The truth is out there... sometimes... maybe... well, Hine and Buckley just aren't sure. UFOs, UAPs, Flying Saucers, Alien Spacecraft, whatever you think they are, you don't know for sure - and if you think you do know for sure, it's a sure sign you don't.

What you do know for sure is that you are told a lot of different things about them by a lot of different people: abductees spinning stories of high strangeness, senators pressuring whistle-blowers for information in congress, devoutly religious authors telling tales of angels and demons, folklorists and scholars of comparative religion painting vivid pictures of ancient beings dressed up in the skin of Technicolor sci-fi nightmares... no-one agrees and everyone is out to prove that their interpretation is the right interpretation - but what does any of it actually mean?

In this episode Hine and Buckley don't analyse the verisimilitude of the stories or the veracity of the storytellers but instead examine the discourse around the phenomena or more accurately the discourse around the discourse around UFOs. The mechanisms with which people might think about this topic and the reasons that they may think in that way.

The conversation around UFOs is big business, a lot of people making a lot of money - but who are these people and what happens to that money? Where did it all start? Was it Peter Levenda that stealthily laid the ground work over the last 50 years to shape the UFO movement as we know it today? Why would people lie about this stuff? Why should you believe some conspiracy theorist warning you of the terrible dangers of the existential crisis that UFOs pose anymore than you should trust some conspiracy theorist warning you of the terrible dangers of vaccines and their link to childhood autism?... and if the people who are trying to take control of the discourse are lying, overly-gullible or deluded, then is there really any truth out there at all? (recorded 23 April 2026)

Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia
UFOlogy - Wikipedia
2 Navy Airmen and an Object That 'Accelerated Like Nothing, I've Seen' - New York Times (Pay Wall)
Pentagon UFO Videos - Wikipedia
To the Stars
Peter Levenda - Wikipedia
Sinister Forces by Peter Levenda - Goodreads
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult by Peter Lavenda - Goodreads
Tom DeLonge - Wikipedia
Jim Semivan - The Sol Foundation
Hal Puthoff - Wikipedia
Luis Elizondo - Wikipedia
The Necronomicon: A Study of Ancient Ritual Magic and Esoteric Grimoire Traditions by Simon - Goodreads
HP Lovecraft - Wikipedia
VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny
Dead Names: The Dark History of the Necronomicon: The Untold Story of Lovecraft's Stolen Grimoire by Simon - Goodreads
Ong's Hat
Sekret Machines by Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda - Goodreads
Penny Royal Podcast
The Collins Elite/Final Events - Wikipedia
Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia
Helena Blavatsky - Wikipedia
Anton LaVey - Wikipedia
Brandon Sanderson - Wikipedia
Hellier - Youtube
Hyperstition - Wikipedia
ARG - Wikipedia
Kayfabe - Wikipedia
LARPing - Wikipedia
Andrew Collins
Synchronicity - Wikipedia
Cosmic Trigger - Wikipedia
Robert Anton Wilson - Wikipedia
Chapel Perilous - Wikipedia
JFK Assassination - Wikipedia
AP Strange
Steph Quick
Rob Reiner - Who Killed JFK? Podcast
Occam's Razor - Wikipedia
Capitalism - Wikipedia
MrBeast - Wikipedia
Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
Psychosocial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
VYS0054 | You Can't Make An Omelette Without Breaking A Few Egregores - Vayse to Face with Joshua Cutchin
Joshua Cutchin
Demonic UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
Buddhism - Wikipedia
The Diamond Sutra - Wikipedia
Mayahna
Buddhism and Quantum Mechanics by Michael Behrens - Sience and Non-Duality
Reality in Buddhism - Wikipedia
The Matrix
The Matrix Trailer - Youtube
UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe by Chris Bledsoe
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
Steven M. Greer - Wikipedia
Meditation - Wikipedia
Flow State - Wikipedia
Mindfulness - Wikipedia
Elon Musk - Wikipedia
Jeff Bezos - Wikipedia
Count to a Billion (How I began to grasp the atrocity of Musk) by Susan Duerksen - The Jumping Off Place
Amazon Breaks Record For Lobbyist Spending Amid Anti-Union Drive by Jordan Zakarin - perfectunion.us
Predator - Wikipedia
Predator Trailer - Youtube
Saul Hudson (Slash)
Slash by Slash and Anthony Bozza - Goodreads
Philip K Dick - Wikipedia
John Nash - Wikipedia
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar - Goodreads
A Beautiful Mind (Film) - Wikipedia
A Beautiful Mind Trailer - Youtube
Joan of Arc - Wikipedia
The Schizophrenia of Joan of Arc by Clifford Allen
Schizophrenia - Wikipedia
Temperal Lobe Epilepsy - Wikipedia
Focal Seizures - Epilepsy Action (British Epilepsy Association)
living with the rarest form of epilepsy - reddit
Is AI Really Just a Tool? It Could Be Altering How You See Reality by University of Exeter - Sci-tech Daily
Mirage Men - Wikipedia
Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pilkington - Goodreads
Mirage Men Trailer - Youtube
VYS0020 | Messages of Deception - Vayse to Face with Mark Pilkington
False or misleading statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia
L Ron Hubbard - Wikipedia
L. Ron Hubbard's 5 Most Impressive Lies (Besides Scientology) by Kristi Harrison - Cracked
Carlos Castaneda - Wikipedia
Laurens van der Post - Wikipedia
More myth than man by JDF Jones - The Guardian
The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. Hansen
Voices for Vaccines - Website which helps de-bunk harmful misinformation about Vaccines
Autism, Vaccines and Immunization - Autism Today - debunking misinformation about the link between childhood autism and vaccines - spoilers: there isn't a link
VYSXXXX | The Real Vayse: Halloween 2024

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[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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Unable to put off dedicating an episode to the UFO mystery any longer, Hine and Buckley welcome researcher, podcaster and writer Rob Kristoffersen. Rob is the creator and host of the incredibly popular podcast Our Strange Skies: UFOs Throughout History, co-creator of the web-comic Welcome UFO People and expert on all things extra-terrestrial, ultra-terrestrial, crypto-terrestrial and any other form in which the phenomenon may choose to manifest. Rob talks about his own weird experiences and Hine and Buckley waste no time in asking him the questions that keep them awake at night: What exactly is it that people are seeing when they see UFOs? Are UFO and alien encounters a range of different experiences and phenomena or are they all the same thing viewed through different lenses? What's the deal with Whitley Strieber and what the deal with Jacques Vallée? Is there a connection between UFOs and death? What's really behind the whole Disclosure movement? Which Cryptid has the best PR person? and what does Rob really think about capitalism...? (Recorded 4 March 2024)

