Noumenal News

Vikings navigated the oceans with sundials aboard their Norse ships. But on an overcast day, sundials would have been useless. Many researchers have suggested that the on foggy days, Vikings looked toward the sky through rock crystals called sunstones to give them direction.
No one had tested the theory until recently.Full Article

Deceased Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, who died in captivity in Haag last year standing on trial for War Crimes in a UN War Crimes tribunal, still seem to haunt the Serbian nation.
Recently his grave in the eastern Serbian town of Pozarevac was desecrated in a bizarre incident, when Serbian vampire hunters in accordance with old […]

Serbian vampire hunters rammed a wooden stake through the heart of
former dictator Slobodan Milosevic to stop him ‘returning from the
dead’. Miroslav Milosevic, no relation to the former president, gave
himself up to police who have launched an investigation.
He
claimed he and his fellow vampire hunters acted to stop the former
dictator returning from the dead to haunt the […]

A 7,000-year-old dwelling mound has been found
in Germany, causing a stir among archaeologists. It is the first find
of its kind in Western Europe.

A room with a view has always been a coveted thing. Over the
millennia, humans discovered that it could be achieved by simply
staying put over generations and not picking […]

At least ten graves believed to date back to the Middle
Ages were found in a basement of a house in Rangá in Hróarstunga, east
Iceland. Three skulls have been discovered and the graves will be
examined in detail next summer.

“My sons were digging up the floor to increase the
distance to the ceiling and found a skull,” Soffía […]

Behind the thick wooden doors of a 16th century church, the Rev. Efrem Cirlini battles an ancient nemesis.
Armed with a vial of holy water, a silver crucifix and a red book containing the rite of exorcism in Latin, the 79-year-old Roman Catholic priest places the crucifix against the throat of a grimacing woman who […]

A Wisconsin man who is facing drugs and property
charges after being arrested while claiming that he was a werewolf and
speaking what reportedly sounded like a medieval language.

39-year-old Robert Marsh was arrested after
trying to break into a woman’s apartment on March 1, breaking the
deadbolt on her door and grabbing her arm in the process, in Fond […]

Hollywood stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have
set up house in New Orleans, but is there another reason the
super-start couple have settled in the ‘Big Easy’?  The National
Enquirer is reporting that Angelina has a new hobby to help fill those
precious empty seconds between saving the world, raising three children
(soon to be four) and keeping hunky […]

Brewing accusations of witchcraft are expected to bubble over during a
federal trial scheduled to open this week in Central Islip, where a
former Hampton Bays Elementary School teacher is suing the district for
$2 million.
In 2001, Lauren Berrios filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court saying
that she was fired because co-workers wrongly believed she was a witch.
Berrios […]