They Thought It Was Hail. It Was Something WAY Weirder.

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Over a period of 6 weeks in 1994, the small town of Oakville, Washington was hit with a bizarre string of storms that rained weird gelatinous blobs all over the town. It was all just a funny sidenote - and then people started getting sick. This is the weird and still unsolved mystery of the Oakville Blobs.
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Intro
1:15 - Oakville Blobs: A Strange Rain
3:37 - Missing Samples
4:05 - Star Jelly
4:54 - Jellyfish
5:29 - Human Waste
6:32 - Secret Military Experiments
7:59 - Fact Vs Fiction
9:51 - Sponsor - Hello Fresh

[@WobblesandBean]

Hi, I'm a biologist, maybe I can help. The particular microbes found in the blobs were specific ones used as agriculture pest control. Also, there was a government agricultural research agency right next to the town. I think they did some experimental crop dusting, and did the wrong coordinates. And because it's the government, they decided to lie low and not claim responsibility.

[@2dheethbar]

I'm curious. Just a biologist? Or do you specialize in a specific area?

[@jlkulbacki]

Hi I'm batman, maybe I can help. Joker was trying to poison Gotham but I foiled his plot and he only hit a small hick town

[@johnsmith-fr3sx]

Crop dusting is not done from a high altitude (e.g. 1 km). Since the objective of such dusting is to deposit the dust onto target areas the particulate diameter is engineered to be large to have sufficient sedimentation. So any dusting would not loft particulate high enough for it to experience long range downwind transport. It is also not done during storms. Given the particulate size of the dust it would not stay aloft for even a fraction of a day for it to experience downstream travel and washout. So this is not a valid explanation.

[@selectionn]

probably not, because the weather was experienced for 21 days as stated in the video and yeah crop dusting is done pretty low to the ground like the guy above said.

[@marywinchester5030]

A possible explanation but that same stuff, that year, I found all over my backyard after a rain and it was in Southern California, no where near any agriculture.

[@janedoe6181]

As someone who works in a lab, I it very strange that the same sample disappeared from two different labs. We have to keep a chain of custody of the sample. Each person that works on the sample has to check it out and then check it back in. Tamper resistant labels are sometimes on the sample (depends on the client), and its absence or presence is noted along with its condition if present.

[@jenat82]

This was in 1994. Good CoC has come a long way. lol

[@beemerwt4185]

We are talking about something that happened almost 30 years ago, before 911.

[@strmchsr1537]

@@beemerwt4185 You guys act as the 90's were the middle ages or something 🤣

[@adamshinbrot]

@@beemerwt4185 Those protocols have been in place a very long time and have more to do with good scientific practice than national security concerns. You can't perform science without some idea of what you are testing, what it has undergone and where it came from, all of which require appropriate labeling. Just think about the last time you gave blood. There's even an acronym that labs follow and have followed since forever I unfortunately can't remember that this includes. GLP? Good Laboratory Practice? Something like that.

[@neuralmute]

@@beemerwt4185 Back in the 90's I worked as a lab tech in a Canadian Ministry of Agriculture research centre, and I can assure you that basic lab practices like chains of custody, and simply keeping good track of your samples, were considered time-tested, common sense, best practices in lab work, even 30 whole years ago! 😉

[@mbaxter22]

I once found a bunch of similar blobs in my mom’s backyard. I took some samples to my girlfriend at the time, who was actually a biochemist. Under the microscope she spotted C. Elegans (the common microscopic worm found in dirt and everywhere). I never did get an explanation as to how the blobs were created. All I know is they appeared right after a heavy rain. Anyways the contents of the blobs were just particles of dirt and C. Elegans worms, which is essentially what you’d find in any soil sample. That’s it. There’s no cool ending to this story.

[@noscreadur]

I've seen something like this in mid Wales near Lampeter. There were fist sized lumps all over a hill. I asked an old local about it and he said was called star spawn, it happens now and then, always has done, and some people thought it was something like a fungus that somehow clumps in storm clouds and soaks up so much water that it falls. He also said to leave it alone.

[@absalomdraconis]

I've read about some that's algae, and just grows on the ground.

[@SaltySeaWitch3]

Yep its a legitimate thing. Star jelly (also called astromyxin, astral jelly) is a gelatinous substance sometimes found on grass or even on branches of trees.

[@luv2luv720]

Don't leave it alone! Get a sample carefully!

[@CrankyHermit]

If I were star spawn I think I'd prefer being left alone. But that's what I prefer anyway.

[@N3ur0m4nc3r]

I lived in Washington. I found a similar substance on my property after a rain storm about two years ago. It was all over the grass and between the gravel. If I'd known this was a thing, I might have kept a sample. Which may have later disappeared.

[@joescott]

Maybe it’s a Washington thing?

[@ricos1497]

@@joescott A boon for tourism. Head to Washington, where even the rain feels like semen.

