Noumenal News

GENEVA – A child is the fifth former patient of a Delnor-Community Hospital psychologist to claim that witchcraft was part a part of therapy.
The allegations in the latest lawsuit are similar to four other lawsuits filed in Kane County that name the Geneva hospital and Letitia Libman, who worked as a psychologist at a Delnor-run […]

Sigurd Towrie - As another season’s work draws to a close, the Stenness side of the Ness of Brodgar continues to throw up archaeological surprises – including two pieces of iconic Neolithic art.
Investigating earlier geophysics scans of a field between Lochview and Brodgar Farm, a trench has revealed the remains of what may be a […]

Archaeologists have been digging ancient sites around Stonehenge to find clues about when they were first built.
The dig, being conducted by archaeologists from several universities, is part of the Stonehenge Riverside Project, which is investigating Woodhenge, Stonehenge Cursus and Durrington Walls, to learn more about their connection to the famous stone monument.
Joshua Pollard, senior lecturer […]

Little Pluto’s demotion as a planet is no big deal to most people.
Unless, perhaps, you were among the scores of schoolchildren who grew up with the mnemonic device “My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas” to help you remember the order of the planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and, […]

IN the cold light of day, the Peterborough museum - which is celebrating 75 years at its Priestgate home - might seem much like any other. But it has more than its fair share of things that go bump in the night.
When it first opened 75 years ago, the musuem was very different from today […]

In a finding sure to cause controversy, scientists at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) found a lack of evidence of shadows from “nearby” clusters of galaxies using new, highly accurate measurements of the cosmic microwave background.
A team of UAH scientists led by Dr. Richard Lieu, a professor of physics, used data from NASA’s […]

Patients will be put at risk by a new regulatory system being brought in for homeopathic medicine, critics say. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is introducing a scheme to allow remedies to specifty the ailments that they can be used for.
Current regulation is fragmented as it allows health benefit claims to […]

Misty swirls of vapour that float across the room. Eerie orbs of white light. The sound of footsteps in the night when nobody is there. The cackle of laughter, or the lonely desperate sound of someone weeping that echoes from the walls of empty rooms.
The folklore of silly fairytales and Halloween stories?
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(CBS/AP) STATEN ISLAND Police said a father, convinced he was the victim of a voodoo curse, apparently drowned his two young children in a bathtub and then killed himself by jumping in front of a subway train.
Thirty-nine-year-old Franz Bordes, 39, a Haitian immigrant, died at 8 p.m. Wednesday at a Brooklyn subway station. Investigators […]

THE Vatican has never been a fan of Harry Potter, but its chief exorcist has gone one step further and condemned J. K. Rowling’s fictional boy wizard as downright evil.
“Behind Harry Potter hides the signature of the king of the darkness, the devil,” says Father Gabriele Amorth, the Pope’s “caster-out of demons”.
The books contained numerous […]