Feb. 14, 2026

The Origin of Weird: The Oakville Blobs

The sky shouldn’t do this. Just after midnight, a quiet Washington town found itself coated in clear, jelly-like blobs that smeared across windshields, clung to grass, and sent neighbors searching for answers as nausea, headaches, and vertigo began to ripple through the community. We retrace Oakville’s strangest weather report and follow the breadcrumbs from first responders and ER visits to shaky lab work, vanishing samples, and the tangle of theories that followed.

We start with the on-the-ground details: midnight rain that behaved like warm gelatin, a patrolman who could barely see through his windshield, and residents who wound up in hospitals with flu-like symptoms. Then we dig into the science. A hospital microscope view suggested human white blood cells, but without nuclei—an impossibility that fueled speculation. State microbiologists later cultured common environmental bacteria, muddying the waters further. With no clear chain-of-custody and a sample reportedly “gone missing,” the story pivoted from a medical puzzle to a mystery with a shadowy edge.

From there, we pressure-test every explanation we can find. Jellyfish bits launched from offshore bombing runs? The timeline and cell biology don’t add up. Star jelly and frog spawn? The folklore fits the vibe but not the data. Airplane “blue ice”? Wrong color and unlikely volume. The most plausible answer might be the most boring: polyacrylamide, a superabsorbent polymer used in diapers and soil treatments, which swells with water, dissolves over time, and contains no nuclei. That could explain the texture, the dissolution, and the lack of lasting samples—yet it clashes with the emotional weight of a town that felt targeted, sick, and ignored.

Along the way, we map the distances, compare witness accounts, and examine why chain-of-custody and transparent methods matter when the stakes are public health. We even touch on a second, nearby report decades later where blobs dissolved before analysis, keeping the legend alive. If you love weird history, environmental mysteries, and that electrifying space between conspiracy and chemistry, this one’s for you.

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00:00 - Late Drop And Small Talk

02:12 - Oakville’s Midnight Mystery Begins

03:15 - Cars Meet The Jelly Rain

04:50 - Illness Spreads Across Town

06:20 - Labs, White Cells, And No Nuclei

08:05 - Official Tests And Vanishing Samples

09:34 - Theories: Jellyfish To Star Jelly

12:05 - Blue Ice And Military Suspicions

14:10 - Mapping Distance And Debunking Bombs

16:05 - The Boring Polymer Answer

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It's it's it's there.

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Oh, hey there.

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I am Bradley.

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I am Kate.

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This is Origin of Weird.

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Oh, good.

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So I'd first like to say scheduling conflicts.

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This is gonna come out at later than its normal release day, which I'm sure Dwayne you'll be okay with that.

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So enjoy your walk.

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Um, yes, Origin of Weird, how are you doing?

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I'm okay.

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How are you?

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I'm good.

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Excellent.

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Weather's getting nice out.

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It's supposed to be in the 50s next few days, I think, into early next week, and then um I think it's supposed to drop a little bit, but I don't know, not nearly as what it was last fucking month.

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So thank goodness.

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It's been fucking annoying.

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Yeah.

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And I like cold, but my hands hurt.

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I just I need the season to change.

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Yeah.

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Because I deal with cardboard, so it sucks the life out of my hand.

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Yeah, it sure does.

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And your elbows.

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And my knees.

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Yeah.

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My brain.

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Yeah.

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I am what you would call never mind, I won't finish that sentence.

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Well, speaking of weather, we're gonna talk about something.

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Whether we like it or not.

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Yep, exactly.

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All right.

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We're gonna go to Oakville, Washington.

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Oakville, Washington, like Washington State.

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State.

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Okay.

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But it's a tiny little logging town, and it's just like a few hundred people.

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Of course, there's it's Washington, so there's lots of rain.

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Yes, lots of rain up in the Pacific Northwest.

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Yes.

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Oh, geez.

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Well, I mean, I I guess I'll edit that word out.

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Sorry.

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I mean, it's not wrong.

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That's statistics show.

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No?

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That got dark real fast.

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Well.

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I'm talking gray skies, not black skies.

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Let's move on.

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So just after midnight on August 7th, 1994.

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Okay.

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Something very odd happened with the weather.

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What was that?

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In the pitch dark, people who were happened to be driving around at that time.

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Sorry, can you say the time one more time?

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It was just after midnight.

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Just after midnight.

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Okay, sorry about that.

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That's all right.

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And it just turned August 7th.

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Yeah.

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So people who were driving around at that time of night, um, it was raining, and they would flip on their windshield wipers.

