Noumenal News

A retired navy man’s musings on riding a backyard swing as a young boy
gave him the idea for an invention that he says can explain one of
histories enduring mysteries - the construction of the great pyramids
of Egypt.
James Murphy said his Apex Delivery and Lifting System
- or Murphy Mover - is more than just an explanation. […]

If Edmonton native Todd Standing is right, the elusive Bigfoot may be elusive no more.
Standing will be hosting a documentary showing tonight at the Vic Juba
Community Theatre about the legendary creature, and says he not only
knows where Bigfoot lives, but has also seen one.
“I’m showing the third video, a video which hasn’t been publicly
released yet,” […]

A Lucas County Common Pleas Court ruling throwing
out the civil lawsuit of a woman who accused Gerald Robinson of
torturing and raping her in a satanic ritual when she was a child will
be appealed, an attorney in the case said yesterday.

Mark Davis, the attorney for the plaintiff who filed the suit
anonymously with her husband as Survivor […]

LOGANVILLE - A Loganville mother of four who has fought to ban the
Harry Potter series from Gwinnett County classrooms is appealing the
state’s decision to let the best-selling series stay.
The file in Gwinnett County Superior Court consists of a stack of
papers that rivals the length of the novels in J.K. Rowling’s series
about an orphaned boy who […]

The Philadelphia Sports Curse is being auctioned on eBay.
Bidding is up to $21.
Philly Purge, which has put the item
up, writes that he picked up the curse in New Orleans Saturday from a
guy who claims to have brought it to every playoff loss at every
Philadelphia sports event since 1983.
The description of the item goes […]

THE spooky goings-on at a Mid Devon pub are to be investigated by
the county’s lea-ding paranormal team, Haunted Devon, over the next few
weeks.
The Exeter Inn near Bampton is well known for its ales and food but
it apparently also boasts several former residents, who have decided to
stay on in the inn after their deaths.
The Haunted Devon […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A suburban Atlanta mother who claims Harry Potter books
teach children witchcraft said Wednesday that she will appeal the
state’s decision to keep the best-selling books in Gwinnett County
school libraries.
Laura Mallory, who has three children in elementary school, said she has requested an appeal of her case to Superior Court.
Mallory
has tried to ban the […]

Aizawl, Jan. 18 (PTI):
In the dark of the night, a mixed group of teenage boys
[…]

A dazzling insect could help the development of brilliant white, ultra-thin materials, a study suggests.
The finger-tip sized Cyphochilus beetle, found in south-east Asia, had a shell whiter than most other materials found in nature, UK researchers said.
Close inspection reveals a unique surface structure covered with scales 10 times thinner than human hair.
A report in Science […]