Noumenal News

PHOENIX — Officers responding to a report of an exorcism on a young girl found her grandfather choking her and used stun guns to subdue the man, who later died, authorities said Sunday.
The 3-year-old girl and her mother, who was also in the room during the struggle between 49-year-old Ronald Marquez and officers, were hospitalized, […]

Asheville – Reaction to the potential loss of a single magnolia tree has left developer Stewart Coleman baffled.
“It’s one tree,” he said Monday after hearing a group of Wiccans plan to cast spells to save it. “More than 40 trees — including six flowering cherries — have been destroyed for the park construction.”Full Article

GETTYSBURG - The organization that held a paranormal studies gathering in Gettysburg last weekend said that it raised more than $1,200 for the Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association.
The Ghost World Conference raised the money in a raffle. More than 300 ghost enthusiasts from the U.S. and Canada attended for lectures, workshops and ideas, organizers said.
The preservation […]

Melvin Neifert is no devil worshipper.
But he is a witch.
He’s heard the criticisms. Devil worshipper. Evil. Anti-Christian. As the president of the Church of the Sacred Moon, the Yakima Valley’s only Pagan church officially recognized by the state, Neifert knows the stereotypes.
None of them are true, says the 31-year-old Neifert. Pagans don’t believe in the […]

IT’S the weird and wonderful place where the men in grey suits from Whitehall meet the little green men from Mars.
The Ministry of Defence has for the first time opened its real-life ‘X Files’, detailing how its experts have examined photographs of UFOs hovering over the UK.
While the images range from the baffling to the […]

However he fared in the “Deathly Hallows,” young Harry Potter seems to be holding his own on the religion front.
This is not a spoiler, but an observation; anecdotal evidence seems to suggest faith-based criticism of the saga is fading.
It’s a fair assessment, says Dr. Richard Lachmann, professor of sociology of culture at the University at […]

Loch Ness has its monster. Does San Antonio have one, too?
Strange sightings of a huge flying creature have been reported as recently as six months ago. Is it a monster or myth?
Guadalupe Cantu III was busy working his newspaper route, but he says the big news of that day 10 years ago flew right over […]

People in search of paranormal beings set up cameras in so-called haunted places in hopes of finding what?
Paranormal beings, I understand, are notably camera-shy.
A story about a haunted opera house in Anson from the Abilene Reporter News Web site caught my attention recently.
Several weeks ago I had driven through Anson but was not aware then […]

Has a Devil Worshipper entered the Big Brother household? At least one high Priest in Scotland says “Yes”. Could Big Brother now be “Big Beelzebub”?
David Parnaby claims to be a real life “Harry Potter”. Whether he will be able to work his magic on the Big Brother house to walk off with […]

The owner of one of Ulster’s largest toy chains has refused to fall under Harry Potter’s spell!
For while Potter merchandise is flying off the shelves in stores worldwide, the owner of the local Toytown chain is sticking by his principles by keeping JK Rowling’s boy wizard out of his shop.
Alan Simpson has turned down the […]