Oregon's Exploding Whale - 2012 KATU AM Northwest (KATU's 50th Anniversary)
Why the open web links it
A bizarre and darkly humorous true story of a beached whale and the town's ill-fated attempt to dispose of it.
Linked by 9 independent sites, 4 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including livescience.com, life.ru, wweek.com, theinertia.com, blubrry.net.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Oregon Department of Transportation.