The Ouija Broads: Tales from the Pacific Northweird
The Ouija Broads are Devon and Liz, two lifelong friends and Pacific Northwesterners who tell each other strange stories about interesting history, science, and legend from the weird corner of the country. Join these two broads as they talk about cryptids (Bigfoot!), mysteries (D.B. Cooper!), ghosts (we got a million!), and more Northweirdness...
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 150
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Grant Chesterfield, Confidence Man
Liz tells Devon about Grant Chesterfield, the confidence man reading palms and conning crowds up and down the west coast (and then beyond) in the early 1900s. With several wives and a lotta lies, we'…
Hot Rat Summer
Devon tells Liz about Seattle's current controversy with a feel-good ending: the story of the Hot Rat Summer mosaic in Capitol Hill's Cal Anderson Park.
AKA "Saint Rat", Hot Rat Summer is a mosaic th…
The Man With The Mustache: Peter Max and the Expo '74 Stamp
Liz tells Devon about Peter Max, the German-American artist who designed the iconic US Expo '74 stamp, which features the “Cosmic Runner" or "Cosmic Jumper" traveling through a colorful world, and th…
Fearsome Critters
Devon tells Liz about "fearsome critters"--characters from American logging camps that are not cryptids, despite often appearing on cryptozoological lists. We sneak in a Pride Month tie-in (are you a…
Spokane Was a Railroad Town
Liz tells Devon the meaning behind the mysterious (and vaguely combative) SPOKANE WAS A RAILROAD TOWN billboards recently spotted in Spokane. She shares the cast of characters behind the boards, and …
Far From Home: The Masculine Urge To Become A Cloud
The story of Oregonian Kent Couch's adventures in cluster ballooning.
Far From Home: A Quarter To Five
We discuss the case of William Toomey, a man who ended his journey in a church in Boise, Idaho and left quite a mystery behind.
It's mentioned at the top, but this episode is all about somebody who…
Far From Home: 20,000 Li Across the Sea
The Broads return with a new season about castaways, explorers, and wanderers. We open with Fu Sang, the legendary land that some believe is Oregon...
Skid Road: The Three Loves of Doc Maynard
We close Skid Road with the man who gave it another one of its many names: Maynardtown. What makes a middle-aged doctor leave his family in Cleveland behind and trek the Oregon Trail? How far can som…
Skid Road: Under The Surface
Devon takes us down... deep down into the Seattle Underground! Let's learn about Bill Spiedel and the unique world he helped preserve beneath Seattle's streets.
(We kinda allude to this at one poin…
Skid Road: Henry Kubota and the Sinking Ship
This time we went all in on one block. Yes, one individual singular solitary block of Seattle. But there's quite a bit to say about this block, as it turns out.
This is also an episode where the sto…
Skid Road: Klondike Kate
Devon tells Liz about the Flower of the North, Klondike Kate Rockwell!
Content notes: Kate gets engaged while underage (probably), and toward the end of his life, Pantages was accused of sexually as…
Skid Road: Box Houses and Sawdust Women
In our continuing Skid Road coverage, we explore how the business of pleasure shaped early Seattle.
Content notes: Plenty of mentions of sex work in here, one dude is accused of having an underage …
The Golden Spruce, Part Two
The tale of the Golden Spruce and Grant Hadwin finds its conclusion at long last.
Skid Road: The Three Loves of Henry Yesler
Welcome to Ouija Broads: Skid Road!
We kick things off with the tale of Henry Yesler, Seattle's city father who's really more of a city vodka aunt, his adventures, his influences, the Seattle he kn…
Resurrection
Liz and Devon emerge from their subterranean stronghold to tell people about technical turbulence, the new season's premiere date, and a delightfully surprising show tie-in.
Ouija & Broads is avai…
The Improbable Mountain Beaver
Devon tells Liz about an animal that's made up, despite also being real.
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The Golden Spruce, Part One
We're back! Devon tells Liz the first part of a tale about a very special tree: where it came from (botanically and spiritually) and what made it so special.
CW: Mentions of the impact of colonizati…
Brother Jonathan, Part Two
At long long last! The treasure, the lighthouse, the court battle, the things that remain. What a ride this story was.
For potential content concerns, all the same bad news is going on - drowning, …
Brother Jonathan, Part One
We continue our Graveyard of the Pacific coverage with the Brother Jonathan, an antebellum sidewheeler that loaded itself up with a fortune in gold and a rogue's gallery of Northwestern notables befo…