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10. Nanorobotics: Cure For... Everything?
Nanotech innovation is world-changing and should be encouraged. But, we also have to acknowledge the risks.
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The Why Files is a comedy and crime TV series that premiered on YouTube on May 10, 2020. It has 7 seasons and 155 episodes so far and is still airing new episodes. The latest episode, Season 7 Episode 31 "Aliens in the Ocean, and a War for Earth - The Friendship Case", aired on September 12, 2026.
A weekly YouTube video podcast that explores the strange and weird of this world and beyond.
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155 episodes · 7 seasons
Season 1
2020 · 10 episodes · Last episode: 5 years ago
- E9
9. Uncanny Valley: Why Robots Creep Us Out
The Uncanny Valley is a common unsettling, anxious, creepy feeling people experience when androids, robots, dolls, mannequins, video games and animations closely resemble humans but are not quite realistic enough.
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8. The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact: The Day The Dinousaurs Died
One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. The buried crater, over 90 miles in diameter, was created when a massive asteroid struck the planet 66 million years ago and brought a calamitous end to the reign of dinosaurs.
- E7
7. The Most Secret Places in the World
You may not have ever heard of a few of these places. In fact, there are government facilities in the United States -- and around the world -- that are unknown to people even in the highest levels of government.
- E6
6. Why Doesn't the US Use Metric? Pirates.
When the US was still brand new, the states were using their own systems of weights and measures. Thomas Jefferson requested an expert in the new Metric system travel from France, but pirates changed the course of US history forever. English
- E5
5. Raining Fish, Frogs, Spider and Meat.
A rain of animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky. Such occurrences have been reported in many countries throughout history. Is the phenomenon due to waterspouts? Predatory birds? Or something... else?
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4. What Is ASMR?
The science behind behind ASMR is still new but research is underway. Though ASMR is a relatively new phenomenon, the online ASMR community is vibrant and growing rapidly.
- E3
3. Top Scariest Places You Can Actually Visit
The Top10 Scariest Places You Can Actually Visit. Do you love scary places, haunted houses, abandoned mines and ghost towns? Have you ever noticed that every list for "Scariest Places in the World" or "Creepiest Locations in the US" contain places that you can't really visit? We're going to fix that.
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2. Top Terrifying Animals That Actually Exist
Top 10 Terrifying Animals that actually exist. Have a high IQ and great sense of humor? You're home. Werewolves, zombies, Chupacabra and Bigfoot (bigfeet?) aren't real (or are they) but there actually is a very real and common lizard that squirts poisonous blood from its eye sockets. (We'll show you this!) Through the amazing and bizarre process of evolution - nature has created thousands of truly terrifying animals that actually exist. They exist right now. A couple of them might be living in your garage.
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1. Mind Blowing Math Facts
Did you know there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the universe? Seems crazy, but it's true. Today The Why Files covers amazing math facts (and tricks) that will convince your friends you have super powers. Math is everywhere. It's the source code of the universe. Most of the time math makes perfect sense. But sometimes math just gets.... weird. These math facts that will blow your mind.
Season 2
2021 · 26 episodes · Last episode: 4 years ago
Join us as we learn about the mysteries of the universe and have a few laughs along the way
The Why Files Season 2 release dates →- E28
28. Project: STARGATE. The CIA Mars and... Time Travel.
When the first human visits Mars, it will be the biggest scientific breakthrough since landing on the Moon. Probably bigger. But what if I told you the CIA and United States Military have already been to Mars? But they didn't use spaceships to get there. They used psychics.
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27. How Russian children and the KGB trolled America for years
In 1945, Soviet children presented the ambassador with a gift to commemorate the friendship of the US and the Soviet Union. A hand-carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States. The ambassador was so pleased with the carving that he hung it in his office at the official ambassador residence in Moscow: the Spaso house. But the wooden carving was more than just a decoration. Now hanging on the wall, just behind the ambassador's desk was a state of the art, high frequency listening device that was completely undetectable.
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26. The Fear Frequency | Sonic Weapons, Havana Syndrome
Do some horror movies use sounds of a *specific frequency* to amp up the scare factor? Yes. Can infrasound and ultrasound damage the human body? Yes. Has sound been used as a real-world weapon? Yes. Is sound being deployed by America's enemies to cause serious physical harm? Yes English
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23. The Hidden Wire Around New York City
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22. The Latitude Secret Society
How do you join a cult without knowing it? Here's how it happened to thousands of people in San Francisco just a few years ago.
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21. The Phantom Time Hypothesis
According to a German historian, the year is actually 1724. He says our calendar is a lie and a big chunk of the Middle Ages never happened.
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20. Technology to Speak to the Dead
Edison versus Tesla. One of history's greatest rivalries. They would never admit it but as different as these men were, they also had many similarities. For instance, they also both dabbled in paranormal technology. Nikola Tesla was convinced he could invent a device to communicate with the spirit world. And Thomas Edison was convinced he could get there first.
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19. The Government Is Always Listening
New York City has skyscrapers of all shapes and sizes. But why does this 500 foot tall, 29-story building have no windows, no lights and no markings at all? Because it's a top-secret NSA spy station built to withstand nuclear war. Officially, this is an AT&T telecommunications building. But thanks to leaked documents, we now know that 33 Thomas Street is actually a top secret NSA mass surveillance hub.
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18. The Area 51 Airline They Don't Talk About
Heard of Janet Airlines? No? Good. That's exactly what the US government wants. One of the government's biggest secrets is hiding in plain sight. In Las Vegas. Janet is the top-secret government airline that doesn't exist.
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17. The World's Deadliest Video Game - Polybius
Was Polybius real? In 1981, an arcade in Portland was the scene of countless gamers coming down with migraines, having heart attacks, seizures and strokes. Local teens were suffering from amnesia and having hallucinations. All due to a mysterious game that seemed to arrive out of thin air. The game was called Polybius.
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16. Human Vs. Alien Technology
THE KARDASHEV SCALE. We have no idea what an alien civilization would look like. Humans are evolved primates. What if an alien species is reptilian? Or more like an insect? Or a hybrid of these? Or maybe something completely unique that we couldn't even imagine. There is only one set of universal laws that every species must follow. Physics. Specifically energy.
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15. The Dog Suicide Bridge
In Dumbarton, Scotland, there's a 19th-century gothic bridge that crosses a 50-foot ravine. It's *officially* called Overtoun Bridge. But it's *unofficial* name is the "dog suicide bridge."
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14. The Max Headroom Incident
November 22nd, 1987 was a pretty normal evening for television viewers in Chicago. That night, like every night, Dan Roan was covering sports on WGN-TV, Channel 9. Then suddenly, the signal was disrupted and screens across the city cut to black. Engineers at WGN-TV thought their transmitters were failing. They weren't. A few seconds later, something crazy happened. WGN's broadcast signal had been hijacked in what is now known as "The Max Headroom Incident"
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13. Secrets of Mount Rushmore
It's one of the most recognizable, and most visited landmarks in America. But Mount Rushmore has a secret.
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12. Ancient Acoustic Levitation - How the Pyramids Were Built?
