The enigmatic "Book of the Damned"

The book of the Damned has served as inspiration to scientists, writers, screenwriters...its content, despite having more than 100 years, is reviewed by authors and friends of the mystery.Its author, Charles Fort , compiled in the "strange" and out of the ordinary of what he had news.Let's get into the creepy "Book of the Damned".

The enigmatic "Book of the Damned"

When Charles Fort (1874-1932) gave him that title, he was not referring to unredeemed sinners, but to all those events that, for getting out of the "normal" and being uncomfortable, were doomed to remain in the dark .Themes that science set aside and excluded , but that he seemed worthy of attention.He considered his book as "a procession of the damned." His first edition is dated at 1919.

Fort believed that many scientists They had a "fundamentalist" attitude and did not want to depart from the marked paths and study these phenomena. They were not interested in seeking the truth because they did not contradict the Beliefs of official science.Fort was one of the first to write about "paranormal" phenomena and for that reason his work is, even today, valued and recognized.

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Piedra Esperanza and its strange symbols

In the book collects many strange and interesting phenomena that are still curious today.One of the first ones he quotes is the strange glow that covered the sky around the world in 1883 .The official version is that it was due to the explosion of the Krakatoa volcano.Fort's investigations led him to conclude that the glow was earlier in a few months to the explosion, so this could not be the cause.What happened in the terrestrial sky? The scientists, unable to explain it, used the Krakatoa explosion as a convenient solution, but Fort evidences that it was not possible.

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Fort was not trying to explain, but expose the facts and contradictions of the official explanations, leaving the reader to draw his own conclusions.The topics that most interested him were the organic rains such as frogs, fish, meat or other unidentified materials, the mysterious «lightning stones» of uncertain origin, the possible UFOs sighted all over the planet or the existence of mythological beings such as giants or fairies.They were also interested in the mysterious disappearances of people, such as the alleged disappearance during the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 from several hundred people who They were in a shelter or that of the famous ship Mary Celeste, which appeared adrift without crew.

Fort filled boxes and boxes of documents about mysterious facts and the most interesting are in his work.The book, after more than 75 years of its first edition, is in the public domain and, although in English, it is possible to read it on this Wikisource link, if you are interested.

If you like curious books , you may want to know The most enigmatic book in history: the Voynich manuscript

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