Offbeat Oregon History podcast
Summary: 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.
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Podcasts:
Fishermen working in heavy 24-foot boats at the mouth of the Columbia kept getting sucked out onto the bar and drowning in its massive breakers. Their odds of not surviving a season were as high as 1 in 15.
Two armed men who apparently came to rob travelers helped pull them over the pass instead after discovering there were six children in the wagon
Farmers are desperate to get rid of them somehow. Yet Inuit tribes in Canada depend on them as their only early-springtime food supply. And wildlife managers are caught in the middle.
Prof. Thomas Condon and his students signed a stalagmite in Oregon Caves in 1883; their autographs are now protected by a thin layer of translucent calcite and will remain legible for millennia
During the heyday of hydropathy, the remote mountainside resort was Clackamas County's No. 1 tourist draw; its waters actually had scientifically provable therapeutic value
