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    Have you ever found yourself on a Wikipedia deep dive on the weird side of the internet? In this show - weird thing enthusiasts Ryan and Shane take turns presenting their latest fascinations to each other covering everything unusual, unexplained, and unhinged! This week's topic: The Oakville Blobs!
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  • @watcher
    @watcher  Před měsícem +51

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  • @Bombay1618
    @Bombay1618 Před měsícem +6967

    It was DB Cooper. Same area. The money got moldy. What a gross dude.

    • @junomonsoon
      @junomonsoon Před měsícem +640

      I literally JUST now saw a tumblr post about DB Cooper that said "new DB Cooper theory: he went up"

    • @ceazarsalad4414
      @ceazarsalad4414 Před měsícem +103

      He pulled a dave matthews band

    • @emilybarclay8831
      @emilybarclay8831 Před měsícem +345

      @@junomonsoonno he went sideways and into the Bermuda Triangle and is now in Atlantis, married to Amelia Earhart and they have a bunch of mermaid kids

    • @DeadInside-ew8qb
      @DeadInside-ew8qb Před měsícem +1

      @@ceazarsalad4414???

    • @MFBloosh
      @MFBloosh Před měsícem +51

      @@DeadInside-ew8qb Dave Mathews Band infamously dumped their tour bus poop off a bridge while a boat was passing under them.

  • @memrixali
    @memrixali Před měsícem +1369

    Ryan throwing blobs at Shane and then immediately fearing retaliation is such sibling energy

    • @pepe-gfv2
      @pepe-gfv2 Před měsícem +16

      This is literally my younger brother annoying me but then running away screaming as soon as I look at him because I have traumatised him with the excessive amount of times I had him screaming from being tickled ever since he was a toddler. Grown ass man and he's still scared of me potentially tickling him. It's funny.

  • @WhatDoYouMeanBiThat
    @WhatDoYouMeanBiThat Před měsícem +431

    "In Somerset England... which is... right there" **points at picture of mt rainier in Washington**

    • @ejgfyuhfrjgon7680
      @ejgfyuhfrjgon7680 Před měsícem +13

      I was reading the comments while watching the video and it synched perfectly when Ryan said this and I read your comment!!!!

    • @evelynmendoza3273
      @evelynmendoza3273 Před měsícem +7

      I was also gonna say. Yo, isn’t that a picture of Mt. Rainier XD

    • @anna_freya
      @anna_freya Před měsícem +19

      Thank you!! I was like “since when did we have a mountain in Somerset???”

    • @c0athanger
      @c0athanger Před měsícem +3

      Definitely Mt Rainier 🤣
      Source: I see it every day 😅

    • @WhatDoYouMeanBiThat
      @WhatDoYouMeanBiThat Před měsícem

      ​@c0athanger yeah I lived in the greater Seattle area until I was 19 and I miss the clear sky days where that mountain looked so beautiful. I knew as soon as I saw it, that was not a picture from Somerset 😂

  • @LifeIsJust21
    @LifeIsJust21 Před měsícem +485

    I grew up living directly next to a military installation, and I remember them "testing" and sometimes there would be a green fog hanging over my neighborhood. Like a legit very green very thick fog. I asked my mom like hey should we be worried about this? And she would just shrug and be like that's the military lol
    The military was and is most definitely doing things and not telling us or warning us.

    • @Gurtington
      @Gurtington Před měsícem

      military being very active in an area where they normally never are, in some remote area with not even 700 people living there. then a few days later everyone finds weird and gross shit, just to become SUPER sick for a few months, and to NEVER get an answer. Please... that screams US military. I know nature can produce some weird stuff, but atleast when nature does it we always figure out why later down the line. When the something strange happens around US military installations we NEVER get an answer. Hmmm.

    • @elizabethsandoval7680
      @elizabethsandoval7680 Před měsícem +4

      Omg are you okay?

    • @heatweve
      @heatweve Před měsícem +2

      jesus

    • @specializedchemicals6669
      @specializedchemicals6669 Před měsícem +5

      i hope your health is doing well o m f g

    • @isunlloaoll
      @isunlloaoll Před 25 dny +3

      That's most likely just green smoke they use in excercises. Sometimes, they're so thick that they travel and linger for a while in the air.

  • @x-steve-goatman-x
    @x-steve-goatman-x Před měsícem +2977

    Ryan running away from Shane to avoid getting the blobs thrown at him, and then just standing there while Shane throws the blobs at him lol

  • @littlemau1360
    @littlemau1360 Před měsícem +2807

    Shanes voice when he realized oppossums died.. I could feel his heart break.

