The Grim: Haunted Cemeteries & Graveyard Tales
Jun 23, 2026 · 27 min · 12 segments
Paris in Mourning, Part Two — and the gate is open again. The Grim returns to Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France for the season two finale, and the dead still have stories left to tell. We walk…
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For the season finale of The Grimm, I thought it was finally time we began reopening a few gates.
I've been hinting at this return for nearly every episode, because burial grounds are never truly finished.
Sometimes, among the thousands or even millions who rest within those walls, their names will be passed by too quickly.
They're cities of the dead, labyrinths of memory, and every path leads somewhere new, because there's avenues we never walked, there are graves we passed without pausing, and their voices carved into marble that have been waiting patiently for someone to listen.
Before we continue into Père Lachaise, it's worth pausing for those joining us here for the first time, or for those who simply need reminding of exactly what kind of place this is.
Spread nearly across 110 acres in Paris, with more than 100 million souls resting within these walls, with millions more preserved in the columbarium and crematorium.
During a time when Paris was rapidly outgrowing its overcrowded burial grounds, the dead had become a problem for the living, and the city chose land on the eastern edge of Paris once owned by the Jesuits.
The cemetery took its name from Pierre-Francois de Lachaise, confessor to Louis XIV.
The location felt too far from central Paris, too inconvenient and too unfashionable.
Its cobbled avenues climb steep hills lined with gothic chapels, weathered angels, ivy-covered tombs, and silent stone faces watching from above.
For the season finale of The Grimm, I thought it was finally time we began reopening a few gates.
I've been hinting at this return for nearly every episode, because burial grounds are never truly finished.
Sometimes, among the thousands or even millions who rest within those walls, their names will be passed by too quickly.
They're cities of the dead, labyrinths of memory, and every path leads somewhere new, because there's avenues we never walked, there are graves we passed without pausing, and their voices carved into marble that have been waiting patiently for someone to listen.
Before we continue into Père Lachaise, it's worth pausing for those joining us here for the first time, or for those who simply need reminding of exactly what kind of place this is.
Spread nearly across 110 acres in Paris, with more than 100 million souls resting within these walls, with millions more preserved in the columbarium and crematorium.
During a time when Paris was rapidly outgrowing its overcrowded burial grounds, the dead had become a problem for the living, and the city chose land on the eastern edge of Paris once owned by the Jesuits.
The cemetery took its name from Pierre-Francois de Lachaise, confessor to Louis XIV.
The location felt too far from central Paris, too inconvenient and too unfashionable.
Its cobbled avenues climb steep hills lined with gothic chapels, weathered angels, ivy-covered tombs, and silent stone faces watching from above.
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