Officials planned to blast the carcass to smithereens and let the seagulls finish the job. Instead, the crowd, the dunes and one parked car all took the hit.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone remembers the Florence exploding whale of 1970 (pictured), but Warrenton beat them by several years in the exploding ...

The Eugene Emeralds have announced their Exploding Whale alternate identity. Starting in April, the Emeralds will become the Exploding Whales for four different games (April 22, May 6, May 26, and ...

In 1970, officials in Oregon thought they had found the perfect solution to a massive whale carcass that had washed ashore: 450 kilograms of TNT. What happened next became one of the strangest and ...

Walter Umenhofer’s new car was parked a quarter-mile from the blast when a chunk of whale landed on its roof. “My insurance company will never believe it,” he said, according to a 1970 story in the ...