    • @DeadInside-ew8qb
      @DeadInside-ew8qb Před měsícem +57

      Possums are kinda sweet

    • @Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel
      @Oldass_Deadass_dumbass_channel Před měsícem

      Possums are little sweethearts, they're great. Practically never carry rabies. Cute little fellas

    • @ashleyjohnson9651
      @ashleyjohnson9651 Před měsícem +70

      ​@@DeadInside-ew8qbtheyre very cool. they dont eat a bunch of ticks like we thought but they almost never get rabies due to their lower body temperature being unsuitable for the virus. saddest thing is their lifespans are really short, even compared to other animals their size

    • @ghoultooth
      @ghoultooth Před měsícem +16

      @@ashleyjohnson9651Do you have any sources for them not eating ticks like we thought? All I can find is research concluding that they do eat a LOT of ticks each tick season

    • @ashleyjohnson9651
      @ashleyjohnson9651 Před měsícem

      @@ghoultooth basically the initial study they did was flawed in a huge way and fueled by a lot of assumptions on the scientists part. ticks went missing on opossums they were observing and they just assumed the opossums ate them. and when studying the stomachs of like 30 wild possums, no ticks or tick parts at all were found in any of their stomachs. just look up "opossum eating ticks false", and you'll find the articles im talking about. youtube auto deletes any links so i cant post them here :(
      theyre still cool little guys
      its not that they never ever eat ticks but it isnt a significant part of their diet by any means, no more than it would be for any other small animal

  • @StoriesForCoffee
    @StoriesForCoffee Před měsícem +1006

    You NEED to do a mystery files about the 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning where a town fell into mass hysteria and people believed it was from “cursed bread”

    • @Absbabs88
      @Absbabs88 Před měsícem +36

      Like moldy bread ergot poisoning?

    • @StoriesForCoffee
      @StoriesForCoffee Před měsícem +22

      @@Absbabs88 they believe it was that, but I saw another theory was mercury poisoning?? Who knows haha

    • @CantTellYou
      @CantTellYou Před měsícem +19

      Are we sure they weren’t all just witches

    • @ijustwanttolikecomments4677
      @ijustwanttolikecomments4677 Před měsícem +17

      that sounds more like a Puppet History premise lol

    • @canarywings6080
      @canarywings6080 Před měsícem +4

      I just saw on Goodreads yesterday that someone wrote a book based on this event, like a fictionalized version of it. I think it was called "Cursed Bread." Would love to see Shane cover this event!

  • @thekrabbiestpatty
    @thekrabbiestpatty Před měsícem +179

    There was something notably chaotic, whimsical, and goofy about this episode. Big fan of this vibe.

  • @pondwatersal2208
    @pondwatersal2208 Před měsícem +3102

    OAKVILLE WASHINGTON MENTIONED!!! SHOUTOUT TO THE WOODEN BIGFOOT STATUE!!!
    fun fact the town motto is "acorns."

  • @kirraweigand1482
    @kirraweigand1482 Před měsícem +2170

    I’m a molecular/cell biology and biotechnology student and just based on this video alone, without doing any other research, I believe that the blob could be some type of slime mold, fungus, bacteria and/or a mix of these (similar to lichen). The paramecium they showed can cause pneumonia, so that with a mix of preexisting conditions that the lady may have had could easily cause her symptoms to be worse. Ear infections can cause dizziness, headaches and nausea, so the doctor saying that isn’t outrageous. Another thing I found odd was when the biologist said that eukaryotic cells are a in “most” animals. Eukaryotic cells are in all animals. There are 3 domains that all living things are categorized in: bacteria, archaea, and eukarya. Animals are under the domain eukarya, meaning that they are eukaryotic. With all that being said, it’s really unfortunate that they don’t have the blobs anymore. With the technology that we have access to today, it would have been fascinating to do genome analysis and comparisons.

    • @purpleheart3431
      @purpleheart3431 Před měsícem +154

      I agree! My mind immediately went to a bacteria or mold. Something small enough to show up as cells in labs, but also able to coagulate and cause a mild/moderate sickness to people predisposed. Also interesting that touching the blobs seemed to cause more severe symptoms just like bacteria!

    • @MsHojat
      @MsHojat Před měsícem +39

      It is terrible to base any decision off of what happened to her. All of those symptoms could have been from other things.
      We'd need to know what symptoms/sicknesses were of higher prevalence directly after the precipitation. There might not have even been any since it seems like the only sources mentioned were somewhat unreliable. When weird things happen people can start making unjustified links to other things such as the cause of their [normal] sickness.

    • @Bearolus
      @Bearolus Před měsícem +47

      ​@@MsHojatAlso, the main symptoms reported were... fatigue and nausea. The two most generic and commonly claimed symptoms imaginable. That combined with the convenient fact that not a single sample remains from such a strange one off occurrence certainly leaves me skeptical.

    • @eryne_erin
      @eryne_erin Před měsícem +34

      It's been mumblecough years since I've taken a biology type class, so I could be way off, but the first thing I thought of was agarose gel and the stuff at the bottom of petri dishes (did a google, it's agar). Weather phenomenon occurs over a place that handles bio-hazardous waste disposal, picks up light weight gels covered in God knows what, winds break them into tiny chunks and carries them away to fall on a random small town.

    • @InitialPC
      @InitialPC Před měsícem +9

      wouldnt you be able to tell from putting it under a microscope that its a fungus? I imagine fungus cells look quite different from animal cells..

  • @mellowmelo
    @mellowmelo Před měsícem +72

    I study ecology and a big part of that is seeing how environmental toxins affect the human body. Unfortunately, a lot of these toxins are a result of industrial & military waste and end up causing widespread illness and animal death. There are numerous cases of communities experiencing devastating health consequences and the industries and corporations easily cover them up or are never held accountable. That would be my theory since it matches other cases of environmental contamination

  • @charlotte3020
    @charlotte3020 Před měsícem +101

    I think these are salamander eggs. There's a specific genus of salamander that doesn't have a nucleus in their red blood cells and are found in PNW. Plus these eggs can contain a toxins that cause symptoms similar to what was seen in town. Also, scientists still don't know the chemical makeup of the jelly surrounding the eggs, which would make sense as to why they couldn't identify them. It's possible eggs got swept up in a waterspout (like fish raining in texas) - everything would fit. Hope this doesn't get lost in the fray!

