The Why Files (2020)

Comedy · Crime · Reality-TV

A look at the unexplained

IMDb rating: 9.5 (1,283 votes)
Episode average: 7.0 -2.5 vs IMDb
Seasons: 10
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 10 seasons indexed

Cast

Dave Barrett Narrator

Seasons

Season 1 (2020)

6.99 avg 17 episodes 8.0 → 4.8

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Mind Blowing Math Facts	8.0	14
2	Top Terrifying Animals That Actually Exist	7.4	9
3	Top Scariest Places You Can Actually Visit	7.5	8
4	What Is ASMR?	7.6	7
7	The Most Top Secret Places in the World	7.6	6
8	Why the Dinosaurs Died - the Chicxulub Asteroid Impact	7.3	8
9	Uncanny Valley Explained	6.8	7
10	Nanorobotics & Nanotechnology - Can We Live Forever?	7.3	7
11	The Voynich Manuscript	6.2	11
12	What Does Outer Space Smell Like?	7.5	7
13	Stay out of the Nevada Triangle	7.3	7
14	Largest Dinosaur EVER Discovered	5.7	8
16	Why We Like to be Scared	7.0	6
17	The Philadelphia Experiment	7.5	7
18	Aztec Death Whistle	6.6	8
19	Time Travelers Caught on Film	6.7	8
20	Mysterious Number Stations	4.8	10

Season 2 (2021)

6.68 avg 17 episodes 6.7 → 6.7

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Stuxnet - The computer virus that caused World War 3	6.7	7
2	Predictions of Nostradamus	7.5	7
4	Ancient Acoustic Levitation - How the Pyramids Were Built?	7.3	7
5	Secrets of Mount Rushmore	6.3	6
6	The Creepiest TV Hack in History	6.5	6
7	The Dog Suicide Bridge	6.6	5
8	Human Vs. Alien Technology - The Kardashev Scale	6.9	8
9	The World's Deadliest Video Game - Polybius	6.3	6
10	The Area 51 Airline That Doesn't Exist	4.9	8
11	The Government is Always Listening	7.1	7
12	Technology to Speak to the Dead	6.7	6
13	The Phantom Time Hypothesis	6.8	8
14	The Latitude Secret Society	6.7	7
16	The Hidden Wire Around New York City	6.6	7
18	Upload Your Mind - Digital Immortality	6.7	6
19	What Does Fear Sound Like?	7.2	6
20	Don't Trust the Children - How Russian Children and KGB Trolled America	6.7	6

Season 3 (2021)

7.16 avg 17 episodes 7.2 → 7.3

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Project Stargate - The CIA, Mars and Time Travel	7.2	8
3	Dyatlov Pass Mystery Solved	7.4	10
4	Edgar Cayce - The Coming Storm	6.9	9
5	The Man Who Saw the Future	7.3	7
7	The Civilization Before Humans - The Silurian Hypothesis	6.9	9
8	Computer Predicts the End of the World	7.2	8
9	The Dodleston Time Travel Mystery	7.4	11
10	Legend of the Moon Eyed People	7.0	7
11	The Dead Internet Theory	7.1	9
12	Alien Bases on the Moon	7.2	10
13	Mythical City in a Basement	7.0	9
14	Solar Storms are Coming	7.5	10
15	Mysteries of Mount Shasta	7.1	9
17	Why Ancient People Didn't See the Color Blue	6.7	9
18	Legend of an Immortal - The Count of Saint Germain Part I	7.3	10
19	Legend of an Immortal - The Count of Saint Germain Part II	7.3	10
20	How a UFO Caused the Battle of Los Angeles	7.3	7

Season 4 (2022)

7.31 avg 20 episodes 7.2 → 7.1

Mid-peak

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	We Are in a Simulation	7.2	14
2	Sounds from the Hell - The Borehole Drilling Project that went Very Wrong	6.9	9
3	The Circleville Letters Mystery	6.8	11
4	Operation Highjump - Mission: Find and Destroy Secret Nazi UFO Base in Antarctica	7.6	10
5	Visitor from a Parallel Universe - Who Was the Man from Taured?	7.4	10
6	Ancient Craft Watching us from Orbit - The Black Knight Satellite	7.2	11
7	Chronovisor - The Vatican's Secret Device to See Through Time	7.0	10
8	The Moon is Hollow?	7.5	11
9	Lost in the Backrooms - Liminal Spaces	7.2	10
10	Solving the Most Mysterious Children in History	7.3	7
11	Valiant Thor - The True Story	7.5	11
12	Who are the Dark Watchers	7.1	9
13	The Hole to Another Dimension? Mel's Hole	8.0	22
14	The Ghost Plane that Landed Itself	7.4	8
15	The Montauk Project - Worse Than You Think	7.3	9
16	The CIA Murder That Exposes MK-ULTRA	7.5	10
17	Air Force UFO Cover-Up Exposed	7.6	9
18	John Titor - Time Traveler, Soldier, Savior?	7.0	10
19	Tesla Knew the Secret of the Great Pyramid	7.5	14
20	Dogmen, Hybrids, the Beast of Bray Road - Real Life Werewolves	7.1	8