How the great pyramids of Egypt were built has been the subject of debate for a long time. The fact is, no one really knows for certain exactly how some of these megaliths were constructed. Some researchers think ancient cultures may have mastered levitation through sound which allowed them to easily manipulate massive objects.
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11. A Message to the Dreamers
Any challenge of established scientific dogma is labeled pseudoscience. Isn't that a bit arrogant? Isn't pseudoscience only pseudoscience until it's actual... science? But people are afraid to go up against the establishment.
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10. Nostradamus' Terrifying Predictions
2022 Predictions: Earthquakes, Asteroids and Zombies? If you believe the predictions of Nostradamus and you enjoyed 2020, you're gonna love 2021.
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9. World War 3 Has Already Begun
Cyberwar is being waged right now in your name. No matter what country you call home, your government is engaged in highly dangerous combat on the Internet. Infrastructure around the world is under siege and everyone is at risk
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8. Mysterious Number Stations
Since World War One, numbers stations have been transmitting coded messages to spies around the world using shortwave radio. And they're still transmitting right now.
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7. Time Travelers Caught on Film
We've scoured the internet for the best time travel stories we could find. You may know some of them. Some are hoaxes. A few have been debunked. But there are a couple of stories that defy explanation.
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6. Aztec Death Whistle | The Scariest Sound You've Ever Heard
The Aztec Death Whistle. If hell has a sound, I bet it sounds alot like the Aztec Death Whistle. The Aztec Death Whistle sounds like a shriek of death mixed with howling wind. It's so unnerving, that the significance of the horrifying sound of the Aztec Death Whistle has fascinated and perplexed scholars for years. I'm going to play the sound of the Aztec Death Whistle for you today.
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5. The Philadelphia Experiment - The truth about invisibility, teleportation and time travel
The Philadelphia Experiment. It was October 1943. The day the US Navy mastered time travel, teleportation, and invisibility. Actually, they didn't master anything. The experiment had disastrous consequences for the crew of the USS Eldridge.
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4. Why We Like to be Scared
Humans are weird animals. Sure we're terrified of ghosts, monsters, snakes, spiders and all kinds of other things; both real and imagined. That's normal. Healthy, even. So why do we actually ENJOY being afraid by experiencing these things on purpose. There is a science of fear that explains why being frightened can be fun, at least for some people. Enjoying fear seems like a contradiction, but horror movies are a billion dollar business. And throw in horror TV, and horror gaming? That's billions more. Halloween spending is about 8 billion a year. And roller coasters? The scarier the ride, the longer the line. So we are definitely fascinated by being afraid. Let's find out why.
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3. Stay Out Of The Nevada Triangle
Most of us have heard of the Bermuda Triangle, where planes and ships have mysteriously gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean for decades. Did you know there is a similar place in Nevada? The Nevada Triangle. In a region of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Nevada and California, 2,000 planes have been lost in the last 60 years. In this remotely populated area of more than 25,000 miles of mountain desert, many of the crash sites have never been found.
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2. What Does Outer Space Smell Like?
The smells of the universe are not universal. Different objects in space, like comets, planets, moons, gas clouds each have their own distinctive aroma. The sci-fi show The Expanse describes the moon as having a gunpowder stink and it made me wonder how did they come up with that description. Does the moon really smell like gunpowder? Turns out it does.
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1. The Voynich Manuscript
The Voynich Manuscript is a 240-page medieval codex written in an indecipherable language, full of bizarre drawings of strange plants, astrological symbols and - lots of - naked women.
Season 3
2022 · 15 episodes · Last episode: 3 years ago
Join us as we learn about the mysteries of the universe and have a few laughs along the way
The Why Files Season 3 release dates →- E44
44. How to Build a Working UFO | Alien Reproduction Vehicles (ARVs)
In 1988, aerospace designer Brad Sorenson went to Norton Air Force base for the annual air show. The show was the chance for aerospace companies and military contractors to show off new technology to top military and government officials. Brad wanted to network and maybe grab a new client or two. At some point, Brad got turned around and separated from his group. He hopped into another group and ended up in a large hangar watching a presentation given by a three-star general. At first it was the typical rundown for various top-secret aircraft. Brad figured he was in the right place. He wasn't. The general signaled to someone, and a huge curtain was pulled, revealing three aircraft that nobody was expecting.
- E37
37. Alien Probe, Sentient Machine, Nuclear Weapon, or Junk? What is the Betz Mystery Sphere?
n the Spring of 1974, a large brush fire swept across the property owned by Antoine and Gerri Betz. While assessing the damage, they noticed something very out of place. Lying in the smoldering grass, was a highly polished, metal sphere. This became known as the Betz sphere or the Betz orb.
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35. TESLA KNEW The Secret of the Great Pyramid: Unlimited Energy to Power the World
Nikola Tesla believed that he could harness the energy from inside the earth and transmit that power *wirelessly* around the world. His early experiments were successful. But his research mysteriously vanished after his death. There is no evidence left of Tesla's wireless power technology. Or is there? For years we were taught that the Great Pyramid of Giza was a tomb for a king. It wasn't. It had a different purpose. Tesla didn't invent wireless power. It's been here for 5,000 years. And probably a lot longer than that.
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34. JOHN TITOR: Time traveler, soldier, savior | Can he save us from destruction?
In 1998, in a small town in Florida, John Titor was born. In the year 2036, John, a temporal soldier would be sent back in time. His mission? Save the world.
- E32
32. The CIA Murder that Exposed MK-ULTRA | The Frank Olson Assassination
November 28th, 1953. New York City. At 2:30 AM the body hit the sidewalk. A few seconds later, a shower of glass. After a minute or two of trying to communicate, the man took a final deep breath and was gone. Nobody knows for sure what he was trying to say before he died. But one thing is for certain, it was something about the CIA.
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31. The Montauk Project: The Truth is Darker Than You Can Possibly Imagine
In 1943, the USS Eldridge was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia to Virginia. This event was known as the Philadelphia Experiment. When the Eldridge reappeared, some crew materialized in walls and bulkheads. They died in agony. But two sailors didn't reappear at all. The two men, who happened to be brothers, were presumed dead or lost. They weren't dead. They traveled 40 years into the future; in a secret military base on the East end of Long Island. They became unwitting participants of The Montauk Project.
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29. Another Dimension? Time Portal? Another Planet? What's at the Bottom of Mel's Hole?
On Mel Waters' property in the Manastash Ridge, west of Ellensburg, Washington, there is a hole in the ground that looks like a well -- but it's not a well. Like the owners of the property before him, Mel used the hole as a trash dump. His neighbors used it too. Garbage, broken appliances, old tires, everything went in the hole. After a while, Mel started to wonder: why doesn't it fill up? Then he started to notice other strange things about the hole.
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26. Solving The Most Mysterious Children in History
These are three unsolved cases of the most mysterious children in history
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24. The Moon Revealed: It's a Hollow Spaceship, so who built it and why?
