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

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

Town destroyed by its founder’s favorite garden shrub

Steam excursion train line is now a new bike path

How Sheriff Bentley arrested legendary outlaw Hank Vaughan — and an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ...

World champion hired to humiliate town bully

Oregon Indian prince was Japan’s intro to the West

An unrecognized Indian prince’s quest to see Japan

Bike business in P-town ruined by ... prostitutes?

Schemers sought to steal Peter Iredale shipwreck

Uncle Dave's Incredible Shrinking Horse Story — and an IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ...

The legendary lies and tall tales of Reub Long (2 of 2)

Rancher Reub Long, the legendary Sage of Fort Rock (1 of 2)

War-games campaign blanketed Central Oregon

Camp Adair hardened recruits with combat training — and poison oak (Part 2 of 2)

Oregon's second-largest city was built in six months (Part 1 of 2)

Before news “crusade,” milk was killing babies

Quest for lost gold mine led to 12,000-acre jewel

Did L. Ron Hubbard battle Japanese subs off Astoria?

‘Desperado’ became P-town’s first police chief

Busting out of the joint was job for a safecracker