[@robincharles7057]

@@ricos1497 noooooo why did I have to read this 😭

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

@@robincharles7057 Is it helps, at least you can make fun of Rico for handling LOTS of semen, _and_ from *many* different people... enough to be able to claim such knowledge - because, scientifically speaking, a sample set of *one,* is not enough to determine an average (consistency in this case). 😏 Granted, it doesn't undo you having read that... but maybe now he'll regret saying it in the first place! Karma, if you will. 😁

[@johnopalko5223]

@@robincharles7057 And, now, you'll never be able to forget it. 😁

[@olencone4005]

Reminds me of when I was a little kid in the 70's.... we had clumps of some frothy foam show up all over our neighborhood after an afternoon shower (in yards, in trees, on the street, on roofs and gutters, just randomly scattered around everywhere). It fizzled away pretty quickly, and everyone just assumed it was some kind of cleaning solution that got dumped by a plane or something -- it had a somewhat bitter "chemical" odor but neither the smell nor the foam lasted very long once the sun was out. Some of the other neighborhood kids were playing in larger clumps of it and didn't seem to have any issues -- my Mom wouldn't let me go outside during it (or for a couple of days after it) tho, and she dug up her tomato plants the next day while my Dad literally hosed the yard down hehe! As a kid, I didn't really think about it, but thinking back today I believe it could have been residue from the mosquito spray from the county truck that came through every evening -- that stuff would shroud the neighborhood in a gray fog as thick as pea soup, and it had a similar bitter smell as this foam. They always told us it was completely harmless... but my parents would call me inside and turn off the A/C when the truck was due to come, because no one really believed that! o.O

[@absalomdraconis]

Yeah, most of e.g. the pesticides in use _do_ have some negative effect on humans, though usually much less than those experienced by the target.

[@sprintershepherd4359]

your parents sound like the are pretty smart to me , at least cautious better to be safe than sorry . do they still spray mosquito fog everywhere ? that just sounds reckless . i wonder what else that fog killed

[@olencone4005]

@@sprintershepherd4359 Yeah, my parents were pretty sharp :) The county stopped using the fogger by the early or mid 80's too, but sometime in the 90's they started again with a different pesticide, a clear one that left no cloud behind the truck, but smelled more like bug spray. I had moved across the state by then, but my parents would still turn the A/C off when it passed, cause, bleh, that new stuff seriously stank! hehe!

[@Olive131]

My parents just told me to hold my breath when those trucks went by spewing the grey clouds.

[@Yadobler]

Idk why, I know it's not but my first thought is sea scum - those foam you see at dams and rapid rivers, basically churned up dead fish matter

[@thezombiebiker]

We figured It came from the Ventron chemical plant across the street from my grandparents which is technically in Elma Wa. Oakville is just down the highway from there. Figured it was some kind of chemical released from their smoke stacks and re constituted in the atmosphere. I was outside when it started landing on the ground. It was like globs of frog eggs. We poked at it with sticks. It seemed to disappear after a while. It happened more than once, in fact, 1994 seems pretty late to me. I remember it happening closer to 92/93, that's when my grandparents had their driveway paved with blacktop. Thats how we could see it. That same chemical plant has chemical ponds next door, wee used to walk by them on the way to the river. The name of the place has changed names multiple times and is listed as a super site.

[@User31129]

@DWDC if you see this any chance you could post a street address we can find this plant on Google Maps?

[@User31129]

Googling Ventron only comes up with a property management company in Boca Raton

[@deltonlomatai2309]

1994 there was volcanic activity in Alaska that could have pushed ash and other stuff into the atmosphere and was caught in a storm front. Ash, water and warm air could have incubated the bacteria that could have created its own blobby mush that was eventual rained down.

[@briangarrow448]

I lived just 20 miles from Oakville, Washington. And I went to school with David Lacey from elementary through high school. This story is still a favorite topic for discussion at family gatherings and holiday parties!

[@stephenhurd1489]

You don't gotta lie Craig

[@briangarrow448]

@@stephenhurd1489 I know his entire family. Living in a small town will do that. Sorry your life sucks so badly that you make ignorant comments about things you don’t know anything about.

[@billfoster5257]

Prove it

[@brandonbryan6551]

@getoffmylawn I grew up in Rochester, it’s 2 minutes down the road from Oakville. I was 2 in 1994, so I never really heard about the blobs until I was older.

[@The_Viscount]

Jesus, people...I mean, I know I can be a skeptic too, but this is so inconsequential to the rest of us. Yeah, no reason to believe them, but no harm in it either. It's not like this info has any bearing on our lives other than mild curiosity. So, sure? Why not? Sounds like a fun topic of speculation around town.

[@grimm2626]

I had ‘blobby’ rain fall in my back yard (oddly, I didn’t notice it in the front yard). The texture and the little dark dots inside led me to think it was frog eggs. I put them in a jar with water, but they never developed. 😢. Also reached out to the the forestry service who never responded (cue X-Files theme). Sadly that’s the end of my story. No lost samples, no men in black. Maybe next time. 😂

[@stephenhurd1489]

Well , what was it

[@teacuptoe2143]

Did you put a lid on the jar?

[@SofaKingShit]

I want to believe you except that's pretty much exactly what a man in black would say about the whole incident. Sure it was just frog legs, or eggs, or whatever you say it was, sure.

