The Book Of The Damned

Charles Fort

Dec 2013 · Project Gutenberg Book 1 · Jazzybee Verlag

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"The Book of the Damned" reminds one of Harnack's characterization of the Gnostic work "Pistis Sophia" as "dedicated to the propaganda of systematic idiocy." Mr. Charles Fort, with a zeal worthy of a scientist, has spent a life-time collecting newspaper stories of bodies that have fallen from the sky, such as hailstones as big as elephants, red, black, and green rains, butter, calves, putrid substances, and the like. He admits that observers have sometimes tried to explain these phenomena on known laws, as when Dr. Hitchcock examined a putrid substance alleged to have fallen from the sky at Amherst, and declared it to be a fungus, but Mr. Fort knows that the things dropped from the sky are messages from another world. He presents evidence that has hitherto been ignored or distorted by scientists pointing to the proof of life in other planets and of communication between them and this earth.

Ratings and reviews

OK. Someone writing at the Dawn of Powered Flight - just before the Wright Bros. about the Sargasso of Space and volcanic dust NOT causing colored sunsets or Sahara dust storms NOT causing red rains ( from the ISS dust plumes visible from Sahara at locations of red rains.) Bad science. (Stars twinkle because sky filled with Jello. OK, Fort should not taste strange fungi.) Not that I discount ghosts or the Green Lady or visits by Pagan Goddesses but Fort wrong about this class of aerial strangeness....

Charles Fort was way ahead of his times,the book of the damned is very interesting