charles fort

Hello, all, This is my first post here, so I'll start off with this: ages ago, I found a letter from Charles Fort in the back of a book - you can read it here: https://johndstanton.blogspot.com/2009/07/letter-from-charles-fort.html :)

Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre is a 1965 French television miniseries. At the beginning of the first episode there is a wonderful portrait of Charles Fort. Obviously it's in the French version: the mustache and Basque are typical of the time, but there's no doubt he's him. It's a scene...

I've mentioned this one previously, but thought I would open a separate thread as I find this a particularly interesting set of 'sightings', sitting as it does in the grey area between ufology and other types of Fortean phenomena. Also it took place almost exactly a hundred years ago, around the...

Following on from a few cases discussed on here I wonder if there are a set of circumstances when put together you get a Poltergeist and I wonder if all the investigations anyone has come up with any I know it is oft said that it's brought on by frustrated adolescents but if this was the case...

If possibly of interest, this is the overall outcome, as things stand. It was never intended to be anything other than an exercise, with no particular objective except curiosity and I wondered how far back it might reach. Having extended both backwards in time and incorporating many more...

I shall explain the exact lineage separately...

Merely out of curiosity, I had spent some time online, researching Charles Fort's ancestry. To my surprise, if not indeed astonishment, something quite unexpected has transpired. I wondered if Fort's ancestral Scottish connection was known? If not and maybe of interest, I shall provide...

Does anybody know when this might be released? It says it's in preparation on Ian James Kidd's webpage.

I was thinking about the role faith plays in our acceptance or otherwise of various phenomena. I have known two people with a strong Christian faith, a work colleague and the father of a friend. Both were very open about their faith but it was personal to them. They would happily talk about...

(This line of discussion spun off from the "What Did Fort Think Of 'Forteans' & 'Forteanism'?" thread) Would Fort have been able to do his research without libraries? Would he be able to do as good a job today?

I wonder what Charles Fort would have thought, had he known that a magazine and an entire society would spring out of his research? Never mind a website!

I don't think I've ever heard Fort's voice.... do any recordings exist of him speaking?

I’m thinking of getting a charles fort tattoo, does anyone have one? His bespectacled headshot in Fortean Times would make a great tattoo. Or how would one graphically illustrate measuring a circle starting anywhere?

Came across the following - maybe of interest? Charles Fort (1874-1932) the famed collector of anomalies was the centre of one himself…. By Alan Murdie "So might begin many personal accounts of poltergeist activity. But this one was different. The words are those of Charles Fort himself...

I have come upon an article by Tiffany Thayer, which doesn't seem to have featured previously and might be of particular interest: Charles Fort and the Religion of Self-Respect Tiffany Thayer The Humanist No. 2, April 1950 pages 58 - 61 This article, the first of several to appear on...

The following is resultant from this: 'Suggestions For A Good Read' https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/suggestions-for-a-good-read.13479/post-2104516 It's from a book entitled, 'LOW MAN ON A TOTEM POLE', by H Allen Smith and therein a lengthy chapter, 'The Mad Genius of the Bronx'...

I had noticed a reference to the following article: Charles Fort: Enfant Terrible of Science by Miriam Allen DeFord The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1954 I have located an online copy of the magazine, which can be downloaded as a .pdf file from...

I have come across the following article and maybe of interest? I have referenced the author previously: Thread 'A Collection Of Fortean Biographies' https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/a-collection-of-fortean-biographies.66883/ One measures a circle, beginning anywhere": Henry...

I'm not sure if this is well known and referenced just in case. I can't see any previous mention of it. A fascinating read and if likewise a new discovery, truly recommended. It's available as a .pdf download. ‘An outcry of silences’ Charles Hoy Fort and the uncanny voices of science...

Charles Fort Research Papers Perhaps of interest? https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Charles_Fort

Maybe of interest? Full details (remove @): @https://youtu.be/wRHl8ecLrcY

If perhaps not so well known... Charles Hoy Fort's Short Stories Charles Hoy Fort attained an international reputation as the author of four iconoclastic books and was described in his obituary as the "Foe of Science" by the New York Times in 1932. Fort expressed his doubts about prevailing...

I was browsing YouTube recently for any Charles Fort material I hadn't noticed previously and came across the following. Is this possibly of interest?

Would this perhaps be of interest? Presuming it's available because there are no longer any copyright issues (otherwise, please of course immediately remove this post):

Happy birthday Charles Fort, born on this day 1874. You can check out my biography of the man himself here

Maybe of interest, an article from The News and Observer, 19 October, 1952. It's at the right-hand-side, entitled, 'INCIDENTALLY': https://www.newspapers.com/image/654827879/

Just finished reading the following article and if not seen previously, wondered if it may be of interest. I thought it was an excellent read. Vindication for the Damned: Why Fort’s Strange Philosophy Has Endured Source: mysteriousuniverse.org Date: 13 November, 2019 "VAST AND BLACK. The...

