{"collection":"Fortean Texts","page":1,"pages":[{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_damned_index_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_damned_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"","title":"Book of the Damned Index","word_count":77},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_index_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| Image \u00a9 2008, John Bruno Hare, All Rights Reserved | Lo! by Charles Fort [1931] | \nIn Lo!, Fort develops a theme of teleportation as an agency for many strange phenomena. He reviews the cases of the Marie Celeste, Princess Caraboo, Cagliostro, Ambrose Bierce, Agatha Christie, and Kaspar Hauser as evidence that people can be mysteriously teleported from one point to another.","title":"Lo! Index","word_count":316},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo01_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo01_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A naked man in a city street\u2014the track of a horse in volcanic mud\u2014the mystery of reindeer's ears\u2014a huge, black form, like a whale, in the sky, and it drips red drops as if attacked by celestial swordfishes\u2014an appalling cherub appears in the sea\u2014\nConfusions. Showers of frogs and blizzards of snails\u2014gushes of periwinkles down from the sky\u2014\nThe preposterous, the grotesque, the incredible\u2014and why, if I am going to tell of hundreds of these, is the quite ordinary so regarded? An unclothed man shocks\u2026","title":"Lo!: Part I: 1","word_count":3569},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo10_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo10_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Unknown, luminous things, or beings, have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth, and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that some of them were living things that occasionally come from somewhere else in our existence, but that others were lights on the vessels of explorers, or voyagers, from somewhere else. From time to time, luminous objects, or beings, have been reported from Brown Mountain, North Carolina.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 10","word_count":1582},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo11_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo11_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Science is very much like the Civil War, in the U. S. A.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 11","word_count":2234},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo12_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo12_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"It may be that upon new principles we can account for the mystery of the Marie Celeste. If there is a selective force, which transports stones exclusively, or larvae, and nothing but larvae, or transports living things of various sizes, but nothing but living things, such a selective force might affect a number of human beings, leaving no trace, because unaffective to everything else. I take from the report by the Queen's Proctor, in the Admiralty Court, published in the London Times, Feb.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 12","word_count":3568},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo13_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo13_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"As to data that we shall now take up, I say to myself: \"You are a benign ghoul, digging up dead, old legends and superstitions, trying to breathe life into them. Well, then, why have you neglected Santa Claus?\"\nBut I am particular in the matter of data, or alleged data. And I have come upon no record, or alleged record, of mysterious footprints in snow, on roofs of houses, leading to chimneys, Christmas Eves.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 13","word_count":2179},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo14_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo14_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"In October, 1904, a wolf, belonging to Captain Bains of Shotley Bridge, twelve miles from Newcastle, England, escaped, and soon afterward, killing of sheep were reported from the region of Hexham, about twenty miles from Newcastle. There seems to be an obvious conclusion. We have had some experience with conclusions that were said to be obvious.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 14","word_count":6954},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo15_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo15_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"In every organism, there are, in its governance as a whole, mysterious transportations of substances and forces, sometimes in definite, circulatory paths, and sometimes specially, for special needs. In the organic view, Teleportation is a distributive force that is acting to maintain the balances of a whole; with the seeming wastefulness sometimes, and niggardliness sometimes, of other forces: providing, or sometimes providing, new islands with vegetation, and new ponds with fishes: Edens with\u2026","title":"Lo!: Part I: 15","word_count":5105},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo16_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo16_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Here is the shortest story that I know of:\nSt. Louis Globe-Democrat, Nov. 2, 1886\u2014a girl stepped from her home, to go to a spring.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 16","word_count":1796},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo17_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo17_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"As interpreters of dreams, I can't say that we have ambitions, but I think of one dream that many persons have had, repeatedly, and it may have relation to our present subject. One is snoring along, amidst the ordinary marvels of dreamland\u2014and there one is, naked, in a public place, with no impression of how one got there. I'd like to know what underlies the prevalence of this dream, and its disagreeableness, which varies, I suppose, according to one's opinion of oneself.