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6/19/2026 7:24:32 PM EDT
[#1]
This should be good.
Canada's Most Documented UFO Case | Falcon Lake

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6/19/2026 11:36:34 PM EDT
[Last Edit: kc-coyote][Edited] [#2]
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Originally Posted By Jack_Rackham:
This should be good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiriSLXvZwo
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Just finished watching it.  Well worth watching.   Unsolved Mysteries did this years ago (Robert Stack era), but with way less information.  As usual, AJ did and outstanding job giving the pluses and minuses of the story.
6/26/2026 6:48:06 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Jack_Rackham][Edited] [#3]
Another good one.

The Asteroid Behind the Bible's Most Famous Disaster

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6/29/2026 3:04:22 PM EDT
[#4]
The Basement: Dave Paulides | Bigfoot, Vanishing Hikers, and German Physicists
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6/30/2026 3:00:03 PM EDT
[Last Edit: brass][Edited] [#5]
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Originally Posted By Jack_Rackham:
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He should maybe stick to the topic episodes with the fish.  If he's going to interview, that involves the guest doing most of the speaking.  AJ is jumping to finish sentences then when Bigfoot came up he was just utterly dismissive and trying to move to a different topic.   This guy's main research is involving bigfoot, so why did he even have him on?

Just an example around 1:20:xx

"Did you know that I'm a MUFON investigator for 17 years?"

AJ: "I know that"

He's not allowing silences and/or follow up questions (as opposed to Responses, which are typically the guest's purpose) to tease out unintended sidelines to trickle out and I'm not sure if AJ is happy this guy is on his show or not.

The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
6/30/2026 6:10:26 PM EDT
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Originally Posted By brass:


He should maybe stick to the topic episodes with the fish.  If he's going to interview, that involves the guest doing most of the speaking.  AJ is jumping to finish sentences then when Bigfoot came up he was just utterly dismissive and trying to move to a different topic.   This guy's main research is involving bigfoot, so why did he even have him on?

Just an example around 1:20:xx

"Did you know that I'm a MUFON investigator for 17 years?"

AJ: "I know that"

He's not allowing silences and/or follow up questions (as opposed to Responses, which are typically the guest's purpose) to tease out unintended sidelines to trickle out and I'm not sure if AJ is happy this guy is on his show or not.

Too much dead air for me.


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AMERICA NEEDS AN ENEMA!
6/30/2026 6:19:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: djkest][Edited] [#7]
I listened to one podcast episode. I made it three minutes in before I decided it's not for me. It was so poorly mic'd / mixed that I could barely understand what they were saying.

And based off what I heard I have no idea why it's popular.
6/30/2026 7:26:36 PM EDT
[#8]
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Originally Posted By brass:


He should maybe stick to the topic episodes with the fish.  If he's going to interview, that involves the guest doing most of the speaking.  AJ is jumping to finish sentences then when Bigfoot came up he was just utterly dismissive and trying to move to a different topic.   This guy's main research is involving bigfoot, so why did he even have him on?

Just an example around 1:20:xx

"Did you know that I'm a MUFON investigator for 17 years?"

AJ: "I know that"

He's not allowing silences and/or follow up questions (as opposed to Responses, which are typically the guest's purpose) to tease out unintended sidelines to trickle out and I'm not sure if AJ is happy this guy is on his show or not.

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It does seem like an odd guest to have on. AJ has openly expressed disdain for cryptid stuff and episodes in the past, on more than one occasion. Seems like he might just be hopping on the bandwagon here, as doesn't Paulides have a new book or movie or something coming out?
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7/1/2026 12:10:18 AM EDT
[Last Edit: brass][Edited] [#9]
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Originally Posted By Kagetora:


It does seem like an odd guest to have on. AJ has openly expressed disdain for cryptid stuff and episodes in the past, on more than one occasion. Seems like he might just be hopping on the bandwagon here, as doesn't Paulides have a new book or movie or something coming out?
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Originally Posted By brass:


He should maybe stick to the topic episodes with the fish.  If he's going to interview, that involves the guest doing most of the speaking.  AJ is jumping to finish sentences then when Bigfoot came up he was just utterly dismissive and trying to move to a different topic.   This guy's main research is involving bigfoot, so why did he even have him on?