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Yeah, that's usually what you do.

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Yeah.

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And they s their the water started smearing as if it was mushy.

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So it was like uh almost like a mud or uh what I'm drawing a blank on the word I want to use, but acid rain?

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No, not at all.

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Okay.

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I think rainwater is technically acid rain.

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You do you rem I mean, I know I'm a little bit older than you, but do you remember like back in I think it was the 80s that acid rain was gonna kill us all and stuff?

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Was it the 80s?

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I don't remember.

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That never happened.

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Weird.

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So one patrolman at the time, Officer David Lacey, later said that when he flipped on the windshield wipers, it just started schmearing to the point where he almost couldn't see.

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He compared the stuff that was on his windshield to Jell-O.

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Oh, like J-E-L-L-O.

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Yes.

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Remember the spokesperson for Jell-O?

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We shouldn't say.

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Yeah, we don't know.

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Let's move on from the spokesperson of Jell-O.

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Yep.

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So by dawn, lawns and roofs were covet covered in this tiny translucent blobs about the size of a grain.

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And they were like little jello pellets.

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That's weird.

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Yeah, they looked like hail, except when people would poke them, they weren't hard yale.

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It was like warm gelatinous goo.

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What was the flavor?

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Gross.

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Well, I mean, was it lime?

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Was it strup?

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It was clear.

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It's probably just gelatin.

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No.

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So they didn't they didn't get to the dyeing process yet.

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Okay.

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So it was as if someone had piled on like jellyfish innards over a oakville that night.

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Okay.

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And within 24 hours, people started freaking out.

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Well, yeah, I mean, I would want to know where the fuck this shit's coming from.

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Mm-hmm.

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But either way.

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And it seemed like any resident who touched it or would come near the blobs began feeling ill.

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Oh.

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Officer Lacey got violently sick with nausea and trouble breathing.

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Um, a resident named Dottie Hearn um went outside, saw the blobs, and got hospitalized with flu-like symptoms.

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Jesus.

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An ear infection, dizziness, and nausea.

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So basically, stay inside, folks.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Other neighbors were getting headaches, sore throats, stomach cramps.

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And one um resident, uh, Beverly Roberts, said that she spent nearly a week in the hospital with severe vertigo after exposure.

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Oh, that sucks.

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Vertigo would be terrible.

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Uh-huh.

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It's not good.

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It's not good.

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No.

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And even pets.

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Oh, really?

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They got sick too?

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Yeah.

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Some some died, and yeah.

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It was a lot.

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Yeah, it got dark.

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I know.

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So the next day, Oakville doctors and state scientists started coming around.

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And Dr.

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David Little, who was Oakville's general practitioner, at first shrugged it off as just a coincidence.

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Some type of virus, whatever.

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Was he a big guy?

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But I don't know.

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Okay.

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But with so many strange illnesses piling up, he finally agreed to check one of the slime samples.

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Well, he finally agreed.

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Why wouldn't you have done that right away?

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I don't know.

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Like, hey, we got all this shit all over our fucking I think, I think it was like, hey, I'm getting sick.

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Okay, I'm gonna try treat the sick.

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Well, and then after a while, people were like, it's because of this.

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And he's like, Oh, then I guess I'll look here.

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I find it weird that it would have taken that long, though, just to be like, hey, we're sick.

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We keep getting sick.

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I should probably check this shit out.

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Yeah.

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Someone should have checked that shit right away because it's like, what is this?

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Yeah.

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But all right.

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So Dottie's daughter took a scoop of the z of the goo to the hospital lab herself.

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Scoop of goo.

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Yep.

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And under the microscope, the hospital um text found something bizarre.

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Human white blood cells were in the blob.

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Interesting.

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Except they're alien.

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There was no nuclei.

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Oh, interesting.

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And human cells have nuclei.

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Damn right they do.

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So it didn't make sense.

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No.

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Yeah.

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That's odd.

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Yeah.

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But the image of human cells in this goo kind of gave everybody the chills.

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The willies.

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The willies, the gooey willies.

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Oh dear, that's the worst kind of willies.

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Um, so state agencies got involved too.

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The Washington Department of Ecology, um, his name is Wike Osweiler, looked at the goo and said it was cells of various sizes, but again, noted that the cells did not have nuclei.

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Right.

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So it wasn't human at all.

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Okay.

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So the State Health Department's um microbiologist did a culture test and found only uh found two common bacteria.

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Oh.

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The pseudo pseudomonas fluorescence.

