The Melanope's maritime career started with a witch's curse. But her most dramatic story was the torrid, doomed love affair its skipper carried on with the heiress who bought the ship...

Fishermen working in heavy 24-foot boats at the mouth of the Columbia kept getting sucked out onto the bar and drowning in its massive breakers....

Is there any truth to the stories of shanghaiings of the cigar-store Indian and of the dozens of dead guys found in the basement of the funeral parlor next door to the Snug Harbor Saloon? Well ...

He was Portland's most notorious bad guy, with his fingers in everything from shanghaiing sailors to smuggling opium. But...

After a beachfront landowner discovered a loophole in the law and fenced off his beach, other oceanfront property owners were eager to follow suit....

Neighbors wondered if the eight-foot-tall corpse found by developer at what today is YWCA Camp Westwind was evidence that an old Native American legend of a pirate ship is true...

Historic steam schooner vanished on a calm night in 1930, leaving lifeboats and debris floating in the water but no bodies, alive or dead....

Ninety-eight years ago, in a logging camp deep in the forests of British Columbia, a logger in a funny hat walked up to a big stump, an ax in his hand....

Oregon was once known as a place full of great liars tellers of tales so tall they'd cause every pair of pants in the room to spontaneously burst into flame....

Jerry and Lu Parks envisioned a fairy-tale history of Oregon in the form of an amusement park....