craft

  • @uradragon
    @uradragon Před 8 dny

    Sturgeon don't eat live birds.

  • @ManyDoors777
    @ManyDoors777 Před 10 dny

    Cool videos! Hey, start shooting with a film camera again. You’re less likely to loose your photos. Digital cameras are very susceptible to electromagnetic disturbances.

  • @taylorfingerson5409
    @taylorfingerson5409 Před 11 dny

    As from spanaway, I was told never go to Clay City you will never be the same

  • @thewanderlusterASMR
    @thewanderlusterASMR Před 11 dny

    Should be illegal to take down a building like that.

  • @holdenclark2894
    @holdenclark2894 Před 12 dny

    Wow I always wondered now I know

  • @holdenclark2894
    @holdenclark2894 Před 12 dny

    I go there

  • @holdenclark2894
    @holdenclark2894 Před 12 dny

    I live in Tacoma and me and my dad go meat lining off point defiance and sometimes fish in the port for salmon and I always wondered why those naval ships are there there story and why they are there now I know

  • @Toomuchcamp
    @Toomuchcamp Před 12 dny

    Please do an episode on Connell Washington please.

  • @tonyviviano1604
    @tonyviviano1604 Před 12 dny

    Cool!! A railfan who drinks! I worked that line to Ellensburg for a few years after it re-opened back in 1996. Nice job!

  • @johnalford5677
    @johnalford5677 Před 13 dny

    Hey

  • @johnalford5677
    @johnalford5677 Před 13 dny

    Hey

  • @user-gw3eb3my8h
    @user-gw3eb3my8h Před 14 dny

    Wow. Ft. Lewis. I know her intimately. I was stationed there from 83-85. There was a Aviation unit right beside the museum. Long since torn down. 243rd Avn Co. part of 9th aviation battalion. I was a supply clerk. So many incredible memories there. All the people all the soldiers were so wonderful. I remember you Roger Jackson🥹 how we used to pretend we were ninjas at night running around the museum and around the streets. I remember you Sam drinking T-Bird in the barracks. I remember you Lyman Jones and how wonderful of a man you were powerful fun a very good soldier and I remember you Sergeant Braxton you were awesome and Mr. Schaeffer thank you for all those nights in the helicopter in Yakima flying tactical maneuvers. I remember sneaking my girlfriend who is still my wife into the barracks. And I also remember the 1972 moped I had and I drove it all over Fort Lewis, day and night. It was so mysterious and fun at night but very scary. I remember the night they close the base because of Bigfoot activity. Anybody out there remember that. I loved Lewis. I miss her so much and the people and the time

  • @kitchenswitch3626
    @kitchenswitch3626 Před 16 dny

    Born and raised in Tacoma!

  • @SafeHavenStudiosLLC
    @SafeHavenStudiosLLC Před 16 dny

    Thank you!! ❤

  • @hollyrashell
    @hollyrashell Před 16 dny

    Grew up there, never learned about any of this

  • @paulboehlke
    @paulboehlke Před 17 dny

    Awesome! Thanks Chris

  • @GDMW58759800
    @GDMW58759800 Před 17 dny

    In my ancestry research, I found a 4th cousin who died there and his death certificate says he's buried there. His name was Alfred Newsom. It says he died from burns. (1946 if I remember correctly)

    • @GDMW58759800
      @GDMW58759800 Před 17 dny

      I'm sorry, my cousin was Arthur Benson. He passed away in 1946

  • @user-bv2oo9nh3q
    @user-bv2oo9nh3q Před 19 dny

    The I-5 is when I need to go to work old. 99 is for the weekends when I want to do things enjoyable and shop local or at least back in the '90s it was. Do they still do the swap meet out out at Midway?❤ seattlerockrrgrrrl

  • @thekatzzzzzz
    @thekatzzzzzz Před 21 dnem

    I grew up in Tacoma in the 60's. As a teenager, I hung out at the court "C" artists mall down by the old Sears building. I would go to the Sears building and get a bag of the hot, cashews. Then as an adult, I worked in the old Sears building which had been renovated. The boss, Dan Baty, was friends with Dale Chihuly and we had his work in the lobby. In the alley below the building was Famous Amos where they baked the cookies. You bought them fresh out of the oven. The Roxy was a dumpy, little theater where you could watch a movie cheap. :) Right across the street I rented an apartment in a building that had been an old hotel for the actors that came to the theater district. Great old metal, Otis elevator in that building then. 100.00 a month rent. Loved growing up there visiting the point defiance zoo and Ivan the Gorilla at the B and I circus store. Tons of great memories. When my kids were small in the 80's it was only a dime to get in the Aquarium. We had an inexpensive zoo pass. Gas was inexpensive too so we visited all the great parks regularly. Glad I had kids during that time. Everything is so expensive now. Thank you for bringing back the memories!

  • @brettmeldahl4456
    @brettmeldahl4456 Před 22 dny

    everyone misses the HUGE rock wall at Melmont! much cooler than TNT shed I've been to every town standing or not the last two decades in WA. I will return here and finish the show but I'm curious as to why Fairfax wasn't covered WITH Melmont? a bridge connected them (remains in river). oh...most active GHOST town: Kerriston!

