Offbeat Oregon History podcast
by www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)
April 17, 2024 12:00 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
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2 days agoThe maddest man in old Portland (WPA oral-history interview)
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1 week agoHow an old banana peel changed Oregon history
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1 week agoBattleship USS Oregon was lost in Pearl Harbor attack — sort of
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