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

Did you put a lid on the jar? Frog eggs need oxygen, so it's possible you suffocated them by accident

[@scottmantooth8785]

*or maybe they were replaced with an exact inert facsimile of the substance you found while you were not at home or quite possibly men in black actually did pay you a visit and you were neuralized and the false memory was planted for you to forget all about it and to pursue the matter any further...that's my theory at least*

[@Krankhafter]

Once I was on vacation at the Oregon coast during a particularly rainy weekend and one day upon returning to the car, we returned to the car to find a big transparent blob on our window right along all of the usual raindrops. I suspect it was a jellyfish dropped/barfed up by a seagull, so I definitely buy Jellyfish involvement of some kind. Maybe secret government experiment jellyfish.

[@Kevin_Street]

Back in the 80's I used to be obsessed with Fortean phenomena, and I remember reading about the surprisingly long history of unusual things that occasionally drop from the sky. The star jelly you mentioned is the most famous one, with a documented history going back hundreds of years. But in the 20th century there were reports of all sorts of things raining down on people like fish, frogs, jellies and eggs. The egg fall is particularly memorable because the book I read had a photo of the aftermath. It was a picture taken outside a British school, with a bunch of children holding up eggs for the camera (they didn't all break) beside a sign that said Egg, Eggburton, Eggtown or something like that. The school was named egg-something, and it had been pelted by a rain of eggs from the blue. It's almost too coincidental to believe, but why would a bunch of 1970's children and teachers make up a story like that? The Oakville blob falls in your video are even stranger because they happened more than once. I've never heard of a sky fall phenomena that repeated before.

[@jasonhare8540]

I tell you what those blobs look like . I've been keeping fish tanks for about 20 years and it looks like biomass . The stuff that starts to grow on fresh wood after it's been freshly added to the tank in the bacterium starts to take hold . No idea how it would have gotten there or why it would be raining over people but just at a glance that's what I would think it was .

[@wingracer1614]

Biomass floating in the sewage and trash infested ocean just off the coast gets sucked up into the atmosphere by a giant watersprout, winds blow it over the coast where it rains down on the town.

[@SirGlueckert]

I thought it looked.....fishy... as well

[@altortugas5979]

Water spouts, that makes a lot of sense. I wonder if anyone has investigated the weather around that time.

[@altortugas5979]

NOAA reported only one tornado in Washington in April 1994 a little south of Olympia. However, the Chewelah Independent reported a waterspout over Loon Lake near Tacoma in early September 1994. This would seem to indicate that weather conditions were right in this time period to generate forceful cyclones. Moreover, waterspouts and tornadoes typically pop up a couple times a year at least in the Puget Sound area (Olympia to Seattle), so biomass being flung inland from the sound of the ocean seems not only reasonable but likely.

[@jllemin4]

Would biomass cause the medical issues you know at all?

[@Inim7711]

Maybe deicing fluid for aircrafts? Type II - Combined with water in a 75:25 mixture, resulting in a jelly-like feel. This fluid is applicable for both deicing and anti-icing measures. Typically clear/straw in appearance.

[@northeastslingshot1664]

Most likely. In Massachusetts we would have poo and pee rain as planes approaching Logan....🤣

[@punchkitten874]

Not very likely, it happened in late summer

[@lilbrother21]

@@punchkitten874 plane could've come from a colder climate though? I've been on flights where the departure point was snowing and the arrival location was tropical. I doubt that much of it would be on the plane by the time of arrival but I wouldn't say it's too far fetched

[@eekee6034]

It messed up the cop car's windscreen and wouldn't come off. If it was on an airplane, it at least wasn't anywhere the cockpit windows.

[@johnopalko5223]

@@punchkitten874 On average, the temperature of the atmosphere decreases by 2 degrees Celsius for every 1000 feet of altitude. It gets pretty chilly up there even on a blazingly hot day at the surface.

[@russellmillett5642]

I am in tears from that intro 🤣 we were all expecting the "or could it" from that intense stare, but the cut off was peak comedy

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

I actually found some of this stuff after a rain storm when I was a kid, it was conveniently on top of a cinderblock. For some reason I put a bit of it on a stick and tried to burn it with a lighter, it seemed to sort of just evaporate in the flame. I didn't try to store any of it, but it was gone in like a day or so on it's own

[@RealBradMiller]

One time a Coca-cola worker came to the restaurant I worked at and he told me they find things living in the drains all the time and the showed me what looked to be a mass of tiny worms just sitting in our drain. Made me realize how important it was to dismantle and clean the nozzles, backsplash, upper drain, etc.

[@driverjayne]

After having worked at several gas stations and fast food places I will never drink from a fountain. Those things are nasty. Ice makers too.

[@RealBradMiller]

@@driverjayne Yup, ice should be treated as food! I hate those single user machines in some fast food places, with the touch screen, I feel like those will never get cleaned as they should.

[@katesun2957]

My drain was really backed up and I thought that was strange, because I had just recently cleaned out my hair from the drain, this time though the drain declogger brought up dirt looking stuff with tons of white worm looking stuff. I brought some of it to my doctor, and he just blew it off and didn't want to even look at it. Our cat died, and I've been sick for years.