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I believe you.

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And the anterobacter clocae, clocaees.

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Yeah.

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Um, but basically they're bugs that live in water and dirt and usually aren't dangerous unless you're already sick, like really sick.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So, in other words, they don't know what's happening.

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One lab said human cells, others said nope, but it's not human stuff, it's just pond bacteria.

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Right.

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Yes.

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But then to make matters worse, the sample suddenly disappeared.

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Like just evaporated, kind of disappeared?

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Yes and no.

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Oh.

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A health department microbiologist later claimed that the sample went missing, and he was cryptically told, do not ask.

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So someone came in and took it.

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Potentially.

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Sounds like black ops kind of shit.

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Yeah.

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Or whatever the government does.

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Yeah, cover up.

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Yeah.

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Cover up.

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Conspiracy.

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By day three, Oakville was like, I wonder what it is.

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Let's let's guess.

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So we have theories.

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Oh, okay.

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Aliens.

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Uh so the first one is exploding jellyfish attack.

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Well, I mean, that is a dangerous uh worry for the world.

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Yeah.

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I mean, I I I fear it every day I walk out of the house.

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Yeah.

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Because I would not want to go that way.

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No.

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So some people joke that the Air Force jets had somehow blasted jellyfish in the ocean and blown the bits into clouds, which then rained down on Oakville.

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The newspaper had mentioned that during this time there was actually an Air Force bombing practice 50 miles into the sea.

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Okay.

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But that's a really long ways away.

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Also, jellyfish have nuclei.

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Do they?

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Yes.

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Also, aliens.

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I mean, seriously, there's no way that would be jellyfish, but all right.

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Anyways.

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So now we're talking star jelly.

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Star jelly and frog spawn.

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Oh.

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For centuries, like since 14th century, people have found weird goo in the grass after rainstorms and called it star jelly.

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Oh, okay.

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Never.

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I don't know if I've ever heard of that before.

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Legends say it comes from meteor showers, but modern science explains it as things like frog or toad innards, algae or other weird polymers.

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Okay.

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So naturally, some Oakville folks thought the rain blobs were just some kind of amphibian jelly.

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Like jellyfish.

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Delicious jams and jellies.

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After all, in the past, star jelly turned out to be everything from s from frog spawn to sodium polyacrylate, which is a super absorbent gel.

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Okay.

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But no evidence of actual frog DNA has ever been published.

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Oh.

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So now we're talking um blue ice.

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What's blue ice?

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Ooh.

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Airplane dumpage.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, that sounds like a lot to cover.

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I mean, I can see why that would make people sick, but that seems like a lot to cover this town.

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Maybe they didn't realize it's a small town.

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No one's down there.

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Modern um aircraft dump systems use a blue dye.

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Correct.

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And these gelatinous globs were not blue in any way.

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Yeah.

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So hopefully it wasn't from a plane.

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Gross.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Then the next one is military experiment.

00:10:57.519 --> 00:10:58.720
Well, yeah, that's obvious.

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Of course, everyone suspects the military.

00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:02.399
Well, yeah, cover up and all.

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Don't ask.

00:11:03.279 --> 00:11:07.519
A lot of military aircraft were in the skies above Oakville during that time.

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So naturally conspiracy theories sprouted.

00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:10.639
Of course.

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Um, biological weapons maybe on the small town.

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We're not sure.

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Right.

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Locals even reported spotting odd men in suits, like men in black, um, quizzing people about the in the incident like it was classified.

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But officially, the Air Force admitted the nearby bombing runs over the Pacific were real, but far enough away that it wouldn't have anything to do with this.

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No, I mean 50 miles out, that's that's quite a distance.

00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:39.279
Yeah.

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I mean, you have to drop a fucking nuclear bomb to to make anything like that happen.

00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:44.159
Yeah.

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That far out.

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Yeah.

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Like, okay, so it was 50 miles out into the sea.

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Is this town right on the ocean?

00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:54.559
You know, I didn't even look at Northwest.

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I didn't even look to see on a map where it was.

00:11:57.279 --> 00:11:58.000
Oh dear.

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Because even if let's say it's on the coast, right?

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50 miles out is pretty fucking far.

00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:12.159
Okay, so let's take a peek here where Oakville is.

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Okay.

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Because you know what I mean though?

00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:20.240
It's just I mean, yeah, it's fairly it's not on the coast, but it's not on the coast.

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So the the closest coast is an hour away.

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Oh, so yeah, so that's all right.

00:12:26.720 --> 00:12:26.960
Yeah.

