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A weekly YouTube video podcast that explores the strange and weird of this world and beyond.
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- Compilation: Weird & Bizarre stories!
E71Compilation: Weird & Bizarre stories!We're on break between seasons! Yeah, I guess we're doing seasons now. We return NEXT WEEK with a new episode - and a few surprises. Meanwhile, here's a compilation of some "classic" episodes featuring weird and bizarre stories. Some are great. Some are cringe. - Compilation: Stories about the Apocalypse
E72Compilation: Stories about the ApocalypseCompilation: Stories about the Apocalypse Humanity's future hangs in the balance as a multitude of doomsday scenarios loom on the horizon. From the perils of solar storms and pole shifts to the existential threat posed by artificial intelligence, our world teeters on the brink of unprecedented change. Uncover the startling revelations found within a once-classified book that foretells a cataclysmic fate for our planet. Journey through history's most harrowing close calls with nuclear annihilation and explore the terrifying consequences of a modern-day Carrington Event. Brace yourself for an eye-opening exploration of the challenges that lie ahead. Will humanity rise to meet these trials, or will our species succumb to the forces that threaten to reshape our world forever? Assuming we survive the apocalypse, we're back next week with a new episode. PDS Debt is offering a free debt analysis. It only takes thirty seconds. Get yours at https://PDSDebt.com/files Thanks PDS Debt for spo - Compilation: Ancient Mysteries vol 1
E73Compilation: Ancient Mysteries vol 1Compilation: Ancient Myths and Mysteries Volume 1 This collection of ancient mysteries challenges our understanding of history. Explore a possible underground city in the Grand Canyon, rumored to be filled with ancient artifacts and enigmatic writings that defy explanation. Discover the alleged subterranean world of Agartha, where a technologically advanced society might reside beneath our feet, untouched by time. Consider the theory of a hollow Earth, supported by anomalies in seismic data and strange compass readings from the past. Learn of lost continents and advanced prehistoric cultures that raise questions about humanity's origins and the knowledge we've lost over millennia. Each story offers a glimpse into a world where myth and reality intertwine, urging you to question what lies beneath our known world. - Compilation: Our Reality is an Illusion
E74Compilation: Our Reality is an IllusionCould our reality be an illusion? Startling evidence suggests the world as we know it may not be what it seems. Clues hidden in plain sight point to the mind-bending possibility that we're living in a simulation. Quantum experiments reveal the universe might exist in infinite parallel versions, each containing alternate realities and copies of you. Reports of mysterious travelers from non-existent countries hint at intertwining dimensions just beyond our perception. Ancient devices and secret experiments may allow communication with these otherworldly realms, or even enable passage between them. This compilation of theories and strange accounts will make you question the very nature of existence. - Compilation: The Moon is Weird - No, really. The Moon does not make sense.
E75Compilation: The Moon is Weird - No, really. The Moon does not make sense.This compilation explores mind-bending theories of the Moon's true nature and purpose. From claims of hollow interiors to allegations of alien bases, these ideas push the boundaries of conventional wisdom. - COMPILATION: Biblical Mysteries from Eden to Armageddon
E76COMPILATION: Biblical Mysteries from Eden to ArmageddonThroughout history, people have reported seeing shadow figures during sleep and mysterious lights in the sky. These experiences push the boundaries of what we understand about the world. Scientists continue to study these phenomena, trying to find explanations. As we learn more about our past, we discover how closely linked science and the supernatural have always been. - COMPILATION: The Stories That Made Me a Believer
E77COMPILATION: The Stories That Made Me a BelieverThe Why Files loves to make you question everything you thought you knew about reality. This collection of nine astonishing true stories spans from vanishing hikers to cosmic threats, mysterious monuments to clandestine operations. Each episode pushes the boundaries of belief, challenging our understanding of the world around us. Uncover the secrets behind enigmatic phenomena, explore covert government projects, and confront uncomfortable truths. - COMPILATION: The Science of Ghosts and Ghost Hunting
