The Why Files: Operation Podcast
Episodes
59: Why Ancient People Didn't See the Color Blue
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a philosophical question for you. If a color doesn't have a name, can we still see it? Many years ago, the human eye evolved to give us the ...
58: The Most Paranormal Place On Earth - What's Happening on Mount Shasta?
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
MYSTERIES OF MOUNT SHASTA There is no other place on earth steeped in more mystery than Mount Shasta. Aliens, ghosts, underground bases and inte...
50: Why Superstitions Are Good For You
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What do Ponce De Leon, Alexander The Great and Jason Giambi all have in common? Superstitions. What are superstitions? Why do we believe them?...
55: Another Carrington Event? You Are NOT Prepared for the Coming Solar Storms
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
WE'RE DUE FOR ANOTHER CARRINGTON EVENT On September 1, 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was observing a huge sunspot. Suddenly, a flash of intens...
49: Alien Bases On The Moon | The Amazing True Story of Ingo Swann
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE MAN WHO SAW ALIEN BASES ON THE MOON Ingo Swann claimed to be a psychic who was employed by the CIA to remote-view the dark side of the moon. Sp...
45: It's All FAKE | The Dead Internet Theory
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What if all of our online existence is fake? You, me, everyone; we're living in a real-life Matrix. Designed to distract us from the truth: that we...
47: Legend of the Moon Eyed People | Before Christopher Columbus?
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
LEGEND OF THE MOON-EYED PEOPLE Across the Southern Appalachian mountains, from Georgia up through North Carolina, hundreds of unusual stone structu...
42: MIT Computer Predicts the World Will End in 2040 - First Signs Appear in 2020
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
COMPUTER PREDICTS WORLD WILL END IN 2040 In 1704, using a series of calculations, Isaac Newton predicted the world would end sometime around the ye...
46: Messages Through Time - A Time Travel Story
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE COMPUTER THAT PROVED TIME TRAVEL | THE DODLESTON MESSAGES In December 1984, Ken Webster, a high-school teacher, was living with his friend Nic ...
43: Civilization Before Humans? Silurian Hypothesis
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
There are over 7 billion people living on the earth right now. Tens of millions are born and die each year. Every single one of us leaves signs of our...
41: Paul Amadeus Dienach spent a year in 3906. He wrote down everything he saw.
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1924, Paul Amadeus Dienach had been teaching the German language in Greece. Dying of tuberculosis, he wanted to return home to Switzerland. Before ...
40: Atlantis World War Pole Shift - The Terrifying Predictions of Edgar Cayce
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
ATLANTIS, WORLD WARS AND THE POLE SHIFT Terrifying predictions of Edgar Cayce Edgar Cayce gave over 14,000 psychic readings. He made a number of p...
39: Bigfoot Aliens KGB? Dyatlov Pass explained -- and solved
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
KGB, BIGFOOT or ALIENS? WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT DYATLOV PASS? When the helicopter rescue team arrived at the Dyatlov Pass in February 1959, the nin...
36: Project: STARGATE. The CIA, Mars and... Time Travel.
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
PROJECT STARGATE: CIA, PSYCHICS, MARS AND ... TIME TRAVEL When the first human visits Mars, it will be the biggest scientific breakthrough since la...
35: The Thing Embassy Incident: How Russian children and the KGB trolled America for years
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
FOR SEVEN YEARS, SOVIET AGENTS SPIED ON THE AMERICAN EMBASSY UNDETECTED In 1945, Soviet children presented the ambassador with a gift to commemorat...
Sonic Weapons, Havana Syndrome and The Fear Frequency
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
33: When will we upload our consciousness to the cloud?
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When will we upload our consciousness to the cloud? As long as people have been alive, they've wanted to stay alive. For centuries, explorers ...
34: How Long Can Humans Live Without Their Head?
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
HOW LONG DO ANIMALS (and people) SURVIVE WITHOUT THEIR HEADS? Does a human head remain conscious after being separated from its body? It sure do...
