Noumenal News

AS A Melbourne man lay dying from heat-induced dehydration in a remote South Australian creek bed during a native American ritual known as a sweat lodge, his fellow campers believed he was astral travelling and banged drums to return him to earth.
An inquest on the death of Rowan Cooke, 37, of Glenroy, heard yesterday that […]

Canada’s first permanent creation museum is opening its doors on Tuesday and is already sparking criticism from evolution experts.
The Big Valley Creation Science Museum, located in the small Albertan town of Big Valley, is a tiny building that explains evolution, geology and paleontology through a biblical lens. Full Article

A police force is to put more officers on the streets during full moons because they believe the lunar cycle may be linked to violent behaviour, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.
Sussex Police have found that drinkers in the seaside city of Brighton and Hove are particularly aggressive during full moons, despite mixed findings from researchers who […]

Virginia officials may have violated the constitutional and statutory rights of an inmate when they denied him access to “Thor’s Hammer” — a religious pendant of central significance for his Asatru faith — a federal judge recently ruled.
Inmate Forest Fisher sued the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) and various prison officials after they denied his […]

PARTICIPANTS in a ritualistic ceremony danced, chanted and played drums while one of their friends lay dying from heat exhaustion, an inquest has heard.
Deputy State Coroner Anthony Schapel today was told the group believed Rowan Douglas Cooke was “astral-travelling” after being exposed to extreme heat inside a North American Indian-style “steam lodge”.
Mr Cooke, 37, of […]

It’s quite charming, really, in a sort of half-baked, deranged, fundamentalist and potentially dangerous manner.
Last week saw the eagerly awaited unveiling of the Creation Museum in Kentucky, and the man we can thank for its inception - the famously mad anti-evolutionist Ken Ham, President of the ‘Answers In Genesis’ lobby group - was happy to […]

A STUDY conducted at Bath Spa University suggests that young people are increasingly drawn to witchcraft, it was revealed this week.
Conducted by Denise Cush, professor of religious studies at the university, the report showed there had been a notable rise in the number of young people identifying themselves as witches.
Cush argues that witchcraft remained particularly […]

SALEM - The dismembered body of a raccoon, left on the doorsteps of two psychic shops in an apparent feud among fortunetellers, has had unforeseen consequences.
The Health Department issued a rabies warning yesterday to anyone who might have handled the dead animal.
“We don’t have confirmation that the raccoon was rabid, but we don’t have confirmation […]

LONDON, England (Reuters) — A British bookmaker offered a one million pound ($2 million) reward on Monday to anyone who can prove that Scotland’s legendary Loch Ness monster does actually exist.
Bookmakers William Hill are supplying up to 50,000 instant cameras to fans attending a Loch Ness pop festival next weekend.
“We are hoping the one million […]

Images published by the Finnish UFO Research Association FUFORA have lead to an internal investigation at the Guard Service.
The infrared video images, which according to FUFORA depict unidentified flying objects, were published in an issue of the Ultra magazine and on the FUFORA Internet pages, as well as in […]