When Oakville, Washington was showered with mysterious blobs in 1994, a modern mystery was born. The incident has been discussed and debated ever since. How accurate is the story and the photo that often accompanies it? The story is true, but the photo is completely unrelated. Let’s take a look at a modern version of the story as circulated on the internet in 2012: The townspeople of Oakville, Washington, were in for a surprise on August 7, 1994. Instead of their usual downpour of rain, the inhabitants of the small town witnessed countless gelatinous blobs falling from the sky. Once the globs fell, almost everyone in Oakville started to develop severe, flu-like symptoms that lasted anywhere from 7 weeks to 3 months. Finally, after exposure to the goo caused his mother to fall ill, one resident sent a sample of the blobs for testing. What the technicians discovered was shocking – the globs contained human white blood cells. The substance was then brought to the State Department of Health of Washington for further analysis. With another startling reveal, they discovered that the gelatinous blobs had two types of bacteria, one of which is found in the human digestive system. However, no [...]
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