The Why Files

The Why Files

  • 2020
  • 7 Seasons
  • 155 Episodes
  •  9  (1)
  •   Returning Series

A weekly YouTube video podcast that explores the strange and weird of this world and beyond.

The Why Files
Seasons
The Murder Cult Started By A Banned Post
8. The Murder Cult Started By A Banned Post
March 13, 2026
Roko's Basilisk: The Digital Hell You Can't Opt Out Of. 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
Science Behind Time Storms. Time Isn't What You Think It Is
7. Science Behind Time Storms. Time Isn't What You Think It Is
March 06, 2026
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.
On The Air: The Silenced Caller, The Mojave Phone Booth and The Alien In The Freezer
6. On The Air: The Silenced Caller, The Mojave Phone Booth and The Alien In The Freezer
February 21, 2026
Pull up a chair. The night is long, and some questions don't have clean answers.
Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5
5. Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5
February 14, 2026
Cryptids exist in the space between known and unknown—creatures reported for generations but never officially acknowledged. From Mothman's glowing red eyes to ancient predators beneath Antarctic ice, from Australia's deadly Yowie to interdimensional beings along New Jersey rivers, witnesses describe encounters that defy explanation.
Project Anchor: NASA's Secret Gravity Shutdown Program
4. Project Anchor: NASA's Secret Gravity Shutdown Program
February 01, 2026
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.
Unexplained Phenomena: The Dead Village, Spontaneous Rain, YouTube Mystery
3. Unexplained Phenomena: The Dead Village, Spontaneous Rain, YouTube Mystery
January 22, 2026
Gather round for three campfire stories that cannot be explained.
Ancient Prophecies Predicted Hitler's Rise and Fall
2. Ancient Prophecies Predicted Hitler's Rise and Fall
January 17, 2026
Witnesses With Proof: Calls from the Dead, Memory Transplants, Children Who Wait
1. Witnesses With Proof: Calls from the Dead, Memory Transplants, Children Who Wait
January 09, 2026
Gather round for three campfire stories investigators cannot explain.
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A weekly YouTube video podcast that explores the strange and weird of this world and beyond.
  • Premiere Date
    May 10, 2020
  • Rating
    9  (1)