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 17","word_count":2768},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo18_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo18_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"There was the case of Mrs. Guppy, June 3, 1871, for instance. As the spiritualists tell it, she shot from her home, in London.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 18","word_count":2831},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo19_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo19_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"In the Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica, the story of Kaspar Hauser is said to be one of the most baffling mysteries in history. This is an unusual statement. Mostly we meet denials that there are mysteries.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 19","word_count":3739},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo03_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo03_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"The subject of reported falls from the sky, of an edible substance, in Asia Minor, is confused, because reports have been upon two kinds of substances. It seems that the sugar-like kind cannot be accepted. In July, 1927, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem sent an expedition to the Sinai Peninsula to investigate reported showers of \"manna.\" See the New York Times, Dec.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 3","word_count":1156},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo04_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo04_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Over the town of Noirfontaine, France, one day in April, 1842, there was a cloudless sky, but drops of water were falling. See back to data upon repetitions. The water was falling, as if from a fixed appearing-point, somewhere above the ground, to a definite area beneath.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 4","word_count":7082},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo05_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo05_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Upon the 9th of January, 1907, Mr. McLaughlin, of the town of Magilligan, County Derry, Ireland, hadn't a red light. Neither had his sister, nor his niece, nor his maidservant.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 5","word_count":2266},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo06_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo06_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Flows of blood from \"holy images\"\u2014I take for a proposition that, though nothing can be proved\u2014because, if all phenomenal things are continuous, there is, in a final sense, nothing phenomenal\u2014anything can be said to be proved\u2014because, if all phenomenal things are continuous, the most preposterous nonsense must somewhere be linked with well-established beliefs. If I had the time for an extra job, I'd ask readers to think up loony theories, and send them to me, and I'd pick out the looniest of\u2026","title":"Lo!: Part I: 6","word_count":2909},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo07_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo07_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Nose in the mud, and the bend of a thing to the ground. There are postures from which life is acting to escape: one of them, the embryonic crouch; another, whether in the degradation of worship, or as a convenience in eating grass, the bend of a neck to the ground. The all-day gnaw of the fields.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 7","word_count":5774},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo08_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo08_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"There is no way of judging these stories. Every canon, or device, of inductive logic, conceived of by Francis Bacon and John Stuart Mill has been employed in investigating some of them, but logic is ruled by the fishmonger. Some of us will think as we're told to think, and be smug and superior, in rejecting the yarns: others will like to flout the highest authority, and think that there may be something in them, feeling that they're the ones who know better, and be just as smug and superior.","title":"Lo!: Part I: 8","word_count":1582},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo09_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo09_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I have come upon a story of somebody, in Philadelphia, who, having heard that a strange wild animal was prowling in New Jersey, announced that he had caught it. He exhibited something, as the \"Jersey Devil.\" I have to accept that this person was the press agent of a dime museum, and that the creature that he exhibited was a kangaroo, to which he had attached tin wings and green whiskers. But, if better-established branches of biology are subject to Nature-fakery, what can be expected in our\u2026","title":"Lo!: Part I: 9","word_count":6177},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo20_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo20_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"According to appearances, this earth is a central body, within a revolving, starry globe. But am I going to judge by appearances? But everything of the opposing doctrine is judgment by other appearances.","title":"Lo!: Part II: 20","word_count":7297},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo21_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo21_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"A trek of circumstances that kicks up a dust of details\u2014a vast and dirty movement that is powdered with particulars\u2014\nThe gossip of men and women, and the yells of brats\u2014whether dinner is ever going to be ready, or not\u2014young couples in their nightly sneaks\u2014and what the hell has become of the grease for the wheels?