Noumenal News

THESSALONIKI, Greece - A 2,200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera has
been found built into the walls of a city under Mount Olympus, home of
Greece’s ancient gods, archaeologists said on Thursday. The headless
marble statue was discovered last year during excavations in the ruins
of ancient Dion, some 53 miles southwest of Thessaloniki.
Archaeologist Dimitris Pantermalis said the life-sized […]

MIDDLETON - A Middleton fire marshal has been on paid leave since July
while officials investigate allegations he used a department computer
to consult with an online psychic and conspired with others to buy an
Internet voodoo hex against the chief.
The
consultations by Tom Weber sought to divine whether he and others would
be successful in removing Fire Chief Aaron […]

It has been attacked many times in its short life, most notably by a former aide to Robert F Kennedy and the editor of Encyclopaedia Britannica. But now the online reference site Wikipedia has a new foe: evangelical Christians.
A
website founded by US religious activists aims to counter what they
claim is “liberal bias” on Wikipedia, the […]

PASADENA, California (AP) — The Cassini spacecraft has
beamed back to Earth never-before-seen angles of Saturn from high above
and below its majestic rings.
The planet is fully surrounded by the rings in images released Thursday by NASA.
“Finally,
here are the views that we’ve waited years for,” Cassini scientist
Carolyn Porco of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said
in […]

Scientists are to sail to the mid-Atlantic to examine a massive “open wound” on the Earth’s surface.

Dr Chris MacLeod, from Cardiff University, said the
Earth’s crust appeared to be completely missing in an area thousands of
kilometres across.

The hole in the crust is midway between the Cape Verde Islands and the Caribbean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

The team […]

Problem: Did Satanists bring down the Forest House?
“In
truth, all through the haunted forest there could be nothing more
frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown,” author Nathaniel Hawthorne
wrote in his 1835 short story “Young Goodman Brown,” describing a young
Puritan’s midnight visit to a Black Mass.
“On
he flew among the black pines, brandishing his staff with frenzied
gestures, now […]

THIS Sunday, for those of you who forgot to pencil it into
your diaries, is the 10th annual Pagan Awareness Network Twilight
Picnic and Full Moon Ritual.
This is good news for at least a couple of reasons.
Firstly, it means I now know not to go anywhere near Seven Hills
train station that evening in case I bump […]

March 1, 2007) In the sleepy town of San Juan, located within the area
of San Antonio (Region V), gruesome and savage murders have occurred.
The mythical “chupacabra” (literally, “sucking goat”) is blamed by
locals as the killer of the farm animals.
The mysterious attacks are similar to those in Placilla and Huallipén,
where hens and rabbits fell victim to […]