If you've ever been to the Oregon Dunes near Florence Oregon you may have been one of the lucky few who experienced a strange phenomenon known as singing sands. What causes the sands to sing their ghostly song and why is it so rare? Are singing sands and squeaking...
Yesterday a three foot long baby Salmon shark washed on shore near Tillicum Oregon. The shark was dead and not a threat to the public. The Hatfield Marine Center sent a professor from OSU to pick up the shark carcass, though a large animal had eaten part of the...
Rockaway Beach has a secret. Every once in a while the shifting sands wash away just enough to reveal something elusive: the 100-year-old shipwreck of the Emily G. Reed. This ghostly wreck usually hides under the sand, sometimes going decades without surfacing to...
A few thousand years ago a volcanic fissure opened up in Oregon's high desert near Christmas Valley. These fissures in the earth's surface are usually filled with rock and soil after they're formed, but because the area is so arid, Crack In The Ground has remained the...
A hotel, a bathhouse, a sanitorium, a WWII nurse training center, and a bed and breakfast are just a few of the evolutions the Hot Lake Hotel has gone through since the first structure was built at Hot Lake in Oregon in 1864. The property and hotel have been owned by...
You can stay here... ...if you don't mind the occasional disembodied footstep, ghostly laugh, or doors opening on their own accord while you sleep. Chemult, Oregon is an unincorporated community in Klamath County that was established as a railroad town in 1924. Five...
Oregon is chock-full of weird, wacky, and wonderful history, reflected in the naming of towns and locales around the state. Here are just a few funny town names in the state of Oregon: 1. Timbuktu County: Washington You may have heard of Timbuktu, a locale in Mali,...
In 1990, a massive religious etching mysteriously appeared in the Mickey Basin of Oregon's Alvord Desert. Officials suspected it took thousands of dollars and a lot of man power to complete along with high tech equipment and lasers. Other people, including professors,...
Thousands of years ago molten lava poured over a forest in central Oregon, surrounding the trees and then hardening. The lava burned through the wood and created these amazing lava casts which can still be seen today to remember the majestic forest that once stood...
The nation's longest continuous stretch of asphalt starts in Newport, Oregon and ends 3,365 miles away in Boston, MA for one heck of a road trip. Stretching from the Pacific Ocean, US Route 20 extends through 12 states before nearly touching the shores of the Atlantic...
It's not the Blue Whale. In fact, it has a total weight of more than 20 Blue Whales, and here's a hint: Alice would be proud. Located in the Blue Mountains within the Malheur National Forest in Eastern Oregon, armillaria ostoyae is an enormous organism dubbed the...
Oregon is home to a host of magnificent museums, including OMSI, The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, the High Desert Museum, and the Tillamook Cheese Factory. Sometimes the best museums are the quirky lesser known ones that make people wonder, how did I not know...