Secret Squirrel Files Podcast

Did the military recover a mysterious acorn-shaped object from the woods of Pennsylvania in 1965—or was the Kecksburg Incident simply a meteor that became one of America's greatest UFO legends? In this episode of Secret Squirrel Files , Phoebe explores the decades-old mystery surrounding the Kecksburg UFO, examining eyewitness testimony, Project Blue Book records, government investigations, and th...

A British weapons expert caught in a political firestorm. A German immigrant who became America's first double agent. In this episode of the Secret Squirrel Files , Katie and Phoebe explore the mysterious death of Dr. David Kelly and the remarkable story of William Sebold, whose work helped dismantle the largest Nazi spy ring ever uncovered in the United States. Two cases, decades apart, that reve...

Dive into one of the most devastating espionage betrayals in American history — and one of the strangest unsolved disappearances tied to the military intelligence world. In this episode of Secret Squirrel Files , we unpack the shocking case of CIA officer Aldrich Ames, the Cold War double agent who sold out U.S. intelligence assets to the Soviet Union, compromising more than 100 operations and cha...

This week on Secret Squirrel Files , Katie and Phoebe explore two terrorism cases that permanently reshaped national security, aviation safety, and America’s understanding of extremism. First, Katie unpacks Operation Bojinka — the terrifying 1995 terror plot that foreshadowed 9/11 and nearly brought down multiple commercial airliners over the Pacific. Then, Phoebe examines the Oklahoma City bombin...

Case 1: Operation Ghost Stories was a decade-long FBI counterintelligence investigation that culminated in the June 2010 arrest of 10 "deep-cover" Russian sleeper agents (or "illegals") in the U.S.. These agents, including Anna Chapman, lived in suburban neighborhoods with fake identities, attempting to gather information on U.S. policy for the SVR. Case 2: On September 25, 2000, life at...

Welcome to our first episode of Secret Squirrel Files, where national security meets the shadows of true crime. Case 1: A trusted U.S. Navy insider quietly fed America’s most sensitive secrets to the Soviets for years—but what made the John Walker spy ring truly devastating wasn’t just what he stole… it was who he brought in with him. Case 2: A brilliant scientist with access to some of America’s...