Portland Values
Portland protestors tried and failed multiple times to set up their city's version of this compound, which had successfully taken hold in Seattle in June 2020.
CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone)
Oregon ranks 2nd per capita in reported Bigfoot sightings - only this state ranks higher.
Washington
Avril Lavigne
This pseudonymous assailant hijacked a plane in 1971 and parachuted out with $200,000, never to be found.
D.B. Cooper
This creature was spotted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the 1960s and foreshadowed a tragedy.
Mothman
This failed 2020 Portland mayoral candidate drew controversy for wearing a skirt featuring a portrait of Mao Zedong.
Sarah Iannarone
Phil Knight
My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way is a distant cousin of this podcast host.
Joe Rogan
This Norwegian metal musician served a 15-year prison sentence for the murder of a former associate.
Varg Vikernes
This 1967 footage, alleged to show a Sasquatch walking across a riverbank in California, is still hotly debated over by believers and skeptics alike.
Patterson-Gimlin Film
The Proud Boys and this affiliated local group often take to Portland's streets to rile things up.
Patriot Prayer
This town in southern Oregon, home of the Shakespeare Festival, is renowned for its hippie aesthetic and perpetual scent of marijuana.
Ashland
Nirvana's performance on this show, recorded in New York City and released as a live album, has been called the greatest live album of all time.
MTV Unplugged
Ted Kaczynski built his infamous cabin in the forest outside this small town in the American West.
Lincoln, Montana
This reptilian entity stalked farmers in Puerto Rico during 1995 and 1996. It's commonly misrepresented today as a hairless dog, but that couldn't be further from the original accounts.
Chupacabra
Major League Soccer banned this anti-fascist symbol from its games in 2019, after prominent display by the Timbers Army. The ban was quickly rescinded.
Iron Front (Three Arrows)
The Portland Trail Blazers haven't won an NBA championship since this year, but that doesn't mean it won't happen again soon.
1977
This emo rapper died in 2017 of an accidental fentanyl overdose while on tour.
Lil Peep
"Wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort was for a time cellmates with this legendary stoner, who he credited for inspiration to start a career as a motivational speaker.
Tommy Chong
This ranch in Utah has been called the "world's most mysterious hotspot" for strange phenomena.
Skinwalker Ranch
This piece of racially-tinged erotica has become a useful meme and copypasta and seen prominent use both on and outside of Atlas.
BLACK FUTURE: An Interracial Sissy Story
A cult led by this man quickly sprung up in the central Oregon desert, poisoned a few restaurants and tried to kill the district attorney, casually took over a town, and left as quickly as it had arrived in the 1980s.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Bleed American
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf held a press conference on criminal justice reform with this rapper and Philly native after his 2018 release from prison.
Meek Mill
In 1975, this man went missing in the forests of Arizona. When he was found five days later, he described a harrowing alien abduction, and his experiences formed the basis for the scifi film Fire in the Sky.
Travis Walton