Ryan saving the country on his wedding day by getting naked was not what I was expecting to hear during this episode

The tangents in the most recent Mystery Files episodes are incredibly funny. Maximum "just two guys chatting in a basement" energy.

Their name cards should say “Ryan’s friend” and “Shane’s friend” regardless of who’s presenting

To clarify the bird theory, we currently track bird migration using radar because they travel in such massive groups. They might not have realized at the time that those groups could show up on radar

the panic in Shane’s eyes when Ryan told him to read the headline out loud 😭

Shane: "If you hit me you lose points" Ryan: immediately aims for Shane

George Takei wrote a graphic novel about his experience in a Japanese internment camp as a child if people want to learn more about that. Public libraries have it!

I'll say what we're all thinking: it's always nice to see Carter.

"We're under attack Ryan!" "Oh, I see." - every midwesterner when the tornado alarms start

Ryan has surprisingly good aim when blindfolded lmao

“Plane go fast” is the insider knowledge I come to Watcher Entertainment for

I've read about this case several times and every time I come away with the same conclusion - one twitchy finger set off group panic. You see it happen with armed police all the time. One of them fires one bullet and the rest just start wildly shooting too, with no clue what's happening or who they're shooting at. There is no evidence at all of anything being there, but one person shooting at something they imagined, based likely on panic or a searchlight hitting a cloud, and suddenly everyone else is firing too. After the fact people will try to justify the panic, so statements about what they saw cannot be accepted as being unbiased. They didn't want to look foolish or unprofessional, so it was in their interest to invent justification.

Happy Friday boogaras and shaniacs

It’s Friday, I am tired from teaching, I open UKposts and am reminded that, yes, today is Friday. The ghoul boys have uploaded an episode of mystery files. I smile. Life is good.

Maybe it was awakened by Ryan yelling "booo" repeatedly throughout this ep, but suddenly I can't unsee Ryan and Shane as those two old Muppet dudes that hang out on the sidelines bickering constantly and heckling all the other Muppets whenever they get the chance

Between "plane go fast" and the jar of peanut butter, Shane has taught me more science and physics in two seasons than I ever got in school.

can you please do episodes on the following: -Where is Canadian Clubs hidden whiskey? -Where are the hidden Gems of the Book "The Secret"? -The Kentucky Alien invasion in the 1950's -The mysterious birds of Audubon's "Birds of America" book -The Montana Hyena -The mysterious abandonment of Portlock Alaska -The theories of what is behind the Missing 411 cases in the US. -Kasperov vs Deep Blue computer -What hit Officer Val Johnsons Car? -Why are there Piranhas in Americas Waterways? -Dalnegorsk Spaceship remnants. -What did Captain Mantell encounter over FT. Knox? -Who were the Sea People that collapsed the Bronze Age Civilizations? -The strange encounter between Woodrow Derenburger & Indrid Cold. -Did Patience Worth write poetry from beyond the grave? -The Green Children of Woolpit -What flew over Washington DC in July of 1952? -Shag Harbor incident -Flight 2501 & the Michigan Triangle -Meat Rain of Coach farm -The Clairvoyance of Lady Wonder -Americas First bank heist with Pat Lyons -The blue people of Kentucky -What guards the treasure of the Superstition Mountains? -What scared the Herrman family in 1958? -Ted Serios' "Thoughtographs". -What causes the "Third Man Effect"? -Where is the City of El Dorado? -Where is the Gold of the Cara Nevada? -Could Charles Hatfield make it rain? -How did Alfred Hobbs pick the Bramah lock? -What caused the sinking of the M/S Estonia? -What was the substance that inspired "The Blob". -What caused the "La Pain Maudit" incident? -Who was the Real Shakespeare? -The Beast of Bladenboro (I especially want Shane to do this one).

5:35 Shane sounds like a stressed history teacher trying to get the class back on track

In the 1950s a flock of birds triggered an early warning system and were mistaken for Soviet bomber attack, so I would definitely lean towards it being birds here too

I gotta say, it’s always nice to see Carter

11:58 Their commitment to noting how nice it is to see Carter is my favorite running gag

I think the steering wheel woman was the _driving_ force of the whole operation. Convincing the panicked public to _turn_ against one another. Or perhaps it was the police officer who smashed the shop window; he seems like he'd get a real _kick_ out of orchestrating something like this.

“Twitter would have been crazy during Pearl Harbor” made me laugh and it also made me want to retire from existence. Thank you bits.