  • @spideyham
    @spideyham Před měsícem +4969

    The sponsorship being a whole callback to Shane’s old video 😭 I never expected Professor Morris Ashley to make a come back, but I’m certainly pleasantly surprised!

    • @imahumanlarva3248
      @imahumanlarva3248 Před měsícem +50

      I started screaming I was so excited man

    • @Luna-Joy.
      @Luna-Joy. Před měsícem +104

      Shane looks so young in the original, who knew 16 years later the professor would show up in this ad!! Absolutely hilarious callback. 😂

    • @paperclip20
      @paperclip20 Před měsícem +23

      I KNEW I RECOGNIZED HIM

    • @mariewraight4969
      @mariewraight4969 Před měsícem +32

      Literally the only other person i know of who wears two pairs of glasses at the same time EXCEPT for my husband

    • @xboxassistance2097
      @xboxassistance2097 Před měsícem +13

      What was the callback to?

  • @insommniak
    @insommniak Před měsícem +2557

    These sponsorship ads just keep getting better and better, first sexy saxophone and now professor rapping Shane?? 😂

    • @D44RK_Iced_Yogs
      @D44RK_Iced_Yogs Před měsícem +29

      Shane finally was able to reveal his true demon age and put it to good use in that ad. Don’t worry Shane! Just cause you’re old doesn’t mean we don’t love you buddy!

    • @michelledulin7214
      @michelledulin7214 Před měsícem +8

      @@D44RK_Iced_YogsI am a few years older than Shane and now I am offended!

    • @sandpiperr
      @sandpiperr Před měsícem +12

      I'll just say it. Shane looks hot as an old timey professor.

    • @drphilscrustyphadussy9769
      @drphilscrustyphadussy9769 Před měsícem +6

      for once I'm actually watching the ads

    • @yellowbutterfly6796
      @yellowbutterfly6796 Před měsícem

      ​@@drphilscrustyphadussy9769same theyre so good

  • @abigailbarr9565
    @abigailbarr9565 Před měsícem +27

    The fact that the WA department of health turned around and said they don’t have a record of receiving the blobs makes me go hard for theory #4

  • @timpoolssentientbeanie5646
    @timpoolssentientbeanie5646 Před měsícem +68

    It’s sort of hilarious that a guy who believes in ghosts and aliens visiting earth thinks a large school of jellyfish being exploded to bits and raining down is absurd.

  • @MicrowaveOvenVideo
    @MicrowaveOvenVideo Před měsícem +1554

    "Eukaryotic cells, found in most animals" Someone inform the biologist that that is literally the domain animals are in, eukaryotes. Plants, fungi, animals, and Protista are all eukaryotic. All these things have that cell type.

    • @adrianhultman6236
      @adrianhultman6236 Před měsícem +270

      To be fair, I think that was an addition by Ryan to quickly explain what they are rather than a statement from the biologist

    • @MicrowaveOvenVideo
      @MicrowaveOvenVideo Před měsícem +39

      @@adrianhultman6236 that's a fair assumption!

    • @cdogthehedgehog6923
      @cdogthehedgehog6923 Před měsícem +5

      ​@@MicrowaveOvenVideo whatre the other cells called? I thought there was like 2 groups but i dont remember shit and dont wanna look stuff up lol

    • @corvusmurphy863
      @corvusmurphy863 Před měsícem +36

      Eukaryotes and prokaryotes

    • @cdogthehedgehog6923
      @cdogthehedgehog6923 Před měsícem +3

      @@corvusmurphy863 thank you!

  • @ButyoucancallmeKat
    @ButyoucancallmeKat Před měsícem +465

    I’m starting to think they are choosing these stories based on what they can use as an excuse to throw random stuff at each other and i am here for it. Ryan was so happy to dump gelatinous blobs on Shane. You go dude, find your bliss.

  • @la_arana_discoteca
    @la_arana_discoteca Před měsícem +24

    Ryan repeating the "cork board time? Blair Witch it behind the projection screen" gag was wonderful.

  • @sarahcoleman5269
    @sarahcoleman5269 Před měsícem +19

    Whenever I hear the phrase "from the Creepy to the Truly Bizzare, and Everything In Between" I'm like... does that include, like, really normal stuff, too? Will we get a Mystery Files video of "Where do your socks really go after the dryer monster has eaten them?" or "Why do people rush to get in front of you and then go as slooooow assss posssibbbbllllleeee?"

  • @marierolfsmeier5455
    @marierolfsmeier5455 Před měsícem +1269

    I like Shane’s initial theory, some sort of waste mixed with water, i was thinking a dead whale or something, and it just got carried with the storm process

    • @diefluchendehexe5775
      @diefluchendehexe5775 Před měsícem +59

      @@darthkai8242 That is absolutely disgusting.

    • @lullsbaby9321
      @lullsbaby9321 Před měsícem

      Yes it is. But lets look at the alternative: they wait until the airplane lands, and they dipose of the thousand pounds of waste.... In landfills. Not much cleaner. Feces is feces. ​Is there a cleaner way of getting rid of it? @@diefluchendehexe5775

    • @lullsbaby9321
      @lullsbaby9321 Před měsícem +18

      ​@@diefluchendehexe5775Yes it is. But then, there's a lot of human waste that are tossed into landfills. Not much cleaner. Is there a better way for getting rid of a thousand pounds of waste?

