Noumenal News

A hacker has posted details of what he claims is the plot of the final Harry Potter book online.
The details, which he said he obtained by sending an infected email to a member of staff at Bloomsbury Publishing, contain information about the way in which two of the main protagonists die.
The hacker, who attacks what […]

Devotion isn’t for the lazy. Or at least it wasn’t in Ireland, in the days of the druids and, later, St. Patrick.
Visitors to the Emerald Isle today see ancient earthworks and burial mounds, sites of pagan ceremony. Ruins of abbeys. The Gospel, elaborately decorated. All created with vast expenditures of human labor that honored or […]

Innkeeper Elaine Crane defends the kindly spirit in a white nightgown that sometimes greets guests of Crane’s historic Painesville establishment.
“She’s friendly,” insisted Crane. Mistress Suzanne is more Casper than poltergeist.
She isn’t mean like the ghosts who terrify lodgers in the thriller “1408,” which checked into theaters Friday. The movie, based on a Stephen King story, […]

The mystery surrounding the identity of the Harry Potter spoiler is almost as great as whether he has any idea what he’s talking about. What people seem to be taking on faith, though, are his proposed motives. In his clumsy words, “Harry Potter bring the youngs of our earth to Neo Paganism faith. So we […]

PORTLAND - Gatherers at Portland’s ‘Stonehenge’ greeted the first morning of summer Thursday. A group met at sunrise in a llittle grove of trees created about ten years before by the Leik brothers.
Charles Leik made a trial run the morning before and had an epiphany of sorts. He was standing at the headstone in Leik’s […]

A paranormal investigator claimed today he is in line to win £1 million after betting he could prove the existence of an afterlife.
Ross Hemsworth, 49, from Glastonbury, has placed a £100 bet with odds of 10,000/1, that he will provide evidence of an afterworld beyond reasonable doubt.
If the self titled “scientific investigator of anomalous phenomena” […]

A spiritualist medium, Shane (36) thought he had encountered every weird and wonderful haunting possible during his two years with members of the Living TV show.
But he got the fright of his life after spending the night at Spynie Palace, near Elgin, where he believes he heard hundreds of horses galloping through the historic building’s […]

As anyone who has read Gregory Maguire’s “Wicked” or seen the subsequent Broadway show can attest, the Wicked Witch of the West was framed. Elphaba, as Maguire calls her, wasn’t really wicked at all. She was a good girl set up by the powers that be (in this case, the Wizard) for, among other things, […]