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The Why Files: Operation Podcast
30 episodes
The Basement: Mitch Horowitz | Gandhi, Reagan, and the Occultists History Erased
Aug 17, 2026 · 2 hr 57 min
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They Left Everything Behind Except an Explanation
Aug 15, 2026 · 43 min
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The Basement: Travis Taylor | Black Holes, UFOs & Skinwalker Ranch
Aug 10, 2026 · 3 hr 34 min
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JFK's Assassination and the CIA's Psychic Cold War
Aug 8, 2026 · 54 min
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The Basement: MrBallen | YouTube's Best Storyteller Tells His Own
Aug 3, 2026 · 3 hr 59 min
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The Hunter Who Became the Hunted | Carl Higdon Abduction
Jul 31, 2026 · 38 min
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The Basement: John B. Alexander | Roswell, MJ-12, Skinwalker: The Colonel Who Was There
Jul 27, 2026 · 3 hr 41 min
Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Get your free portfolio review and free gold & silver guide from GoldenCrest Metals: visit https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/thewhyfiles or call (888) 949-9172 now. Colonel John Alexander commanded Green Berets in Vietnam, briefed the White House, and evaluated the Pentagon's strangest programs. He was the first person to spend the night on Skinwalker Ranch. For 79 years, the strange kept showing up in…
The Basement: Jeremy Corbell | Betrayal, Surveillance, and the Secret Higher Than Nuclear Weapons
Jul 20, 2026 · 4 hr 7 min
-Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Get your free portfolio review and free gold & silver guide from GoldenCrest Metals: visit https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/thewhyfiles or call (888) 949-9172 now. -If you’re ever injured in an accident, you can check out Morgan & Morgan. You can start your claim in just a click without having to leave your couch: https://ForThePeople.com/BASEMENT Jeremy Corbell has spent years chasing the biggest sec…
Prophecy of the Popes | Saint Malachy's Countdown
Jul 18, 2026 · 46 min
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Human Evolution and the Power of the Mind: Science Compilation
Jul 15, 2026 · 3 hr 13 min
Huge thanks to Jesse for hosting this compilation! From rewriting the blueprint of life to radioactive creatures defying biology, this collection pulls back the curtain on some of the strangest scientific mysteries we've covered. A forgotten fungus may have reshaped the human brain in record time. Meaningful coincidences might be more than chance, and a maze experiment from a century ago still can't be fully explained. Hidden signals shape decisions without your knowledge, and one scientist's ra…
Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 hr 58 min
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The Basement: Thomas Campbell | This Sound Frequency Unlocks Out-of-Body Travel
Jul 13, 2026 · 4 hr 18 min
-Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Get your free portfolio review and free gold & silver guide from GoldenCrest Metals: visit https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/thewhyfiles or call (888) 949-9172 now. -Start your new morning ritual & get up to 43% off your @MUDWTR with code BASEMENT at https://mudwtr.com/BASEMENT! #mudwtrpod -For a limited time, our listeners get 50% off FOR LIFE, Free Shipping, AND 3 Free Gifts at Mars Men at https://Me…
Stories That Still Haunt the Internet: The Soup Room, The Masked Feast, The Station That Isn't There
Jul 11, 2026 · 51 min
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The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside
Jul 6, 2026 · 2 hr 59 min
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Project Chronos | Hitler's Last Weapon
Jul 3, 2026 · 42 min
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The Basement: Dave Paulides | Missing 411 and Cases the Government Won't Let You See
Jun 29, 2026 · 1 hr 59 min
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The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster
Jun 26, 2026 · 44 min
-Try QUO for free and get 20% off your first 6 months at https://www.quo.com/WHY. -Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Get your free portfolio review and free gold & silver guide from GoldenCrest Metals: visit https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/thewhyfiles or call (888) 949-9172 now. -Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at https://shopify.com/why. In 1650 BC, a city on the Dead Sea burned so completely that nothing grew there…
The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There
Jun 22, 2026 · 3 hr 11 min
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Canada's Most Documented UFO Case | Falcon Lake
Jun 19, 2026 · 39 min
-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. -Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Get your free portfolio review and free gold & silver guide from GoldenCrest Metals: visit https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/thewhyfiles or call (888) 949-9172 now. -Start your risk-free Greenlight trial today at https…
The Basement: Bryce Zabel | Disclosure Day, Dark Skies, and Hollywood UFO Deals
Jun 13, 2026 · 3 hr 4 min
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. Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Get your free portfolio review and free gold & silver guide from GoldenCrest Metals: visit https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/thewhyfiles or call (888) 949-9172 now. The Basement: Bryce Zabel | Disclosure Day, Dark Skies,…
The Basement: Joshua Cutchin | Fairies, Bigfoot, and the Connection Nobody Saw Coming
Jun 8, 2026 · 2 hr 46 min
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Parallel Universes Are Real — And People Fall Into Them
Jun 6, 2026 · 46 min
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The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed
Jun 1, 2026 · 2 hr 54 min
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The Forbidden Theory of Morphic Resonance
May 29, 2026 · 41 min
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The Basement: Luke Caverns | LiDAR Is Revealing Ancient Cities the Amazon Was Hiding
May 27, 2026 · 4 hr 51 min
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The Basement: Rizwan Virk | The Simulation Hypothesis, Quantum Physics & Mysticism
May 18, 2026 · 3 hr 5 min
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The Machines Are Watching You | And They Know Everything (Compilation)
May 17, 2026 · 2 hr 56 min
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. Havana Syndrome left diplomats with brain injuries and no official explanation. A wire encircles New York City that most resi…
The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar
May 11, 2026 · 3 hr 6 min
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 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 eventually led him to cold-call Bob Lazar, spend five years rebuilding S4 from scratch in 3D,…
What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man
May 8, 2026 · 40 min
Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://hims.com/THEWHYFILES to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. 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. A neuroscientist built a machine that can summon something like it. But what his subjects experienced and what survivors…
The Basement: Nerdrotic | From Folsom Prison to Millions of Subscribers
May 4, 2026 · 3 hr 31 min
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. NERDROTIC LINKS https://www.youtube.com/@nerdrotic https://x.com/nerdrotics https://www.instagram.com/ne…
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