Offbeat Oregon History podcast

History Podcasts

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...

Episodes

Luther Cressman was Oregon’s real-life Indiana Jones (Part 2 of 2)

Luther Cressman was Oregon’s real-life Indiana Jones (Part 1 of 2)

Radical Wobblies found support among loggers

Shipwrecked fur traders walked from Oregon Coast to Louisiana

P-town ‘jitney wars’ were monopoly vs. small-biz

Dog's 2,500-mile walk home made Silverton famous

Bobbie the Wonder Dog put Silverton on the map

SPADs, Sopwith Camels made with Oregon spruce

Oregon back country is rich in legends of buried treasure

Decade-long dam dispute resolved with dynamite

Buying gas-station B-17 was a crazy adventure

Mislabeled wood alcohol killed 28 Portland hobos

Family camped unnoticed in downtown Portland — for 4 years

Six iconic food items that were invented in Oregon (Part 2 of 2)

Six iconic food items that were invented in Oregon (Part 1 of 2)

Express clerk’s silence foiled Eugene train robber

All-metal steam-powered zeppelin: Could it work?

Alsea lad became ‘The Nikola Tesla of Oregon’

I-25 submarine gave Oregon its first wartime bombardment

Japanese sub blasted its way into Oregon history