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That's pretty far.

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So yeah, I I don't I do not believe the bombing theory at all.

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And it's 55 miles from the coast.

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So another 50 miles.

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You're you're talking 105 miles separation from where they were testing their bombs or whatever.

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Exactly.

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So yeah, no.

00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:47.840
So some skeptics suggested that there was nothing supernatural about it.

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Maybe it was just a weird chemical or polymer.

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Um, one reporter reporter eventually sent a saved blob sample to a lab and did get an answer.

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Okay.

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Um, polyacrolamide.

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Yep.

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A water absorbing gel used in products from diapers to soil additives.

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Oh, sure.

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And he said nobody really wanted to accept that as that's the boring answer, but that's what it was.

00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:16.960
Oh, okay.

00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:19.600
So did a diaper factory blow up?

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It must have, but no theory really nailed what was happening.

00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:25.519
Um, of course.

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Every idea has a little bit of holes, but so Oakland's Palsema only grew.

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One resident said they wanted to shoot jellyfish into town for a jellyfish festival because why wouldn't you?

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They could have a jellyfish cocktail.

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That sounds terrible.

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No.

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Vodka, gelatin, and juice.

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Like a wiggle all the way down.

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Gross.

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Jell O shots, am I right?

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I mean, yeah, but the way you described it, not so much.

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I think that was the original title of Snoop Dogg's Jinna Juice was vodka jellyfish and juice.

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But then he's like, that doesn't roll off the tongue.

00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:08.799
So despite all the theories, the Oakville blobs left behind nothing to study.

00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:09.279
Yeah.

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Every sample from that summer had either vanished or dissolved.

00:14:13.360 --> 00:14:13.759
Sure.

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The Washington Department of Health confirms it never even reached any received any blob samples.

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Oh horseshit.

00:14:20.720 --> 00:14:21.200
Yeah.

00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:26.720
As um, and then in Discovery, the Discovery website, I guess.

00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:28.320
I mean, it's in my show notes.

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Okay.

00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:36.159
Um, it said, quote, all the original uncollected blobs have long disappeared and there is no known remaining samples.

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No records of ever receiving any.

00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:39.440
Okay.

00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:42.159
So the trail went cold really fast.

00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:42.799
Right.

00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:48.159
However, there has been a second documented situation where this happened.

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Mm-hmm.

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Interesting.

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In a town about eight miles away.

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Okay.

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From Isn't it kind of odd that it's so close?

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So clearly there's something in that area that they're not telling us.

00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.879
It was in April of 2025.

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Oh, last year.

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Last year.

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Not even a year ago.

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Yeah.

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Holy balls.

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The person who found these um blobs on her lawn collected them and then they all dissolved at room temperature.

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Oh.

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And then nothing else came of it.

00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:19.279
Interesting.

00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:26.159
So they didn't no one got sick this time around, or not that it was noted in the articles that I read.

00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:29.279
Well, that at least sounds like they perfected their blobs.

00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:30.720
Maybe so.

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Or everybody's getting sick.

00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:33.840
We need to switch something.

00:15:34.159 --> 00:15:35.200
Yeah, pretty much.

00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:40.720
Or aliens drop their refuse over that when they could be alien refuse.

00:15:40.879 --> 00:15:41.120
We don't know.

00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:41.440
Maybe.

00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:42.080
Yeah, we don't know.

00:15:42.320 --> 00:15:46.159
We're we're un uh familiar with their waste systems.

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I don't I got I don't know.

00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:51.039
Anyways, that's weird.

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That's the Oak Oakville blobs.

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The Oakville blobs.

00:15:55.600 --> 00:15:58.960
Literally, that's how it's like when you research it, it's the Oakville blobs.

00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.279
Well, I'm sure, yeah, that's wild.

00:16:01.519 --> 00:16:01.919
Yeah.

00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:05.679
Well, I mean, I hope that I don't get blobbed someday.

00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:08.639
Um, so this story came from our friend Audra.

00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:09.360
Yeah.

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Um, it was a TikTok that she sent me, and in the TikTok it said that it was human uh white blood cells.

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But upon further research, no nuclei.

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There's no nuclei.

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So sorry, TikToker, not going viral today.

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I I I don't know.

00:16:28.399 --> 00:16:35.759
Anyways, well, I mean, that's just strange because like obviously people would like to know what the fuck it's what it was.

00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:36.159
Yeah.

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But clearly we have no answers.

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Frog spawn?

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The Origin of Weird: The Oakville Blobs

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