The Damned Charles Fort on This Day in History

This Day in History: Charles Fort was born on this day in 1874. He is best known for his "Book of the Damned." Fort was a skeptic of science, and his book produced numerous instances of occurrences that science just could not explain, or were just ignored by science. Such instances were falling frogs, fishes, and inorganic materials, spontaneous human combustion, ball lightning (a term explicitly used by Fort), poltergeist events, unaccountable noises and explosions, levitation, unidentified flying objects, unexplained disappearances, giant wheels of light in the oceans, and animals found outside their normal ranges. He offered many reports of out-of-place artifacts (OOPArts), strange items found in unlikely locations. He was often criticized but he also had a large following.

The Fortean Times magazine is still being published.

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