Divergent Files Podcast
Divergent Files is not a conspiracy podcast. It’s a forensic investigation into the stories we’re told not to question. We don’t follow prepackaged narratives from governments, academia, or corporate media. We don’t accept consensus because it’s convenient. We dissect the noise, challenge the assumptions, and surface what remains — using real documents, declassified material, and evidence most outlets won’t touch. Hosted by Ralph, Divergent Files blends grounded skepticism with cinematic storytelling, where mythology collides with physics and curiosity is treated as a tool — not a threat. Every episode follows the evidence with an open mind, skeptical of cookie-cutter explanations and anchored in receipts, context, and uncomfortable contradictions. From suppressed history and lost science to black-budget programs, intelligence operations, and reality-bending anomalies, the truth comes first — not institutions, not ideology, not optics. This isn’t content. It’s a challenge to the narrative. Prefer visuals? Many episodes have a companion video version featuring documents, footage, and visual evidence. You can watch those episodes on YouTube at: www.YouTube.com/@DivergentFiles
Episodes
In 1973, an unusual late-night visit quietly took place in Florida.
According to multiple independent accounts, President Richard Nixon personally drove entertainer Jackie Gleason to Homestead Air Force Base. There were no aides, no press, no advance notice, and no public explanation. No announcement followed. No official record was released. And no effort was made to publicly deny the claim.
So what actually happened that nigh...
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Recent reporting has renewed public attention around Jeffrey Epstein and the broader network connected to his case. This episode references that context only where it intersects with documented events involving the British royal family and institutional response, and does not engage in speculation, accusation, or tabloid narrative.
Instead, this investigation...
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For nearly a century, reports have surfaced of phone calls, voicemails, radio transmissions, and digital messages appearing to originate from individuals who were already deceased. These incidents span eras, technologies, and cultures, yet follow strikingly similar patterns.
This investigation examines the phenomenon often referred to as “Calls from the Dead”...
This is the audio-only podcast version.
The full video investigation is available separately.
Before we begin, a quick note.
This is a Sunday Archive release.
This episode originally aired when the Divergent Files audience was much smaller.
Over time, it became clear this investigation deserved another listen.
The episode you’re about to hear hasn’t been re-edited.
It reflects the research, tone, and questions as...
This episode is produced exclusively for the Divergent Files Podcast.
The Bay of Pigs invasion is one of the most documented events of the Cold War — yet many of its consequences are still misunderstood. What began as a covert operation to influence Cuba became a turning point that reshaped U.S. intelligence practices, foreign policy decision-making, and global power dynamics.
In this episode, we examine the Bay of Pigs as a hi...
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For more than a century, science has struggled with a question that refuses to resolve: is consciousness created by the brain, or does the brain interface with something deeper? Quantum physics suggests reality behaves differently when observed. Neuroscience still cannot locate where thoughts, memories, or awareness actually exist. And quietly, governments a...
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Today’s episode comes from the Divergent Files archive. It originally aired when our audience was much smaller. With time, it became clear this investigation deserved another listen. The episode has not been re-edited and reflects the research and tone of that period. If you’re new here, welcome to the archive.
On March 8th, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Fl...
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The Louisiana Purchase is commonly remembered as a clean diplomatic agreement that peacefully doubled the size of the United States. The historical record tells a more complicated story.
In this episode, we examine what the treaty of 1803 actually transferred, how U.S. law defined sovereignty at the time, and how expansion unfolded through contracts, legislat...
Before we begin, a quick note.
Today’s episode comes from the Divergent Files archive.
It originally aired when our audience was much smaller.
With time, it became clear this investigation deserved another listen.
The episode has not been re-edited and reflects the research and tone of that period.
If you’re new here, welcome to the archive.
In the middle of the Cold War, the CIA quietly classified a book called The Ad...
Before we begin, a quick note.
This is a Sunday Archive release.
This episode originally aired in [year], when the Divergent Files audience was much smaller. Over time, it became clear this investigation deserved another listen.
The episode you’re about to hear hasn’t been re-edited.
It reflects the research, tone, and questions as they existed then.
If you’re new here, this is part of the Divergent Files archive.
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This episode is produced exclusively for the Divergent Files Podcast.
Long before Alexandria burned, the world’s first true library was already buried.
In 1849, archaeologists excavating the ruins of Nineveh uncovered more than 30,000 clay tablets from the Assyrian Empire. What emerged wasn’t a loose collection of myths or religious texts, but a deliberately organized knowledge system assembled under King Ashurbanipal—covering ...
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In the heart of Romania sits a forest locals refuse to enter—and scientists struggle to explain.
Hoia Baciu Forest has earned its reputation as one of the most disturbing locations on Earth, not because of legends, but because of patterns. Missing time. Disappearances. Instrument failure. Neurological effects. Environmental readings that shouldn’t exist toget...
COINTELPRO wasn’t just an FBI scandal from the 1960s and ’70s.
It was a blueprint.
In this archived episode of Divergent Files, we examine COINTELPRO—the FBI’s Counter Intelligence Program designed to surveil, infiltrate, destabilize, and...
At some point, education stopped feeling like learning—and started feeling like alignment.
Students learned how to follow instructions, pass tests, and repeat approved answers… but hesitated when asked to question, challenge, or think independently. This didn’t happen overnight—and it didn’t happen by accident.
In this investigation, we ...
What if UFO contact isn’t accidental?
What if it isn’t triggered by radar systems, satellites, or advanced sensors—but by human consciousness itself?
This episode investigates CE5, or Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: a controversial method claiming humans can initiate contact with non-human intelligence through meditation, focused in...
But when you start pulling on the threads, that story begins to strain.
In this episode of Divergent Files, we examine an unsettling possibility that appears again and again across ancient texts, genetic research, and archaeological contradictions:
What if humanity wasn’t just shaped by n...
It wasn’t.
It was won quietly. In kitchens, taverns, churches, and clotheslines. By civilians living under British occupation who became America’s first intelligence network.
In this episode, we uncover the real Culper Ring, the covert spy operation personally overseen by George Washington, and why the true stor...
But what if that story only explains who inherited the pyramids… not who built them?
In this episode of Divergent Files, we take a grounded, evidence-first look at the growing body of archaeological, geological, and historical anomalies surrounding the pyramids ...
In this episode of Divergent Files, we explore a question that’s moved far beyond science fiction and into serious scientific, philosophical, and government research: the possibility that reality itself may be simulated — or at least not as fundamental as it feels.
We examine the Simulation Hypothesis, quantum physics experiments where observation changes out...
And the official explanation doesn’t come close to matching what witnesses, video footage, and police response show.
Dozens of heavily armed officers flooded a public shopping mall.
Teenagers ran in terror.
Videos were uploaded, altered, deleted, and quietly scrubbed.
And despite the scale of the response, no arrests, no mugshots,...
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