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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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I
have
notes
upon
other
birds
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
but
unaccompanied
by
the
red
rain
that
makes
the
fall
of
birds
in
France
peculiar,
and
very
peculiar,
if
it
be
accepted
that
the
red
substance
was
extra-mundane.
The
other
notes
are
upon
birds
that
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
in
the
midst
of
storms,
or
of
exhausted,
but
living,
birds,
falling
not
far
from
a
storm-area.
But
now
we
shall
have
an
instance
for
which
I
can
find
no
parallel:
fall
of
dead
birds,
from
a
clear
sky,
far-distant
from
any
storm
to
which
they
could
be
attributed--so
remote
from
any
discoverable
storm
that--
My
own
notion
is
that,
in
the
summer
of
1896,
something,
or
some
beings,
came
as
near
to
this
earth
as
they
could,
upon
a
hunting
expedition;
that,
in
the
summer
of
1896,
an
expedition
of
super-scientists
passed
over
this
earth,
and
let
down
a
dragnet--and
what
would
it
catch,
sweeping
through
the
air,
supposing
it
to
have
reached
not
quite
to
this
earth?
In
the
Monthly
Weather
Review,
May,
1917,
W.L.
McAtee
quotes
from
the
Baton
Rouge
correspondence
to
the
Philadelphia
Times:
That,
in
the
summer
of
1896,
into
the
streets
of
Baton
Rouge,
La.,
and
from
a
"clear
sky,"
fell
hundreds
of
dead
birds.
There
were
wild
ducks
and
cat
birds,
woodpeckers,
and
"many
birds
of
strange
plumage,"
some
of
them
resembling
canaries.
Usually
one
does
not
have
to
look
very
far
from
any
place
to
learn
of
a
storm.
But
the
best
that
could
be
done
in
this
instance
was
to
say:
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