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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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"Cloud
bounded
along,
coming
to
the
earth
every
eight
hundred
or
one
thousand
yards."
Here's
an
interesting
bit
that
I
got
somewhere
else.
I
offer
it
as
a
datum
in
super-biology,
which,
however,
is
a
branch
of
advanced
science
that
I'll
not
take
up,
restricting
to
things
indefinitely
called
"objects"--
"The
tornado
came
wriggling,
jumping,
whirling
like
a
great
green
snake,
darting
out
a
score
of
glistening
fangs."
Though
it's
interesting,
I
think
that's
sensational,
myself.
It
may
be
that
vast
green
snakes
sometimes
rush
past
this
earth,
taking
a
swift
bite
wherever
they
can,
but,
as
I
say,
that's
a
super-biologic
phenomenon.
Finley
gives
dozens
of
instances
of
tornado
clouds
that
seem
to
me
more
like
solid
things
swathed
in
clouds,
than
clouds.
He
notes
that,
in
the
tornado
at
Americus,
Georgia,
July
18,
1881,
"a
strange
sulphurous
vapor
was
emitted
from
the
cloud."
In
many
instances,
objects,
or
meteoritic
stones,
that
have
come
from
this
earth's
externality,
have
had
a
sulphurous
odor.
Why
a
wind
effect
should
be
sulphurous
is
not
clear.
That
a
vast
object
from
external
regions
should
be
sulphurous
is
in
line
with
many
data.
This
phenomenon
is
described
in
the
Monthly
Weather
Review,
July,
1881,
as
"a
strange
sulphurous
vapor
...
burning
and
sickening
all
who
approached
close
enough
to
breathe
it."
The
conventional
explanation
of
tornadoes
as
wind-effects--which
we
do
not
deny
in
some
instances--is
so
strong
in
the
United
States
that
it
is
better
to
look
elsewhere
for
an
account
of
an
object
that
has
hurtled
through
this
earth's
atmosphere,
rising
and
falling
and
defying
this
earth's
gravitation.
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