[@369Sigma]

Yep I’m a Coca-cola service technician, the stuff that comes out of clogged drains and such looks kind of like this stuff. Biomass and biofilm. Sometimes smells just like vomit. No need to worry, the machine is safe to drink from, that stuff can’t grow in the inlet lines. No oxygen or light, and the product isn’t stagnant enough to grow anaerobic bacteria. Some places are pretty bad about keeping the nozzles sanitary though, those can grow mold or biofilm sometimes. If the fountain looks like it’s not taken care of, I would be cautious about clean nozzles. But it won’t make you sick.

[@369Sigma]

@@katesun2957 check your house for mold, I doubt the stuff in your drain is the cause. That’s far more common than you’d expect, probably why your doc didn’t care.

[@yourhandlehere1]

Hello Fresh has some awesome insulation in the boxes. I use it making winter houses for my local strays.

[@AmaraJordanMusic]

“1994 was a weird year.” 😂 As someone who kept confusing my knees for my elbows that year, I concur.

[@luv2luv720]

What?? Lol

[@AmaraJordanMusic]

@@luv2luv720 In 1994 I kept confusing my elbows with my knees because I was four years old. 😅

[@User31129]

Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding was 94. OJ Trial started in 94. That's just off the top of my head.

[@j.k.rector9818]

Being a WA native, I’ve been interested in this story for years. Hope never to see it locally (or anywhere else) as it killed small animals. Was living in Europe when this event happened, but found it very intriguing and scary with the biological/military entanglement. Good vid!

[@wotansman]

When I was younger, late '80s/ early '90s Where the news report said a huge blob dropped in the back yard of a florida home. They said the blob was about the size of a car, or something, and they'd have a report after the break. Then after the break nothing was said. I always figured they'd figured out what it was and it was so mundane, they just killed the piece.

[@luv2luv720]

@@Immigrationsituation he was a kid! 🙄

[@patrickwrightson2072]

This felt like the fun-loving Joe Scott of old 😂 Loved the vibe 🦾

[@catbertsis]

that’s because he wore glasses

[@davidwindell]

Bingo- Joe has become increasingly cynical, skeptical and downright political over the years. He’s certainly lost his touch. The intrigue and guarded hope that mysteries still exist used to make him so inspiring and relatable. Since the pandemic, however, Joe has really fallen a long way (which is likely why his subscriber count has slowed so considerably since roughly the same period).

[@tess7656]

@@davidwindell ... But they way they said it wasn't rude.

[@alalalala57]

@@davidwindell Lmao "downright political"

[@Heitzsche]

@@davidwindell What's wrong with talking about politics? Politics affects us all.

[@robertanthonybermudez5545]

I showed this to my friend working as an aircraft technician. He said that these are probably jet fuel stabilizers that congealed after when airliners are dumping their fuels above. He showed me the stablizer which would indeed turn into jelly looking substances when exposed to cold.

[@cillyhoney1892]

I've had grass rain down on my yard. It was flying high in the sky on a jet stream and bits would fall out from time to time. This was back when the grass farmers burned their fields. They don't do that anymore. Too many complaints about the polluted air. No doubt the grass was picked up by a fire tornado vortex and injected into the sky. It was amazing how much grass was in the air. It's possible a water spout picked up the algae, slime mold, frog spawn, jelly fish, industrial waste or what ever the blobs were and put them way up high in the atmosphere only to have it rain down on different days. It's amazing how wind can keep objects up in the air. The wind would also mould the substance so it would look like nothing like it did when it began making identification even more difficult. Hell, a water spout picking up a few hagfish might make a lot of mucus to rain down. Have you seen how much mucus a hagfish can make just from being disturbed? It's cray cray.

[@wildcatmythic]

I can totally believe that it was an experiment. Now I know if I see blobs raining from the sky to not touch it lol. Great video thanks for sharing 🙂

[@alphagt62]

Several samples disappearing at the same time? Plus, it made people and animals sick, very sick in a very short time. That rules out jelly fish or natural sources. Even if they were bacterial, it wouldn’t have had such a sudden effect. It all points to government shenanigans.

[@lastofthebest5102]

Considering he just said that the US Military has open air experimented on the American people 239 times within a 20 yr period I think its really obvious. The American Experiment?

[@Tzizenorec]

I don't think it matters whether you touch it. The important thing is not to _breathe_ it.

[@luv2luv720]

Get samples safely and quickly! Sounds like they go fast!

[@peterhansen5804]

Bowfinger IS one of the best movies Eddie Murphey ever made - especially the scene with the highway, where they convince his goofy brother that all the cars that pass on the highway are driven by "trained stuntmen", so he can cross with no worries! :-D I almost died laughing when I saw it the first time....

[@MissAPierce]

"Heavenly God, heavenly God!" "We're going to need you to get some coffee. A really big, complicated order!" "That would be great. I'd really love to just go get some coffee!" "But first we need you to do this one more time." *scream/sob*

[@joescott]

Yeah, brilliant scene.

[@mikabreto]

Ah, Bowfinger! So glad someone else remembers this one, because it’s a classic! Heather Graham’s character is 4th best, with Christine Baranski taking 3rd place, Eddie Murphy tied for second place with both roles, and of course Steve Martin’s shameless huckster at the top of that heap.

