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.
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Episodes (297)
The Zone of Silence: America's Missile Secret
Sep 5, 2026
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The Basement: Quantum Compilation | From Particle Colliders to Parallel Realities
Aug 31, 2026
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The Alien Files: Three Bodies, Three UFOs
Aug 29, 2026
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The Basement: Diana Pasulka | Angels, Vatican Archives, and a Government Email
Aug 24, 2026
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The Basque Bloodline | Descendants of Atlantis
Aug 21, 2026
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The Basement: Mitch Horowitz | Gandhi, Reagan, and the Occultists History Erased
Aug 17, 2026
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They Left Everything Behind Except an Explanation
Aug 15, 2026
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The Basement: Travis Taylor | Black Holes, UFOs & Skinwalker Ranch
Aug 10, 2026
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JFK's Assassination and the CIA's Psychic Cold War
Aug 8, 2026
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The Basement: MrBallen | YouTube's Best Storyteller Tells His Own
Aug 3, 2026
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The Hunter Who Became the Hunted | Carl Higdon Abduction
Jul 31, 2026
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The Basement: John B. Alexander | Roswell, MJ-12, Skinwalker: The Colonel Who Was There
Jul 27, 2026
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The Basement: Jeremy Corbell | Betrayal, Surveillance, and the Secret Higher Than Nuclear Weapons
Jul 20, 2026
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Prophecy of the Popes | Saint Malachy's Countdown
Jul 18, 2026
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Human Evolution and the Power of the Mind: Science Compilation
Jul 15, 2026
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Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5
Jul 14, 2026
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The Basement: Thomas Campbell | This Sound Frequency Unlocks Out-of-Body Travel
Jul 13, 2026
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Stories That Still Haunt the Internet: The Soup Room, The Masked Feast, The Station That Isn't There
Jul 11, 2026
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The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside
Jul 6, 2026
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Project Chronos | Hitler's Last Weapon
Jul 3, 2026
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The Basement: Dave Paulides | Missing 411 and Cases the Government Won't Let You See
Jun 29, 2026
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The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster
Jun 26, 2026
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The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There
Jun 22, 2026
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Canada's Most Documented UFO Case | Falcon Lake
Jun 19, 2026
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The Basement: Bryce Zabel | Disclosure Day, Dark Skies, and Hollywood UFO Deals
Jun 13, 2026
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The Basement: Joshua Cutchin | Fairies, Bigfoot, and the Connection Nobody Saw Coming
Jun 8, 2026
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Parallel Universes Are Real — And People Fall Into Them
Jun 6, 2026
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The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed
Jun 1, 2026
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The Forbidden Theory of Morphic Resonance
May 29, 2026
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The Basement: Luke Caverns | LIDAR Is Revealing Ancient Cities the Amazon Was Hiding
May 27, 2026
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The Basement: Rizwan Virk | The Simulation Hypothesis, Quantum Physics & Mysticism
May 18, 2026
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The Machines Are Watching You | And They Know Everything (Compilation)
May 17, 2026
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The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar
May 11, 2026
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What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man
May 8, 2026
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The Basement: Nerdrotic | From Folsom Prison to Millions of Subscribers
May 4, 2026
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Strange But True: Toxic Lady, The Cecil Hotel, Farmhouse Murders
May 1, 2026
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The Basement: Jeffrey Mishlove | Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness. It Filters It
Apr 27, 2026
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When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations and Classified Ops (COMPILATION)
Apr 24, 2026
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Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door
Apr 20, 2026
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Basement #011: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells You
Apr 13, 2026
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The Roswell Alien Interview | Your Soul Has Been Here Thousands of Times
Apr 10, 2026
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Basement #010: Marc D'Antonio | UFO Propulsion, The Fifth Dimension, and 40 Billion Habitable Worlds
Apr 6, 2026
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True Internet Horrors: Chip-Chan, Local 58, and The Plague Doctor
Apr 3, 2026
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639: Basement #009: Eric Wargo | The Block Universe, UFO Time Machines, and Precognitive Dreams
Mar 30, 2026
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638: The Science of Death | The Living Feel It Too
Mar 27, 2026
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637: Basement #008: Avi Loeb | 3I Atlas, Alien Craft, and Suppressed Research
Mar 23, 2026
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636: Vanished: Three Disappearances Nobody Can Explain
Mar 20, 2026
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635: Basement #007: Hugh Newman | Giant Skeletons, Sumerian Myths, and Megaliths
Mar 16, 2026
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634: Roko's Basilisk: The Murder Cult Started By A Banned Post
Mar 13, 2026
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633: Knights Templar, the Green Jar and the Scroll That Changes Everything | Basement #006: Scott Wolter
Mar 9, 2026
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