How Oregon's Great Meteorite Mystery was Solved

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In 1856, a massive meteorite was discovered in Oregon's coastal mountains... and then disappeared without a trace. This documentary tells the full story of the infamous Port Orford Meteorite, and its fascinating geological investigation that spanned 130 years.
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
3:06 - Early Search Efforts
8:36 - Raising Doubts
15:24 - Analyzing Evans
21:36 - Identifying the Meteorite
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Music:
“The Appalachian Trail” by Hunter Quinn
• The Appalachian Trail
“Wish You Were There” by Golden Age Radio
• Wish You Were There
“Parkside Lane” by Oakwood Station
• Parkside Lane
“Thoughts Revoked” by Kikoru
• Thoughts Revoked
“Are We the Same” by Kikoru
• Are We the Same
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Scientific Reports
Overview by J. Hugh Pruett (1950)
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Critical analysis by Edward Henderson & Hollis Dole (1964)
www.oregongeology.org/pubs/og...
Historical investigation by Howard Plotkin and geological analysis by Vagn Buchwald & Roy Clarke (1993)
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@JamminOTR 4 месяца назад

As someone who studied geology in the pnw this was a lot of fun. I've heard parts of the story but nothing as well laid out as what you've done. Thanks!

@marksprague1280 Год назад

I was raised in the area and have heard the stories since childhood, including variations on the tale of it being buried under a road. When I was a kid, one of the locals pulled a prank of standing above a road at night, and when a car came down the road firing a flare which went high over the car and fell into a field below the road. This triggered a report of a fallen meteorite, which escalated to a search of that field by a university professor and students.

@brentsmith7021 Год назад

As a 5th generation native of Coos County and having been in the Iron Mt/Powers Ranch region from time to time, I found this episode extremely interesting... and here I thought i was fascinated enough about Portlands freeway infrastructure you documented. Truly incredible work and I enjoy your episodes immensely.

@mikehuesser1058 Год назад

My Mom's former house on Patricia Dr. in Gladstone has a rock protruding out of a south facing hillside which is etched with a depiction of a meteor and several lines trailing from it falling from the sky. It's been over 30 years since Mom sold the house but I remember it well because the older neighbor told me the Oregon Historical Society had been there previously and said it was common for the young indigenous warriors to record events of their "spirit walks" as a right of passage. This young man depiction was his memory of the Willamette Meteorite in my opinion. It was overgrown when I found it clearing brush from the front of the property. The house has an extremely steep driveway shaped like a horse shoe ( drive up one side and down the other side) and the rock is right in the middle. I would like to see it again someday.

@superfreakmorris4251 Год назад

That's cool that u even got to see it you know !!!

@conniemcgee8547 Год назад

That is so amazing 😊

@S.E.C-R Год назад

This sounds cool… I’m 12 miles from Gladstone. I should take a quick drive up there to see if it’s visible!

@fairwitness7473 Год назад

If it's a pictograph, it needs to be preserved. Someone should call the state university archeology department so they can document it.

@kellysuggmcd Год назад

@@nancid5265 Thanks! Do you have pictures?

@jeffbuckles Год назад

I was literally just today thinking "I hope he's still making videos." And here we are! I've been in Oregon since the late 70's and didn't know about this. Not only well-researched as many have said, but assembled into a story arc that remains engaging throughout and delivers a satisfying conclusion.

@axiomist4488 Год назад

What does LITERALLY mean ???? Please explain .

@JamieTransNyc Год назад

I am absolutely...... FLOORED that nobody compared this sample to the other known samples for so long.

@benmcreynolds8581 Год назад

At first I heard *Bald mountain, and I live in Corvallis Oregon my entire life. There's Bald hill here right by the coastal range area (ish) and I was like (it would be crazy if it was there?) This is so well made I LOVE this video! Thanks for making great content about my home state that holds such amazing things that are not if ever covered or documented in modern form. I appreciate your work a ton. *I have always wondered if a nifty little video could be made covering the history about the little mining camps of quartzville and Bohemia Mountain. Then Clear Lake , the Blue Pool, fish lake, lost lake (that yearly drains itself through a geological hole in the volcanic sedimentary layers under a certain region of the lake which refills each year. Then clear lake and the blue pool are both fed by underground aquifers. Ancient trees are perfectly preserved in clear lake due to the water composition and temperature. Man the Natural World is just so awesome.