While I await delivery of Jack Hunter's Damned Facts: Fortean Essays on Religion, Folklore and the Paranormal, it would be nice to hear from my esteemed Fortean colleagues gathered here regarding their favourite pieces in the collection along with any observations they may have to share on...

The Fortean Fallacy! Found this an interesting read: https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~coker2/index.files/fortean.shtml

Thought some folks might enjoy this article: https://crimereads.com/the-playboy-and-the-publisher-a-murder-story/

Goodness sakes... was looking online for a detailed biography of Charles Fort and discovered this. If a well known article, obviously just ignore: http://fortean.wikidot.com/charles-fort

"Oct. 22, 1924—Yesterday, I was in the front room, thinking casually of the pictures that fell from the walls. This evening, my eyes bad. Unable to read. Was sitting, staring at the kitchen wall, fiddling with a piece of string. Anything to pass away time. I was staring right at a picture above...

It is my contention that many aficionados of Charles Fort have completely missed his real importance to modern thought. Many speak about Fort as if he were nothing more than an eccentric curator of a virtual museum of late Victorian curiosities. This certainly is the view taken by the majority...

I hope it's ok for me to post this here, if not please let me know and I'll delete. I have just released my own little homage to Charles Fort. It's the first in a series of detective novels, featuring the man himself! A sort of Sherlock Holmes / Hercule Poirot type novel. Here's the link for...

There's a letter in FT341 asking what Fort's shoeboxes (where he stored his data) would have been designed for. Nobody seems to think they were for shoes, but the writer mentions they could fit a pair of shoes packed heel to toe, which I think sounds most likely. Fort certainly got a lot of...

Just out of interest Has Charles Hoy Fort got ant living relatives? And are they intersted in Forteana?

I want more! I want photos and drawings of the great man plastered on my walls rather than just as simulacra in the mould on the plaster. Can we have a central repository of royalty free images (drawings or photos) of him. I'd happiliy host it. I just want to make his face more recognised as...

Around the internet one can often see the phrase "Cosmic Joker" attributed to Charles Fort [1] and it's used quite often here in the Fortean Times forums, too. But... ...I can't find the phrase anywhere in Fort's books, at least not via Google in Mr. X's online versions. The closest I...

I've always had an interest in the paranormal, and naturally I like to read Fortean Times. But I confess to knowing very little about Fort himself - so I've been thinking of buying this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Charles-Fort-Ma ... 240&sr=1-2 Would anyone here recommend it?

This may well have been flagged up somewhere on the forum (but I couldn't find it). 'Wild Talents' and 'Lo' have recently been added (New Lands and Book of the Damned have been on there a while). Yours to read at http://www.sacred-texts.com/fort/index.htm I suppose they may well be...

Hi everyone, I've always wondered who was this France that Charles Fort mentionned in Wild Talents in the following paragraph : Nov. 4, 1926 -- This is worth noting. Last night, I noted about the pictures, because earlier in the evening, talking over psychic experiences with France and...

Here's a link to a scanned FATE article on Charles Fort. I haven't been able to download it but the two scans on the blog post make it look like it might be an interesting read. Via Boing Boing

Tomorrow night (Thur 21st Dec) I'm giving an interview on BBC Radio Wales' "Adam and Mal Show" about Charles Fort; probably discussing his life, work and relevence today. The show starts at 8pm, and I'm on around 8.15. You can listen to the show online (whether you're in the UK or not) at...

When I got it into my head to write about anomalous phenomena, the problem was where to begin? I decided to start from the ground up, with definitions of what sort of things I'd be writing about. The first thing Charles Fort would say would be "There can be no definitions, because nothing...

I'm writing a book on Fort's philosophy, and would be interested in knowing what Forteans think about New Lands. It's often cited as the least successful and least popular of all his books; but I'd be interested to know what people think about it, and why... Replies either to here or to...

it just occurred to me this morning to wonder whether the two were familiar with each other. certainly some parts of B.O.T.D. strike me as alluding to some of the crowleys metaphysics. Even the title is remnescent of his B.O.T.L. and in that book reason is "damned" (for a dog). perhaps fort...

Did this illustration last night for my blog, and thought some of you might enjoy it. If you would like to see it in its original location, go here [Link dead, image unretrievable--mods] http://hoopladoodle.blogspot.com/2005/10/charles-hoy-fort_07.html Ciao!

A copy of Lippard, Jim. "Charles Fort," in The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal edited by Gordon Stein (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996) pp. 277-280 I can't afford the Encyc, but would find the article very useful. Ian (formerly Iankidd, until the new message board confused me)

Nice little history of Charles Fort and Fortean Times that I had forgotten about in January's edition of Saucer Smear I expect there must be old issues of "Doubt" still surviving. Anyone here care to own up? :)

The squabble of the age in journals nobody reads is being played out between the 'analytic' school of philosophy derived from Russell & co. and the Post Modern wedge taking their lead from Derrida, Foucoult and counterless other black polo-neck wearing Galoise smokers. It is a savage cat...