31: The Latitude Society - Game, Business, or Cult? (Yes.)
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE LATITUDE. 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. You...
30: The Phantom Time Hypothesis -- The Middle Ages Never Happened
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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. Which ...
29: Tesla's technology to talk to spirits of the dead
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
GHOST PHONE vs SPIRIT RADIO. Edison versus Tesla. One of history's greatest rivalries. They would never admit it but as different as these men were,...
28: NY's Windowless Skyscraper actually a NSA Spy Hub called TITANPOINTE
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
TITANPOINTE. 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 an...
27: Area 51 Airline? | JANET: The Secret Government Airline That Doesn't Exist
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
JANET AIRLINES. Heard of Janet Airlines? No? Good. That's exactly what the US government wants. One of the government's biggest secrets is hiding in...
26: Polybius: The Addictive Mind Control Game That's More Truth than Legend
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Was Polybius real? In 1981, an arcade in Portland was the scene of countless gamers coming down with migraines, having heart attacks, seizures and str...
25: Comparing Earth technology with alien civilizations | The Kardashev Scale
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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?...
24: The Dog Suicide Bridge | Why Have Hundreds of Dogs Jumped?
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE DOG SUICIDE BRIDGE. In Dumbarton, Scotland, there's a 19th-century gothic bridge that crosses a 50-foot ravine. It's *officially* called Overtou...
23: The Max Headroom Incident. UNSOLVED: The Creepiest TV Hack in History
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
THE MAX HEADROOM INCIDENT. November 22nd, 1987 was a pretty normal evening for television viewers in Chicago. That night, like every night, Dan Roan...
21: Ancient Acoustic Levitation | How The Pyramids Were Built?
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
LEVITATION. The ruins of several ancient civilizations - like the pyramids of Giza, Stonehenge in the UK, and many others - are monuments constructed ...
20: Earthquakes Asteroids Zombies: Predictions of Nostradamus
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NOSTRADAMUS. 2022 Predictions: Earthquakes, Asteroids & Zombies? If you believe the predictions of Nostradamus and you enjoyed 2020, you're gonn...
19: Stuxnet | The Computer Virus that prevented and started the next world war
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
STUXNET. The virus that prevented; then started the next world war. Cyberwar is being waged right now in your name. No matter what country you call ...
18: Numbers Stations | Listen to Spy Broadcasts, Audio & Coded Messages
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NUMBERS STATIONS. Not a relic of the past. Intelligence agencies use shortwave to communicate with spies, agents and assets in the field. Right now....
17: 9 Time Travel Stories | Is Time Travel Possible? Evidence says yes, it is.
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is time travel possible? According to physicists, yes. Time travel *to the future* is not only possible, it's been scientifically proven. But what ...
16: Aztec Death Whistle | The Scariest Sound You've Ever Heard
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
15: The Philadelphia Experiment - The truth about invisibility, teleportation and time travel
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Philadelphia Experiment. It was October 1943. The day the US Navy mastered time travel, teleportation, and invisibility. Actually, they didn't mas...
13: The Nevada Triangle | 2,000 Planes Mysteriously Crashed & Missing Near Area 51 👽
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
12: What does outer space smell like? (You're not gonna like it.)
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does the moon smell like? Do planets, comets, asteroids and space have their own odors? The smells of the universe are not universal. Different...
11: The Voynich Manuscript Decoded - Have We Finally Solved the Most Mysterious Book in the World?
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For 600 years the Voynich Manuscript has stumped scholars, cryptographers, physicists, and computer scientists. Now, a researcher in Germany has claim...
8: Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact - The Day the Dinosaurs Died One of the deepest scars on our planet is hidden beneath the Yucatán Peninsula and the G...
7: The Most Secret Places in the World
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Most Secret Places in the World - And the wild theories about what really happens inside. In the modern world, places are supposed to be accessibl...
The Why Files Trailer
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Why Files Do you have natural curiosity, interest in scientific mysteries and a great sense of humor? You're in the right place! We cover brainy t...