Just an example around 1:20:xx

"Did you know that I'm a MUFON investigator for 17 years?"

AJ: "I know that"

He's not allowing silences and/or follow up questions (as opposed to Responses, which are typically the guest's purpose) to tease out unintended sidelines to trickle out and I'm not sure if AJ is happy this guy is on his show or not.



It does seem like an odd guest to have on. AJ has openly expressed disdain for cryptid stuff and episodes in the past, on more than one occasion. Seems like he might just be hopping on the bandwagon here, as doesn't Paulides have a new book or movie or something coming out?


He had a cover of a book at the end of the table but didn't really cover the contents of it.  I'm really wondering why he had him on, it was a poor look.    Just because everybody else is interviewing an author about a topic doesn't mean he also has to, especially when the author is big into topics he loathes.  It's had several rocky episodes and while not everybody is a Joe Rogan, Jesse Michaels and Area 52 at least ask questions then wait for a complete answer with some e follow up nudge questions.  AJ's style is extremely different, don't judge, ask questions without prejudice or come out at the start and make prejudice clear and attempt too let the guest talk freely anyway if you're going to have him on.

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The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
7/3/2026 6:59:31 PM EDT
[#10]
Project Kronos | Sixty Scientists, Zero Survivors


High Expectations for this one
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7/6/2026 3:21:43 PM EDT
[#11]
The Basement: Danny Goler | The Laser Experiment and the Code Inside
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7/6/2026 9:28:16 PM EDT
[#12]
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Originally Posted By Jack_Rackham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHcGUm06CQg

High Expectations for this one
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Good so far.
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7/7/2026 4:39:36 AM EDT
[#13]
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Originally Posted By Jack_Rackham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHcGUm06CQg

High Expectations for this one
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That one seemed like a recap of all the various shows that already talked about it.
Didn't watch it until completion.
TBD
7/8/2026 9:47:51 AM EDT
[#14]
The love of the show is universal.  I was on a river cruise on the Danube recently and wore my WY hecklefish shirt.  Yeah, bad idea it being black and was one of the hottest days over there, but still.  

Someone came upto me and said "Hecklefish?"  I love the Why files.

Yeah.. cool starry bra
7/11/2026 7:02:15 PM EDT
[#15]
Internet Horrors: The Crying Man, The Salmon Girl, The Vanishing Rider
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7/16/2026 10:38:22 AM EDT
[#16]
Got a substitute teacher today….



Human Evolution and the Power of the Mind: Science Compilation
Panem et Circenses

I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. - Churchill
7/18/2026 12:10:41 PM EDT
[#17]
Attached File


Prophecy of the Popes | Saint Malachy's Countdown

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7/18/2026 8:34:29 PM EDT
[#18]
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This one’s interesting so far…
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7/20/2026 4:51:14 AM EDT
[Last Edit: brass][Edited] [#19]
I am pretty sure that we will be a LOT more sponsor videos, maybe one at the start and one in the middle and maybe even one at the end.  He got flagged as an AI channel.


IOW, all of his videos are demonetized, they'll still show ads on his videos, but he'll no longer see any of that money, which is a big loss of income.  Combined with all the other... odddities I guess, it might be something bad and maybe the death knell for some mid size channels (~100k) that get cloned and a bad rap even though they can't control what they're getting a bad rap for.

Here's that thread with a multi-choice poll to decide

The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
7/20/2026 4:40:49 PM EDT
[#20]
The Basement: Jeremy Corbell | Betrayal, Surveillance, and the Secret Higher Than Nuclear Weapons
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7/23/2026 11:21:03 AM EDT
[#21]
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Listening to this one.  Interested in seeing "beyond the veil"  

Interesting that AJ has done psychedelics as well.
7/23/2026 1:02:44 PM EDT
[#22]
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That one was just ok to me.
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7/24/2026 4:46:56 AM EDT
[#23]
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Wasn't the last pope, the "last" pope?
TBD
7/24/2026 5:00:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: brass][Edited] [#24]
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Originally Posted By JThompson:


Wasn't the last pope, the "last" pope?
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Wasn't the last pope, the "last" pope?