Despite it being humanity's constant companion through all of recorded time, the moon is still a mystery. Science hasn't been able to explain how the moon was formed, its unusual orbit, its distance from us, its density, its composition, its structure. These are all still questions. There are theories about the moon that solve some of these puzzles, but not others. There is only one theory that answers every scientific question about the moon. Just one. That the moon is a hollow, artificial structure, brought here by -- someone else.
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23. Chronovisor: The Vatican's Secret Device to See Through Time
One of the most intriguing objects hidden in the Secret Apostolic Archives is called the Chronovisor. A device that can view events anywhere and any time in history. For years, its existence was just a rumor. No proof of the Chronovisor was ever found. But a book released by a Vatican priest would change all that.
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22. Watching us from Orbit for 13,000 Years | The Black Knight Satellite
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20. Operation Highjump | Mission: Find and Destroy the Secret Nazi UFO Base In Antarctica
Operation Highjump commenced in August 1946. It was the largest, most heavily armed naval task force ever sent to Antarctica. Leading the mission was Admiral Richard E Byrd, one of the most famous naval officers in history. The official purpose for the expedition was scientific research and military training. But that was just a cover story. Operation Highjump had other goals.
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11. The Most Paranormal Place On Earth - What's Happening on Mount Shasta?
There is no other place on earth steeped in more mystery than Mount Shasta. Aliens, ghosts, underground bases and interdimensional portals. Check. Lost cities, strange disappearances, bigfoot, gods and demons. Check. Atlantis, Lemuria, reptilian humanoids and giants. Mount Shasta has it all.
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10. Solar storms: more dangerous than you think. Can we survive another Carrington Event?
On September 1, 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was observing a huge sunspot. Suddenly, a flash of intense white light burst from the sun's surface. He had become the first eye-witness of a major Coronal Mass Ejection or CME. And it was headed straight for earth.
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1. He Spent a Year in 3906 | This is what Paul Amadeus Dienach saw
In 1924, Paul Amadeus Dienach had been teaching the German language in Greece. Dying of tuberculosis, he wanted to return home to Switzerland. Before he left, he gave hundreds of pages of handwritten notes to his favorite language student Georgios Papachatzis. Dienach wrote about how he went into a coma and woke up 2000 years in the future.
Season 4
2023 · 48 episodes · Last episode: 2 years ago
Join us as we learn about the mysteries of the universe and have a few laughs along the way
The Why Files Season 4 release dates →- E48
48. Proof of Life After Death: Hope and a Warning From The Other Side
You wake up. Sleepiness fades as your eyes slowly open to a bright white light. And it feels warm and familiar; it feels like home. And your whole family is there to meet you. Your entire life flashes before your eyes, like scenes from a movie. The good. The bad. Even the awful things you've done. But everything comes together. It all finally makes sense.
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47. The Search for Noah's Ark and the Aliens in the Book of Enoch
Enoch warned the Giants and the Watchers of the world. Repent or feel God's wrath. They ignored his warning. The floodgates of Heaven burst forth and water rushed over the Earth, destroying everything. The only thing to survive is a single vessel, a huge ship: the Ark.
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46. Mystery in Cisco Grove: Don Shrum’s Encounter with UFOs, Aliens and Robots
In September 1964, Captain McLeod and Sergeant Barnes were dispatched from Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Ohio. They were sent to investigate a UFO sighting in Northern California. Wright-Patterson AFB got lots of UFO reports.
- E45
45. Project Looking Glass: The Time Warriors of the 2012 Apocalypse
You’re not supposed to be alive. None of us are. About 10 years ago, you woke up to an eerie silence. The power was out. You went to check your phone for news but your phone was dead. Then you realized, everything was dead. Some kind of blackout, you thought.
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44. Kenny Veach Vanishes on his Quest for the M Cave | Mojave Mysteries Vol. 1
Year after year, adventures scour the Mojave; trying to solve these mysteries. Some brave souls return with incredible stories. But others go out into the desert and they’re never seen again. One of those brave souls - was Kenny Veach.
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43. Backyard Time Machine: The Time Travel Mystery of Mike “Mad Man” Marcum
Mike fired up the box and the lasers came to life. The machine produced a small circular area of distortion. It was a vortex about eight inches across that looked like ripples above a fire. This was unexpected. Mike didn’t know what the vortex was or if it was dangerous. So he grabbed a sheet metal screw and tossed it through the field. It vanished. Mike just stared and blinked and waited. The screw was just… gone.
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42. Göbekli Tepe and the Prophecy of Pillar 43
Those left behind built monuments. Monuments not as tributes to Gods or homage to kings. The monuments are a warning to future generations: to us. That warning is simple: danger is coming. Our civilization has ended before. And it will end again. This is one story Big Archaeology and world governments don’t want you to know. Once you hear it, you’ll never trust them again. Because the danger that’s coming?
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41. 20 And Back - The Super Soldiers Defending the Kuiper Belt
The New Horizons spacecraft suddenly put itself into safe mode. But nothing was broken. Something or someone was blocking the signal. Whoever it was did not want NASA to know they were here. And that they’ve been watching us for a very. long. time.
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40. Gravity is a Lie, Light Speed is Slow, Nothing is Real, the Universe is Electric
Since grade school, we’ve been taught that gravity is what keeps our feet firmly planted on the ground, but what if that’s all been a lie? I'm not saying if you jump off a bridge, you fall up, instead of down. But what if Newton and Einstein were wrong and what really ties our universe together is not gravity, but electricity?
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39. Time-Slip Artifacts: Modern Objects in the Ancient World - Volume 1
The story of the human race is a story of technology. One of our ancestors created fire and passed that knowledge along to the next generation. Then the invention of the wheel. Then agriculture, a writing system, mathematics, space travel. Within our story, empires rise and fall. Technology progresses. Civilizations are born and die. The human race continues to innovate.
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38. Skyquakes, Upsweeps, and Sky Trumpets | Terrifying Sounds that Signal the End of the World
The Book of Revelation says the end of the world will be announced with the sound of seven trumpets. Each blowing of the trumpet brings a new apocalyptic event. After the seventh trumpet: Armageddon.
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37. The Horrors of Plum Island | Hybrids, Human Experiments and Weaponized Killer Insects
Locals had heard rumors that this was a top-secret government facility that created bioweapons, engineered animal hybrids and maybe even experimented on people. Sounds like a wild theory.
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36. The Rendlesham UFO Encounter and the Alien Message from the Future
The night after Christmas, 1980, was the last time Airman First Class John Burroughs would ever lead a normal life.
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35. Many Worlds Theory: You're in a Parallel Universe | Can You Visit Your Other Lives?
The "Many Worlds" or "Multiple Universes" theory says that anything that can possibly happen does happen. It just happens in a different reality that exists parallel to our own. Yes, some of these alternate realities are more far-fetched than others. But they are all out there. Scientists know how these realities are formed and people are working on technology to detect them. But even if we could detect alternate universes, there's no way to visit them. Or is there?
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34. Ghost Lights or Alien Tech Signals from Beyond the Grave or Beyond the Solar System?
Here’s the scene. You’re driving down a secluded road. The only lights come from your headlights. The only sounds you hear are crickets and the hum of the engine. Suddenly, a mysterious orb of light appears in the distance, floating a few feet above the ground. You get the sense that the light is aware of your presence. It darts around, beckoning you closer. It can’t be another car. There’s nothing around for miles. As you get closer to the light, it vanishes.
