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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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In
Notes
and
Queries,
2-4-139,
there
is
an
account
of
a
darkness
in
Holland,
in
the
midst
of
a
bright
day,
so
intense
and
terrifying
that
many
panic-stricken
persons
lost
their
lives
stumbling
into
the
canals.
Gentleman's
Magazine,
33-414:
A
darkness
that
came
upon
London,
Aug.
19,
1763,
"greater
than
at
the
great
eclipse
of
1748."
However,
our
preference
is
not
to
go
so
far
back
for
data.
For
a
list
of
historic
"dark
days,"
see
Humboldt,
Cosmos,
1-120.
Monthly
Weather
Review,
March,
1886-79:
That,
according
to
the
La
Crosse
Daily
Republican,
of
March
20,
1886,
darkness
suddenly
settled
upon
the
city
of
Oshkosh,
Wis.,
at
3
P.M.,
March
19.
In
five
minutes
the
darkness
equaled
that
of
midnight.
Consternation.
I
think
that
some
of
us
are
likely
to
overdo
our
own
superiority
and
the
absurd
fears
of
the
Middle
Ages--
Oshkosh.
People
in
the
streets
rushing
in
all
directions--horses
running
away--women
and
children
running
into
cellars--little
modern
touch
after
all:
gas
meters
instead
of
images
and
relics
of
saints.
This
darkness,
which
lasted
from
eight
to
ten
minutes,
occurred
in
a
day
that
had
been
"light
but
cloudy."
It
passed
from
west
to
east,
and
brightness
followed:
then
came
reports
from
towns
to
the
west
of
Oshkosh:
that
the
same
phenomenon
had
already
occurred
there.
A
"wave
of
total
darkness"
had
passed
from
west
to
east.
Other
instances
are
recorded
in
the
Monthly
Weather
Review,
but,
as
to
all
of
them,
we
have
a
sense
of
being
pretty
well-eclipsed,
ourselves,
by
the
conventional
explanation
that
the
obscuring
body
was
only
a
very
dense
mass
of
clouds.
But
some
of
the
instances
are
interesting--intense
darkness
at
Memphis,
Tenn.,
for
about
fifteen
minutes,
at
10
A.M.,
Dec.
2,
1904--"We
are
told
that
in
some
quarters
a
panic
prevailed,
and
that
some
were
shouting
and
praying
and
imagining
that
the
end
of
the
world
had
come."
(M.W.R.,
32-522.)
At
Louisville,
Ky.,
March
7,
1911,
at
about
8
A.M.:
duration
about
half
an
hour;
had
been
raining
moderately,
and
then
hail
had
fallen.
"The
intense
blackness
and
general
ominous
appearance
of
the
storm
spread
terror
throughout
the
city."
(M.W.R.,
39-345.)
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