BellingHistory with the Good Time Girls - The Podcast

Kolby and Marissa take a deeper dive into the life of Frank “Spider” Biles, arrested for a string of arsons in the summer of 1892. “Spider Biles, The Fire Bug” is memorialized on a cement marker in the cobblestone alley next to Skylark’s Café in Fairhaven, now a quaint historic shopping district in Bellingham, Washington. This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and yours truly along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.

This week’s story is about notorious Bad Bud Cox, an original Bad Town Bad Boy. We take a deeper look into the life of “Bud Cox” who gained local infamy after robbing a saloon in Fairhaven in the early 1900s, and who spent his life addicted and incarcerated.

This episode is a re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and US along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath.

Read our show-notes and more at bellinghistory.com/the-podcast

Another re-release from the 2020 season of “Bad Town” on the City of Subdued Podcast, hosted by Annika Fleming, Maria Dalla Gasparina and US along with Good Time Girls founder Marissa McGrath. In this episode Marissa and Kolby discuss the so-called “Chines Curse” on the town of Bellingham, and the story behind the urban legend. We’ve included some additional discussion on this one. Also see our original show notes, references, resources and ephemera HERE.

(Apologies for being late on this one! Crazy October and Sickness! )

It’s a re-release of our 2020 BAD TOWN Halloween special! This one features some spooky seasonal favorites from our Fairhaven Gore and Lore Tours! We discuss why Fairhaven is called Bellingham’s “Haunted Hot-Spot” - hint, maybe it’s the disturbed burial grounds known as Dead Man’s Point? Also we’ll pop into Sycamore Square and discuss the famous Green Lady Ghost and listen to some Electronic Voice Phenomenon recordings believed to be from the spirit realm therein.

For show notes and other fun stuff see https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast

Welcome (back) to Bad Town! Enjoy some re-released episodes of season 2 of the City of Subdued Podcast featuring us as co-hosts while we take a break!  Recorded back in ye olden pandemic days of 2020, these episodes feature some of our BADDEST Belling-History.  Enjoy, re-listen, and let us know what you’d like to hear about in future episodes.

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In this episode we regale you with the saga of the wreck of the Steamer Buckeye, a little steamship of the Mosquito Fleet, that capsized in Bellingham Bay in 1895 between Eliza Island and today’s Larrabee State park with a small crew and several passengers including Will D. Jenkins, local editor and Mayor of the town of Whatcom.  This episode features one human casualty, and a number of unfortunate livestock.  It’s a buck-wild story!

In this episode we explore the wreck of the bark "Union" of 1875 near Lummi Island and Bellingham Bay in the Pacific Northwest, and take a deep dive (pun intended) into deep dives, that is the history of diving and salvage operations both in general and specific to this shipwreck. This is part one of two (and probably more later) episodes about shipwrecks that occurred in the vicinity of our hamlet.

See our show notes for ephemera and references at: https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast

In this episode we continue our exploration of monsters of the deep.  We’ll dish on the sea-monster stars of the 20th century, creepy carcasses and cryptids sighted in and around Bellingham Bay and the waters of the Salish Sea.  And yes, we finally get to the globsters!

Show notes, ephemera etcetera at:

In this episode we dive in (pun intended) to the seemingly bottomless pool of sea monster stories.  Whether they be myth, lore or just a really big fish, “monsters of the deep” have inspired many a whopper of a tale here in Bellingham, Washington and the PNW over the years.  Release the Kraken!Show notes and more at https://bellinghistory.com/the-podcast

In this episode we explore bathing beaches at Squalicum Beach and Fort Bellingham, as part two of a two-part series on historical beach resorts of Bellingham, Washington. It’s hard to imagine thousands of Bellinghamsters spending a day at the seaside at these locations today, but around the 1920s these bathing resorts really picked up where the White City left off, with dancing pavilions, natatoriums and amusement parks. Of course there is some weird drama and old-time goss thrown in for good measure.