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33. The Moon’s Dark Secret: Aliens Harvesting Human Souls for FOOD
The Moon’s Dark Secret: Aliens Harvesting Human Souls for FOOD
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32. Atlantis Rises, Lemuria Falls: The War that Sank a Continent
For thousands of years, the world has been captivated by the mystery of Atlantis. The concept of an ancient city hidden beneath the ocean is fascinating. But what if there was not just a city, but an entire continent buried beneath the waves? The continent of Lemuria is a massive landmass believed to have sunk in the Indian Ocean after some ancient, catastrophic event. Atlantis and Lemuria are similar in that they’ve sparked numerous theories, legends and interpretations. But Atlantis and Lemuria are very different in one way. There’s no proof of Atlantis.
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31. Solving Cicada 3301: Decoding the Internet's Greatest Mystery
Early in the morning of January 4th 2012, a strange message appeared on the internet. Just a few lines of text on an image, posted anonymously. Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test. There is a message hidden in this image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. We look forward to meeting the few that will make it all the way through. Good luck 3301. Many speculated that it was a recruiting tool for the NSA, CIA, MI6, or even the Masons. But who was really behind it, and what was its purpose? Did it even have a purpose? Whether it did or not, it didn’t matter. Because when you post a puzzle on the internet looking for “highly intelligent people”, that’s a challenge that’s simply impossible to resist. So, the hunt for Cicada 3301 was on.
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30. Life after Death? Communicating with the Other Side
In 1901, Nikola Tesla had the most terrifying experience of his life. As he worked alone in his laboratory at night, he felt a presence. He created a device to see if he could hear, or pick up any signals from whatever it was that he felt. He called it the “spirit radio”, and it worked. Tesla wasn’t alone. Throughout history, famous scientists, who helped shape the technology we used today, have spoken of ghosts and hauntings that shook them to their core. And while you might think these are nothing more than ghost stories, you’re right. But there is scientific data that supports the existence of ghosts. Data that has been suppressed… until now.
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29. Finding Agartha: The Search for the Hidden City in the Center of the Earth
Cultures around the world have myths that speak of a mysterious underground kingdom that exists deep within the earth, hidden away from the primitive and violent surface-dwellers: which is us. Picture a society untouched by time, unscathed by war, and unaffected by natural disasters. A culture thriving in the vast open spaces inside the Earth. Throughout history, many have looked for physical evidence of its existence, tempted by stories of a peaceful but powerful subterranean civilization with advanced technology and ancient knowledge long forgotten by modern man. This is the story of the underground Kingdom of Agartha and the explorers who’ve said that - not only is it a real place - but they know where it is.
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28. The UFO Incident That Shocked Ariel School: Telepathic Extraterrestrials
September 14th, 1994 was a quiet night in Zimbabwe. Then suddenly, boom! An explosion startled people all over the country. Windows rattled. Doors shook. Shocked and confused, people sheepishly stepped outside to see what happened. Everything looked fine. They went back inside. But one woman wasn't satisfied. Cynthia Hind drove around the capital city of Harare, searching for the source of the sound but nothing seemed unusual. But back at home, Cynthia's phone rang relentlessly. She was a UFO investigator and witness reports were coming in one after another. The news claimed the sound was a sonic boom caused by a meteor shower. But Cynthia wasn't so sure. Eyewitnesses near Lake Kariba described bizarre lights in the sky earlier that week. Lights in a row that moved erratically: fast then slow. First north to south. Then east to southwest. Meteors don't do that. Cynthia suspected there was much more to the story. And two days later, she'd find out that she was right.
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27. The Moon Landing: Stanley Kubrick's Greatest Film | How NASA and Hollywood Fooled the World
Stanley Kubrick is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Of his 13 movies a few are considered classics in their respective genres.
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26. Indrid Cold, the Truth about Planet Lanulos and the Mystery of the Smiling Man
On November 2nd, 1966, Woody Derenberger was driving home from a business trip when he encountered an extraterrestrial being named Indrid Cold. Cold communicated with Woody telepathically, and the two went on to be lifelong friends. Other people close to Woody, including family, friends, and even his therapist claimed that they, too, had experiences with Indrid Cold. Woody wrote and published a detailed account of his experiences, and never went back on his story. Since the 1960s, the legend of Indrid Cold has become one of the most famous in all of UFO lore. Taken at face value, this story sounds strange. But the real story … is even stranger.
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25. Artificial Intelligence Out of Control: The Apocalypse is Here
They developed agriculture, organized into civilizations and became masters of the planet. The story of humans began a long time ago. But all stories end. And according to many leaders in business, science and technology: we're in the final chapter.
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24. Forbidden Archaeology: Lost Giants of America
In 1886, mining engineer John T. Reid was told the Paiute legend of a giant people defeated by the natives near Lovelock, Nevada. The last of the giants met their fiery end deep within the bowels of a cave. Reid’s belief in this legend stirred great interest in the secrets held within Lovelock Cave. Official excavations were undertaken in both 1912 and 1924 by the University of California, with reports telling of thousands of artifacts being recovered. Of these artifacts, the most puzzling were human remains. Well, they were almost human.
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23. The Truth about Roswell: Decoding Decades of Deception
It was a sunny afternoon on June 24th, 1947, and Kenneth Arnold was flying his small aircraft over Mineral, Washington. He was heading to Yakima but took a slight detour to look for a lost US Marine Corps plane. If he could find it, he’d collect a nice reward.
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22. Operation Mincemeat: The Shadow Catalyst for CIA's Dark Age
On April 30, 1943, in the middle of World War II, a body washed up on the shore of Huelva, Spain. The deceased man was wearing a British military uniform. There was a briefcase strapped to his body containing British and American military secrets. The man was Major William Martin, a British Royal Marine who was the single victim of a fatal plane crash at sea. He had just returned from temporary leave in London, where he had gone to the theater and purchased an engagement ring for his fiancee, Pam. But there was something very strange about Major William Martin. He didn’t exist.
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21. Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors
Bending Time: The Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors. In December 1990, in a remote village above the Arctic Circle, two Russian scientists embarked on a daring experiment.
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20. Aliens & Espionage: Crop Circles and the CIA Coverup | They Don't Want You to Know
In 1974 a group of scientists beamed a message into space. The message, meant to be received by an intelligent alien species, described life on Earth. Written in simple binary code, and using the most powerful radio telescope on the planet, the message was broadcast to a dense cluster of stars in the constellation of Hercules.
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19. Surviving The Next Mass Extinction: Are we too late?
Surviving The Sixth Extinction: Are we too late? Of all the species that have ever existed on Earth, 99% of them are gone. Most of those were wiped out during what are known as "Mass Extinction Events". Since life emerged on our planet, there have been five mass extinctions. Sometimes these events last many years. But sometimes a mass extinction can happen very, very suddenly. Some scientists think we're on the verge of a sixth mass extinction. Others think it's already begun. But the question everybody asks is: "Is there anything we can do to stop it?"