Thanks to Rob for his time and thanks as always to Keith for the show notes, catch up with Keith at: @peakflow.bsky.social

Rob Kristoffersen online
Our Strange Skies website
Our Strange Skies on Instagram
Our Strange Skies on Twitter
Welcome UFO People on Instagram
Welcome UFO People on Twitter
Rob on Twitter
Rob on Patreon

Hine’s intro (and Buckley’s reminiscences)

Glasgow - Wikipedia
Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination (from "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" (1971) ) - YouTube
Willy Wonka experience: How did the viral sensation go so wrong? - BBC News
Willy Wonka: The Unknown star of viral chocolate experience unmasked - BBC News
Willy Wonka - Wikipedia
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (novel) - Wikipedia
Float (parade) - Wikipedia
Salmonella - Wikipedia
Queen’s Greatest Flix (1981) - YouTube
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (film) - Wikipedia
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Original Trailer - YouTube
Todd Purse on Instagram
Richard Doty - Exopaedia

Avoiding talking about UFOs

VYS0020 | Messages of Deception - Vayse to Face with Mark Pilkington
VYS0030 | To Believe or Not to Believe - Vayse to Face with Emily Louise
UFO conspiracy theories: Disclosure - Wikipedia
‘It only takes one to be real and it changes humanity for ever’: what if we’ve been lied to about UFOs? - The Guardian

What made Rob want to start a podcast about UFOs?

Area 51 stored egg-shaped, SUV-sized UFO in the 1980s, claims whistleblower - Express
UFO and UAP Shapes and Sizes - Unidentified Phenomena
Volkswagen Beetle (VW Bug) - Wikipedia
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (novel) - Wikipedia
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - Goodreads
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (TV series) - Wikipedia
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell TV series - Official Trailer - YouTube
Piranesi (novel) - Wikipedia
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke - Goodreads
Intruders by Budd Hopkins - Goodreads
Budd Hopkins - Wikipedia
Hangar 1: The UFO Files - Wikipedia
Hangar 1: The UFO Files - UFO Superpowers - S02E12 (Edited) - YouTube
Mothman - Wikipedia
Horror In The Mojave Desert: The Disturbing Alien Abduction Of Steve And Dawn Hess - UFO Insight
Mojave Incident: Inspired by a Chilling Story of Alien Abduction by Ron Felber - Goodreads
Alien abduction - Wikipedia
Alien invasion - Wikipedia

The strange death of Zigmund Adamski

Todmorden - Wikipedia
Alan Godfrey - Wikipedia
Mystery of the Yorkshire miner found dumped on a coal pile with a face of 'absolute terror' -Yorkshire Examiner Live
Our Strange Skies 144: The Death of Zigmund Adamski & The Alien Abduction of Alan Godfrey
VYS0011 | Weird Tales - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.2
George Adamski - Wikipedia
Ziggy Stardust (character) - Wikipedia

Weird experiences and the ‘apathy ray’ effect

Our Strange Skies 89: The BAEliens (Big Ass Eared Aliens) with Greg Newkirk
Apathy - Wikipedia
VYS0037 | Elvis with a Flaming Sword - Vayse to Face with AP Strange
Unmanned aerial vehicle - Wikipedia
Lizard Men - Cryptid Wiki
Not Now, Bernard - Wikipedia
Not now, Bernard ... I'm on my iPhone: classic children's text reissued for digital era - The Guardian
How to regain a sense of childlike wonder - WellBeing
Faculty X - Colin Wilson Online
Criticism of capitalism - Wikipedia

Cryptids need better PR

Reptilian humanoid - Wikipedia
David Icke - Wikipedia
Reptilian conspiracy theory - Wikipedia
The Beast of Winter Hill - YouTube
The Mothman Prophecies (film) - Wikipedia
The Mothman Prophecies (2002) - Official Trailer - YouTube
Loveland Frogman - Wikipedia
Squonk - Wikipedia
Bigfoot - Wikipedia
Harry and the Hendersons - Wikipedia
Harry and the Hendersons Official Trailer #1 (1987) - YouTube
The Crow (1994 film) - Wikipedia
The Crow (1994) Official Trailer - YouTube
Sting (wrestler) - Wikipedia
Between by Megan Whitmer - Goodreads
Is Bigfoot Possibly an Alien Entity? - Huff Post
List of cryptids - Wikipedia
Loch Ness Monster - Wikipedia
Champ (folklore) - Wikipedia
Ogopogo - Wikipedia
The Bizarre, True Story of Gef the Talking Mongoose - Atlas Obscura
Gef (the Talking Mongoose) - Wikipedia
The World of the Unknown: All About Ghosts by Christopher Maynard - Goodreads
The World of the Unknown: All About Monsters by Carey Miller - Goodreads
The Safety Dance - Wikipedia
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (Official HD Video)

Rob’s early interest in the unexplained

Ghost Hunters (TV series) - Wikipedia
Ghost Hunters (2004) Season 1, Episode 1 Intro - YouTube
Psychic - Wikipedia
Paranormal State (TV Series) - Wikipedia
Paranormal State season teaser - YouTube
Psychic Kids (TV series) - Wikipedia
Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal trailer - YouTube
10 UFO Encounters That Involve Alien Humanoid Entities - List Verse

How does Rob stop himself from getting bored?

List of reported UFO sightings - Wikipedia
UFO Flaps - A Context for Scientific Study
Marius Dewilde (encounter with aliens, Nord, France, 1954) - Wikipedia
The day UFOs stopped play (Florence, Italy, 1954) - BBC News
UFO sightings in Brazil - Wikipedia
Truck drivers Gustavo González & José Ponce's violent encounter with an alien, Venezuela, 1954 -YouTube
NOTE: The interviewee here, Frank Edwards, says the event took place in 1957, but the year is
confirmed by other sources as being 1954.
1954: Cennina Landing and Encounter with Humanoids (the Rosa Lotti case) - Think About It
Candle snuffer - Wikipedia
Football helmet - Wikipedia
The Strange Link Between Fairies, Aliens and UFOs - Anomalien
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves describes a UAP/UFO object: “Black cube inside of a clear sphere” - YouTube

What is it that people are seeing?

Extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
Interdimensional UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
Mac Tonnies - Wikipedia
The Cryptoterrestrials: A Meditation on Indigenous Humanoids and the Aliens Among Us by Mac Tonnies - Goodreads
Whitley Streiber - Wikipedia
Budd Hopkins - Wikipedia
David Jacobs - Wikipedia
Alien abduction - Wikipedia
Our Strange Skies 134: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 6: Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs and the Shaping of a Phenomenon
The Humanoids by Charles Bowen, Aimé Michel, and Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Flying Saucer Review website
Aimé Michel - Wikipedia
The Truth About Flying Saucers by Aimé Michel - Goodreads
Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery by Aimé Michel - Goodreads
Aimé Michel: Tribute to the Great French Ufologist - New Dawn Magazine
Aimé Michel: The Problem of Non-Contact - grepi.ch blog
A New Take on the Gaia Theory (includes quote from David Perkins) - Past Lives Project
Gaia hypothesis - Wikipedia
James Lovelock - Wikipedia
Somewhere in the Skies (Ryan Sprague) website
Mike Clelland’s website
Do Thousands of Alien Contact Accounts Share Same Message? - Gaia.com
Ariel School UFO incident - Wikipedia
Contactee - Wikipedia
VYS0036 | Infinite Game - Vayse to Face with Joseph Matheny
Ong’s hat website

Whitley Strieber

Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia
The Day After Tomorrow (2004 film) - Wikipedia
The Day After Tomorrow - Official Trailer HD - YouTube
The Coming Global Superstorm (1999 book) by Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia
The Coming Global Superstorm by Whitley Strieber - Goodreads
Communion (book) - Wikipedia
Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber - Goodreads
Communion by Whitley Strieber. Narrated by: Whitley Strieber - Audible
Remastered - Communion - by Whitley Strieber - Read by Roddy McDowall -YouTube
Prisoner of Infinity: Social Engineering, UFOs, and the Psychology of Fragmentation by Jasun Horsley - Goodreads
Narrative of the abduction phenomenon - Wikipedia
Click If You Dare: 100 Favorite Horror Stories - NPR
Our Strange Skies 136: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 7: Whitley Strieber, Part 1
Our Strange Skies 137: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 7: Whitley Strieber, Part 2
Our Strange Skies 138: The History of Alien Abductions, Part 7: Whitley Strieber, Part 3
Twin Peaks - Wikipedia
The Leftovers (TV series) - Wikipedia
The Leftovers Complete Series Trailer - YouTube
David Lynch - Wikipedia
The Hunger (1983 film) - Wikipedia
The Hunger (Strieber novel) - Wikipedia
The Hunger Official Trailer #1 (1983) HD - YouTube
Wolfen (film) - Wikipedia
The Wolfen (novel) - Wikipedia
Wolfen (1981) - Trailer HD 1080p - YouTube

“This has something to do with what humans call Death.”

Joshua Cutchin Unveils “The Ecology of Souls” - Daily Grail
Joshua Cutchin website
Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal - Volume One - Goodreads
Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal - Volume Two - Goodreads

Life, Afterlife and a New World by Whitley Strieber - Beyond World

Joshua Cutchin Unveils “The Ecology of Souls” - Daily Grail
Joshua Cutchin website
Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal - Volume One - Goodreads
Ecology of Souls: A New Mythology of Death & the Paranormal - Volume Two - Goodreads
Life, Afterlife and a New World by Whitley Strieber - Beyond World
Love and Saucers website
Love and Saucers: Trailer - YouTube
Love in an Alien Purgatory: The Life and Fantastic Art of David Huggins by Farah Yurdözü - Goodreads
Meet the Artist Painting the Aliens That Abducted Him - Artsy
Mantis Aliens - Gaia
Psychopomp - Wikipedia

Patterns in experiencers and lumberjack folklore

Anomalous experiences - Wikipedia
New Psychological Research Says Paranormal Experiences Are The Norm, Not The Exception - Forbes
Tarot card reading - Wikipedia
Bigfoot - Wikipedia
Fearsome critters (lumberjack folklore) - Wikipedia
Squonk - Wikipedia
Hodag - Wikipedia
Slide-Rock Bolter - Cryptid Wiki
Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers by Jacques F. Vallée

Is it the same thing viewed through different lenses?

Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
The new American religion of UFOs (includes conversation with Diana Pasulka) - Vox
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads
Sekret Machines: Gods - Volume 1 of Gods, Man, & War by Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda - Goodreads
High Strangeness And Understanding It - Global Bizarre
Stan Romanek - Wikipedia
Why the Bible Cannot and Should Not Be Taken Literally - Brewminate
Burning bush - Wikipedia
Yelp - Wikipedia
Ezekiel - Wikipedia
Living creatures (Bible) - Wikipedia
What Do The Angels From The Bible Actually Look Like? - All That’s Interesting
Are UFOs Demonic? Preliminary Reflections - Ricochet
Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads
Which history of Satan book did Jacques Vallee hand to Dr. Pasulka? - Reddit
Jacques Vallée - Wikipedia
UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe by Chris Bledsoe
Peter Levenda - Wikipedia
H.P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia
Cthulhu - Wikipedia
Sinister Forces Series by Peter Levenda - Goodreads

Is Jacques Vallée the Cigarette Smoking Man?

Jacques Vallée - Wikipedia
Cigarette Smoking Man - Wikipedia
Parapsychology research at SRI - Wikipedia
Remote viewing - Wikipedia
The Heart of the Internet: An Insider's View of the Origin & Promise of the On-line Revolution by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Jacques Vallee - Consciousness Software, Remote Viewing, Early Internet Origins, Parapsychology, SRI (2007 lecture) - YouTube
Venture capital - Wikipedia
Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Project Bluebook - Wikipedia
Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969 by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Forbidden Science 2: California Hermetica, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1970-1979 by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Forbidden Science 3: On the Trail of Hidden Truths, the Journals of Jacques Vallee 1980-1989 by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Forbidden Science 4: The Spring Hill Chronicles, the Journals of Jacques Vallee 1990-1999 by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Forbidden Science 5: Pacific Heights: The Journals of Jacques Vallee 2000-2009 by Jacques F. Vallée -Goodreads
UFO conspiracy theories: Disclosure - Wikipedia
Richard Doty - Exopaedia

UFO crash narratives

UFO Crash Retrievals — The Story, The Coverup, & the Road to Disclosure - Medium
Roswell incident - Wikipedia
Frank Scully - Wikipedia
Aztec, New Mexico crashed saucer hoax - Wikipedia
Behind the Flying Saucers by Frank Scully - Goodreads
Stanton T Friedman - Wikipedia
Interview with Stan Friedman on UFOs & Roswell - UFO Evidence
Jesse Marcel - Wikipedia
Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) - Wikipedia
Leonard H. Stringfield - Wikipedia
Leonard Stringfield’s Status Report at the 1978 MUFON Symposium (article) - Podcast UFO Live
Bill Moore (ufologist) - Wikipedia
The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore - Goodreads
Unsolved Mysteries - Wikipedia
Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack - S2E1 - Full Episode (1989) - YouTube
NOTE: The Roswell crash documentary starts at 19:30 approx.
Sightings (TV series) - Wikipedia
Sightings - S01E01 1992 - The UFO Report - YouTube

