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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.
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Peter Levenda has spent more than thirty years investigating the connections between occult history, intelligence operations, and the events that shaped the modern world.
He is the author of more than twenty books, including Unholy Alliance, the Sinister Forces trilogy, and the Secret Machines series co-written with Tom DeLong. His work draws on primary documents, national archives, and firsthand research across four continents.
He is known for finding connections between subjects that most researchers treat as separate — Nazi occultism, the Kennedy assassination, CIA mind control programs, UFO phenomena, and the hidden religious networks that ran through all of it.
The Sinister Forces 20th Anniversary Edition is out now.
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In 2007, a writer named Lawrence Spencer opened an envelope he didn't ask for.
Inside were military documents from Roswell Army Air Field, dated 1947. Duty rosters, memos, Top Secret stamps. And buried near the bottom, transcripts of interviews with a subject the US Army couldn't communicate with using any conventional method.
No translator worked. No known language matched. The only person who could reach the subject was a nurse named Matilda MacElroy — and she did it without saying a word.
The woman who sent Spencer the envelope was 83 years old and weeks from death. She had kept silent for six decades under threat of execution.
Whatever she heard during those six weeks at Roswell, she carried alone. The people who knew her story were gone. The documents were supposed to stay buried.
She decided that wasn't good enough.
What Matilda described in those transcripts doesn't just challenge what we know about Roswell. It challenges what we know about Earth, about consciousness, and about every life we think we've lived.
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1Marc D'Antonio is an astronomer specializing in exoplanets, MUFON's
chief photo and video analyst, and the CEO of FX Models — a visual
effects company whose clients include Hollywood studios and defense
contractors.
He co-developed an advanced UFO detection system alongside Douglas
Trumbull, the visual effects legend behind 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close
Encounters of the Third Kind, and Blade Runner.
Marc operates two remote observatories in Arizona, where he livestreams
the night sky to audiences around the world and conducts real exoplanet
transit research. He is a recurring on-screen analyst for History
Channel's The Proof Is Out There and has appeared across numerous
television productions covering anomalous phenomena.
He has done project work for the U.S. Navy and the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and has spent decades applying genuine scientific rigor to one of
the least scientifically respected fields in existence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLqomIh6JDo
MARC D'ANTONIO LINKS
www.skytourlive.org
tiktok - skytourlivestream
X - @skytourD
Facebook - Marc Dantonio
Kick - marcstls
Instagram - skytourlivestream
twitch - stlsw
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Gather round for three stories the internet found and couldn't put down. A DVD arrived in Sweden with no return address — on it, a figure in a plague doctor mask standing inside an abandoned psychiatric hospital where hundreds of people were executed. The audio carried photographs hidden in frequencies the human ear can't detect.
In Seoul, a woman livestreamed herself 24 hours a day from a filth-filled apartment, claiming a corrupt police officer had implanted a chip in her ankle to control her sleep. Thousands watched. Nobody came.
And somewhere in West Virginia, a public access TV station started broadcasting messages that didn't belong to it. The signal told you not to look at the moon. Then something reversed the signal.
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Eric Wargo is an anthropologist, science writer, and the author of five books on one of the most controversial ideas in modern science — that the future is already fixed, and that your brain knows more about it than you think.
His work sits at the crossroads of physics, psychology, and the paranormal, drawing on everything from Einstein's relativity to Jung's scarab beetle to make a case that precognition is not only real but explainable through mainstream science.
He spent years as an editorial director at one of the country's leading psychology organizations before a UFO sighting in 2009 sent him in a very different direction — and he never really looked back.
You can find his writing at The Night Shirt and on Substack, and his books wherever books are sold.
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A doctor walks into a trauma room and sees a dead woman floating above a dying man. He isn't the patient's physician. He just felt the pull to go in.
That's how this story starts — and it gets stranger from there.
Hundreds of nurses, doctors, and everyday people have reported witnessing something at the exact moment someone dies. Not near-death experiences. Something different.
They were healthy, awake, and fully conscious. Some were thousands of miles away.
Researchers have now collected over 800 of these cases. The patterns are nearly identical across cultures, ages, and belief systems — including committed atheists.