    • @Zman44444
      @Zman44444 Před měsícem

      @@darthkai8242I thought 74Gear debunked this myth… I can’t remember the video..
      it just seems hard to believe there’s a “dump the dumps” lever or button in the cockpit…
      Sure, maybe when the first transatlantic flights and all occurred in the mid 1900’s… but now? I feel like there’d be agencies that clamp down on such activity.
      Yet again… a door plug fuckin flew off of an Alaska air… so… who am I to say anything lol.

    • @stephaniemitchell5760
      @stephaniemitchell5760 Před měsícem

      We had something like this in Colorado last year when it rained a lot I’m pretty it’s a step of fungus

  • @ZakZwald
    @ZakZwald Před měsícem +933

    PNW mysteries are the best because they are so unhinged. You've got bigfoot, skyblobs, bandage men, haunted hot spring resorts, its nutty and I love it.

    • @korokonas
      @korokonas Před měsícem +78

      Don't forget the time we pranked the world into thinking we had tree octopus

    • @haleyc.3530
      @haleyc.3530 Před měsícem +43

      The giant fuzzy water snakes that are possibly actually river otters doing conga lines, all the ufos in the eastern dessert areas, Sharlie the Payette lake monster, the deer woman, all the severely haunted buildings ghost towns and abandoned mines, and MY FRIEND Jake the Alligator Man

    • @calmwaveofchaos1878
      @calmwaveofchaos1878 Před měsícem +63

      There's a reason Gravity Falls was set here. It's a documentary and the rest of the world just hasn't realized yet. I wasn't familiar with the blobs incident, but the title could've been a current news headline and I still wouldn't have batted an eye

    • @bewareofsasquatch
      @bewareofsasquatch Před měsícem +16

      We also had a lot of famous serial killers here too.

    • @kristinakingsley2115
      @kristinakingsley2115 Před měsícem +11

      I wish that the story about the creepy mausoleum in Friday harbor was more well covered; it’s a concrete table and chairs set up with the dead family’s ashes inside the material used to make it, and all the ghost stories associated with it.

  • @addy1883
    @addy1883 Před měsícem +15

    This was the episode I was waiting for!! The "blobs" also happened in my old home town in Canada, back around... 2002/2003. I was interning at our local paper when it happened. It was never resolved and oddly enough, no one seems to ever talk about it but I remember because the paper wrote an article about it while I was there. Trying to find that information on the internet is impossible, I don't know why. I clearly remember writing the story and seeing the blobs in my backyard. They were larger then rice, about the size of your thumb and I don't think they made anyone sick like they did here. The strangest part about it was it only happened in my town, despite our town being so close to others and either they absorbed into the soil or rain washed them all away.

  • @breezybrooks2538
    @breezybrooks2538 Před měsícem +11

    No other aound on earth brings me greater joy than hearing Ryan’s fear-giggle every time he anticipates Shane’s antics 🤣💜💕💜💕🙌🏾

  • @gnarlykarlee
    @gnarlykarlee Před měsícem +747

    as a lifelong washingtonian, this is EVERYTHING to me. i’ve been obsessed w this story since i first heard about it and i’m so glad it made it onto watcher radar. it doesn’t get talked about as much as it should imho

    • @AllTheHappySquirrels
      @AllTheHappySquirrels Před měsícem +13

      Hi neighbor! *waves from Olympia*

    • @themarlboromandalorian
      @themarlboromandalorian Před měsícem +3

      Sky jellies.

    • @ashlynn9games875
      @ashlynn9games875 Před měsícem +4

      💚I’m from Washington and never heard this story wtf?!?!💚

    • @lochness7419
      @lochness7419 Před měsícem +6

      DUUUDE i had the same reaction !!!! I’ve always thought this story was so neat since I was like. Little.

    • @shadowyn9113
      @shadowyn9113 Před měsícem +7

      I remember reading this. I remember the theory it was a military experiment to control weather, like to dry up clouds.

  • @aviezer_who_drinks_seltzer371
    @aviezer_who_drinks_seltzer371 Před měsícem +795

    10:08 "Well, maybe it kill animal because animal small"
    "So it may kill me but it may not kill you"
    "I don't think it would kill you, you're big enough"
    Awwww

    • @raine-time
      @raine-time Před měsícem +25

      "You're a big guy" let's all just quote the entirety of the video

    • @RemainAnArtist
      @RemainAnArtist Před měsícem +3

      @@raine-time "You're a big guy"

    • @caylei9967
      @caylei9967 Před měsícem +3

      Their verbiage in that part was enjoyable

  • @moikoii329
    @moikoii329 Před 24 dny +11

    Watching this white a heavy heart

  • @rosaeaton9538
    @rosaeaton9538 Před měsícem +11

    That photo of a mountain Ryan points to as Somerset, UK, could not be less like the landscape in Somerset! It is a flood plains! (I live nearby.)
    Apart from that tiny gripe - I really love your work fellas! Love to see Watcher thriving.

  • @hyde52292
    @hyde52292 Před měsícem +420

    The biggest mystery file should be why Ryan and Shane do not have a movie commentary series when they have quoted approximately 10,000 of them over the last 7+ years.

