FILE 01
The Tunnels Under McMinnville
A network of passages beneath a quiet downtown — and a century of stories about who dug them, and why.
Read the file →One person, one region, and everything in between — the places worth the drive, and the ones somebody hoped you'd forget.
Ashley keeps two kinds of field notes. One is for the places anyone can go and should. The other is for the questions that don't have tidy answers yet. Same eye, same region — she just follows the thread wherever it runs.
Trailheads, roadside diners, small-town shows, the overlook nobody posts about. Filmed on the ground across Oregon and Washington, written for people who'd rather go than scroll.
"The gift of happiness shouldn't be so expensive."
Browse the library →Cults, forgotten places, and the local histories that got quietly filed away. Sources shown, uncertainty kept honest — investigative, never sensational.
"The property is real. The questions aren't going away."
Open the files →Long-form investigations into the Pacific Northwest's high-control groups, buried histories, and open questions. Every file shows its sources and stays with what we don't yet know.
A network of passages beneath a quiet downtown — and a century of stories about who dug them, and why.
Read the file →An estate, a symbol, and a set of questions the neighbors have been asking for years without a clear answer.
Read the file →An ongoing map of the region's high-control communities — how they form, how they hold, and how people get out.
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A field guide to the region's strangest, quietest, most worth-it corners — pulled straight from the catalogue. Instant PDF download.
Ashley builds Adventures of Shanghai from the road: filming, writing, researching, and running the community across TikTok and Facebook. Warm with an audience, relentless with a source. She's also available for brand and social work — the same instincts that grow this audience can grow yours.