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.
242 episodes transcribedPROOF THAT EVERYTHING - INCLUDING GOD - IS A SIMULATION Is this reality? Well, we're experiencing ... something right now so maybe the better questi...
THE BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES On February 25, 1942, at about 2:30 in the morning, the people of Los Angeles were jolted awake by the sound of air-raid s...
CHASING THE IMMORTAL COUNT The Count of Saint Germain has been called a prophet, a sorcerer, and an immortal. He's been spotted all over the world...
Here's a philosophical question for you. If a color doesn't have a name, can we still see it? Many years ago, the human eye evolved to give us the a...
MYSTERIES OF MOUNT SHASTA There is no other place on earth steeped in more mystery than Mount Shasta. Aliens, ghosts, underground bases and interd...
What do Ponce De Leon, Alexander The Great and Jason Giambi all have in common? Superstitions. What are superstitions? Why do we believe them? ...
WE'RE DUE FOR ANOTHER CARRINGTON EVENT On September 1, 1859, astronomer Richard Carrington was observing a huge sunspot. Suddenly, a flash of intense...
THE MAN WHO SAW ALIEN BASES ON THE MOON Ingo Swann claimed to be a psychic who was employed by the CIA to remote-view the dark side of the moon. Spe...
What if all of our online existence is fake? You, me, everyone; we're living in a real-life Matrix. Designed to distract us from the truth: that we'...
LEGEND OF THE MOON-EYED PEOPLE Across the Southern Appalachian mountains, from Georgia up through North Carolina, hundreds of unusual stone structur...
COMPUTER PREDICTS WORLD WILL END IN 2040 In 1704, using a series of calculations, Isaac Newton predicted the world would end sometime around the yea...
THE COMPUTER THAT PROVED TIME TRAVEL | THE DODLESTON MESSAGES In December 1984, Ken Webster, a high-school teacher, was living with his friend Nic a...
There are over 7 billion people living on the earth right now. Tens of millions are born and die each year. Every single one of us leaves signs of our...
In 1924, Paul Amadeus Dienach had been teaching the German language in Greece. Dying of tuberculosis, he wanted to return home to Switzerland. Before...
ATLANTIS, WORLD WARS AND THE POLE SHIFT Terrifying predictions of Edgar Cayce Edgar Cayce gave over 14,000 psychic readings. He made a number of pre...
KGB, BIGFOOT or ALIENS? WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT DYATLOV PASS? When the helicopter rescue team arrived at the Dyatlov Pass in February 1959, the nine...
PROJECT STARGATE: CIA, PSYCHICS, MARS AND ... TIME TRAVEL When the first human visits Mars, it will be the biggest scientific breakthrough since lan...
FOR SEVEN YEARS, SOVIET AGENTS SPIED ON THE AMERICAN EMBASSY UNDETECTED In 1945, Soviet children presented the ambassador with a gift to commemorate...
Do some horror movies use sounds of a *specific frequency* to amp up the scare factor? Yes. Can infrasound and ultrasound damage the human body? Yes....
When will we upload our consciousness to the cloud? As long as people have been alive, they've wanted to stay alive. For centuries, explorers hav...
