On August 7th, 1994, transparent, gelatinous blobs rained down over the city of Oakville, Washington. A few years before I moved out of the county, a summer downpour fell on the small town of Oakville. Whether or not Men in Black is a real organization, or the rumors of countless people spotting the ghost ship known as The Flying Dutchmen, are just some of these many strange mysteries that remain unsolved. Basically, it started raining one day and citizens noted that the rain wasn’t water, it was strange jelly blobs. Whether or not Men in Black is a real organization, or the rumors of countless people spotting the ghost ship known as The Flying Dutchmen, are just some of these many strange mysteries that remain unsolved. I think you may have been making an attempt at humor. It was crystal-clear in color.”. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Remember when goo fell from the sky in Oakville? So I opted, at that moment, to take a sample of this gelatinous material to the hospital.”. I had a UFO experience in June 1994 in Tustin CA. These blobs, which were clear and about the size of grains of rice, appeared 6 times over a 3-week period. If you’re ready for a little extra, Unsolved Mysteries (the original show) covered it in the episode below. She complained that she had difficulty with her vision, her vision was blurring.”. Unsolved Mysteries is an American mystery documentary television show, created by John Cosgrove and Terry Dunn Meurer.Documenting cold cases and paranormal phenomena, it began as a series of seven specials, presented by Raymond Burr, Karl Malden, and Robert Stack, beginning on NBC on January 20, 1987, becoming a full-fledged series on October 5, 1988, hosted by Stack. On 7 Aug. 1994 during a rainstorm, blobs of a translucent gelatinous substance, half the size of grains of rice each, poured down at the farm home of Sunny Barclift in Oakville, Washington. The Unsolved Mysteries case of the Oakville Blobs sounds more like something out of a horror movie than a real-life incident, but despite how crazy it … And, of course, this jellyfish would have been thrown up into the air and floated 50 miles inland and, over a period of 3 weeks, fallen 6 times. People report human & pet illnesses, no explanation or proof of what it was to this day. The goo was immediately sent to the Washington State Department of Health. So I just went over, and I touched it, and it wasn’t hail. In 1994, there were six rainstorms in Oakville, Washington. Miliatary covert Ops in the area. What surprised them was the blob-like substance coming down with the rain. Under analysis, the “perplexing precipitation” proved to contain human white blood cells, but was otherwise unidentifiable. The Air Force confirmed that practice bombing runs were being conducted over the Pacific. Everything started moving around and around, and it got worse, and, as it did, I became increasingly nauseated.”. It was raining tiny blobs of gelatinous goo. TL;DR "Gelatinous" rain falls several times over Oakville, WA in 1994. It lasted 7 weeks, 2 or 3 months.”, The gooey substance covered the windshield. The Oakville Blobs. He stated that it was the first time in 30 years of service with his job that a sample he was responsible for had gone missing. It grew two types of bacteria pseudomonas fluorescens and enterobacter collacae. Over the years, this story tumbled around in my head until I came up with a grand plan to write a fiction book! I was wondering if you could look at a mystery. Later on I went back to my motel room…it has been broken into! Known as the “Oakville blobs”, this transparent jelly fell in tiny droplets half the size of rice grains over a period of three weeks and reportedly sickened local people and animals with a … My mom had been vomiting. Some of the unsolved mysteries out there are pretty fascinating, it is hard to act disinterested. Population: 723. Nearly a year after Dotty Hearn’s illness, she took a sample of the material she had stored in her freezer to a private research lab. Season 9 episode 6 of the original Unsolved Mysteries always stuck with me. 2 and 188 more episodes by Unexplained Mysteries, free! Its only a search. Extra Notes: This case first aired on the May 9, 1997 episode. https://aworkstation.com/the-oakville-blob-an-unsolved-mystery “Tiny toxic blobs of goo” rained down in Oakville, Washington multiple times in August 1994. Listen beautiful relax classics on our Youtube channel. It was on the tv show Unsolved Mysteries. A strange clear goo falls on the town of Oakville, Washington. Today it’s impossible to say what the goo was or where it came from because all the evidence has disappeared. And/Or: 2. Basically, it started raining one day and citizens noted that the rain wasn’t water, it was strange jelly blobs. Results: Unsolved Links: Oakville Blob on Unsolved.com; Oakville on Wikipedia We had to give Petrie dish of our DNA, then had to repeat the experience the next night because they had “an emergency in the sky” and lost all of the stuff. Very little about it has been released to the press. I went to Oakville and started asking questions – everyone acted like they had no idea what I was talking about! According to Unsolved Mysteries in an episode from 1997, at 3:00 am on August 7, 1994, the goo began to fall, and over a period of three weeks, the goo would fall a total of six times. Just so you all are aware. 