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The Why Files: Operation Podcast

Peru's Most Terrifying Mystery | The Face Peelers

The Why Files: Operation Podcast

The Why Files

Society & Culture, Documentary, Science Fiction, Science, Life Sciences, Fiction

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In 2023, something began hunting people in the remote Amazon village of San Antonio de Pintuyacu. Witnesses described seven-foot beings in black armor with glowing yellow eyes, hovering on disc-shaped platforms, hunting for human faces.Fifteen-year-old Talia barely escaped when two tried to peel the skin from her face with a laser device. She heard them speaking Spanish and English, planning their procedure.For 500 years, the Ikitu people have told stories of the Pishtaco - pale-skinned beings who steal human fat and faces. Now the legend had returned with advanced technology.Authorities blamed illegal miners with jetpacks. But the evidence suggests something far more sinister - advanced military technology entwined with a shadowy international trade in human lives.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJDT8vn-nVU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On July 11, 2023, just after sunset, a girl started screaming.

0:07.0

The men on patrol responded quickly.

0:10.0

Over the past few weeks, something had been terrorizing their village, and tonight they were ready.

0:16.0

The men armed with hunting rifles and shotguns opened fire.

0:19.0

The bullets had no effect.

0:21.5

The attackers were seven feet tall, covered in black armor with large helmets and glowing

0:26.8

yellow eyes.

0:28.0

In an instant, they were gone.

0:30.0

But they didn't run.

0:32.0

They hovered six feet off the ground and disappeared into the Amazon jungle.

0:37.8

The girl was bleeding from a cut on her neck and barely conscious.

0:41.7

She almost became another victim of Los Pelicas, the face peelers.

0:46.9

At first, the authorities didn't believe in face peelers.

0:50.1

Then the body's showing up.

0:51.9

Bodies without faces.

1:06.0

Thank you. Then the body's showing up. Bodies without faces. The attacks in 2023 were shocking, but they weren't new. For years, something has been hunting people in the Amazon.

1:10.0

In the 1970s, the island Kadis in Brazil was under siege.

1:15.5

People were attacked by beams of light that drain their blood.

1:18.6

They all had burn marks and punctur wounds that doctors couldn't explain.

1:22.6

There were over 200 victims.

1:24.2

Two people even died.

1:26.1

Finally, the mayor begged the government for help.

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