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Vayse

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Thanks to www.unexplained-mysteries.com which we used to help put this episode together & thanks to each & every one of you who is still listening - please keep it up & please tell a friend!!! 👽

Unexplained Mysteries - Paranormal News and Discussion

Daily coverage of UFOs, paranormal phenomena, ancient mysteries, metaphysics, cryptozoology, philosophy, science and space exploration.

www.unexplained-mysteries.com

February 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

…dance through to Jun 2025 there’s strange encounters with egg shaped UFOs; wooly mice; twitchy dangling robots; foul mouthed relatives of the Pope; the wreckages of Musk's childish spacefaring ambitions; soldiers on the moon & some motherfucking snakes on a motherfucking plane!

February 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

… predictably we encounter the usual suspects: Lue Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Eric Davis et al, but also some new (to the Vayseverse, at least) recurring characters: Mark Christopher Lee, Avi Loeb & the sinister genetics company Colossal Biosciences. In this dizzying…(2/3)

February 4, 2026 at 7:06 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

“Weird.”

VYS0056: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0056

We’ve barely recovered from the horrific ordeal of looking back at 2024 but here we go: bravely getting our shit together just about enough to sift through the ragged tatters of weirdness that held together the fabric of reality in 2025…(1/3)

February 4, 2026 at 7:05 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

You can find Phil here:

Web: www.thesearedreams.com

Post Relevant Podcast: www.postrelevant.com

Insta: www.instagram.com/philristaino/

Bandcamp: agentsofvenus.bandcamp.com/album/boduvt

Thanks to Mike for the Vayse photo & you for listening, Merry Christmas & thanks for your support this year❤️‍🔥🎄🎅🏼

THESE ARE DREAMS .COM

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December 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

…side of Henson & the muppets, the incredible ground-breaking puppeteering in the movie, how the ghost of Jim Henson visited his successor to the voice of Kermit... & how the Muppets got the best performance of his career out of Michael Caine. God bless us, every one!!! 🎄 🎅🏼

December 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

…incredibly Phil had never seen the movie but put in several careful viewings before our discussion. Phil is a self affirmed muppet-enthusiast & together with Hine & Buckley forms the 3rd head of the Muppet Xmas Kraken as we discuss the genius of Jim Henson, the spiritual…(2/3)

December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

“It’s true wherever you find love, it feels like Christmas…”

VYS0055: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0055

Back after a record absence of only 4 episodes is actor & host of the Post Relevant Podcast, Phil Ristaino, for a very important meeting about ice-cold christmas classic The Muppet Christmas Carol…(1/3)

December 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

You can find more Joshua Cutchin here:

Website: www.joshuacutchin.com

Instagram: www.instagram.com/w3eirdwayz?u...

& find more Vayse here: www.vayse.co.uk

Thanks to Mike Warburton for the Vayse photo & thanks to everyone for listening - we’ll see you soon for a special episode, Christmas week 🎄👻

Joshua Cutchin: Weird Words & Brass Beats

Professional website and blog of Joshua Cutchin, author and musician

www.joshuacutchin.com

December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

This wide-wandering conversation goes all the way from real-life encounters with fictional characters to the fabric of reality itself & the possibility that our beliefs are what holds it together &, naturally, we take the opportunity to introduce Joshua to the Peanut King 🥜 👑 …(3/3)

December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

… Joshua is a writer, a researcher & a musician, having written modern classics of weird non-fiction including “A Trojan Feast”, “Ecology of Souls” & most recently the mind-bending, mind-expanding & mind-blowing masterpiece, “Fourth Wall Phantoms”… (2/3)

December 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

"…we need to have a half-hearted belief in invisible forces to literally hold together the fabric of reality…”

VYS0054: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0054

Releasing 53 episodes of Vayse without interviewing Joshua Cutchin is, frankly, an embarrassment - & one that we’re keen to make up for…(1/3)

December 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM

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Occult Detective Bob Freeman

@occultdetective.bsky.social

A lovely chat between the lads of @vayseesyav.bsky.social and the ethereal Gayle Fidler. In Gef We Trust.

www.vayse.co.uk/vys0053

VYS0053 | The Mongoose Files - Vayse to Face with Gayle Fidler

Ever since their childhood days reading the Usborne Book of Ghosts, Hine and Buckley have been obsessing over the mysterious mercurial mammalian Manx marvel - Gef the Talking Mongoose. And finally bri...