\u2014who's got a match? It's a wagon train that feels out across a prairie. A drink of water\u2014a thaw of tobacco\u2014just where to borrow a cupful of flour\u2014and yet, even though at its time any of\u2026","title":"Lo!: Part II: 21","word_count":2767},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo22_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo22_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"That, in the summer of 1880, some other world, or whatever we'll call it, after a period of hard luck, cheered up\u2014and cast off its despairs\u2014which came to this earth, where there is always room for still more melancholy\u2014in long, black, funereal processions. Aug. 18, 1880\u2014people, near the waterfront of Havre, France, saw the arrival of a gloom.","title":"Lo!: Part II: 22","word_count":4113},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo23_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo23_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Melbourne Age, Jan. 21, 1869\u2014there was a carter. He was driving a five-horse truck along the bed of a dry creek.","title":"Lo!: Part II: 23","word_count":5358},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo24_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo24_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Emissions of arms\u2014the bubbling of faces, at crevices\u2014fire and smoke and a lava of naked beings. Out from a crater, discharges of bare bodies boiled into fantastic formations\u2014\nOr\u2014five o'clock, morning of Dec. 28, 1908\u2014violent shocks in Sicily.","title":"Lo!: Part III: 24","word_count":3173},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo25_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo25_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"With a surf and a glare, this earth quaked a picture\u2014Or, in the monistic sense, there was, in Peru, a catastrophe that was a hideous and magnificent emotion. It is likely that there's a wound in a brain, at a time of intensest excitement\u2014\nRed of the writhing earth, and red of the heaving ocean\u2014and, in between, a crimson gash of surf, slashed from Ecuador to Chile\u2014\nOr so was visualized a rage, by super-introspection. According to the midgets of orthodoxy, such a picture cannot be accepted.","title":"Lo!: Part III: 25","word_count":2514},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo26_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo26_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Horses erect in a blizzard of frogs\u2014and the patter of worms on umbrellas. The hum of lady birds in England\u2014the twang of a swarm of Americans, at Templemore, Ireland. The appearance of Cagliostro\u2014the appearance of Prof.","title":"Lo!: Part III: 26","word_count":4597},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo27_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo27_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Once upon a time, one of this earth's earlier scientists pronounced, or enunciated, or he told a story, which was somewhat reasonable, of a flood, and of all the animals of this earth saved, as species, in a big boat. Perhaps the story was not meant seriously by its author, but was a satire upon the ambitious\nboat-builders of his day. It is probable that all religions are founded upon ancient jokes and hoaxes.","title":"Lo!: Part III: 27","word_count":3455},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo28_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo28_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Early in October, 1902, vast volumes of smoke, of unknown origin, obscured all things at sea, and made navigation difficult and dangerous, from the Philippines to Hongkong, and from the Philippines to Australia. I do not know of anything of terrestrial origin that, with equal density, ever has had such widespread effects. Vesuvius has never been known to smoke up the whole Mediterranean.","title":"Lo!: Part III: 28","word_count":4134},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo29_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo29_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Why don't they see, when sometimes magnificently there is something to see? The answer is the same as the answer to another question:\nWhy, sometimes, do they see when there is nothing to see? In the year 1899, Campbell, the astronomer, \"announced\" that the star Capella is a spectroscopic binary, or has a companion-star, as determined by the spectroscope.","title":"Lo!: Part III: 29","word_count":2298},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo30_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo30_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"I am thinking of an abstraction that was noted by Aristotle, and that was taken by Hegel, for the basis of his philosophy: That wherever there is a conflict of extremes, there is an outcome that is not absolute victory on either side, but is a compromise, or what Hegel called \"the union of complementaries.