@Axgoodofdunemaul Год назад

I never heard of this case before. But what a great story. It's got everything: the wild west, my Pacific Northwest, wilderness hiking, surveying, chicanery, and a fabulous stone. Thanks for this.

@sandrablanchette2239 Год назад

As a musician, not only do i enjoy the content of your videos, i really love the music. The pairing of the 2 factors is excellent.

@l.l.2463 Год назад

As a native Oregonian I thoroughly enjoyed this. Thank you so much!

@CRneu Год назад

Your videos deserve 10x the views. The effort/quality does not reflect the view count and it's sad. These are amazing videos! Good job Peter! I appreciate it

@morkovija Год назад

Share among your friends. Do your part

@M.Mae.M Год назад

As a longtime Oregon resident I love these videos

@AidanKedzierski Год назад

Your videos are absolutely fascinating. Your channel came up in my recommended feed a few months ago and I'm so glad it did. Your production level is so good and I'm neither a historian nor from the Pacific Northwest and I just end up engrossed. A channel focused on the history of a region's landscape is a niche that so few explore and yet you find such amazing topics and discuss them so thoroughly and with such depth. I could truly see your videos as a multi-episode docuseries on a streaming service. They're just that well done. I'm passing this video link onto my friends in the hopes of spreading the word about your channel just a little bit. You deserve all the views you get and more.

@peterdibble Год назад

Wow, thanks so much for the kind feedback! 😊

@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage 4 месяца назад

❤

@gaff0057 Год назад

I absolutely love these videos! Everyone that I have watched shows a great dedication to the research and story of some amazing PNW tales! Keep up the good work!

@thetruthexperiment Год назад

Well, that all I need to hear. I subbed. I hope you’re right. Not like it would be the end of the world if I didn’t like it. At least it isn’t about shoes or socks. Who would make videos about that??

@stellviahohenheim Год назад

Shut up

@marilynfranks8995 Год назад

Evans, you sir, were a miscreant! lol I like the footage of the cowboys and cowgirls dancing near the end. Made me laugh after all that serious fact finding. What a great historical video. Your production skills are top notch!

@dboconnor57 Год назад

You hit this one out of the park. I was drawn in and held throughout. I love a good mystery, and this was fascinating, and fun! Well done Mr. Dibble!

@scottprather5645 Год назад

Thank you for the very good and professionally done video...and no overdone irritating sound effects in the background thank you again for that!!

@austinreed. Год назад

The human spirit is driven by the thrill of the search. That's is a great quote.

@bos2pdx2yvr Год назад

Wow! I lived in Oregon for 18 years and never heard of this mystery. Thanks for this excellent documentary about it! I always enjoy your videos and look forward to seeing more of them. You cover a great variety of topics that make me homesick for the Rose City and the Beaver State. Thank you!

@emigdiogreen7439 Год назад

Yes More Oregon/PNW Content!!

@bixanorak Год назад

Rivetting beyond description! Masterful summary of carefully gathered pieces of data. Congratuations - I'm now off to watch your other documentaries! 😊

@MihzvolWuriar Год назад

Bro, such a tale, I loved it, one of the best half hour spent of my life.

@MinkJu Год назад

Love having an Oregon centric content creator. Keep it up

@paulcooper8818 Год назад

Thank you for bringing this fascinating story to RU-vid.

@josephdragan7734 Год назад

A fascinating story. Recently I visited the Hayden planetarium in New York City. They had on display the largest meteorite ever found in the United States called The Willamette Meteorite. The meteorite was discovered in Oregon's Willamette Valley in 1902; the valley's indigenous Clackamas Indians claimed it as a sacred object. But a local man took the meteorite and sold it to a private collector. The collector donated it to the American Museum of Natural History, where it has remained for 99 years. Although it apparently landed somewhere in Canada? the Missoula Floods pushed it down to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. I guess meteors just love that state :-)

@scotttaxdal5297 6 месяцев назад

There was a cast copy of the Willamette meteorite in front of the Willamette institute of science and technology (Wistec) next to Autzen stadium in Eugene. It's a kid's science museum now with a nice planetarium, don't know if the display is still there...

