Fortean Texts

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Book of the Damned Index
Lo!: Part I: 1
A naked man in a city street—the track of a horse in volcanic mud—the mystery of reindeer's ears—a huge, black form, like a whale, in the…
Lo!: Part I: 10
Unknown, luminous things, or beings, have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth, and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that…
Lo!: Part I: 11
Science is very much like the Civil War, in the U. S. A.
Lo!: Part I: 12
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…
Lo!: Part I: 13
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…
Lo!: Part I: 14
In October, 1904, a wolf, belonging to Captain Bains of Shotley Bridge, twelve miles from Newcastle, England, escaped, and soon afterward…
Lo!: Part I: 15
In every organism, there are, in its governance as a whole, mysterious transportations of substances and forces, sometimes in definite…
Lo!: Part I: 16
Here is the shortest story that I know of: St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Nov. 2, 1886—a girl stepped from her home, to go to a spring.
Lo!: Part I: 17
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…
Lo!: Part I: 18
There was the case of Mrs. Guppy, June 3, 1871, for instance. As the spiritualists tell it, she shot from her home, in London.
Lo!: Part I: 19
In the Encyclopædia Britannica, the story of Kaspar Hauser is said to be one of the most baffling mysteries in history. This is an unusual…
Lo!: Part I: 3
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…
Lo!: Part I: 4
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…
Lo!: Part I: 5
Upon the 9th of January, 1907, Mr. McLaughlin, of the town of Magilligan, County Derry, Ireland, hadn't a red light. Neither had his…
Lo!: Part I: 6
Flows of blood from "holy images"—I take for a proposition that, though nothing can be proved—because, if all phenomenal things are…
Lo!: Part I: 7
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…
Lo!: Part I: 8
There is no way of judging these stories. Every canon, or device, of inductive logic, conceived of by Francis Bacon and John Stuart Mill…
Lo!: Part I: 9
I have come upon a story of somebody, in Philadelphia, who, having heard that a strange wild animal was prowling in New Jersey, announced…
Lo!: Part II: 20
According to appearances, this earth is a central body, within a revolving, starry globe. But am I going to judge by appearances? But…
Lo!: Part II: 21
A trek of circumstances that kicks up a dust of details—a vast and dirty movement that is powdered with particulars— The gossip of men and…
Lo!: Part II: 22
That, in the summer of 1880, some other world, or whatever we'll call it, after a period of hard luck, cheered up—and cast off its…
Lo!: Part II: 23
Melbourne Age, Jan. 21, 1869—there was a carter. He was driving a five-horse truck along the bed of a dry creek.
Lo!: Part III: 24
Emissions of arms—the bubbling of faces, at crevices—fire and smoke and a lava of naked beings. Out from a crater, discharges of bare…
Lo!: Part III: 25
With a surf and a glare, this earth quaked a picture—Or, in the monistic sense, there was, in Peru, a catastrophe that was a hideous and…
Lo!: Part III: 26
Horses erect in a blizzard of frogs—and the patter of worms on umbrellas. The hum of lady birds in England—the twang of a swarm of…
Lo!: Part III: 27
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…
Lo!: Part III: 28
Early in October, 1902, vast volumes of smoke, of unknown origin, obscured all things at sea, and made navigation difficult and dangerous…
Lo!: Part III: 29
Why don't they see, when sometimes magnificently there is something to see? The answer is the same as the answer to another question: Why…
Lo!: Part III: 30
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…
Lo!: Part III: 31
Besides the new star, which was an object so conspicuous that it was discovered widely, except by astronomers, there was another…
Lo!: Part III: 32
Star after star after star—and the signs that there were, at the times of them. Quake after quake after quake—and the sights in the sky, at…
New Lands by Charles Fort: Index
"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…
New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 1
LANDS in the sky-- That they are nearby-- That they do not move. I take for a principle that all being is the infinitely serial, and that…
New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 11
WE have seen that some of the most brilliant inspirations of god-like intellects, or some of the most pestilential emanations from infected…
New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 12
WE try to have independent expressions. Accept that it is not distance that has held the stars in unchanging position, if occasional…
New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 2
"PREDICTION Confirmed!" "Another Verification!" "A Third Verification of Prediction!" Three times, in spite of its long-established…
New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 3
SOUTHERN plantations and the woolly heads of negroes pounding the ground--cries in northern regions and round white faces turned to the…
New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 4
NEVERTHELESS I sometimes doubt that astronomers represent especial incompetence. They remind me too much of uplifters and grocers…
New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 5
SMUGNESS and falseness and sequences of re-adjusting fatalities--and yet so great is the hypnotic power of astronomic science that it can…
New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 6
ENGLISH MECHANIC, 56-184: That, upon April 25, 1892, Archdeacon Nouri climbed Mt. Ararat. It was his hope that he should find something of…
New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 7
THE three abstrusities: The aberration of light, the annual parallax of the stars; and, the regular, annual shift of the lines of the…
New Lands: Part 1 Chapter 9
ACCORDING to Prof. Newcomb, for instance, the distance of the sun is about 380 times the distance of the moon--as determined by…
New Lands: Part 2 Chapte 1
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…
New Lands: Part 2 Chapter 10
EXPLOSIONS over the town of Barisal, Bengal, if they were aërial explosions, were continuing. As to some of these detonations that were…
New Lands: Part 2 Chapter 11
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…
New Lands: Part 2 Chapter 12
THAT through lenses rimmed with horizons, inhabitants of this earth have seen revelations of other worlds--that atmospheric strata of…
New Lands: Part 2 Chapter 13
EXPLODING monasteries that shoot out clouds of monks into cyclonic formations with stormy nuns similarly dispossessed--or collapsing…

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