Please don’t leave UKposts

i love how the cold opens are just getting more and more chaotic

I love this very random bit we've been having this season of shane just standing behind the screen

I recently found this series through a chance recommendation and I've been binging ever since, this new release has truly made my day

Shane “Airplane Go Fast” Madej did the best bit ever on this show. 29:31

33:12 "I don't believe aliens have really visited us. Except for those little Mexican ones--" for a split second I was VERY taken aback lol

Happy easter holiday ❌️ Happy Mystery files friday ✅

Might wanna cut out that "nothing but respect for Cuba Gooding Jr." Not only did he plead guilty to sex offenses against multiple women, he was just named as a defendant in the Diddy trafficking case. FYI.

That Cuba Gooding Jr outro aged immediately

You hit every great mystery, reincarnation of shaggy and scooby

23:59 not Shane roasting a dudes hair part while he’s rocking the exact same hair part placement 😂

firing anti-artillery weapons at a gd balloon feels an awful lot like the old timey version of that cop shooting at an acorn

Shane saying “we get wet in the basement” and immediately cutting to a slide saying “the crime” is beautiful editing 😂

Watching this during a non phantom very real air raid in Ukraine because I fear nothing by this point

Holy shit the blind gunner simulation was the funniest most chaotic sequence ever filmed for this show i swear 😂😂😂

"Nothing but respect for Cuba Gooding Jr." Ooof. That's not going to age well 😆

Imagine being a group of birds just flying and doing their thang when a whole bunch of anti-raid artillery rounds start shooting at them. They were probably freaking the hell out

You know...... it's always nice to see Carter.

got some awful news at work this week and totally forgot today was mystery files day. Opening youtube just now and seeing this with “posted 11 mins ago” changed my whole week. Im so happy! 🥰🥳

They mentioned a dozen movies of disasters in Los Angeles but not "1941", the Steven Speilberg directed movie about the Battle of Los Angeles starring John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Toshiro Mifune, and Christopher Lee.

I think the wheel at about 7:48 is a control for the spotlight, and there's a connecting bar that isn't easily seen because of the contrast in the photo

Damn just thought about how we all have grown up with Shane and Ryan since the last 8 to 10 years. Damn

I dunno how these guys find a banger of a topic to cover every single week.

Shane getting shot by Ryan and calling him a “nasty little fucker” was top tier 13:15

Loved this video! About radar and birds: I am a meteorologist, and one of the things we learned about in class is that radar CAN and DOES sometimes pick up wildlife if there’s a large enough group of them. There have been instances of bats, birds, and huge groups of insects picked up on radar in the past. It would not surprise me if some large group of creatures are what was picked up on radar that night.

12:39-12:50 The pure, devious glee and insane smile and laugh Ryan gets when he's shooting at Shane- I mean the targets lmao

...kinda reminds me of the song 99 Luftballons/99 Red Balloons that's about the military firing on balloons thinking they're enemy craft. Now I've got that song stuck in my head...😅

Apologies for a small pedant moment, the attack on Pearl Harbor was not a kamikaze attack. “Kamikaze airstrikes” refers strictly to attacks involving striking or trying to strike an enemy with the aircraft one is flying instead of with weapons the aircraft is armed with. This only became a specific tactic instead of something done on an improvisational basis by aircraft already effectively shot down towards the end of the war, when Japan was nearly defeated - think near around 1944 and 1945, not 1941. The attack on Pearl Harbor was “just” a standard carrier airstrike with the advantage of surprise. Enjoying the episode otherwise so far! Just heard that and had to make a note. Please take this in the spirit it is intended, of genuine enjoyment!

I honestly learned something new today about this incident when it comes to that newspaper picture being edited. Any previous discussion of this incident on shows did not bring up the photo being altered.

I'm a little sad they aren't doing debrief for this season. But I'm glad they're able to still make content on their own

never realized I needed the wilhelm scream in a piece of watcher media until now

watching this during a blackout at 2 am really adds to the story telling tbh

I'm a radar meteorologist. Birds often show up on radar. Bats too! If you watch the radar data around an area with a large bat colony, you might get to see them take off in the evening. You can also see monarch butterfly migrations. It's pretty dope. Anyway it was aliens birds flying some planes with balloons.

"The Phantom Air Raid" sounds like a Sabaton song

Faster than my notifications, so excited to watch the video!!!

Shane looks rad as hell in this thumbnail, good for him

"We gotta put a stop to Florida!" Hysterical. Truer words have never been spoken.

i'm pretty sure the answer to this one is boring - an episode of mass hysteria exprienced by a city that was already on edge shooting at shadows and clouds

YAY MORE MYSTERY FILES!! ALWAYS A GOOD DAY WHEN THERES A NEW EPISODE OUT.

I truly still expect them to say unsolved at the end of every mystery

"Great trailer, bad film" :D I am so glad we all collectively had that same experience

Big oof on the Cuba Gooding Jr comment at the end in light of what all is coming out of the “P. Diddler” case.

This is the *most* Puppet History this show has gotten. Kinda sad there wasn't as song at the end!