@atatterson6992 4 месяца назад

Which all makes the destruction of the state by psychotic liberal "politicians" even more despicable. So sad...

@kevinbyrne4538 Год назад

Good story with a surprise ending. Thank you for producing and posting this video.

@theironherder Год назад

Nicely done. Good visuals, great pacing, wonderful denouement.

@compostjohn Год назад

This is one of the best little documentaries I've seen for a while. Thank you Peter!

@michaela.chmieloski3196 Год назад

I said it before and I'll say it again, Mr. Dibble: your documentaries are worthy of the likes of The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The Learning Channel, or some such other broadcast venue. Your productions are THAT good. Like the utilization of excerpts from famous movies (hope you don't get in trouble for copyright infringement), particularly the "letter deluge" given that it was a "miracle" this meteoritic mystery was ever solved, lol!

@peterdibble Год назад

Thanks a lot! I thought those clips would help add a little flair, lol.

@cynthiaweber8486 Год назад

Thank you for bringing a video of decent content. As old as I am, I still like learning. Take care.

@danielcarroll5667 Год назад

A very fascinating story that you turned into an equally fascinating video ! Thanks !

@vernowen2083 Год назад

I myself, am from the Pacific Northwest and had never heard of the meteorite. When younger I would go to Native reservations and seek out elders to discuss the past. This led me on some interesting and often dangerous hikes into the mountains. I've never shared the places I found as a result of these discussions, for fear they would be desecrated by fortune hunters. I never betrayed the trust offered to me by those I had spoken with and to this day, they and myself are the only ones who know of these places.

@allinaday9882 Год назад

Yet, your anonymity is lost?

@thomasesteb9589 5 месяцев назад

Yeah sure

@gildedingold Год назад

Wow! I grew up in Port Orford. I remember reading an article on this meteor as a kid. Years later I remembered the story and wanted to reread the research. Googled for more information and couldn't find anything. So cool!

@williamnelson3233 Год назад

See see s

@williamnelson3233 Год назад

HiTX

@williamnelson3233 Год назад

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@williamnelson3233 Год назад

Loo

@williamnelson3233 Год назад

@ericlysne4920 Год назад

Peter- I LOVE your videos- I was just looking you up to show my roomate your video about the freeway system that could have been and I was like “omg he just posted a new video 4 hours ago, let’s watch that instead!” Really appreciate the content and research put into your videos- the freest system one was just fascinating thinking of what it all could have been like (and how much easier it would have been to get around the city). Keep it up, more Oregon PNW content!!

@peterdibble Год назад

Thanks a lot! 😊 Another Oregon topic is already well underway.

@islanduck Год назад

Beautifully produced and edited! Another masterpiece Peter!

@davidanderson4091 Год назад

What a fascinating video! This was completely under my radar - I had never even heard of the Port Orford meteorite before watching this video.

@georgewaters6424 Год назад

Good work. Really enjoyed your content and style.

@tylers6709 Год назад

Gosh, you do an amazing job making a subject that is not exactly interesting to me become very interesting! I hope you keep up the great work and keep teaching us all.

@jjdinanno4147 Год назад

Incredible story and so well produced. Thank you! Look forward to your stories every month!

@Oregontrailblazin Год назад

Hello as a coos county native ( coos bay ) I used to be a camper and a counselor of a Camp that Used to be @ the entrance of Dry Creek off the SIxes river Port orford .. used to be a homestead there . A Barn and a Orchard.The Camp was called Camp Humdinger,It was a Camp for Low Income kids .For years this ran as a camp.Two Camp Stories were the strange rock @ or around the 2 mile mark up the dry creek. We used to have a campsite for the kids near the base of Grassy Nob .There was a very deep swim hole and a waterfall . The rock we jumped off was called Meteorite rock, It was jaggy and dangerous to climb sharp rocks . Pockets ..I always told everyone that the waterfall was faster and made the pockets ...Best to go up in the summertime , when the Steelhead people come up and take out steelheads that are stuck in pockets of water and the water drops underground you may have to swim in places .. but stay on the river when you do hit the water stream because it still flows. You may run into one waterfall (that is another story) but keep going waterfall is center the stream i called them butt crack falls .strange rock was on the left . On facebook there is a page to Camp Humdinger !Oregon page and there is one picture of kids jumping off of it ..