[@ju-shi-san]

I recently watched it again, some of the jokes did not age well, which is sad because I loved that movie 😭

[@zedfender9423]

I need to watch it again and watch it this time.

[@xvillin]

On the 747-400s that I work on, the lavatory water is pumped in clear and packets that have blue dye in them are thrown in the water. The water then dissolves the packets and then the water is turned blue. Sometimes they forget the packets and the water doesn't become blue. It's not very common for the people who serviced the lavs to forget though.

[@fazergazer]

These blob rains have been associated with Nostoc algae as well. More and more weird!🎉

[@jek__]

I've found weird jelly slime on the ground before too, and I live in washington. It definitely wasnt a slime mold or a jellyfish, I've seen plenty of those before, I just assumed it was that biodegradable freezer gel stuff, it was really similar to that The military definitely flies weird aircraft around here. Like sometimes in the middle of the night you'll hear this insanely loud whirring. It sounds like a giant quad copter. Or see weird hovering groups of lights above the base, must be some aircraft squad training exercise or something We dont know how often things get misplaced. To really determine if the misplacing makes sense you'd need to know the incidence of misplacing in that lab, not just in general. Get those guys who mathematically determined Dream was cheating on the job, they'll figure it out lol

[@janedoe6181]

I work in a lab. We track the chain of custody of samples very carefully. Samples are checked out and checked in. It would be strange for one lab to have “lost” the blob sample, but two labs “losing” their blob samples, nah, not buying it.

[@justincarter7954]

​@@janedoe6181 Yeah it seems like it would have been easy enough to check both of those labs' histories. You shouldn't convict anyone by probability analysis for obvious concerns of morality, but it'd be a good data point to have if this was a 1 in a billion chance of happening, or if those labs just sucked and lost samples all the time.

[@absalomdraconis]

If you can ever get one of the blobs checked, there's a good chance it'll be some sort of algae or something. There are some types known to form blobs fairly quickly on grass.

[@rdizzy1]

There is no need for the military to do stuff, corporations also dump tons of random shit into the environment or air all the time. I highly suspect it is a company producing silica gel powder or something that is accidentally pumping it out into the air from stacks, which ends up with upward wind keeping it in the atmosphere until it collects enough water to force it to fall down with rain (microbes also exist in the atmosphere and if they have something to stick to, they will grow in gel, hence agar plates to grow microbes in labs)

[@mirandagoldstine8548]

@@absalomdraconis Algae can form on grass? I know it often appears in water based on my experience but I never heard of it forming on grass.

[@BEM684]

1994 was an awesome year... Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump.... and the first 3 major Jim Carrey films debuted that year (Ace Ventura, The Mask, and Dumb and Dumber all came out in 1994).

[@wingracer1614]

Also a great year for music. Soundgarden, Jeff Buckley, NIN, Weezer, Beastie Boys, Green Day, STP, Nirvana Unplugged, Alice in Chains, Beck and so many other great records came out that year.

[@BEM684]

@@wingracer1614 true. The offspring released Smash that year too.

[@wingracer1614]

@@BEM684 Yep and Kyuss, Portishead, Blur, REM, Pearl Jam, Oasis, we could go on all day.

[@AnthologyOfDave]

I also graduated high school and lost my virginity in 94. Yeah, I was late to the party but man, I have more than made up for it now.

[@Ben-rz9cf]

Wow. That kicks the crap out of even the past 5 years of modern cinema. I mean i knew they were making less movies now but that really puts it into perspective quantity and quality wise

[@nateslowr4052]

I saw this type of thing all over my yard after a storm as a really little kid. I never understood what it was, so I just forgot about it and never really thought of it again and this video unlocked a memory I didn’t know I had

[@seitisetsoh4991]

I was wondering if it was hydrogel? It can be quite a fine powder, which easily could be blown into the atmosphere, absorb rain water, clump together as it gets blown around. I believe it's used in soil and in diapers. Just like the gelatin example it can pick up all sorts of chemicals and biological material, the right combination would cause illness.

[@heatherkaye6362]

This is exactly what I think it might be. We know some care facilities like nursing homes and daycares have done some cheat'y things to deal with medical waste. (or even a home where local waste management is not available) A pile of soiled diapers/incontinence pants would attract the sort of critters that enjoy eating the contents. This would rip open the plastic, exposing the hydrogel which they wouldn't want to eat. The sun would then dry it out and turn it to a fine powder which could be easily swept up by winds. This would explain the human waste detected in the lab sample before it was lost. It might also explain the people getting sick after contact. It's a known fact that our excrement can carry diseases, and nursing homes and nursery schools are notorious petri dishes for respiratory illnesses.

[@daniellehuber6024]

I watched that episode of unsolved mysteries when I was little and it stayed in the back of my mind. It was refreshing and it was totally the government lol or not but probably definitely.

[@HumanScourgeYT]

This made me LOL thank you

[@daniellehuber6024]

@@HumanScourgeYT anytime 😊

[@jordanwood9289]

Your content always makes my day Joe. Thanks for making Mondays awesome

[@joescott]

Thanks!

[@blearyeyedchangeling]

I've been binging your channel for the last month or two now and I cant get enough. Love your videos and your topics!

