The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Episodes 274
Avg. Duration 34m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (8,632)
Since Mar 2022
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Weekly
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Episodic
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50%
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feeds.megaphone.fm

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About This 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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The Basement: Joshua Cutchin | Fairies, Bigfoot, and the Connection Nobody Saw Coming

Jun 08, 2026 2h 46m

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Parallel Universes Are Real — And People Fall Into Them

Jun 06, 2026 45m

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The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed

Jun 01, 2026 2h 53m

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The Forbidden Theory of Morphic Resonance

May 29, 2026 40m

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The Basement: Luke Caverns | LiDAR Is Revealing Ancient Cities the Amazon Was Hiding

May 27, 2026 4h 50m

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The Basement: Rizwan Virk | The Simulation Hypothesis, Quantum Physics & Mysticism

May 18, 2026 3h 5m

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…

The Machines Are Watching You | And They Know Everything (Compilation)

May 17, 2026 2h 56m

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 Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar

May 11, 2026 3h 6m

The Why Files releases video episodes on Spotify every Monday and Friday. And when you become a Spotify Premium subscriber, you get fewer ads – that means more story, less interruption. Luigi…

What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man

May 08, 2026 40m

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The Basement: Nerdrotic | From Folsom Prison to Millions of Subscribers

May 04, 2026 3h 30m

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…

Strange But True: Toxic Lady, The Cecil Hotel, Farmhouse Murders

May 01, 2026 40m

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…

The Basement: Jeffrey Mishlove | Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness. It Filters It

Apr 27, 2026 3h 2m

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…

When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations and Classified Ops (COMPILATION)

Apr 24, 2026 3h 57m

Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://hims.com/THEWHYFILES to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed a treaty with extraterrestrial beings —…

Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door

Apr 20, 2026 3h 24m

The Why Files releases video episodes on Spotify every Monday and Friday. And when you become a Spotify Premium subscriber, you get fewer ads – that means more story, less interruption. Daniel…

Basement: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells You

Apr 13, 2026 4h 16m

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…

The Roswell Alien Interview | Your Soul Has Been Here Thousands of Times

Apr 10, 2026 38m

The Why Files releases video episodes on Spotify every Monday and Friday. And when you become a Spotify Premium subscriber, you get fewer ads – that means more story, less interruption. In 2007, a…

Basement: Marc D'Antonio | UFO Propulsion, The Fifth Dimension, and 40 Billion Habitable Worlds

Apr 06, 2026 3h 29m

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…

True Internet Horrors: Chip-Chan, Local 58, and The Plague Doctor

Apr 03, 2026 44m

Gather round for three stories the internet found and couldn't put down. A DVD arrived in Sweden with no return address — on it, a figure in a plague doctor mask standing inside an abandoned…

The Basement: Eric Wargo | The Block Universe, UFO Time Machines, and Precognitive Dreams

Mar 30, 2026 2h 54m

Eric Wargo is an anthropologist, science writer, and the author of five books on one of the most controversial ideas in modern science — that the future is already fixed, and that your brain knows…

The Science of Death | The Living Feel It Too

Mar 27, 2026 36m

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