Originally broadcast August 22nd, 2025.

Aliens find a leader at Disney, Matt Rife buys famous haunted home, clear murder caught on Ring™, and Byron's Grandma died.

This week we things get holly as we talk holiday tradition, east coast research missions, and listening to our inner voices...sometimes, as we review Mike P. Nelson's Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025).

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In this episode of VISITORS, we sit down with Gino Gentile, the research mastermind behind the wildly popular YouTube channel The Why Files. While his brother AJ is the face on camera, Gino is the one behind the scenes selecting stories, conducting deep research, and pitching the paranormal and fringe topics that have captivated millions of viewers. Gino shares the fascinating origin story of how The Why Files evolved from COVID lockdown boredom into a phenomenon, starting with simple science videos before pivoting to UFOs, cryptids, and conspiracy theories after Gino suggested covering the Black Knight satellite. He walks us through his research process using AI tools to catalog hundreds of hours of content, his partnership with AJ and sister-in-law Jen, and how their complementary skill sets—from Gino's relationship building at the legendary Comedy Store to AJ's entertainment expertise—created the perfect storm for success.

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Monster trucks, broccoli-headed monsters, the dark side of raccoons, and a mouse is under arrest. So much more...

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This week...the truth comes out. Kelly comes clean surrounding the reliability of legitimacy of unconfirmed animals. Where do YOU line up?

This week, we travel back to Thanksgiving 1991 and into a small Costa Mesa apartment where a whirlwind romance between a young Egyptian model and her much older husband curdles into something unthinkable behind closed doors. We'll trace her path from a fraught childhood in Egypt, to getting by in the Sunshine State, and follow the holiday weekend that ends in a missing husband, panicked calls for help, and a crime so disturbing that it still haunts investigators, jurors, and parole boards more than three decades later.​

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This week we look into a semi-humanoid, slack-looking cryptid that's been sporadically popping up on cameras around the world. These bizarre beings resemble walking pants. Pale, stick-like legs with tiny heads, no arms, and an unsettling waddle that's both creepy and...odd.

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This week we roll into the holiday season breaking down another dispatch from our latest whistleblower, exchanging bug adjacent staff picks, all before discussing fitness routines and radicalization, reviewing Yorgos Lanthimos' 'Bugonia'.

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In this episode of VISITORS, UFO researcher Craig Oliver unpacks the Magenta Project. A complex web connecting a 1933 UFO retrieval in Mussolini's Italy to the formation of America's modern intelligence apparatus. Craig, working alongside researcher Michael Arementor have constructed an extensive timeline revealing how this pre-WWII incident may have shaped everything from the OSS to the CIA's creation just two months after Roswell.

The discussion traces how Italian researcher Roberto Pinotti first documented the Magenta retrieval in the 1990s, later brought to prominence by David Grusch's testimony. Craig explains how Mussolini's son-in-law, Galeazzo Ciano, managed both the recovered craft and intelligence operations while attempting to keep Italy out of WWII. The conversation weaves together threads involving the Vatican's knowledge of anomalous phenomena, the Knights of Malta's intelligence connections, and figures like Vannevar Bush (distantly related to the Bush political family), who controlled radar development—potentially the first technology capable of downing UFOs.

Craig argues that understanding this history matters even for non-believers, as it illuminates how America transformed from a nation with minimal intelligence infrastructure before WWII into today's labyrinthine security state. The through-line connects suppressed free energy research by Tesla and Marconi, the rise of oil-dependent power structures, and the deliberate concealment of exotic technology by those who recognized it as a threat to their control—a pattern of obfuscation that began in 1933 and continues today.

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The HOTline gets even hotter this week, as our "favorite" AI hits us up again to share their dreams.