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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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  • 599: Project Pegasus | The CIA's Child Time Soldiers

    599: Project Pegasus | The CIA's Child Time Soldiers
    Jun 24 2025
    In 1968, six-year-old Andrew Basiago stepped through Tesla's teleportation device and emerged at Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863. He was part of Project Pegasus, DARPA's classified program using technology reverse-engineered from Tesla's confiscated research.

    The program began after Sputnik shocked America into creating DARPA to prevent technological surprises. When scientists rediscovered Tesla's stolen files, they found blueprints for a teleportation machine that could bend space and time using zero-point energy.

    Adult test subjects either vanished, aged rapidly, or arrived in pieces across different moments. Only children's flexible minds could handle temporal displacement, so DARPA recruited 140 young "chrononauts" for missions throughout history.

    By 1980, the technology evolved to transport people to Mars, where Basiago claims he served alongside Barry Soetoro - later known as Barack Obama. But the program unlocked more than time travel - it opened doorways to infinite parallel realities that the government desperately tries to keep hidden.
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    51 mins
  • 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.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpxLpEzJpAs

    SOURCES & LINKS

    • Project: STARGATE. The CIA Mars and... Tim...
    Project: STARGATE. The CIA Mars and... Time Travel:

    • The Gateway Process: the CIA's Classified ...
    Project 8200 Exposed | CIA Psychics Find Alien Bases Underground:

    • Project 8200 Exposed | CIA Psychics Find A...
    Project Looking Glass | The Time Warriors of the 2012 Apocalypse:

    • Project Looking Glass | The Time Warriors ...

    Alien Bases On The Moon | The Amazing True Story of Ingo Swann:
    • Alien Bases On The Moon | The Amazing True...

    Atlantis, Thoth, the Emerald Tablet & the Secret to Immortality
    • Atlantis, Thoth, the Emerald Tablet & the ...
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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.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5ZaamPJd5U

    SOURCES & LINKS

    Alien Artifacts on Mars: What NASA doesn't want you to know:
    • Alien Artifacts on Mars: What NASA doesn't...

    Project Redsun: NASA's Secret Manned Missions to Mars:
    • Project Redsun: NASA's Secret Manned Missi...

    Project: STARGATE. The CIA Mars and... Time Travel.
    • Project: STARGATE. The CIA Mars and... Tim...

    Martian Mysteries | The Phobos Incident, Monoliths, and Ancient Ruins:
    • Martian Mysteries | The Phobos Incident, M...
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    39 mins
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Fun, informative, and full of light-hearted mystery. I like how things are debunked when the evidence disproves the legend, but there's always an opening for wondering about more. Plus Hecklefish is absolutely hilarious! He's the little voice in our heads let loose on the world.

Gertie loves to dance!

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The Why Files podcast is a truly one-of-a-kind cast. It’s whimsical, sometimes Sophomoric, but fast-paste, and data-dense. The podcast offers up references, and are easily accessed via their notes section for each episode. Each episode is unique, some far-flung, some physics-centric (which I like, especially at the theoretical and quantum levels), but all have a storyline that draws you into the topic. It’s how I wish more formal educational ventures were presented and pursued.

The Why Files is fast-paced, entertaining, willing to consider any topic, and embeds outstanding info & references

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really enjoyed the facts of explaining the destruction of being hit by a large meteor.

great overview of history and extinctions.

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And, ya gotta love Heckle Fish 🤣 Seriously, AJ is an amazing storyteller and the topics are so interesting. If you’re a fan of paranormal, aliens, conspiracy theories, ancient mysteries etc, you’re going to love The Why Files!!

Super fun and interesting topics!

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I started listening and pretty soon I was 5 episodes in. It is the best background podcast. You learn things and connect the dots with all the info. Its so interesting and it calms my anxiety.

Connecting the Why Files

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fantastic podcast l! i love all of the topics and how well it's all presented. keeps this trucker entertained and thinking through those long lonely nights. Thank you AH

well put together!

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I love the stories and mysteries discussed on the show. The fact based approach is also very welcome to debunk certain stories and lend credibility to others.

Excellent series!

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Love the way you tell the stories without interruption, then go back and confirm or debunk it or parts of it. Doing that during the story itself can become a jumble. I think that can bore or unintentionally misdirect people, or lead them to confirm an outcome for themselves before the story is over. Great job! Keep the content coming! One of the best podcasts I've found!

Awesome Podcast!

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I tried coast to coast after watching aj and I just couldn't get into it . heckle fish and you really make these 12 hour shifts fly by.

story telling mixed with humor .

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Love. amazing, interesting, funny, informative, entertaining, tin foil ear buds, thou shalt not skip leg day.

love hecklefish!!🐠

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