The Ouija Broads: Tales from the Pacific Northweird

Devon and Liz read listener stories about St. Ignatius Hospital, Lincoln Park and the Hahn Mansion, strange celestial encounters, and introduce their Patreon. Secondary topics: Beginner's luck; the Broads try ghost apps; old jingles; Devon's nemesis visits.  Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroads Website:  https://ouijabroads.com/ Shop Weird:  https://ouijabroads.com/shopweird/   Facebook: ...

Giddyup, pardner, and listen to Devon's cowboy tales from the ghost town full of ghosts: Bannock, Montana!  Secondary topics: Elementary-school/post-apocalyptic survival skills; town full of weird perverts; Wild West naming statistics; a digression to Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane; Liz's financial plans; Devon loves Richard Dreyfuss; the cowboy fantasy.  Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/ouijabro...

Liz explains that we're all actually living somewhere very different than we think we are, by way of three episodes in the life of Gerald Wayne Barnes.  Secondary topics: ASMR, tinglies, and elementary-school witchcraft; quite the afternoon; the free state of Socorro; Bailey's allowance; baby Broad ambitions.  Photo from the  USC Archive,  by way of  Hoax.org . Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/ou...

Devon tells the story of the Manresa Castle in Port Townsend.  CW: Suicide = ghosties.  Secondary topics: Dungeons; an Ireland digression; Bishop Castle; Liz processes some Shelf Road-related trauma; a hotel for ghosts; Devon's review of Ghost Adventures; women love being ghosts; ghost Olympics; full-time Victorian lady.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroads Website: https://ouijabroads.co...

After a rocky start, Liz tells Devon a selection of train ghost/ghost train tales from the Northwest and a special guest appearance by Colorado! (It's another one where we flip the big lever that says Suspension of Disbelief, but we've had a lot of verifiable history lately, so let's get spooooky.) Sorry about the bit of rustling at the end.  Show notes here. Secondary Topics: Feelings about train...

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 fami...

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?  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroad...

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.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroads Website: https://ouijabroads.com/ Shop Weird: https://ouijabroads.com/shopweird/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OuijaBroads/ Twitter: h...

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.  Patreon: https://www.patre...

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; bal...

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! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroads Website: https://ouijabroads.com/ Shop...

Liz tells the unlucky-in-love origins of the mansion and Devon shares her personal Hahn ghost experience.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroads Website: https://ouijabroads.com/ Shop Weird: https://ouijabroads.com/shopweird/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OuijaBroads/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/theouijabroads/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theouijabroads/

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 s...

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.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroads Website: https://ouijabroads.c...

Liz covers two different things that tend to wash up along the coast from Oregon up to British Columbia  - beeswax and feet.  Secondary Topics: A review of things we are afraid of when swimming; Liz advances a controversial squirrel opinion; dammit, Jim; a request for statistics; the Ouija Broads curse returns; a shoe digression.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroads Website: https://ouija...

The tale of the time that Idaho's Lieutenant Governor was abducted, and a separate time when Vancouver's Mayor went missing.  CW: Suicide by hanging.  The Lieutenant Governor does whatever he wants, jeez; bootlegging memories; alternatives to a life of crime when you have an unfortunate name; the baby bandit; bringing down the mood one broad at a time; was the missing Mayor simply a proto-Portland...

 Devon tells Liz the story of a ghost town and a haunted courthouse.  Secondary topics: Body rental; casa del choo-choos; tombstone jokes; thighs in love; designing a cocktail; our legal strategy; Ouija Broads ringtones and app ideas; Devon's family heirloom helps the Broads really earn that Explicit tag on iTunes.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroads Website: https://ouijabroads.com/ Sho...

Liz lays out the puzzle pieces of what may be the second half of Raleigh's life. We're missing some corners and we lost the puzzle box with the picture on it, but we do our best. CW: Mentions of suicide, murder, and sexual assault.  Secondary topics: The murder mystery the broads never made; the limits of Liz's hunting knowledge are laid bare; another serial killer story sneaks into the show; yet...

Liz and Devon exchange the short stories of the Rathdrum Witches and Anasta's Racetrack, then move on to listener stories, personal unexplained and/or spooky-ooky experiences, and infrequently-asked questions.  Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ouijabroads Website: https://ouijabroads.com/ Shop Weird: https://ouijabroads.com/shopweird/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OuijaBroads/ Twitter: https:...

In the conclusion of our D. B. Cooper episodes (unless some fresh new evidence emerges!), Devon outlines what we know about the case, what we assume about the case, and the cases for and against three plausible suspects.  Secondary topics: Never watch a mystery with Liz; the Federal Bureau of Stuff We Just Really Wanna Know; club moss in druggums; a new, genie-based theory; cases in which you get...

Liz and Devon take another stab at Raleigh Faulkner, who lived a life full of adventure, crime, and slipperiness all over the West Coast.  CW: There's discussion of domestic violence in this one. We don't get super graphic and gory, but the topic of this episode was not a good guy to have in your family.  Secondary topics: The worst/best Russell Crowe impression; a brief glimpse into what a Southe...

The Northwest gave us one of the best mysteries of the 20th century... the polite parachuting hijacker who's (erroneously) known as D. B. Cooper. In the first part of this two-parter episode, Devon outlines the facts of the case, the FBI's approach in the early days of the hunt, and the few clues Cooper left behind.  Secondary topics: A name fake-out; no smoking on planes please; a parachute fake-...

Liz goes back to the spooky Spokane well and tells the tales of five ghosts that haunt the Davenport Hotel.  CW: Brief mention of suicide in this one.  Strange knock-knock jokes; you can't do a Spokane episode without a Kirtland Cutter cameo; waffle foundries and tamale emporiums; a bruttle kerfuffle; Victorian interior design; a little bit on the Campbell House.  Show notes: You can get your own...

Devon introduces Liz to our hometown hero, the friendly Cadborosaurus.  Puns return; cider recommendations; the only game in town; multiple fish are put on notice; the Spokane aquarium and zoo; the six-foot-long sub sandwich; it's always a basking shark; Liz invents a reverse cryptid; we can't go one episode without talking about candy; Phyllis, our boots on the ground.  Patreon: https://www.patre...