From Today I Found Out.

The U.S. state of Washington, in the American Pacific Northwest, is infamous for its wet weather, with rain falling an average of 150 days a year. In Oakville, a small town of around 700 people 70 kilometres southwest of Seattle, average rainfall exceeds 100 centimetres per month from October through April, with the driest months typically being July and August. But the summer of 1994 was different. For in August that year, the ever-present grey clouds hovering over Oakville brought not rain, but a scene straight out of Invasion of the Body Snatchers: torrents of a strange gelatinous white substance that coated every surface, killed dozens of animals, and made anyone who came into contact with it violently ill. Then, as quickly as it appeared, the bizarre substance evaporated into thin air, leaving a mystery that endures to this day.

Author: Gilles Messier
Editor: Daven Hiskey
Host: SImon Whistler
Producer: Samuel Avila