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18. Varginha UFO Crash: Alien Contact, Government Denial and Coverup
Varginha UFO Crash: Alien Contact, Government Denial and Coverup. The North American Air Defense Command, known as NORAD, was established in 1958. It was to provide early warning and defense against Soviet bombers and missile launches. But it wasn't long before NORAD would be monitoring skies around the entire planet. Early in the morning, on January 13th, 1996, NORAD contacted Brazilian Air Defense to report an object entering the Earth's atmosphere about 200 miles Northeast of Sao Paolo. When asked what type of object, NORAD said it was "unidentified". A few minutes later, it crashed somewhere near the town of Varginha.
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17. Sacred Object or Ancient Weapon? Where is the Ark of the Covenant and what technology did it use?
Sacred Object or Ancient Weapon? Where is the Ark of the Covenant and what technology did it use?
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16. Alien Artifacts on Mars: What NASA doesn't want you to know
On July 25th, a NASA scientist was studying images of a region of Mars called "Cydonia" when something caught his eye. He had to take a second to process what he was seeing. He grabbed a magnifying glass. There was no doubt. On the surface of Mars, 140 million miles from Earth, was a structure in the shape of a human face.
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15. The Mothman Returns: Point Pleasant Legend to Chicago Terror
Some said it was half-man, half-bird; others said half-man, half-bat. But that name that stuck was "The Mothman". Though The Mothman terrorized hundreds of people for a year, it never physically harmed anyone. But 13 months later, that would change. And 46 men, women, and children would end up at the bottom of the Ohio River.
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14. Wait a minute. Possessions and Exorcisms are REAL??
The Mystery of Exorcisms: The Dark World of Possessions Here's how it starts.
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13. America's Secret Space Program and the Alien Connection: Solar Warden
America's Secret Space Program and the Alien Connection Gary McKinnon was obsessed with UFOs; and believed governments were covering up evidence that UFOs exist. In the year 2000, he decided to do a little digging. Gary was a computer expert so what better place to dig than on US government computers? What he found was so shocking that it sent the entire United States government into a full-blown panic.
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12. What Are They Hiding Underneath? The Truth about the Denver International Airport Conspiracy
What Are They Hiding Underneath? The Truth about the Denver International Airport Conspiracy It's just a matter of time before it happens.
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11. The Gateway Process: the CIA's Classified Space & Time Travel System That You
The Gateway Process: the CIA's classified Space & Time Travel system that you can learn The United States military is always looking for new ways to create super soldiers. They use performance-enhancing and mind-altering drugs. They're currently experimenting with brain implant technology. They've even explored genetic engineering to try and *breed* the perfect soldier. But those are nothing compared to what happened in 1983; when Lieutenant Colonel Wayne McDonnell submitted a very unusual and detailed report to US Army Intelligence. It was called "Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process".
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10. According to the CIA: Record yourself, play it backwards. Your darkest secrets are revealed.
In 1983, David Oates dropped his walkman into the toilet. If you're under 40 years old, a walkman was a portable cassette player. If you're under 30, a cassette was how we listened to music in the stone age. Anyway, after being dropped, David's tape player would only play tapes in reverse. At first, he found this entertaining. There were lots of songs that contained hidden messages that you could only hear if you played them backward. But *those* messages were placed there intentionally. Soon, David discovered messages hidden in human speech that were NOT intentional. Messages that were put there by the speaker's subconscious.
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9. Atlantis Secret to Immortality | The Emerald Tablet & The Philosopher's Stone
Which would you prefer? Eternal life or unlimited wealth? How about both? For that, you need The Philosopher's Stone: known throughout the history of alchemy as a substance that can turn base metals into gold, and grant you eternal life. The Book of Aquarius contains the instructions for The Philosopher's Stone. Although the process can take years, the ingredients are simple.
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8. Tesla's Most Destructive Weapon | The Tunguska Event: Comet Impact or Death Ray Experiment?
On June 30th, 1908, a mysterious explosion shook the remote Siberian region of Tunguska. The blast flattened 80 million trees across 800 square miles. Every plant, every animal, every insect in the blast radius was vaporized. The shockwave was felt as far away as England. It looked like a comet impact, yet, no crater was found and no debris was discovered. Scientists still can't explain what happened. But... at that exact moment, on the other side of the world, Nikola Telsa was conducting his latest experiment: transmitting massive amounts of electricity through the atmosphere
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7. Are all the UFOs an invasion or has Project Blue Beam finally begun?
Your world is not as it seems. Everything you know to be true is a lie. Hidden behind the façade of our everyday lives is a secret and powerful organization with a dangerous agenda. To manipulate the minds of the masses and usher in a new world order. They call this program "Project Blue Beam". If the program is successful, we won't see it coming
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6. Sergei Ponomarenko: The UFO Time Traveler who Disappeared Without a Trace
On April 23rd 2006, a man in his early 20s was seen in Kyiv, Ukraine staring at a high-rise apartment building. Witnesses described him as looking confused and anxious. They thought he might have been a lost tourist. The man approached two police officers and nervously asked for directions... to a place that no longer existed. The officers asked the young man for identification. But, there were two problems with his ID. One, his documents were issued by the Soviet Union; which no longer existed. The second problem: according to his birth date, this *young* man was born in 1932.
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5. Georgia Guidestones Destroyed by a Villain or a Hero?
On July 6, 2022, a bomb detonated on a 5-acre plot of farmland in Elberton, Georgia. The explosion destroyed a large monument that had stood on the property for over 40 years. Known as "The Georgia Guidestones", it was four monolithic slabs of granite, weighing over 230,000 pounds, that contained a set of rules for a more peaceful and orderly society. The identity of the builder was a mystery for 40 years, but today I'll tell you who he was.
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4. He found Giants then the Government Found Him | What really happened to Andrew Dawson?
Andrew started his TikTok account in July of 2021, and he posted all the typical things. Videos of friends, of work, his girlfriend, his dog, and just him goofing around. But starting in April, 2022, his posts would take a strange turn; and Andrew Dawson would become the center of one the biggest internet mysteries in years
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3. Apollo 20: The Secret Mission to the Moon to Salvage an Ancient Alien Spacecraft
The Apollo spaceflight program lasted from 1961 to 1972. Apollo 11 was Neil Armstrong's famous first step. Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. In all, 20 Apollo flights were planned but Apollo 18, 19 and 20 were canceled. But in 2007, a retired astronaut blew the whistle and claimed Apollo 18, 19 and 20 *did* happen. But they were highly classified.
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2. CIA Classified Book about the Pole Shift, Mass Extinctions and The True Adam & Eve Story
In 1966 a well-known engineer released a book with information that could impact everyone on earth. But before anyone could read it, it was classified by the CIA. We only learned of its existence a few years ago because of a Freedom of Information request. The CIA only released 57 pages of the original 284-page manuscript. And those pages have been, in the CIA's own words, "sanitized". Why does the CIA think this book is so dangerous that they had to hide it from the public for 60 years; and continue to hide most of it? It's because the man who wrote it describes the end of the world.