What happened just before, during, and after the ‘80s

Uri Geller - Wikipedia
Uri Geller - Spoon Breaking - YouTube
Andrija Puharich - Wikipedia
The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influence on the Human Race by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Neoliberalism - Wikipedia
Thatcherism - Wikipedia
Reaganomics - Wikipedia
Military-industrial complex - Wikipedia
Gulf War - Wikipedia
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Wikipedia
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Official Trailer - YouTube
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial - Wikipedia
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial - Trailer - YouTube
Steven Spielberg - Wikipedia
J. Allen Hynek - Wikipedia
The Day the Earth Stood Still - Wikipedia
Trailer - The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) - YouTube
V (1983 miniseries) - Wikipedia
1983-05-01: V The Original Miniseries - YouTube
David Icke - Wikipedia
Bob Lazar - Wikipedia
Majestic 12 (MJ12) - Wikipedia
Roswell incident - Wikipedia
Alien abductions
The X-Files - Wikipedia
Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pilkington - Goodreads
Mirage Men (documentary film) - Wikipedia page
Richard Doty - Exopaedia

Rob’s take on the disclosure thing

UFO conspiracy theories: Disclosure - Wikipedia
Pentagon UFO videos - Wikipedia
Mick West - Wikipedia
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry - Wikipedia
Hessdalen lights - Wikipedia
Brown mountain lights - Wikipedia
Vaccine hesitancy - Wikipedia
Jordan Peterson - Wikipedia
My beef with Jordan Peterson's all-cow diet - The Guardian
Alprazolam (Xanax) - Wikipedia
Inside Uri Geller's £8m mansion he's selling to move into 'tiny' flat furnished with Ikea - Mirror
Stardust Ranch: The Incredible True Story by John Edmonds - Goodreads
Katana - Wikipedia
The Saucer Life website
AlienCon 2023 is a Wrap! - YouTube
Skinwalker Ranch - Wikipedia

Rob’s Recommendations

Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception by Jacques F. Vallée - Goodreads
Witness of Another World (2019) | Official English Trailer HD
Think Anomalous YT channel
Think Anomalous website
The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials by Patrick Huyghe - Goodreads

Buckley’s closing question

Jacques Vallée - Wikipedia
Capitalism - Wikipedia
Cthulhu - Wikipedia
Cigarette Smoking Man - Wikipedia
Satan - Wikipedia
Industrial Revolution - Wikipedia
Adam Smith - Wikipedia
Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

Vayse online

Vayse website
Vayse on Twitter
Vayse on Instagram
Music From Vayse: Volume 1 by Polypores - Bandcamp
Music From Vayse: Volume 2 by Polypores - Bandcamp
Vayse on Ko-Fi
Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com

Special Guest: Rob Kristoffersen.

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Concluding their post-mortem of the bloated carcass of 2023 looking for any residual traces of weirdness Hine and Buckley witness it hurtling from June to December like a reckless driver, drunk on curiosity, swerving to avoid a shadowy figure that was never there, crashing through the windshield of wanton deception to land face down and muttering incoherently on the cold, hard tarmac of truth.

As they accompany this moribund year through the bardo they encounter David Grusch and Ryan Graves giving dubious, testimony about their UAP encounters, an unexplained encounter at the bottom of a well, a Russian man drilling into his own skull to try to control his dreams, a couple of dry little guys being dragged out before the Mexican Congress and the threat of desecration to a 30-year-old Vayse sacred text... (recorded 15 January 2024)

Thanks as always to Keith for the show notes - give him a follow on bluesky: @peakflow.bsky.social

Again, most of the news stories in this episode were sourced from the strange and unusal website: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/ - bookmark it and check it for your daily does of weird.

Walken’s Intro

Christopher Walken - Wikipedia

June 2023

Grusch blows his whistle

Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin - The Debrief
US conducted ‘multi-decade’ secret UFO program, ex-intelligence official says - The Guardian
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - Wikipedia
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) - Wikipedia
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) - Wikipedia
David Grusch UFO whistle-blower claims - Wikipedia
Stanford professor says aliens are ‘100 per cent’ on earth, US is ‘reverse-engineering downed UFOs’ -News.com
Diana Walsh Pasulka - Wikipedia
To the Stars (company) - Wikipedia
Extra-terrestrial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
Interdimensional UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
Psychosocial UFO hypothesis - Wikipedia
UFO "Whistleblower" Has Suspiciously Close Ties to the Usual Suspects - Jason Colavito
Weird Reads with Emily Louise - YouTube
Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pilkington - Goodreads
Jeremy Corbell - Wikipedia
George Knapp (television journalist) - Wikipedia
Harold E. ‘Hal’ Puthoff - Wikipedia
Remote viewing - Wikipedia

Scientists create synthetic human embryos

Synthetic human embryos created in ground-breaking advance - The Guardian
Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia
What are ‘non-human biologics’? - HITC
Jeremy Corbell on Twitter

Trail cam catches half-naked ‘witches’ in deer carcass ‘eating ritual’

Woman's horror as wildlife cam catches "naked witches hosting carcass-eating ritual" - The Mirror
The viral deer-eating “witches” that aren’t - The Wild Hunt
Wendigo - Wikipedia
Skin walker - Wikipedia
Powell River, British Columbia - Wikipedia
Scantily clad "witches" caught munching on deer carcass in bizarre security cam footage - Fox News
Satanic panic - Wikipedia

Vayse episodes in June

VYS0022 | This Phenomena Draws You In - Vayse to Face with Steve Mera
VYS0023 | Mercurial, Mutable, Mysterious Something - Vayse to Face with Paul Weston

July 2023

Grusch and Graves give testimony at Congressional Hearing on UFOs

UFO hearings: whistle-blower David Grusch says ‘non-human biologics’ found at alleged crash sites - The Guardian
US government "hiding crucial information" about UFOs, says ex-Navy pilot who claims he saw them - Sky News
Who is Ryan Graves? - Yahoo News
Transcript of Ryan Graves’ testimony - House Oversight Committee
Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA) website
Big, Red UFO Hovered over Vandenberg in 2003, Congressional Witness Testifies - The Independent
The Simulation Hypothesis by Rizwan Virk - Goodreads
Are we living in a computer simulation? I don’t know. Probably. (interview with Rizwan Virk) - Vox
Chameleo: A Strange but True Story of Invisible Spies, Heroin Addiction, and Homeland Security by Robert Guffey - Goodreads
Text-based game - Wikipedia
Military simulation - Wikipedia
Uses of VR in Military Training - Future Visual
Serge Monast’s Project Blue Beam Makes Today’s Conspiracy Theories Look Sane - All That’s Interesting
Explaining Watchmen's Giant Squid - Nerdist
Rapture - Wikipedia
Baby Looks Away From Me: A Sign of Overstimulation or Just Normal? - Mommy Cooz