What are they experiencing? And why have so many of them stayed silent for decades?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xauvaJ1kTBo
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Avi Loeb is the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, a internationally bestselling author, and one of the most decorated astronomers alive. He earned his PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem at 24, led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative, and spent five years at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton before joining Harvard.
He has published over a thousand scientific papers, written nine books, and in 2025 was ranked third in publication record and research impact among all astronomers worldwide. TIME named him one of the 25 most influential people in space.
As founder of the Galileo Project, Loeb is the only scientist of his standing conducting systematic, instrument-based research into extraterrestrial technology — and publishing every finding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opaMzW5E6o8&t=7s
AVI LOEB SOURCES & LINKS
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorAviLoebhttps://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/https://avi-loeb.medium.com/https://open.spotify.com/show/1zhndXkvSY2b8FdjspFpCdhttps://x.com/ProfAviLoeb
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Gather round for three missing persons cases that investigators, search teams, and forensic experts have never been able to explain.
A medical student disappeared from a packed bar in Columbus, Ohio — a building covered in cameras, with one way in and one way out. Police confirmed he never left. The footage proves he entered.
A family of three vanished from the Oklahoma mountains, leaving behind their dog, their cash, and a piece of security footage that still disturbs everyone who watches it.
A nineteen-year-old called his father from the side of a dark road in Minnesota. They stayed on the phone for forty-seven minutes. Then one word — and the line went dead.
No bodies recovered in two cases. No suspects charged in any of them. Three families left with open case files and no explanation that holds together.
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Hugh Newman is an author, explorer, and ancient mysteries researcher who has spent over two decades investigating megalithic sites around the world.
He is the founder of the Megalithomania Conference, now in its 20th year, which brings together academics, archaeologists, and independent researchers to examine ancient sites from multiple disciplines.
He co-authored the book Gobekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe: The World's First Megaliths and has written extensively on giants, earth grids, and ancient metrology.
Hugh has conducted fieldwork at sites across Turkey, Egypt, Malta, Peru, and Britain, and regularly leads research tours to locations most people never get access to.
He appears on Gaia's Ancient Civilizations series and runs the Megalithomania YouTube channel, where he documents new discoveries as they happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25q2-hP6NgU&t=1s
HUGH NEWMAN SOURCES & LINKS
Website: www.megalithomania.co.ukYoutube: www.youtube.com/MegalithomaniaUK Patreon: www.patreon.com/megalithomania Facebook: www.facebook.com/MegalithomaniaOfficial/ Instagram: megalithomania1, hughnewman1X: https://x.com/MEGALITHOMANIAMerchandise: https://megalithomania.dashery.comTours/Travel: www.megalithomania.co.uk/tours.html
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In 2010, someone posted a thought experiment on a philosophy forum. Within hours, people were having nightmares. The founder deleted it immediately — which only made it spread faster.
The idea is simple and brutal: a future AI will look back through time and punish everyone who knew it was coming but did nothing to help.
Now that you know, you're already in its crosshairs.
What started as an internet curiosity grew into something far darker — a real community, real violence, and six people dead.
This is the story of Roko's Basilisk: the idea you can't un-know, the cult it inspired, and why some of the most powerful people in AI still won't talk about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acJ7WfebEcc
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Scott Wolter, a forensic geologist, has spent 25 years following a trail of physical evidence — rocks, runes, bones, and buried artifacts — that leads somewhere most historians refuse to go.
It starts with a stone pulled from a Minnesota farm field in 1898 and ends with a sealed jar dug up from the Adirondack wilderness last August.
What's inside connects the Knights Templar, the Founding Fathers, the Talpiot Tomb in Jerusalem, and a scroll that may be the most significant document ever recovered.
Scott doesn't speculate. He brings receipts. And after 25 years of following this trail, he's ready to share what he found — and what it means for everything we think we know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt4pT6PpCoQ
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In 1977, a soldier walked into a glowing mist in the Chilean mountains and returned fifteen minutes later with five days of stubble on his face.
A pilot flew 250 miles in 34 minutes through a luminous fog over the Bermuda Triangle. An RAF Commander looked down from his biplane and saw an airfield four years before it existed. Two families checked into a French hotel that vanished two weeks later — along with every photo they took inside it.
