# The Why Files: Operation Podcast A podcast by The Why Files: Operation Podcast. 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. Feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/QCD2348265349 ## Latest episodes - [The Basement: William Shatner | Beyond the Final Frontier: Life, Death, and What Comes After](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/42b007e83335) (2026-10-26, 76 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD9783461407.mp3 - [Send for a Priest: Three Houses With Something Inside](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/b262d93ba8fa) (2026-10-23, 45 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6481391991.mp3 - [The Basement: Jeffrey Kripal | Inside the Archives of the Impossible](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/2b5e3fcd447b) (2026-10-19, 190 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2059044074.mp3 - [The Basement: Michael Salla | Nordics, Grays, and the Secret Space Program](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/1cd6a84dec4e) (2026-10-12, 254 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7449064963.mp3 - [The Titanic Never Sank](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/62c82f661721) (2026-10-09, 35 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2424664940.mp3 - [The Basement: Ed Barnhart | Lost Cities, Botflies, and a Magic Number](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/d7588d60f05c) (2026-10-05, 198 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD9102497297.mp3 - [The CIA, the Soviet Union, and a Missing UFO Blueprint](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/dcc48c565606) (2026-10-02, 45 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7230674909.mp3 - [The Basement: Alex Petkas | Julius Caesar's Final 24 Hours](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/711428d77ad4) (2026-09-28, 178 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD4184069087.mp3 - [Burned by a UFO: The Cash-Landrum Incident](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/0ab3f635a0b1) (2026-09-27, 49 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3504861483.mp3 - [The Basement: Brian Laythe | Ghosts, Possession, and Shadow People](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/cf72594e814c) (2026-09-21, 187 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6768954331.mp3 - [The Poltergeist Who Follows You Home](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/71c5e8529120) (2026-09-18, 37 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD5950461191.mp3 - [The Basement: Donald Hoffman | Consciousness, Math, and the Case for Letting Go](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/d81ed08fd245) (2026-09-14, 156 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6527245147.mp3 - [Bases in the Ocean, and a War for Earth | The Friendship Case](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/20fe20ef5885) (2026-09-12, 42 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD5562948027.mp3 - [The Basement: Dan Flores | Ice Age Giants, Camels in America, and Coyote Resilience](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/df00769b9717) (2026-09-07, 180 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD9286995302.mp3 - [The Zone of Silence: America's Missile Secret](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/8a3b8fb9d597) (2026-09-05, 43 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2603334775.mp3 - [The Basement: Quantum Compilation | From Particle Colliders to Parallel Realities](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/be2498d1de59) (2026-08-31, 232 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7961765503.mp3 - [The Alien Murders: Three Bodies, Three UFOs](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/be9df2fa4543) (2026-08-29, 41 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD4526521203.mp3 - [The Basement: Diana Pasulka | Angels, Vatican Archives, and a Government Email](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/76596729802a) (2026-08-24, 222 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD4020143352.mp3 - [The Basque Bloodline | Descendants of Atlantis](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/38d166d67ebf) (2026-08-21, 42 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD8075545215.mp3 - [The Basement: Mitch Horowitz | Gandhi, Reagan, and the Occultists History Erased](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/ac97d57b6120) (2026-08-17, 177 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6150615560.mp3 - [They Left Everything Behind Except an Explanation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/cc2dabcd8d81) (2026-08-15, 44 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7128925896.mp3 - [The Basement: Travis Taylor | Black Holes, UFOs & Skinwalker Ranch](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/45499ef891e1) (2026-08-10, 214 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD1283629574.mp3 - [JFK's Assassination and the CIA's Psychic Cold War](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/0e02ba5fbb4a) (2026-08-08, 55 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2329293584.mp3 - [The Basement: MrBallen | YouTube's Best Storyteller Tells His Own](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/670d3f823411) (2026-08-03, 239 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD5236760626.mp3 - [The Hunter Who Became the Hunted | Carl Higdon Abduction](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/32fb924762ff) (2026-07-31, 38 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7800587624.mp3 - [The Basement: John B. Alexander | Roswell, MJ-12, Skinwalker: The Colonel Who Was There](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/013a993a9999) (2026-07-27, 222 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3347169079.mp3 - [The Basement: Jeremy Corbell | Betrayal, Surveillance, and the Secret Higher Than Nuclear Weapons](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/e4a74da1d31a) (2026-07-20, 247 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD4577858328.mp3 - [Prophecy of the Popes | Saint Malachy's Countdown](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/f434ea13cec5) (2026-07-18, 47 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD1243989693.mp3 - [Human Evolution and the Power of the Mind: Science Compilation](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/19195f047379) (2026-07-15, 193 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD1262123426.mp3 - [Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/7007ad9e8726) (2026-07-14, 178 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD4208127290.mp3 - [The Basement: Thomas Campbell | This Sound Frequency Unlocks Out-of-Body Travel](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/56740e31b702) (2026-07-13, 259 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD1879154686.mp3 - [Stories That Still Haunt the Internet: The Soup Room, The Masked Feast, The Station That Isn't There](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/1513d302a31b) (2026-07-11, 52 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6475027219.mp3 - [The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/dcc381b8b08d) (2026-07-06, 179 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD5920994611.mp3 - [Project Chronos | Hitler's Last Weapon](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/2b1f683ccf4a) (2026-07-03, 42 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6541052591.mp3 - [The Basement: Dave Paulides | Missing 411 and Cases the Government Won't Let You See](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/8f4b3ab10a85) (2026-06-29, 120 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD4878564248.mp3 - [The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/33494da9a59b) (2026-06-26, 45 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3219977946.mp3 - [The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You Somewhere New — It Unlocked What's Always There](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/44873a224ff3) (2026-06-22, 192 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD9971612130.mp3 - [Canada's Most Documented UFO Case | Falcon Lake](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/0a8aa3b00551) (2026-06-19, 39 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD1548526360.mp3 - [The Basement: Bryce Zabel | Disclosure Day, Dark Skies, and Hollywood UFO Deals](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/a720f596b9fa) (2026-06-13, 184 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3793446138.mp3 - [The Basement: Joshua Cutchin | Fairies, Bigfoot, and the Connection Nobody Saw Coming](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/d901bd0add04) (2026-06-08, 167 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3477497499.mp3 - [Parallel Universes Are Real — And People Fall Into Them](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/e215ad766186) (2026-06-06, 46 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD8321175585.mp3 - [The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked Reality Before the Internet Existed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/fa6d2c920919) (2026-06-01, 174 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6694755042.mp3 - [The Forbidden Theory of Morphic Resonance](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/2a05c5d9022b) (2026-05-29, 41 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD4932582503.mp3 - [The Basement: Luke Caverns | LiDAR Is Revealing Ancient Cities the Amazon Was Hiding](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/dcf0bcd62dae) (2026-05-27, 291 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3022410312.mp3 - [The Basement: Rizwan Virk | The Simulation Hypothesis, Quantum Physics & Mysticism](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/ab25afd4a62f) (2026-05-18, 186 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD2596786433.mp3 - [The Machines Are Watching You | And They Know Everything (Compilation)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/c8a8111caa4b) (2026-05-17, 177 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6317463315.mp3 - [The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who Reconstructed Area 51's Secret Hangar](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/f575d90bc556) (2026-05-11, 187 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD1194085144.mp3?updated=1778518764 - [What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/0716be76d47e) (2026-05-08, 40 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD3197593657.mp3?updated=1778274989 - [The Basement: Nerdrotic | From Folsom Prison to Millions of Subscribers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/380054501920) (2026-05-04, 211 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD6151867917.mp3?updated=1777726608 - [Strange But True: Toxic Lady, The Cecil Hotel, Farmhouse Murders](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1631738803/8910ab8f6bde) (2026-05-01, 41 min): audio https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/tracking.swap.fm/track/3d6CsTAfO3grx1dlSbW7/traffic.megaphone.fm/QCD7492123997.mp3 Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. 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