Season 5 (2022)

7.34 avg 20 episodes 7.0 → 7.2

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Betz Mystery Sphere	7.0	10
2	Warnings Hidden in the Secret Bible Code	7.3	11
3	Alien War and the Horrors of Dulce Underground Base	7.6	11
4	Spontaneous Human Combustion	6.9	10
5	Mission to Planet Serpo - Secret 10 Year Mission	7.3	11
6	The Warren Cases - from Annabelle to Amityville	7.4	10
7	Proof of Reincarnation - Ancient Egyptian Priestess Reborn	7.5	11
8	How to Build a Working UFO - Alien Reproductive Vehicle (ARVs)	7.6	11
9	Ancient Egyptians and Giants in the Grand Canyon - Smithsonian Cover-Up	7.4	10
10	Shadow People and the Hat Man - What Do They Want?	7.0	9
11	The Why Files Story - Thanks a Million	7.6	5
12	The Brooklyn Bridge UFO Abduction	6.9	10
13	The CIA Knows About the End of the World	7.7	12
14	Apollo 20 - The Secret Mission to the Moon	7.6	19
15	What Really Happened to Andrew Dawson?	7.8	24
16	Who Destroyed the Georgia Guidestones? Villian or Hero?	7.2	12
17	The Time Traveler Who Vanished Without a Trace	7.2	10
18	Are all these UFOs an Alien Invasion or has Project Blue Beam finally begun?	7.2	8
19	Tesla's Most Destructive Weapon: The Tunguska Event: Comet Impact or Death Ray Experiment?	7.4	10
20	The Emerald Tablet & The Philosopher's Stone	7.2	13

Season 6 (2023)

7.21 avg 20 episodes 7.1 → 7.3

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Your Darkest Secrets Revealed in your Reverse Speech	7.1	9
2	CIA Declassified - The Gateway Process	7.7	9
3	What Are They Hiding Underneath? The Denver International Airport Conspiracy	7.4	11
4	America's Secret Space Program and the Alien Connection - Solar Warden	6.9	10
5	Terrifying Truth - Possession and Exorcisms are Real	6.7	10
6	The Mothman Returns - Sightings Past and Present	6.7	10
7	Alien Artificats on Mars - What NASA Doesn't Want You to Know	7.6	14
8	Ark of the Covenant - Relic or Weapon?	7.4	10
9	Varginha UFO Crash - Alien Contact, Government Denial and Cover-Up	7.4	13
10	Surviving the Next Mass Extinction - Are We Too Late?	7.4	12
11	Aliens & Espionage - Crop Circles and the CIA Coverup	7.2	13
12	Bending Time - the Successful Time Travel Experiments using Kozyrev Mirrors	7.4	14
13	Operation Mincemeat - The Shadow Catalyst for CIA's Dark Age	6.8	10
14	The Truth about Roswell - Decoding Decades of Deception	7.3	10
15	Forbidden Archaeology - Lost Giants of America	7.3	10
16	Artificial Intelligence Out of Control - The Apocalypse is Here	7.2	12
17	Indrid Cold, the Truth about Planet Lanulos and the Mystery of the Smiling Man	7.1	12
18	The Moon Landing - Stanley Kubrick's Greatest Film	7.3	16
19	The UFO Incident that Shocked Ariel School - Telepathic Extraterrestrials	7.0	9
20	Finding Agartha - The Search for the Hidden City in the Center of the Earth	7.3	11

Season 7 (2023)

7.00 avg 20 episodes 6.9 → 6.9

Rollercoaster

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Life after Death? Communicating with the Other Side	6.9	13
2	Solving Cicada 3001 - Decoding the Internet's Greatest Mystery	7.0	11
3	Atlantis Rises, Lemuria Falls - The War that Sank a Continent	7.1	11
4	The Moon's Dark Secret - Aliens Harvesting Human Souls for Food	6.9	10
5	Ghost Lights or Alien Tech? Signals from Beyond the Grave or Beyond the Solar System?	5.9	11
6	Many Worlds Theory: You're in a Parallel Universe \| Can You Visit Your Other Lives?	6.6	10
7	The Rendlesham UFO Encounter and the Alien Message from the Future	7.6	9
8	The Horrors of Plum Island \| Hybrids, Human Experiments and Weaponized Killer Insects	7.3	10
9	Skyquakes, Upsweeps, and Sky Trumpets \| Terrifying Sounds that Signal the End of the World	6.6	10
10	Time-Slip Artifacts: Modern Objects in the Ancient World - Volume 1	7.0	11
11	Gravity is a Lie, Light Speed is Slow, Nothing is Real, the Universe is Electric	7.5	10
12	20 and Back - The Super Soldiers Defending the Kuiper Belt	7.0	10
13	Göbekli Tepe and the Prophecy of Pillar 43 \| Apocalypse and the Vulture Stone	7.5	10
14	Backyard Time Machine: The Time Travel Mystery of Mike "Mad Man" Marcum	7.6	13
15	Kenny Veach's Last Quest: The Hunt for the M Cave \| Mojave Mysteries Vol. 1	6.6	9
16	Project Looking Glass \| The Time Warriors of the 2012 Apocalypse	7.0	10
17	Mystery in Cisco Grove: Don Shrum's Encounter with UFOs, Aliens and Robots	6.3	10
18	The Search for Noah's Ark \| Giants & Aliens in the Book of Enoch	7.4	11
19	Proof of Life After Death: Hope and a Warning From The Other Side	7.3	10
20	Project 8200 Exposed \| CIA Psychics Find Alien Bases Underground	6.9	10

