HassleCat

If you stand on the crater rim and see the islands peeking up through the fog, it is very much like the Twilight Zone.

It was discovered run aground, with no trace of the crew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_A._Deering

Excellent interpretation of the clues. Wizard Island is absolutely correct. The other one is Phantom Ship Island, but “Ship” is close enough. Good job!

First one should be dead giveaway. I will give another hint in a few minutes.

But it would be a clever name for a group of four islands,

The two names are unrelated to each other, except that both names could be related to something eerie or spooky. That’s a clue.

I don’t think the Voyage of Disco made it here.

When you learn the real names, you will see that your guess is appropriate.

Sorry, they were more creative.

That should help as a clue.

The effort to conflate communists and Nazis should be more difficult, but people forget the communists were allied with us in WWII, and the Red Army was largely responsible for the demise of German fascism.

I was cycling along Portland Boulevard on the section that overlooks Swan Island. I almost ran over a small garbage bag. I stopped to throw it out of the way and discovered it was full of home grown. My friends were very happy, and I had many friends.

If something goes wrong, blame the other side. Even if it’s your fault. Especially if it’s your fault.

Becoming a geography quiz of sorts.

But there were no cars around when it fell. Native legends relate stories of its falling, so it was loooong ago. It weighed over 15 tons, so it would have put a big crack in the windshield had it fallen on a car.

Even though I never heard of such a thing when I grew up there.

I have a question that requires two answers, one only moderately difficult, the other one less likely to be known. I have obvious, give-away hints ready to go.

But nobody with a car lived there in 1938