Corona Chronicles vol. 3: DYN-0-MITE!

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 737 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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On today's Corona Chronicle bonus ep. Joe and Caldoni discuss the true urban legend of the Exploding Whale of Oregon, plus a hilariously botched train robbery. Oregonians have issues with dynamite.

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0:00.0	So dynamite it was, some 20 cases or a half ton of it.
0:09.0	The hope was that the long dead Pacific gray whale would be almost disintegrated by the blast
0:14.0	and that any small pieces still around after the explosion would be taken care of by seagulls and other scavengers.
0:20.0	Well, I'm confident that it'll work. The only thing is we're not sure just exactly how much
0:26.6	explosives it'll take to disintegrate this thing so the scavengers, seagulls and crabs and whatnot
0:32.6	can clean it up.
0:37.7	Oh, no at the dark. Hey!
0:39.7	Hey there.
0:41.5	Welcome to another episode of the Corona Chronicles starring me, Joe, and also starring
0:47.1	Caldoni.
0:48.9	Yes, Caldoni.
0:50.6	This is an adjunct, of course, of the shocking details, the podcast.
0:55.2	Just another bonus episode to get us through this quarantine.
0:58.1	This week, we're going to be talking about something that happened a while back.
1:02.0	About 50, just almost exactly 50 years ago, November 1970.
1:07.2	Yeah, yeah, it was 50 years ago when the state of Oregon was attacked by an exploding whale.
1:14.3	Yeah, it was.
1:15.5	It was something like that anyway.
1:18.1	What happened was that on November 9th, 1970, a 45-foot Pacific gray whale beached itself and died on the beach near Florence, Oregon. And as beached whales
1:29.4	tend to do after a couple of days, it started to kind of smell a bit ripe. And so the townsfolk
1:34.1	decided it was something needed to be done. The whale needed to be gotten rid of. Some of you out
1:39.4	there, you may have heard this story. You may know where this story's going, but are you sure it's a
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