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Project Chronos | Hitler's Last Weapon

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2026/07/03

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The Basement: Dave Paulides | Missing 411 and Cases...

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2026/06/29

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The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster

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2026/06/26

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184:57

The Basement: Andrew Gallimore | DMT Didn't Take You...

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2026/06/22

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The Basement: Bryce Zabel | Disclosure Day, Dark...

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2026/06/13

The Why Files releases video episodes on Spotify every Monday and Friday. And when you become a Spotify Premium subscriber, you get fewer ads – that means more story, less interruption. Discover how to move your IRA or 401k into physical gold and silver — with no taxes or penalties. Get your free portfolio review and free gold & silver guide from GoldenCrest Metals: visit https://GoldenCrestMetals.com/thewhyfiles or call (888) 949-9172 now. The Basement: Bryce Zabel | Disclosure Day, Dark

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The Basement: Joshua Cutchin | Fairies, Bigfoot, and...

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2026/06/08

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164:21

The Basement: Joseph Matheny | The Man Who Hacked...

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2026/06/01

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39:44

The Forbidden Theory of Morphic Resonance

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2026/05/29

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277:59

The Basement: Luke Caverns | LIDAR Is Revealing...

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2026/05/27

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175:45

The Basement: Rizwan Virk | The Simulation...

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2026/05/18

Rizwan Virk built games downloaded millions of times, invested early in Discord, and taught at MIT. Then he put on a VR headset in Sausalito and nearly fell over reaching for a table that didn't exist. That five-second moment sent him down a rabbit hole connecting quantum physics, Eastern mysticism, and video game design — and he's not sure he's found the bottom yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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169:16

The Machines Are Watching You | And They Know...

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2026/05/17

Secret listening posts sit inside ordinary buildings in major cities. Numbers stations still broadcast coded messages over shortwave radio — and no one officially admits why. This compilation traces the full arc of modern surveillance, from hidden urban infrastructure and sonic weapons to subliminal influence campaigns and a computer virus that nearly started a world war. Havana Syndrome left diplomats with brain injuries and no official explanation. A wire encircles New York City that most

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176:44

The Basement: Luigi Vendittelli | S4: The Man Who...

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2026/05/11

Luigi Vendittelli was 9 years old when his grandfather came inside shaking, saying he'd just seen a flying saucer over Montreal. Nobody believed him. That moment turned Luigi into Canada's foremost UFO investigator — and eventually led him to cold-call Bob Lazar, spend five years rebuilding S4 from scratch in 3D, and uncover a 1941 government map that shows exactly where the hangar doors are. And then his bank tried to shut him down. This is one you're going to want to watch twice. Learn

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34:46

What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man

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2026/05/08

Hundreds of survivors across a century — climbers, sailors, divers, soldiers — report the same thing. At the moment they were about to die, a calm presence appeared beside them. It gave directions. It knew the way out. It disappeared the moment the danger passed. A neuroscientist built a machine that can summon something like it. But what his subjects experienced and what survivors describe are not the same thing. The cases are real. The pattern is undeniable. What the presence actually is

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200:32

The Basement: Nerdrotic | From Folsom Prison to...

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2026/05/04

Before YouTube. Before millions of subscribers. Before Friday Night Tights — Gary Buechler had a story almost nobody knew. It starts at Folsom Prison, a neighbor's jar of pennies, and a double-murderer cellmate who wouldn't leave him alone. His memoir is called Waiting For. That title alone should tell you something. He sat down with AJ in The Basement and held nothing back. Watch to the end. NERDROTIC LINKS https://www.youtube.com/@nerdrotic https://x.com/nerdrotics

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39:28

Strange But True: Toxic Lady, The Cecil Hotel,...

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2026/05/01

Gather round, this happened. A nurse draws blood and collapses before she can speak. A Bavarian farmer finds footprints in the snow that only go one way. A hotel guest complains the water tastes sweet. Three stories. Three cases that were investigated, closed, and never fully explained. Gloria Ramirez turned a hospital trauma room into a chemical event that sent five people to intensive care. The Gruber family was killed one by one in their own barn — and the killer stayed for days. Elisa

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173:03

The Basement: Jeffrey Mishlove | Your Brain Doesn't...

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2026/04/27

Jeffrey Mishlove has spent 50 years at the intersection of science and the paranormal. He holds the only PhD in parapsychology ever awarded by an accredited American university, earned at UC Berkeley in 1980 — and successfully defended it in court when organized skeptics tried to have it revoked. He hosted the long-running television series Thinking Allowed, conducting over 1,500 interviews with the world's leading researchers in consciousness, mysticism, and the paranormal. He was embedded in

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228:49

When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations and...

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2026/04/24

Ready to reach your goals? Visit https://hims.com/THEWHYFILES to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed a treaty with extraterrestrial beings — technology in exchange for access to human subjects. The CIA ran classified programs using children as test subjects for time travel and teleportation. A Bulgarian military unit sealed an excavation site after soldiers encountered something underground that the government has never explained. These aren't

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197:32

Basement: Daniel Whiteson | CERN, Dark Matter, and...

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2026/04/20

Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at UC Irvine and an active researcher at CERN's Large Hadron Collider — the largest machine ever built — where 5,000 scientists are using high-energy collisions to read the universe's secret menu. He co-hosts the show Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe, co-created an award-winning science show for preschoolers, and recently wrote a book asking whether aliens would even recognize our physics at all. His work sits at the collision point of experimental

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248:44

Basement #011: Peter Levenda | Nazis, UFOs, and the...

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2026/04/13

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

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33:56

The Roswell Alien Interview | Your Soul Has Been Here...

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2026/04/10

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.

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