2013 “Monumental Mysteries” Episode. The Oakville Blob - An Unsolved Mystery. Within a day or so of the blobs falling, many people in … A few years before I moved out of the county, a summer downpour fell on the small town of Oakville. I plan to pick up the story I started writing back then, one day, and finish it. Within a day or so of the blobs falling, many people in proximity to them fell violently ill. The raining blobs weren’t fake but the story offered by Unsolved Mysteries lacks authenticity for sure. Rather than clearing his windscreen, it smeared across it. A gelatinous blob rained down over a 20 square mile area. The health of everyone in town was seriously compromised. It covered twenty square miles and people reportedly became sick. Police Officer David Lacey, on patrol at 3 am described it as “mushy”. And you should stop stating crap you can’t prove, This was due to an experiment using chemicals to absorb moisture to avoid damages due to hurricanes and tornadoes, There was a Silicone powder which we the USAF released a Silicone Powder Compound above Storm Clouds in an effort to absorb the moisture within the clouds to avoid heavy rainfall, etc. I don’t know if it was the same thing but a couple years ago something exactly like that appeared in the driveway at my house in Dexter,MI. This is readily available if one was to search within NOAA. But Dotty’s daughter had a different idea: “For some reason, as we were going out the door, I remembered the substance and I wondered if perhaps it might have had some sort of an effect on her, if it might have made her sick. So, how did the mysterious substance come to rain down on Oakville? You probably don't. Also available on YouTube with Dennis Farina. In one attempt to identify the substance, the blobs were reported to contain human white blood cells. It starts at 1:31 in the YouTube video below. A vehicle capable of transporting a virus or bacteria. So I went home to Oregon. Officer Lacey pulled into a gas station to de-goo his windshield. And then…a man in cammo turned around from the counter to watch us, glaring. A mystery indeed. 1 & 2), Update: Smoker Car Baby and Hitchhiking Killer. The Oakville blobs. Rather than clearing his windscreen, it smeared across it. I find that somewhat preposterous.”. Sunny Barclift recounted one theory she heard: “Someone theorized that since the navy had been conducting live bombing runs at sea, they might have blown up a school of jellyfish. Under analysis, the “perplexing precipitation” proved to contain human white blood cells, but was otherwise unidentifiable. Remember when goo fell from the sky in Oakville? It rained in Oakville with multiple fallouts of transparent gel over the course of three weeks. The Baghdad Battery - These artifacts were found in modern-day Iraq, dating back to 250 BC, before it was thought this technology was even possible. Dozens of people got sick. Tim Davis is a microbiologist with Amtest Laboratories: But the "Oakville blob" mystery is definitely one of the most baffling. Take a bigger nibble! Nearly a year after Dotty Hearn’s illness, she took a sample of the material she had stored in her freezer to a private research lab. Subscribe for new episodes announcements, latest news, featured cases, and more! In the town of Oakville, Washington on August 7, 1994, it began to rain sometime around 3 am. I personally think maybe it was a naturally occurring phenomenon and the substance was akin to the primordial soup. However, the sample he was responsible for would go missing. The Oakville Blobs. I set it up on various microbiological media and attempted to isolate bacteria.”