Latest Shipwreck Podcast Episodes
Oregon nursery industry founder’s ‘Free Love’ cult
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 15, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsFormer devout Quaker Henderson Luelling developed some odd beliefs in late middle age, founded a cult called “Harmonial Brotherhood,” and led his followers into the Central American wilderness. It did not go well. (Milwaukie, Clackamas County; 1840s, 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://off...
‘Miner 29ers’ beat the Depression with gold pan
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 14, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWhen the Great Depression hit, many Oregonians decided to head for mining claims. The life of a gold miner was rustic and tough, but in an age of bread lines and 'hoovervilles,' it beat the alternative. (Southern and Central Oregon; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/190...
We're Getting OLD (Ep. 119)
The Shipwreck Show - May 14, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMy neck, my back, my back... my back... my BACK..... MY BACK..... Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ S...
Life around Oswego Lake, and square dancing (WPA oral-history interview with C.T. Dickinson)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 13, 2024 14:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral history interview with pioneer Oswego resident C.T. Dickinson, recalling how the land was when the lake was thick with fish and ducks and people were thin on the land. Dickinson also served as a square-dance caller, so if you're yearning for some traumatic memories...
Skill, stout shipbuilding kept wreck fatality-free
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 10, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsReally, the only reason the U.S.S. Peacock didn’t break into pieces and drown all hands within hours of slamming into the sand was that it was a United States Navy ship. That meant it was crewed by some of the best-trained sailors in the world, and built solidly enough for iron shot to bounce off...
Guild Lake was P-town’s water wonderland
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 09, 2024 14:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe hordes of awestruck visitors who admired the scenery at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition would have been shocked if they'd known the beautiful little lake would be gone in 20 years — filled in for industrial lands. Not a trace remains. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1900s) (For text and pict...
Wreck of the U.S. Grant: A weird historical mystery
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 08, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe little riverboat came loose from its moorings during a storm and floated downriver and onto the deadly bar with the owners aboard. How could such a thing have happened? Did someone do it on purpose? (Astoria, Clatsop County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1411c.3...
Politicians’ plan for Army to seize gold mines foiled
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 07, 2024 14:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsSome Eastern politicians had a plan for paying down Civil War debt: Send in the Army, with the aid of foreign troops, and seize all the productive gold-mining operations in the West. Luckily, a Nevada Senator had a plan to pre-empt it. (Washington, D.C.; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https:/...
HOW DO YOU WAKE UP??? (Ep. 118)
The Shipwreck Show - May 07, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsGucci Gang??? Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support Good Kraken! - https://twitter.com/GoodKraken...
What riding the transcontinental railroad was like (WPA oral-history interview with Mrs. Hortense Watkins)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 06, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWhen we get the story of early-day Oregon emigrants' journeys, usually they involve covered wagons. This is a story of a lady who came to Oregon on the newly built transcontinental railway, which she did the same year the connection was finished: 1883. This is WPA writer Sara B. Wrenn's oral hist...
Episode 133.2 - "Nor Let You Trust In Your Treasure": The Battle of Lepanto, Part II
Beyond the Breakers - May 05, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThis is Part 2 of our (now) three part series leading up to the Battle of Lepanto. Sources: Anievas, Alexander and Kerem Nişancioğlu. “The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry over the Long Sixteenth Century.” How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism. Pluto Press. Brummett, Pa...
Oregon’s first murder defendant saved by wife
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 03, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsIt was the first murder trial ever held in the Oregon Territory. The prosecution alleged that Nimrod O’Kelley was a land pirate who had invented an imaginary wife in order to fraudulently claim extra land, and that he had murdered Jeremiah Mahoney to prevent losing it, and to intimidate his other...
Mysterious skeletons of Oregon history: If only these bones could talk ...
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 02, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsSometimes the silent bones of the long dead almost seem to want to tell their stories ... but, of course, they can't.There are a few stories of skeletal remains found in Oregon whose secrets will probably never be known. (Scio, Ochoco National Forest, Peters Creek Sink) (For text and pictures, s...
CAGcast #793: When in Doubt, Stab it Out
CAGcast - May 02, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsThe gang talks about the latest nerd controversy for nerds and also; Funco Fusion, Fallout 4, Helldivers 2, disturbing Pac-Man art, and so much more!
Episode 235: The Eschede train disaster
Disaster Area - May 01, 2024 16:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 711 ratingsA year ago this week, I covered the Amagasaki train derailment in 2005 in Japan. Why not cover a second one seven years earlier near a small town in Germany? Videos: Seconds from Disaster: The Eschede derailment TS2018 Rail Disasters - Derailment at High Speed (1998 Eschede train disaster)...
Nutty 1890s governor gave state two Thanksgivings
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - May 01, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsIn 1893, famously irascible governor Sylvester Pennoyer made a mistake on the date of Turkey Day in a speech. But then, instead of admitting his error, he defiantly doubled down on it. (Salem, Marion County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1411b.312.pennoyers-thanksg...
