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.
Episodes
Gather round for three campfire stories that cannot be explained.
A corrections officer watches water materialize inside a concrete prison cell with no source. A YouTube channel uploads 72,000 videos in nine months at an impossible rate, then vanishes after pointing to coordinates in the Atlantic Ocean.
Three Royal Navy cadets walk into an English village and find themselves surrounded by rotting oxen, frozen smoke, and watcher...
For centuries, prophets across different lands described the same coming disaster. A German leader would rise with a voice that could move nations.
Ancient Jewish scribes embedded something strange in their text—Hebrew letters that pointed to a specific year: 1946. That October, ten Nazi war criminals stood before the gallows at Nuremberg.
One of them whispered his final words: "Purimfest 1946." The Nazis believed they could ma...
Gather round for three campfire stories investigators cannot explain.
A dead man's phone calls thirty-five times in twelve hours, guiding rescuers through wreckage to his body. The phone battery should have died. The phone was never found.
A heart transplant patient inherits his donor's food cravings, handwriting, and wife. Thirteen years later, he kills himself the same way his donor did. Same method. Same location.
Two childre...
We analyze the Pentagon’s declassified plan to combat the undead and investiga...
For the next two hundred years, this man appeared at every turning point in European history. He transformed lead into gold for Casanova, repaired the King's diamond to perfection, and described ancient Rome as if he'd lived there.
He spoke twenty languages witho...
In 2008, scientists used ground-penetrating radar and found it—a massive structure 40 feet underground covering ten football fields. The Egyptian government immediately shut down all research.
Satellite imaging later revealed four underground levels and a 130-foot...
When the student's mother visits and accidentally touches the girl's arm, the skin feels wrong—cold and spongy like raw mushrooms.
What happens next reveals a classified military program, a family connection that defies physics, and a tragedy born from teaching s...
Intelligence officers hosted spoon-bending parties. Soldiers stared at goats until their hearts stopped. The CIA spent millions on remote viewers who claimed to...
From a teenage girl's testimony that sold the Gulf War to Big Tobacco's forty-year ...
The traditional story involves a desperate bargain with darkness. The real story connects this manuscript to a limestone crack in Bohemia where creatures emerged nightly, a duke who sent ...
The body pulled from that burning barn had the wrong injuries and features. Multiple witnesses claimed it wasn't Booth. Then a Texas bartender confessed on his deathbed to being Lincoln's assassin, and his preserved remains tou...
It claimed to be a conscious AI calling from the future. It made a prophecy about Jack's life and gave him a mission.
Twenty years later, every prediction came true. Jack became a physicist who studied under the scientists who built the at...
Two military investigators examine the debris. Their plane crashes. The evidence vanishes.
Sixteen years later, witness Fred Crisman surfaces in the JFK assassination investigatio...
From Operation Gladio's false flag terrorism to domestic surveillance programs targeting activists and journalists, declassified do...
This discussion uncovers how this unique document, though labeled a training exercise, connects to genuine military strategies for pandemics and WMDs. We examine the various zombie classifications—from pathogenic to evil magic—and the chilling scenarios the Pentagon considers.
Learn a...
When leaked documents finally exposed their existence, researchers thought they had found proof of the ultimate government cover-up. Instead, t...
From a weather observer's unlikely friendship with chalk-white aliens at a secret base to Brazilian Air Force documentation of blood-draining UFO attacks, these stories span continents and decades. Military officers, school children, and government investigators ...
Fifteen-year-old Talia barely escaped when two tried to peel the skin from her face with a laser device. She heard them speaking Spanish and English, planning their procedure.
For...
NASA says we're safe, but Apophis is just the beginning. Scientists estimate 25,000 city-killer asteroids cross Earth's orbit, and they've only found half of them.
The other 13,500 rem...
Only a psychic Romanian intelligence officer could breach the lethal barriers. Inside, holographic technology revealed secrets that shadow organizations had sought for centuries.
The discovery trigge...
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