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The Why Files
Overview
A weekly YouTube video podcast that explores the strange and weird of this world and beyond.
Status
Returning Series
Created By
Andrew Gentile
Network
YouTube
Seasons & Episodes
Season 7
Join us as we learn about the mysteries of the universe and have a few laughs along the way
Episodes
Witnesses With Proof: Calls from the Dead, Memory Transplants, Children Who Wait
Gather round for three campfire stories investigators cannot explain.
Ancient Prophecies Predicted Hitler's Rise and Fall
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Unexplained Phenomena: The Dead Village, Spontaneous Rain, YouTube Mystery
Gather round for three campfire stories that cannot be explained.
Project Anchor: NASA's Secret Gravity Shutdown Program
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.
Human Hybrids and Interdimensional Creatures: Cryptids Compilation Vol. 5
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.
On The Air: The Silenced Caller, The Mojave Phone Booth and The Alien In The Freezer
Pull up a chair. The night is long, and some questions don't have clean answers.
Science Behind Time Storms. Time Isn't What You Think It Is
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.
The Murder Cult Started By A Banned Post
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
Vanished: Three Disappearances Nobody Can Explain
Gather round for three missing persons cases that investigators, search teams, and forensic experts have never been able to explain.
What Nobody Tells You About Death | The Living Feel It Too
Hundreds of nurses, doctors, and everyday people have reported witnessing something at the exact moment someone dies. Not near-death experiences. Something different.
Three Internet Horrors That Will Keep You Up at Night
Gather round for three stories the internet found and couldn't put down
Death Resets Everything | The Roswell Alien Transcripts
In 2007, a writer named Lawrence Spencer opened an envelope he didn't ask for.
When the Government Lies: Aliens, Assassinations and Classified Ops (COMPILATION)
These aren't theories. They're documented programs, credible witnesses, and files with pages deliberately removed.
Strange But True: Toxic Lady, The Cecil Hotel, Farmhouse Murders
Three stories. Three cases that were investigated, closed, and never fully explained.
What Science Found at the Edge of Death | The Third Man
The cases are real. The pattern is undeniable. What the presence actually is — that part is still open.
Canada's Most Documented UFO Case - Falcon Lake
In May 1967, a Polish immigrant named Stefan Michalak was hunting for silver in the Canadian wilderness when two glowing objects dropped out of the sky. One landed nearby. He sketched it, approached it, and ended up in the hospital. This is the Falcon Lake Incident — Canada's most documented UFO case, and it's still unsolved.
The Forbidden Theory of Morphic Resonance
What If the Universe Remembers Everything? In 1920, a Harvard scientist put rats in a water maze. It took 165 tries before they learned which exit was safe. Thirty generations later, rats were solving the same maze in 20 tries. Rats on a different continent — with no connection to the original colony — started at 25. The knowledge had spread. No one could explain how.
Parallel Universes Are Real — And People Fall in to Them
Parallel Universes and the People Who Got Caught Between Them Gather round, because this happened. A woman drives through her hometown and the cemetery is gone — replaced by a dirt lot. A man is found behind a fast food restaurant with no name, no history, and no record of existing for twenty-one years. A woman wakes up to discover her boyfriend never existed and her own life has been quietly rewritten. These are three real accounts from real people. None of them involve UFOs or hauntings. They don't fit neatly into any category. What they share is stranger than any single explanation: the sense that reality shifted without warning, and that the world kept moving like nothing happened. Each person was left holding a version of events that no one else could confirm. These stories don't have clean endings.
Canada's Most Documented UFO Case | Falcon Lake
In May 1967, a Polish immigrant named Stefan Michalak was hunting for silver in the Canadian wilderness when two glowing objects dropped out of the sky. One landed nearby. He sketched it, approached it, and ended up in the hospital. This is the Falcon Lake Incident — Canada's most documented UFO case, and it's still unsolved
The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster
The Asteroid That Started a Religion The Dead Sea Hides a Secret | The Bible Got It Right The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaste
Project Kronos - Hitlers Last Weapon
By spring of 1945, Hitler was surrounded on every front, but one project inside a secret mine kept running until the end. It was called Die Glocke, The Bell, built on mercury, fire, and a design borrowed from a thousand-year-old Indian text. The scientists who built it vanished, along with the man who ran the entire project. Decades later, the same technology resurfaced in a US Navy patent, and nobody could explain how it got there. This is the story of a warning written a thousand years before World War II, the men who ignored it, and the strange thread connecting an ancient king to modern spaceflight. Some of it is real, and none of it is finished.
Top Cast
Andrew Gentile
Self - Host
