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Offbeat Oregon History podcast

www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)

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 and 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

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00:05:43

Weekend Update

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/09

This is a special Weekend Update from the Offbeat Oregon News Center Situation Room O Doom! Oral history readings on Mondays starting next week; and an update on progress with Bad Ideas and Horrible People (the book). Also, Merry Christmas! (Or if you don't celebrate Christmas, have a great Dec. 25.)

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00:18:40

Grisly slasher murder still baffling a century later

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/08

IT WAS A little after 10 p.m. on a Friday evening in the summer of 1921. In their little house on Druid Street in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland, Robert Green and his family were getting ready for bed when they heard the screams. Rushing to the front porch, they found their neighbor, Ann Louise Agee, in her nightclothes, wild-eyed and disheveled. “Help! Come quick! They’re killing Harry!” she screamed. Green looked across at the Agee home. From where he stood, by the light of streetlamps

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00:09:27

Buck Rogers-style boat didn’t work out for city

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/07

Inventor Victor Strode combined aircraft design with naval architecture to create an amazing, blinding fast speedboat that looked straight out of a Golden Age sci-fi comic ... but apparently the design didn't work as well scaled up to ambulance-boat size. (Portland Harbor, Multnomah County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1209d-aerohydrocraft-buck-rogers-boat-looked-awesome-didnt-work-out.html)

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00:09:06

Rooftop stunt made local aero-daredevil famous

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/06

“This is an age of do-it-first,” said Silas Christofferson, and proceeded to launch his spindly kite-like “aeroplane” from the roof of a downtown hotel — making aviation history in the heart of Oregon's biggest town. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1408e.302.silas-christofferson-portland-hero-aviator.html)

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00:09:23

Beavercreek Bomber: One MILLION DOLLars, or out go...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/05

Calling himself “J. Hawker,” David Heesh dynamited several high-voltage powerline towers, then threatened to keep it up unless ransom was delivered; the FBI busted him using a CB radio trick. (Beavercreek, Clackamas County; 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1404b.beavercreek-bomber-targeted-BPA.html)

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00:09:31

Pirates were defeated in Yaquina Bay Oyster Wars

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/04

The oysters belonged to the Siletz Indians and their employees, but Richard Hillyer was determined to take them anyway. We don't know much about the final battle, but we do know the outcome, and it must have been a doozie. (Newport, Lincoln County; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1405d.yaquina-oyster-pirate-wars.html)

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00:07:42

Legendary Civil War ship met a sad end in Coos Bay

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/12/01

During its glory days, the Gertrude was the fastest blockade runner in the Confederate fleet. But just 17 years later, it was just another dumpy old steamer on a lowly coastwise run, wrecked in what was probably an insurance-fraud scheme. (Coos Bay, Coos County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1310a-gussie-telfair-shipwrecked-warrior.html)

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00:09:31

Portland’s Pioneer Square pitched as ‘crystal palace’

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/30

Mayor Frank Ivancie, Pioneer Courthouse Square’s most intransigent opponent, gleefully declared the project “dead” in a 1982 speech. In doing so, he accidentally galvanized the citizen group that would prove him wrong. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1960s, 1970s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1405c.pioneer-courthouse-square.html)

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00:09:37

Steamer wrecked by future admiral in the Costa Rican...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/29

Ashamed to show his face in Astoria after causing the loss of the biggest passenger liner on the West Coast, Thomas Doig slunk away to South America and remade himself as a military man. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1408c.300.great-republic-wreck.html)

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00:08:44

Mass murderer honored in courthouse monument

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/28

75 years ago, without realizing who he was, Wallowa County included Bruce “Blue” Evans — leader of the gang that massacred dozens of innocent Chinese miners back in 1887 — on a plaque commemorating its earliest white settlers. (Enterprise, Wallowa County; 1880s, 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1204b-monument-mass-murderer-chinese-miners.html)

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00:09:11

Legendary ‘Chief Bigfoot’ was as elusive as, well,...

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/27

1860s Bannock leader disappeared as mysteriously as he appeared, leaving behind nothing but frontier folklore and a trail of 17-inch-long moccasin prints; a probably-untrue rumor claims Nampa, Idaho, was named after him. (Malheur County; 1850s, 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1409b.304.chief-bigfoot-legend.html)

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00:08:15

Oregon Indian prince was Japan’s intro to the West

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/24

In his short 11-month stay on the island nation, he taught 14 Imperial diplomats to speak English, and impressed them with his gentility and respectfulness. And after a long, adventurous life in Canada, his last word was, “Sayonara.” (Nagasaki, Japan; 1840s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1409d306.ranald-macdonald-part2.html)

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00:09:50

An unrecognized Indian prince’s quest to see Japan

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/23

Young Ranald MacDonald didn't know he was the grandson of Concomly, Chief of the Chinook Tribe. But before anyone could tell him, he'd run away to sea — and in so doing, dramatically changed the destiny of three great nations.(Astoria, Clatsop County; 1820s, 1830s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1409c305.ranald-macdonald-part1.html)

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00:08:43

Pilot boat’s entire crew mysteriously disappeared

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/22

Pilot boat sailed back and forth on the Columbia River Bar all day and all night before finally crashing onto the beach; when onlookers ran to rescue the sailors, they found the boat empty and deserted. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1405a.pilot-boat-jc-cousins-crew-disappears.html)

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00:08:55

“Roaring 20s” murder solved by cop’s diligence

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/21

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 hotel room. (Albina, Multnomah County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1205a-roaring-20s-railroad-murder-mystery-solved.html)

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00:10:08

Did L. Ron Hubbard battle Japanese subs off Astoria?

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/20

Pulp writer and religious figure L. Ron Hubbard figures prominently in the most spectacular story of action against “Japanese submarines” in Oregon waters. It's called, with tongue firmly in cheek, the “Battle of Cape Lookout.” (Off Cannon Beach, Clatsop County; 1940s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1407a.sunken-submarine-rumors.html)

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00:14:15

Portland woman ran U.S. spy ring in World War II

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/17

SOMETIME IN 1943, during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, a group of more than 40 officers of the Imperial Japanese Navy strolled into Club Tsubaki, an exclusive gentlemen’s club in the heart of downtown Manila. They were there for one last evening of fun while they were still in port. That very evening, they were scheduled to climb back into their submarines and set out on an extended cruise. The private party had been arranged by one of the subs’ commanders, who had struck up a

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00:06:42

Fossil Lake: Oregon’s answer to the LaBrea Tar Pits

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/16

Discovered (sort of) by Oregon's first governor, the dry lakebed in south-central Oregon's Lake County is a gold mine of Ice Age fossils, from tiny rodents to wooly mammoths, saber-tooth cats and dire wolves. (Christmas Valley, Lake County; Pleistocene Age) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1010c-fossil-lake-oregons-answer-to-labrea-tar-pits.html)

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00:08:10

Astronaut left a piece of Oregon lava on the moon

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/15

When astronaut Jim Irwin came to Bend for lunar landing training in the lava rock of Oregon's 'moon country,' he made friends with a local resident — who gave him a sliver of Oregon lava to leave on the moon's surface. And so he did. (Bend, Deschutes County; 1960s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1208c-astronaut-left-oregon-lava-on-moon.html)

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00:08:27

‘Ship of Romance and Death’ met a dramatic end

Offbeat Oregon History podcast ·

2023/11/14

The Melanope's maritime career started with a witch's curse. But her most dramatic story was the torrid, doomed love affair its skipper carried on with the heiress who bought the ship so she could be with him as he sailed it. (Columbia River Bar, Clatsop County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1506b.cursed-ships-melanope-343.html)

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