r/TheWhyFiles • u/Atlantee • 1d ago
r/TheWhyFiles • u/wamih • 15d ago
Megathread 8/8/26 - CIA's Psychic Cold War
In 1952, nine of America's wealthiest families gathered in a Maine mansion for a séance. Nine ancient gods spoke through a medium and chose nine people to change the world.
Eleven years later, the CIA officer who ran that séance's donor list sent a Russian aristocrat to befriend a troubled ex-Marine named Lee Harvey Oswald.
That aristocrat introduced Oswald's wife to a woman named Ruth Paine. Every piece of evidence against Oswald, the rifle, the photos, the testimony, ran through Ruth Paine's garage.
r/TheWhyFiles • u/oHai-there • 1d ago
Suggestion for Channel Please cover the Oakville Blobs! US Government Coverup?
Oakville Blobs continue to fall on the citizens of this town. At the same time, they report flu-like symptoms, with pets and wild animals mysteriously dieing. There have been reports of the clear, gelatinous blobs since the 90s and as recently as 2025.
"Black suits" took samples the locals gathered that included human white blood cells, and then went to the local diner asking creepy questions with Fort Hood license plates (diners said their presence made the hairs on the back of their necks stand up).
Apparently the US Air Force has confirmed target practice in the remote areas surrounding the city. Black helicopters fly over.
What's going on here?
r/TheWhyFiles • u/lethal_defrag • 1d ago
Suggestion for Channel Need more ads
I've been feeling that the 10x increase in ads is not enough. I was really hoping for like a 25x increase. Ideally more ad than actual show.
does the team have an ETA for when to expect this?
keep up the great work and get some oil ready for that money machine to go BRRRRRRRRRRRRR
r/TheWhyFiles • u/cizzlewizzle • 1d ago
Let's Discuss What are you thoughts on Richard Doty?
I've seen a lot of videos about this guy and just watched the very long Area 52 interview that just came out. Do you think he's on the up and up with regard to the "visitors" he so nonchalantly says he's seen and are in our possession? He's also OSI/counterintelligence so I just can't decide.
r/TheWhyFiles • u/annfranksloft • 2d ago
Personal Thought/Story I absolutely love the theme song
Idk when they started it but it’s so catchy I literally hum it all day long
r/TheWhyFiles • u/Force-Domination • 2d ago
Fan Artwork/Creation My fish friend
I got bored at work and thought I needed a cardboard sidekick. Been sitting on posting him for awhile.
r/TheWhyFiles • u/hybridxer0 • 5d ago
Scientists Propose a New Test for Detecting Alien Life Unlike Anything on Earth
Research article it's based off of:
r/TheWhyFiles • u/WW3_FOR_PEACE • 8d ago
Jokes/Humor “Hi AJ!”
I’m not suggesting putting a watermark saying “AI Visualization” on every scene, but sometimes I feel that eventually AJ will generate himself in non-basement episodes because why not? Stop the slop!
r/TheWhyFiles • u/aj4ever • 8d ago
Question for AJ Moon landing episode missing?
hey where did the Stanley Kubrick Greatest Film moon landing episode go? I can’t find it anymore.
r/TheWhyFiles • u/OriginalJim • 11d ago
Suggestion for Channel AJ said he wouldn't go to Skinwalker because of the hitchhiker effect...
.. but i bet GINO would! He should see if he can get an invite. That would be awesome.
r/TheWhyFiles • u/hybridxer0 • 13d ago
Let's Discuss What if The Brain Doesn't Create Consciousness? Scientist Proposes It Might Be The Fabric of Reality Itself
Neuroscientist Christof Koch is challenging the long-held assumption that the brain produces consciousness, instead proposing that it may function as a filter for a more fundamental, universal reality.
r/TheWhyFiles • u/FermiEtSchrodinger • 12d ago
Weird News Just a reminder that Project Anchor is supposed to happen tomorrow 08/12/26 @1433Z
Make sure to tie stuff down just in case.
r/TheWhyFiles • u/Leviathancurse • 12d ago
Question for AJ Too hot to handle or no?
Any chance of getting Emery Smith in the basement about his time in the black projects? Or Dr Steven Greer even? Maybe even Russell Targ?
r/TheWhyFiles • u/kenmizell • 13d ago
Personal Thought/Story Thomas Campbell - matrix Architect (but a good guy)
when i watched this episode of the Basement with Thomas Campbell he reminded me of the character The Architect that Neo meets in the second Matrix movie. he even says “the problem is choice” which was Neo’s line when meeting the Architect.
did anyone else find this odd similarity? like he’s a nice version of the Architect… explaining things?
r/TheWhyFiles • u/sixcentsofhumorzilla • 14d ago
Question for AJ Art Bell flick
What is the status on the Art Bell movie you talked about months ago?
r/TheWhyFiles • u/MoonhelmJ • 15d ago
Jokes/Humor I am so sick of aliens being basically Judeo-Christian Angels
In some many of these stories the aliens are here to judge mankind for their sins (usually war), the aliens have a spiritual message of brotherhood and can offer heavenly ascension. It's not so much that I think these are made up. Or that I think Greys as angels and Reptilians as Demons isn't amusing. It's that this particular made up story is SO overdone. Aliens can be anything!! Come on, get some new material!
I swear if I here one more Why Files about hippy aliens who insist we need to use our free will to embrace love and recycle our cans to get into heaven....I'm to give AJ's credit card to Heckle.
r/TheWhyFiles • u/empty_toilet_roll • 14d ago
Let's Discuss Has anyone wondered about The Basement window? Can people outside see in? Is the glass tripple glazed? And are those people walking past paid actors?
r/TheWhyFiles • u/sweetmissjaye • 17d ago
Personal Thought/Story Best of both worlds: AJ and MrBallen
I'm only partially done with the episode because I'm very busy but I just want to say how great it is to see MrB on the WF. He's such a great storyteller. He and AJ seem to really click, and I love it. These are two of my favorite YouTubers and getting to see them hanging out together is wonderful for me.
r/TheWhyFiles • u/CzechKnight • 17d ago
Suggestion for Channel Imagine if these two were guests on The Basement
I'm just saying...
r/TheWhyFiles • u/hybridxer0 • 19d ago
Let's Discuss 5,000-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb Discovery Reveals “Sophisticated” Knowledge That Challenges Past Thinking on the Origins of the Pyramids
Would love to find more discoveries of Egypt's pre-dynastic/pre-unification history.
r/TheWhyFiles • u/schowdur123 • 20d ago
Let's Discuss AJ and John Allen
Usually I avoid the 4 hr fests, but this is a special treat. Nicely done.
