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The Why Files

  • 2020 – 2026
  • Returning Series
  • Comedy · Crime · Documentary
  • 7 seasons
  • 9.0/10

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

Latest: Season 7 · 2026

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Join us as we learn about the mysteries of the universe and have a few laughs along the way

  1. E1. Witnesses With Proof: Calls from the Dead, Memory Transplants, Children Who Wait

    Jan 9, 2026 · 39m

    Gather round for three campfire stories investigators cannot explain.

  2. E2. Ancient Prophecies Predicted Hitler's Rise and Fall

    Jan 17, 2026

  3. E3. Unexplained Phenomena: The Dead Village, Spontaneous Rain, YouTube Mystery

    Jan 22, 2026 · 43m

    Gather round for three campfire stories that cannot be explained.

  4. E4. Project Anchor: NASA's Secret Gravity Shutdown Program

    Feb 1, 2026 · 47m

    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.

  5. E5. Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5

    Feb 14, 2026 · 180m

    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.

  6. E6. On The Air: The Silenced Caller, The Mojave Phone Booth and The Alien In The Freezer

    Feb 21, 2026 · 38m

    Pull up a chair. The night is long, and some questions don't have clean answers.

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