VYS0047 | The Weird Review Of The Year 2024 - Show Notes
[Caution: This episode contains an extreme weariness for bullshit that some listeners may find triggering] 2024 was a tough year, weird but tough. And looking back over it doesn't make it any better. In what amounts to a rapid and inexorable descent into madness Hine and Buckley pick apart the weird and, frankly, fucking dystopian year that was 2024. Bouncing between jaded despair and hysterical mania the Vayse boys mull over the topics that dominated 2024: UFOs, Artificial Intelligence and Elon Fucking Musk. Whilst stumbling around in the intoxicating embrace of the seemingly endless darkness they also uncover strange stories of interconnected dreams, robot dogs with flame throwers, robot faces with living skin, bowls of goo with pong skills, plots to genetically engineer super-sheep, a surprising number of goblin attacks and perhaps, maybe, possibly a giant lake dwelling cow...? Recorded 22 January 2025
Massive thanks to Keith who had to tackle the show notes for this long and difficult episode - you can follow him at: @peakflow.bsky.social
As usual, the news stories in this episode were sourced from the weird and wonderous website: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/ - bookmark it and check it daily.
Hine’s Intro
How Far Have You Travelled? - Michael Owen Carroll
Oligarchy - Wikipedia
A Wizard of Earthsea: True names - Wikipedia
What Is Late-Stage Capitalism? - The Balance
Animal Farm - Wikipedia
January
‘Jellyfish’ UFO
MoD expert gives surprising verdict on ‘Jellyfish UFO’ hovering over Iraq - Metro
Jellyfish UFO Analysis by Mick West - YouTube
"Those Are Balls" - Arrested Development - YouTube
Neuralink human brain implant
Elon Musk's Neuralink implants brain chip in first human - Reuters
Brain implants: what are the ethical issues of wiring up our minds? - Unexplained Mysteries
March 2024 - Neuralink video shows patient using brain implant to play chess on laptop - The Verge
Stanford hypnosis booster
Stanford Hypnosis Integrated with Functional Connectivity-targeted Transcranial Stimulation (SHIFT): a preregistered randomized controlled trial - Nature
Stanford scientists boost hypnotizability with transcranial magnetic brain stimulation - PsyPost
VYS0041 | Technologies of Imagination - Vayse to Face with Bel Senlle
Derren Brown’s Most Incredible Hypnosis Tricks - YouTube
February
Lucid dreamers control virtual Cybertruck
Two-way control of a virtual avatar from lucid dreams - REMSpace
Severance - Official Trailer - YouTube
Plasma lifeforms in our skies?
Scientists Suggest WWII "Foo Fighters" Were Plasma Forms - Coast to Coast
Extraterrestrial Life in the Thermosphere: Plasmas, UAP, Pre-Life, Fourth State of Matter - SCIRP
How to Identify a Dark Matter Lifeform - Medium
Origins of the Gods: Qesem Cave, Skinwalkers, and Contact with Transdimensional Intelligences by Andrew Collins & Gregory L. Little - Goodreads
A New Science of Heaven by Robert K.G. Temple - Goodreads
The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained by Whitley Strieber & Jeffrey J. Kripal - Goodreads
The Cryptoterrestrials by Mac Tonnies - Goodreads
Non-Living Intelligence: Cracking The Code For Materials That Can Learn - Astrobiology.com
A brief history of ontological shock - Unhidden.org
Animism - Wikipedia
Oklahoma Thundercow
Video: Mysterious "Thundercow" Becomes Local Legend in Oklahoma
AI explains how to catch a Bigfoot
Bigfoot can be caught with 'giant net' and 'Bigfoot suit' as advice issued - MSN
Usborne’s World of the Unknown: Monsters - Goodreads
March
Skinwalker Ranch investigated by AARO?
Did AARO Just Confirm The US Government Officially Investigated Skinwalker Ranch? - Unexplained
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
Gary Nolan - Wikipedia
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood - Goodreads
When goblins attack!
Horror Film Come to Life: Goblins Terrorise Bulawayo Family, Children Beaten, Food Vanishes - iHarare
Otherworld podcast
Montana ‘Frankensheep’
Montana rancher pleads guilty to ‘frankensheep’ wildlife crimes - AGDaily
Ungulate - Wikipedia
Liger - Wikipedia
Bigfoot in Devon?
