The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Imagine you wake up one morning and notice everything around you is just a tiny bit different.  

Maybe you're in the same house, but furniture is slightly out of place. Your favorite coffee mug is th…

OPERATION: HIGHJUMP  

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, on…

MYSTERY OF THE CIRCLEVILLE LETTERS

We all keep secrets.

For most of us, these are nothing more than minor embarrassing details about ourselves. But some of us have dark secrets which, if discovered, …

SOUNDS FROM THE HOLE TO HELL  

In 1989, Dr. Dimitry Azacov and a group of scientists were working on a borehole drilling project in Siberia.  When the drill reached 14.4 kilometers, or 9 miles deep, …

PROOF THAT EVERYTHING - INCLUDING GOD - IS A SIMULATION  

Is this reality? Well, we're experiencing ... something right now so maybe the better question is: *what* is reality?  

Could everything we s…

THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES  

On February 25, 1942, at about 2:30 in the morning, the people of Los Angeles were jolted awake by the sound of air-raid sirens.  

The city was ordered to blackout and pre…

CHASING THE IMMORTAL COUNT  

The Count of Saint Germain has been called a prophet, a sorcerer, and an immortal.  He's been spotted all over the world for a thousand years. And every time he's seen, h…

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 ability to see about a million colors.  

That's a …

MYSTERIES OF 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…

What do Ponce De Leon, Alexander The Great and Jason Giambi all have in common?   

Superstitions.  

What are superstitions? Why do we believe them?  

Although there are a lot of weird superstitions o…

WE'RE DUE FOR 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 ha…

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. Specifically to look for an alien presence.  It soun…

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're just drones in a digital ant-hill. We live, wo…

LEGEND OF THE MOON-EYED PEOPLE  

Across the Southern Appalachian mountains, from Georgia up through North Carolina, hundreds of unusual stone structures have been discovered.  

Some date back hundred…

COMPUTER PREDICTS WORLD WILL END IN 2040  

In 1704, using a series of calculations, Isaac Newton predicted the world would end sometime around the year 2060.  

Almost 300 years later, in 1973, a comp…

THE COMPUTER THAT PROVED TIME TRAVEL | THE DODLESTON MESSAGES  

In December 1984, Ken Webster, a high-school teacher, was living with his friend Nic and girlfriend Debbie in the small village of Dodl…

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 existence in the air, water, soil -- even space.…

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…

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 predictions about future events — many of which have…

KGB, BIGFOOT or ALIENS? WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT DYATLOV PASS?  

When the helicopter rescue team arrived at the Dyatlov Pass in February 1959, the nine missing hikers had been dead for weeks.  

The mo…