Man claims to have performed brain surgery on himself

Researcher claims to have implanted chip into his brain which he hopes can control his dreams - Lad Bible
Lucid dream - Wikipedia
The Sopranos, Pine Barrens episode: Valery Escapes - YouTube
Happiness In Slavery, Music video - Wikipedia
Nine Inch Nails - Happiness In Slavery (Uncensored Music Video) - Internet Archive
This is a link to the first minute and a half, which doesn’t contain any gruesome stuff: Nine Inch Nails: Happiness is Slavery Music Video - YouTube
Neuralink - Wikipedia
Black+Decker - Wikipedia
Trepanning - Wikipedia
Ghostbusters - The hole Egon tried to drill in his head

Our bears are not humans in suits, says Chinese zoo

Chinese zoo denies its bears are humans in costume - Sky News
Sun Bear - Wikipedia
China zoo "tries to pass dog off as wolf"- BBC News
Chinese zoo angers visitors by passing off hairy Tibetan mastiff dog as lion - CNN
Egyptian zoo denies their 'zebra' is a donkey after photo goes viral - Sky News

Vayse episodes in July

VYS0024 | Between Being Real and Not Real - Vayse to Face with Nathan Paul Isaac
VYS0025 | Truth with a Capital "T" - Vayse to Face with Sequoyah Kennedy

August 2023

Loch Ness Monster mega-hunt takes place

Record-breaking hunt for the Loch Ness Monster is now underway - Unexplained Mysteries
Hundreds join huge search for Loch Ness Monster - BBC News
Loch Ness Monster - Wikipedia
Two Great Beasts: Aleister Crowley And the Loch Ness Monster - Spooky Isles
St. Columba and the Loch Ness Monster - National Catholic Register
Snakes in mythology - Wikipedia
Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting - Wikipedia
Robert Kenneth Wilson (The Loch Ness surgeon’s photograph)
Lake monster - Wikipedia
Toward a Unifying Theory of Lake Monsters - Atlas Obscura
Egregore - Wikipedia
What Are Ultra-terrestrials? - Curiosmos
Kelpie - Wikipedia
Is Bigfoot a Forest Spirit? - Exemplore
The Sacred Magic of Boleskine: The Rite that Brought Aleister Crowley to Boleskine House - Journal of the Boleskine House Foundation

Nibiru fails to destroy Earth

Conspiracy Theorist Has An "Explanation" After Nibiru Failed To Destroy Earth Last Week - IFL Science
Nibiru cataclysm (doomsday scenario) - Wikipedia
Planets beyond Neptune: Planet X (the 1906 search for a trans-Neptunian planet) - Wikipedia
Planet Nine (hypothetical planet first suggested in 2014) - Wikipedia
Pluto: Classification - Wikipedia
Another Earth - Wikipedia
Another Earth Official HD Trailer - YouTube
Melancholia (2011 film) - Wikipedia
Melancholia Official Trailer - YouTube
A Winged Star, The Nibiru Conspiracy, And Lazy Pseudoscience - Forbes

Tourists…in space!

Virgin Galactic takes first tourists to edge of space - Sky News
Virgin Galactic - Wikipedia
Blue Origin - Wikipedia
The World's Billionaires - Wikipedia
Titan submersible implosion - Wikipedia
Every SpaceX Starship explosion (up to April 2023) and what Elon Musk and his team learned from them (incl. videos) - Space.com
SpaceX’s second Starship flight test ends in an explosion minutes after launch (Nov 2023) - The Verge
SpaceX buys parachute manufacturer Pioneer Aerospace - Space.com
Space: the final frontier for the planet’s wealthiest? - Open Democracy

Uri Geller shares image of ‘probably real’ naked pregnant female alien

Uri Geller unveils photo of naked alien - Jerusalem Post
Geller’s naked alien tweet, Aug 23, 2023
Whitley Strieber’s ‘could be a puppet’ tweet, Aug 23, 2023
Here’s a thing about Richard Doty that not many know… - Reddit
Uri Geller shares ‘proof’ Aliens exist, fans quickly point out it's photo from X-Files - Gaming Bible
Geller’s Twitter response to X-Files fans’ claims, Aug 16, 2023
Whitley Strieber on Facebook

Vayse episodes in August

On hiatus (allegedly).

September 2023

Maussan unveils ‘alien mummies’ in Mexico

"Alien corpses" unveiled in Mexico linked to 5-year-old "hoax" - Indy100
LIVE / Public Assembly for the Regulation of Unidentified Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (Spanish with English subtitles) - YouTube
Palpa, Peru - Wikipedia
Nazca - Wikipedia
Jaime Maussan - Wikipedia
National Autonomous University of Mexico - Wikipedia
Papier-mâché - Wikipedia
Fortean Times - Wikipedia

NASA releases 33-page UAP report after year-long study

NASA says more science and less stigma are needed to understand UFOs - AP News
Mark McInerney - Wikipedia
Simons Foundation - Wikipedia

Hacker McKinnon criticises NASA’s stance on aliens

Scot who hacked top US agencies looking for evidence of UFOs slams NASA’s claim that they don’t exist - The Scottish Sun
Gary McKinnon - Wikipedia

AI could detect alien life

Scientists created AI that could detect alien life — and they're not entirely sure how it works - Live Science
Did life exist on Mars? Other planets? With AI's help, we may know soon - Eureka Alert

Mystery of ‘Juanita’ trapped in a well

Fire crew attempts to rescue vanishing "ghost" woman from bottom of well - Unexplained Mysteries
Ghost in Saltillo? They hear a woman asking for help in a well, they go down to rescue her and find no-one - Zocalo

Vayse episodes in September

VYSTS2 - Vayse Season 2 Trailer
VYS0026 | It's a Wand-erful Life - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 1
VYS0027 | Batchelor of Dark Arts - Vayse to Face with Douglas Batchelor Pt. 2

October 2023

Simulated universe hypothesis proven?

