The Why Files. Operation: Podcast
1) 622: COMPILATION: Staff Picks A to Z: From Aliens to Zombies, From Giants to Gobekli Tepe
This special compilation brings together ten staff favorites that question everything we think we know about reality. From the dark corridors of DARPA where future technology is born to the frozen was...Show More
622: COMPILATION: Staff Picks A to Z: From Aliens to Zombies, From Giants to Gobekli Tepe
5:23:03 | Dec 29th, 2025
2) 621: The Man Who Saw Christ Still Walks Among Us | Immortal Count of St Germain Revisited
In 1745, London authorities arrested a stranger who refused to give his name. His pockets were full of diamonds, and he played violin like a master. For the next two hundred years, this man appeared ...Show More
3) 620: The Lost Labyrinth of Hawara: Evidence of Atlantis in Egypt
In 450 BC, Herodotus described an Egyptian labyrinth so massive it made the pyramids look small. Then it vanished under the desert for 2,000 years. In 2008, scientists used ground-penetrating radar a...Show More
4) 619: They Walk Among Us | The Human-Alien Hybrid Program
A college student desperate for affordable housing gets matched with an unusual roommate who wears sunglasses indoors and speaks like a careful robot. When the student's mother visits and accidental...Show More
5) 618: The First Earth Battalion: America's Strangest Military Experiment
A Vietnam War hero with zero casualties wrote a manual about warrior monks who hug daily and use ESP in combat. Instead of dismissing it, the US Army turned it into Project Jedi—a decades-long experim...Show More
6) 617: Psyops: From Dead Babies to UFOs - The Same Pattern Every Time
A behavioral expert who trains Navy SEALs and CIA operatives created a 20-point test that detects psychological manipulation with mathematical precision. Chase Hughes recently appeared on Shawn Ryan's...Show More
7) 616: The Devil's Bible and the Nazi Hole to Hell
Sweden's National Library protects the Codex Gigas—165 pounds of vellum featuring the complete Bible and a terrifying portrait of Satan. Scholars estimate the work should've taken thirty years. Herman...Show More
8) 615: Lincoln Conspiracy: a Diary, a Mummy and The Escape of John Wilkes Booth
History says John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln and died twelve days later on a Virginia farm. But FBI forensic tests revealed his diary is missing 86 pages filled with names and payments. The bod...Show More
615: Lincoln Conspiracy: a Diary, a Mummy and The Escape of John Wilkes Booth
42:57 | Oct 27th, 2025
9) 614: CIA Time Travel Secret | The Grays Are Future Humans
In 1953, twelve-year-old Jack Sarfatti answered his phone. The voice on the other end was cold, mechanical, punctuated by clicking sounds like a computer processing data. It claimed to be a conscious...Show More
10) 613: The UFO Conspiracy That Took Down JFK
June 1947. Harbor patrolman Harold Dahl witnesses six metallic objects over Maury Island, Washington. One drops molten slag onto his boat. A stranger in a black suit arrives the next morning, knowing ...Show More