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AND NOONAN? Secretary of the Fortean Society WON'T be quiet, if this is the last col

Secretary of the Fortean Society WON'T be quiet, if this is the last col lection of words I set down on paper, not if this is the last breath I draw.

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from the Day's News . HE really important news of the day seldom appears on the front page of your paper. Most of the following would never have been printed at all if it were not

Since Einstein has cooled off, the cap and bells which is the crown of the Worlds Champion Scientific Clown has not been awarded to his successor. The chief con tenders for the jingling headpiece are Sir

IDAHO looned ship, Pleiades, from Rochester, Minn., (7-18-37), and began shooting himself down Buhl, Idaho, is 114:48 W., 42:37 N., about with TNT pellets aimed at the balloons one 19 miles W.N-W from Twin Falls. Eight at a time. He landed six hours later in a miles N-W of town an area of more than

SIR HUBERT WILKINS Sir Hubert Wilkins left by plane for Can ada at the expense of the Soviet Government the day this paper went to press. Sir Hubert Wilkins is ostensibly going to search for some

Although D. B. Wedge teaches "science" to the boys of the Benedictine Abbey of Fort Augustus, at Loch Ness, he believes under water caverns in his neighborhood are "fed of prehistoric monsters still contrive to exist."

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do not survive travel well." (Also said of phere, perhaps. Some may pass through it some race horses and certain "small" but fine and through Earth itself and out the other wines. T.T.) side of the atmosphere and away on missions

) to the largest thing, but a working ratio { exists which serves fairly well as a sort of While New York City sweltered (7-28-37), i broken-rhythm cosmic-constant (see Planck Press quotes the Collecting Net Knapp Creek, N. Y., reported a light snow for some notes on the jazz music of the

While New York City sweltered (7-28-37), i broken-rhythm cosmic-constant (see Planck Press quotes the Collecting Net Knapp Creek, N. Y., reported a light snow for some notes on the jazz music of the fall and a flight of Canadian geese headed s spheres), serves fairly well with only an from an artic

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Some of the bones and flints brought back from the "Bone Beds of Bethlehem" by two ladies for the Wellcome Marston Archaeologi cal Research Expedition to the Near East, may be the earliest traces of man so far dis

8-17-37. Dr. Earl S. Johnston has been studying the effect of moonlight on plants, under laboratory conditions. He finds that if it has any effect at all it is from some quality other than polarization.

That meteorite which hit Siberia in 1908 has been given the official O.K. of the Ameri can Association for the Advancement of Sci ence (6-23-37). It's all right to believe in it now. After 29 years Science says it's there!

United Press reports oil discovered in Alaska, at Haines, only 13 feet below the FUNGUS SPORES A. G. Newhall, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology in Cornell University flew about

A. G. Newhall, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology in Cornell University flew about (8-7-37) looking for the cause of onion blight. He found it at 1500 feet. GOLD IN BRAZIL

Perhaps the richest gold deposit in Brazil was announced (8-6-37) by Anton Nery. Many started for the Matto Grosso jungle where the mine and the ruins of an ancient city are said to be located.

WENT BACK TO SLEEP When maple trees started to grow (6-3037) out of the walls of the Chestnut Street School in Jeffersonville, Ind., it was found expedient to announce that the plaster had been mixed under a maple tree.

When maple trees started to grow (6-3037) out of the walls of the Chestnut Street School in Jeffersonville, Ind., it was found expedient to announce that the plaster had been mixed under a maple tree. LOBSTERS GOING

Because fishermen take the immature lobs ters to supply the demands of the market, Elmer Higgins, chief of the division of scien tific inquiry, Bureau of Fisheries, Washing ton, D. C., says the scarcity is becoming acute.

Bureau of Fisheries reports the warm wave (6-23-37) has caused oysters to spawn earlier than usual. BLUE SPARKS According to "Special Correspondence"

According to "Special Correspondence" from London, the N. Y. Times reports (8-137) that "Scientists now believe" the blue sparks of Khartum, in the Sudan, and simi lar electric phenomena at Kano, in Northern Nigeria, are caused by "discharging static

News Review (the British equivalent of Time) reports (7-15-37) that two months ago an "amazing" volcanic outburst occurred in Iceland under a glacier. Heat melted the ice from below and a river five miles broad

Irving Kaden, Boston, Mass. Roy Petran Lingle, Swarthmore Uni versity, Pennsylvania. Charles W. Ward, City Electrical Engi neer, Bradentown, Fla.