I love those interactive little pranks and game in tbr middle. Really makes this show even more fun

"Nothing but respect for Cuba Gooding Jr." so uh, about that

I've missed Carter. Always nice to see him

my grandpa worked with radar during ww2! i remember him talking a few times about how new the technology was. but he was stationed in either france or england and part of the invasion of normandy. if i'm remembering right they attempted to use radar to help with drop zones but the bad weather caused issues

Small correction about Pearl Harbor - that attack was carried out mainly by regular bombers, not kamikaze. Some bombers sustained too much damage to make the return trip so pilots opted to crash into targets to cause more destruction, but it wasn’t organized as a deliberate kamikaze attack as would be seen later on in the war.

I love how every series watcher comes out with, featuring shane and ryan together, gets infused with their goofy personalities over time haha

2:42 that's how the hot daga started

Looked it up: between the .50 cal machine guns and 12.8lb anti-aircraft shells, they were firing sporadically over about an hour! That must have been wild for the people living there

as a native angelino, i'mma need to see stats from the usual number of traffic accidents per night because i doubt this was even any more than usual. like i'm sure the lights made things harder but the base average in regular circumstances probably wasn't zero right haha

“DEMONS PLUNGE US INTO DARKNESS” is all I heard this whole episode lmfao

tbh the birds theory shouldn't be as easily disregarded as there were done studies showing that large flocks of birds would indeed register as one big object on the old wartime military radars, and it wouldn't be the first time the birds were registered as ufos bc of the impreciseness of the military tech of that time. i think the study was done fairly recently so i understand the panic that would erupt after an enemy submarine just shot at your beach

7:14 Shane being dissapointed about the giant lights been from the Scientology church and Ryannbeing terrified of it is hilarious

"That must be so embarrassing. You know when you, like, go out for a night of drinking, and then the next morning you're like, ah, what the fuck did I say, or do? Like you're just, like, kind of like in a state of just, like, embarrassment. This has gotta be the worst version of that." I thought the worst version of that would be filming an entire production based around the concept of embarrassing yourself while drunk, broadcasting it to a very extensive worldwide audience, putting the embarrassing quotes on merch, and having the embarrassing behaviours turned into gifs to be spread across tumblr where they will stay for an eternity. But Ryan wouldn't know anything about that...

Honestly between OSP and Mystery Files and the end of the week, Friday truly is the best day

great job guys. This show just keeps getting better!!!!!

To be absolutely fair to the photograph. While it may be frowned upon by today's editors, it was standard practice in those days to improve the quality of photos.

35:38 Y'all are gonna regret clarifying which Cuba you were shouting out haha

shane looking majestic as hell in that thumbnail

Ryan: "I'm an expert on probing." Me: "As in getting or doing!?"

like if you're watching post controversy

“Pearl Harbor: That would have been a trending topic on Twitter” - Watcher This is the hard hitting journalism I’m here for!

“God it would be fuckin’ metal to get killed by an alien, preferably in front of my family!” Ryan says gleefully. 34:32 😂

"Alright ready?" "Yeah." *Ryan immediately shoots Shane first* Well, we saw that coming...:P:P:P

I still can't get over how awesome the intro music is. Gets me every time!

When you said people died my immediate thought was "I bet heart attacks from the stress, and car crashes and shit like tripping down your stairs in a panic hurry" I'd heard the story about how they shot at Venus for a while or something but didn't know the details. Are you guys hiring? I'm good at this!

I always wanted yall to cover this case since buzzfeed unsolve! Glad today is the day lol

I'm so happy Shan and Ryan finally found a perfect formula. I stopped getting these guys in my feed, but they're back with a vengance.

On the topic of weather balloon sizes: I worked in a ballooning research lab for a couple years when I was an undergrad, and we would usually require at least two people physically holding the balloon and payload when we’d go to launch (we would have more people if we had more than one payload). And when they got up to our target altitude (around 25 km) the balloons had stretched so much that they would be the size of a small house and we could see them from the ground (although it was hard to spot and we’d use our tracking equipment to find where to look). I don’t really have any info to add in the case of this event, but weather balloons can be pretty big!

Shane: “We’re under attack, Ryan” Ryan: “Oh I see” 🙄

Love how Shane is ripping on the guy who has the same hair part as him LOL

You mentioned 10:23 pm when it was 10:23 pm for me!

I love how Shane laughed when Ryan said 'David Blaine' after rhyming it with plane 😂

Re: "Why didn't they scramble planes", LEMMiNO's video on this incident quotes the reason as "We didn't have much pursuit. We had 15 planes in three different places, a total of 45. If that was a reconnaissance preceding a carrier... We did not want to have our pursuit in the air, half out of gas when the attack came in. We didn't want to take the chance."

Had to Pause. Battle: Los Angeles was a fine film and Aaron Eckhart is an underrated Gem of an actor.