[@Purriah]

As soon as you started describing the movie, all kinds of memories came back. Chubby Rain. Lmfao

[@acey195]

I was just preempting "or could it..." and then you gave us what we wanted.. but you still managed to give it a twist. Sir you are excellent!

[@sarahs6712]

It was so funny hahahha

[@nottaname3609]

Actually thought I paused the vid on accident but it was just Joe's dramatic pause. Nice one

[@monacaensam9465]

I have experienced a weird blob ‘rain’ too.. nickel-ish sized mostly clear globs - happened while I was driving, years ago..

[@chairpants]

Where I'm from, we had red rain once and here when it rains, it's Normal to collect water with whatever bucket you have. So i remember soon after, we had to empty the buckets because we didn't want to use those red water anyways. It was also kinda itchy. It was like very red. Like you washed beetroot.

[@ryantwombly720]

I love it when a bizarre conspiracy theory and a set of movie references come together.

[@calessel3139]

The movie The Blob was said to have been based on a similar story reported by The Philadelphia Inquirer on 27th September 1950. The event involved two police officers John Collins and Joe Keenen: "On September 26th, two officers on patrol saw what appeared to be a parachute float down from the sky. They drove to the landing site to find something. Various accounts give it different qualities. It seemed to be about six feet in diameter, purple, filled with strange crystals, and giving off a mist. Naturally, one of the police officers put his hand right in it. [The object] left a "odorless sticky residue" on his hand... sadly [it] dissolved into nothing, supposedly leaving the grass underneath it unbent. During the 25 minutes it spent on Earth, two more police officers were called, as well as the FBI, although the agents didn't arrive in time to witness anything."

[@absalomdraconis]

Yeah, either a reporter was making something up (which does happen, for various reasons), or the cops were making it up.

[@matthewlofton8465]

@@absalomdraconis "Nothing to see here, folks, move along." said the Man in Black, as he hid a futuristic bubble wand behind his back.

[@calessel3139]

@@absalomdraconis Well I a bit more forgiving. I'd guess it was actually something like a slime mold they encountered and the story got blown out of proportion. Slime molds can display very strange properties - moving fast, disappear into the soil suddenly, shine with bioluminescents, etc. The cops probably saw some weird rare species on the side of the road and reported it as an "alien."

[@jamesbarber5410]

You may have been on to something with the gelatin dust. There is a munitions factory about five miles down the road from Oakville. I was born and raised in that area and I was there in August 1994. It was just a weird that that happened about 30 miles from my house and nobody really looked into it afterwards.

[@pseudotasuki]

Gelatin powder getting swept up by wind seems like the most likely candidate to me. It would even provide the nutrition for bacterial and viral growth, which also explains why people got sick.

[@mrcryptozoic817]

Wouldn't be the first time ever for a mass of people getting sick (extreme anxiety) over an unknown substance.

[@MissAPierce]

When I saw the thumbnail and title, I was like, "I'm totally going to drop a chubby rain comment!" But you're clearly up on great comedies. Bowfinger rules!

[@fmbga]

I agree that the stuff from airplane toilets would be recognized by its smell - not as bad as raw sewage since the disinfectant in the water effectively stops microbial activity, but still very much in the "don't spill this on yourself" category. The disinfectant is not always blue though. I used to work at a municipal airport, and at our FBO (fixed base operation) we used more expensive colorless disinfectant, I assume as a way to exceed the expectations of all those private jet owners.

[@User31129]

Huh. I thought not doing it blue was an FAA violation. Probably just a bad assumption on my part.

[@eclectichoosier5474]

You worked at an FBO.... Have you ever encountered a jet that is capable of dumping its septic tank in flight? I haven't. (A&P)

[@SageK253]

My family is from Grays Harbor county in WA and this is one of my favorite weird things. Which, being from Washington, says a lot because we have some seriously weird shit happen here.

[@TehBoaz]

I cackled out loud at "Blobby!" woke up this whole house. Thank you sir.

[@alex-3457]

‘nature be crazy sometimes’ the truest words to have ever been spoken there’s so much weird stuff on this planet alone

[@pakde8002]

Hi Joe and crew. Thanks for helping me through the pandemic.

[@xemcorthouts]

Wdym the pandemic is over?

[@NikhilSinghRajpoot]

@@xemcorthoutsin that sense.... no pandemic has ever ended🦆🦆🦆

[@Sniperboy5551]

Pandemic is over lol

[@aGrapeInUtero]

Joe, you have so much personality and it’s so entertaining. I love your videos. I love the stuff you teach. Thank you for making content-this is a perfect job for you, at least from my perspective.

[@AnnabelleErickson]

Hello 🖐️

[@jonathankey1533]

“Even birds tend to puke when they’re on the ground.” Why is this so funny

[@nhansemark]

"US Air Force defeat Jellyfish invasion using [redacted] - Navy said to be jelly, bombs ocean"

[@atoth62]

Those jellyfish were hoarding WMDs.

[@BirthQuakeRecords]

1:10 This is flawless editing, I love it sm

[@bobinthewest8559]

Brings back some childhood memories. Ah, those were innocent times… And we were mischievous kids… When the nightly news predicted rain…. We would sneak out at night, with bottles of dish soap, and pour it all over a neighbor’s yard 😂

[@jamesburnett7085]

I still say you are a comedic genius. Love your timing and your mugging for the camera. Love ya.

