Noumenal News

The discovery of a centuries-old window frame has revealed a ghostly past and led to a hair-raising experience at a Norwich salon.
When husband and wife team Andre and Cherry Cappuccio decided to renovate their hairdressing business, little did they realise they would uncover the haunted history of the building.
Trends, in St Augustine’s, has housed a […]

Cruise operators desperate to capture images of the elusive Loch Ness Monster have had sonar equipment fitted to their fleet’s flagship.
Tourists will now be able to watch a plasma screen for signs of the legendary beast while on board the Jacobite Queen.
The television will show live sonar footage of what lies beneath the boat as […]

Since I was a young child, I have been confident there is another life after this one. How do I know? I have regular contact with it, and have done for as long as I can remember.
I accept the cynics will label me as deranged, but they’ve never seen tables tip over of their own […]

Immense coils of hot, electrified gas in the Sun’s atmosphere behave like a musical instrument, scientists say.
These “coronal loops” carry acoustic waves in much the same way that sound is carried through a pipe organ.
Solar explosions called micro-flares generate sound booms which are then propagated along the coronal loops.
“The effect is much like plucking a […]

Alcatraz Island, Calif. — EACH day at sundown, when the last tour boat departs this desolate, wind-swept outpost, one lonesome soul is left behind. He’s the night watchman of Alcatraz.
Guided by the beam of his flashlight, Gregory Johnson inches down the gloomy infirmary ward of this retired prison, once home to the nation’s most malicious […]

A class of “failed” star called a brown dwarf emits beams of radiation that are thousands of times brighter than any released by the Sun.
The brown dwarfs are behaving like an altogether different and exotic cosmic object called a pulsar.
Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit a flashing radio signal.
When the rotating beams sweep Earth, […]

Scientists from the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk claim that they have discovered several artifacts with extraterrestrial writings near the fall site of the Tunguska meteorite, the Regnum news agency reports.
The president of the Tunguska Space Phenomenon research foundation told reporters that several quartz boulders with mysterious writings on them were found in the Tunguska river […]

One of the greatest advances of the Internet has been its ability to bring people of like minds together, whether via virtual chat rooms or through groups who meet in person regularly.
At the Web site meetup.com, a site for those seeking those with similar interests, toward the bottom of the list of popular topics lies […]

Riding his motorbike in knee-length jeans and yellow t-shirt,
Alberto “Edol” Baroro doesn’t look like the textbook version of a
sorcerer.
The father of six lives on a modest farm in the cool
hills near Mount Bandilaan on the central Philippine island of Siquijor
known for its herbalists and black magic.
The sorcerer of
Siquijor looks younger than his 60 years with […]