    • @PrettyGrittyTours
      @PrettyGrittyTours Před 22 dny

      Honestly, there were just way too many to choose from so we stuck with the first handful and tried to represent a wide region the first time

  • @brandyjean7015
    @brandyjean7015 Před 22 dny

    That building is still very impressive!

  • @inlovewithhealth
    @inlovewithhealth Před 25 dny

    Cool the Boone connection. My two sons are 6th great grandsons of Daniel Boone. My late husband was 5th great grandson...

  • @inlovewithhealth
    @inlovewithhealth Před 25 dny

    I've lived in the general area around Black Diamond my whole life. I visit the BD Cemetery fairly often. Before my sweet dog, Annie died she was always with me where ever I went. In that cemetery, she would wag her tail out one side of the car and growl out the window on the other side. She never growled at anyone her entire life, except there but her preference for the people she liked there never changed. This is when you first drive in on the left hand side... My son took a date out there one evening and they just sat and watched orbs. It is a pretty active space but I never feel uncomfortable there. I have many friends who are descendants of the people buried there.

  • @inlovewithhealth
    @inlovewithhealth Před 25 dny

    Good info... what about Carbonado? I saw in one of your text shots that it may have closed during prohibition... but I'm guessing it stayed open for food and non-alchoholic... and perhaps something from the basement for certain customers?? Wink. Would love a deep dive on it.

  • @inlovewithhealth
    @inlovewithhealth Před 25 dny

    Not sure if you know but the bar in Carbonado also takes credit for being the oldest continuous running bar in Washington along with the Brick in Roslyn. I'm not sure which really is but they are the two....

    • @PrettyGrittyTours
      @PrettyGrittyTours Před 23 dny

      I believe the Carbonado bar is older but not as old as a few others in WA

  • @heathermcmurray5590
    @heathermcmurray5590 Před 25 dny

    For el paso asarco (corpus cristi and e helena site, epgtlo.blogspot.com) in 2006 i was given a 73 page confidential document from the Federal Dept. of Justice (DOJ). The doc. was written in 1998 by the EPA and the DOJ and then sealed from sight. Rep. Reyes said that Asarco paid millions of dollars on the condition of what it had done in El Paso would never become public. See 10/2006 NY Times for article exposing this document. In that document the EPA and DOJ proved that Asarco had been running an illegal multi-state secret-hazardous waste disposal operation from 1990 to 1998 that included secondary materials from three companies that were Dept. of Energy waste-disposal contractors from places like Oak Ridge TN and Hanford WA. None of this data came out in the 2005-2008 Asarco bankruptcy. Asarco escaped all liability for those illegal poisons. And, the El Paso clean up site Trustee is also 'let off the hook' for it, too. The trustee explains that his contract with the Bankruptcy court lets him off from any fiduciary responsibility for it. Those horrible poisons that could not be burned in other peoples' back yards were brought here and burned without telling us or the workers.

  • @casedoumasr656
    @casedoumasr656 Před 27 dny

    In the Ferndale Washington area there was a true UFO landed in aunt and uncle's front yard down on there small farm and left a burnt round spot true story and there was a newspaper article as well true story 🙏late 1950s

  • @roknrolbilly
    @roknrolbilly Před 27 dny

    very kool!........thank you chris! 🎼🎵🎶🎵

  • @cherylm9770
    @cherylm9770 Před 27 dny

    Cool information 👌🏻

  • @rickblyseth3879
    @rickblyseth3879 Před 27 dny

    When I was young in the early 80’s the museum in the city building in Spokane had a map of sightings in the area. One was close to where we lived.

  • @hollyrashell
    @hollyrashell Před 28 dny

    I went there as a kid, there are pictures of the dungeon rooms.. the swinging pendulum still haunts me. I was sad it closed.

  • @johnalford5677
    @johnalford5677 Před 28 dny

    Yes

  • @tanyatucjer
    @tanyatucjer Před 29 dny

    COLDER!

    • @PrettyGrittyTours
      @PrettyGrittyTours Před 29 dny

      Finley isn’t Eastern WA enough for you? I have covered Spokane, Grand Coulee, Tri Cities, Hooper, and 250 more locations. As a Tacoma based tour company I will continue to cover a lot of local content on top of the Eastern WA content. If it isn’t Eastern enough for you no problem.

  • @tanyatucjer
    @tanyatucjer Před 29 dny

    Warmer.

  • @tanyatucjer
    @tanyatucjer Před 29 dny

    You do know that there is two-thirds more to the state than just Seattle-Tacoma Olympia metropolitan area? It doesn't go Seattle Tacoma Idaho border! I subscribed to this channel because it's history about my home state, but nothing about where I live! Just a small sliver at the left side of the state, what gives? Is it just like all the toys that we get to pay for with our taxes over here but not get a use over there? Color me confused! 👎😠👎

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      @PrettyGrittyTours Před 29 dny

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