The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Why Files covers mysteries, myths and legends. We tell stories and seek the truth in a fun and lighthearted way. Our content is heavily researched; we don't release an episode unless we're sure we can bring something new to a topic.
The Hopi Prophecy: The End of the World in Nine Signs
The Basement: William Shatner | Beyond the Final Frontier: Life, Death, and What Comes After
Send for a Priest: Three Houses With Something Inside
The Basement: Jeffrey Kripal | Inside the Archives of the Impossible
The Basement: Michael Salla | Nordics, Grays, and the Secret Space Program
The Titanic Never Sank
The Basement: Ed Barnhart | Lost Cities, Botflies, and a Magic Number
The CIA, the Soviet Union, and a Missing UFO Blueprint
The Basement: Alex Petkas | Julius Caesar's Final 24 Hours
Burned by a UFO: The Cash-Landrum Incident
The Basement: Brian Laythe | Ghosts, Possession, and Shadow People
The Poltergeist Who Follows You Home
The Basement: Donald Hoffman | Consciousness, Math, and the Case for Letting Go
Bases in the Ocean, and a War for Earth | The Friendship Case
The Basement: Dan Flores | Ice Age Giants, Camels in America, and Coyote Resilience
The Zone of Silence: America's Missile Secret
The Basement: Quantum Compilation | From Particle Colliders to Parallel Realities
The Alien Murders: Three Bodies, Three UFOs
The Basement: Diana Pasulka | Angels, Vatican Archives, and a Government Email
The Basque Bloodline | Descendants of Atlantis
The Basement: Mitch Horowitz | Gandhi, Reagan, and the Occultists History Erased
They Left Everything Behind Except an Explanation
The Basement: Travis Taylor | Black Holes, UFOs & Skinwalker Ranch
JFK's Assassination and the CIA's Psychic Cold War
The Basement: MrBallen | YouTube's Best Storyteller Tells His Own
The Hunter Who Became the Hunted | Carl Higdon Abduction
The Basement: John B. Alexander | Roswell, MJ-12, Skinwalker: The Colonel Who Was There
The Basement: Jeremy Corbell | Betrayal, Surveillance, and the Secret Higher Than Nuclear Weapons
Prophecy of the Popes | Saint Malachy's Countdown
Human Evolution and the Power of the Mind: Science Compilation
Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5
The Basement: Thomas Campbell | This Sound Frequency Unlocks Out-of-Body Travel
Stories That Still Haunt the Internet: The Soup Room, The Masked Feast, The Station That Isn't There
The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside
Project Chronos | Hitler's Last Weapon
The Basement: Dave Paulides | Missing 411 and Cases the Government Won't Let You See
The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster
The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There
Canada's Most Documented UFO Case | Falcon Lake
The Basement: Bryce Zabel | Disclosure Day, Dark Skies, and Hollywood UFO Deals
The Basement: Joshua Cutchin | Fairies, Bigfoot, and the Connection Nobody Saw Coming
Parallel Universes Are Real — And People Fall Into Them
The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed
The Forbidden Theory of Morphic Resonance
The Basement: Luke Caverns | LiDAR Is Revealing Ancient Cities the Amazon Was Hiding
The Basement: Rizwan Virk | The Simulation Hypothesis, Quantum Physics & Mysticism
The Machines Are Watching You | And They Know Everything (Compilation)
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar
What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man
The Basement: Nerdrotic | From Folsom Prison to Millions of Subscribers
Strange But True: Toxic Lady, The Cecil Hotel, Farmhouse Murders
The Basement: Jeffrey Mishlove | Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness. It Filters It
When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations and Classified Ops (COMPILATION)
Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door
Basement: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells You
The Roswell Alien Interview | Your Soul Has Been Here Thousands of Times
Basement: Marc D'Antonio | UFO Propulsion, The Fifth Dimension, and 40 Billion Habitable Worlds
True Internet Horrors: Chip-Chan, Local 58, and The Plague Doctor
The Basement: Eric Wargo | The Block Universe, UFO Time Machines, and Precognitive Dreams
The Science of Death | The Living Feel It Too
Basement: Avi Loeb | 3I Atlas, Alien Craft, and Suppressed Research
