Evergreen History Podcast

Svyatoi Nikolai, or Saint Nicholas, was a Russian-American company schooner that embarked on an exploratory and trading mission off the coast of Washington in 1808. After wrecking, all aboard initially survived. However, they had to survive in the undeveloped terrain of the Olympic Peninsula. 

This is one is a more gruesome topic, a Tacoma murder trial and subsequent “curse,” that was supposedly cast on those involved in the trial. The convicted murderer was Jake Bird. The victims were a mother, Bertha Kludt, aged 52 and her daughter, Beverly Kludt, aged 17.

Originally opened as the "Insane Asylum of Washington Territory," this mental health facility has it's fair share of tales from lobotomies to famous patients.