Is it a fantastic optical illusion, or a mysterious force? Opinions vary By Finn J.D. Today, all that's left of this odd and uniquely Oregonian story is a dilapidated guardshack.Īfter 80 years, Oregon Vortex still keeps experts guessing Water seems to run uphill, and people's height appears to change from one end of a plank to another. Pixieland: an edgy, vanished amusement parkīuilt in the late 1960s as a 'fairy-tale history of Oregon,' the amusement park lasted just a few years before slipping into receivership. Timberline lodge could have been a glass skyscraperĬalling the plan a 'profit-making eyesore,' a Forest Service manager nixed 1920s plan for a modern steel-and-glass structure with an aerial tramway. Only the presence of a handful of scattered, starving survivors from Astor's fur enterprise prevented it. Here's the story.įew people know how close Oregon came to officially becoming a British possession under the treaty that ended the War of 1812. But the captain and crew of a sternwheeler came to save the day. Maritime madam Nancy Boggs kept her bordello on a barge floating in the river, until a police raid cut it loose. The gallant rescue of portland's floating brothel. It's the remains of this fiery shipwreck that gave Boiler Bay its name. Marhoffer was almost brand-new when, burning fiercely from stem to stern, it piled onto the rocks near Depoe Bay. Oregon's most spectacular shipwreck ever. This oregon youth went on to save half a billion lives.guess who?Ī local Willamette Valley teen-ager named Bert Hoover, an orphan sent from Iowa to live with his uncle, went on to save millions of lives and become a singularly ill-starred U.S. What happens when a colony of acolytes of an East Indian guru move in, then try to take over Wasco County? Check out the four-part story of the rise and fall of Rajneeshpuram. įar-out guru 'enlightens' Central Oregon. 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. Mark Cowan, in the Oregonian for Science and Reason Web site, has posted this article, which takes a skeptical look at the Vortex's phenomena. The Oregon Vortex Web site includes driving directions as well as maps and information about the phenomena there.

This four-minute video posted to YouTube by RabbitTrips gives a good walk-through of the Vortex.

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