E78COMPILATION: The Science of Ghosts and Ghost HuntingThroughout history, people have reported seeing shadow figures during sleep and mysterious lights in the sky. These experiences push the boundaries of what we understand about the world. Scientists continue to study these phenomena, trying to find explanations. As we learn more about our past, we discover how closely linked science and the supernatural have always been. - COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground Mysteries
E79COMPILATION: Hole Stories and Underground MysteriesA construction worker discovers a massive tunnel system while breaking ground for a new building. Meanwhile, deep in the Nevada desert, scientists detect unusual seismic activity that doesn't match any known geological patterns. These events might seem unconnected, but they're part of humanity's complex relationship with what lies beneath. Throughout history, people have built elaborate underground networks - from ancient catacombs to modern military bunkers. Even now, mysterious tunnels are being discovered under cities worldwide, their purposes unknown. Some say they're remnants of lost civilizations. Others claim they're proof of secret government projects. Scientists continue mapping the vast caverns and passages honeycombing Earth's crust, finding new mysteries with each expedition. As we dig deeper into our planet's hidden spaces, we uncover evidence that challenges our understanding of human history. What secrets still wait to be discovered in the darkness below? - COMPILATION: Pyramids, Mounds and Mountains
E80COMPILATION: Pyramids, Mounds and MountainsDeep beneath Earth's mountains lie secrets that could reshape our understanding of human history and technological capability. Mountains like Shasta, Hayes, and the pyramids of Giza possess qualities that defy conventional explanation - perfect alignments, unusual magnetic properties, and inexplicable energy signatures. The evidence points to a hidden truth: many of Earth's most prominent peaks might serve purposes far beyond their natural geological roles. English - MEGA COMPILATION: Dreams & NightmaresE81
MEGA COMPILATION: Dreams & NightmaresBlorpus & Chill with the Beavers Sleepy Time Need something to listen to while you unwind? We’ve gathered some of our most soothing and fascinating stories to help you drift off into dreamland. Explore ideas that challenge reality, from simulation theory to parallel dimensions. Mysterious places, forgotten legends, and strange encounters create the perfect mix of intrigue and relaxation. Ever wonder if dreams connect us to something beyond? Stories of lucid dreaming, time slips, and unexplained phenomena might make you rethink what’s possible. Whether you’re looking for a calming escape or a gentle way to fall asleep, this collection has you covered. Dim the lights, get comfortable, and let the mysteries unfold. - COMPILATION: Mars Mysteries and Secret Missions
E82COMPILATION: Mars Mysteries and Secret MissionsWhat if humanity has already been to Mars, but not in the way you think? This compilation reveals the hidden connections between secret space missions, ancient artifacts, and psychic experiments that span decades of cover-ups. - COMPILATION: UFOs and Aliens Vol.2 | They are NOT our friendsE83
COMPILATION: UFOs and Aliens Vol.2 | They are NOT our friendsThis compilation reveals eight extraordinary cases that will make you question everything you thought you knew about what's really happening above our heads. From a weather observer's unlikely friendship with chalk-white aliens at a secret base to Brazilian Air Force documentation of blood-draining UFO attacks, these stories span continents and decades. - The Basement: Not a Professional Operation
E86The Basement: Not a Professional OperationHey gang... this was our "test" show of the new The Basement set. Don't watch it. Just... don't. But if you're curious, it's how The Why Files got started and a lot of personal stuff. Two actual episodes are already done and shooting again tomorrow! (what could possibly go wrong) - The Basement #002: Mike Bara | JFK Assassination, Secret Space Program & Cities on Mars
E87The Basement #002: Mike Bara | JFK Assassination, Secret Space Program & Cities on MarsMike Bara spent 25 years in aerospace working on Boeing 757, 767, F-35, and classified military programs before co-authoring the New York Times bestseller Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA with Richard C. Hoagland. A frequent Ancient Aliens contributor and author of seven books on suppressed space discoveries, Bara uses his aerospace engineering background to challenge official narratives about extraterrestrial artifacts and secret technology programs. Starting as a Boeing draftsman in 1979, he advanced through experience on compartmentalized black programs, giving him unique insight into defense contracting and classified operations. He connects Roswell, the JFK assassination, and current Congressional UFO hearings, arguing that anti-gravity technology has existed since the 1960s and ancient civilizations left engineering marvels across our solar system. - The Basement #003: Tim Hogan | Templars, Atlantis, and the Ark of the Covenant
