Lo! Welcome to the worlds of Charles Fort, chronicler of the odd, the weird, the strange, the unexpected, and the inexplicable. In words at times as beautiful as anything ever written in English, Fort reveals the marvels of an age, questions the nature of what we think we know for certain, and provides the listener with leads on how not to be fooled by shaggy-dog stories.
Here you’ll find rains of the unexpected, fish, snakes, and other items from the “super Sargasso sea” of the unexplained that circles the Earth. Here are accounts of UFOs, accounts of odd animals seen at sea or on land, mysterious attacks by what appear to have been animals, mysterious appearances of things, and people in places they could not be.
Hear Fort’s epic account of spontaneous combustion, lights in the sky, poltergeists unseen, murderous wild animals, mysterious disappearances, manifestations of psychotic mania, speaking in tongues – and, of course, the cow that gave birth to two lambs.
All of this Fortean wonder is prefaced by a magnificent new introductory essay by Jack Womack, winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and lifetime Fortean.
We hear much of the conflict between science and religion, but our conflict is with both of these. Science and religion always have agreed in opposing and suppressing the various witchcrafts. Now that religion is inglorious, one of the most fantastic of transferences of worships is that of glorifying science, as a beneficent being. It is the attributing of all that is of development, or of possible betterment to science. But no scientist has ever upheld a new idea, without bringing upon himself abuse from other scientists. Science has done its utmost to prevent whatever Science has done.
Chapter Timestamps
00:00 – Chapter 1
24:26 – Chapter 2
30:21 – Chapter 3
38:05 – Chapter 4
1:22:57 – Chapter 5
1:37:12 – Chapter 6
1:57:14 – Chapter 7
2:33:46 – Chapter 8
2:43:34 – Chapter 9
3:17:34 – Chapter 10
3:27:36 – Chapter 11
3:41:11 – Chapter 12
4:04:41 – Chapter 13
4:19:11 – Chapter 14
5:03:51 – Chapter 15
5:36:34 – Chapter 16
5:48:38 – Chapter 17
6:07:11 – Chapter 18
6:25:03 – Chapter 19
6:47:32 – Chapter 20
7:33:08 – Chapter 21
7:51:39 – Chapter 22
8:18:53 – Chapter 23
8:55:36 – Chapter 24
9:16:44 – Chapter 25
9:33:55 – Chapter 26
10:04:45 – Chapter 27
10:27:40 – Chapter 28
10:56:19 – Chapter 29
11:11:42 – Chapter 30
11:17:57 – Chapter 31
11:44:22 – Chapter 32
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