When Goo Fell From the Sky | The Oakville Blobs | The Unsolved Mystery When It Rained Goo

On August 7th, 1994, the town of Oakville in Washington State would be hit by something straight out of a Stephen King novel. On this day, it started to rain. Not an uncommon occurrence for Washington. But as people turned on their windshield wipers to get the water out of their view, their wipers started to streak, almost making their view worse. Others woke up the next morning to find a strange substance covering their yards. It was goo. A clear, gelatinous substance was found all over the town. And yes, it was falling from the sky. This odd substance would proceed to rain out of the sky a total of six times in the next three weeks in Oakville. To this day, it's known as the Oakville Blobs. Now, more than 25 years later, scientists have yet to definitively explain it. Hey humans, it's Hannah. Welcome back to my channel, or if you're new here, I do videos on creepy and disturbing things. So if that's also your thing, consider subscribing. In today's video, yes, we're going to talk about the Oakville Blobs and what could possibly have happened. There are some explanations, but they all have holes. So witnesses who saw the blobs said that they were about the size of a grain of rice. And like I said, they were clear and gelatinous, felt like jello. Some of the newspapers from that time actually said that they were the size of a half a grain of rice, but not splitting hairs. They were small. They were blobby. Here's what else we know about that time. An Oakville police officer was patrolling around 3 a.m. that night when the blobs fell on his car out of the sky. He stopped and pulled over because he couldn't see, and put on latex gloves and tried to clean off his car. In the upcoming days, he came down with something like a flu. And maybe this seems just like a coincidence to you, but then a lot of reports of the same very similar illness from other people in town started coming through. People were saying they were having difficulty breathing, extreme vertigo, blurred vision, nausea, and vomiting. One older woman even had to go to the hospital. Some reports I've read, not all of them, but some of them say the entire town got sick in the upcoming days. And then at least one of these families claimed that their kitten died after coming into contact with the goo. Some of the residents in the area also said that their cat and dogs have died as well after coming in contact with the goo, but this has not been confirmed. We don't know for sure. Additionally, it is notable that the kitten that did actually die had a really bad intestinal issue before it ever rained. So it could have been due to that as well. So everybody in the town of Oakville is suddenly sick, and it seems to be in correlation with this blob stuff coming out of the sky. Thankfully, nobody died. A local doctor tests the substance himself and makes a shocking discovery. He finds human white blood cells present. So then, this is obviously not enough testing, so they actually sent it to Washington's Department of Ecology to test it further. They actually refute the results of the doctor, saying that they didn't find white blood cells present. There were cells present in the substance, but they didn't contain any nuclei, which is only present in the human white blood cells. These researchers also found two different types of bacteria in the substance, and one of them is commonly found in the human digestive tract. So not much else came out of those results, other than the fact that everybody was just still baffled. One resident was smart and saved a sample of the substance in a container in their freezer. About a year later after this happened, they had it tested again. One scientist that tested the substance said that he found presence of eukaryotic cells, which means that the gel was alive, at least at one point, and that the substance belonged to an animal. So that's about all we know about the incident itself and the substance itself. So now let's talk about what could possibly be going on here. And like I said, this remains a mystery, so none of the following explanations are airtight. Possible explanation number one, did a plane dump their waste over the town of Oakville? Some people think the gel substance was whatever the waste is mixed with in the airplane bathroom. So this would explain why a lot of people got sick, and it would also explain the white blood cells or the bacteria from the human digestive tract. It would explain all of those things. But waste in airplanes is always dyed blue, and it's dyed blue intentionally. The substance found in Oakville was clear. Additionally, like I said, it happened six times over three weeks. So it's also unlikely that a plane was dumping in the exact same area that many times in such a short amount of time. So this theory overall is unlikely. The second theory, and a very popular one, is that the substance belonged to jellyfish. Many people in town reported that during this time they saw military aircrafts in the sky, some hovering very low and some going pretty slow. It was confirmed that the military was doing bomb testing pretty close to around this time in the ocean that's about 50 miles away from Oakville. So the theory is that they dropped a bomb on the ocean and blew up a giant group