Mysterious ‘Bigfoot’ prints found along Torquay coast path - Devon Live
Jan 2025 - UAP recovery video shows ‘egg-shaped’ object - YouTube
April
Australian Govt declares no interest in UFOs
Australian Dept of Defence drops 10-page UFO dossier - The Mandarin
Skinwalker Ranch - Wikipedia
Religion in Twin Peaks: Native American Beliefs - Fire Walk With Me
Thermonator: Rise of the Machines
Ohio company to sell a ‘flamethrower-wielding robot dog’ called the Thermonator - The Guardian
May 2024 - Robot dogs armed with AI-aimed rifles undergo US Marines Special Ops evaluation - Ars Techina
Are we living in a dystopia? - The Conversation
Handmaid’s Tale Season One trailer - YouTube
Fear and non-humans in Las Vegas
Las Vegas ‘nonhuman, UFO’ encounter ‘traumatizing,’ teen says - News Nation
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads
Jan 2025 - Whistleblower reveals UAP retrieval program; object caught on video | NewsNation - YouTube
Morbid masqueraders
‘AI death calculator’ creators issue urgent warning about frighteningly accurate tool - NY Post
Dirty fuel
Harwich factory to make jet fuel out of faeces in world first - BBC News
Robbie Williams: He’s The One
Robbie Williams thinks aliens are targeting him because he's so famous and can help them - Daily Star
Robbie Williams - Better Man | Official Trailer (2024 Movie) - YouTube
VYS0045 | This Is Not The End Times; This Is A Rescue Mission - Vayse to Face with Bob Cluness
The Unseen Grant Morrison - Intensive Care (Robbie Williams’ album design)
May
UAP Transparency Act introduced
Rep. Burchett introduces UAP Transparency Act - House.gov
2023 - ‘Crazy Plane Lady’ Tiffany Gomas Opens Up About Viral Meltdown on Plane in Exclusive Interview - Inside Edition
June 2024 - Hailey Welch (hawk tuah girl) - Wikipedia
Vatican issues new guidelines on weird stuff
Vatican tightens rules on supernatural phenomena - BBC News
AI to blame for lack of alien contact?
AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations - The Conversation
Turing test passed for first time?
GPT-4 has passed the Turing test, researchers claim - Live Science
I’m not a doppelgänger says Lavigne
Avril Lavigne responds to bizarre conspiracy theory she died 20 years ago and was replaced by body double - The Standard
Chinese ‘pandas’ were spray-painted dogs
Chinese zoo under fire after dyeing dogs black and white for 'panda' exhibit - Sky News
Sept 2024 - Moo Deng - Wikipedia
E.M. phone home
Elon Musk Claims "I Am an Alien" Promises To Share Proof Online - Mashable
More goblin attacks
Police officers in Zimbabwe desert station citing goblin attacks - Cite
Bizarre footage shows alleged "goblin" running across a road in Mexico - Unexplained Mysteries
June
10% chance of Cryptoterrestrials existing says Harvard study
UFOs May Be Evidence Of "Cryptoterrestrials" Secretly Living Among Us - IFL Science
The Cryptoterrestrials by Mac Tonnies - Goodreads
Robot faces made of living skin
Faces made of living skin make robots smile - BBC News
Perforation-type anchors inspired by skin ligament for robotic face covered with living skin - Cell.com
Nevada monolith
Mysterious monolith appears in Nevada desert - BBC News
Mexican BVM statue ‘cries tears of blood’
Mystery as Virgin Mary statue "cries tears of blood" as church investigates "alleged miracle" - Irish Mirror
25-foot-tall rideable bike breaks record
Record-breaking 25-foot-tall rideable bike built by two friends - Guinness World Records
July
Alleged Roswell metallic specimen analysed
Pentagon Publishes Report on Material From an Alleged Alien Aircraft - Gizmodo
AARO: Supplement to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Analysis of a Metallic Specimen, July 2024
MUFON claims to have material of ‘non-human’ origin
Lighter than petal alien spacecraft's debris is on Earth. UFO hunters say it has 'non-human' origin - WION
Mars may have hosted microbial life
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Scientists Find Intriguing Mars Rock - NASA.gov
Proposed seed repository on the moon
Scientists propose lunar biorepository as ‘backup’ for life on Earth - The Guardian
South Korea develops remote mind-control device
New Technology to Control the Brain Using Magnetic Fields Developed - IBS
Moscow Signal - Wikipedia
Peter Levenda - Wikipedia
Havana Syndrome - Wikipedia
Extreme eater dies during livestream
Extreme eater, 24, dies during livestream of 10-hour food binge after her stomach ripped open - LBC
August