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November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

Find Gayle’s paranormal writing here: www.spookyisles.com/author/gayle... & here: www.lapisparanormal.com/simon-pegg-s... & her fiction here: legironbooks.co.uk/about-the-au... & there’s still time to get tickets to see her at this year’s LAPIS conference: www.lapisparanormal.com/conference-t...

https://spookyisles.com/author/gaylefi…

November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

…movie star, an unexpected connection to Aleister Crowley & the unpredictable guidance of a certain Dr Allen Greenfield. … and we also discuss how her husband became an award winning competitive lard eater…

November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

… In recent years Gayle & her curious collective of cryptid-hunters have made a pilgrimage to the Isle of Man to investigate Gef & immerse themselves in strangeness of his story. Her incredible adventures include some uncanny synchronicities, an unlikely team-up with a… (2/3)

November 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

“Nothing Would Surprise Me When It Comes To That Mongoose…”

VYS0053: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0053

In this episode we discuss 1 of our favourite cryptids with 1 of our favourite people, as writer & paranormal investigator Gayle Fidler joins us to talk Gef the talking mongoose…(1/3)

November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

Happy Halloween!!! Blessed Samhain!!! Merry Feast of All Souls!!! Have a great October 31st!!!

We’ve got the perfect accompaniment to an Autumn Friday when the veil is thin…

#Halloween #samhain #lostboys #vampires #weirdstuff #gothic #darkacademia

Vayse @vayseesyav.bsky.social · Oct 30

“Today’s popular culture is tomorrow’s history…”

VYS0052: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0052

Back from the dead just in time for Halloween, Vayse welcomes film critic, writer, academic & all-round legend Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn to discuss the 1987 horror-comedy, vampire masterwork, Lost Boys…(1/3)

October 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM

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Occult Detective Bob Freeman

@occultdetective.bsky.social

The new season of @vayseesyav.bsky.social has dropped and they've brought out Lost Boys aficionado Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn to help light the Samhain pyre.
www.vayse.co.uk/vys0052

VYS0052 | Goddamn Shit-sucking Vampires - Halloween 2025: The Lost Boys - Vayse to Face with Sorcha Ní Fhlainn

"Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die." - Sounds exhausting. This is not how Hine and Buckley do Halloween anymore. So, instead of re-living their twenties, or the Lost Decade, as...

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October 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

Sorcha is a Reader in Film Studies specialising in American Film at Manchester Metropolitan University, find her here:

Website: www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profil...

Insta: www.instagram.com/vampiresorch...

Twitter: www.instagram.com/vampiresorch...

Thanks to everyone who’s listening, Happy Halloween!🧛

https://mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/…

October 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

…explores some of the more cryptic themes of the film including the transplant of vampiric folklore from dark-ages Europe to MTV-era USA, how certain 1980s vampire movies contributed to the pantheon of queer horror & exactly what's the deal with greased up, pumped up, thrusting sax guy…?🎷

October 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

…Sorcha was an absolute bloody joy to talk to, she understood the assignment from the very beginning & we quickly got our teeth stuck deep into Joel Schumacher's unrivalled masterpiece without getting lost in the gory details (but never over-looking the Corey details), the discussion… (2/3)

October 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM

Vayse

@vayseesyav.bsky.social

“Today’s popular culture is tomorrow’s history…”

VYS0052: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0052

Back from the dead just in time for Halloween, Vayse welcomes film critic, writer, academic & all-round legend Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn to discuss the 1987 horror-comedy, vampire masterwork, Lost Boys…(1/3)

October 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM

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Ong's Hat

@ongs-hat.com

Love this one. Also, I get a generous shout out.

Vayse @vayseesyav.bsky.social · Jul 2

“Have you tried the moon recently? It’s up in the sky…?”

VYS0051: www.vayse.co.uk/vys0051

When, after 3 years of searching, we finally found a real-life human more obsessed by Twin Peaks & Under the Silver Lake than we are, we knew we had to interview Phil Ristaino without delay… (1/3)