HE Fortean Society is conducting an ad vertising campaign in the serious pub lications of many prominent universities. It seeks members with fresh, young, alert minds and our colleges are filled with fine

FORGET HOW TO Professor Algernon De V. Tassin of Colum bia University is quoted in a N. Y. Sun edi torial (8-4-37) on the inadequate methods for teaching reading in schools and on the

The substance of Charles Fort is exempli fied by the calibre of the men who most ap preciate his work. One of the best known Founders of the Society is the urbane TownCrier, radio star, dramatic critic, story teller supreme, author of While Rome Burns, Woollcott Reader and many other books. He has

Strangely coincident with the fire just above, five blazes broke out in the seats of parked' automobiles, all within a radius of a few blocks, all early in the morning. Police suggested the fires could have been set. by

Dan Hinckley Arnold, 49, the brother of the girl who went shopping December 12, 1910, died (8-16-37) in Washington. It was Charles Fort who noted that a new and un familiar swan appeared in Central Park the

The FORTEAN is the Official Organ of The Fortean Society Founded 1931

is the Official Organ of The Fortean Society Founded 1931 J. David Stern

BEFORE 4-OOA.N.

AFTER 9:00 PM. STARS OVERHEAD -MIDNIGHT- SEPTEMBER 15-16 Evening stars, Mars sets 10:28 p. Jupiter

Evening stars, Mars sets 10:28 p. Jupiter sets 1:16 p. (Uranus is between Pisces and Taurus all year; Neptune between Leo and Virgo.) Occultation: Gem 5.2 mag., 2:9.5 a. New York and Boston.

For at least the third consecutive year the awesome display of a meteor shower in Per seus, August 11, 12 and 13, was a complete EARTHQUAKES An effort is being made to obtain daily

An effort is being made to obtain daily reports of all quakes the world around. May 30-June 1. The Rabaul, New Britain, volcano noted elsewhere was accompanied by June 18: Alturas, California. Severe shock

If you use any of the above material for your syndicated cartoons or columns you must credit Charles Fort or the Society will prose Tiffany Thayer, Secretary. MORE NEXT MONTH

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ARE PRINTED HERE for the FIRST TIME HIS is the man who liberated minds. The Society founded to do him honor can express its appreciation in no more significant terms. At a time when the faith

HIS is the man who liberated minds. The Society founded to do him honor can express its appreciation in no more significant terms. At a time when the faith of Science in its own works was so absolute

Lightning is not only shooting straighter this year than ever before, it has also taken

The dog was tied to the car (9-7-37). Teddy Fogel, 8, Reno, Nevada, petted the dog. There was an explosion and the boy's hand was burned. Maybe it was static elec tricity, because the cap was off the gasoline

Nobody knows why the electric lights went out (9-5-37) and stayed out for 17 hours on City Island. This is typical of several inex plicable power-house failures noted by the Society in the past two years. Data next issue.

The Sun, 9-11-37, tells of a bolt which skinned a tree, followed a big root 37 feet, then a stream of water (underground) to a house, tip through the floor, up a bed-post to the foot of a sleeping lad, through him and

Tiffany Thayer The soul-withering horror that grips my bowels and makes me writhe in futile frenzy is the nefarious and noxious means by which the Glory of Modern Science and all its works

JOINS FORTEANS The Secretary is proud to announce that the author of FRAUD!, THE DEGRADA TION OF SCIENCE and THE JOY OF IG NORANCE has become a member of the

The Secretary is proud to announce that the author of FRAUD!, THE DEGRADA TION OF SCIENCE and THE JOY OF IG NORANCE has become a member of the Fortean Society, the only known body organ

TION OF SCIENCE and THE JOY OF IG NORANCE has become a member of the Fortean Society, the only known body organ ized for the perpetuation of dissent. In Joy of Ignorance, which all Forteans

NORANCE has become a member of the Fortean Society, the only known body organ ized for the perpetuation of dissent. In Joy of Ignorance, which all Forteans will read with pleasure, he has data of hens

Unless he is a lot more careful, W. C. Allee, Professor of Zoology, The University of Chicago, is going to be de-frocked by his Archbishop. In the Literary Guild selection for September, The World and Man, edited

Anna, who found no interest in life after the passing of her husband in 1932, died on August 25, 1937. THE FOUNDERS SLEEPING SICKNESS

Miss Ruth Gaudnier, Peekskill, N. Y., died (9-1-37) at the age of 38 after suffering from "sleeping sickness" for 18 years. Mrs. Rita O'Connor, 36, San Rafael, Calif., has been yawning once every three minutes

Mrs. W. M. Coble, 77, of Omaha, Nebraska, has (according to her physicians) a "blood clot on her brain" which will keep her in a state of coma as long as she is wil fully kept alive by a liquid diet and drug

The Agriculture Department reports (9-10-37) that about 4000 horses have died of sleeping sickness in the Middle West in the PAGING EMILY POST N. Y. Dimes, 9-10-37: William Falhaber,

N. Y. Dimes, 9-10-37: William Falhaber, 68, cafe owner, Spokane, Wash., died of rage because his cook insisted on drinking coffee from the saucer. FIVE DIE "AT" FIGHT

