Noumenal News

As if magical powers and literary immortality (not to mention a seven-picture Hollywood deal) weren’t enough, the world’s most popular wizard now can add another notch to his broomstick.
Harry Potter has an aria.
He’ll have more soon, as far as Tiffany Moon is concerned. For now, though, the local composer has completed one Potter […]

THE haunt of witches for centuries, and a site shrouded in mystery, the Rollright Stones near Long Compton may have some secrets revealed this weekend and next weekend as part of National Archaeology Week.
Visitors on both weekends will enjoy free admission and guided tours by archaeologists including the chairman of the Rollright Trust, George […]

As archaeologists explore the latest tomb to be uncovered in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt’s chief of antiquities says he believes 30% of the country’s ancient monuments have yet to be found.
Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, says many ancient cities are buried under modern ones. Some prominent […]

The brouhaha down the road in Oregon over the statue formerly known as Demeter could open up a Pandora’s box of changes to household names and expressions there.If they’re going to banish allusions to ancient mythology and Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, I’d have to lose the Pandora reference. Objections to the name Demeter, […]

After the Luton News reported the 50-year-old mystery of a UFO sighting over Ramridge Junior School it became clear that the town was not alien to the unusual.
Among the many people who made contact with the paper after our front page report were other Lutonians whose lives have never been quite the same since they […]

A kitten has been born with two faces and veterinarians don’t understand why.
The kitten was born Wednesday morning in Ohio. It has two mouths that meow in unison, two noses and four eyes that have not opened yet.
The little boy who owns the cat said he hasn’t decided on a name for the kitten yet, […]

Appropriately enough for a story about “hobbits,” many of the details sound like something out of a fairy tale: Once upon a time, a race of little people lived on a distant island, hunting elephants and dodging dragons in a “Lost World” wiped out by a disastrous volcanic eruption. But “Once upon a time” is […]

CBS4) DENVER A man who says he saw wreckage from an extra-terrestrial aircraft and is writing a book on UFOs spoke with CBS4 on Sunday about this weekend’s UFO Symposium.
Many years ago Jesse Marcel, Jr. said his father worked for the Air Force and was told to go clean up debris near Roswell, N.M. […]

Mystery surrounds an apparent unidentified flying object seen in the skies above Auckland’s Viaduct Basin.
Sunday News has obtained footage of the object - spotted flying at speed over the waterfront in broad daylight.
We have sent the image to the Civil Aviation Authority and the Ministry of Defence - both of which have been […]

Some people chalk it up to déjà vu. Some dismiss it as the product of imagination and suggestibility. Some look at it through the eyes of science, and others view it through religion.
While it is not widely used in the Midwest - or at least in southwest Iowa - past-life regression hypnosis is a form […]