Oakville

Strange, kind of modern parallel.

Now, the Oakville Blobs incident of 1994 remains one of the most unsettling biological mysteries in American history.

While most unexplained rain stories involve frogs or fish being swept up by water spouts, the Oakville case involved something far more disturbing.

A synthetic-looking gelatinous substance that appeared to contain human cellular material.

It's a story that moves from a small-town weather anomaly to a high-stakes medical mystery involving the Washington State Department of Health and theories of secret military testing.

Now, on the morning of August 7th, 1994, residents of Oakville, Washington, a small town about 30 miles from the Pacific coast, woke up to find their world covered in a translucent, jelly-like substance.

It hadn't rained water.

It had rained blobs.

Strange, kind of modern parallel.

Now, the Oakville Blobs incident of 1994 remains one of the most unsettling biological mysteries in American history.

While most unexplained rain stories involve frogs or fish being swept up by water spouts, the Oakville case involves something far more disturbing.

A synthetic-looking gelatinous substance that appeared to contain human cellular material.

It's a story that moves from a small-town weather anomaly to a high-stakes medical mystery, involving the Washington State Department of Health and theories of secret military testing.

Now, on the morning of August 7th, 1994, residents of Oakville, Washington, a small town about 30 miles from the Pacific coast, woke up to find their world covered in a translucent, jelly-like substance.

It hadn't rained water.

It had rained blobs.

Strange kind of modern parallel.

Now, the Oakville Blobs incident of 1994 remains one of the most unsettling biological mysteries in American history.

While most unexplained rain stories involve frogs or fish being swept up by water spouts, the Oakville case involved something far more disturbing, a synthetic-looking gelatinous substance that appeared to contain human cellular material.

It's a story that moves from a small town weather anomaly to a high-stakes medical mystery involving the Washington State Department of Health and theories of secret military testing.

Now, on the morning of August 7th, 1994, residents of Oakville, Washington, a small town about 30 miles from the Pacific Coast, woke up to find their world covered in a translucent jelly-like substance.

It hadn't rained water, it had rained blobs.

Now, most of these blobs were roughly half the size of a grain of rice, translucent and incredibly soft.

It was squishy, like gelatin.

I'll consider who else can explain this better? Then I'll ask, "How can I square up these different takes?" It's my own brand of scientific method, one with plenty of room for snark and suspicion.

And so I'm pretty sure that if I woke up to find my own town covered in goo like the folks in Oakville, Washington did in 1994, I would be calling all the scientists I could find to have them figure out what the stuff was, especially if it was making me and my neighbors ill.

But what might happen if the scientists in question couldn't agree, and everyone was just left to shrug their shoulders and move on? [music] Oakville, Washington is a small town along Highway 12.

In 1994, Oakville was home to just 665 people.

It was founded back in 1905 as a logging town.

Despite its minuscule size, the town hosts an annual zucchini festival.

And I don't mean to piss on anyone's parade, but the only place zucchini should be is hiding in bread or muffins.

The book Weird Washington: Your Travel Guide to Washington's Local Legends and Best-Kept Secrets by Jefferson Davis and Al Eufrasio tells us that Oakville also played host to the last horseback bank robbery in the state.

Strange kind of modern parallel.

Now, the Oakville Blobs incident of nineteen ninety-four remains one of the most unsettling biological mysteries in American history.

While most unexplained rain stories involve frogs or fish being swept up by waterspouts, the Oakville case involves something far more disturbing.

A synthetic-looking gelatinous substance that appeared to contain human cellular material.

It's a story that moves from a small-town weather anomaly to a high-stakes medical mystery involving the Washington State Department of Health and theories of secret military testing.

Now, on the morning of August 7th, 1994, residents of Oakville, Washington, a small town about 30 miles from the Pacific coast, woke up to find their world covered in a translucent jelly-like substance.

It hadn't rained water.

It had rained blobs.