Vanished: Three Disappearances Nobody Can Explain
The Basement: Hugh Newman | Giant Skeletons, Sumerian Myths, and Megaliths
The Murder Cult Started By A Banned Post
The Basement: Scott Wolter | Knights Templar, the Green Jar and the Scroll That Changes Everything
Science Behind Time Storms | Time Isn't What You Think It Is
UFO Disclosure, Varginha, and the Captured Creature: James Fox
On The Air: The Silenced Caller, The Mojave Phone Booth and The Alien In The Freezer
UFO Contact, Government Secrets and the CIA | Basement: Chris Bledsoe
Templars, Atlantis, and the Ark of the Covenant | Basement: Tim Hogan
Kennedy Assassination, Moon Conspiracy and NASA's Lies | Basement: Mike Bara
Project Anchor: NASA's Secret Gravity Shutdown Program
Unexplained Phenomena: The Dead Village, Rain Phenomena, YouTube Mystery
Ancient Prophecies Predicted Hitler's Rise and Fall
Witnesses of: Black Eyed Kids, Phone Calls from the Dead, The Cursed Heart
COMPILATION: Staff Picks A to Z: From Aliens to Zombies, From Giants to Gobekli Tepe
The Man Who Saw Christ Still Walks Among Us | Immortal Count of St Germain Revisited
The Lost Labyrinth of Hawara: Evidence of Atlantis in Egypt
They Walk Among Us | The Human-Alien Hybrid Program
The First Earth Battalion: America's Strangest Military Experiment
Psyops: From Dead Babies to UFOs - The Same Pattern Every Time
The Devil's Bible and the Nazi Hole to Hell
Lincoln Conspiracy: a Diary, a Mummy and The Escape of John Wilkes Booth
CIA Time Travel Secret | The Grays Are Future Humans
The CIA, Men in Black and the Plot to Take Out JFK | The Maury Island Incident
612: The Dark Alliance: CIA and DARPA's Hidden War on Citizens (COMPILATION)
CONPLAN 8888: The Secret Plan to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
Majestic 12 | Secret Documents Expose UFO Cover-Up Vol. 1
609: COMPILATION: UFOs and Aliens Vol.2 | They are NOT our friends
Peru's Most Terrifying Mystery | The Face Peelers
Asteroid Apophis is Coming | Ground Zero: California
The Ancient Time Capsule Controlled by the Global Shadow Government
The Greada Treaty | America's Alien Alliance (STRIPPED)
Cryptids Vol. 4 | Bunyips, Yowie and Australian Nightmare Fuel
The Real CIA Vol. 1 | 693 Pages of Forbidden Government Secrets
Project Ancient Arrow | The NSA's Secret War Against Our Future
The Pentyrch UFO Incident | Hiding the Evidence of Human-Alien Combat
600: COMPILATION: Mars Mysteries and Secret Missions
Project Pegasus | The CIA's Child Time Soldiers
Synchronicities | The Science Behind Your Meaningful Coincidences (STRIPPED)
Planet Maldek | The Classified Truth About Mars' Origin (STRIPPED)
The Awakening of Human Consciousness | Forbidden Fungus (STRIPPED)
Dark Oxygen | CIA Deep Sea Secret Could Trigger the Next Extinction Event (STRIPPED)
The Midnight Game | When Ancient Shadows Come To Play (STRIPPED)
Earth's Mantis Overlords | They've Been Here all Along (STRIPPED)
Proving Atlantis | The Megalithic Yard Mystery (STRIPPED)
Mysteries of the Sea Vol 2: Ghost Ships & Desert Galleons | Unexplained Maritime Disappearances
When Earth's Shield Fails the Dead Will Rise | The Plasma Apocalypse (STRIPPED)
Proving the Afterlife | The Scole Experiments (STRIPPED)
588: COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries
587: MEGA COMPILATION: Dreams & Nightmares
Weather Weapons & Worse | Tesla's Stolen Tech and the New Arms Race
Operation Prato | Alien Vampires of the Amazon
Cryptids Vol. 3: The Antarctic Cover-up | Predators Beneath the Ice
Legend of the 13 Crystal Skulls | From Mars to the Maya
582: COMPILATION: Pyramids, Mounds and Mountains
The Disappearance of Peter Williamson | Lightning Pants from Another Dimension
Nuclear Powered Evolution | The Wolves of Chernobyl Reveal Human Potential
DEEP DIVE: Nazi Prophecies
The Quantum Apocalypse: All Your Secrets Revealed
The Seventh Experiment: Lacerta Reveals the Truth of our Creation
Operation Eagle Flight: The Escape from Berlin to Bariloche
The Underground Grid: Electricity Linking Four Famous Monsters
Project Redsun: NASA's Secret Manned Missions to Mars
573: Symbols of Power: Deciphering the Language of the Secret Elite
572: COMPILATION: The Science of Ghosts and Ghost Hunting
Project Blue Beam: Staging a Fake Alien Attack to Take Over the World
570: COMPILATION: The Stories That Made Me a Believer
Alien Implants Vol. 1 | Devil’s Den UFO Encounter: What Was Found Inside Terry Lovelace?
