Noumenal News

The Cassini spacecraft has discovered possible evidence for lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons around the north pole of Saturn’s moon Titan. If confirmed, Titan would become the only planetary body other than Earth known to host lakes.
A handful of these dark patches have channels leading in and out of them; these channels have a […]

The apostle wears a bulletproof vest when he’s preaching in Colombia, retains a battalion of 50 bodyguards across the United States and drives to his Doral church headquarters in an armored Seven Series BMW.
Followers say he’s Jesus. Detractors call him a cult leader. And José Luis De Jesús Miranda — a paunchy, middle-aged man from […]

uly 25, 2006 — From the ages of 2 to 6, James Leininger seemed to recall in striking detail a “past life” he had as a World War II Navy pilot who was shot down and killed over the Pacific.The boy knew details about airplanes and about pilot James Huston Jr. that he couldn’t have known.
James’ […]

Weird spider-like creatures that live at the bottom of the ocean and use a ’straw’ to suck on their prey are baffling scientists.
These sea spiders, some of which are blind, are defying scientific classification.
Marine zoologist Dr Claudia Arango of the Australian Museum in Sydney agrees they are arthropods, but which type?
She presented her research on […]

July 24 (Bloomberg) — What New York building of a certain age doesn’t have its ghosts? “Strange Powers,’’ a group exhibition organized by the art-nonprofit Creative Time, shoves more than the usual spirits into a creaky old building in the East Village. The organizers even claim that the brick townhouse may be haunted.
The claim is […]

Bulgarian MPs were surprised to find among the hundreds of letters and complaints they receive one asking for help with an extraterrestrial problem, media reported.
“No one believes me, and I have been beaten up by aliens,” a complaint by a Sofia woman stated, Standart daily newspaper reported.
The woman asked the MPs to place cameras in […]

Everyone knows, don’t they, that most untoward events generally have banal explanations such as muddle, incompetence or sheer blind chance.
To believe otherwise is to run the risk of being branded a ‘conspiracy theorist’, a small step away from being lumped together with the kind of people who think that crop circles are designed by visitors […]

In a crispy clear morning of Dharamsala where everyone seems to chat, sing and laugh, there are a few people immersed in deep thinking. These are new arrivals from Tibet getting ready to the long-awaited audience with their spiritual leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama. When, finally, the Buddha of Limitless Compassion appears among them […]

It has a long mane and an even longer body - 10 metres (30ft) from crested head to mirror-scaled tail. But the Ninki Nanka, legendary “killer dragon” of west Africa, continues to prove elusive. Six people from the Devon-based Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) went to Gambia this month to look for the beast, […]

Call it “The Passion of the Maya”: Mel Gibson is quietly filming a movie in a Mexican jungle about the collapsed civilization.
Given Gibson’s cinematic history, experts on the ancient Maya are looking forward to his upcoming epic, “Apocalypto,” with a mixture of curiosity and dread. They’re pleased that Hollywood will feature a period of world […]