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
The mysterious demise of the S.S. South Coast [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:56
Historic steam schooner vanished on a calm night in 1930, leaving lifeboats and debris floating in the water — but no bodies, alive or dead. Was it a violent micro-storm? A “seaquake”? A boiler explosion? We'll never rea…
Horrific 'Trunk Murders' made headlines nationwide (Part 2 of 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:24
Ruth Judd was in a fierce argument with her friends Annie Leroi and Sammy Samuelson. Furious, she stood up to go. She took her drink cup to drop it off in the kitchen sink. When she got there — well, something happened.…
Locals drawn into 1930s’ most notorious murder (Part 1 of 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:49
OREGON DIVORCEE AGNES Anne “Annie” LeRoi arrived in Phoenix in the first few months of 1931 with her best friend and roommate, schoolteacher Hedvig “Sammy” Samuelson. They were climate refugees: Sammy had tuberculosis, a…
Oregon’s Doolittle raiders and their startling stories (3 of 3) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:35
Two of them had movies made about their wartime exploits — “30 Seconds over Tokyo” and “The Great Escape”; a third, captured and imprisoned in the raid, returned to Japan after the war as a Christian missionary. (Pendlet…
The Oregonians who flew over Tokyo with Doolittle (2 of 3) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:09
Robert S. Clever, Everett “Brick” Holstrom, Henry “Hank” Potter and Robert G. Emmens were four Oregon aviators who did the Beaver State proud in what seemed like a suicide mission over enemy territory. (Pendleton, Umatil…
Famous ‘Doolittle Raid’ roots in Pendleton air base (1 of 3) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:51
Oregon played a vital role in America's answer to Pearl Harbor — the daring daylight airstrike on Tokyo and other Japanese cities that provided a much-needed morale boost during the dark days of 1942. (Pendleton, Umatill…
Mona Bell was like Annie Oakley with an edge [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:16
Although she's most remembered for being the mistress of a famous man, journalist and rodeo performer Mona Bell Hill was, on her own, one of the most interesting people ever to live in Oregon — and, to the government, on…
Columbia River was a wild, frothy, dangerous place once [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 6:37
The Columbia, the Great river of West, was known for spectacular scenery and phenomenal fishing; Oregon has traded that for a placid, lake-like waterway and cheap hydroelectric power. (For text and pictures, see https://…
Storm-tossed ships shared a double date with destiny [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:04
The Mindora and the Merrithew had docked next to each other in San Francisco, arrived within a few days of each other, wrecked within a few hours of each other, and washed up on the beach within a few miles of each other…
“Roaring 20s” murder solved by cop’s diligence [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:32
Caught by a railroad “bull,” the thief shot his way out and ran for it. But an accurate shot by the dying guard and some persistent police work brought the bad guy to justice in a pistol-waving scene in a seedy Albina ho…

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