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Noumenal News

Noumenal News is the most comprehensive news source on the net for all things paranormal, esoteric, occult, or just plain weird. Every day Che scours the net to bring you the latest stories on the subjects that interest you, from UFOs to bigfoot, from stonehenge to witchcraft, you'll find it here on the Noumenal News. This site is updated daily.

Scorpion on a plane — passenger gets pantful of pain

Posted by Che

MONTPELIER, Vermont (AP) — A scorpion stung David Sullivan
on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then crawled up and
down his left leg, he thinks, before getting him again in the shin.
Not what he was expecting on his flight home from Chicago to Vermont.
Sullivan,
a 46-year-old builder from Stowe, was aboard the United […]

A clash over ritual sacrifice posted by Che

EULESS – The room
was set up with benches and shrines, the herbs, dried coconuts and
eggshell chalk laid out on a table. With the preparations done, 10
church members sat by the pool behind the red-brick home on the
cul-de-sac and drank beer.The next day,
they would sacrifice a chicken to initiate a new member, using the
energy in its […]

Created on January 10th and filed under spirituality and religion.

UFO likely to be a Shim Stock posted by Che

Shuttle Atlantis’ return home has been moved back a day, until Thursday
morning, due to poor weather at the Kennedy Space Center, and continued
analysis by NASA managers/Tiger Team to ascertain what an Unidentified
Falling Object (UFO) may be, after it was spotted near the orbiter.
Shuttle manager Wayne Hale believes the object is likely to be the
Shim Stock, […]

Created on January 10th and filed under science and nature, other.

Eavesdropping on the Universe posted by Che

Astronomers have proposed an improved method of searching for
intelligent extraterrestrial life using instruments like one now under
construction in Australia. The Low Frequency Demonstrator (LFD) of the
Mileura Wide-Field Array (MWA), a facility for radio astronomy,
theoretically could detect Earth-like civilizations around any of the
1,000 nearest stars.
“Soon, we may be eavesdropping on signals from
Galactic civilizations,” says theorist […]

Created on January 10th and filed under science and nature.

Climate key to Sphinx’s riddle posted by Che

GLOBAL warming is one of the greatest threats to present day
civilisation but work by a team of Scots scientists suggests the
ancient Egyptians may have been earlier victims of climate change.
The pharaohs ruled their empire for hundreds of years, spreading
culture, architecture and the arts before it collapsed into economic
ruin. Why that happened is one of […]

Created on January 10th and filed under history, ancient mysteries, science and nature.

Star may have four magnetic poles posted by Che

The neutron star inside the Crab Nebula may have
as many as four magnetic poles, the American Astronomical Society
meeting in Seattle has heard.

Neutron stars are the remnants of massive stars that have met their demise in supernova explosions.

Some neutron stars are called pulsars, because they emit beam-like radio pulses from their magnetic poles.

The profiles of these […]

Created on January 10th and filed under science and nature.

A Wiccan success story posted by Che

From a business perspective, Dragon’s Paradox, a Contoocook gift shop
specializing in metaphysical items, is not a rousing success after its
first 10 months. On a good day, the store gets three customers, said
owner KaLea Thoits. But for Thoits, 31, finances are secondary - to
her, the store represents the fulfillment of part of her spiritual
journey as a […]

Created on January 10th and filed under spirituality and religion, arts and culture, other.

Witchcraft fears aside, board conjures up honors for teens posted by Che

FLINT TWP. - No incantations were chanted, potions brewed,
or spells cast Monday night when the Flint Township Board
unanimously honored two teenagers for their service to the
community.
Tashween Ali, a senior at Carman-Ainsworth High School, and
Jacob Bodtker, a home-schooled Boy Scout, received a Spirit
of Community Award about two weeks after the board canceled
a similar honor […]

Created on January 10th and filed under other.

Magic vs. Mayhem posted by Che

If you crossed
a private detective along the lines of Sam Spade or Jim Rockford with
Harry Potter, you’d end up with the basic idea behind The Dresden
Files, a new series airing on the Sci-Fi Channel starting Sunday at 9
p.m.
Based on the novels by Jim Butcher, it stars Paul Blackthorne as
Harry Dresden, a Chicago private eye who […]

Created on January 10th and filed under arts and culture.

Soy, the perfect heathen food — it does a body gay posted by Che

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking: I knew it. I knew that soy
stuff was evil like black sunshine in spring! Also: Is Tom Cruise really gay?
Does he eat a lot of soy? Is Steve Jobs a god? Does God like soy? Wait, didn’t
God invent soy? So how could it be bad for my innocent […]