No, pine martens.
They're like spork weasels...
Posted on 04/17/2026 2:52:38 PM PDT by Ezekiel
Detectives finally discovered the fate of the family who vanished in their car almost 70 years ago on their way to find Christmas decorations in Oregon.
The group of five went missing in December 1958 in a case that gripped America.
Two of the children were found dead months after the disappearance, but the other members had not turned up.
But now, parents Kenneth and Barbara, and daughter, Barbie Martin, have been identified from human remains found in the Columbia River, officials said.
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No, pine martens.
They're like spork weasels...
Little House On The Prairie regularly tossed kids down random holes for ratings boosts.
Right after the kid’s mom asked the producers for a raise.
Because it wasn't aliens.
If they had lived, some of those dead river kids would also be in their ‘80s....
From a well to a cell!
When we moved to AK in 1971 we drove the Alcan Hwy. Truly terrifying my back then. 1400 miles of gravel then, except for 7 paved miles at Whitehorse.
There are lakes literally hugging the road. According to the Milepost magazine, they’re so deep they don’t even know how deep they are. No guardrails. Switchbacks. Mountains. Trucks going the opposite direction on the very narrow road.
I’d hate to think how many people have gone missing, especially in the winter with the road covered with ice.
Construction sites: the crew was wrapping up for the day and needed a sheet of plywood to block up an opening, just for the night. One worker remembered seeing a sheet laying flat, out behind the work site. He hustled his way toward where he’d seen it and it was still there. He bent down, slipped his fingers under the edge and jerked it up to hold it up so he could lift it. As he did this he stepped forward. Welp, he dropped straight down into the big hole that the sheet of plywood was covering, and then the sheet lay back down over the hole and covered it. The end.
Columbia River in December can be wicked, as well as weather in the Columbia Gorge.
Second, I was only 4 when the earlier incident happened. I wasn’t aware of it.
Thanks, I didn’t know about the earlier one.
😆
/dies not post link to Tull’s “ The Pine Marten’s Jig”
I thought about it several times while I was searching for one in a pose roughly the same as a spork weasel.
Figured you’d handle that part!
🥰
Maybe the tree was tied to the roof of the on the way home. Wind catches the tree as the car hits an ice patch on the road…?
Could be.
We have Fishers here.
It’s a giant weasel like 3-4’ long.
Caught one on the gate camera
Freaked me out.
Apparently they’re everywhere but rarely seen.
That does explain some of the stranger things I’ve see running cross the road at night….none of which seemed to be doing a jig.
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