About this Episode
VYS0014 - Show Notes
To usher out the old year and welcome in the new, Hine and Buckley take a look back at a selection of the weirdest news stories of 2022 and track them against the development of Vayse throughout the year: Fish-falls, haunted AI art, dreaming arachnids and the persistent, bizarre and unfounded claims of Uri Geller - this episode has it all... and more... Recorded 27 December 2022 on location at Shireshead Studio, Lancashire.
The news stories in this episode were sourced from the incredibly wonderful website https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/
Schedule for Weird Night on BBC2 18th December 1994
X-Files – Season 1 Episode 12 - Fire
Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958)
Attack of the 50ft woman (1993)
The First Episode of Fortean TV with a new introduction by Lionel Fanthorpe
Fortean Review of the Year 1994
Mysterons by Portishead
January
What Magic is This? – Charles Fort
The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
New Lands by Charles Fort
Lo! by Charles Fort
Wild Talents by Charles Fort
Uri Geller claims to know where the Arc of the Covenant is
Modelling portfolio of Uri Geller
Curiosity rover finds possible evidence of life on Mars
Woman marries the colour pink in historic ceremony
Man receives genetically-modified pig heart in transplant breakthrough
Uri Geller claims that an alien 'mass landing' is imminent
February
Mystery 6ft creature spotted on rural road in England
Fresno Nightcrawlers Cryptid Study by Madame Macabre
Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallée
Brain scan captures last thoughts of a person as they died
NDE video - A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife | An In-Depth Interview with Eben Alexander
All The Things She Said by Tatu
Man wins $10 million lottery jackpot twice in three years
'Bulging triangle' UFO appears over Islamabad for two hours
Could the Earth itself be an intelligent entity ?
March
The Greater Manchester street so haunted you had to sign a WAIVER to move there
Total number of discovered exoplanets now exceeds 5,000
Two children survive for a month alone in the Amazon rainforest
1st image snapped by iconic Webb telescope pushes limits of the 'laws of physics'
April
CIA files reveal that the Soviets were developing cybernetic telepathy
Soviet Dog-head Experiment (not for the faint hearted)
The Gateway Process - Vice Article
The Gateway Process - CIA Analysis and Assessment
What Are Binaural Beats? - WebMD Article
Strange Frequencies : The Extraordinary Story of the Technological Quest for the Supernatural by Peter Bebergal
Loab – Vice Article
Loab Twitter thread by Supercomposite
CrAIyon (Formerly DALL-E Mini) interpretation of Steven Seagal eating a Piglet
Entire human genome has been sequenced for the first time
Pentagon files reveal UFO 'radiation burns' and 'unexpected pregnancies'
Europa Pools could support life
May
US Congress Open UFO hearing: is there evidence that aliens have visited the Earth?
US Congressional Hearing on UFOs
Pentagon erroneously claims that it has no data on UFOs disabling nukes
Creepy dolls found washed up along Texas beach
NASA image shows what looks like a door on Mars
Woman appears on TV with her 'alien boyfriend'
June
Scientists create living skin to use on robots
Google Engineer Claims AI Chatbot Is Sentient
The Boggart : Folklore, History, Place-names and Dialect by Simon Young
VYS0003 | Welcome to Vayse, Population 2
VYS0006 | Dreamtides - Vayse to Face with Field Lines Cartographer
It turns out that male mice are terrified of bananas
Man ends up in hospital after fish jumps down his throat
Voyager 1 glitch is due to aliens, claims Uri Geller
July
YouTuber Coyote Peterson announces 'Bigfoot' skull discovery
Man kills friend 'to stop him from summoning Bigfoot'
VYS0004 | The Uncanny Vallée and the Unreal Keel - The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis Pt.1
VYS0005 | UFOnauts and Inverted Crosses - The Ultraterrestrial Hypothesis Pt.2
Fisherman catches extremely rare blue lobster
Chess robot breaks boy's finger during tournament
Georgia Guidestones destroyed by bomb blast
August
New evidence suggests that even spiders have dreams
Classified 1990 Calvine UFO photograph has surfaced 32 years on
Kenneth Arnold 'flying saucer' sighting turns 75
VYS0007 | Too Much to Dream Last Night
Weird creature with no anus was not earliest human ancestor
Possible live thylacine filmed in South Australia
Uri Geller says he will use his 'mind power' to stop a nuclear attack
September
SETI pioneer Frank Drake dies, aged 92
Weird voice whispers 'death is irreversible' during Queen's funeral
Jack Osbourne: 'US government is covering up the truth about UFOs'
Ukraine's astronomers report that they have been seeing UFOs 'everywhere'
NASA successfully smashes space probe into an asteroid
UFO appears in official logo of US aviation intelligence office
US aviation intelligence office removes UFO from its official seal
Woman heard 'fairy' laughter while lost in the woods in Ireland
October
Elon Musk unveils his new Optimus robot at Tesla's AI Day
Robotics firms join commitment to ban weaponization of robots
Videos of 'Boston Dynamics' robot dog with machine gun
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick ("Do Robots Dream of Robotic Sheep?")
One of the top costume ideas for 2022 is Avril Lavigne
VYS0008 | To Hellier and Back - Vayse to Face with Will Salmon
VYS0009 | If There's Something Weird - Halloween 2022: Ghostbusters
The Sacred Trust - UK-based not-for-profit educational organisation offering shamanic trainings and workshops on shamanism
Grandmother has Ouija boards handed out to attendees at her funeral
Man falls ill after eating live crab to 'punish' it for pinching his daughter
Scientists have spliced human brain tissue into the brains of rats
Warhammer to be made into movie and TV show, starring Superman actor Henry Cavill
November
Oculus founder builds VR headset that kills the wearer if they die in-game
11 school children pass out after Ouija board session in Colombia
VYS0010 | Astounding Stories - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.1
VYS0011 | Weird Tales - Vayse to Face with Dr Allen H Greenfield Pt.2
VYS0012 | Order Out of Chaos - Vayse to Face with Mark Vincent
China's top-secret spaceplane has released an unknown object into orbit
Secretive X-37b space plane returns to Earth after 908 days in orbit
NASA's Artemis I has successfully launched on its voyage to the Moon
December
Pentagon's UFO office has received 'several hundred' new reports
A DJ, a rapper and a YouTuber are set to fly to the Moon on Musk's Starship
VYS0013 | A Vayse-man Came Travelling - Yule 2022
SideVayse: SVYS001 | Numinous Melancholy
US Air Force unveils its new nuclear stealth bomber - the B-21
Santa's grotto uses polygraph to test if kids have been naughty or nice
88-year-old walks into hospital with WWI shell stuck in his rectum
Michael-6: The Robot Talk Show Host - from the criminally under-rated Peter Serafinowicz Show