Season 8 (2024)

7.00 avg 18 episodes 6.9 → 6.0

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Baltic Sea Anomaly, Atlantis, and Underwater Alien Bases \| Mysteries of the Ocean Pt 1	6.9	10
2	Humans vs Superhumans \| When Monsters Were Real and We Almost Went Extinct	7.6	10
3	We Are the Aliens \| Life's Interstellar Journey to Earth: Panspermia	7.1	11
4	Knights Templar \| Forbidden History and their Secret Quest for Atlantis	6.8	9
5	Lucid Dreams & Nightmares: Ever Dream This Man?	6.6	7
6	Mysteries Beneath the Ice: The Secrets of Antarctica	7.2	6
7	Creatures & Cryptid Files Vol 1: Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, and El Chupacabra	7.5	8
8	Annunaki \| Gods from Planet Nibiru and the Makers of Man	7.7	9
9	Martian Mysteries \| The Phobos Incident, Monoliths, and Ancient Ruins	6.8	6
10	Killer Patents & Secret Science Vol. 1 \| Free Energy & Anti-Gravity Cover-Ups	7.6	8
12	The Dark Pyramid of Alaska \| Military Cover-up of a Forbidden Collaboration	7.2	6
13	The Genetic Arms Race \| How CRISPR and AI Destroy the World	6.7	6
14	Subliminal Warfare \| Mind Control and Invisible Influence	6.8	5
15	Giants of Malta \| Evidence the Ancient Builders are Hiding Underground	6.6	5
17	The Dark Side of the Moon \| Alien Activity and the NASA Cover-Up	6.6	5
18	The Dark Side of DARPA \| The Human Cost of Technological Supremacy	7.5	6
19	Operation Gladio \| How The Mob Financed The CIA's Secret Army	6.8	5
20	Philadelphia to Montauk and Beyond \| Al Bielek's Journey through Time and Space	6.0	5

Season 9 (2024)

6.73 avg 14 episodes 6.8 → 6.2

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Pascagoula UFO Incident \| When Nightmares Come True	6.8	6
2	Illuminati Vol. 1: The Bilderberg Blueprint and Hidden Agenda of Global Elites	7.3	7
4	Accidental Time Travelers \| The Mystery and Science of Time Slips	6.6	7
5	Operation Sunray \| Hunting the Entity in the Tsarichina Hole	6.5	6
6	Alien Implants Vol. 1 \| Devil's Den UFO Encounter: What Was Found Inside Terry Lovelace?	6.3	6
8	Project Blue Beam: Staging a Fake Alien Attack to Take Over the World	6.4	5
10	Symbols of Power: Deciphering the Language of the Secret Elite	6.8	5
11	Project Redsun: NASA's Secret Manned Missions to Mars	7.8	10
12	Cryptids 2: Electric Boogaloo. Four creatures following the same electromagnetic pattern.	6.2	5
13	Operation Eagle Flight: The Escape from Berlin to Bariloche	6.6	5
15	The Seventh Experiment: Lacerta Reveals the Truth of our Creation	6.7	6
16	The Quantum Apocalypse: All Your Secrets Revealed	7.4	5
17	Nuclear Powered Evolution \| The Wolves of Chernobyl Reveal Human Potential	6.6	5
18	The Disappearance of Peter Williamson \| Lightning Pants from Another Dimension	6.2	5

Season 10 (2025)

5.80 avg 4 episodes 5.4 → 6.2

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
5	STRIPPED: Proving the Afterlife \| The Scole Experiments	5.4	6
8	Proving Atlantis \| The Megalithic Yard Mystery (STRIPPED)	5.8	5
9	Earth's Mantis Overlords \| They've Been Here all Along (STRIPPED)	5.8	5
17	The Pentyrch UFO Incident \| Hiding the Evidence of Human-Alien Combat	6.2	5

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