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EPISODE · Jan 23, 2026 · 14 MIN

The Day It Rained Blobs (Oakville Incident) | Deep Dive

from Around The Way · host Chris

In 1994, something fell from the sky over Oakville, Washington…Not rain.Not hail.Not snow.Clear, jelly-like blobs — scattered across roads, cars, and lawns.And then people started getting sick.To this day, the Oakville Blobs Incident remains one of the strangest unexplained cases in modern American history — because the scariest part isn’t what the blobs were…It’s how quickly the story went quiet.In this Deep Dive, we break down: • What happened in Oakville (1994) • What witnesses reported seeing fall from the sky • The mysterious illness that followed • The most popular theories (natural causes vs something darker) • And why this case still doesn’t feel fully explainedWas it a rare weather phenomenon?Industrial pollution?Or something that was never meant to reach the public?Because if something like this happened once…what makes us so sure it can’t happen again?

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