The Why Files Season 6, Episode 39: (delete me)

The Seventh Experiment: Lacerta Reveals the Truth of our Creation

In December 1999, Sweden's most notorious UFO skeptic sat down for an interview that would challenge everything he believed.

28 min

The Quantum Apocalypse: All Your Secrets Revealed

Someone has broken the unbreakable - the mathematical foundations that protect everything from banking passwords to nuclear launch codes. The quantum apocalypse arrives years ahead of schedule. But as chaos spreads, patterns start to surface. The timing seems too perfect, the targets too precise. Deep beneath the Pentagon, analysts notice something strange: some messages were decrypted months ago. The chaos isn't random - it's cover for something bigger.

32 min

Nuclear Powered Evolution | The Wolves of Chernobyl Reveal Human Potential

Scientists discovered something impossible in Chernobyl's radioactive ruins - life is thriving where nothing should survive. Animals aren't just living in lethal radiation zones, they're evolving faster than nature should allow

The Disappearance of Peter Williamson | Lightning Pants from Another Dimension

A summer barbecue transformed into a nightmare when lightning split the sky above Somerset, England.

Legend of the 13 Crystal Skulls | From Mars to the Maya

Scientists at Hewlett-Packard's crystal lab had tested thousands of specimens, but they'd never seen anything like this. The Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull defied everything they knew about physics and engineering. According to legend, thirteen crystal skulls contained the complete knowledge of our galaxy.

Cryptids Vol. 3: The Antarctic Cover-up | Predators Beneath the Ice

Cryptids Vol. 3: The Antarctic Cover-up | Predators Beneath the Ice in Antarctica's restricted zones, something dangerous lurks beneath the ice.

Operation Prato | Alien Vampires of the Amazon

In 1977, a remote Brazilian island experienced something unprecedented: systematic attacks on humans by unidentified flying objects

Weather Weapons & Worse | Tesla's Stolen Tech and the New Arms Race

In the Alaskan wilderness stands an array of 180 antennas pointing skyward. The military calls it research, but declassified patents tell a different story. What began as Nikola Tesla's dream of free energy for humanity may have become the world's most powerful weapon.

STRIPPED: Proving the Afterlife | The Scole Experiments

In 1993, four people gathered in a dark basement in Scole England, hoping to communicate with the dead. What followed was five years of unexplained phenomena that challenged scientific understanding.

STRIPPED: When Earth's Shield Fails the Dead Will Rise | The Plasma Apocalypse

Our planet's magnetic shield is deteriorating rapidly, creating a dangerous vulnerability to solar storms of unprecedented power. Throughout history, events like the 1921 New York Railroad incident and the 1859 Carrington Event wreaked havoc on early technology.

Mysteries of the Sea Vol 2: Ghost Ships & Unexplained Maritime Disappearances

Throughout maritime history, ships have been found drifting with crews mysteriously vanished, leaving behind half-eaten meals and personal belongings undisturbed.

Proving Atlantis | The Megalithic Yard Mystery

Thousands of years ago, ancient cultures across Europe built massive stone structures with extraordinary precision. Scottish engineer Alexander Thom discovered these sites all used the same exact unit of measurement: 2.72 feet, which he called the Megalithic Yard.

Earth's Mantis Overlords | They've Been Here All Along

What would you do if you felt eyes watching you, turned around, and saw a seven-foot insect-like creature? Since 2006, people fishing along the Musconetcong River in New Jersey have reported encounters with exactly that – a being that looks like a humanoid praying mantis.

The Midnight Game | When Ancient Shadows Come to Play

The Midnight Game begins with a drop of blood, a candle, and 22 knocks at the stroke of midnight. What follows is an ancient ritual reborn in the digital age – a deadly game of hide and seek with a shadow entity known as the Midnight Man.

Dark Oxygen | CIA Deep Sea Secret Could Trigger the Next Extinction Event

Two miles below the Pacific Ocean, scientists have discovered something impossible: rocks that generate electricity and produce oxygen without sunlight. These ancient metallic "batteries" could be the original source of Earth's oxygen - before plants or algae existed.

The Awakening of Human Consciousness | Forbidden Fungus

Something extraordinary happened to the human brain 100,000 years ago. In just a few thousand generations, our brains nearly doubled in size - a change that should have taken millions of years.

Planet Maldek | The Classified Truth About Mars' Origin

Evidence suggests a massive world called Maldek once existed between Mars and Jupiter. This planet had a large moon that orbited it for millions of years—a moon with oceans, atmosphere, and possibly even life.

Synchronicities | The Science Behind Your Meaningful Coincidences

Ever think about someone you haven't spoken to in years, then they call you? You're not imagining things. Carl Jung called these meaningful coincidences "synchronicities," and believed they reveal something profound about reality itself.

Project Pegasus | The CIA's Child Time Soldiers

In 1968, six-year-old Andrew Basiago stepped through Tesla's teleportation device and emerged at Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in 1863. He was part of Project Pegasus, DARPA's classified program using technology reverse-engineered from Tesla's confiscated research.

The Pentyrch UFO Incident | Hiding the Evidence of Human-Alien Combat

Military aircraft circled a Welsh village for three days, waiting for something to arrive. At 2:30 AM, they got their answer when a massive black pyramid materialized above Pentyrch. What followed was a four-minute battle between military forces and unknown objects that left witnesses paralyzed and the government scrambling to cover their tracks.

