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At Vicksburg, Miss., on May 11, 1894, a small piece of alabaster fell in a hailstorm. On the same day, eight miles away in Bovina, a gopher turtle fell in a hailstorm. This was reported in Monthly Weather Review, May 1894; Nature, 1894-430; and Jour. Roy. Met. Soc., 20-273. The editor of the Review decided that “apparently some special local whirls or gusts carried heavy … [Read more...] about Of all the incredibilities that we have to choose from

Annales Societe Entomologique de France, 1858, reports the fall of great number of beetle larvae near Mortagne, France in May 1858. The larvae were “inanimate as if with cold.” -Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 96 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about Inanimate as if with cold

The London Times of June 24, 1880, relates that at High Easter, Essex, England, the home of the Brewster family was plagued by poltergeist disturbances. Brewster thought he saw a shadowy figure that he “recognized as that of his neighbor, Susan Sharpe.” The man and his son went to the woman’s house, dragged her to a nearby pond, and threw her in to see if she … [Read more...] about In a partly visible, or semi-substantial, state

During the summer and fall of 1921 on the Dartmoor road near the village of Post Bridge, England, a series of accidents occurred, all at the same location, to motorcycle riders. T. Gifford relates in the Oct. 14, 1921 Daily Mail that a doctor was riding his motorcycle with his children in the sidecar. He told the children to jump; the cycle swerved and the doctor was killed. On … [Read more...] about Strictly localized

A report in L'Astronomie, 1886-310, tells of a resident of Pondicherry, Madras, India, who, on June 13, 1885, was sitting in a closed room when a mist appeared near him. At the same time there was a violent explosion. The reporter explained it as “at the time the weather was semi-stormy, and…an hour later rain fell heavily.” –Charles Fort, Wild Talents, … [Read more...] about The weather was semi-stormy