  • @PuReWiReZ
    @PuReWiReZ Před měsícem +364

    I can't tell if they are good friends, bitter enemies, or friendly rivals. But their chemistry just works in this show.

    • @digitalsoop
      @digitalsoop Před měsícem +97

      All three are probably correct

    • @PuReWiReZ
      @PuReWiReZ Před měsícem +62

      @@digitalsoop They are in a laugh or death struggle to be the funny one of a pair of entertainers.

    • @jmason1770
      @jmason1770 Před měsícem +12

      Depends on the time of day😂😂

    • @admiralofcuteness
      @admiralofcuteness Před měsícem +7

      All these years and they’re still my OTP

    • @bestieswithtesties
      @bestieswithtesties Před měsícem

      Haha they're so random and quirky. Just like me!

  • @Souledex
    @Souledex Před měsícem +5

    Something I think that should have been addressed more in this video is stuff that absolutely isn't supposed to rain absolutely does fairly often. Blood, Frogs, there are recorded instances of a lot.

  • @grimmick9446
    @grimmick9446 Před 24 dny +6

    Ill miss this , gonna go ahead and try to binge what i missed living the parent life. But fuckkk its hard knowung how it ends. Freshman highschool me would be in tears ...smh wel miss you, OG ghoul boys.
    Idk who these guys are now

  • @jencasebolt3321
    @jencasebolt3321 Před měsícem +237

    Omg these blobs have been in my yard 2 times in the last 15 years! I had no idea about this story. I asked the Oregon Mycology Club and they told me that they are aware of them but that they are a mystery and nobody really knows what they are. Mycologists sometimes call them “star jelly “. There is a type of slime fungus that is clear but this stuff is not that. I also reported it to the Oregon Health Dept. and they also didn’t know anything. I have a bunch of huge fir and cedar trees in my yard and the jelly only appeared after heavy rain. I wondered if it came out of my trees. I handled it quite a bit and did NOT get sick.

    • @xraystyle00
      @xraystyle00 Před měsícem +58

      Yeah imo, in our post-covid world, it's not hard to see how nearly everyone in a small town could become sick with the same flu over a couple of weeks. And if people were getting together to discuss the blobs more than they might've normally gotten together, bingo bango, you got yourself super-spreading event.

    • @panakinskywalker6391
      @panakinskywalker6391 Před měsícem +12

      This makes me wonder if it might be related to the tree sap?

    • @Kimo_Neko
      @Kimo_Neko Před měsícem +9

      Might be rain that causes the mold to spread off the trees and if they had all the same trees in the area all infected with the same mold then it probably possible

    • @bestieswithtesties
      @bestieswithtesties Před měsícem

      ​@@xraystyle00The illness had essentially a 100% infection rate. Not even covid 19, which is considered a highly contagious virus, had an infection rate of 100%. It's far more likely the jelly that landed on this town specifically had pathogens in it and they got all over the place and made everyone sick.

  • @thedumplingsculptor5293
    @thedumplingsculptor5293 Před měsícem +220

    You gotta love how immediately concerned shane was for the possums.

    • @CantTellYou
      @CantTellYou Před měsícem +2

      he’s a regular ol’ Benjamin Harrison, friend of the opossum

    • @thedumplingsculptor5293
      @thedumplingsculptor5293 Před měsícem +1

      I wasn't exactly sure who you were talking about until I googled him and found an awesome photo of Benjamin Harrison with a Possum on his shoulder. I wasn't able to attach it but if you want to see it a quick google search will do the trick.@@CantTellYou

  • @4RILDIGITAL
    @4RILDIGITAL Před měsícem +5

    Your discussion was highly engaging and the theories you brought up were really intriguing, especially the one linking the blobs to military activity. Definitely a case of the truth being potentially stranger than fiction.

  • @vivt1819
    @vivt1819 Před měsícem +7

    our world is so weird there’s so many things i would never know until watcher came around😭

  • @alexiewalker9504
    @alexiewalker9504 Před měsícem +419

    "Somerset, England. Which is right there" * points to Mt. Rainier in Washington * lmaooooo

    • @K.Truong
      @K.Truong Před měsícem +15

      Thought it was Rainier. It sure looks like it.

    • @alexiewalker9504
      @alexiewalker9504 Před měsícem +4

      @@K.Truong I thought that too at first lmao, had to give it a closer look

    • @alexiewalker9504
      @alexiewalker9504 Před měsícem +1

      @@jarnold1789 you know, I forgot you could look at mountains from different angles for a minute there. You’re totally right

    • @kbates8149
      @kbates8149 Před měsícem +2

      I'm dying laughing. 😂

    • @user-mh4py8tc3x
      @user-mh4py8tc3x Před měsícem +1

      WHAT ON EARTH I WAS SO CONFUSED!!!!! That’s Mount Adams!!! Ryan what are you talking about???

  • @jakipop3397
    @jakipop3397 Před měsícem +237

    Wait, is there really no mention of the idea that it was, like, a factory dumping out chemicals in the water that then turned into rain? That seems super logical to me.

    • @p_kix
      @p_kix Před měsícem +13

      Same - I paused a few minutes in to check out the Superfund sites in Washington State.

    • @la_arana_discoteca
      @la_arana_discoteca Před měsícem +36

      That's kind of what Shane was saying at around 11:05, right? That something ended up in the water cycle and caused the blobs.