Operation Sunray | Hunting the Entity in the Tsarichina Hole
Accidental Time Travelers | The Mystery and Science of Time Slips
566: Compilation: Stories about the Apocalypse
565: COMPILATION: Biblical Mysteries from Eden to Armageddon
Illuminati Vol. 1: The Bilderberg Blueprint and Hidden Agenda of Global Elites
The Pascagoula UFO Incident | When Nightmares Come True
The Moon Compilation: The Moon is Weird - No , really. The Moon does not make sense.
Philadelphia to Montauk and Beyond | Al Bielek's Journey through Time and Space
Operation Gladio | How The Mob Financed The CIA's Secret Army
559: Compilation: Our Reality is an Illusion
The Dark Side of DARPA | The Human Cost of Technological Supremacy
DEEP DIVE: Ark of the Covenant
556: Compilation: Ancient Mysteries vol 1
DEEP DIVE: The Philadelphia Experiment
The Dark Side of the Moon | Alien Activity and the NASA Cover-Up
Killer Patents & Secret Science Vol. 2 | Forbidden Medical Cures
DEEP DIVE: The Moon is a Hollow Alien Spacecraft
Giants of Malta | Evidence the Ancient Builders are Hiding Underground
UNREDACTED: Hunting the Führer: Investigating the Rumors of Adolf Hitler's Survival
Subliminal Warfare | Mind Control and Invisible Influence
DEEP DIVE: Digital Afterlife: Preserving Your Mind for Eternity
The Genetic Arms Race | How CRISPR and AI Destroy the World
The Dark Pyramid of Alaska | Military Cover-up of a Forbidden Collaboration
Killer Patents & Secret Science Vol. 1 | Free Energy & Anti-Gravity Cover-Ups
Our Alien Overlords | How We Secretly Serve The Tall Whites
DEEP DIVE: Deadly Triangles: Nevada, Bermuda and the Dragon's Triangle
Martian Mysteries: The Phobos Incident, Monoliths, and Ancient Ruins
DEEP DIVE: Reincarnation or Obsession? The Puzzling Case of Dorothy Eady and other Past Lives
Annunaki | Gods from Planet Nibiru and the Makers of Man
DEEP DIVE: UFO Time Travelers Sergei Ponomarenko and Rudolph Fentz
539: COMPILATION: Weird and Bizarre Stories from the archives!
538: COMPILATION: Time Travel Stories!
537: COMPILATION: UFOs and Aliens
536: COMPILATION: Creepy Classics!
Creatures & Cryptid Files Vol 1: Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, and El Chupacabra
DEEP DIVE: The Labyrinth Below: Derinkuyu's Ancient Mysteries
Hidden Beneath the Ice: The Secrets of Antarctica
DEEP DIVE: Titanpointe: NYC's Windowless Monster Monitoring You
Lucid Dreams & Nightmares: Ever Dream This Man?
DEEP DIVE: The Fear Frequency: Havana Syndrome & Sonic Attacks
Knights Templar |Their Discovery of Atlantis and other Forbidden Knowledge
We Are the Aliens | Life's Interstellar Journey to Earth: Panspermia
DEEP DIVE: Edgar Cayce | The Sleeping Prophet's Eerie Predictions
DEEP DIVE: Cryptic Broadcasts | Numbers Stations Mysteries Revealed
Humans vs Neanderthals | When Monsters Were Real and We Were Their Prey
DEEP DIVE: Operation Highjump: Unraveling the Antarctic Mystery
Baltic Sea Anomaly, Atlantis, and Underwater Alien Bases | Mysteries of the Ocean Pt 1
Proof of Life After Death: Hope and a Warning From The Other Side
DEEP DIVE / UNREDACTED: How Paul Bennewitz and Ed Ruppelt Saved the World from Aliens and the CIA
Project 8200 Exposed | CIA Psychics Find Alien Bases Underground
DEEP DIVE: Tesla, Tunguska and the Awesome Power of the Pyramid
DEEP DIVE: The Dodleston Messages | A Time Travel Story
UNREDACTED: Aleister Crowley: The Beast Unleashed
DEEP DIVE: Mount Shasta: The Most Paranormal Place On Earth
The Search for Noah's Ark | Giants & Aliens in the Book of Enoch
DEEP DIVE: The Montauk Project | The Truth is Darker Than You Can Possibly Imagine
Mystery in Cisco Grove: Don Shrum’s Encounter with UFOs, Aliens and Robots
DEEP DIVE: Are Humans the First Civilization? The Silurian Hypothesis
Project Looking Glass | The Time Warriors of the 2012 Apocalypse
DEEP DIVE: Smithsonian Cover-Up: Ancient Egyptians and Giants in the Grand Canyon
