The Oakville Alien Blobs

One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries

Laurah Norton

Paranormalpodcast, History, True Crime, Paranormal, Mystery

4.6 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We’ve told a blob story before – but the story that unfolded in Oakville, Washington in the mid-90s deserves its own telling. These blobs rained down from the sky and caused pretty severe impacts on the ground… and you guessed it: the jury’s still out on what, exactly, splatted down on Oakville. Was it aliens? Monsters straight out of a horror movie? Or just weird, weird rain? One Strange Thing: True Paranormal Mysteries explores the archives of the unexplained, blending rigorous historical research with a wry, skeptical wit to investigate true supernatural stories and baffling mysteries that made headlines. Dive into our Episode Mystery Archive — a curated, topic-organized source for documented hauntings, UFO sightings, cryptids, folklore, and bizarre true mysteries. Check it out here! https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/episodes-by-topic-mystery-archive Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindeleteme.com/STRANGE and use promo code STRANGE at checkout! This episode was originally released as OST Premium Episode 56. Hosted by Laurah Norton Research by Anna Luria and Maura Currie Written & Produced by Maura Currie Engineered by Brandon Schexnayder Sources on our website: https://www.onestrangethingpodcast.com/ Join us on Patreon for early release and ad-free episodes, exclusive stories, and bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/OneStrangeThing Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onestrangethingpod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/One-Strange-Thing-114307627035607 Subscribe to our Substack: https://substack.com/@onestrangething We work with Amplitude Media Partners (AMP) to power our advertising and grow with the right sponsors. Contact AMP with any ad inquiries; sales@amplitudemediapartners.com. All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast LLC/One Strange Thing 2026 Works Cited: NA, “Blobs fall from the sky…” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1994. NA, “Mystery blobs were…” New York Times, 1994. Ron Hoss, “Television crew investigates…” Centralia Chronicle, 1997. Sunny Barclift, “Doctor would have to be…” Centralia Chronicle, 1999. NA, “30 Years Later: The…” KXRO, 2014. Dameon Pesanti, “The Day Blobs…” The Chronicle, 2014. Unsolved Mysteries Alex Onken and Fred Gamble, “A FISHY DAY: Fish…” KSLA, 2021. City of Texarkana Seattle Aquarium

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Josh Spiegel, host of the podcast, Lunatic in the Newsroom.
0:04.8	It's news like you've never heard before.
0:07.7	We'll talk about things like a possible ban on recreational pot,
0:11.3	Americans giving up on dressing like civilized human beings,
0:14.9	and a call for fraternities to be outlawed.
0:17.5	If you enjoy wild overthinking, lunatic in the newsroom is for you. It's funny,
0:22.9	informative, and emotionally
0:24.8	unstable. Lunatic
0:26.7	in the newsroom. Listen
0:28.5	today.
0:30.9	Hey, strangers, just
0:32.8	a quick heads up.
0:34.6	We talk very abstractly about
0:36.7	dead animals in this episode. So if that's not your thing,
0:41.0	well, we'll catch you next time. I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where
0:52.9	we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.
1:09.0	Strangers, if you've been roaming around these parts for a while,
1:13.1	you might recall that one of our earlier episodes concerned a series of mysterious, slimy blobs
1:19.3	that terrorized suburban Texas back in the 70s,
1:23.2	in a slow-moving, vaguely a fungal kind of way.
1:27.9	Part of the magic of that episode, and of blobs more broadly,
1:32.1	is that these things are just inherently funny.
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