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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

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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. Biological Sciences Science Science Fiction Social Sciences
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  • The Alien Files: Three Bodies, Three UFOs

    The Alien Files: Three Bodies, Three UFOs
    Aug 29 2026
    -Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://hims.com/thewhyfiles to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. -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. Three Deaths Filed as Alien Encounters A man walks out for potatoes and doesn't come home for five days. He turns up on a coal pile in a clean suit, freshly shaved, with chemical burns on his neck and no explanation for where he's been. Two television repairmen climb a hill outside São Paulo carrying handwritten instructions, cut lead into masks, and never come back down. The note in their pocket told them exactly when to lie down. A fisherman crosses a quiet reservoir alone and never crosses back, and what's left of him has no wounds, no struggle, and no organs. Three cases, three continents, and in every one, the file ends the same way: no suspect, no cause, no answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • The Basque Bloodline | Descendants of Atlantis

    The Basque Bloodline | Descendants of Atlantis
    Aug 21 2026
    Go to https://brooklynbedding.com and use promo code THEWHYFILES at checkout for 30% off sitewide. 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 Basque people live between Spain and France, but their blood matches no one else in Europe. One in three carries Rh-negative blood, a rare trait that turns pregnancy into a genetic gamble. Their language, Euskera, has no relatives anywhere on Earth. Linguists have searched every continent and found nothing that connects it to another tongue. The Basques say their ancestors came from a lost island called Atlaintika, destroyed thousands of years ago. Plato told almost the same story, about a civilization called Atlantis that vanished beneath the sea in a single night. A 2,000-year-old bronze hand found in Spain carries a word modern Basque speakers can still read on sight. What that word protected, and why it mattered enough to survive a dictatorship, ties an ancient legend to the blood in Basque veins today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    41 mins
  • The Basement: Diana Pasulka | Angels, Vatican Archives, and a Government Email

    The Basement: Diana Pasulka | Angels, Vatican Archives, and a Government Email
    Aug 24 2026
    Don’t sleep on [@ultrapouches]. New customers get 15% Off with code BASEMENT at https://takeultra.com! #UltraPouches #ad Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://hims.com/thewhyfiles to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. 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. A religion scholar spent years studying near death experiences and old church doctrines. Then aerospace insiders started emailing her university account, asking for her research on angels. She treated them like any other academic contact and shared her sources. What she didn't expect was how far that relationship would go, or who was really behind it. Her own family carries a stranger history than she ever brought into a classroom. A Coast Guard cutter that stopped dead in freezing water. A mountain her grandfather swore hid something else. We get into apparitions, orbs, and a theory about what's actually reaching out to us. It's not the answer you'd expect, and it changes how you look at your phone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    3 hrs and 41 mins
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Keep em coming AJ. By far the most interesting channel out there. Every Friday you fill my brain with fascinating stories. I can't recommend The Why files enough.

Best channel on youtube

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I loved everything, I watched on YouTube as well. superb! one of the main things I look forward to after work.

Excellent Presentation

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I love it, love the videos and just got onto the podcasts, listening at work 😃

everything

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Why files is a show covering stories that keep us awake at night, interesting, disturbing and intriguing stories. Somehow, AJ still manages to keep the mood light and the show always leaves me smiling. Operation podcast goes beyond the format of the show with deep dives into already seen topics.

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i love the stories, its speciale and I list All the time. I love I tells stories

i love hus work

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