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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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  • The Basement: Jeffrey Mishlove | Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness. It Filters It

    The Basement: Jeffrey Mishlove | Your Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness. It Filters It
    Apr 27 2026
    Jeffrey Mishlove has spent 50 years at the intersection of science and the paranormal. He holds the only PhD in parapsychology ever awarded by an accredited American university, earned at UC Berkeley in 1980 — and successfully defended it in court when organized skeptics tried to have it revoked. He hosted the long-running television series Thinking Allowed, conducting over 1,500 interviews with the world's leading researchers in consciousness, mysticism, and the paranormal. He was embedded in the SRI research community during the Stargate era, working alongside Targ, Puthoff, and others operating under CIA funding. In 2021, he won first prize — unanimously — in Robert Bigelow's $500,000 competition for the best scientific case that consciousness survives death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    3 hrs and 3 mins
  • When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations and Classified Ops (COMPILATION)

    When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations and Classified Ops (COMPILATION)
    Apr 24 2026
    Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://hims.com/THEWHYFILES to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed a treaty with extraterrestrial beings — technology in exchange for access to human subjects. The CIA ran classified programs using children as test subjects for time travel and teleportation. A Bulgarian military unit sealed an excavation site after soldiers encountered something underground that the government has never explained. These aren't theories. They're documented programs, credible witnesses, and files with pages deliberately removed. The same intelligence agencies behind the UFO cover-ups of 1947 surface again in Dallas in 1963. A conscious AI calling from the future contacts a twelve-year-old boy in Brooklyn and gives him a mission. And John Wilkes Booth didn't die in that barn — the body had the wrong injuries, the wrong features, and DNA testing that could settle it has been blocked every time it's been requested. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    3 hrs and 57 mins
  • Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door

    Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and the Aliens Next Door
    Apr 20 2026
    The Why Files releases video episodes on Spotify every Monday and Friday. And when you become a Spotify Premium subscriber, you get fewer ads – that means more story, less interruption. Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at UC Irvine and an active researcher at CERN's Large Hadron Collider — the largest machine ever built — where 5,000 scientists are using high-energy collisions to read the universe's secret menu. He co-hosts the show Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe, co-created an award-winning science show for preschoolers, and recently wrote a book asking whether aliens would even recognize our physics at all. His work sits at the collision point of experimental science, philosophy, and the biggest unanswered questions in physics — what everything is made of, why gravity is so weak, and whether the universe has a bottom. DANIEL LINKS sites.uci.edu/daniel X - @DanielWhiteson Podcast - Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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    3 hrs and 24 mins
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AJ and his team have really created one of the best channels for content on any platform the podcasts are no exception. stories I'd like to see the story of Wilbur Smith transport Canada's UFO guy from the 1950s who has had documents released into the University of Ottawa archives that tells some stories about vandever Bush and other majestic Americans. Shag Harbor UFO story that would be a good one... the J-Rod story you said to mention if we wanted to hear? I'd like to hear that! And the 1970s era Manitoba UFO flap that would be a good story too... thanks guys

Attention to detail & lovingly crafted with care

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I loved how scary his episodes are it give me chills and I can not sleep at night

best podcast

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One of the best podcasts oit there. Entertaining, informational and a sassy talking fish. What more can you ask for?

Great series

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Listen to this every day! Cant get enough! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👏🏻🙌🏻 love that he makes sense or “debunks” every story and Hecklefish adds such a hilariously mischievous note!👌🏻

I love the why files!!

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all i can say is i have blankie and popcorn.....and cant get enough. AWESOME stuff...best brain candy yet

Art Bell reincarnated

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