Yes, If you watch the video, the debunk part at the ends covers it with how they "find" statements and realize something was missing in translation to bump them all forward every time nothing happens.

I suppose they will eventually be right.  

Just like the song by Sparks "I predict"  (The video is disturbingly accurate as to the prediction with tranny stripping )    I also really like the double kick during lyrics instead of a snare or crash cymbal added.

Sparks - I Predict (Official Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH5USLpPa_0

The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
7/27/2026 5:09:04 PM EDT
[#25]
The Basement: John B. Alexander | Green Beret, Spoon Bender, UFO Investigator
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7/31/2026 4:09:01 PM EDT
[#26]
The Carl Higdon Abduction | An Alien Scours the Galaxy for Food
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7/31/2026 4:15:52 PM EDT
[#27]
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Originally Posted By Jack_Rackham:
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Title reminds me. Of a John Ringo novel...Posleen?
8/4/2026 12:27:55 AM EDT
[#28]
This is actually a great show, AJ is letting him talk and prompting for more, completely different than his interview with the Missing 411 guy.

The Basement: John B. Allen | Becoming MrBallen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8XpLUeDz2I

The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
8/4/2026 2:11:59 PM EDT
[#29]
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Originally Posted By Jack_Rackham:
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I liked that one. Hadnt heard it before.

I’ve enjoyed all of his recent videos, especially the campfire ones.  I kind of feel like AJ is back.
“How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.” - John Keats
8/4/2026 2:14:15 PM EDT
[#30]
He is interviewing Travis Taylor soon. That will be interesting.
“How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.” - John Keats
8/8/2026 6:43:48 PM EDT
[#31]
JFK's Assassination and the CIA's Psychic Cold War
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8/11/2026 4:59:12 AM EDT
[Last Edit: OldBenRumson][Edited] [#32]
Travis Taylor interview is out.  It's a good one.  Much of the interview is not about Skinwlaker Ranch. They cover a lot of topics including Travis himself. I didn't realize how talented that guy is and I don't mean his band.

The Basement: Travis Taylor | Physics of Skinwalker Ranch


ETA: Link to the Phillip K Dick speech they discussed.  

Philip K Dick speech (interpreter edited out) in Metz, France, 1977
8/15/2026 3:55:23 PM EDT
[#33]
They Left Everything Behind Except an Explanation
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8/15/2026 10:21:31 PM EDT
[#34]
I've had to do a lot of driving for work this week and it's given me a chance to catch up on the Why Files. The last 4 have been interesting.
8/21/2026 2:45:56 PM EDT
[#35]
The Basque Bloodline | Descendants of Atlantis
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8/21/2026 3:58:34 PM EDT
[#36]
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Originally Posted By OldBenRumson:
Travis Taylor interview is out.  It's a good one.  Much of the interview is not about Skinwlaker Ranch. They cover a lot of topics including Travis himself. I didn't realize how talented that guy is and I don't mean his band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm7coKl6Ko0

ETA: Link to the Phillip K Dick speech they discussed.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQbYiXyRZjM
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Travis is an interesting cat.  The role he plays on Secret of Skinwalker Ranch and Ancient Aliens is just that, a role.  He is an unusual combination of Alabama redneck and genius rocket scientist.  The WF episode showed his real personality and damn he's wicked smart.  The story about his dead chicken is wild because I had a nearly identical door on my chicken coop and there's no way a bird would stand there and let that door close on them under normal circumstances.
Everything posted above is factual. Maybe.
8/21/2026 7:54:45 PM EDT
[#37]
Yeah he seems pretty sincere to me, but who knows with reality TV.
8/28/2026 3:56:16 PM EDT
[Last Edit: brass][Edited] [#38]
Been slow going all over in this forum.  Somebody cut the cheese or something?

