Every summer, along a small thimble-shaped stretch of Alabama's coast, something strange

stirs up from the water. Something so odd and kind of spectacular, it feels unreal. People that see it for

the first time are spellbound. They just can't believe it. It's, you just never see anything like it. I've told people poor, it's kind of like saying you saw Bigfoot. You kind of have to see it to believe it. Things will be just, they're not acting normal.

This otherworldly phenomenon happens in the dead of night when the rest of the world is still asleep.

And there's a name for this strange event. It's called a Jubilee. Once we came in and said, Jubilee, Jubilee,

then mom would get out of bed and go sit down next to the phone and start working the list.

The call of Jubilee spreads from house to house, neighbor to neighbor.

And soon, everyone descends upon the beach in the darkness to greet the Jubilee.

You see flounders and crabs, shrimp, stingrays, mullet, all these fish, they just come in in a wave.

It's sort of like day day.

Fish and sea creatures, usually hidden deep in the murky waters, suddenly swim towards

the shore, like they're being drawn from the darkness, a kind of invasion of the sea

creatures.

I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas Upskira, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible,

and wondrous places.

Today, we will venture out to witness the Mobile Bay Jubilee,

an almost magical phenomena where thousands of fish and all kinds of marine life

swim towards the shore, where beachgoers wait to scoop them up by the bucketful.

And we'll hear how the Jubilee brings the community together in ways

that are way outside the patterns of daily life.

More after this.

Music You might know the term jubilee as something that signifies an anniversary or a special event, some big celebration.

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