. Various seasons available now on Hulu. Sunny Barclift: “We had a significant amount of military aircraft flying over the home prior to this happening.”, “Every day almost, we had slow flying bombers, helicopters, all black in color, and we kind of thought maybe it might’ve come from them.”, “They let off things in the air all the time here. No signup or install needed. Oakville Blobs – 7th August 1994. Local resident Dotty Hearn was equally puzzled. In the next three weeks, there were five more incidences of raining blobs. The Oakville Blobs - In 1994 gelatinous blobs rained down from the sky. Oakville Blobs – 7th August 1994. And played with it for a minute and it dissolved in my hand, See: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=us+government+release+silicone+powder+to+harness+storms. The Oakville blobs were reported in a short segment on the Travel Channel series Monumental Mysteries. Q. Hi! The Oakville blobs were reported in a short segment on the Travel Channel series Monumental Mysteries. Show Unexplained Mysteries, Ep Oakville Blobs Pt. Police Officer David Lacey, on patrol at 3 am described it as “mushy”. In 1997, residents of Oakville, Washington were shocked by a strange gelatinous material falling from the sky. The blobs rained down on Oakville six times in three weeks. In 1994, a resident of Oakville, Washington observed that strange gelatinous blobs had rained down during the night. Swing and a miss. As an added precaution, he put on a pair of latex gloves: “The substance was very mushy. Mike initially set the gel up on bacterial media to see if it would grow anything. What happened here? The Sodder Family Tragedy Pt. Clouds fill the sky here daily, bringing rain on average of 149 days a year. An hour later, Dotty’s daughter and son found her sprawled on the bathroom floor. The Washington Department of Health says it can find no record of what happened to the samples it received. This could be fake maby a prank.I DONT BELIVE THIS BUT this is coming form a 10yearold STILL SCAME. And/Or: 2. The Oakville Blobs. I was born and raised in Grays Harbor County (also the birthplace of Kurt Cobain and of the alternative metal/grunge/hardcore punk band Melvins) in Washington State. I think iigjt know Eric I know for a fact that this happened but everyone so hush, The gel appears to be the same type thats used in diapers. Unsolved Mysteries even did a segment on the phenomenon. The blobs contained white blood cells and bacteria found in our guts. A gelatinous blob rained down over a 20 square mile area. The gel specimen was locked in medium containment facility and over time Mike continued to research it. The blobs rained down on Oakville six times over a three-week period. The Oakville blobs remain one of Washington's craziest unsolved mysteries. Several dogs and cats died after coming in contact with it. The Oakville Blob – An Unsolved Mystery. they should stop doing that. This was difficult to to even try to make sense of. Geez, Hope I don’t disappear for disclosing what is already public info See: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=us+government+release+silicone+powder+to+harness+storms. The substance contained human white blood cells. 1994, Oakville, WA – With over 270 rainy days a year, residents of Oakville weren’t surprised when it started to rain in August. Sunny Barclift, who sent the sample to the The Washington State Health lab, has her own theory: “Over the years I have held some information close to me. This was seeding of clouds testing but with a twist a way of delivery of agents onto the battle feld problem was the cold caused the agent is gel up when they wanted a unform compleet coverage of a controled area with out the agent remaing in the atmosphere for a long time note the test agent eas vary low amounts. Chimonger 19:35, June 4, 2014 (UTC) Retrieved from ... Unsolved Mysteries Wiki … It’s almost like if you had Jell-O in your hand and you could pretty much squish it through your fingers. I spoke with the employee at the labs that analyzed the goo…he went into details, although he no longer works with Amtest. Several dogs and cats died after coming in contact with it. Note the dates. It rained in Oakville with multiple fallouts of transparent gel over the course of three weeks. Privacy | Terms | DCMA | FAQ, https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=us+government+release+silicone+powder+to+harness+storms. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The Unsolved Mysteries show indicated that there are no more samples of the blobs in existence. In the aftermath, many residents came down with the same mysterious flu. It rains an average of 150 days a year in Oakville. There are a lot of places you can’t go into.”, “Maybe we were a biological experiment of some kind, a small one, maybe just to get people a little bit sick to find out, say, if an enemy did come over here with a biological bomb or something and dropped it, maybe it was just a test run to see how, what would happen.”. Translation: the goo was alive. Listen to Oakville Blobs Pt. But this wasn’t just any rain. Miliatary covert Ops in the area. We did have some bells go off in our heads that basically said that this isn’t right, this isn’t normal.”. ', here is a look at ten of the strangest unsolved mysteries. Upon further investigation by the Washington State Department of Ecology’s hazardous material spill response unit, these cells from the blobs were also found to have no nuclei. But even after a barrage of independent tests, no researcher could discover what the “Oakville Blobs” really were.