--ETA:   These are both long Basement vids, I thought this newest one was a regular format short episode but these are both long vids.

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The Basement: Diana Pasulka | Angels, Vatican Archives, and a Government Email

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMcpoFVygkQ


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The Basement: Mitch Horowitz | Gandhi, Reagan, and the Occultists History Erased

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgXdkAMXlLk

The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
8/29/2026 12:10:09 PM EDT
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The Alien Files: Three Bodies, Three UFOs



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8/30/2026 7:32:01 PM EDT
[#40]
I tried listening to the Pasulka episode but she is like nails on a chalkboard for me.
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8/31/2026 2:55:54 PM EDT
[#41]
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The creepy stuff
Panem et Circenses

I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. - Churchill
9/5/2026 12:48:08 PM EDT
[#42]
Nuclear Missile Down | The Cover-Up America Tried to Bury
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9/5/2026 3:07:23 PM EDT
[#43]
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He really should tag videos with "AI Created Video" when it's showing AI.

Right now his entire video is tagged "AI"
Radioactive Missile | America's Secret Buried in Mexico  AI

They were demonetizing AI content due to all the complaints about AI slop in top 5 and top 25 lists and so they de-incentivzed it.

The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
9/12/2026 1:24:25 PM EDT
[#44]
Aliens in the Ocean, and a War for Earth | The Friendship Case


Interest is waning in the thread or am I wrong?
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9/13/2026 1:13:29 AM EDT
[#45]
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Originally Posted By Jack_Rackham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5xJnND9hDs

Interest is waning in the thread or am I wrong?
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No, problem is he is trying to do the long form interviews too, a totally saturated arena (we have a half dozen threads of them already).  

However, Classic TWF Episodes are still desired, but there's no standard day they come out anymore, its totally random if one will come out in any given month and day of week is usually Wed to Sunday.  So "likely not Monday or Tuesday".   That loses avid followers and turns them into "if my reliable content dries up and some people vouch for it, I'll check one out" kind of videos, instead of 3 million views the day the video comes out.
The person who complains most, and is the most critical of others has the most to hide.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
9/13/2026 8:35:01 PM EDT
[#46]
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Originally Posted By brass:


No, problem is he is trying to do the long form interviews too, a totally saturated arena (we have a half dozen threads of them already).  

However, Classic TWF Episodes are still desired, but there's no standard day they come out anymore, its totally random if one will come out in any given month and day of week is usually Wed to Sunday.  So "likely not Monday or Tuesday".   That loses avid followers and turns them into "if my reliable content dries up and some people vouch for it, I'll check one out" kind of videos, instead of 3 million views the day the video comes out.
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Originally Posted By brass:
Originally Posted By Jack_Rackham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5xJnND9hDs

Interest is waning in the thread or am I wrong?


No, problem is he is trying to do the long form interviews too, a totally saturated arena (we have a half dozen threads of them already).  

However, Classic TWF Episodes are still desired, but there's no standard day they come out anymore, its totally random if one will come out in any given month and day of week is usually Wed to Sunday.  So "likely not Monday or Tuesday".   That loses avid followers and turns them into "if my reliable content dries up and some people vouch for it, I'll check one out" kind of videos, instead of 3 million views the day the video comes out.

Yeah, pretty much this. The channel has evolved several times, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Always chasing the algorithm, the likes, the views, AJ is always going to do whatever gets him the most of those. Not necessarily what we like or what earned him a base in the first place.
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9/14/2026 11:14:17 AM EDT
[#47]
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Originally Posted By Jack_Rackham:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5xJnND9hDs

Interest is waning in the thread or am I wrong?
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This one was solid! He’s softening his debunks I notice.

I only think interest could be waning since he’s not putting this type of video out as often as he was previously. Still fun to watch while working out.
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Soli Deo Gloria
9/18/2026 2:36:26 PM EDT
[#48]
The Poltergeist Who Follows You Home
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