E88The Basement #003: Tim Hogan | Templars, Atlantis, and the Ark of the CovenantTimothy Hogan is an author, lecturer, and esoteric researcher specializing in the Knights Templar, alchemy, Gnosticism, and Hermetic traditions. Introduced to the Templar tradition in childhood, he later pursued Rosicrucian and Masonic studies, attaining high degrees across several rites. He is the Grand Master of the Order of the Temple of the Secret Initiates and founded the Templar Collegia to teach Templar philosophy and symbolism. Hogan has written seven books exploring history, symbolism, and ancient wisdom traditions. He lectures internationally on cross-cultural symbolism and spiritual philosophy, and leads historical study tours through Egypt, Europe, and Mesoamerica. His work focuses on the transmission of esoteric knowledge, initiation traditions, and the deeper symbolism behind the Holy Grail and alchemy. - COMPILATION: Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5E89
COMPILATION: Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5Cryptids 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. Underground electrical anomalies connect these sightings across continents. Cave networks form impossible geometric patterns. Physical evidence vanishes into government storage. Some reports trace back thousands of years through indigenous cultures. Modern technology captures footage mainstream science won't examine. These aren't isolated stories—they're pieces of something larger. Something watching. Something waiting. - The Basement #004: Chris Bledsoe | UFO Contact, Government Secrets and the CIA
E90The Basement #004: Chris Bledsoe | UFO Contact, Government Secrets and the CIAChris Bledsoe is a UFO experiencer, author, and speaker whose 2007 encounter at the Cape Fear River became one of the most scrutinized contact cases in modern history. He reports that the experience cured a years-long battle with Crohn's disease and triggered a profound spiritual awakening that continues to this day. Since then, defense, intelligence, and military branches have investigated his claims. The CIA, NASA, and the Vatican have all shown direct interest in his case. Bledsoe reports ongoing phenomena at his home, speaks at events worldwide, and published his memoir UFO of God in 2023. Thousands of witnesses have observed orbs in his presence. He continues to be studied by researchers and scientists who cannot explain what they find. - The Basement #005: James Fox | UFO Disclosure, Varginha, and the Captured Creature
E91The Basement #005: James Fox | UFO Disclosure, Varginha, and the Captured CreatureJames Fox is one of the most respected documentary filmmakers working in UFO research today. He got his start assisting his father conducting interviews for Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated, a foundation that shaped his instinct for rigorous, credible storytelling. Over three decades, Fox produced seven documentaries including the widely acclaimed The Phenomenon and Moment of Contact, and in 2017 organized what remains the most credible civilian UFO disclosure event in history, bringing fourteen military and government officials from seven countries to the National Press Club in Washington. - The Basement #006: Scott Wolter | The Kensington Runestone, Templar Treasure, and the Green Jar
E92The Basement #006: Scott Wolter | The Kensington Runestone, Templar Treasure, and the Green JarScott Wolter, a forensic geologist, has spent 25 years following a trail of physical evidence — rocks, runes, bones, and buried artifacts — that leads somewhere most historians refuse to go. It starts with a stone pulled from a Minnesota farm field in 1898 and ends with a sealed jar dug up from the Adirondack wilderness last August. What's inside connects the Knights Templar, the Founding Fathers, the Talpiot Tomb in Jerusalem, and a scroll that may be the most significant document ever recovered. Scott doesn't speculate. He brings receipts. And after 25 years of following this trail, he's ready to share what he found — and what it means for everything we think we know. - The Basement #007: Hugh Newman | Giant Skeletons, Sacred Geometry and the Civilization Before History
E93The Basement #007: Hugh Newman | Giant Skeletons, Sacred Geometry and the Civilization Before HistoryHugh Newman is an author, explorer, and ancient mysteries researcher who has spent over two decades investigating megalithic sites around the world. He is the founder of the Megalithomania Conference, now in its 20th year, which brings together academics, archaeologists, and independent researchers to examine ancient sites from multiple disciplines. He co-authored the book Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe: The World's First Megaliths and has written extensively on giants, earth grids, and ancient metrology. Hugh has conducted fieldwork at sites across Turkey, Egypt, Malta, Peru, and Britain, and regularly leads research tours to locations most people never get access to. He appears on Gaia's Ancient Civilizations series and runs the Megalithomania YouTube channel, where he documents new discoveries as they happen. - The Basement #008: Avi Loeb | 3I Atlas, Oumuamua, and What NASA Won't Say
