Three small bombs went off inside Portland's 127-room Hotel Rajneesh in the early hours of Friday, July 29, 1983. The first one exploded at 1:22 a.m. and blew a hole in the bathroom wall of Room 405.

In January 1983, Rajneesh Investment Corp. put up three 1982 Rolls Silver Spurs as collateral to help swing the purchase of Portland’s Martha Washington Hotel, which became Hotel Rajneesh.

Also in 1981, Rajneesh’s group purchased the approximately 64,000-acre Big Muddy Ranch in Oregon’s Jefferson and Wasco counties, where John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn had once filmed a movie.

It was hard to get a bead on the situation. WW had reported on the conflict—including a 1983 bombing that set fire to Portland's downtown Hotel Rajneesh. But as an alt-weekly less than a decade ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — One of the most bizarre chapters in Oregon history came with the arrival of a religious cult called the Rajneesh. Their story, which involved taking over a central Oregon ...