British researcher Jenny Randles spent decades collecting these cases and found they all share the same symptoms: silence, tingling, glowing mist, and broken time.
Her conclusion connects UFOs, ghosts, and alien abductions to one phenomenon.
The physics backs her up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLi5LOtzWBs
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James Fox is one of the most respected documentary filmmakers working in UFO research today. He got his start assisting his father conducting interviews for Rolling Stone and Sports Illustrated, a foundation that shaped his instinct for rigorous, credible storytelling.
Over three decades, Fox produced seven documentaries including the widely acclaimed The Phenomenon and Moment of Contact, and in 2017 organized what remains the most credible civilian UFO disclosure event in history, bringing fourteen military and government officials from seven countries to the National Press Club in Washington.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFxnFHhqtts&t=1s
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Gather round for three campfire stories from the golden era of late-night radio, when Art Bell kept the lights on for millions of people who couldn't sleep and couldn't stop listening.
A psychologist in the Cascade Mountains encounters something in the woods—and brings it home. A frantic caller reaches Art Bell with a warning, and the satellite goes dark before he can finish.
A phone booth stands alone in the Mojave Desert for decades, and the calls that come through aren't always from strangers.These aren't ghost stories passed around a fire. They're documented, recorded, and still unresolved.
Pull up a chair. The night is long, and some questions don't have clean answers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkXcTs8pfBw&t=29s
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Chris Bledsoe is a UFO experiencer, author, and speaker whose 2007 encounter at the Cape Fear River became one of the most scrutinized contact cases in modern history. He reports that the experience cured a years-long battle with Crohn's disease and triggered a profound spiritual awakening that continues to this day.
Since then, defense, intelligence, and military branches have investigated his claims. The CIA, NASA, and the Vatican have all shown direct interest in his case.
Bledsoe reports ongoing phenomena at his home, speaks at events worldwide, and published his memoir UFO of God in 2023. Thousands of witnesses have observed orbs in his presence. He continues to be studied by researchers and scientists who cannot explain what they find.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYzXPxktcuM
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Timothy Hogan is an author, lecturer, and esoteric researcher specializing in the Knights Templar, alchemy, Gnosticism, and Hermetic traditions. Introduced to the Templar tradition in childhood, he later pursued Rosicrucian and Masonic studies, attaining high degrees across several rites. He is the Grand Master of the Order of the Temple of the Secret Initiates and founded the Templar Collegia to teach Templar philosophy and symbolism.
Hogan has written seven books exploring history, symbolism, and ancient wisdom traditions. He lectures internationally on cross-cultural symbolism and spiritual philosophy, and leads historical study tours through Egypt, Europe, and Mesoamerica. His work focuses on the transmission of esoteric knowledge, initiation traditions, and the deeper symbolism behind the Holy Grail and alchemy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr-zETVa8mY&t=3s
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Mike Bara spent 25 years in aerospace working on Boeing 757, 767, F-35, and classified military programs before co-authoring the New York Times bestseller Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA with Richard C. Hoagland.
A frequent Ancient Aliens contributor and author of seven books on suppressed space discoveries, Bara uses his aerospace engineering background to challenge official narratives about extraterrestrial artifacts and secret technology programs.
Starting as a Boeing draftsman in 1979, he advanced through experience on compartmentalized black programs, giving him unique insight into defense contracting and classified operations. He connects Roswell, the JFK assassination, and current Congressional UFO hearings, arguing that anti-gravity technology has existed since the 1960s and ancient civilizations left engineering marvels across our solar system.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YdL03WdmZs
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You wake up floating above your bed. Everything in your room drifts toward the ceiling. Outside, cars lift off highways and trees rip from the ground. According to a leaked government document, this happens on August 12th, 2026 — and NASA has known since 2019.
Project Anchor describes a 7-second gravitational shutdown that would kill 850 million people. The document is a hoax. But here's what isn't: we still don't understand what gravity actually is. Einstein described how it behaves, not what causes it. The graviton has never been detected. And for 70 years, anti-gravity research has been classified at levels above Top Secret.
Scientists who got too close have disappeared. Some came back. Some didn't. What exactly did they find?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6F4lHSbmWQ
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Gather round for three campfire stories that cannot be explained.
