Peru's Most Terrifying Mystery | The Face Peelers
The Why Files: Operation Podcast
The Why Files
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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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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