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

ASMR - Wikipedia

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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