Someone was fooling people about the blobs scattered in the Oakville area on other occasions, if not all occasions. But where did it come from? All Rights Reserved. Dozens of people got sick. And/Or: 3. But exactly what it was and why it fell from the sky could not be determined. Nothing was stolen, but I felt creepy like it was turning into an all new episode of your show! Someone was fooling people about the blobs scattered in the Oakville area on other occasions, if not all occasions. Rectilinear, clear, sticky blobs. Some believe Oakville was the site of a military experiment, designed to test a new biological weapon or to test the possible damage a biological attack on U.S. soil could do. Hi,my girlfriend right now and for the last three years have been complaining of a substance on here skin,and it’s hard to wash off,which ,now comes to mind ,they refined the goo and now it is rain falling undetected on us all. It was called Operation Popeye. These five unsolved Washington cases remain a mystery to this day. Sunny Barclift is Dotty’s daughter: “She was cold, drenched with perspiration. ( I think it evaporated) the weird thing is that it only appeared in a certain section of my driveway and lawn it was’nt anywhere else. Known as the “Oakville blobs”, this transparent jelly fell in tiny droplets half the size of rice grains over a period of three weeks and reportedly sickened local people and animals with a flu-like illness. They were tiny, translucent, gelatinous globules about the size of a grain of rice. Another sample was eventually sent by Sunny Barclift, whose mother was sickened, to The Washington State Health lab which was assigned to Mike McDowell one of their epidemiologist on staff. They reported that the first downpour of blobs was spread over an area of 20 square miles and was witnessed by many residents. The Oakville Blobs. It came down in torrents, covering 20 square miles. The Oakville Blobs. It was examined by microbiologist Mike McDowell: “It was very uniform. This is where we will see how things got twisted. In 1997, residents of Oakville, Washington were shocked by a strange gelatinous material falling from the sky. how do you know this….. do you have documentated proof or is this just a theory? The health of everyone in town was seriously compromised. Chimonger 19:35, June 4, 2014 (UTC) Retrieved from ... Unsolved Mysteries Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. We chatted. There was no structure that we could see visibly or with a microscope. Could explain the bacterial, DNA and toxic contents. I was born and raised in Grays Harbor County (also the birthplace of Kurt Cobain and of the alternative metal/grunge/hardcore punk band Melvins) in Washington State. Theories range from military bombing runs and exploded jellyfish pulled into rain clouds to passenger airplane waste. On the nearby Indian reservation, even family members wouldn’t talk to me about it. At some point he drew the conclusion that the material itself was manmade and was being used as a matrix. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/washington/oakville-blob-mystery-wa The blobs rained down on Oakville six times over a three-week period. A lab technician found a startling clue. I remember hearing about the blob back in the day. 2 - Jun 11, 2020 I started to put it together that, possibly, whatever the substance was, it made me violently sick like I never had been before, to the point where it just totally shut me down.”, “I started feeling dizzy. And we both looked at each other and we said, ‘Jeez, this isn’t right.’ I mean, we’re out in the middle of nowhere, basically, and where did this come from?”. Your link is useless. In the aftermath, many residents came down with the same mysterious flu. The substance was not blue. My dad’s tribe is Chehalis, so when I first saw this I was interested! Some people became very sick and had to be hospitalized, and some small pets/animals died. I was there. The … ?????? But this rain was unlike any other the residents had ever seen. Unsolved Mysteries: 10 Cases That Still Remain Open Aaron Posey January 3, 2019 1 Comment 989 views 2 likes January 3, 2019 1 Comment 989 views 2 likes 2013 “Monumental Mysteries” Episode. The story was featured on Unsolved Mysteries in 1997: The same blobs rained down five more times over a 3 week time frame, disproving the theory of an airliner illegally emptying its waste, or the especially far-fetched explanation dealing with a naval bombing run resulting in jellyfish blasted into the atmosphere, landing 50 miles inland. I broke the story. Learn how your comment data is processed. “Tiny toxic blobs of goo” rained down in Oakville, Washington multiple times in August 1994.