<p>Charles Fort's classic recording of unexplained, paranormal events and phenomena offer fascinating insights into bizarre occurrences the author felt had been unjustly damned from formal, scientific study.The title derives from the author's perception that the book's subjects were so stigmatized and excluded from ordinary scientific inquiry that they had become 'damned'. Perhaps permanently forbade for formal study, the oddities and unexplained events in this text were felt worthy of attention by the author, who eventually became an authority on anomalous phenomena.The topics in Fort's thesis include unexplained disappearances of large groups of people, frogs and fish suddenly raining from the sky, the possibility that mythical beasts such as giants exist, UFOs manifest as glowing and sometimes moving lights in the sky, and bizarre weather phenomena. Fort attributes credence to many of these oddities, and argues that science - by dismissing them - has become a religion in itself.</p>

The Book of the Damned: The Mysteries of UFOs, People Disappearances, Mythic Creatures and Anomalous Unexplained Phenomena and Experiences, Complete and Unabridged (Hardcover)

FORT, CHARLES

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Flying saucers, telekinesis, sudden showers of fish from the sky, stigmata, poltergeists, spontaneous combustion: these are a few of the unexplained phenomena Charles Fort (1874-1932) labeled "damned," his term for mysteries ignored or dismissed by scientific orthodoxy. This volume, based on 27 years of research, explores this gray area between science and fantasy. While his interpretations have been called "irregular, whimsical, mutually exclusive, elliptical and contrary," Fort's writing was admired by many notable figures, including Theodore Dreiser, Clarence Darrow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes; moreover, his work became the prototype for latter-day extraterrestrial speculations and helped promote the development of science fiction embracing what are known today as "Fortean themes." Stimulating, bewildering, intoxicating, The Book of the Damned is an intellectual tour de force — brilliantly expressed, sometimes convincing.

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Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Dover Publications

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The Book of the Damned

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New Lands

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SPHERE

Darvil

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Poetry

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