Charles Fort
What happens to the facts that refuse to fit comfortably within accepted explanations?In The Book of the Damned, Charles Fort gathers an extraordinary catalogue of strange and unexplained reports drawn from scientific journals, newspapers, astronomical observations, and historical records. Stones and mysterious substances fall from clear skies; frogs, fish, and other creatures descend in unexpected showers; strange lights and objects appear in the heavens; unusual astronomical phenomena challenge conventional explanations; and seemingly impossible events emerge from records that science would often prefer to dismiss or forget.Fort calls these rejected observations the 'damned'-facts excluded because they disturb established theories about how the universe is supposed to behave. With scepticism, humour, speculation, and relentless curiosity, he challenges scientific certainty while proposing possibilities ranging from unknown atmospheric forces to undiscovered worlds and intelligences beyond ordinary human experience. Provocative, eccentric, and filled with accounts of the unexplained, The Book of the Damned invites readers into a universe far stranger and less certain than conventional knowledge would have us believe.