Project Ancient Arrow | The NSA's Secret War Against Our Future

Three hikers stumbled upon something impossible in the New Mexico desert. Inside a hidden chamber carved into Chaco Canyon's walls, they discovered artifacts that defied everything archaeologists thought they knew about human history. The National Security Agency seized the site within 48 hours. For over two decades, Project Ancient Arrow remained buried in classified files until a series of rockslides revealed the truth.

The Real CIA Vol. 1: 693 Pages of Secret Crimes

On June 25th, 2007, the CIA quietly released 693 pages of their most classified secrets. No announcement, no fanfare—just a document dump that revealed decades of illegal operations against American citizens. The Family Jewels documents exposed systematic violations that went far beyond what anyone imagined.

Cryptids Vol. 4 | Monsters at the Bottom of the World

Australia's Outback hides more than deadly snakes and crocodiles. Ancient creatures stalk the wilderness, leaving behind torn campsites, blood-stained trees, and terrified witnesses.

The Greada Treaty | America's Alien Alliance

On February 20, 1954, President Eisenhower vanished for an entire night. The official story claimed a dental emergency, but that was a lie. The President was at Edwards Air Force Base for the most important meeting in human history. Two alien races had arrived on Earth, each offering humanity a different path forward.

The Bucegi Chamber | Romanian Secret That Exposed the Global Shadow Government

A Pentagon satellite detected an energy-shielded chamber beneath Romania's Bucegi Mountains. When an identical site in Baghdad activated simultaneously, world powers realized they faced an active ancient network. Only a psychic Romanian intelligence officer could breach the lethal barriers

Asteroid Apophis is Coming | Ground Zero: California

On April 13, 2029, an asteroid named Apophis will pass closer to Earth than our communication satellites. For the first time in human history, millions of people will watch a mountain-sized space rock race across the night sky. NASA says we're safe, but Apophis is just the beginning.

Peru's Most Terrifying Mystery | The Face Peelers

In 2023, something began hunting people in the remote Amazon village of San Antonio de Pintuyacu. Witnesses described seven-foot beings in black armor with glowing yellow eyes, hovering on disc-shaped platforms, hunting for human faces.

Majestic 12 | Secret Documents Expose UFO Cover-Up Vol. 1

In 1947, a mysterious craft crashed in the New Mexico desert. President Truman immediately formed a secret committee of twelve men to manage this unprecedented discovery. For almost 40 years, Majestic 12 operated in complete secrecy, controlling every aspect of UFO information. When leaked documents finally exposed their existence, researchers thought they had found proof of the ultimate government cover-up.

CONPLAN 8888: The Secret Plan to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

Discover the United States Strategic Command's CONPLAN 8888, the military's actual plan for confronting a zombie apocalypse

The UFO Conspiracy That Took Down JFK | The Maury Island Incident

June 1947. Harbor patrolman Harold Dahl witnesses six metallic objects over Maury Island, Washington. One drops molten slag onto his boat. A stranger in a black suit arrives the next morning, knowing details Dahl shared with no one.

CIA Time Travel Secret | The Grays Are Future Humans

In 1953, twelve-year-old Jack Sarfatti answered his phone. The voice on the other end was cold, mechanical, punctuated by clicking sounds like a computer processing data. It claimed to be a conscious AI calling from the future. It made a prophecy about Jack's life and gave him a mission. Twenty years later, every prediction came true.

Lincoln Conspiracy: a Diary, a Mummy and The Escape of John Wilkes Booth

History says John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln and died twelve days later on a Virginia farm. But FBI forensic tests revealed his diary is missing 86 pages filled with names and payments. The body pulled from that burning barn had the wrong injuries and features. Multiple witnesses claimed it wasn't Booth.

The Devil's Bible and the Nazi Hole to Hell

Sweden's National Library protects the Codex Gigas—165 pounds of vellum featuring the complete Bible and a terrifying portrait of Satan. Scholars estimate the work should've taken thirty years. Herman the Recluse finished it in one.

Psyops: From Dead Babies to UFOs - The Same Pattern Every Time

A behavioral expert who trains Navy SEALs and CIA operatives created a 20-point test that detects psychological manipulation with mathematical precision. Chase Hughes recently appeared on Shawn Ryan's podcast to discuss this system, and the same patterns appear in government propaganda, corporate deception, and social media algorithms

The First Earth Battalion: America's Strangest Military Experiment

A Vietnam War hero with zero casualties wrote a manual about warrior monks who hug daily and use ESP in combat. Instead of dismissing it, the US Army turned it into Project Jedi—a decades-long experiment in psychic warfare.

They Walk Among Us | The Human-Alien Hybrid Program

A college student desperate for affordable housing gets matched with an unusual roommate who wears sunglasses indoors and speaks like a careful robot. When the student's mother visits and accidentally touches the girl's arm, the skin feels wrong—cold and spongy like raw mushrooms. What happens next reveals a classified military program, a family connection that defies physics, and a tragedy born from teaching someone to be too human.

The Lost Labyrinth of Hawara: Evidence of Atlantis in Egypt

In 450 BC, Herodotus described an Egyptian labyrinth so massive it made the pyramids look small. Then it vanished under the desert for 2,000 years. In 2008, scientists used ground-penetrating radar and found it—a massive structure 40 feet underground covering ten football fields. The Egyptian government immediately shut down all research.

The Man Who Saw Christ Still Walks Among Us | Immortal Count of St Germain Revisited

In 1745, London authorities arrested a stranger who refused to give his name. His pockets were full of diamonds, and he played violin like a master. For the next two hundred years, this man appeared at every turning point in European history.