Five persons died, one at the ringside and four at their radios (8-31-37) listening to the Louis-Farr fight for the heavyweight box ing championship of the world. THAT'S WHAT HE

Robert Bosler, flying instructor, Camden, N. J., "believes" that Josef R. Norvath or Horvath (spelling is always guess-work when you quote the World-Telegram) "fainted at the controls" before he crashed

Times, 9-7-37: A two-year-old Leghorn owned by Bryson Foster, Twin Elm, Ontario, has begun, abruptly, it seems, to lay eggs with grass-green yolks. BOOTH TARKINGTON

ON CHARLES FORT Next Issue-- rBEN HECHT. A letter to The BOOKMAN: Who in the name of frenzy is Charles Fort? Author of The Booh^ of the Damned.

Next Issue-- rBEN HECHT. A letter to The BOOKMAN: Who in the name of frenzy is Charles Fort? Author of The Booh^ of the Damned. I'm just pulling up from influenza and this

A letter to The BOOKMAN: Who in the name of frenzy is Charles Fort? Author of The Booh^ of the Damned. I'm just pulling up from influenza and this blamed book kept me all night when I cer

Maybe he was walking in his sleep. (See last issue for three or more somnambulists gathered to their fathers.) Times, 8-27-37: A Sleepwalker Missing from Ship. . . . Police are investigating the

William Judson wrote to Letters (8-5-35) about 210 gravestones overturned in Salem, N. J., the watchman had heard no sound. "It was as though a tractor ten feet wide had rumbled through the graveyard." Some of

The streamline train, City of Denver, ar rived at Chicago (6-7-37) with its headlight broken. Inside the shattered lamp lay a dead trout. The published explanation was that the train, going eighty miles an hour, struck

Quintuplet calves were born (8-28-37) to "Spot", a Guernsey-Shorthorn, owned by Hiram Long, Stroud, Okla. Scanned by Bob Rickard 2018 October, 1937

June 25, 1937 to July 25, 1937, inclusive. The solid lines indicate the height of the water as recorded by an automatic gauge at the foot of Whitehall Street. The open lines indicate the predictions of the U. S. Coast

Checking back on his own trouble-making, the Secretary scrutinized the trans-Pacific fly ing of the China-Clippers. Their hop is from Wake Island to Guam or vice versa. They cross "Thayer's Line" every time, yet, they

Although "bullets" fly about Lakehurst, N. J., and are never explained away, when a dirigible explodes, that is St. Elmo's fire. When Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed that was probably eczema!

Those "shots" fired at the Navy blimp ZMC-2 (7-31-.35), mentioned here last month in connection with the "St. Elmo's fire" which caused the Hindenburg disaster, were not the first ones known to Lakehurst. The

Those "shots" fired at the Navy blimp ZMC-2 (7-31-.35), mentioned here last month in connection with the "St. Elmo's fire" which caused the Hindenburg disaster, were not the first ones known to Lakehurst. The

The New York Times need not feel badly about attributing the most recent New York earthquake to "fireworks" because the Los Angeles Examiner (which should know more about such things) reported (3-5-36) that

The news that the protein molecule had been "mapped" and its effigy created in a three-dimensional model was exhilarating until one read the entire story. The model was displayed at Nottingham,

Isabel M. Lewis, Nature, August 1930, In the Shadow of the Moon: p. 117, "No longer The Fortean than six weeks before the event, the path of the eclipse as published in the American

Because William S. Barton, Science Editor of the Los Angeles Times, eulogized the sense of humor and the inclination to dissent from Orthodoxy possessed by Dr. Richard Chace Tolman, Caltech the Secretary has

(In the following table where a city name appears, "and vicinity" is implied. The time given is Greenwich Civil Time.) 72° 30' W. Long., 42° 30' N. Lat. , "New 91° 0' W. Long., 40° 0' N. Lat. , "Chicago"

4:28 Conjunction Venus-Luna. Venus 6° 39' N. 3, 0:42 Conjunction Neptune-Luna. Nep. 6° 30' N. 3, 6:25 Conjunction Mercury-Luna.

First, learn the exact "longitude" of your place of observation. Second, locate on a map the nearest point to your "station" at which one of the designated "degree" lines passes, i. e.,

The technique of presenting Scientific "news" does not differ from the method of presenting "history" in the public schools or from the propaganda style of all text-book and other advertising writing. The effort is,

H. G. Wells told (9-2-37) the British Association for the Advancement of Science that he thought what passed for education today was "pretty poor stuff". Bravo! He then proceeded to outline a plan for increas

The appearance of Sol varied in size and shape in different localities across the central part of Ontario (5-11-37). Some saw a ring around it, others reported a rainbow, others said the center of the orb was black. Officials

(at the age of 6) In a caption to a diagram (p. 512) in Simple Science, his book, Julian Huxley says: "The earth behaves as if a great magnet were buried in it."

