Offbeat Oregon History podcast

By: www.offbeatoregon.com (finn @ offbeatoregon.com)
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  • 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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Episodes
  • Murderers picked wrong landlady to steal from

    Murderers picked wrong landlady to steal from
    Feb 23 2025
    PORTLAND, 1901 — The police wouldn't return her call, and she knew the thieves would be gone by morning. So Mrs. Whitlock picked up the phone and woke up the District Attorney. And it turned out theft wasn't the only crime Jack Wade and William Dalton were guilty of ... (Portland, Multnomah County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1804c.dalton-wade-murderers-ratted-out-by-snoopy-landlady-491.html)
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    10 mins
  • Father of Oregon geology left his mark ... literally

    Father of Oregon geology left his mark ... literally
    Feb 23 2025
    Thomas Condon didn’t set out to become a geologist; he was a Congregationalist minister with a hobby of collecting fossils. And although over the years his hobby took over, he never lost touch with his ministerial kindliness. (Oregon Caves, Josephine County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1610e.thomas-condon-oregon-caves-415.html)
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    10 mins
  • Weekend Update: Next week's first two episodes are coming early!

    Weekend Update: Next week's first two episodes are coming early!
    Feb 23 2025
    Just a quick Sunday morning update — I’m going to be in Los Angeles on Monday and Tuesday doing an interview for an upcoming episode of The UnXPlained with William Shatner. My on-the-road computer is so old the Apple folks have quit supporting it, so I’m not sure I’ll be able to post episodes from it; so just in case, I’m uploading the Monday and Tuesday episodes early!
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    2 mins

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