    • @Emily_Linka
      @Emily_Linka Před měsícem +5

      Same! Either a factory or some sort of medical research facility. That feels like the most obvious explanation to me

    • @mellowmelo
      @mellowmelo Před měsícem +2

      Yeah I feel pretty confident it was something like this

    • @taco2511
      @taco2511 Před měsícem +2

      Definitely biohazard waste in water ways that entered the water cycle. Happens more than we know I'm sure.

  • @Kit.Fravel
    @Kit.Fravel Před měsícem +3

    I love that you are doing these deep dives! They have been hitting on the random stories that you can only find snippets of online/ in podcasts so I am hella impressed at what you can find

  • @laraxify
    @laraxify Před měsícem +3

    This Video Format is like sitting down with friends

  • @mystichlo
    @mystichlo Před měsícem +143

    watcher is the only channel that i don’t skip through the adds for. the extra effort they put in to even make the sponsors entertaining is awesome. good work, boys!

  • @gliscorpotas
    @gliscorpotas Před měsícem +171

    As someone from Somerset England, seeing ryan point to a snowcapped mountain made me crease

    • @45hpng
      @45hpng Před měsícem +5

      Same

    • @samreeve9738
      @samreeve9738 Před měsícem +25

      Very famous for our beautiful rolling mountain ranges lol

    • @yupanquid5538
      @yupanquid5538 Před měsícem +2

      Came here, looking for THIS comment. 😂

    • @CerealOverlord
      @CerealOverlord Před měsícem +6

      I’m actually pretty sure that was a photo of Mt. Rainier, here in Washington

  • @nataliecanto8212
    @nataliecanto8212 Před měsícem +3

    I actually remember doing research on the toxic blobs myself! So fun to see Ryan and Shane do an episode with it!!!

  • @mattmc8375
    @mattmc8375 Před měsícem +6

    The Cheese Wheel! I’ve never heard anyone else use that reference, Robin Williams Live, great performance god rest his soul!

  • @summerwatson3794
    @summerwatson3794 Před měsícem +61

    A show where Ryan and Shane hide in a basement laughing like hyenas and yelling at each other about conspiracy theories really lets me know I’ve found my community 😂

  • @D44RK_Iced_Yogs
    @D44RK_Iced_Yogs Před měsícem +71

    This has been the most insane episode. They were both so giggly and having so much fun throughout the video, it warms my heart.

  • @ianlee4565
    @ianlee4565 Před měsícem +4

    Holy cow! There was a commercial right after “The Dark Knight Rises” reference! Perfect timing! I had just enough time to rewatch!

  • @serenagilbert1483
    @serenagilbert1483 Před měsícem +4

    yess so happy, ive been itching for a new ep of mystery files!!! I just discovered the channel a few days ago and binged every episode same with ghost files!

  • @damejanea.macdonald2371
    @damejanea.macdonald2371 Před měsícem +72

    16:02 I appreciate Ryan’s trust in our current scientific capabilities. It’s possible scientists could have identified jellyfish bits 30 years ago, but I think Shane’s left nipple remains beyond the reach of even modern medical science.

  • @AriaAR
    @AriaAR Před měsícem +179

    Prof Morris Ashley is the earliest of early call-backs!

  • @ZodiacBoi42
    @ZodiacBoi42 Před měsícem +2

    I grew up watching buzz feed unsolved, you have no idea how happy it makes me to see you guys back together covering my favorite creepy sh!t

  • @annajohnson2627
    @annajohnson2627 Před měsícem +1

    I’m from Oakville, WA!!!! I never thought Watcher would do something featuring my tiny town. My whole life I’ve been hearing about these blobs, I was born in 2002. Love you guys over at Watcher, keep up the awesome videos 🩷

  • @hurricanebtvs
    @hurricanebtvs Před měsícem +62

    As someone living in Somerset England, I can categorically state that is NOT Somerset England hahaha.

  • @awesomerautumn4886
    @awesomerautumn4886 Před měsícem +65

    21:48 Somerset England looks surprisingly similar to Mt Rainer in Washington.

  • @CDXLIV444
    @CDXLIV444 Před měsícem +1

    Yessss, I've always wanted more answers about this case

  • @Mayakran
    @Mayakran Před měsícem +2

    Ryan pointing to “Somerset, England” at 21:47. Sir, that is a picture of Mount Rainier from the Puget Sound in Washington State.

  • @vanillanoxfleuret
    @vanillanoxfleuret Před měsícem +36

    I love the big sibling energy of Ryan just legging it when Shane gets up while holding the blobs

  • @hailiec351
    @hailiec351 Před měsícem +151

    The chaos of this episode is off the charts and I’m loving it

  • @samreeve9738
    @samreeve9738 Před měsícem +6

    Somerset mentioned! That picture is definitely not somerset though lol.

  • @pauloguste886
    @pauloguste886 Před měsícem

    Can’t explain the excitement I get every time I open YT and see anew upload from watcher/watcher podcast. Thank you guys ❤

  • @addicted2monster88
    @addicted2monster88 Před měsícem +57

    "Nothing makes me wanna trust you more than you saying, trust me.". Man, do I feel that so hard lmfao. Whenever a friend says that don't, just don't. It's usually your sign to decline whatever it is. 😂

  • @katelynb2913
    @katelynb2913 Před měsícem +353

    When you open CZcams at exactly 3 and have to refresh 20 times to get the video to pop up 😅

  • @SlimTheShadiest
    @SlimTheShadiest Před měsícem +7

    Never thought I'd hear them name drop Bournemouth while I'm in it.

