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.
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  • 576: Operation Eagle Flight: The Escape from Berlin to Bariloche

    576: Operation Eagle Flight: The Escape from Berlin to Bariloche
    Dec 20 2024
    For decades, a piece of his skull sat in a Russian archive - our most decisive proof that the most evil man of the 20th century died in 1945. When scientists finally tested the bone in 2009, they discovered it belonged to a woman under 40. The evidence we trusted for over 60 years was fake.

    Stalin insisted the dictator escaped to Argentina. The FBI conducted their longest manhunt ever looking for him. Recently, researchers found a military submarine deliberately hidden off Argentina's coast. When asked to investigate, authorities said no. They're still saying no.

    The truth remains buried in sealed files across three continents. But the bigger question isn't whether he escaped - it's who helped him. Because if history's greatest monster survived, he didn't do it alone. He was protected by a network that reached from Berlin to the Vatican to Argentina -- to Washington D.C.
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    40 mins
  • 575: The Underground Grid: Electricity Linking Four Famous Monsters

    575: The Underground Grid: Electricity Linking Four Famous Monsters
    Nov 23 2024
    In 2015, geologists discovered something peculiar: identical electrical patterns beneath four locations across the globe. These places shared another connection - they were all home to famous cryptid sightings.

    From the Jersey Devil to Mokele-mbembe, these creatures seemed random and unrelated. Until scientists found the underground grid.

    Now research suggests these legendary beasts might be more connected than anyone imagined. What lies beneath these locations, and why are the tunnels expanding toward a central point?
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    33 mins
  • 574: Project Redsun: NASA's Secret Manned Missions to Mars

    574: Project Redsun: NASA's Secret Manned Missions to Mars
    Nov 2 2024
    In 1973, while the world watched the Apollo missions end, something extraordinary happened in the Amazon jungle. A rocket carried humanity's most advanced spacecraft toward Mars, crewed by familiar names: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Ilyushin.

    Project Redsun united Cold War enemies to pursue a singular goal - establishing a human presence on Mars. The mission succeeded, but the crew discovered something that changed everything.

    Decades later, whistleblowers emerged with photographs, documents, and footage that paint an astonishing picture of space exploration's hidden history.
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    33 mins

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Holding my breath for more…

Deep Dives are so good! Leaves me wanting more and more! Holding my breath Why Files team.

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good to hear this storys n histroy

very well told and relaxing voice with good facts keep it up please and I'll keep listening

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love it!

The Why Files is one I find hard to turn off, and I love Heckle.

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why have we never heard about this one before?

astonishing that it took wife files to bring this to our attention. even if the story is clunky as AJ suggests it could have been rewritten and made into a better movie than Apollo 11 with Tom Hanks in my humble opinion. tremendous work AJ and team thank you.

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