\"\nOur own controversy is an opposition of extremes:\nThat this earth moves swiftly;\nThat this earth is stationary. In terms of controversies and their outcomes, I cannot think that either of\u2026","title":"Lo!: Part III: 30","word_count":955},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo31_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo31_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Besides the new star, which was an object so conspicuous that it was discovered widely, except by astronomers, there was another astronomical occurrence in the month of June, 1918\u2014an eclipse of the sun. It was observed in Oregon. We can't expect such a check up as when Coogan's Bluff and the Consolidated Gas Company get into astronomy, but Oregonians set their alarm clocks, and looked up at the sky.","title":"Lo!: Part III: 31","word_count":3908},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo32_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lo_lo32_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"Star after star after star\u2014and the signs that there were, at the times of them. Quake after quake after quake\u2014and the sights in the sky, at the times of them. Star after quake after deluge\u2014the sky boils with significances\u2014there are tempests of indications.","title":"Lo!: Part III: 32","word_count":2255},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_land_index_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_land_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"| Image \u00a9 2008, John Bruno Hare, All Rights Reserved | New Lands by Charles Fort [1923] | \nThe focus of this book, the second which Fort published, is to tweak the nose of the mainstream astronomers. Fort's slightly tongue-in-cheek hypothesis is that the Earth is located in a fixed location, and that there are invisible lands in the sky just beyond the atmosphere. He spends much of the first part of the book illustrating a number of embarrassing mistakes in celestial mechanics, and attempting\u2026","title":"New Lands Index","word_count":269},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_index_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_index_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"Personally\" (as we are more wont to say in our youth than in any other ages) I find that a book with an Introduction always worries me a little. I want to read the book itself, not the Introduction, but for some reason I have a feeling that it is my unpleasant duty to read the Introduction. Usually I decide to read the book firs and the Introduction afterward; but then my reading is tainted throughout by my sense of guilt; for I have learned by experience that I never do read the Introduction\u2026","title":"New Lands by Charles Fort: Index","word_count":1012},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands101_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands101_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"LANDS in the sky--\nThat they are nearby--\nThat they do not move. I take for a principle that all being is the infinitely serial, and that whatever has been will, with differences of particulars, be again--\nThe last quarter of the fifteenth century--land to the west! This first quarter of the twentieth century--we shall have revelations.","title":"New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 1","word_count":1520},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands111_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands111_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WE have seen that some of the most brilliant inspirations of god-like intellects, or some of the most pestilential emanations from infected minds, have been attempts to account for the virtual changelessness of the stars. Above all other data of astronomy, that virtual changelessness of positions stands out as a crucial circumstance in my own mind. To account for constellations that have not changed in 2,000 years, astronomers say that they conceive of inconceivable distances.","title":"New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 11","word_count":3101},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands112_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands112_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"WE try to have independent expressions. Accept that it is not distance that has held the stars in unchanging position, if occasional, abrupt change of position has been seen at the distance of the stars, and it is implied that the not enormously distant stars are all about equally far away from this earth, or some would be greatly particularized, and that this earth does not move in an orbit, or stars would be seasonally particularized, but would not be, if the stars, in one composition\u2026","title":"New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 12","word_count":1829},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands102_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands102_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"\"PREDICTION Confirmed!\"\n\"Another Verification!\"\n\"A Third Verification of Prediction!\"\nThree times, in spite of its long-established sobriety, the Journal of the Franklin Institute, vols. 106 and 107, reels with an astronomer's exhilarations. He might exult and indulge himself, and that would be no affair of ours, and, in fact, we'd like to see everybody happy, perhaps, but it is out of these three chanticleerities by Prof.","title":"New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 2","word_count":2594},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands103_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands103_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SOUTHERN plantations and the woolly heads of negroes pounding the ground--cries in northern regions and round white faces turned to the sky--fiery globes in the sky--a study in black, white, and golden formations in one general glow. Upon the night of November 13-14, 1833, occurred the most sensational celestial spectacle of the nineteenth century: for six hours fiery meteors gushed from the heavens, and were visible along the whole Atlantic coast of the United States. One supposes that\u2026","title":"New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 3","word_count":2947},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands104_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands104_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"NEVERTHELESS I sometimes doubt that astronomers represent