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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
283
Annual
Register,
1857-132:
An
account
by
Charles
A.
Murray,
British
Envoy
to
Persia,
of
a
darkness
of
May
20,
1857,
that
came
upon
Bagdad--"a
darkness
more
intense
than
ordinary
midnight,
when
neither
stars
nor
moon
are
visible...."
"After
a
short
time
the
black
darkness
was
succeeded
by
a
red,
lurid
gloom,
such
as
I
never
saw
in
any
part
of
the
world."
"Panic
seized
the
whole
city."
"A
dense
volume
of
red
sand
fell."
This
matter
of
sand
falling
seems
to
suggest
conventional
explanation
enough,
or
that
a
simoon,
heavily
charged
with
terrestrial
sand,
had
obscured
the
sun,
but
Mr.
Murray,
who
says
that
he
had
had
experience
with
simoons,
gives
his
opinion
that
"it
cannot
have
been
a
simoon."
It
is
our
comprehensiveness
now,
or
this
matter
of
concomitants
of
darknesses
that
we
are
going
to
capitalize.
It
is
all
very
complicated
and
tremendous,
and
our
own
treatment
can
be
but
impressionistic,
but
a
few
of
the
rudiments
of
Advanced
Seismology
we
shall
now
take
up--or
the
four
principal
phenomena
of
another
world's
close
approach
to
this
world.
If
a
large
substantial
mass,
or
super-construction,
should
enter
this
earth's
atmosphere,
it
is
our
acceptance
that
it
would
sometimes--depending
upon
velocity--appear
luminous
or
look
like
a
cloud,
or
like
a
cloud
with
a
luminous
nucleus.
Later
we
shall
have
an
expression
upon
luminosity--different
from
the
luminosity
of
incandescence--that
comes
upon
objects
falling
from
the
sky,
or
entering
this
earth's
atmosphere.
Now
our
expression
is
that
worlds
have
often
come
close
to
this
earth,
and
that
smaller
objects--size
of
a
haystack
or
size
of
several
dozen
skyscrapers
lumped,
have
often
hurtled
through
this
earth's
atmosphere,
and
have
been
mistaken
for
clouds,
because
they
were
enveloped
in
clouds--
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