Noumenal News

Fans of the paranormal have spent their first night exploring the caves at the Devon tourist attraction, Kents Cavern.
The group spent the night deep in the underground caves at Torquay, which are more than two million years old.
The ghost hunters were also raising funds for children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
“I’ve always been a sceptic, however […]

Erin Piatt, a practising neo-pagan, plans to mark the summer solstice Thursday with a personal ritual. In previous years, she was often part of a larger gathering, a circle of like-minded souls who would watch the sun set in Beachy Cove June 20, holding a vigil in front of a fire, sharing food and making […]

Celtic folklore says the faery and other magical creatures will come out of hiding to join in summer solstice celebrations.
William Shakespeare dramatized this in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Contemporary pagans believe the fae, the plural word for faery, are still making their presence known.
At a recent summer solstice celebration for the Rowan Grove, a Deltona-based Wiccan […]

NEANDERTHALS as innovators? That the concept seems amusing goes to show how our sister species has become the butt of our jokes. Yet in the Middle Palaeolithic, some 300,000 years ago, innovation is what the Neanderthals were up to.
This period is usually regarded as undramatic in cultural and evolutionary terms, with little in the way […]

A team of archaeologists has discovered a huge ancient gold processing centre and a graveyard along the River Nile in northern Sudan.
They were part of the 4,000-year-old Kush, or Nubian, kingdom.
The scholars say the finds show the empire was much bigger than previously thought and rivalled ancient Egypt.
The archaeologists are racing to dig up the […]

MADISONVILLE - The experts have weighed in, but there are still plenty of theories about the origin of the mysterious crop circles found in a Monroe County wheat field last month.
Local theories range from ancient Cherokee Indian curses to natural electrical or atmospheric disturbances, extraterrestrials and even high school kids with too much time on […]

Crop circle expert Steve Alexander said: “There seems to be a different crop circle at Milk Hill every year but each time they grow more spectacular.
“At first glance it looks like a three-dimensional view of a pyramid. Numerogically this formation seems to deal with the relationship between three and five.
“A two-dimensional representation of the pyramid […]

A famed rationalist, who secured a royal exemption from the ordination in the Church of England that was normally expected of academics of his day so he would not have to follow its teachings, Newton nonetheless based his prediction on a Biblical text.
Working from verses in the Book of Daniel, the elaborator of […]