Could a new law of physics support the idea we're living in a computer simulation? - Phys.org
The second law of infodynamics and its implications for the simulated universe hypothesis - AIP Publishing
University of Central Lancashire - Wikipedia
Second law of thermodynamics - Wikipedia
Technological singularity - Wikipedia
The Importance of Symmetry: Does symmetry lie at the route of all modern theories? - Naked Scientists
Fundamentals of Game Design: Game Worlds - Peachpit
Piaget's theory of cognitive development - Wikipedia
Melody Burning by Whitley Strieber (published 2011) - Goodreads

Results of British paranormal survey revealed

One in Twenty Brits Believe their Office is Haunted - Spooky Mrs Green
Paramount+ - Wikipedia

Robo-dogs now capable of speech

Boston Dynamics teaches robo-dog to recognise speech, respond using ChatGPT - The Register
Making Chat (ro)Bots - Boston Dynamics, YouTube
ChatGPT - Wikipedia

Vayse episodes in October

VYS0028 | Psychic Jizz - Vayse to Face with Stephanie Quick
VYS0029 | If There's Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood - Vayse to Face to Face with Field Lines Cartographer and Bob Freeman: Halloween 2023

November 2023

Virgin Mary statue weeps in Mexico church

‘Miracle’ Virgin Mary statue is ‘weeping’ at Mexico church -The Independent
Mexico: Weeping Virgin: Pilgrims and Skeptics Flock to See Virgin Mary Statue's Mysterious Tears - HIYP, YouTube
Colima (city) - Wikipedia
Karl Pilkington - Wikipedia

Lucid dreams on demand

Scientists Are Researching a Device That Can Induce Lucid Dreams On Demand - Slashdot
It Uses A.I. It Goes on Your Head. Can It Induce Lucid Dreams? - Slate.com
Lucid dream - Wikipedia

Head of Pentagon UFO office resigns

Head of Pentagon's UFO office is stepping down after just 18 months - Unexplained Mysteries
Sean M. Kirkpatrick - Wikipedia

Return of the ‘alien mummies’

Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies - Yahoo News

Patrolman confirms ‘red square’ UFO sighting

Air Force officer goes public with terrifying UFO encounter – ‘It’s coming right for us’ - Metro

David Grusch is interviewed by Joe Rogan

Ex-US Intelligence Officer Claims US Is Hiding 'Variety' Of Alien Bodies From The World - Mashable India

Vayse episodes in November

VYS0030 | To Believe or Not to Believe - Vayse to Face with Emily Louise
VYS0031 | The Truman Show? - Vayse to Face with Willow Truman

December 2023

Tesla unveils egg-handling humanoid robot

Tesla unveils its latest humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2, in demo video - Ars Technica

Scientists create AI death predictor

New AI can predict people’s time of death with high degree of accuracy, study finds - The Independent
ChatGPT - Wikipedia
Emmett Brown - Wikipedia
Desmond Hume - Wikipedia

X-Files reboot confirmed

Disney’s New X-Files Series Confirmed to Be in Development, Ryan Coogler Will Produce - MSN
The X-Files - Wikipedia

Film milestone anniversaries in 2023

Jurassic Park (film) - Wikipedia
Jurassic Park (1993) Official Trailer #1 - YouTube
Beetlejuice - Wikipedia
Beetlejuice (1988) Trailer #1 - YouTube
Die Hard - Wikipedia
Die Hard (1988) Trailer #1 - YouTube
Halloween (1978 film) - Wikipedia
Halloween (1978) Trailer #1 - YouTube
The Exorcist - Wikipedia
The Exorcist | 4K Ultra HD Official Trailer; Warner Bros., YouTube
2001: A Space Odyssey - Wikipedia
2001: A Space Odyssey | 4K Trailer

TV and film milestone anniversaries in 2024

The Sopranos - Wikipedia
The Sopranos - Trailer (1999) - YouTube
True Detective (season 1) - Wikipedia
True Detective - Season 1: Trailer - YouTube
Ghostbusters - Wikipedia
Ghostbusters (1984) Trailer #1 - YouTube
Shaun of the Dead - Wikipedia
Shaun of the Dead Official Trailer #1 - YouTube
The Matrix - Wikipedia
The Matrix (1999) Official Trailer #1 - YouTube
Fight Club - Wikipedia
Fight Club (1999) Trailer #1 - YouTube
American Beauty (1999 film) - Wikipedia
American Beauty (1999) Trailer #1
The Crow (1994 film) - Wikipedia
The Crow (1994) Official Trailer - YouTube
This Is Spinal Tap - Wikipedia
This is Spinal Tap (1984) Trailer #1 - YouTube
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Wikipedia
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Official Trailer - YouTube
Gremlins - Wikipedia
Gremlins (1984) Official Trailer #1
The Terminator - Wikipedia
The Terminator (1984) Official Trailer - YouTube

Vayse episodes in December

VYS0032 | O Buddha, Where Art Thou? - Vayse to Face with Roger Jayamanne
VYS0033 | Battle-Owl vs Sci-fi Centipede - Vayse to Face with Loren Fetterman

Vayse online

Vayse website
Vayse on X/Twitter
Vayse on Instagram
Music From Vayse: Volume 1 by Polypores - Bandcamp
Vayse on Ko-Fi
Vayse email: vayseinfo@gmail.com

Buckley’s Closing Question

“Modern Men Like Brevity Above All Things” - Facsimile Finder

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2023 was a weird year, a slightly frightening year, a year dominated by UAPs becoming ever more unidentified, AIs becoming ever more intelligent, the Military–industrial complex becoming ever more complex and human beings becoming ever more fucking stupid. In this first part of the second annual Weird Review of the Year, Hine takes Buckley on a fevered journey through the haunted forest of the memories of the year that was, stopping along the way to point out the many strange lights in the sky, the fierce black leopards in the long grass, and the spoon bending, sooth-saying light entertainer hiding in the dark shadows cast by the impenetrable canopy of misinformation onto the windy, uncertain and often deceptive desire-path of truth... (recorded 15 January 2024)

Thanks to robo-Walken for his kind words and patience and as always to Keith for the show notes - give him a follow on bluesky: @peakflow.bsky.social

Again, 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

They Live, “Chew Bubble Gum and Kick Ass” scene; Crazy Yak - YouTube
They Live (film) - Wikipedia
Roddy Piper - Wikipedia
All About Dog Poop - Purina
Christopher Walken - Wikipedia
Imagination is a spectrum – and 1% of people can’t mentally visualise things at all - The Conversation
Aphantasia - Wikipedia
Mental image - Wikipedia
Aidan Wachter’s website
Jason Miller’s website
The Shamanic Journey - Shaman Links
Does Everyone Have an Inner Monologue? - Very Well Mind
Lev Vygotsky, Thinking and Speech - Wikipedia
Subtitled speech: Phenomenology of tickertape synesthesia - Science Direct
Visual imagery vividness declines across the lifespan; Science Direct

January 2023

Russia ‘liquidates’ UFO

Russia Says It Shot Down a UFO - Newsweek
Russia Says It Shot Down a UFO (includes video footage) - Cosmos News, YouTube
What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name? - CBS News

