In one of the most hilariously weird examples of Oregon history, on November 12, 1970, officials decided to use a half-ton of dynamite to dispose of a dead whale (which apparently really stank) that ...
The bizarre, blubber-filled story behind Oregon’s 1970 Exploding Whale Incident This is the crazy story of the 1970 Exploding Whale Incident in Florence, Oregon. Researchers and history buffs will ...