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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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  • 598: Synchronicities | The Science Behind Your Meaningful Coincidences (STRIPPED)

    598: Synchronicities | The Science Behind Your Meaningful Coincidences (STRIPPED)
    Jun 16 2025
    Ever think about someone you haven't spoken to in years, then they call you? You're not imagining things.

    Carl Jung called these meaningful coincidences "synchronicities," and believed they reveal something profound about reality itself. The universe isn't random chaos—it's an organized, responsive system that actually listens to human consciousness.

    From CIA experiments with psychic spies to ancient traditions that taught reality-bending techniques, the evidence suggests our thoughts influence the physical world in ways science is just beginning to understand. Twin boys separated at birth who lived identical lives, a balloon that traveled 140 miles to find another girl with the same name, and quantum physics experiments that prove consciousness affects matter.

    These aren't just stories. They're glimpses into how reality really works - and how you can learn to influence it.
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    33 mins
  • 597: Planet Maldek | The Classified Truth About Mars' Origin (STRIPPED)

    597: Planet Maldek | The Classified Truth About Mars' Origin (STRIPPED)
    Jun 6 2025
    Evidence suggests a massive world called Maldek once existed between Mars and Jupiter. This planet had a large moon that orbited it for millions of years—a moon with oceans, atmosphere, and possibly even life. When Maldek was destroyed in an ancient catastrophe, its moon was hurled into a new orbit around the sun. Today, we call that moon Mars.

    This explains Mars' strange features: why half the planet looks completely different from the other half, why it has tidal bulges like a moon, and why nuclear isotopes in the soil match signatures from atomic weapons. The same pattern of destruction that claimed Mars and Venus may be heading for Earth.

    Government scientists have hidden the evidence for decades. But the truth is written in planetary scars, ancient monuments, and mathematical patterns that reveal the violent history of our solar system.
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    39 mins
  • 596: The Awakening of Human Consciousness | Forbidden Fungus (STRIPPED)

    596: The Awakening of Human Consciousness | Forbidden Fungus (STRIPPED)
    May 31 2025
    Something extraordinary happened to the human brain 100,000 years ago. In just a few thousand generations, our brains nearly doubled in size - a change that should have taken millions of years.

    Scientists couldn't explain it until Terence McKenna proposed a radical theory. He believed early humans transformed into conscious beings not through fire or tools, but through eating a forbidden fungus growing in animal dung across Africa.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeF3n-1sPJY
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    28 mins

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Top of the range entertainment on mass free

best approach for these subjects could be debunked by AJ but it was a great story you can bet excellent presentation and I would have to say the team are the cutaway magicians thanks for the entertainment. can't get enough of it

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good to hear this storys n histroy

very well told and relaxing voice with good facts keep it up please and I'll keep listening

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Holding my breath for more…

Deep Dives are so good! Leaves me wanting more and more! Holding my breath Why Files team.

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love it!

The Why Files is one I find hard to turn off, and I love Heckle.

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why have we never heard about this one before?

astonishing that it took wife files to bring this to our attention. even if the story is clunky as AJ suggests it could have been rewritten and made into a better movie than Apollo 11 with Tom Hanks in my humble opinion. tremendous work AJ and team thank you.

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