especial incompetence. They remind me too much of uplifters and grocers, philanthropists, expert accountants, makers of treaties, characters in international conferences, psychic researchers, biologists. The astronomers seem to me about as capitalists seem to socialists, and about as socialists seem to capitalists, or about as Presbyterians seem to Baptists; as Democrats seem to Republicans, or as artists of one school seem to artists of\u2026","title":"New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 4","word_count":1762},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands105_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands105_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"SMUGNESS and falseness and sequences of re-adjusting fatalities--and yet so great is the hypnotic power of astronomic science that it can outlive its \"mortal\" blows by the simple process of forgetting them, and, in general, simply by denying that it can make mistakes. Upon page 245, Old and New Astronomy, Richard Proctor says--\"The ideas of astronomers on these questions of distance have not changed, and in the present position of astronomy, based (in such respects) on absolute demonstration\u2026","title":"New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 5","word_count":2612},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands106_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands106_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"ENGLISH MECHANIC,\n56-184:\nThat, upon April 25, 1892, Archdeacon Nouri climbed Mt. Ararat. It was his hope that he should find something of arch\u00e6ologic compensation for his clambering.","title":"New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 6","word_count":1784},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands107_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands107_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THE three abstrusities:\nThe aberration of light, the annual parallax of the stars; and, the regular, annual shift of the lines of the stellar spectra. By the aberration of light is meant a displacement of all stars, during a year's observation, by which stars near the pole of the ecliptic describe circles, stars are nearer the ecliptic describe ellipses, and the stars of the ecliptic, only little straight lines. It is supposed that light has velocity, and that these forms represent the ratio\u2026","title":"New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 7","word_count":3018},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands109_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands109_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"ACCORDING to Prof. Newcomb, for instance, the distance of the sun is about 380 times the distance of the moon--as determined by triangulation. But upon page 22, Popular Astronomy, Newcomb tells of another demonstration, with strikingly different results--as determined by triangulation.","title":"New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 9","word_count":1112},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands201_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands201_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"JUNE, 1801--a mirage of an unknown city. It was seen, for more than an hour, at Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland--a representation of mansions, surrounded by shrubbery and white palings--forests behind.","title":"New Lands: Part 2 Chapte 1","word_count":1721},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands210_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands210_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"EXPLOSIONS over the town of Barisal, Bengal, if they were a\u00ebrial explosions, were continuing. As to some of these detonations that were heard in May, 1874, a writer in Nature, 53-197, says that they did seem to come from overhead. For a report upon the Barisal Guns, heard between April 28, 1888, and March 1, 1889, see Proc.","title":"New Lands: Part 2 Chapter 10","word_count":1714},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands211_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands211_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"UPON the night if the 13th of July, 1875, at midnight, two officers of the H.M.S. Coronation, in the Gulf of Siam, saw a luminous projection from the moon's upper limb (Nature, 12-495). Upon the 14th it was gone, but a smaller projection was seen from another part of the moon's limb.","title":"New Lands: Part 2 Chapter 11","word_count":840},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands212_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands212_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"THAT through lenses rimmed with horizons, inhabitants of this earth have seen revelations of other worlds--that atmospheric strata of different densities are lenses--but that the faults of the wide glasses in the observatories are so intensified in atmospheric revelations that all our data are distortions. Our acceptance is that every mirage has a primary; that in human mind all poetry is based upon observation, and that imagery in the sky is similarly uncreative. If a mirage can not be traced\u2026","title":"New Lands: Part 2 Chapter 12","word_count":1687},{"api_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands213_htm","collection":"Fortean Texts","id":"sacred_texts_v1_fort_lands_lands213_htm","source":"sacred_texts_v1","summary":"EXPLODING monasteries that shoot out clouds of monks into cyclonic formations with stormy nuns similarly dispossessed--or collapsing monasteries--sometimes slowly crumbling confines of the cloistered--by which we typify all things: that all developments pass through a process of walling-away within shells that will break. Once upon a time there was a shell around the United States. The shell broke.","title":"New Lands: Part 2 Chapter 13","word_count":1958}],"sort":"title","tag":null,"total":195}