[@tiemenvanderbijl785]

Got home, made my dinner and was immensly enjoying this one Joe, then you told me I was terrible at cooking :( you broke my heart, I thought we were frieds. :P

[@joescott]

I am friends with many terrible cooks.

[@arjones87nz]

So, I’m 3 years post double lung transplant and I have an infection of pseudomonas that has colonised in my plural cavity. This video is the first time outside of my own experience that I have even heard the word used. I’m ok btw, I have been managing the infection for nearly 2 years now with ongoing treatment. Anyway, back to the video!

[@AabluedragonAH]

Yo that’s what my mom’s been dealing with too! She’s a breast cancer survivor with prior lung damage from pneumonia but her lungs are all clear now after 2 years and she just needs some exercise to get back in shape. I hope your recovery goes just as well!

[@AntneeUK]

"Jelly fish are also not known for falling from the sky" had me in stitches 😂

[@sophiasimmons9613]

Love these videos so much, especially the historical mysteries. ❤️

[@Neoplasie1900]

Microbiologist here, being a bit nitpicky. When you mentioned the bacterial species they found in these blobs, you probably have a little typo in your script. Pseudomonas fluorescens is a very common little guy, so either one L got lost on the way or there's another Pseudomonas I don't know of yet (there's so many of them...) Anyway, pretty interesting video! Nature truly is weird sometimes. Especially with these one-of type events its pretty hard to tell what happened afterwards. And also for the tinfoil faction: that stuff looks exactly like things you'd throw away in a biological lab. If it's badly labeled, the survival chance for such a sample would be really low.

[@janedoe6181]

Are you saying you’re not surprised the samples disappeared?

[@josephaniemarcesens9292]

I noticed the same thing...😅

[@diyeana]

I can't stop staring at your shirt! I went to your store before the video was even done. Edit: is it okay to buy yourself a present this close to Christmas or should I add it to my list?

[@lesahardman9914]

Buy it.. I say

[@sircolinlesleyrowling]

Buy 4 👍

[@gtbkts]

It's never wrong to buy yourself a present. Edit: I was thinking about it, the worst that could happen is you buy yourself something, then you get it as a Christmas gift. Which just means you have 2 of them now. You could return the original (if possible),if you don't need two. So, maybe keep the recipt.

[@RealBradMiller]

"Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen." -Special Agent Dale Cooper

[@smallstudiodesign]

Buy one for & a couple others for loved ones

[@turqoiseillinois9955]

This happened in Richmond CA in the 90's.

[@skinwalker3953]

Dear Joe, We absolutely howled for most of this -- Specifically for *Chubby Rain* -- and we now need to rewatch this movie. Thank you.

[@diyeana]

As far as the chubby rain goes, it sounds like something that needs a little FOIA request to get to the truth.

[@jbmp1390]

FOIA is a joke though. If they don't feel like giving out the information you've requested, they'll just ignore it completely.

[@walkerpercy8702]

FDA would probably cover it up

[@franklinkz2451]

Cause they always release the info without everything redacted

[@glendakillough6726]

Informative and funny. Total package. You crack me up. Thank you.

[@samhianblackmoon]

Joe’s on fire with these up loads lately!!

[@MarylandFarmer.]

Man I haven't seen Bowfinger in years. That first quote took a second to register but I know what I'm rewatching soon. Thanks for the laugh Joe!

[@markoconnell804]

Lol, now that you made me laugh hard I have composed myself and can now watch the rest of your video. Thanks for the cheer!

[@brianbeswick]

Haha I’m exploiting the Joe Scott algorithm. I joined the channel through KZbin in addition to Patreon. Mostly because I wanted the fancy icon next to my name like all the cool kids:

[@surfeyes]

LOL...Did the same thing a year ago.

[@reklezzz9038]

Lmao “why did this video just come out but y’all commented 3 days ago?” Time traveler shit

[@driverjamescopeland]

As usual... great content, Joe. Thanks!

[@htree5570]

The trampoline thing at the end reminded me of something. I think it only happened a couple times, but occasionally when it rained, bits of jello like snot looking things would show up on my families trampoline. I still have a bunch of it in one of those fish shaped soy sauce container things.

[@darongw]

So it doesn't rain all the time everywhere in the Pacific Northwest. The western part between the coast and the Cascades is fairly wet. But the central and eastern part between the Cascades and the Rockies is very dry. It's the whole rain shadow effect caused by mountains. And the western part tends to be very dry in the summer months. As someone who grew up in eastern Washington and now lives in western Washington the weather is quite different. The central part is dry scrub lands with few trees. Versus the temperate rainforests along the coast. Anyways, great video as always!

[@davefancella]

Um, the eastern parts aren't part of the Pacific Northwest because the cascades are the dividing line. :}

[@jytali1853]

Every time I hear about something involving “military training/testing” I’m like >_> A lot of weird stuff happens and military are a lot of the time supposedly said to be doing testing in the area or doing something similar

[@tiggyvolts9076]

Knowing the government it could be literally anything and they'll just say military stuff to avoid panic lmao

[@ScuzzMB]

YES! Another BOWFINGER fan. Criminally underrated, generally acknowledged to be one of Murphy's best performances and was at the time by critics.

