Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Author: www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com) Language: English Episodes: 184
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The Offbeat Oregon History Podcast is a daily service from the Offbeat Oregon History newspaper column. Each weekday morning, a strange-but-true story from Oregon's history from the archives of the column is uploaded. An exploding whale, a few shockingly scary cults, a 19th-century serial killer, several very naughty ladies, a handful of solid-brass con artists and some of the dumbest bad guys in the history of the universe. Source citations are included with the text version on the Web site at https://offbeatoregon.com.
Episodes
‘Prepaid shanghaiing’ plot went off the rails — fatally [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:16
The sailor wanted to quit, but the captain didn't want him to; so he deposited a $60 'blood money' bonus with the British consul, as a reward if shanghaier Jim Turk could swindle him back aboard. Unfortunately, they kill…
Old Oregon loggers, millworkers were tough characters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:35
For workers in the 'bad old days' of working in the woods and in janky, underengineered sawmills, the occasional loss of a finger or two just came with the territory. (Garibaldi, Tillamook County; 1930s) (For text and pi…
When the Confederate flag flew over Oregon soil [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:16
Smithfield rebels' gesture of defiance on the main stagecoach route caused shock and outrage, but nobody was outraged enough to risk being shot over it; so the flag waved there until federal troops arrived and confiscate…
Lava Lake murders still officially unsolved, but ... [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:16
The evidence against Charles Kimzey was circumstantial, but police had the goods on him for an attempted murder the year before, so he was sent up the river on a life stretch. But clearly two men had done the killing --…
Missing trapper’s mom suspected foul play [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:21
Ed Nickols hadn't wanted to spend the winter by himself at the remote cabin, because he'd made a dangerous enemy in a former coworker who turned out to be an escaped convict. So Roy Wilson and Dewey Morris spent the wint…
Lawyer schemed to steal land by shanghaiing its owner [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:03
Astoria shyster L.G. Carpenter coveted Darius Norris's valuable acreage on Long Beach Peninsula. So he got the police chief to arrest Norris on bogus charges, swindled him into signing over his property, and shanghaied h…
'Oregon's Native Stepson' Hoover saved millions from starving to death [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:35
When World War I broke out, Herbert Hoover was the world's most successful mining engineer. He abandoned all that to build an organization to feed the starving, first in Belgium and then throughout war-torn Europe. (Lond…
Lonely Newburg orphan grew up to be President [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:37
He arrived in Oregon at age 9, and people called him “Poor Little Bertie.” He left Oregon for good to go to college at Stanford when he was 17. But Herbert Clark Hoover remained a member of the Salem Quaker church until…
Mayor’s wife gave him a real election-day surprise [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:12
Laura Starcher and her friends were fed up with the halfhearted, desultory service they were getting from city government. So they got organized, ran for all the public offices, and won ... much to the chagrin of the def…
Skunk’s pelt would be best admired from far away [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:48
Clarence the logger was running a trapline as a side hustle. One day, he decided a passing skunk would look great on his stretching rack, and impulsively seized the skunk with his bare hands. This did not turn out to be…

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