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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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  • 623: Witnesses of: Black Eyed Kids, Phone Calls from the Dead, The Cursed Heart

    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.
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    38 mins
  • 622: COMPILATION: Staff Picks A to Z: From Aliens to Zombies, From Giants to Gobekli Tepe

    622: COMPILATION: Staff Picks A to Z: From Aliens to Zombies, From Giants to Gobekli Tepe
    Dec 29 2025
    This special compilation brings together ten staff favorites that question everything we think we know about reality. From the dark corridors of DARPA where future technology is born to the frozen wastelands of Antarctica where Admiral Byrd allegedly encountered an advanced civilization, the official narrative often crumbles under scrutiny.

    We analyze the Pentagon’s declassified plan to combat the undead and investigate whether John Wilkes Booth truly died in a Virginia barn. The Smithsonian Institution faces accusations of suppressing evidence regarding giant skeletons found across the United States.

    Even our existence might be an illusion, with glitches like the Mandela Effect suggesting we live in a simulation. Ancient structures like Gobekli Tepe may warn of a cyclical destruction that wiped out our ancestors.

    We look at the strange anomalies of the moon, the unsettling nature of liminal spaces, and the possibility that humanity was engineered by visitors from the stars. These stories suggest the line between conspiracy and fact is thinner than authorities admit.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfmJ_rLkKTI&t=287s
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    5 hrs and 23 mins
  • 621: The Man Who Saw Christ Still Walks Among Us | Immortal Count of St Germain Revisited

    621: The Man Who Saw Christ Still Walks Among Us | Immortal Count of St Germain Revisited
    Dec 24 2025
    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. He transformed lead into gold for Casanova, repaired the King's diamond to perfection, and described ancient Rome as if he'd lived there.

    He spoke twenty languages without accent and claimed to have witnessed the crucifixion. He warned Marie Antoinette before the guillotine and predicted both World Wars with eerie accuracy.

    The Count of Saint Germain died in 1784. But people kept seeing him—in Paris, New Orleans, and on Mount Shasta—always the same age, always one step ahead of history.
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    32 mins
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