E94The Basement #008: Avi Loeb | 3I Atlas, Oumuamua, and What NASA Won't SayAvi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, a internationally bestselling author, and one of the most decorated astronomers alive. He earned his PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at 24, led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative, and spent five years at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton before joining Harvard. He has published over a thousand scientific papers, written nine books, and in 2025 was ranked third in publication record and research impact among all astronomers worldwide. TIME named him one of the 25 most influential people in space. As founder of the Galileo Project, Loeb is the only scientist of his standing conducting systematic, instrument-based research into extraterrestrial technology — and publishing every finding. - The Basement #009: Eric Wargo | Time Loops, Precognitive Dreams, and Quantum Biology
E95The Basement #009: Eric Wargo | Time Loops, Precognitive Dreams, and Quantum BiologyEric Wargo is an anthropologist, science writer, and the author of five books on one of the most controversial ideas in modern science — that the future is already fixed, and that your brain knows more about it than you think. His work sits at the crossroads of physics, psychology, and the paranormal, drawing on everything from Einstein's relativity to Jung's scarab beetle to make a case that precognition is not only real but explainable through mainstream science. He spent years as an editorial director at one of the country's leading psychology organizations before a UFO sighting in 2009 sent him in a very different direction — and he never really looked back. You can find his writing at The Night Shirt and on Substack, and his books wherever books are sold. - The Basement #010: Marc D'Antonio | UFO Propulsion, The Fifth Dimension, and 40 Billion Habitable Worlds
E96The Basement #010: Marc D'Antonio | UFO Propulsion, The Fifth Dimension, and 40 Billion Habitable WorldsMarc D'Antonio is an astronomer specializing in exoplanets, MUFON's chief photo and video analyst, and the CEO of FX Models — a visual effects company whose clients include Hollywood studios and defense contractors. He co-developed an advanced UFO detection system alongside Douglas Trumbull, the visual effects legend behind 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner. Marc operates two remote observatories in Arizona, where he livestreams the night sky to audiences around the world and conducts real exoplanet transit research. He is a recurring on-screen analyst for History Channel's The Proof Is Out There and has appeared across numerous television productions covering anomalous phenomena. He has done project work for the U.S. Navy and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and has spent decades applying genuine scientific rigor to one of the least scientifically respected fields in existence. - The Basement #011: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody Tells
E97The Basement #011: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the Hidden History Nobody TellsPeter Levenda has spent more than thirty years investigating the connections between occult history, intelligence operations, and the events that shaped the modern world. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Unholy Alliance, the Sinister Forces trilogy, and the Secret Machines series co-written with Tom DeLong. His work draws on primary documents, national archives, and firsthand research across four continents. He is known for finding connections between subjects that most researchers treat as separate — Nazi occultism, the Kennedy assassination, CIA mind control programs, UFO phenomena, and the hidden religious networks that ran through all of it. - The Basement #12: Daniel Whiteson | Dark Matter, Dark Aliens, Dark Physics
E98The Basement #12: Daniel Whiteson | Dark Matter, Dark Aliens, Dark PhysicsDaniel 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. - COMPILATION: When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations, and Classified OpsE99
COMPILATION: When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations, and Classified OpsWhen the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations and Classified Ops (COMPILATION) 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. - The Basement #13: Jeffrey Mishlove | The Dark Side of Psychic Ability
E100The Basement #13: Jeffrey Mishlove | The Dark Side of Psychic AbilityJeffrey 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.