@randyrobey5643 Год назад

This is a fascinating story that I've never heard before.

@snicklefritz6182 Год назад

Fascinating that it took so many experts from various places to determine the true identity of the specimen. All it took was about 100 years, men with open minds, and perseverance.

@Richbund Год назад

Very interesting and well told story. The music was great and listed in "Show More" section. Great job Peter.

@mitchfountain6523 Год назад

What an excellent job putting this all together. Thanks so much!

@alexsmith5501 Год назад

Thoroughly interesting, thank you, Peter.

@Panzermeister36 Год назад

Another amazing video! Thank you for all your work.

@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849 Год назад

This was so well done. I thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you.

@Phor0phor Год назад

Your channel is absolute gold! I feel incredibly lucky to be a resident of Oregon at the same time that you’re doing your work. If you can dig deep into the state of Jefferson we SoOr /NorCal locals would LOVE it. Thank you for your consideration and talent!

@kylea.185 Год назад

I'm in Northwest California and I'm proud to be a supporter and believer in the Great State of Jefferson!

@puro-SUR-TRECE Год назад

nobody in southern oregon wants jefferson state😂😂

@Phor0phor Год назад

@@puro-SUR-TRECE there are signs in Selma, Grants Pass, Eagle Point and along the 101. Yes we do lol

@CybranM Год назад

Love this kind of documentary! Keep up the great work 😃

@rvierra7235 Год назад

Amazing documentary! Thank you for doing the work to make this possible.

@Cacheingcants Год назад

Such an amazing story that took a turn I never would have expected! Your content is such high quality an have enjoyed every video of yours (so far)!

@parrotraiser6541 Год назад

Scientific detective work like this is always fascinating. There's still a lot of misinformation floating around, waiting to be torpedoed by truth.

@magiciangob Год назад

Always love your videos Peter. Can't wait to see what you come up with next. Also really glad to see those numbers growing, you're going to be huge once the algorithm picks you up.

@lzeph Год назад

Wish I had better words to convey how interesting, entertaining and overall outstanding this video is. Instant subscriber/fan. Well done, you!

@DelusionaLCore Год назад

Your work is an amazing masterpiece, keep going and never give up!

@csciacchitano Год назад

Fantastic work as usual!

@Tser Год назад

Another amazing PNW documentary! I love them! Thank you.

@benny4894 7 месяцев назад

A local legend, love this story about my beautiful home. Thanks for sharing this lesser known history about Coos/Curry county

@oaktadopbok665 Год назад

Wow! I lived through this and never remember hearing of it. Fascinating! Thank you for your great work.

@BriManeely Год назад

Great video as always. Very well done!

@jeffreyhunt1727 Год назад

Fantastic video!! I'm always very excited whenever you publish a new video.

@wacojones8062 Год назад

Well laid out report for us to see and hear. Thank You.

@andrewkessinger5966 Год назад

Another great video Peter!

@michaelfried3123 Год назад

This is a very detailed historical account. Nice job!

@tankej Год назад

Fabulous job - well done!

@rogerdudra178 Год назад

Great job, Peter. Thanks.

@1977jhall Год назад

Killer detail and great job! Loved it

@johnlowther4927 Год назад

Very entertaining and informative. Great job!

@DSwecker Год назад

This is such good content sir, thank you!!

@willgriff Год назад

Glad I found your channel, looking forward to future vids.

@allenra530 Год назад

There were quite a number of "scientists" in the years before 1900 who brought "amazing discoveries" to a credulous public in the cities of Europe and eastern North America. Many of them gained government support for their "research" even though they were little more than scams. Although I spent some time in Port Orford, where an aunt and uncle lived, I had never heard of this story. Thank you for making the documentary

@haroldmayhugh8834 Год назад

Very well done. Your video / pics, & story, made for an interesting presentation.