Prospectors turned their backs on a fortune, twice
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 30, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsMiner William Aldred, traveling to a rumored bonanza in Idaho with five dozen other miners, found two gold mines on the way — but couldn't get the other miners to stay with him to work them. Luckily, one of the two mines was still unclaimed on their return. (Prairie City, Grant County; 1860s) (F...
KILL IT WITH FIRE (Ep. 117)
The Shipwreck Show - April 30, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOak... Shaft??? Jump The Line: 00:20:29 - Our problem with bugs 01:00:46 - The "Bear or a Man" Project Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemo...
HEADLINE (WPA oral-history interview with NAMENAMENAME)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 29, 2024 14:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWPA writer William Haight's oral history interview with Miss Etta Crawford, wealthy and cultured member of frontier Oregon's social elite and political activist, recalling her girlhood days in Portland shortly after the Civil War. (For the transcript, see https://www.loc.gov/item/wpalh001943/)
Episode 133.1 - "They Have In Their Hands The Keys To All Christendom": The Battle of Lepanto, Part I
Beyond the Breakers - April 27, 2024 14:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThis is part 1 of 2 in our discussion of the naval battle at Lepanto in 1571. Before we can get to Lepanto itself, there's a good bit of background to set up first. Sources: Anievas, Alexander and Kerem Nişancioğlu. “The Ottoman-Habsburg Rivalry over the Long Sixteenth Century.” How the West ...
**unlocked** Episode 103.5 - "Stall-fed with ease and gluttony" (Spanish Armada Bonus)
Beyond the Breakers - April 26, 2024 22:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsThis episode was released as a Patreon-exclusive bonus episode in May 2023 as the conclusion to our Spanish Armada series - now it's been unlocked for everyone in anticipation of our next main episode when we'll be returning to the 16th century and maybe even revisiting some old friends. Sourc...
Laws in old Oregon were rough, not always ready
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 26, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings“From 1861 to 1876, every man committed to the Oregon State Penitentiary for ‘life’ either escaped or was pardoned,” writes historian and newspaper columnist Erik Bromberg, quoting from the U.S. Federal Writers Project’s “Oregon Oddities” article of 1939-1941. “Some who escaped were recaptured an...
Deadly weather usually catches Oregon by surprise
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 25, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsCyclones, tornadoes, flash floods, earthquakes and volcanoes — the Beaver State is not immune to any of these things, but they're rare enough that no one is expecting them when they appear. (Statewide) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1210b-deadly-weather-usually-catches-oreg...
The short, tragic story of P-town’s municipal whale
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 24, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratings“Ethelbert” the orca somehow ended up stranded miles from the ocean in the Columbia Slough, much to the delight of most Portland residents. But it wasn't long before the city's would-be Nimrods came out and spoiled everything. (Columbia Slough, Multnomah County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see...
CAGcast #792: Falling for Fallout All Over Again
CAGcast - April 24, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsThe gang talks Fallout TV show, Fallout 4 updates, new releases, the latest news, and so much more!
Bootlegger ‘lobster trap’ a huge but costly success
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 23, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsNo one in Tillamook County even suspected the “Lee Film Company” was a front for government Prohibition enforcement until the trap was sprung ... but it has to have been the most expensive law enforcement operation in the county's history. (Tillamook County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see htt...
Solid Stream, Brother (Ep. 116)
The Shipwreck Show - April 23, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHe'll never find out who it was. Subscribe to our Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/goodkrakenshow Sub and Follow our Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/goodkrakenshow Check out our sponsors https://www.glidemousepads.com https://rogueenergy.com/ Support Good Kraken! - https://twi...
The Portland mining engineer who invented fracking (WPA oral-history interview with William Hampton)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 22, 2024 14:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsWPA writer Walker Winslow's oral history interview with William Huntley Hampton, a son of Brigham Young although not a Mormon, who was probably Oregon's second most famous mining engineer around the turn of the Twentieth Century (behind Herbert Hoover). He invented the process of hydraulic fracki...
Brothel owner Carrie Carrie’s sidekicks proved bad at corpse disposal (Part 2 of 2)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 19, 2024 14:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsOn the morning of Nov. 25, 1881, two men were walking to work along the North End waterfront when they saw something incongruous in the river, just off the foot of Everett Street ... a pair of feet, sticking straight up into the air. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1990s) (For text and pictures, see...
Bordello madam Carrie Bradley was a real-life Brigid O’Shaughnessy (Part 1 of 2 parts)
Offbeat Oregon History podcast - April 18, 2024 14:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 160 ratingsThe Femme Fatale, like most really satisfying tropes in fiction, is based on real life. And arguably, the closest Oregon has ever come to a real-life femme fatale worthy of Hammett’s pen was in early 1880s Portland, in what today is known as the Tenderloin — in the person of a gorgeous, hard-eyed...
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