Noumenal News

WILBUR, WA. — In Lincoln County, they’re wondering if it’s science or fiction but what is known is that someone recently paid a visit to a wheat field near Wilbur. If you subscribe to the “science” theory then those visitors traveled a very long way probably without using Highway 2.
The wheat crop occupies much of […]

MARQUETTE, Mich. — In the middle of the night, a group tried to lure an elusive beast from its lair deep in the woods.
A man banged on a tree with a stick. Another beat his chest, Tarzan-like. Another uttered deep guttural screams.
And then, seconds after the last yell, from the blackness surrounding them, came a […]

GETTYSBURG - Ghost researcher and author Jeff Belanger confessed that he has never seen a ghost.
“I still believe, though,” he said. “And that is based on the number of people I’ve interviewed who believe. I look in their eyes, and they say they saw something, and I believe them.”
Belanger is one of three organizers of […]

MANISTIQUE — A group that searched for bigfoot in the U.P. woods this weekend plans to return in August.
A four-day expedition in Marquette County by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, collecting evidence supporting the existence of “sasquatches” began with mixed results but concluded with “excitement,” according to BFRO organizer/ researcher Matthew Moneymaker.
Just after midnight Saturday, […]

SOFIA, Bulgaria: Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,400-year-old golden mask in an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, scholars announced Monday.
The mask was discovered over the weekend by a team of archaeologists excavating near the village of Topolchane, 290 kilometers (180 miles) east of the capital, Sofia. Its discovery, archaeologists said, indicates a Thracian king was […]

Germans like the Dalai Lama more than they do their native-born Pope Benedict XVI, according to a survey published on Saturday.
A study carried out for Der Spiegel showed that 44 percent of those questioned saw the Tibetan spiritual and secular leader as a role model, while only 42 percent attributed the same qualities to the […]

Magic continues to fascinate us, even in the midst of all our technology, as the incredible success of the Harry Potter books and movies demonstrates.
But magic has been part of human life since the darkest and most ancient times, according to archivist Gionni Di Gravio, who has unearthed a rare French manuscript about magic and […]

Maybe Professor Snape had it right.
The Hogwarts potions master’s constant, malicious lingering over bubbling, belching caldrons and his cutting, cruel remarks may just be his way of making sure Harry Potter and his fellow students don’t accidentally blow themselves up.
At least, that’s one real-world chemist’s justification for the events […]