On 7th August 1994, at 3 a.m., something strange fell from the sky over Oakville, Washington. It wasn't rain. It wasn't hail. It was gelatinous blobs—translucent, jelly-like masses the size of rice grains that covered twenty square miles.

Within hours, people across town were violently ill. Animals died. Officer David Lacey could barely breathe. Dotty Hearn collapsed and was hospitalised for three days.

Scientists tested the blobs and found human white blood cells and bacteria from the digestive tract. Microbiologist Mike McDowell concluded they were man-made "carrier systems."

Then all the samples vanished.

Over three weeks, the blobs fell six times. Witnesses reported military helicopters. Men from Fort Hood questioned residents. Anonymous letters claimed government experiments.

Then, in April 2025—31 years later—it happened again in nearby Rochester.

Tonight on Mysteries at Bedtime, we examine one of America's most baffling unsolved phenomena.

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On May 8th, 2008, eighteen-year-old Joshua Maddux left his family home in Woodland Park, Colorado, for a walk. He was a free-spirited young man who loved nature, music, and the outdoors. Going for walks was something he did routinely.

But this time, he never came home.

For seven years, his family searched. They checked homeless shelters, scoured campgrounds, scanned strangers' faces on the street. They held onto hope that Josh would eventually return.

Then, in August 2015, construction workers demolishing an abandoned cabin made a horrifying discovery: a mummified body crammed inside the chimney.

It was Josh. He'd been less than a mile from home the entire time. Two blocks away.

The coroner ruled it an accidental death. But the evidence didn't add up.

Josh was nearly naked, with his clothes folded inside the cabin. A breakfast bar was moved to block the chimney. And rumours swirled about a man who'd bragged about "putting Josh in a hole."

Tonight, the mystery of the boy in the chimney.

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In 1995, a 21-year-old electrical engineering student named Mike Marcum called into Coast to Coast AM with an extraordinary claim: he'd built a device that could make objects travel through time.

He'd thrown a metal screw into an electromagnetic field and watched it vanish for a full second before reappearing several feet away.

Mike's ambition was bold. He wanted to scale up the device, make it big enough for a person to step through, and travel to the future to get winning lottery numbers. But he needed powerful transformers—so he stole six from a local power station, causing a massive blackout. He was arrested and spent 60 days in jail.

After his release, radio listeners sent him parts and money to build a bigger machine. In 1996, Mike announced he was 30 days from completion. Then, in 1997, he vanished.

Tonight on Mysteries at Bedtime, we investigate what really happened to "Madman" Mike Marcum.

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