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1. The Brooklyn Bridge UFO | The Weirdest Story You'll Ever Hear
Nov 30, 1989, just after 3 AM. New York City. Janet Kimball was driving over the Brooklyn Bridge when her car stalled and slowly rolled to a stop. After a couple of failed attempts to get the car started, Janet was hit by a bright light. Bright enough that she had to shield her eyes. The light was coming from an apartment building. Janet thought maybe someone was shooting a movie. Not unusual in New York City. Then she saw that the light was coming from a saucer-shaped craft hovering *above* the building.
Season 5
2024 · 9 episodes · Last episode: 2 years ago
Join us as we learn about the mysteries of the universe and have a few laughs along the way
The Why Files Season 5 release dates →- E29
29. Project Redsun: NASA's Secret Manned Missions to Mars
In 1973, while the world watched the Apollo missions end, something extraordinary happened in the Amazon jungle.
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23. Illuminati Vol. 1: The Bilderberg Blueprint and Hidden Agenda of Global Elites
Imagine a world where a small group of people control everything - the economy, politics, even the information you receive. Now, what if I told you this world already exists? In luxurious hotels, behind closed doors, the most powerful people on the planet gather. They're not just wealthy - they're presidents, prime ministers, and CEOs of global corporations.
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19. The Dark Side of DARPA | The Human Cost of Technological Supremacy
DARPA is the secretive U.S. defense agency behind groundbreaking technologies like the internet and GPS. It uncovers DARPA's lesser-known projects and controversial experiments that push ethical boundaries. The episode weighs DARPA's positive innovations against its more questionable endeavors.
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18. The Dark Side of the Moon | Alien Activity and the NASA Cover-Up
The far side of the moon has been a mystery since the dawn of the space age. But is it just a barren, crater-filled wasteland? Shocking claims from astronauts, whistleblowers, and classified documents suggest there's more to the story.
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17. Killer Patents & Secret Science Vol. 2 | Forbidden Medical Cures
The history of medicine goes back to the dawn of mankind when ancient healers used special herbs to treat illnesses
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11. Killer Patents & Secret Science Vol. 1 | Free Energy & Anti-Gravity Cover-Ups
or decades, we've heard about the catastrophic effects of fossil fuel pollution. For just as long, I've been hearing that global warming is a myth. The two sides are constantly at each other's throats. But it's a fight that's completely unnecessary. The technology to create unlimited, clean, free energy has existed for over a hundred years.
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5. Annunaki | Gods from Planet Nibiru and the Makers of Man
Mankind didn't evolve at all. Mankind was engineered: purpose-built to be the perfect slaves for a race of far superior beings who, according to ancient texts, descended from the heavens. Eventually, the slaves rebelled. And our masters - tried to destroy us in a great flood. Sumerian texts, Egyptian religions, Ancient Indian myths, Native American legends - even the Bible. They all tell the same story. It's the story of Gods and Men. It's the story of the Annunaki.
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2. Baltic Sea Anomaly, Atlantis, and Underwater Alien Bases | Mysteries of the Ocean Pt 1
70% of the Earth's surface is water. Arthur C. Clarke famously said: "How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean". As of 2023, less than 25% of the sea floor has been mapped. Less than 10% of the ocean has been explored. In that tiny amount of exploration, we've found things that defy logic and challenge history — sunken cities, ancient monuments, and objects that look like they're from another world.
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1. Project 8200 Exposed | CIA Psychics Find Alien Bases Underground
During the 1960s and 70s, the United States and the Soviet Union fought the Cold War on many fronts. Some of these engagements were obvious, like the Cuban Missile Crisis and the proxy wars in Asia. Other conflicts were not so obvious.
Season 6
2025 · 39 episodes · Last episode: 10 months ago
Join us as we learn about the mysteries of the universe and have a few laughs along the way
The Why Files Season 6 release dates →- E39
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38. 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 at every turning point in European history.
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37. 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 and found it—a massive structure 40 feet underground covering ten football fields. The Egyptian government immediately shut down all research.
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36. 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 accidentally touches the girl's arm, the skin feels wrong—cold and spongy like raw mushrooms. What happens next reveals a classified military program, a family connection that defies physics, and a tragedy born from teaching someone to be too human.
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35. 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 experiment in psychic warfare.
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34. 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 podcast to discuss this system, and the same patterns appear in government propaganda, corporate deception, and social media algorithms
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33. 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 the Recluse finished it in one.
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32. 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 body pulled from that burning barn had the wrong injuries and features. Multiple witnesses claimed it wasn't Booth.
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31. 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 AI calling from the future. It made a prophecy about Jack's life and gave him a mission. Twenty years later, every prediction came true.
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30. The UFO Conspiracy That Took Down JFK | The Maury Island Incident
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 details Dahl shared with no one.
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29. CONPLAN 8888: The Secret Plan to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
Discover the United States Strategic Command's CONPLAN 8888, the military's actual plan for confronting a zombie apocalypse
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28. Majestic 12 | Secret Documents Expose UFO Cover-Up Vol. 1
In 1947, a mysterious craft crashed in the New Mexico desert. President Truman immediately formed a secret committee of twelve men to manage this unprecedented discovery. For almost 40 years, Majestic 12 operated in complete secrecy, controlling every aspect of UFO information. When leaked documents finally exposed their existence, researchers thought they had found proof of the ultimate government cover-up.
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27. Peru's Most Terrifying Mystery | The Face Peelers
In 2023, something began hunting people in the remote Amazon village of San Antonio de Pintuyacu. Witnesses described seven-foot beings in black armor with glowing yellow eyes, hovering on disc-shaped platforms, hunting for human faces.
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26. Asteroid Apophis is Coming | Ground Zero: California
On April 13, 2029, an asteroid named Apophis will pass closer to Earth than our communication satellites. For the first time in human history, millions of people will watch a mountain-sized space rock race across the night sky. NASA says we're safe, but Apophis is just the beginning.
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25. The Bucegi Chamber | Romanian Secret That Exposed the Global Shadow Government
A Pentagon satellite detected an energy-shielded chamber beneath Romania's Bucegi Mountains. When an identical site in Baghdad activated simultaneously, world powers realized they faced an active ancient network. Only a psychic Romanian intelligence officer could breach the lethal barriers
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24. The Greada Treaty | America's Alien Alliance
On February 20, 1954, President Eisenhower vanished for an entire night. The official story claimed a dental emergency, but that was a lie. The President was at Edwards Air Force Base for the most important meeting in human history. Two alien races had arrived on Earth, each offering humanity a different path forward.
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23. Cryptids Vol. 4 | Monsters at the Bottom of the World
Australia's Outback hides more than deadly snakes and crocodiles. Ancient creatures stalk the wilderness, leaving behind torn campsites, blood-stained trees, and terrified witnesses.
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22. The Real CIA Vol. 1: 693 Pages of Secret Crimes
On June 25th, 2007, the CIA quietly released 693 pages of their most classified secrets. No announcement, no fanfare—just a document dump that revealed decades of illegal operations against American citizens. The Family Jewels documents exposed systematic violations that went far beyond what anyone imagined.
