In 1970, officials in Oregon thought they had found the perfect solution to a massive whale carcass that had washed ashore: 450 kilograms of TNT. What happened next became one of the strangest and ...

Oh my goodness! There’s chunks of meat!” That’s just something you might hear yelled out while listening to Terry Boyd’s ...

Home to the Oregon coast’s infamous exploding whale incident, Florence has a lot more going for it than its most notorious footnote. About a three-hour drive south from Portland, the coastal city ...

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