Man found dead on beach surrounded by headless chickens
Man found dead after performing ‘black magic ritual’ on decapitated chickens - Metro
Early ‘hobbit’ hominins shorter than we thought
Archaic human "hobbits" were even shorter than we thought, 700,000-year-old teeth and bone reveal - Live Science
Stonehenge ‘altar stone’ came from Scotland
Stonehenge megalith came from Scotland, not Wales, ‘jaw-dropping’ study finds - The Guardian
Spinal Tap: Stonehenge - YouTube
Liquid water found under surface of Mars
Liquid water in the Martian mid-crust - PNAS
Reservoir of liquid water found deep in Martian rocks - BBC News
Yet another goblin attack
Bizarre video reportedly shows 'goblin' that attacked farm worker - Unexplained Mysteries
Scientists train goo to play computer game
Electro-active polymer hydrogels exhibit emergent memory when embodied in a simulated game environment - Cell.com
Scientists Trained a Lump of Goo to Play Pong - Gizmodo
September
First civilian spacewalks
SpaceX Makes History With First Spacewalks Ever by Private Citizens - Science Alert
Prince Philip fails to meet alien
Prince Philip was ‘meant to meet an alien called Janus in a Chelsea flat’ - Metro
Flurry of activity at Loch Ness
Mystery creature filmed moving across the surface of Loch Ness - Unexplained Mysteries
Loch Ness Monster encounter as shocked swimmer feels Nessie brush up against him - Daily Record
June 2024 - Huge search for the Loch Ness Monster claims to have found "unexplainable" new evidence - The Scotsman
Oct 2024 - Monstrous disturbance recorded at Loch Ness - LochNess.com
Oct 2024 - Loch Ness Monster spotted in "unprecedented" video that "can't be anything else" - Edinburgh Live
First lucid dream communication
Breakthrough from REMspace: First Ever Communication Between People in Dreams - Business Wire
A historic milestone: Two people communicate in dreams - Tech Explorist
Moon affected by COVID-19 pandemic
Effect of COVID-19 global lockdown on our Moon - Oxford Universty Press
COVID-19 Pandemic Affected the Moon, Scientists Claim - Futurism
October
Trump protected against spells say witches
Witches Report Their Spells Against Trump Aren't Working: "He Has a Shield" - CBN
100 right-footed shoes stolen
Mystery over why shoe thief stole 100 right-footed shoes - Metro
Viral pyramid pup
This Pup Is Going Viral for Climbing to the Top of an Egyptian Pyramid - Smithsonian Magazine
Animals get drunk more frequently than we thought
Drunk animals far more common than previously thought, scientists say - The Independent
The evolutionary ecology of ethanol - Cell.com
Extraterrestrial life could be thriving near Uranus
Constraining Ocean and Ice Shell Thickness on Miranda from Surface Geological Structures and Stress Modeling - IOP Science
November
Tucker Carlson ‘physically mauled’ by ‘demon’
Tucker Carlson claims a ‘demon’ attack left him bleeding in bed - The Guardian
43 monkeys escape lab
South Carolina Residents Told to Secure Their Homes After 43 Monkeys Escape Lab - Gizmodo
AI tells student: “Please die. Please.”
Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." - CBS News
690452 TikTok trend explained
What does 690452 mean? The TikTok trend explained - Capital FM
How to Play the Elevator Game (and Survive the Otherworld) - WikiHow
We're All Going to the World's Fair | Official Trailer - YouTube
Alex Jones’ Infowars bought by The Onion
The Onion purchases Alex Jones' Infowars at bankruptcy auction - Unexplained Mysteries
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories - Wikipedia
Drone-cember
US Air Force bases in UK swarmed by drones
Mystery drones swarmed US Air Force base for 17 consecutive nights - Unexplained Mysteries
What's going on with drones spotted over air bases in the UK? - Sky News
New Jersey drone flap
FBI joins hunt for answers behind nightly drone sightings in New Jersey - NBC New York
"I don't buy it": Americans want answers on possible drone sightings - BBC News
Live action role-playing game (LARP) - Wikipedia
Ong’s Hat: Compleat - Incunabula
UK sets out position on unidentified aerial phenomenon - UK Defence Journal
‘Mirror life’ microbe research poses threat to life on Earth
‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research - The Guardian
Tomb of ‘real Santa Claus’ discovered
Sarcophagus of ‘real Santa Claus’ found at St. Nicholas Church in Turkey - Archaeology News
Buckley’s closing question
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