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21. Project Ancient Arrow | The NSA's Secret War Against Our Future
Three hikers stumbled upon something impossible in the New Mexico desert. Inside a hidden chamber carved into Chaco Canyon's walls, they discovered artifacts that defied everything archaeologists thought they knew about human history. The National Security Agency seized the site within 48 hours. For over two decades, Project Ancient Arrow remained buried in classified files until a series of rockslides revealed the truth.
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20. The Pentyrch UFO Incident | Hiding the Evidence of Human-Alien Combat
Military aircraft circled a Welsh village for three days, waiting for something to arrive. At 2:30 AM, they got their answer when a massive black pyramid materialized above Pentyrch. What followed was a four-minute battle between military forces and unknown objects that left witnesses paralyzed and the government scrambling to cover their tracks.
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19. Project Pegasus | The CIA's Child Time Soldiers
In 1968, six-year-old Andrew Basiago stepped through Tesla's teleportation device and emerged at Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863. He was part of Project Pegasus, DARPA's classified program using technology reverse-engineered from Tesla's confiscated research.
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18. Synchronicities | The Science Behind Your Meaningful Coincidences
Ever think about someone you haven't spoken to in years, then they call you? You're not imagining things. Carl Jung called these meaningful coincidences "synchronicities," and believed they reveal something profound about reality itself.
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17. Planet Maldek | The Classified Truth About Mars' Origin
Evidence suggests a massive world called Maldek once existed between Mars and Jupiter. This planet had a large moon that orbited it for millions of years—a moon with oceans, atmosphere, and possibly even life.
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16. The Awakening of Human Consciousness | Forbidden Fungus
Something extraordinary happened to the human brain 100,000 years ago. In just a few thousand generations, our brains nearly doubled in size - a change that should have taken millions of years.
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15. Dark Oxygen | CIA Deep Sea Secret Could Trigger the Next Extinction Event
Two miles below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered something impossible: rocks that generate electricity and produce oxygen without sunlight. These ancient metallic "batteries" could be the original source of Earth's oxygen - before plants or algae existed.
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14. The Midnight Game | When Ancient Shadows Come to Play
The Midnight Game begins with a drop of blood, a candle, and 22 knocks at the stroke of midnight. What follows is an ancient ritual reborn in the digital age – a deadly game of hide and seek with a shadow entity known as the Midnight Man.
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13. Earth's Mantis Overlords | They've Been Here All Along
What would you do if you felt eyes watching you, turned around, and saw a seven-foot insect-like creature? Since 2006, people fishing along the Musconetcong River in New Jersey have reported encounters with exactly that – a being that looks like a humanoid praying mantis.
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12. Proving Atlantis | The Megalithic Yard Mystery
Thousands of years ago, ancient cultures across Europe built massive stone structures with extraordinary precision. Scottish engineer Alexander Thom discovered these sites all used the same exact unit of measurement: 2.72 feet, which he called the Megalithic Yard.
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11. Mysteries of the Sea Vol 2: Ghost Ships & Unexplained Maritime Disappearances
Throughout maritime history, ships have been found drifting with crews mysteriously vanished, leaving behind half-eaten meals and personal belongings undisturbed.
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10. STRIPPED: When Earth's Shield Fails the Dead Will Rise | The Plasma Apocalypse
Our planet's magnetic shield is deteriorating rapidly, creating a dangerous vulnerability to solar storms of unprecedented power. Throughout history, events like the 1921 New York Railroad incident and the 1859 Carrington Event wreaked havoc on early technology.
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9. STRIPPED: Proving the Afterlife | The Scole Experiments
In 1993, four people gathered in a dark basement in Scole England, hoping to communicate with the dead. What followed was five years of unexplained phenomena that challenged scientific understanding.
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8. Weather Weapons & Worse | Tesla's Stolen Tech and the New Arms Race
In the Alaskan wilderness stands an array of 180 antennas pointing skyward. The military calls it research, but declassified patents tell a different story. What began as Nikola Tesla's dream of free energy for humanity may have become the world's most powerful weapon.
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7. Operation Prato | Alien Vampires of the Amazon
In 1977, a remote Brazilian island experienced something unprecedented: systematic attacks on humans by unidentified flying objects
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6. Cryptids Vol. 3: The Antarctic Cover-up | Predators Beneath the Ice
Cryptids Vol. 3: The Antarctic Cover-up | Predators Beneath the Ice in Antarctica's restricted zones, something dangerous lurks beneath the ice.
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5. Legend of the 13 Crystal Skulls | From Mars to the Maya
Scientists at Hewlett-Packard's crystal lab had tested thousands of specimens, but they'd never seen anything like this. The Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull defied everything they knew about physics and engineering. According to legend, thirteen crystal skulls contained the complete knowledge of our galaxy.
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4. The Disappearance of Peter Williamson | Lightning Pants from Another Dimension
A summer barbecue transformed into a nightmare when lightning split the sky above Somerset, England.
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3. Nuclear Powered Evolution | The Wolves of Chernobyl Reveal Human Potential
Scientists discovered something impossible in Chernobyl's radioactive ruins - life is thriving where nothing should survive. Animals aren't just living in lethal radiation zones, they're evolving faster than nature should allow
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2. The Quantum Apocalypse: All Your Secrets Revealed
Someone has broken the unbreakable - the mathematical foundations that protect everything from banking passwords to nuclear launch codes. The quantum apocalypse arrives years ahead of schedule. But as chaos spreads, patterns start to surface. The timing seems too perfect, the targets too precise. Deep beneath the Pentagon, analysts notice something strange: some messages were decrypted months ago. The chaos isn't random - it's cover for something bigger.
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1. The Seventh Experiment: Lacerta Reveals the Truth of our Creation
In December 1999, Sweden's most notorious UFO skeptic sat down for an interview that would challenge everything he believed.
Season 7
2026 · 31 episodes · Last episode: 1 month ago
Join us as we learn about the mysteries of the universe and have a few laughs along the way
The Why Files Season 7 release dates →- E31
31. Aliens in the Ocean, and a War for Earth - The Friendship Case
For more than twenty years, a hundred people across Italy filled trucks with fruit, water, and industrial chemicals, then walked away and let the cargo disappear. They called the recipients the Friends: an alien civilization living in vast bases beneath the Adriatic Sea.
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30. Nuclear Missile Down - The Cover-Up America Tried to Bury
In 1970, a U.S. missile carrying radioactive cobalt lifted off from Utah, aimed at a test range six hundred miles away. It never got there.
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29. Three Deaths Filed as Alien Encounters
Three Deaths Filed as Alien Encounters. Three cases, three continents, and in everyone, the file ends the same way: no suspect, no cause, no answer.
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28. The Basque Blood Mystery - What Atlantis Left Behind
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.
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27. They Left Everything Behind Except an Explanation
These cases span three countries and three decades, but they share the same unsettling gap: a clear trail right up until the moment each person disappeared, and nothing after. We lay out exactly what happened, minute by minute, and the questions that still don't add up.
