
The Why Files: Operation Podcast
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.
Latest episodes

Nov 17, 2022 • 36min
86: Project Serpo: The Secret 10-Year Mission to a Planet 40 Million Light Years Away
What if you were offered the opportunity to visit another planet?
You get to experience the culture of an alien race, explore a new world; see and use technology that's 5,000 years ahead of ours.
Would you do it?
Before you answer, there are a few catches. You'll be gone for at least ten years. And when you return to Earth, all evidence of your existence will be erased. You have to start a new life, with a new identity; forbidden to tell anyone about what you experienced.
Now would you do it?
In 1965, 12 astronauts were sent to an alien planet as part of a human-alien exchange program. 13 years later the astronauts returned home.
Well, most of them did.
The mission commander wrote a 3,000-page report of everything his team experienced. First alien contact, the 40-light-year trip to the alien world, and everything that happened on the planet.
This is the true story of Project Serpo.
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Nov 10, 2022 • 24min
85: Spontaneous Human Combustion
Here's the nightmare scenario. You stop by your elderly mother's house to check on her. You grab the doorknob. It's hot to the touch. You ring the bell and knock. No answer.
You fish out your key and open the door. You call out but there's only silence.
The air is warm. There's a sweet, smoky smell. But, nothing looks out of place.
Finally, you go into the living room and you see it.
In your mom's favorite chair, is a pile of smoldering ash. Completely unrecognizable as human.
Just as you convince yourself that this isn't your mother, you see her jewelry in the gray dust.
And then the grisly sight of your mother's feet, still in their slippers, on the floor by the ashes.
There was a fire. An intense fire. But aside from her chair, nothing is burned. Even stranger, everything in the house is covered with a thin layer of pale yellow grease.
Your mother was a victim of spontaneous human combustion. Though rare, it happens more often than you think.
According to at least one scientist, it could happen to anybody at any time — even you.
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Nov 4, 2022 • 42min
85: ALIEN WAR at The Dulce Underground Base | They Mysterious Death of Phil Schneider
ALIEN WAR at The Dulce Underground Base | They Mysterious Death of Phil Schneider
Everyone's heard of Area 51. The top-secret facility in the Nevada desert. But nobody really knows what happens there. We have only rumors.
One rumor is that alien bodies have been recovered from UFO crashes. Those aliens have been autopsied and the subjects of medical experiments for years.
But have you ever heard of Dulce Base? Dulce is more secret than Area 51. And more sinister.
If Area 51 is the place where humans experiment on aliens; Dulce is the place where aliens experiment on us.
#UFOs #Conspiracy #Aliens
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SOURCES & LINKS
Bentwaters-Lakenheath UFO report:
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010010-0.pdf
FBI Mutilations report:
https://vault.fbi.gov/Animal%20Mutilation/Animal%20Mutilation%20Part%205%20of%205
Kirtland AFB Sightings:
https://www.unexplainable.net/ufo-alien/1980-kirtland-afb-nm-ufo-sightings-foia-documents.php
Phil Schneider Preparedness Expo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTTYd6JwQ90
Dulce Base The Truth and Evidence from the Case Files of Gabe Valdez:
https://amzn.to/3DylYVb
The Airforce UFO Cover Up That Drove a Man INSANE | They're LYING to US:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQ_FsmU19g
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3930946/oscar-schneider
Phil final lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeu3-9DoUnk
https://web.archive.org/web/20080723164059/https://exopolitics.org/Dulce-Report.htm
Thomas Castello Interview:
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/branton/esp_dulcebook11.htm
Castello speaks out:
https://www.alienhub.com/threads/a-terminally-ill-thomas-edwin-castello-speaks-out.21550/
Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius:
https://amzn.to/3UezW3B
John Lear on the UFO Coverup:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/coverup.htm
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Oct 27, 2022 • 26min
84: Every Event is Secretly Encoded in the Bible even YOUR Birthday (and the Apocalypse)
In September 1994, Yitzak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel received an ominous message. It was a warning that his life was in danger.
The sender of the message said this information was secretly encoded -- in the Bible.
Rabin ignored the warning.
A year later, the Prime Minister was assassinated.
The code hidden within the Bible not only predicted Rabin's assassination, but also predicted the date, and even the name of the killer.
Secretly encoded in the Bible, written thousands of years ago, are predictions of every major world event. Including terrifying events yet to come.
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Oct 19, 2022 • 23min
83: Alien Probe, Sentient Machine, Nuclear Weapon, or Junk? What is the Betz Mystery Sphere?
In the Spring of 1974, a large brush fire swept across the property owned by Antoine and Gerri Betz.
While assessing the damage, they noticed something very out of place.
Lying in the smoldering grass, was a highly polished, metal sphere. This became known as the Betz sphere or the Betz orb.
Terry Betz, Antoine and Jerri's 21-year-old son, went to pick up the sphere. Although it was only 8-inches in diameter, it was extremely heavy.
Then the Betz family did something with the sphere that would change their lives forever. Something that the family would come to regret.
They brought it home.
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Oct 12, 2022 • 25min
82: Michigan Dogmen, The Beast of Bray Road and True Stories of Werewolves
The story always starts the same way. On the side of the road, in a backyard, or in a parking lot; a large dog hovers over a dead animal, quietly eating.
As you approach, the dog looks up. Its eyes shining in the dark.
As you move closer, the dog stands up on its hind legs. It's well over 7 feet tall. It has the body of a man but the head of a dog or a wolf.
Some call them werewolves. Others call them dogmen. Whatever they are, they've been terrifying people for hundreds of years.
In the past, it's been easy to dismiss these sightings as mistakes or superstitions.
But these creatures are not so easy to dismiss anymore.
Because now -- we have pictures.
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Oct 5, 2022 • 27min
81: TESLA KNEW The Secret of the Great Pyramid: Unlimited Free Energy to Power The World
Discover the mysterious purpose of the Great Pyramid of Giza and its connection to generating electricity. Explore the fascinating musical properties of the pyramid and its ability to resonate at 440 hertz. Learn about the possibility of the pyramid as an energy creation structure and its connection to Nikola Tesla's wireless power system. Uncover Tesla's vision for unlimited clean energy and the consequences of relying on oil, coal, and war for energy sources.

