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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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  • 619: They Walk Among Us | The Human-Alien Hybrid Program

    619: They Walk Among Us | The Human-Alien Hybrid Program
    Dec 6 2025
    A college student desperate for affordable housing gets matched with an unusual roommate who wears sunglasses indoors and speaks like a careful robot.

    When the student's mother visits and accidentally touches the girl's arm, the skin feels wrong—cold and spongy like raw mushrooms.

    What happens next reveals a classified military program, a family connection that defies physics, and a tragedy born from teaching someone to be too human.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A89ozmI2zOo
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    43 mins
  • 618: The First Earth Battalion: America's Strangest Military Experiment

    618: The First Earth Battalion: America's Strangest Military Experiment
    Nov 26 2025
    A Vietnam War hero with zero casualties wrote a manual about warrior monks who hug daily and use ESP in combat. Instead of dismissing it, the US Army turned it into Project Jedi—a decades-long experiment in psychic warfare. Generals tried walking through walls.

    Intelligence officers hosted spoon-bending parties. Soldiers stared at goats until their hearts stopped. The CIA spent millions on remote viewers who claimed to see Soviet secrets thousands of miles away. Most experiments failed, but the successful techniques became foundational to modern Special Forces training.

    This is the true story of America's psychic soldier program and how a hippie field manual accidentally revolutionized military operations.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP3pOszdr5U
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    32 mins
  • 617: Psyops: From Dead Babies to UFOs - The Same Pattern Every Time

    617: Psyops: From Dead Babies to UFOs - The Same Pattern Every Time
    Nov 17 2025
    A behavioral expert who trains Navy SEALs and CIA operatives created a 20-point test that detects psychological manipulation with mathematical precision. Chase Hughes recently appeared on Shawn Ryan's podcast to discuss this system, and the same patterns appear in government propaganda, corporate deception, and social media algorithms.

    From a teenage girl's testimony that sold the Gulf War to Big Tobacco's forty-year lie, the scoring system reveals when you're being controlled. The formula works on anything—news coverage, corporate messaging, even the controversies you're arguing about right now.

    But once you learn to spot manipulation everywhere, you face a different danger. Foreign adversaries benefit when Americans trust nothing and question everything so intensely they can't function.

    The tool shows you how information is delivered. Deciding what's true is still your job.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X46H1dEADJU
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    38 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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