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The windshield wipers moved once—and smeared something across the glass that wasn’t water.
On August 7, 1994, residents of Oakville, Washington awoke to find translucent, jelly-like blobs covering their cars, lawns and roads. At first, the bizarre rain seemed almost harmless. Then people began reporting crushing fatigue, nausea, breathing difficulties and other unexplained symptoms.
Samples were sent for testing, but each examination seemed to produce a different answer. One suggested bacteria. Another found cells without nuclei. A later test appeared to reveal something else entirely. Then a crucial sample reportedly vanished before further analysis could be completed.
Join Megan as she investigates the Oakville Blobs, the strange illnesses reported in their aftermath and the theories surrounding one of America’s most baffling unexplained phenomena.
Was it an extraordinary natural event—or evidence of something Oakville was never supposed to understand?
Podcast: Beauty and the Beasts