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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June 19, 2026 • 38 mins
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June 13, 2026 • 184 mins
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June 8, 2026 • 166 mins
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Josh Cutchin is a researcher, author, and musician whose work occupies a rare space between rigorous scholarship and genuine open-mindedness. Josh Cutchin is a researcher, author, and musician whose work occupies a rare space between rigorous scholarship and genuine open-mindedness. Over eight books he has built a unified argument that Bigfoot...
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June 6, 2026 • 45 mins
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Gather round, because this happened. A woman drives through her hometown and the cemetery is gone — replaced by a dirt lot. A man is found behind a fast food restaurant with no name, no history, and no record of existing for twent...
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June 1, 2026 • 173 mins
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Joseph Matheny invented something in 1989 that nobody had a name for yet. He called it a story. The internet called it the first alternate reality game. The Navy called him to ask how he did it. He turned them do...
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May 29, 2026 • 40 mins
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May 27, 2026 • 290 mins
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The Basement: Luke Caverns | LIDAR Is Revealing Ancient Cities the Amazon Was Hiding
Luke Caverns is an anthropologist and explorer who's mapped over 80 ancient archaeological sites using LIDAR — sites that don...
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May 18, 2026 • 185 mins
Rizwan Virk built games downloaded millions of times, invested early in Discord, and taught at MIT. Then he put on a VR headset in Sausalito and nearly fell over reaching for a table that didn't exist.
That five-second moment sent him down a rabbit hole connecting quantum physics, Eastern mysticism, and video game design — and he's not sure he's found the bottom yet.
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May 16, 2026 • 176 mins
Secret listening posts sit inside ordinary buildings in major cities. Numbers stations still broadcast coded messages over shortwave radio — and no one officially admits why.
This compilation traces the full arc of modern surveillance, from hidden urban infrastructure and sonic weapons to subliminal influence campaigns and a computer virus that nearly started a world war.
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May 11, 2026 • 186 mins
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Luigi Vendittelli was 9 years old when his grandfather came inside shaking, saying he'd just seen a flying saucer over Montreal. Nobody believed him.
That moment turned Luigi into Canada's foremost UFO investigator — and eventuall...
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May 8, 2026 • 40 mins
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Hundreds of survivors across a century — climbers, sailors, divers, soldiers — report the same thing. At the moment they were about to die, a calm presence appeared beside them.
It gave directions. It knew the way out. It disappeared the moment the danger passed.
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May 4, 2026 • 210 mins
Before YouTube. Before millions of subscribers. Before Friday Night Tights — Gary Buechler had a story almost nobody knew. It starts at Folsom Prison, a neighbor's jar of pennies, and a double-murderer cellmate who wouldn't leave him alone.
His memoir is called Waiting For. That title alone should tell you something. He sat down with AJ in The Basement and held nothing back. Watch to the end.
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May 1, 2026 • 40 mins
Gather round, this happened. A nurse draws blood and collapses before she can speak. A Bavarian farmer finds footprints in the snow that only go one way. A hotel guest complains the water tastes sweet.
Three stories. Three cases that were investigated, closed, and never fully explained.
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April 27, 2026 • 182 mins
Jeffrey Mishlove has spent 50 years at the intersection of science and the paranormal.
He holds the only PhD in parapsychology ever awarded by an accredited American university, earned at UC Berkeley in 1980 — and successfully defended it in court when organized skeptics tried to have it revoked.
He hosted the long-running television series Thinking Allowed, conducting over 1,500 interviews with the world's leading research...
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April 24, 2026 • 237 mins
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In 1954, President Eisenhower signed a treaty with extraterrestrial beings — technology in exchange for access to human subjects. The CIA ran classified programs using children as test subjects for time travel and teleportation. A Bulgarian military unit sealed an excavation site after soldiers encountered som...
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April 20, 2026 • 204 mins
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Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at UC Irvine and an active researcher at CERN's Large Hadron Collider — the largest machine ever built — where 5,000 scientists are using high-energy collisions to read the universe's secret...
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April 13, 2026 • 256 mins
Peter Levenda has spent more than thirty years investigating the connections between occult history, intelligence operations, and the events that shaped the modern world.
He is the author of more than twenty books, including Unholy Alliance, the Sinister Forces trilogy, and the Secret Machines series co-written with Tom DeLong. His work draws on primary documents, national archives, and firsthand research across four continents....
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April 10, 2026 • 38 mins
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In 2007, a writer named Lawrence Spencer opened an envelope he didn't ask for.
Inside were military documents from Roswell Army Air Field, dated 1947. Duty rosters, memos, Top Secret stamps. And buried near the bottom, transcripts of int...
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April 6, 2026 • 209 mins
Marc D'Antonio is an astronomer specializing in exoplanets, MUFON's
chief photo and video analyst, and the CEO of FX Models — a visual
effects company whose clients include Hollywood studios and defense
contractors.
He co-developed an advanced UFO detection system alongside Douglas
Trumbull, the visual effects legend behind 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner.
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