The Why Files: Operation Podcast cover art

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

By: The Why Files: Operation Podcast
Listen for free

LIMITED TIME OFFER | £0.99/mo for the first 3 months

Premium Plus auto-renews at £8.99/mo after 3 months. Terms apply.

About this listen

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
Episodes
  • 625: Unexplained Phenomena: The Dead Village, Rain Phenomena, YouTube Mystery
    Jan 23 2026

    Gather round for three campfire stories that cannot be explained.

    A corrections officer watches water materialize inside a concrete prison cell with no source. A YouTube channel uploads 72,000 videos in nine months at an impossible rate, then vanishes after pointing to coordinates in the Atlantic Ocean.

    Three Royal Navy cadets walk into an English village and find themselves surrounded by rotting oxen, frozen smoke, and watchers behind dark windows. These aren't urban legends or campfire tales passed down through generations.

    These are documented events with multiple witnesses—police officers, prison officials, military personnel, and investigators who went on record about what they saw. Water that falls upward. Channels that shouldn't exist. Villages trapped in time.

    Each story breaks something fundamental about how we understand reality. The witnesses had everything to lose and nothing to gain.

    Yet they couldn't deny what happened.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HwC9L4BDpE

    Show More Show Less
    41 mins
  • 624: Ancient Prophecies Predicted Hitler's Rise and Fall
    Jan 19 2026

    For centuries, prophets across different lands described the same coming disaster. A German leader would rise with a voice that could move nations.

    Ancient Jewish scribes embedded something strange in their text—Hebrew letters that pointed to a specific year: 1946. That October, ten Nazi war criminals stood before the gallows at Nuremberg.

    One of them whispered his final words: "Purimfest 1946." The Nazis believed they could manufacture their own destiny through prophecy and occult manipulation.

    They edited ancient texts, built an empire on mysticism, and murdered anyone who predicted the wrong future. But there was one prophecy they couldn't control.

    The pattern was already written, waiting two thousand years to return.

    Show More Show Less
    30 mins
  • 623: Witnesses of: Black Eyed Kids, Phone Calls from the Dead, The Cursed Heart
    Jan 12 2026

    Gather round for three campfire stories investigators cannot explain.

    A dead man's phone calls thirty-five times in twelve hours, guiding rescuers through wreckage to his body. The phone battery should have died. The phone was never found.

    A heart transplant patient inherits his donor's food cravings, handwriting, and wife. Thirteen years later, he kills himself the same way his donor did. Same method. Same location.

    Two children knock on a car window asking for a ride home. Their eyes are solid black from edge to edge. They cannot enter without permission. The people who let them in never tell their stories.

    Three documented cases. Hundreds of witnesses. Zero explanations that hold up under scrutiny.

    The signal sometimes gets through. The heart sometimes remembers. The door should stay locked.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWANHcSyL5s

    Show More Show Less
    38 mins
All stars
Most relevant
I love it, love the videos and just got onto the podcasts, listening at work 😃

everything

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

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.

Why files podcast

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

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

i love hus work

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Love the show, the way it’s research and it’s presentation, and cheeky hecklefish is great combination x

AJ and hecklefish

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

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

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews