In a rainstorm in Wilna, Lithuania, on April 4, 1846, nut-sized masses of a resinous and gelatinous substance fell, according to Comptes Rendus, 23-542. It was “odorless until burned: then it spread a very pronounced sweetish odor.” It was firmer than “gelatine,” but when in water for 24 hours, it “swelled out, and looked altogether … [Read more...] about Vast gelatinous areas aloft
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Vast gelatinous areas aloft
In a rainstorm in Wilna, Lithuania, on April 4, 1846, nut-sized masses of a resinous and gelatinous substance fell, according to Comptes Rendus, 23-542. It was “odorless until burned: then it spread a very pronounced sweetish odor.” It was firmer than “gelatine,” but when in water for 24 hours, it “swelled out, and looked altogether … [Read more...] about Vast gelatinous areas aloft
Always the illusion of the final
The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1847-pt. 1-193 records a fall of an olive-gray powder at Shanghai on March 16, 1846. Under the microscope, it was “seen to be an aggregation of hairs of two kinds, black ones and rather thick white ones.” When burned, they smelled of ammonia and burnt hair or feathers. –Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 59 … [Read more...] about Always the illusion of the final
Always the illusion of the final
The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1847-pt. 1-193 records a fall of an olive-gray powder at Shanghai on March 16, 1846. Under the microscope, it was “seen to be an aggregation of hairs of two kinds, black ones and rather thick white ones.” When burned, they smelled of ammonia and burnt hair or feathers. –Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 59 … [Read more...] about Always the illusion of the final
A great quantity of corpuscles
Fort quotes a story in Comptes Rendus, 23-832, about a tremendous red rain in France, Oct. 16 and 17, 1846. The explanation was that the rain was colored by matter swept up from the earth’s surface and then precipitated. But a later issue of the journal, 24-625, described the rain as “so vividly red and so blood-like that many persons in France were … [Read more...] about A great quantity of corpuscles