Uri Geller blames aliens for outages

Jan 11, 2023 Tweet by Uri Geller
Uri Geller - Wikipedia
Software maintenance mistake at center of major FAA computer meltdown: Official - ABC News
Meta's social media apps back up after brief outage, Downdetector says - Reuters
Microsoft cloud outage hits users around the world - CNN Business
Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis, by Annie Jacobsen - Goodreads
Andrija Puharich - Wikipedia
Remote viewing - Wikipedia
Why Do Artists Lip Sync? Should It Be Acceptable? - Untapped Sound
Secret CIA Tests Found TV Psychic Uri Geller Really Did Have Special Powers - The Daily Beast
Third Eye Spies, Official Trailer - YouTube
Third Eye Spies (Full Documentary) - YouTube
Hellier Season 1 - Planet Weird TV

Study finds link between poor sleep and paranormal beliefs

Poor Sleep Linked To Paranormal Beliefs Around Aliens, Ghosts, And Demons - IFL Science
The associations between paranormal beliefs and sleep variables - Journal of Sleep Research, Wiley Online Library
Insomnia - Wikipedia
In Our Time (radio series) - Wikipedia
In Our Time podcast episodes - BBC
Dana Scully - Wikipedia
Sleep deprivation -- Wikipedia
Sleep paralysis - Wikipedia
Exploding head syndrome - Wikipedia
Night hag - Wikipedia
Analysis paralysis - Wikipedia
Consensus reality - Wikipedia
Surf culture - Wikipedia

Scientists discover that the Sea Spider can regrow its anus

Sea spiders can regrow their anuses, scientists discover - Live Science
Pycnogonum litorale - Wikipedia
Arthropod - Wikipedia
Arachnid - Wikipedia
Uncovering the Mysteries of Sea Spider Anatomy - Spiders USA

Vayse episodes in January

VYS0014 | The Weird Review of the Year 2022
VYS0015 | The Green Witch's Guide to the January Blues - Vayse to Face with Jennifer Lane
The Wheel: A Witch's Path Back to the Ancient Self by Jennifer Lane - Goodreads
The Witch’s Survival Guide: Spells for Healing from Stress and Burnout by Jennifer Lane - Goodreads
The Black Air by Jennifer Lane - Goodreads

February 2023

The Great High-Altitude Object Flap

US shoots down suspected Chinese spy balloon over east coast - The Guardian
2023 Chinese balloon incident - Wikipedia
Roswell incident - Wikipedia
Unidentified object shot down over Alaska by US military, White House says - The Guardian
Why the Military Keeps Spotting so Many Unidentified Flying Objects—and Then Shooting Them Down - Time
List of high-altitude object events in 2023 - Wikipedia
Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story by Nick Redfern - Goodreads
Nick Redfern’s blog
Progeria - Wikipedia
What Really Happened at Roswell? - Where Did The Road Go? podcast
Nick Redfern: The Roswell UFO Conspiracy - Somewhere in the Skies podcast
Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pilkington - Goodreads
Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads
Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia
Zeitgeist - Wikipedia

Man killed by chicken

Man dies from ‘aggressive’ chicken attack causes fatal puncture wounds; Yahoo
‘Litres of blood’: Daughter of man who died after chicken attack breaks silence - The Independent
Man found dead in pool of blood after chicken attack, inquest hears - Irish Examiner

DARPA trials pilotless AI-powered fighter jets

ACE Program’s AI Agents Transition from Simulation to Live Flight - DARPA
The US Air Force Is Moving Fast on AI-Piloted Fighter Jets - Wired
Beyond Automation: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Aviation - Future Flight
Brace yourselves: AI could co-pilot planes, reveals Emirates Airline president - Interesting Engineering

Vayse episodes in February

VYS0016 | We Created It By Talking About It - Vayse to Face with Ken Eakins
SideVayse: SVYS002 | Darkness, Darkness
The Darkness (band) - Wikipedia

March 2023

Colombian children hospitalised after playing with a Ouija board (again)

28 girls hospitalized with ‘anxiety’ after playing with Ouija board - New York Post
11 children found collapsed in school corridor after playing Ouija board game - Daily Mirror (2022)
Ouija - Wikipedia
Virgin Mary statues - Lostpedia
Occam’s razor - Wikipedia
The Exorcist (film), 1973 - Wikipedia
The Exorcist | 4K Ultra HD Official Trailer; Warner Bros. - YouTube

Cylindrical UFO sighted over Baghdad

Cylindrical UFO detected by thermal imaging drone flying over Baghdad - Curious Cosmos (includes video)
The "Jellyfish UAP" is just a smudge on the IR camera's casing - Reddit (includes arguments for and against)
Floating "Jellyfish" UFO haunted US military base in Iraq for years, says former US Marine intelligence analyst - Daily Mail (includes videos)
Optics, Human eye - Wikipedia
Seeing "Jesus in toast" phenomenon perfectly normal, professor says - Science Daily
Pareidolia - Wikipedia
George Knapp - Wikipedia
Jeremey Corbell - Wikipedia

Calvine UFO photo solved?

UFO investigator claims to have ‘solved’ UK’s biggest X-Files mystery in Scotland - MSN, Daily Record
Secret UFO dossier into 1990 Scottish "spacecraft sighting" sealed for another 50 years - Daily Record
BAE Systems Military Air & Information - Wikipedia
Warton Aerodrome - Wikipedia

Woman has been eating toilet paper every day for 23 years

"It's Like Crack": Chicago Woman Gets Addicted To Eating Toilet Paper Rolls - India Times
Woman has been eating toilet paper every day for 23 years - Unexplained Mysteries
Pica (disorder) - Wikipedia
Matter-Eater Lad - Wikipedia
Magpie - Wikipedia
Michel Lotito - Wikipedia
Harry Crews - Wikipedia
Car: A Novel by Harry Crews - Amazon
Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader by Harry Crews - Goodreads
Penny Royal, Season Two, Episode Two: Mystery Machine (James Shelby Downard)
James Shelby Downard - Wikipedia
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus - Wikipedia
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus (trailer); Dogwoof - YouTube
Arena: Searching for the One Eyed Jesus - BBC iPlayer
Kesha - Wikipedia
Gag Order (album) - Wikipedia
Gag Order by Kesha
Kesha and the Creepies - Apple Podcast
Alice Cooper - Wikipedia
St Vincent (musician) - Wikipedia
Kelly Osborne - Wikipedia
Mitch Horowitz - Wikipedia
Rick Rubin - Wikipedia

Uri Geller posts more UFO stuff

Uri Geller posts up footage of alleged UFO on Twitter - Unexplained Mysteries
March 29, 2023 Tweet by Uri Geller

Vayse episodes in March

VYS0017 | Occult Detective - Vayse to Face with Bob Freeman
VYS0018 | Ex Cabus Ad Astra - Vayse to Face with Kathryn J Preston

