Here's the story.īootleggers saveD sailors' lives, were rewarded with prison. But when their lifeboat washed up near his lighthouse, it gave him an idea - an idea that lives on today in the U.S. In 1865, Joel Munson watched 17 sailors drown on the Columbia Bar. Tired of seeing mariners die, lighthouse keeper took action. The Triskett Gang had stolen it hours earlier from the assaying depot in the town of Sailors' Diggins. No one has ever found it - or if they have, they've been awfully discreet. Gold-rush bandits hunted down and killed. Why would her crew do such a thing? Here's the story. On a beautiful clear October day, astonished beach-goers watched a big windjammer simply turn and sail straight into the side of a mountain. Was this shipwreck insurance fraud or just drunken incompetence? Check out the story of Florence's famous exploding whale. But he still thinks the operation was a success. The highway department guy didn't know how much dynamite to use, and said so on camera. The next day, all but three drowned in one of Oregon's worst-ever salvage disasters. In his dream, the first mate of the German barque Mimi saw seaweed covering all but three shipmates. Mariner's spooky nightmare came true the next day It ended in murder, insanity and chaos - and, yes, rumors of naked ladies. It started out as a church seeking perfect holiness and Godliness. THE holy-roller "NAKED LADIES' CULT" IN CORVALLIS and waldport. So an Astoria group launched a whaling venture in the early 1960s. Whale oil is special stuff, and NASA needed it for the space program. Helping put a man on the moon, one dead whale at a time?
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Homesteader Kitty "Klondike Kate" Rockwell, retired from the bright lights of Vaudeville, often wore full costume just to weed the garden. What are the odds? Here's the story (in two parts).Ĭentral oregon's most fabulous homesteader ever. Jackson just happened to be at the scene of at least five Central Oregon homicides. Like an "angel of death," ex-con Ray V.B.
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Is this the face of oregon's first serial killer? But when the North won the Civil War, her status as a slave didn't change. SO WHY DOES THE GRAVESTONE SAY SHE WAS A SLAVE?Īme came over the Oregon Trail from Missouri. Sammy caught his big break while he was in Portland. Many consider him the coolest member of the Rat Pack. The fate of the Sunshine's passengers and crew is unknown. Gold was gone when schooner washed ashore. The discovery of a giant skeleton in the 1930s suggested that the old Indian legend of a pirate ship sinking in the Salmon River might be true. Is there pirate loot buried at this YWCA youth camp? Legendary Hollywood voice man Mel Blanc's teachers weren't too impressed with his voice talents, but Oregon radio listeners and cartoon fans sure were. The voice of Bugs Bunny went to high school in Portland So why is his name celebrated on a monument to Wallowa County Pioneers? Probably because they didn't know.
Here's the story.Ī monument in honor of a horse thief and mass murderer?īruce "Blue" Evans led the gang that slaughtered over 30 innocent Chinese miners in 1887. It vanished after its leader starved herself to death during a 110-day fast. This spooky-looking Portland mansion was home of a 'starvation cult'Ī prominent Portland socialite led a sect called "Truth," with the motto "Pray and Be Cured," that required 40-day fasts.
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HOW OREGON ALMOST LOST PUBLIC ACCESS TO ITS BEACHESĪ Portland real-estate guy found a loophole in the law and claimed a patch of beach for his own, and his friends in the state Legislature tried to keep it that way. and prayed the tide would turn before they got sucked out onto the bar.
They drifted downstream in heavy 24-foot boats with their nets out. When fishing was so deadly, one in 15 didn't survive the season. James Lappeus came to Portland to open a saloon and "theater." Despite his checkered past - or maybe because of it - he was named city marshal and, later, Chief of Police. Gambler, swindler, gunfighter, liquor man. It had to be the most awkward prison-break scenario in the history of the universe. Killer broke out of state prison during a conjugal visit at a nearby Motel 6
It was left there by astronaut Jim Irwin at the request of a friend from Bend - who gave him a sliver of Oregon lava to leave on the moon's surface. There's a piece of lava from central oregon in this photo, on the moon. He almost got away with this little swindle. A few recent columns you might enjoy: How the Oregon Coast almost lost the Peter Iredale to a scrap-metal sharkĪn Oregon City man claimed he'd inherited the rights from his father, and demanded to be allowed to cut it up and haul it away.
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