I am a collector of notes upon subjects that have diversity–such as deviations from concetricity in the lunar crater Copernicus, and a sudden appearance of purple Englishmen–staionary meteor-radiants, and a reported growth of hair on the bald head of a mummy–and “Did the girl swallow the octopus?” But my liveliest interest is not so much in things, … [Read more...] about I am a collector of notes
Fortean Events
Damn the particle
Damn the particle, but there is salvation for the aggregate. A gust of wind is wild and free, but there are handcuffs on the storm. During the World War, no course of a single bullet could have been predicted absolutely, but any competent mathematician could have written the equations of the conflict as a whole. This is the attempt by the theologians of science to admit the … [Read more...] about Damn the particle
Died suddenly
Lloyd’s Sunday News (London) of Oct. 14, 1923 relates the case of John Blackman, a well-known labor leader of Eastbourne, Sussex, England. In April 1922, Blackman was committed to prison for arrears due to his wife. The judge who committed him died suddenly. When the man was released, he still refused to pay, and was sent back to prison. That judge “died … [Read more...] about Died suddenly
Intense darkness
On April 2, 1889 at Aitkin, Minnesota, during an intense darkness, sand and “solid chunks of ice” fell, according to Science, April 19, 1889. –Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 189 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974). … [Read more...] about Intense darkness
Unlike anything I had ever seen before
In Nature, 90-169 and additional subsequent pages is the account of a man, Charles Tilden Smith, who saw “two stationary dark patches upon clouds” on April 8, 1912 at Chisbury, Wiltshire, England. These patches were triangular and varied in size, but “kept the same position upon different clouds as cloud after cloud came along.” He watched them for more … [Read more...] about Unlike anything I had ever seen before