The UFO Incident That Shocked Ariel School: Telepathic Extraterrestrials
Kenny Veach Vanishes on his Quest for the M Cave | Mojave Mysteries Vol. 1
DEEP DIVE: The Dead Internet Theory | It's ALL Fake
Kenny Veach Vanishes on his Quest for the M Cave | Mojave Mysteries Vol. 1
DEEP DIVE: MK Ultra Exposed: We Name the Names behind the CIA's Sinister Mind Control Projects
Backyard Time Machine: The Time Travel Mystery of Mike “Mad Man” Marcum
DEEP DIVE: Simulation Theory - Evidence is Everywhere
Göbekli Tepe and the Prophecy of Pillar 43 | Apocalypse and the Vulture Stone
DEEP DIVE: Legend of the Immortal Count of Saint Germain
20 And Back - The Super Soldiers Defending the Kuiper Belt
DEEP DIVE: The Black Knight Satellite | Ancient Craft Watching us From Orbit
Gravity is a Lie, Nothing is Real, the Universe is Electric
DEEP DIVE: The Adam & Eve Apocalypse Story
Time-Slip Artifacts: Modern Objects in the Ancient World - Volume 1
Skyquakes, Upsweeps, Bloops and Sky Trumpets | Terrifying Sounds that Signal the End of the World
The Horrors of Plum Island | Hybrids, Human Experiments and Weaponized Killer Insects
The Rendlesham UFO Encounter and the Alien Message from the Future
Many Worlds Theory: You're Living in a Universe | Can You Visit Your Other Lives?
Ghost Lights or Alien Tech? Signals from Beyond the Grave or Beyond the Solar System?
The Moon’s Dark Secret: Aliens Harvesting Human Souls
Rise of Atlantis and Fall of the Lemuria: The War that Sank a Continent
Solving Cicada 3301: Decoding the Internet's Greatest Mystery
Ghost Hunting: The Science of the Other Side
Finding Agartha: The Search for the Hidden City in the Center of the Earth
The UFO Incident That Shocked Ariel School: Telepathic Extraterrestrials
The Moon Landing: Stanley Kubrick's Greatest Film | How NASA and Hollywood Fooled the World
Indrid Cold, the Truth about Planet Lanulos and the Mystery of the Smiling Man
Artificial Intelligence Out of Control: The Apocalypse is Here | How AI and ChatGPT End Humanity
Forbidden Archaeology: Lost Giants of America | The Smithsonian's Biggest Secret
The Truth about Roswell: Decoding Decades of Deception
Operation Mincemeat: The Shadow Catalyst for CIA's Dark Age
Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors
Aliens & Espionage: Crop Circles and the CIA Coverup
Surviving The Sixth Extinction: Are we too late?
Varginha UFO Crash: Alien Contact, Government Denial and Coverup
Sacred Object or Ancient Weapon? Where is the Ark of the Covenant and what technology did it use?
Martian Mysteries: What NASA doesn't want you to know
Mothman Returns: Point Pleasant Legend to Chicago Terror
Shattering the Illusion: Exorcism and the Truth About Possessions
America's Secret Space Program and the Alien Connection: Solar Warden
What's Hiding Underneath Denver Airport? The Truth about the Strangest Airport in the World
The Gateway Process: the CIA's classified Space & Time Travel system that you can learn
CIA Declassified: What Backwards Secrets are you hiding in your Reverse Speech?
The Emerald Tablet Contains the Secret to Immortality | The Philosopher's Stone from Atlantis
Tesla's Most Destructive Weapon | The Tunguska Event: Comet Impact or Death Ray Experiment?
Are all the UFOs an invasion or has Project Blue Beam finally begun?
Sergei Ponomarenko : The UFO Time Traveler
Georgia Guidestones Destroyed by a Villain or a Hero?
He found Giants then the Government Found Him | What really happened to Andrew Dawson?
Apollo 20: The Secret Mission to the Moon to Salvage an Ancient Alien Spacecraft
CIA Classified Book about the End of the World | The True Adam & Eve Story
The Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abduction | The Weirdest Story You'll Ever Hear
Thanks a Million: Year End Wrap and Story of The Why Files
Shadow People and The Hat Man | Who are they? What do they want?
