Offbeat Oregon History podcast
by www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)
December 5, 2024 1:00 am
A daily (5-day-a-week) podcast feed of true Oregon stories — of heroes and rascals, of shipwrecks and lost gold. Stories of shanghaied sailors a1512nd Skid Road bordellos and pirates and robbers and unsolved mysteries. An exploding whale, a couple 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. From the archives of the Offbeat Oregon History syndicated newspaper column. Source citations are included with the text version on the Web site at https://offbeatoregon.com.
Recent Episodes
Mariner’s eerie dream predicted shipmates’ deaths
3 days agoFish wheels a legacy of Columbia’s salmon days
4 days agoThe old violin maker's story (WPA oral-history interview with Robert Robinson)
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1 week agoDid Oregon’s notorious supervillain-politician actually save the world from Nazi nukes?
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2 weeks agoHorses and horse racing in VERY early Portland (WPA oral-history interview with J.J. Kadderly)
55 years agoOregon’s biggest uranium mine found by a hobbyist
2 weeks agoFormer Albany newsman saved Crater Lake as park
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