Almost all the 'true but weird' genre really should be sending a royalty to Fort's descendants, because they pretty much owe their income to him, and after all this time he is still the best. Half the new age book shop is still spinning it's wheels on the trail Fort blazed so long ago. In these four volumes Fort organized and commented on a wild host of phenomena: flying saucers seen in the sky before the invention of aircraft, flying wheels, strange noises in the sky correlation.Ĭharles Fort is sui generis, the jedi master of the cataloguers of the weird, the inexplicable, the unkown, the scathingly brutal skunk at the garden party of modern scientism. His research appeared in four books: The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents. He worked for 27 years at the British Museum and the New York Public Library gathering material on phenomena from the borderlands between science and fantasy. These are the "damned," by which the late Charles Ford meant all the wide range of mysteries that are ignored by orthodox science or explained away improperly. How can we answer reports of strange animals, disappearances of men from open sight, curious structures in the snow, talents like teleportation and telekinesis?" How can we account for all the inexplicable astronomical observations that have been made in the past?
What is the explanation of falls of frogs, falls of fishes, falls of seagulls, which have been recorded from time to time? "Did beings from outer space visit earth in the past … are the various objects seen in the sky evidences of their visits?
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