The Why Files
This weekly video podcast dives into the world’s strangest stories, from UFOs and cryptids to conspiracies and unexplained events. Each episode mixes humor with research, presenting multiple angles and often weighing skeptical explanations alongside the more mysterious claims.
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Season 7
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Witnesses With Proof: Calls from the Dead, Memory Transplants, Children Who Wait
Gather round for three campfire stories investigators cannot explain.
Jan 9, 2026 -
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Ancient Prophecies Predicted Hitler's Rise and Fall
Jan 17, 2026 -
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Unexplained Phenomena: The Dead Village, Spontaneous Rain, YouTube Mystery
Gather round for three campfire stories that cannot be explained.
Jan 22, 2026 -
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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.
Feb 1, 2026 -
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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.
Feb 14, 2026 -
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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.
Feb 21, 2026 -
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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.
Mar 6, 2026 -
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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
Mar 13, 2026 -
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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.
Mar 21, 2026 -
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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.
Mar 27, 2026 -
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Three Internet Horrors That Will Keep You Up at Night
Gather round for three stories the internet found and couldn't put down
Apr 3, 2026 -
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Death Resets Everything | The Roswell Alien Transcripts
In 2007, a writer named Lawrence Spencer opened an envelope he didn't ask for.
Apr 10, 2026 -
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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.
Apr 24, 2026 -
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Strange But True: Toxic Lady, The Cecil Hotel, Farmhouse Murders
Three stories. Three cases that were investigated, closed, and never fully explained.
May 1, 2026 -
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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.
May 8, 2026 -
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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.
Jun 19, 2026