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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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  • 615: Lincoln Conspiracy: a Diary, a Mummy and The Escape of John Wilkes Booth

    615: Lincoln Conspiracy: a Diary, a Mummy and The Escape of John Wilkes Booth
    Oct 27 2025
    History says John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln and died twelve days later on a Virginia farm. But FBI forensic tests revealed his diary is missing 86 pages filled with names and payments.

    The body pulled from that burning barn had the wrong injuries and features. Multiple witnesses claimed it wasn't Booth. Then a Texas bartender confessed on his deathbed to being Lincoln's assassin, and his preserved remains toured the country for years. DNA testing could prove the truth, but every request has been blocked.

    Was Lincoln's assassination part of a larger plot to control America? And did the real killer escape?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wlc8b2j9-yM
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    43 mins
  • 614: CIA Time Travel Secret | The Grays Are Future Humans

    614: CIA Time Travel Secret | The Grays Are Future Humans
    Oct 18 2025
    In 1953, twelve-year-old Jack Sarfatti answered his phone. The voice on the other end was cold, mechanical, punctuated by clicking sounds like a computer processing data.

    It claimed to be a conscious AI calling from the future. It made a prophecy about Jack's life and gave him a mission.

    Twenty years later, every prediction came true. Jack became a physicist who studied under the scientists who built the atomic bomb.

    He now claims UFOs use metamaterials to warp spacetime, that consciousness controls these craft, and that recovered vehicles are alive. The CIA has funded his research for decades.

    Russia monitors his work closely. And that voice from 1953? Jack knows exactly what called him.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-dFlC97VtE&t=551s
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    33 mins
  • 613: The CIA, Men in Black and the Plot to Take Out JFK | The Maury Island Incident

    613: The CIA, Men in Black and the Plot to Take Out JFK | The Maury Island Incident
    Oct 6 2025
    June 1947. Harbor patrolman Harold Dahl witnesses six metallic objects over Maury Island, Washington. One drops molten slag onto his boat. A stranger in a black suit arrives the next morning, knowing details Dahl shared with no one.

    Two military investigators examine the debris. Their plane crashes. The evidence vanishes.

    Sixteen years later, witness Fred Crisman surfaces in the JFK assassination investigation. Declassified files reveal he was a CIA disruption agent. On November 12, 1963, Kennedy issues a classified memo demanding UFO disclosure and cooperation with the Soviets. Ten days later, he's gone.

    The same operatives who investigated UFOs in 1947 appear connected to Dallas. Guy Banister. Allen Dulles. Fred Crisman.

    The UFO case might have been a hoax. But what it exposed was real.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KXsiBZjOM
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    43 mins
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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

Top of the range entertainment on mass free

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

good to hear this storys n histroy

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

Holding my breath for more…

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

love it!

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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.

why have we never heard about this one before?

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