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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Awesome Podcast!

Love the way you tell the stories without interruption, then go back and confirm or debunk it or parts of it. Doing that during the story itself can become a jumble. I think that can bore or unintentionally misdirect people, or lead them to confirm an outcome for themselves before the story is over. Great job! Keep the content coming! One of the best podcasts I've found!

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story telling mixed with humor .

I tried coast to coast after watching aj and I just couldn't get into it . heckle fish and you really make these 12 hour shifts fly by.

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love hecklefish!!🐠

Love. amazing, interesting, funny, informative, entertaining, tin foil ear buds, thou shalt not skip leg day.

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great show

great show. found it on YouTube happy to find it here on Audible. thank you

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perfect

alot of " conspiracy " like to embellish the story and while AJ and heckle do spin an entrancing story, they also break down the truth and science.

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Interesting theory

Well put together and tought provoking. Covers the facts and covers opposing view points. Great coverage of the subject.

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just perfect

huge fan of the YouTube channel height of my week finally tried the podcast and just as perfect

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Fascinating

The content is so well researched and creatively delivered. I'm not super into scientific conspiracy theories but I can't get enough of these

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it's a great listen, regardless of what episode you choose to listen to

uh, well let's see.. hmmmmm.... you'll have to ask someone else for this one guys

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Gertie loves to dance!

Fun, informative, and full of light-hearted mystery. I like how things are debunked when the evidence disproves the legend, but there's always an opening for wondering about more. Plus Hecklefish is absolutely hilarious! He's the little voice in our heads let loose on the world.

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