Smithsonian Cover-Up: Ancient Egyptians and Giants in the Grand Canyon
The US Military's Secret Flying Saucer Project | Alien Reproduction Vehicles (ARVs)
Proof of Reincarnation | Dorothy Eady: Ancient Egyptian Priestess Reborn
From Amityville to Annabelle | The Truth of Ed and Lorraine Warren's Scariest Case
Project Serpo: The Secret 10-Year Mission to a Planet 40 Million Light Years Away
Spontaneous Human Combustion
ALIEN WAR at The Dulce Underground Base | They Mysterious Death of Phil Schneider
Every Event is Secretly Encoded in the Bible even YOUR Birthday (and the Apocalypse)
83: Alien Probe, Sentient Machine, Nuclear Weapon, or Junk? What is the Betz Mystery Sphere?
Michigan Dogmen, The Beast of Bray Road and True Stories of Werewolves
TESLA KNEW The Secret of the Great Pyramid: Unlimited Free Energy to Power The World
JOHN TITOR: Soldier from the Future | Can this time traveler save us from destruction?
The Airforce UFO Cover Up That Drove a Man INSANE | The Paul Bennewitz Story
The CIA Assassination of Frank Olson | The Murder that Exposed MK-ULTRA
The Montauk Project: The Truth is Darker Than You Think
75: Legend of the Phantom Fortress | The Plane that Flew and Landed Itself
Getting to the Bottom of Mel's Hole
The Dark Watchers: Silent Guardians of the Pines
A UFO, the Pentagon and a 3-year Mission to Save the World. The True Story of Valiant Thor
THREE STORIES: The Most Mysterious Children in History
An Empty World, A Time Traveler, Another Dimension | Liminal Spaces: The Reality In-between
The Moon is a Hollow Spaceship | Who built it and why?
The Vatican's Secret Time Machine | The Story of the Chronovisor
The Black Knight Satellite - Watching us from orbit for 13,000 years
Interdimensional Traveler from a Parallel Universe: The Man from Taured
Operation Highjump: Hunting the Secret Nazi UFO Base In Antarctica
The Circleville Letters Mystery
Evidence that Reality is a Simulation
Sounds from the Hell | The Siberian Drilling Project that went Very Wrong
How a UFO Caused the Battle of Los Angeles
THE LEGEND of the Immortal: The Count of Saint Germain
The Most Paranormal Place On Earth - What's Happening on Mount Shasta?
Why Ancient People Didn't See the Color Blue
Why Superstitions Are Good For You
Another Carrington Event? You Are NOT Prepared for the Coming Solar Storms
It's All FAKE | The Dead Internet Theory
Alien Bases On The Moon | The Amazing True Story of Ingo Swann
Legend of the Moon Eyed People | Before Christopher Columbus?
MIT Computer Predicts the World Will End in 2040 - First Signs Appear in 2020
Messages Through Time - A Time Travel Story
Civilization Before Humans? Silurian Hypothesis
Atlantis World War Pole Shift - The Terrifying Predictions of Edgar Cayce
Paul Amadeus Dienach spent a year in 3906. He wrote down everything he saw.
Bigfoot Aliens KGB? Dyatlov Pass explained -- and solved
Project: STARGATE. The CIA, Mars and... Time Travel.
Sonic Weapons, Havana Syndrome and The Fear Frequency
The Thing Embassy Incident: How Russian children and the KGB trolled America for years
How Long Can Humans Live Without Their Head?
When will we upload our consciousness to the cloud?
The Latitude Society - Game, Business, or Cult? (Yes.)
The Phantom Time Hypothesis -- The Middle Ages Never Happened
NY's Windowless Skyscraper actually a NSA Spy Hub called TITANPOINTE
Tesla's technology to talk to spirits of the dead
Area 51 Airline? | JANET: The Secret Government Airline That Doesn't Exist
Polybius: The Addictive Mind Control Game That's More Truth than Legend
Comparing Earth technology with alien civilizations | The Kardashev Scale
The Dog Suicide Bridge | Why Have Hundreds of Dogs Jumped?
The Max Headroom Incident. UNSOLVED: The Creepiest TV Hack in History
Ancient Acoustic Levitation | How The Pyramids Were Built?
Stuxnet | The Computer Virus that prevented and started the next world war
Earthquakes Asteroids Zombies: Predictions of Nostradamus
Numbers Stations | Listen to Spy Broadcasts, Audio & Coded Messages
9 Time Travel Stories | Is Time Travel Possible? Evidence says yes, it is.
Aztec Death Whistle | The Scariest Sound You've Ever Heard
The Nevada Triangle | 2,000 Planes Mysteriously Crashed & Missing Near Area 51 👽
The Philadelphia Experiment - The truth about invisibility, teleportation and time travel
What does outer space smell like? (You're not gonna like it.)
The Voynich Manuscript Decoded - Have We Finally Solved the Most Mysterious Book in the World?
Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died
The Most Secret Places in the World