The Ouija Broads: Tales from the Pacific Northweird

Devon spins the eerie tale of the ghost that haunts the Heceta Head Lighthouse. 

CW: Suicide, which seems to generate a lot of ghosts.

Secondary Topics: Devon's trip to the International Cryptozoology Conference and museum; Liz is easy to startle; why ghosts are grey and why Liz won't be; kid-Broad logic vs. reality; bathroom vampires; sea lion caves; power the world with ghosts. 

Liz puts on her Portlandian hat and tells Devon the tales of Portland's crimping years and its "Shanghai tunnels." If you don't want to hear all about Reed College culture and urban legends, skip to about twelve minutes in. 

CW: Shanghaiing is an old-timey name for human trafficking, let's be real. 

Secondary topics: Reed legends; marriage advice; recruitment/roundup techniques; Devon tells a family story; tattoo disclosures; impulse control problems. 

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Devon shares the weird realities and weirder legends of the Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve, and the chateau built beside them.

Secondary topics: Ghosts and sharks; when Devon's brother came to visit; dog breed re-naming; everyone at the beach looks like a wilding and humans are basically goldfish; overalls in the 90s; what can become a ghost? 

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Liz tells another WWII story. Weird can be sweet sometimes. 

Secondary topics: A list of things you might find on a hike in the Oregon wilderness; Devon goes off on the TSA; we commit to dunking on bagpipe players. 

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Devon tells Liz a recent, intriguing story about a very unusual rain that brought mysterious jelly to a town in Washington. 

Secondary topics: A snail discussion; birthday tension unveiled; Devon's Stuff Found On The Ground Corner, a recurring segment; Liz adds the Washington State Department of Health to her burn book; the Cameron Village sewer blob; the Whalesplosion. 

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Liz tells the story of the only WW2 combat casualties on the U.S. mainland. We went in thinking this would be two stories, but it turns out to be one because Liz's voice goes out!

CW: Nazis, death, mention of Japanese internment, mention of Unit 731.

Secondary topics: She called him "Tex"; hidden and not-so-hidden swastikas; a public health/etymology sidebar; what Japanese sand is composed of; balloons vs. bats; Liz forgets the past tense of "blow up" but it goes mostly unremarked; Liz notices that Devon has been abusing her chat box privileges.

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Devon tells the tales of the Blue Lake Rhino Cave and the 13 Steps to Hell.

Secondary topics: Terminology; double date, no murder; shout out to Coulee City; third eye adventures; the astonishing Spider-Man; ugly barnacles 

We were trying out a new technology when taping this, it'll keep coming along. Bear with us!

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Liz tells the unlucky-in-love origins of the mansion and Devon shares her personal Hahn ghost experience. 

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In their first tag-team episode, Devon and Liz explore the legends, history, ghosts, and romantic misadventures of Spokane's Hahn Mansion. It gets... extra weird. And long. 

CW: We say "abortion" about 35 times. Also suicide (possibly) and murder (definitely). 

Secondary topics: Podcast juice; brain-twins; elementary school urban legends; an extensive hair digression.

We didn't realize we'd talk so long, so it just fades out at the end... part two next week!

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Devon shares two lupine tails: the shunka warakin and the swimming wolves of British Columbia. 

Secondary topics: Sea turtle digression; naming taxidermy; the Broads google various canids; Liz designates an anger target; a bat adventure; Liz is skeptical; triathlon memories; a sudden brainstorm about the previous episode. 

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