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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

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4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes where the line between medical mystery and dark conspiracy becomes blurred.

In the town of Oakville, Washington, chaos erupts when mysterious blobs start falling from the sky – and anyone who touches them ends up in the hospital. As scientists struggle to understand what the blobs are, Oakville’s terrified residents are left to wonder if they’re the victims of a natural disaster… or a targeted attack.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members. You can listen to new episodes of Mr. Ballin's Medical Mysteries early and ad-free.
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0:11.9	In August of 1994, a police officer in the tiny town of Oakville, Washington, was driving his patrol car on a typical overnight shift.
0:24.6	Since basically everybody in town was asleep, there really wasn't much to report, so the work was fairly tedious.
0:30.6	At about 3 a.m., as he was sitting in his car, it started to rain. The officer was used to the dreary Pacific Northwest weather and turned on his windshield wipers.
0:39.6	But as the blades began swiping from side to side, his windshield only seemed to get dirtier instead of clearer.
0:46.2	Eventually, a film covered all but a small portion of the officer's windshield, and so he slowed his cruiser to a crawl.
0:52.7	Then he positioned himself so he could look out the one clean spot in his windshield and carefully drove slowed his cruiser to a crawl. Then he positioned himself so we could
0:54.3	look out the one clean spot in his windshield and carefully drove over to the nearest gas
0:58.6	station. Clearly he needed new wiper blades. However, when the officer stepped out of his
1:04.1	cruiser to see what was actually clouding his windshield, he made an unsettling
1:08.1	discovery. What was on his windshield was not the typical grime that splashes off the roads.
1:14.5	Instead, what was on there looked like some kind of clear, slimy coating. The officer ran his finger
1:20.5	over the material, and it felt gooey, almost like jello. He looked up at the sky and thought,
1:25.4	what in the world is going on here?
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