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The Shocking Details

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

The Shocking Details

Vincent Caldoni

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8737 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

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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