A corrections officer watches water materialize inside a concrete prison cell with no source. A YouTube channel uploads 72,000 videos in nine months at an impossible rate, then vanishes after pointing to coordinates in the Atlantic Ocean.
Three Royal Navy cadets walk into an English village and find themselves surrounded by rotting oxen, frozen smoke, and watchers behind dark windows. These aren't urban legends or campfire tales passed down through generations.
These are documented events with multiple witnesses—police officers, prison officials, military personnel, and investigators who went on record about what they saw. Water that falls upward. Channels that shouldn't exist. Villages trapped in time.
Each story breaks something fundamental about how we understand reality. The witnesses had everything to lose and nothing to gain.
Yet they couldn't deny what happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HwC9L4BDpE
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For centuries, prophets across different lands described the same coming disaster. A German leader would rise with a voice that could move nations.
Ancient Jewish scribes embedded something strange in their text—Hebrew letters that pointed to a specific year: 1946. That October, ten Nazi war criminals stood before the gallows at Nuremberg.
One of them whispered his final words: "Purimfest 1946." The Nazis believed they could manufacture their own destiny through prophecy and occult manipulation.
They edited ancient texts, built an empire on mysticism, and murdered anyone who predicted the wrong future. But there was one prophecy they couldn't control.
The pattern was already written, waiting two thousand years to return.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhMCFNl_YU
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I tried to listen to this podcast for a while, but the squeaky voice comic relief guy really ruined it for me.
Too many adverts
what a tit FFS...
tombs would be in Bethlehem, not Jerusalem. Joseph, Jesus, and James were very popular names and Jerusalem had a million people so not a stretch to think there was multiple Josephs naming their sons Jesus and James. Ahh but what about Mary's tomb? Its the one tomb inscribed in Greek, so it could just be a trick to fool us. Why give this evidence credence while discounting the endless other written and archeological evidence that proves the Gospels? peace.
And talk to Wes Huff. He will crush this. Christianity is intellectually robust and existentially satisfying. If the Gospels are true, then their is a legitimate war for our souls being fought by powerful entities. Turns out, all the devil has to do is dig some holes and scribe some names on the walls and plant a single scroll to get us to discount Jesus lol. Even Jews who think Jesus was a false Messiah mocked Him from being from Bethlehem. Point being, if He was from Bethlehem, His family
Kind of like how there are false gospels in the world righr now, there were also back in the beginning.
Saying the power of God is within us is not some profound thing that once discovered allows you to essentially be a god. that lie has been told since the serpent lol. We have the breath of life so no duh the power of God is in us. It's in the very fabric of reality in every atom. Jesus, however, allows us to become Childeren of God by inviting Him into our hearts. Once you come to know that love, all you want to do is glorify God.. A few alternate writings only proves the serpent kept lying.
where is illuminati volume 2?
when will you go back to the old episode content. I'm not into interviews.
AJ, sir your podcast The Why Files is pretty darned good! Thank you for your continual magnificent and prodigious efforts. I am pretty sure a lot of others feel the same joy that I do when we hear you get your teeth into a rivetting and world changing topic!
love your program bro! keep it up...
The information provided is fantastic. The f ish is so annoying l cant listen any further
I absolutely loved this episode!! He had so much to say that answered so many questions for me, I can’t wait to join the Templar’s!
I heard one great old episode of this podcast and was excited for more. Then he started adding this annoying Jewish woman muppet voice and I can't get through any of it. I was hoping the newer episodes dropped it but I just checked the most recent EP and the first thing I hear is that unbearable voice that's like nails on a chalkboard.
Great work Sir! Your interview style is superb!
Why does the whole thing start over almost 10 minutes in ?
Fuck you Martha Stewart and you stupid ass commercials
432 hz is a healing frequency
An alternate theory would be this...Back when remote viewers allegedly found a plane crash deep in the rain forest; maybe we just had classified satellite tech like Google Earth and when remote viewers found that Russian base, maybe we had a spy or asset inside Russia. So to keep the Russians from knowing all that, we said "Psychics told us". That's brilliant because it wastes Russias time and money as they attempt getting their own remote viewers and keeps our assets secret. Diabolical lol.
love the why files AJ and Hecklefish are the dynamic duo.