  • @rileysdesk
    @rileysdesk Před měsícem +1

    i haven't been caught up in watcher content in like six months so to come back and witness the beauty of that sponsorship is a real treat for the senses. 10/10.

  • @YukiteruAmano92
    @YukiteruAmano92 Před měsícem +105

    21:44 I can tell you, *unequivocally,* that that is *not* Somerset in England! We don't have mountains like that in England! I'm guessing that someone just did an image search for Somerset and chose a picture of one of the Canadian Somersets without checking!

    • @ghoultooth
      @ghoultooth Před měsícem +5

      Yeah, exactly. While we do have some mountains, they certainly are snowy-topped huge ones like that 😂

    • @aaronman3352
      @aaronman3352 Před měsícem +13

      It was a picture or MT. Rainier in Washington State

    • @ashleyjohnson9651
      @ashleyjohnson9651 Před měsícem

      @@ghoultooth ill try here instead.
      put in Opossums Ticks False and hopefully that will show you the articles

    • @kilobucket
      @kilobucket Před měsícem +6

      if we believe in the mountains hard enough maybe they'll grow

    • @FoxenASMR
      @FoxenASMR Před měsícem

      @@kilobuckettheyre just older mountains 😂 elderly Mountains shrink over time

  • @delphiniumbones
    @delphiniumbones Před měsícem +135

    The weird throat noises were a great intro for this episode 😅

  • @2948jdjdj
    @2948jdjdj Před měsícem

    I love how much effort is put into the aesthetics of each watcher show. It’s so hq it feels like an honor to witness

  • @aleximakarov2809
    @aleximakarov2809 Před měsícem +2

    I love these guys, genuinely friends on and off camera

  • @user-kz6gy6ez7t
    @user-kz6gy6ez7t Před měsícem +44

    Shane shaking the blobs off like a dog 😭

  • @angiegibson6598
    @angiegibson6598 Před měsícem +66

    Sometimes I forget Ryan and Shane are film bros ™️ until we have an episode like this

  • @polarberri
    @polarberri Před měsícem

    Amazing video! Love their chemistry, and they have the best sponsored ads. The callback especially takes the cake!

  • @anitaheart
    @anitaheart Před měsícem

    You have so much fun together guys, love watching your shenanigans. God bless you both. ❤

  • @Piiratekang.6823
    @Piiratekang.6823 Před měsícem +43

    As someone from Washington, I can confirm weird shit happens in Washington

  • @justarandomperson331
    @justarandomperson331 Před měsícem +123

    this might be the best sponsor advert ive ever seen. shane slayed that. 10/10

    • @harvestmoon_autumnsky
      @harvestmoon_autumnsky Před měsícem +1

      Watcher Boys and Ollie from KE vying for most bizarre ad placements ever

  • @7205buttas
    @7205buttas Před měsícem +1

    I respect that they make their sponsor adds fun to watch.

  • @T.Florenz
    @T.Florenz Před měsícem

    The way I forgot it was Watcher Friday until now!! I'm so excited to watch this

  • @spoorti254
    @spoorti254 Před měsícem +182

    i wish i was a toxic blob

    • @JaniceParker-re7ty
      @JaniceParker-re7ty Před měsícem +13

      Have you tried LoL?

    • @daalimbe
      @daalimbe Před měsícem +1

      whoa whoa, I think suggesting that counts as some kind of war crime​@@JaniceParker-re7ty

    • @brampies
      @brampies Před měsícem

      same, but just the blob

    • @noblenansa
      @noblenansa Před měsícem +8

      You can do it. I believe in you.

    • @David_Camerwrongun
      @David_Camerwrongun Před měsícem

      Follow Daz Games

  • @kaisaexner5566
    @kaisaexner5566 Před měsícem +63

    That ad was a fever dream...... I loved it

  • @user-hh7iw8qx5y
    @user-hh7iw8qx5y Před měsícem +2

    Thank you for the small references to the drone targetting issue

  • @kennygemmoon1955
    @kennygemmoon1955 Před měsícem

    The amount of joy Ryan experienced upon his little shenanigan with the blobs shows pure love for life

  • @slmpetr
    @slmpetr Před měsícem +47

    Military activity makes the most sense. Cloud seeding has been a thing for a while now, and the bacteria found in the blobs are thought to cause pnumonia. Military was probably testing if they could get a city full of people sick, and the blobs were an unexpected chemical formation.

    • @rowanmiller6035
      @rowanmiller6035 Před měsícem +2

      Wasn't there an experiment like that done with fog in San Francisco?

    • @bestieswithtesties
      @bestieswithtesties Před měsícem +3

      Nah the blobs were the carrier of the pathogens obviously. Chosen for specific reasons, possibly its ability to protect and spread microbes. That's probably what they were testing like you said. How to spread pathogens everywhere. The jelly was what spread it around everywhere.

    • @MissPuppy468
      @MissPuppy468 Před měsícem

      ​@@rowanmiller6035yup there was! Although at the time they didnt think that specific bacteria could get people sick and were checking wind patterns or something (they were very, very wrong about the first part).

  • @vwaaaat
    @vwaaaat Před měsícem +74

    Im also going with military. The military have been trying for decades to "seed" clouds to encourage rain for droughts. Now as to the actual substances idk. Why test it in a place that literally get feet of rain per year idk. But the idea of a fighter jet just dropping tons of Orbeez into a cloud over the cascades gives me a little chuckle.