of jellyfish. The jellyfish get blown to smithereens, get blown high up in the air, and get trapped in a storm cloud. And then proceeds to fall on Oakville. This theory, as crazy as it is, seemed like the most likely to me, considering that they thought the source of the substance came from an animal. Until I did more research and thought more about it, and there's actually several reasons why this also doesn't make sense. So first of all, this means that the cloud of jellyfish would have had to not only get caught in a cloud, but then travel 50 miles inland from the ocean before falling on Oakville without falling anywhere else on its way. And then again, six times in three weeks. It would be quite the coincidence if they were bombing that much, or even if only bombing once. Again, it fell six times in three weeks? That just doesn't seem likely. And lastly, all the residents reported that there was no odor to the substance. And they were sure, and I also agree, that if that many dead jellyfish were scattered around your town that frequently over such a short period of time, the smell would probably be pretty bad, and it didn't smell at all. So again, this theory seems unlikely, but there is a slight possibility that it's true. So the third theory doesn't need any explanation, but some people think this aliens. The fourth theory is conspiracy. People in the town thought that maybe these military aircrafts that were hovering overhead so frequently during this time were there for another reason. And that the town of Oakville was being used as guinea pigs in a biological warfare test. It was thought that these military aircrafts purposely went over Oakville and dropped this substance, basically to see what would happen and to see how people would react to it, and if they'd get sick, get really sick, go to the hospital, or die. And remember, the town is tiny. And when I say tiny, during that time there was a population of 665 people. So this kind of furthered their theory because they thought that would make them a pretty good testing site. Not that many people really know they're there. I've lived in Washington most of my life and I've never heard of Oakville until this. But again, why so many times over three weeks? But it does make more sense than the jellyfish theory and the plane theory because they were testing it over and over. Far be it for me to believe conspiracy theories, and I definitely don't think that this is per se what happened, but so far it makes more sense than the others. And then the fifth and most ridiculous theory was that it was disposable diapers. So basically I dug through a lot of the old newspapers from the 1990s around this area, especially the Centralia Chronicle. Apparently in 1999, a woman named Kris Cooper claimed that she knew exactly what the substance was. So since this happened in 1994, other people have claimed that they've woken up to having a spot of this strange goo on their lawn or in other places, however not rain form like Oakville had. Kris claims that this goo is from disposable diapers because it's basically designed to be extremely absorbent and it's inside in the center of diapers to collect baby waste. I wasn't a huge fan of this theory in general, but also Kris Cooper herself seemed really condescending. Maybe it's just the way the article was written, but she was pretty much saying how dumb people were for not knowing this in the first place. But I actually think that this little theory of hers is the least likely. When they asked her specifically about the Oakville blobs because it rained all over and there was a ton of firsthand accounts, she could not come up with a convincing answer, even though she still poo-pooed at the idea of anything else except her disposable diapers idea. She even said about the police officer that night that got it smeared all over his windshield that maybe he was behind a truck and a disposable diaper flew out of the truck, hit his windshield and hit it with all that goo. I mean, you guys know why this makes no sense because it happened to the entire town. There's been all these accounts that it was raining out of the sky. Plus everybody got sick. Do they really put toxic stuff in baby diapers? What if a toddler ripped open their diaper and ate the substance? So there was no way that this explains the Oakville blobs. To me personally, I think it sounds the most like the gel that they put in ice packs. When ice packs are no longer solid and there are some clear versions, it looks kind of like that and it can separate kind of like that. But that's obviously not it either because it again fell from the sky and also was from an animal. And I highly doubt the stuff in ice packs is from an animal. And somebody probably would have figured that out by now because that just occurred to me randomly. Sadly, as far as we know, all the samples of the substance are completely gone. And we may never know what happened in August of 1994 in the little town of Oakville. Does anybody watching this have any idea what this could be or have any other theories other than the ones I named or tell me the theory that you think seems the most likely? I'd be very curious to know. Leave it in the comments below. Like always, thank you so much for watching, especially if you made it to the end. And I will see everybody in the next video.