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The Book of the Damned
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Charles Fort
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But,
in
volume
44,
page
216,
of
the
Journal,
there
is
an
apology.
The
whole
matter
is,
upon
newspaper
authority,
said
to
have
been
a
hoax
by
Negroes,
who
had
pretended
to
have
seen
the
shower,
for
the
sake
of
practicing
upon
the
credulity
of
their
masters:
that
they
had
scattered
the
decaying
flesh
of
a
dead
hog
over
the
tobacco
fields.
If
we
don't
accept
this
datum,
at
least
we
see
the
sociologically
necessary
determination
to
have
all
falls
accredited
to
earthly
origins--even
when
they're
falls
that
don't
fall.
Annual
Register,
1821-687:
That,
upon
the
13th
of
August,
1819,
something
had
fallen
from
the
sky
at
Amherst,
Mass.
It
had
been
examined
and
described
by
Prof.
Graves,
formerly
lecturer
at
Dartmouth
College.
It
was
an
object
that
had
upon
it
a
nap,
similar
to
that
of
milled
cloth.
Upon
removing
this
nap,
a
buff-colored,
pulpy
substance
was
found.
It
had
an
offensive
odor,
and,
upon
exposure
to
the
air,
turned
to
a
vivid
red.
This
thing
was
said
to
have
fallen
with
a
brilliant
light.
Also
see
the
Edinburgh
Philosophical
Journal,
5-295.
In
the
Annales
de
Chimie,
1821-67,
M.
Arago
accepts
the
datum,
and
gives
four
instances
of
similar
objects
or
substances
said
to
have
fallen
from
the
sky,
two
of
which
we
shall
have
with
our
data
of
gelatinous,
or
viscous
matter,
and
two
of
which
I
omit,
because
it
seems
to
me
that
the
dates
given
are
too
far
back.
In
the
American
Journal
of
Science,
1-2-335,
is
Professor
Graves'
account,
communicated
by
Professor
Dewey:
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