April 2023

Elon Musk starts new AI company

Elon Musk quietly starts X.AI, a new artificial intelligence company to challenge OpenAI - VentureBeat

US Senate Committee holds open hearings on the UFO issue

UFO hearing in Senate: New videos but no hard evidence - EarthSky
Pentagon has "no credible evidence" of aliens or UFOs that defy physics - Space
AARO website
Ontology - Wikipedia

Spanish athlete spends 500 days alone in cave

A Spanish athlete spent 500 days alone in a cave — for science - NPR
Woman spends 500 days alone in a cave – how extreme isolation can alter your sense of time - The Conversation
Circadian rhythm - Wikipedia
Pop out cake - Wikipedia
Social isolation and dementia risk - Alzheimer’s Society
Time anxiety: what it is and how you can deal with it - Clockify
Time out of Joint: Capitalism takes a dysrhythmic toll on nature’s clocks and human lives - Sociological Review

Vayse episodes in April

VYS0019 – It’s a Very, Very Mad World: Donnie Darko
VYS0020 | Messages of Deception - Vayse to Face with Mark Pilkington
Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pilkington - Goodreads

May 2023

Spherical object of unknown origin intercepted off Hawaii

F-22s Intercepted “Spherical Object” Off Hawaii In Latest Balloon Chase - The Drive

‘Definitive proof‘: Big cats prowl the British countryside

New DNA evidence "confirms" presence of big cats in the UK - Discover Wildlife
British big cats - Wikipedia
Panthera Britannia Declassified (Official Trailer); Dragonfly Films - YouTube
Panthera Britannia streaming: where to watch online? - Just Watch
Joe Exotic (‘The Tiger King’) - Wikipedia

Stanford professor says aliens are ‘100 %’ on earth

Stanford professor says aliens are ‘100 per cent’ on earth, US is ‘reverse-engineering downed UFOs’ - News.com
This Stanford Professor With CIA Ties Says Aliens Are ‘100 Percent’ Already Here - Popular Mechanics
Garry Nolan - Wikipedia
American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads
Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences by D.W. Pasulka - Goodreads
Sekret Machines: Gods - Volume 1 of Gods, Man, & War by Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda -Goodreads
Communion (1989) - Trailer; The SciFi Spot - YouTube
Luis Elizondo - Wikipeida
Immunology - Wikipedia
Erich von Däniken - Wikipedia
Sinister Forces Book Three: The Manson Secret by Peter Levenda - Goodreads
Whitley Strieber - Wikipedia
Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia
MKUltra - Wikipedia
Prisoner of Infinity: Social Engineering, UFOs, and the Psychology of Fragmentation by Jasun Horsley - Goodreads

FDA approves Elon Musk’s Neuralink chip for human trials

The FDA finally approved Elon Musk’s Neuralink chip for human trials. Have all the concerns been addressed? - The Conversation
The Gruesome Story of How Neuralink’s Monkeys Actually Died - Wired
Elon Musk's claim that no monkey died as a result of Neuralink implants contradicts records that show how the animals experienced brain swelling, paralysis, seizures, and other health effects, letter to SEC alleges - Business Insider
Musk’s Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing - The Guardian
Neuralink website

Vayse episodes in May

VYS0021 | Song of the Dark Man - Vayse to Face with Darragh Mason
Spirit Box S2 #18 / Peter Hine and Stephen Buckley, Dreams, Nightmares and Pan - YouTube
SideVayse: SVYS003 | Anglezarke
Prague - Wikipedia
John Dee - Wikipedia
Enochian - Wikipedia
Allen Greenfield on Twitter

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Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores
Vayse on Ko-Fi
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Steve Mera is a prominent and well respected researcher in the realms of UFOlogy, Unexplained and the Supernatural, the head tutor for British & U.S. Investigators Training Courses in UfOlogical Studies and the CEO of Phenomena Magazine, the world’s largest paranormal e-zine. In this episode Hine and Buckley sit Steve down and pick his brains on a wide range weird stuff: the connection between UFOs and other manifestations of supernatural phenomena, the hitchhiker effect and the dangers of letting the phenomena into your life, the recent claims of whistle-blower David Grusch and how Steve took a punch to the back from a pugilistic poltergeist... recorded 8 June 2023

Steve Mera Links

Steve Mera's Website
Phenomena Magazine
Awakening Expo 2023

Other Links

Wikipedia Article on Brad Steiger
Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken
Wikipedia Article on Woman’s Own Magazine
Wikipedia Article on New Woman Magazine
Unsolved Mysteries
Wikipedia Article on John Keel
The Scole Experiment: Scientific Evidence for Life After Death by Grant Solomon and Jane Solomon
The Scole Experiment Website
Steve Mera's Lecture on Project Doorway
Steve Mera's Lectures on UFOs & High Strangeness on the Ranch Lands
Nature Artcile on the Double Slit Experiment
Steve Mera's Lecture on The Study of Paranormal Mechanics
Wikipedia Article on Second-order Cybernetics
Wikipedia Article on Theta Wave Brain Activity
Wikipeida Article on Robert Bigelow - American multi-millionaire, financial supporter of investigations of UFOs and donor to Republican Governor and capital-punishment-enthusiast Ron DeSantis
Wikipedia Article on National Institute for Discovery Science
A CE-5 Handbook: An Easy-To-Use Guide to Help You Contact Extraterrestrial Life by Cielia Hatch
How Stuff Works Article on Tulpas
Wikipedia Article on Servitors
Stephen Wagner's article on The Philip Experiment
Daily Voice Article on the Wanaque Reservoir Flap
History Defined Article on Biblically Accurate Angels
Runelore Article on the Siege of Sigiburg Castle
The Annunciation with Saint Emidius – painting by Carlo Crivelli showing a beam of light shining onto the Virgin Mary’s head whilst an angel whispers in the pope’s ear

The Debrief Article on David Grusch's Claims
A Guardian article on David Grusch's claims
Futurism Article about Senator Harry Reid’s claims that Lockheed Martin has UFO fragments
Metabunk Article on the Mylar Party Balloon Incident
Pentagon UFO Footage
Unlocking the Secrets of the Electron Diffusion Region
Penny Royal Podcast - If you haven't listened yet, you must do so now
Bill Hicks - It’s just a ride
SVYS003 – Angelzarke
Expose Wounds to the Right Kind of Sounds, And They Heal Faster - Smithsonian Magazine Article on Wound Healing
Wikipedia Article on Winter Hill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_Hill_(North_West_England)
The Quiet Ones Trailer
Love Horror Interview with Steve Mera about the Quiet Ones
The Haunted – 1991 TV Movie
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Trailer
Interview with Steve Mera on the Higher Strangeness Podcast in which Steve tells the story of being punched by a poltergeist

Special Guest: Steve Mera.

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