Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Author: www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com) Language: English Episodes: 100
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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
Charming gentleman by day, robber-poet by night [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:13
Charles “Black Bart” Bolton's neighbors in San Francisco thought his money came from ownership in gold mines. It turned out it came from furtive excursions northward to rob stagecoaches in Oregon and northern California.…
Rosecrans rescue one of Coast Guard’s finest hours [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:40
Two motor lifeboat crews went out on the bar to save three surviving sailors. Both boats went to the bottom of the sea — but not a man was lost on either crew, and all the survivors were rescued. (Columbia River Bar, Cla…
Cursed or not, Rosecrans was one unlucky ship [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:01
The big oil tanker had weathered two major catastrophes in the previous year — a stranding and a colossal fire. But for 33 doomed crew members, the third time would be the charm — or, rather, the hex. (Columbia River Bar…
Town’s police chief was later executed for murder [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:46
At the pay the city of Sandy was offering, Otto Austin Loel was the only man willing to take the job. He didn't turn out to be much of a bargain ... but it wouldn't be until years later that the town learned how much wor…
Rooftop stunt made local aero-daredevil famous [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:51
“This is an age of do-it-first,” said Silas Christofferson, and proceeded to launch his spindly kite-like “aeroplane” from the roof of a downtown hotel — making aviation history in the heart of Oregon's biggest town. (Po…
Giant skeleton hinted at legend of pirate treasure [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:18
Neighbors wondered if the eight-foot-tall corpse found by developer at what today is YWCA Camp Westwind was evidence that an old Native American legend of a pirate ship is true; if so, there might actually be booty burie…
Mass murderer honored in courthouse monument [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:38
75 years ago, without realizing who he was, Wallowa County included Bruce “Blue” Evans — leader of the gang that massacred dozens of innocent Chinese miners back in 1887 — on a plaque commemorating its earliest white set…
‘Ship of Romance and Death’ met a dramatic end [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:11
The Melanope's maritime career started with a witch's curse. But her most dramatic story was the torrid, doomed love affair its skipper carried on with the heiress who bought the ship so she could be with him as he saile…
Prison break happened during “conjugal visit” [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:53
By far the most embarrassing jailbreak in state history happened when a murderer simply walked out the back door of a Motel 6 during an unsupervised “date” with a woman officials thought was his fiancee. (Salem, Marion C…
Portland lost world’s biggest log cabin in 1964 fire [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:45
Ancient electrical wiring ignited Portland's legendary Forestry Building, a structure made of massive, flawless old-growth logs that had been built for the Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905. (Portland, Multnomah County;…

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