@ORWWmedia Год назад

Nice Work! Thanks!

@patriciajrs46 Год назад

I love your pictures and cute check marks and such between the pictures. Very good. Thank you.

@scofab Год назад

Well done and very interesting indeed. Thank you.

@morkovija Год назад

This is top notch quality content and I approve this message

@BBQDad463 Год назад

Thank you for this excellent, fascinating video. Subscribed.

@markrowland1366 Год назад

Australia too has such a story. Early 1910's, In the northern territory. A character, a confabulation, became the centre of his story of an enormous gold reef. Hundreds went with the hope of it's finding. Some died. The 1980s Casino, Lasseter's, is named for him, implying, all who gamble are fools.

@DGill48 Год назад

Most interresting video in weeks!

@Toothnut_Hamsterfolder 7 месяцев назад

Very imprerssive, thanks for sharing!

@jlaxgang7233 Год назад

Great work!

@cobraspottedwolf8791 Год назад

Amazing work!

@mainerockflour3462 Год назад

Bravo! Well done!

@keeganryan7481 Год назад

baby wake up, one of the best oregonians dropped again

@RCRalph Год назад

Amazing video, keep it up!

@Soundbrigade Год назад

This mystery was even better than any crime mystery. Besides we’ve been to Oregon twice and never seen any meteorites … However, we’d love to go back and visit the places you talk about in your vids. 👍

@magiciangob Год назад

Port Orford is a great town to visit, and is right in the middle of the most beautiful part of Oregon's coastline. Give yourself plenty of time when you visit. I've been several times over my many years of living in Oregon and still am surprised with new finds every time I visit.

@Soundbrigade Год назад

@@magiciangob We drove along parts of the coastline and I think we stayed in Coos Bay. Been to Bend twice and visited alot of volcanos (Crater Lake ...). The landscape is so varying and everywhere breathtaking. PS. My wife directed me from Gold Beach to Grants Pass one evening with just diesel fumes in the tank. We made barely it ....

@ZebaKnight 3 месяца назад

What a great story! And very nicely told. Thank you.

@M.Campbell Год назад

Excellent video. Thanks!

@pmae9010 Год назад

Well told, thank you.

@altond511 Год назад

From the title of this story, I thought you were going to tell the story of the meteorite from Oregon in the New York museum at the Teddy Roosevelt park. I first saw a picture of this meteorite in a book that i acquired in about 1945 but obviously that wasn`t it. This is a 16 ton meteorite which I finally got to see a few years ago.

@davidearlagoura Год назад

WELL DONE!!!! Very well made video!

@MrChristianbowman82 Год назад

Loved it thank you for the history lesson!

@aerohk Год назад

What an amazing channel. Only issue is there is too little contents. Do more videos 🙏

@ConradSpoke Год назад

This was amazing, one of the best explorations of the scientific method I've ever seen. That lie had legs!

@stewartmackay Год назад

This was excellent, thank you.

@chrisrobling Год назад

Fascinating. Thank you.

@mwj5368 4 месяца назад

Wow Peter Dibble you are a very good writer and narrator. Also the historic films and photos and the editing all in sync with your narration was very remarkable. Thank you for creating such a cogent and lucid series of events all so carefully aligned you should get some documentary award! It's like what you've written could be published as a book! Thanks for sharing this exciting story!!!

@mykstreja8648 Год назад

I actually forgot I was watching a RU-vid video. This has the look and feel of a Nova (PBS funded science program) presentation and is very interesting as well as enlightening. This goes to show the scientific community has immense pressures -- some intellectual, some financial -- to produce at all costs, even to the point of faking it. Peer oversight is a must to keep this from happening.

@economicurtis Год назад

Another great video. As a suggestion for another, I went to the Hanthorn Cannery Museum in Astoria, and saw a plot of salmon production on the Columbia since the 1800s. There’s definitely a video there on the Rise & Fall of Salmon (and hopefully recovery one day) on the Columbia. It’s a great story spanning centuries, from first peoples to explorers and Oregon trail migrations, hydro power, the massive cannery industry that just completely dead, the evolution of conservation and environmentalist movements. Lots of interesting tidbits along the way. Thanks for making these.