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26. JFK's Assassination and the CIA's Psychic Cold War
In 1952, nine of America's wealthiest families gathered in a Maine mansion for a séance. Nine ancient gods spoke through a medium and chose nine people to change the world. Eleven years later, the CIA officer who ran that séance's donor list sent a Russian aristocrat to befriend a troubled ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald. The connections are documented. The conclusions are yours to draw.
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25. The Carl Higdon Abduction - An Alien Scours the Galaxy for Food
Carl Higdon went hunting for elk in the Wyoming mountains and never fired a shot that landed. A stranger stopped him first, and nothing about the rest of that afternoon made sense. Hours later, a search party found him soaking wet and shaking, unable to remember his own name or recognize his wife. His truck sat three miles from where it should have been, stuck in terrain it had no business reaching. A bullet in his pocket had been fired, yet it never left the barrel the normal way. Doctors examined him and found changes in his body they couldn't explain. What happened to Carl Higdon on that mountain still doesn't have a clean answer
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24. Prophecy of the Popes - Saint Malachy's Countdown
In 1139, an Irish archbishop knelt in Rome and saw every pope who would ever sit on the throne of Peter. He wrote the visions down as 112 short phrases, then the manuscript vanished for 450 years. When it resurfaced, historians checked the list against history. Pope after pope matched. The list ends with a name no pope has ever dared to take, followed by the destruction of Rome and Judgment Day. Francis died in 2025. A new pope took his place, and the city kept standing. But hidden inside the original Latin is a second countdown, one that points to a specific year: 2027. We trace the prophecy from a candlelit chapel to a four-hundred-year-old forgery and ask why it keeps landing on the truth.
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23. Human Evolution and the Power of the Mind: Science Compilation
Six stories, one question worth sitting with: how much of reality are we still missing?
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22. Internet Horrors: The Crying Man, The Salmon Girl, The Vanishing Rider
Three strangers. Three recordings. Three stories that spread across the internet and refused to make sense. For years, people slowed down the footage, decoded hidden messages, and traced accounts back to their source. What they found was stranger than the mystery itself.
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21. Project Kronos - Hitlers Last Weapon
By spring of 1945, Hitler was surrounded on every front, but one project inside a secret mine kept running until the end. It was called Die Glocke, The Bell, built on mercury, fire, and a design borrowed from a thousand-year-old Indian text. The scientists who built it vanished, along with the man who ran the entire project. Decades later, the same technology resurfaced in a US Navy patent, and nobody could explain how it got there. This is the story of a warning written a thousand years before World War II, the men who ignored it, and the strange thread connecting an ancient king to modern spaceflight. Some of it is real, and none of it is finished.
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20. The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster
The Asteroid That Started a Religion The Dead Sea Hides a Secret | The Bible Got It Right The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaste
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19. Canada's Most Documented UFO Case | Falcon Lake
In May 1967, a Polish immigrant named Stefan Michalak was hunting for silver in the Canadian wilderness when two glowing objects dropped out of the sky. One landed nearby. He sketched it, approached it, and ended up in the hospital. This is the Falcon Lake Incident — Canada's most documented UFO case, and it's still unsolved
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18. Parallel Universes Are Real — And People Fall in to Them
Parallel Universes and the People Who Got Caught Between Them Gather round, because this happened. A woman drives through her hometown and the cemetery is gone — replaced by a dirt lot. A man is found behind a fast food restaurant with no name, no history, and no record of existing for twenty-one years. A woman wakes up to discover her boyfriend never existed and her own life has been quietly rewritten. These are three real accounts from real people. None of them involve UFOs or hauntings. They don't fit neatly into any category. What they share is stranger than any single explanation: the sense that reality shifted without warning, and that the world kept moving like nothing happened. Each person was left holding a version of events that no one else could confirm. These stories don't have clean endings.
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17. The Forbidden Theory of Morphic Resonance
What If the Universe Remembers Everything? In 1920, a Harvard scientist put rats in a water maze. It took 165 tries before they learned which exit was safe. Thirty generations later, rats were solving the same maze in 20 tries. Rats on a different continent — with no connection to the original colony — started at 25. The knowledge had spread. No one could explain how.
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16. Canada's Most Documented UFO Case - Falcon Lake
In May 1967, a Polish immigrant named Stefan Michalak was hunting for silver in the Canadian wilderness when two glowing objects dropped out of the sky. One landed nearby. He sketched it, approached it, and ended up in the hospital. This is the Falcon Lake Incident — Canada's most documented UFO case, and it's still unsolved.
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15. What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man
The cases are real. The pattern is undeniable. What the presence actually is — that part is still open.
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14. Strange But True: Toxic Lady, The Cecil Hotel, Farmhouse Murders
Three stories. Three cases that were investigated, closed, and never fully explained.
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13. When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations and Classified Ops (COMPILATION)
These aren't theories. They're documented programs, credible witnesses, and files with pages deliberately removed.
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12. Death Resets Everything | The Roswell Alien Transcripts
In 2007, a writer named Lawrence Spencer opened an envelope he didn't ask for.
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11. Three Internet Horrors That Will Keep You Up at Night
Gather round for three stories the internet found and couldn't put down
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10. What Nobody Tells You About Death | The Living Feel It Too
Hundreds of nurses, doctors, and everyday people have reported witnessing something at the exact moment someone dies. Not near-death experiences. Something different.
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9. Vanished: Three Disappearances Nobody Can Explain
Gather round for three missing persons cases that investigators, search teams, and forensic experts have never been able to explain.
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8. The Murder Cult Started By A Banned Post
Roko's Basilisk: The Digital Hell You Can't Opt Out Of. This is the story of Roko's Basilisk: the idea you can't un-know, the cult it inspired, and why some of the most powerful people in AI still won't talk about it
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7. Science Behind Time Storms. Time Isn't What You Think It Is
British researcher Jenny Randles spent decades collecting these cases and found they all share the same symptoms: silence, tingling, glowing mist, and broken time. Her conclusion connects UFOs, ghosts, and alien abductions to one phenomenon. The physics backs her up.
- E6
6. On The Air: The Silenced Caller, The Mojave Phone Booth and The Alien In The Freezer
Pull up a chair. The night is long, and some questions don't have clean answers.
- E5
5. Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5
Cryptids exist in the space between known and unknown—creatures reported for generations but never officially acknowledged. From Mothman's glowing red eyes to ancient predators beneath Antarctic ice, from Australia's deadly Yowie to interdimensional beings along New Jersey rivers, witnesses describe encounters that defy explanation.
- E4
4. Project Anchor: NASA's Secret Gravity Shutdown Program
Project Anchor describes a 7-second gravitational shutdown that would kill 850 million people. The document is a hoax. But here's what isn't: we still don't understand what gravity actually is. Einstein described how it behaves, not what causes it. The graviton has never been detected. And for 70 years, anti-gravity research has been classified at levels above Top Secret.
- E3
3. Unexplained Phenomena: The Dead Village, Spontaneous Rain, YouTube Mystery
Gather round for three campfire stories that cannot be explained.
- E2
2. Ancient Prophecies Predicted Hitler's Rise and Fall
E1
1. Witnesses With Proof: Calls from the Dead, Memory Transplants, Children Who Wait
Gather round for three campfire stories investigators cannot explain.
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