Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Offbeat Oregon History podcast

Author: www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com) Language: English Episodes: 100
Official website RSS
HistoryCulturePlacesSocietySociety & CultureTravel
Apple Music
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
Oregon’s highest, smallest city once had its jail stolen [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:16
Because of how it's chartered, the ghost town of Greenhorn remained an incorporated city even when its population was zero — but it couldn't defend its city hoosegow from the midnight raiders of Canyon City one summer ni…
Miracle saved sailors from death on Columbia bar [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 8:46
As they hung in the riggings of the sailing ship Etoile du Matin waiting for death, they felt their ship start to break apart — but the piece that broke off first was the keel, enabling the ship to float upriver to safet…
Worst natural flash flood in U.S. history struck here (Part 1 of 2) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 7:42
“It is reported that a tremendous cloudburst occurred at Heppner late in the afternoon,” the article states. “All communication with that town has been cut off and nothing definite can be learned.” The silence must have…
Mount Angel Abbey owes grandeur to colorful monk [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:04
Jovial and gregarious, Adelhelm Odermatt locked his sights on a vision of a hilltop monastery — and then deployed himself like a jovial, glad-handing, never-sleeping bombshell to make it happen. It was a near thing, but…
‘Unwritten Law’ no help for man who murdered his wife's brother [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:22
“Amsterdam Jack” Murray claimed it was all a misunderstanding, but the jury obviously suspected he'd intended to murder his wife's brother all along; then the appeals court learned he was a bigamist to boot. (Portland, M…
Frontier murder was even darker than it appeared [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:33
When first reported, it looked like a simple murder-suicide. But it quickly became clear that it was something far more sinister — and the motives of the killer were uglier and more sordid than anyone had thought possibl…
Pixieland and Oregon's midcentury culture [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:37
Jerry and Lu Parks envisioned a “fairy-tale history of Oregon” in the form of an amusement park. What they created was a rich cultural artifact, and a treasured childhood memory for a generation of Oregonians. (Otis and…
‘Daredevil Al’ Fossett was Evel Knievel of the ’20s [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:40
The former logger tried to cash in on his knack for boat design and total lack of normal fear by paddling over waterfalls: Willamette Falls, Celilo Falls, South Silver Falls. But although he got famous, he never managed…

«1...5678910»