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Book of the Damned Paperback – June 23, 1995

by Charles Fort (Author)

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The original and greatest compilation of 1,001 attested phenomena that science cannot answer and deliberately ignores. This book should be a companion reader to anyone studying Khun. Probably the most important book on scientific philosophy written at the turn of last century. It also reads like the Weekly World News. Have fun!
We hate to be that skeptic, but:
Translation: another collection of pseudocientific claims, most of them solved long time ago.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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The Book of the Damned has inspired scientists, science fiction writers, moviemakers, and devotees for almost a hundred years. The damned data Charles Fort gathered covered so many marvels, mysteries, and monsters--including unidentified aerial objects, frog falls, ship disappearances, red rains, earthquake lights, lake monsters, animal mutilations, psychic explosions, and much, much more. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: John Brown Publishing Ltd; New edition edition (June 23, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1870870530
ISBN-13: 978-1870870535
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,901,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5593 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Occult & Paranormal > Unexplained Mysteries
- #1803713 in Books > Reference

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful

Scepticism for starters: the trippy mind of Charles Fort

By Takis Tz. on November 9, 2003

Format: Paperback

Hailed as the man who kick-started modern day scepticism for the findings and conclusions of mainstream science, Charles Fort is actually a man who is paid more tribute now than ever before with the advent of alternative archaeology and science in general and with more and more people (researchers, scientists or not) actually doubting some of our more precious scientific dogmas.
This book is a celebration of humor as well as scepticism, the humor part being the one which most people have greatly misunderstood about C.Fort.
Fort takes literally 100s of examples of bizzare unexplained phenomena such as things falling from the sky (ranging from frogs or fish to metal objects) to spontaneous combustion, to unidentified flying objects, to time travel among others and actually exposes science's comical "answers" to these phenomena.
Frogs that have been rained by the sky or fish for that matter are not a phenomenon that has stopped. It still happens. The "official explanation" remains as hilarious as it was back in Fort's times, namely: a hurricane or a whirlwind picks them up and "rains" them somewhere else. However, why these winds are selective in what they pick up remains unaswered by science.
The usual and continuing up to this day explanation about UFOs which concerns mass illusion or the classic "weather baloon" explanation is picked up by Fort and given the ridiculing treatment it deserves.
What makes Fort such a classic and cult figure is his ability to use subtle (mostly) but lethal sarcasm to debunk the dogmatic and more than often funny explanations that scientists offer when cornered with occurences that dont fit or even shutter their sacred theories.Read more ›

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

The First UFO Investigator

By M. A Michaud on October 19, 2003

Format: Paperback

This book, one of four he published before passing away in 1932, exploits Fort's research into reports of peculiar things in the sky or fallen from the sky to challenge the authority of establishment science. He describes the book as an assemblage of data of external relations of this earth, "damned" by those who hold for our planet's isolation. According to Fort, the attitude of Science and Christian Science toward the unwelcome is the same: it does not exist.
Some of the events described in these reports would be described today as UFO's. While some of these cases may warrant attention, others seem marginal.

Fort hypothesizes that "there is somewhere aloft a place" where life may have orginated; "evolution on this earth has been induced by external influences." He offers alternative explanations for unexplained sightings: another world that is in secret communication with certain "esoteric" inhabitants of this earth; other worlds that are trying to establish communication with all the inhabitants of the earth; other worlds and vast structures that pass us by without the slightest desire to communicate; a vast construction that has often come to this earth, dipped into an ocean, then gone away. At one point, Fort writes that the earth was a no-man's land explored and colonized by other worlds; now something owns this earth, warning off all others. All this, he goes on, has been known, perhaps for ages, to certain ones upon the earth.
It is hard to know how much of this is serious and how much is just satire. Fort's imagined super-constructions a few miles above the earth stretch credibility too far. His quirky writing style, though sometimes entertaining, tends to further undermine his believability. Nonetheless, anyone wanting to read into the UFO phenomenon may find this book useful background.

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22 of 27 people found the following review helpful

An excellent and hilarious classic!

By A Customer on February 10, 1999

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This is not a new book, but was written sometime around the turn of century and has been considered a classic on most 'required reading' lists. A spoof on the awe in which society holds the Holy Writs of the scientific community, the author marshalled an impressive army of established, documented facts for which the official scientific explanations are simply absurd. A 'must read' for anyone who believes science teaches The Truth -- or for anyone who suspects otherwise.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

Interesting; well worth the read

By GIR_336 on June 5, 2002

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Weird rains of fish, frogs, blood, powders, meat, marsh paper, butter. Mysterious planets and black spots. UFOs. Giant axes. Fairy crosses and coffins. Huge footprints. Devil's walks. Rock-throwing poltergeists.
All this and more can be found in Charles Fort's "The Book of the Damned".
Fort's work is, of course, a satire on the dogmatism of science. Personally, I didn't find Fort very funny, and his work was very plodding, but well worth the time and effort.
Fort's first two chapters are a good build up. An interesting quote: "A procession of the damned.
By the damned, I mean the excluded.
We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You'll read them -- or they'll march. Some of them livid and some of them fiery and some of them rotten.
Some of them are corpses, skeletons, mummies, twitching, tottering, animated by companions that have been damned alive. There are giants that will walk by, though sound asleep. There are things that are theorems and things that are rags: they'll go by like Euclid arm in arm with the spirit of anarchy. Here and there will flit little harlots. Many are clowns. But many are of the highest respectability. Some are assassins. There are pale stenches and gaunt superstitions and mere shadows and lively malices: whims and amiabilities. The naïve and the pedantic and the bizarre and the grotesque and the sincere and the insincere, the profound and the puerile."
He goes on to cite red, white, and grey hailstones, and hail the size of elephants, before he gets into his rains.
Fort's writing style is biting and interesting.Read more ›

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I'm almost in love with this guy

How I wish I had started out as a reader with this book! In just about every way this guy's view coincides with whatever it has taken myself a life to learn. Read more

Published 3 months ago by Berit Oftedal

Five Stars

Good read

Published 3 months ago by William Johnson

really great book

Amazing

Published 6 months ago by Jose

Five Stars

Very interesting stuff.

Published 6 months ago by dave hanks

I love everything that this man has written

I love everything that this man has written!! He has taken a lot of his time researching the things that he writes about and it sure does show in his books!!!!

Published 9 months ago by isme

Five Stars

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Published 11 months ago by Malene Garn

They March

_The Book of the Damned_ (1919) is the first of Charles Fort's four stranger-than-science books. The other three are: _New Lands_ (1923), _Lo!_ (1931), and _Wild Talents_ (1932). Read more

Published on May 26, 2010 by Paul Camp

Inscrutable style and outdated explanations never obscure but...

Rains of fish, blood, and gelatinous substances; strange meteors, unexplained lights, mysterious markings: The Book of the Damned is a catalog of data dismissed and excluded from... Read more

Published on April 22, 2010 by Juushika

Okay,,,

No table of contents, and page numbers in the text... Apart from that formatting is decent.

Published on June 3, 2009 by P. Blair

Unusual, bizarre, and extremely intriguing.

Charles Fort spent 27 years of his life searching library archives for credible reports of anomalous phenomena. Read more

Published on April 14, 2008 by Aaron Grabill