Sep 28, 2022 • 33min
80: JOHN TITOR: Soldier from the Future | Can this time traveler save us from destruction?
Meet John Titor, a temporal soldier from 2036 on a mission to save the world. Discover the concept of time travel, the technology behind it, and its implications. Explore Titor's predictions, world lines, and the enigma surrounding his story. Get ready for an uncertain future with practical tips and recommendations.

Sep 20, 2022 • 34min
77: The Airforce UFO Cover Up That Drove a Man INSANE | The Paul Bennewitz Story
Paul Bennewitz lived next to a large airforce base. When he saw colored lights in the sky, he assumed they were experimental aircraft.
Then he started picking up strange radio signals that seemed to be an alien language.
He took his findings to the Air Force. Publicly they denied the UFO/alien story.
But privately, they confirmed Paul's findings. The Air Force even funded his UFO research.
He spent several years gathering evidence and reporting it to the authorities.
Then, he ended up in a mental institution.
Let's find out why.
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Sep 15, 2022 • 17min
76: The CIA Assassination of Frank Olson | The Murder that Exposed MK-ULTRA
November 28th, 1953. New York City.
At 2:30 AM the body hit the sidewalk. A few seconds later, a shower of glass.
The doorman of the Statler Hotel yelled to the lobby that there was a jumper.
The night manager rushed out and saw him. A man, about 40 years old, lying on the pavement. He was on his back, wearing only his underwear and blood started to pool around him.
13 stories up, a single window was open; its curtain flapping through broken glass.
The night manager knelt beside the man, whose eyes were open and was somehow still alive. He desperately tried to speak but was choking on blood and couldn't be understood. After a minute or two of trying to communicate, the man took a final deep breath and was gone.
Nobody knows for sure what he was trying to say before he died.
But one thing is for certain, it was something about the CIA.
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