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.
239 episodes transcribedGather round for three campfire stories that cannot be explained.A corrections officer watches water materialize inside a concrete prison cell with n...
For centuries, prophets across different lands described the same coming disaster. A German leader would rise with a voice that could move nations.An...
Gather round for three campfire stories investigators cannot explain.A dead man's phone calls thirty-five times in twelve hours, guiding rescuers thr...
This special compilation brings together ten staff favorites that question everything we think we know about reality. From the dark corridors of DARPA...
In 1745, London authorities arrested a stranger who refused to give his name. His pockets were full of diamonds, and he played violin like a master....
In 450 BC, Herodotus described an Egyptian labyrinth so massive it made the pyramids look small. Then it vanished under the desert for 2,000 years. I...
A college student desperate for affordable housing gets matched with an unusual roommate who wears sunglasses indoors and speaks like a careful robot....
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...
A behavioral expert who trains Navy SEALs and CIA operatives created a 20-point test that detects psychological manipulation with mathematical precisi...
Sweden's National Library protects the Codex Gigas—165 pounds of vellum featuring the complete Bible and a terrifying portrait of Satan. Scholars esti...
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 missin...
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 comp...
June 1947. Harbor patrolman Harold Dahl witnesses six metallic objects over Maury Island, Washington. One drops molten slag onto his boat. A stranger...
The agencies tasked with defending America have a shocking secret history of attacking its own people. DARPA developed Agent Orange that poisoned coun...
Discover the United States Strategic Command's CONPLAN 8888, the military's actual plan for confronting a zombie apocalypse. This discussion uncover...
In 1947, a mysterious craft crashed in the New Mexico desert. President Truman immediately formed a secret committee of twelve men to manage this unpr...
This compilation reveals eight extraordinary cases that will make you question everything you thought you knew about what's really happening above our...
In 2023, something began hunting people in the remote Amazon village of San Antonio de Pintuyacu. Witnesses described seven-foot beings in black armor...
On April 13, 2029, an asteroid named Apophis will pass closer to Earth than our communication satellites. For the first time in human history, million...
A Pentagon satellite detected an energy-shielded chamber beneath Romania's Bucegi Mountains. When an identical site in Baghdad activated simultaneousl...