[@Evghenios79]

Joe, I'd like to see you investigate and debunk even more of these stories

[@jbirdmax]

Love this channel. Thank You channel team! Happy holidays from CA 🥂🎊 🪅🍾

[@Zebred2001]

I once saw a slimy blob of something maybe a foot across when I worked on a ranch in south central British Columbia in the 1990's. No animals were kept in this field at the time either. I wish I'd taken a sample though I'm not sure who I'd have taken it to for testing!

[@Lenape_Lady]

Last summer I had a bolt of lighting hit literally a couple inches away from the window I was looking out of. The sound was the loudest thing I’ve ever heard and the flash of light literally left me blind for a couple seconds. I kept seeing a bolt of light everytime I closed my eyes for a couple minutes, that’s how bright it was. I went out to see if it damaged anything after the storm was over. And where I thought it hit was a clear green pile of slime in the grass. Was pretty solid too. Was that the cellulose from the grass being messed up by the lighting strike?

[@cyl742]

Glad I got to see this very interesting story. It's a new event to me. KZbin stopped notifying me of your videos and I thought you'd quit making them. Now I can go back and catch up.

[@stevejohnson3357]

An other question: the 'star' is being stalked in a parking garage and the director told the cast that his terms are 1 take only. But how do you light a parking garage for filming without it being noticed?

[@argon1611]

.. dude .. that stare .. disturbing .. yet the intro is satisfying!! 😀 .. effort appreciated Joe, you rock!

[@jersyflame8952]

In 1991 a singular clear blob fell from the texas panhandle sky at around 2:30 in the morning and hit my windshield msking a 3 or 4 inch splat. It was clear and mucus like and when I brushed the wipers across it only made a gelatinous smear.

[@fuffoon]

Imagine a row of occupied seats of an airliner dropping in. Those unfortunate ejected folks have to go somewhere. This really had The Blob ambience. Enjoyed it.

[@CaseyBurnsInvesting]

I’m going through hail right now 😢

[@smilr_]

I found little clear goopy balls here in southeast Michigan. They were the size of peas and texture of orbeez. It was nighttime and I thought it may have been fungus but I still haven’t been able to ID them

[@mikepatton8691]

Those sound like frog eggs, might want to google that and see if it matches up.

[@sammywhatammy]

Bowfinger is one of my favorite movies so I was thrilled when you made the chubby rain joke. LITTLE DID I KNOW

[@Poolsidestudios1]

Bowfinger is one of my favorite movies of all time and I was not ready for all the references in this video!

[@erinmac4750]

Such an awesome video! A story about a story that was like a story in a movie that was like the story! I'm going to have to watch that movie now! It is pretty sus that both samples were "misplaced." 🤔😸

[@agapelove4992]

It's cloud smegma! 😆 When clouds get chubbies...! 😜

[@timhaldane7588]

Cheesy comment 😉

[@kevinchastain727]

I live 30 miles from Oakville and remember having something like this fall on my windshield will driving home this is the first time I heard of this.

[@jaywinter1]

RCAF (Canadian Air Force) jet at 7:40. Love it!

[@CaseyBurnsInvesting]

What the hail??

[@gtbkts]

Nice

[@Lazarosaliths]

Great video! Great mystery and the edit was fun 😊

[@JuQui228]

I remember seeing this blobby rain as a kid in school. It was cold early morning and I thought it was ice on the grass field but it was like this a weird clear blob like substance. No one knew what it was and the next day it was cleared up.

[@DanRyanCarter]

Best intro ever 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@TheTruthFairy2]

What? I've heard about this but crazy!! That's insane! I would freak out especially if it made me sick! That's the craziest story and I'm a huge fan of the paranormal! Segway: can you do a video on the realness or fake of the paranormal?? Maybe? You tell the best stories and I love that movie too! I got it right out of the gate!

[@lunequedelrio3646]

I watched the movie eons ago. Never imagined it could be the reference for one of your videos. Thanks, Joe.

[@timfeeley714-25]

In 1980 when I lived in Houston there was a story about big dark greenish brown hailstones falling on a couple of small towns, some of the footage included people licking and eating the hail like Popsicles. It was later found out that a tornado had sucked a couple of sewage treatment plant ponds dry, turned them into hailstone and deposited them on the unsuspecting towns twenty miles away.

[@westonf3216]

As someone who actually lives in Oakville and has family members that were alive when this happened, a lot of people think that it is a complete hoax. I have heard stories about how it only fell in one yard and the owner of the property maybe blew it out of proportion, along with other things. I have also never heard of the rain happening on five separate occasions, just once. It entirely could be something to do with the military, but it's not likely. It's cool to see our tiny town featured in the spotlight every now and then, but we have much cooler stuff like our 17ft tall bigfoot carving and our access to 110,000 acres of Capitol Forest. Either way, thank you for featuring Oakville on your channel!

[@coldcynic2213]

Is that the bigfoot that Bev Roberts sculpted? I remember Sonny, she always talked about black helicopters too!