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So Supernatural

CONSPIRACY: The Oakville Blobs

So Supernatural

audiochuck | Crime House

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.622.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In 1994, residents of Oakville, Washington, woke up to find gelatinous blobs had rained down from the sky, covering the area in a strange, gooey substance. The mysterious blobs caused illness and confusion amongst the townspeople, prompting investigations into their origin and composition. Despite efforts to unravel the mystery, the blobs and their peculiar properties remain unexplained to this day.

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0:00.0

I have this kind of obsession with cases involving unknown things falling from the sky.

0:11.1

In my hiatus from Supernatural, I missed it it so much I actually did an episode in the

0:15.0

Crime Junkie fan club about the Kentucky meat showers.

0:18.6

And don't worry, it is as gross as it sounds, believe me.

0:21.6

I'll even link to it in the show notes so you can hear.

0:24.4

And I don't know what it is about these cases. Maybe it's because they always have so

0:28.9

many possibilities, alien, secret government projects, weird flukes of nature, but I came across another one recently

0:36.1

that I want to get the full lowdown on. So I tasked Rasha and Yvette with doing a deep dive for us.

0:43.3

Let me set the scene.

0:44.8

It's the summer of 1994 in the sleepy little town of Oakville, Washington.

0:50.7

The state is no stranger to weather, particularly massive amounts of rain.

0:55.0

But on August 7th, Oakville gets more than a heavy downpour.

1:00.0

Clear blobs of goo, about the of goo about the size of jelly beans start raining down covering people's lawns and their cars, their homes.

1:09.0

But it gets even stranger because family pets begin eating these blobs and dying.

1:16.4

Locals report flu-like symptoms and difficulty breathing after touching it.

1:20.8

And this didn't just happen once, but a handful of times over the next several weeks,

1:26.8

leading everyone to wonder, what the heck was falling from the sky and who or what created it.

1:37.0

I'm Ashley Flowers and this is so supernatural and this is the story of the Oakville Blobs. Okay, I am a huge movie buff and one of my all-time favorites is SciFi. One of my favorite movies ever. Russia you're probably a little

2:06.8

too young for this is the 1958 version of the blob with Steve McQueen. So you can just imagine when Ashley sent this

2:16.7

file over to us I could not believe this could have possibly happened but But you know what? The more we

2:24.2

research this case the wilder those possibilities became, including some you'd

2:29.7

never consider. Today Russia and I are excited to dive into the Oakville Blobs and share with

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