    • @basicbrittani
      @basicbrittani Před měsícem +5

      They achieved it now. There’s some videos online of them making clouds

  • @KingNisch13
    @KingNisch13 Před 28 dny

    Found this channel recently, but I've been catching up on the back catalog at work today, and I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!

  • @lindacase4064
    @lindacase4064 Před měsícem +1

    Love the sponsorship. It was like watching back Shane's old video. Professor Morris Ashley makes a come back. So happy

  • @SuperAmzy1
    @SuperAmzy1 Před měsícem +30

    They spoke to my ADHD side and I ended up putting Bowfinger on and got distracted watching it for over 15 mins until I remembered what led me to it. Thank you guys for that. 🤣

  • @jessicaliu7090
    @jessicaliu7090 Před měsícem +92

    That transition from Shane licking his lips to the Mystery Files opening is fantastic

  • @entr0pix
    @entr0pix Před měsícem +2

    ive never started skipping a sponsor segment, then actually backed up and decided to watch it before, hats off boys

  • @ashleysullivan8168
    @ashleysullivan8168 Před měsícem +2

    Not sure if the US just has better equipped small town labs, but as someone that works in a lab at small town hospital in Canada, we would have no way of examining something like this besides putting it under the microscope with a 100x magnification lens. Yes, you can see white blood cells under that, but I would question if they stained the blobs with hematology stain to positively ID the white blood cells, or if they just did a wet prep which leaves cells and particles colourless in the liquid sample. Identifying weird blobs is not on our lab license, so that would get sent out to a referral lab really quick.

  • @jayeharrison4533
    @jayeharrison4533 Před měsícem +26

    Does anyone else just love the intro to this show? The question marks and the music get me way excited to watch this.

  • @captainblacksand8484
    @captainblacksand8484 Před měsícem +27

    A visit from Professor Morris Ashley after all these years?? We are truly blessed

  • @jakejohnsonmusic
    @jakejohnsonmusic Před měsícem +2

    Well, I just rewatched an ad. Definitely the greatest in history.

  • @eyeseajujubee
    @eyeseajujubee Před měsícem +1

    The giggles in Mystery Files are precious and better than any solved mystery

  • @noelledowney7168
    @noelledowney7168 Před měsícem +22

    Shane’s ad read in this was amazing??? Love the throwback and the rap was perfection, 10/10

  • @buzzii
    @buzzii Před měsícem +9

    I love the sponsership bits. Them being “little video tapes” is perfect

  • @JarlBrynjolf
    @JarlBrynjolf Před měsícem

    how far you guys and your humor has come is god tier

  • @Rjwubs
    @Rjwubs Před měsícem +2

    Typically I skip sponsored segments, but wow ya got me to watch 😂

  • @joshuayarrington9684
    @joshuayarrington9684 Před měsícem +36

    can you please do episodes on the following:
    -Where is Canadian Clubs hidden whiskey?
    -Where are the hidden Gems of the Book "The Secret"?
    -The Kentucky Alien invasion in the 1950's
    -The mysterious birds of Audubon's "Birds of America" book
    -The Montana Hyena
    -The mysterious abandonment of Portlock Alaska
    -The theories of what is behind the Missing 411 cases in the US.
    -Kasperov vs Deep Blue computer
    -What hit Officer Val Johnsons Car?
    -Why are there Piranhas in Americas Waterways?
    -Dalnegorsk Spaceship remnants.
    -What did Captain Mantell encounter over FT. Knox?
    -Who were the Sea People that collapsed the Bronze Age Civilizations?
    -The strange encounter between Woodrow Derenburger & Indrid Cold.
    -Did Patience Worth write poetry from beyond the grave?
    -The Green Children of Woolpit
    -What flew over Washington DC in July of 1952?
    -Shag Harbor incident
    -Flight 2501 & the Michigan Triangle
    -Meat Rain of Coach farm
    -The Clairvoyance of Lady Wonder
    -Americas First bank heist with Pat Lyons
    -The blue people of Kentucky
    -What guards the treasure of the Superstition Mountains?
    -What scared the Herrman family in 1958?
    -Ted Serios' "Thoughtographs".
    -What causes the "Third Man Effect"?
    -Where is the City of El Dorado?
    -Where is the Gold of the Cara Nevada?
    -Could Charles Hatfield make it rain?
    -How did Alfred Hobbs pick the Bramah lock?
    -What caused the sinking of the M/S Estonia?
    -What was the substance that inspired "The Blob".
    -What caused the "La Pain Maudit" incident?
    -Who was the Real Shakespeare?
    -The Beast of Bladenboro (I especially want Shane to do this one).

  • @chelsihoward2167
    @chelsihoward2167 Před měsícem +31

    my grandma was oakville’s first acorn queen

    • @haleyc.3530
      @haleyc.3530 Před měsícem +8

      Oh my that makes you the acorn princess what a honor to have royalty in the comments

    • @DrArku
      @DrArku Před měsícem +1

      The what now?

    • @MissSimone02
      @MissSimone02 Před měsícem +1

      Please pay tribute in the form of 1000 acorns to our acorn princess!
      Effective immediately!

  • @humanure1878
    @humanure1878 Před měsícem

    I’m so happy to have found you guys again!!