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Point Doom, thermal imaging Sighting A005-Z |
You might think that with Oregon's entire coastline supposedly open to public access, every square inch of rock and sand has already been explored, charted, indexed, and cataloged. YOU ARE SO WRONG!!! Mariners know about Point Doom, but they don't talk much about it. No freaking way! If there's one thing a seafaring man knows, it's that once you speak the Devil's name he's as good as through your front door and sitting himself down at your dinner table. In other words - if you're too stupid to get my meaning - you don't speak too loudly of other people's misfortunes if you don't want some of those same miseries to visit themselves on you. On the other hand, I've been to Point Doom and I've experienced for myself the evil that haunts it. Since the early 1600s some 75 vessels have met their fate at the unforgiving currents and jagged rocks of Point Doom. In all, nearly 800 souls have perished. No bodies were ever recovered. The reason you've never heard about Cape Doom before is because almost all of these fatalities occurred before 1810 - before the White Man began to keep records. Most of the men who lost their lives were just anonymous deckhands and fishermen cursed to sign onto boats from Russia and Mexico, along with untold numbers of Native Americans from south of the Rogue River and north of Puget Sound, searching for new fishing grounds. |
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Point Doom,
wide shot |
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About
| Sunken
Valley
| Point
Doom
| Silent
Cove
| Black
Woods |
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