The Secretary must be wrong about Earth and Luna being crystals because Carnegie is sniffing around the (cubic) edges of the same idea. Dr. Leason H. Adams, Father Confes sor of the Geophysical Laboratory of Carnegie

Mr. G. O. Rawstron picks a Lunar sore in Popular Astronomy, June-July, 1937. There are lights on the moon which won't stay put. Dear Mr. Rawstron: Do you suppose that pressure from within,

Professor Bryan O'Brien of the University of Rochester has been playing with ultra violet ray balloons on Pike's Peak. He isn't sure yet (9-4-37). Maybe. AND ELLSWORTH

The Army wouldn't give (8-18-37) Lin coln Ellsworth the title of Lieutenant Colonel. He didn't know the right people. . . .Sun, 9-10-37: Ellsworth is "shopping for a plane" to fly the African side of the Antarctic. He

The Republic of Panama let (8-28-37) Carnegie export 39 skeletons and 6 skulls with filled teeth. The bones have to be returned within six months. Dr. Oscar Riddle, Genetics, was asked

A group headed by Rev. Raymond W. Murray has been digging frozen bones out of the ice of the Yukon Valley and St. Law rence Island in the Bering Sea. Although the pronouncements upon their return have the

The mystery of the "blue lights," which appeared on the shores of New London harbor, Conn., on the night of December 2, when Commodore Decatur planned to

iUARY, 1940 WE HAVE THE FREEDOM IBUT WHERE'S THE PRESS?

IBUT WHERE'S THE PRESS? Tiffany Thayer Secretary of the Fortean Society

Tiffany Thayer Secretary of the Fortean Society

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1. To perpetuate the name and the mental attitude of Charles Fort. 2. To remove the halo from the head of 3. To make human beings think. 4. To destroy scientists' faith in their own

The Fortean Society is the Red Cross of the human mind. Its business is to provide antitoxin against all forms of mental paral ysis and intellectual stagnation, and especial ly against the poison of such words as "faith"

We shall have a procession of data that science has excluded. That firmly to believe is to impede development. That only temporarily to accept is to

It is within the power of anybody, who does not know a hyperbola from a cosine, to find out whether the astronomers are led bosh by night , We conceive that it is well that a great

The science of physics, which, at one time, was thought forever to have disposed of werewolves, vampires, witches, and other pets of mine, is today such an attempted systematization of the principles of magic,

Fortean data has been received from the following active members: Edward Peters Donald J. Snively R. T. Springett

Horace McCoy, author of They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and other books, writes that he has access to photostatic copies of the log book of the Cutter Itasca, for the period of the so-called "search" for Amelia Earhart

The new Pope is out for the slapstick- andbladder honors heretofore shared by Sir Hubert Wilkins and Prof. Auguste Picard. Instead of looking for a North Pole in a sub- " ................ marine or shooting TNT pellets at toy bal

Dentist Rickies, Eagle Pass, Texas, heard something barking at him at night. He got out of bed and found furry spiders 4 inches in diameter. He chloroformed one and sent it to College Station, Texas. They didn't know

Death of humans due to bee stings out number fatal spider bites 10 to 1 in the records of the Society. Obvious reason for Science ignoring this is that spiders don't make honey. Authority even goes so far as

Theresa Neumann, internationally known stigmatic of Konnersreuth, Germany, was reported to have died in the night, September 7-8, 1939. The report has been denied, but you can have your choice.

It is now possible to hate Germany more because Dr. Reimuth, Heidelberg, says (810-39) he discovered a new "planet" and he calls it Danzig. And hatred of Russia may be stepped-up a bit also, because a Soviet air expedition has

DOES NOT COME OFF Theoretically there are certain Lunar eclipses which occur while Sol is still visible at the Western horizon. One of these was supposed to have come off 11-7-38. To see

Theoretically there are certain Lunar eclipses which occur while Sol is still visible at the Western horizon. One of these was supposed to have come off 11-7-38. To see this rare sight, F. Trubee Davidson left the

Television: a Struggle jor Power, by Frank C. Waldrop and Joseph Borkin, Morrow, Nine Chains to the Moon, R. Buckminster Fuller, Lippincott, 1938. Scientists are Human, David Lindsay Wat

The World's Fair and Westinghouse pub licity departments buried an assortment of junk in a "cupaloy" tube called a "time capsule". As evidence of the quality of the contents, Einstein was the scientist who

A large closed car was stolen. A few hours later, a motorcycle cop saw it doing 75. He pursued and his speedometer registered 92 m. p. h., but the car was going faster. It crashed. The cop stopped. The car was a total

There's more to this trip of Byrd's than we are likely to know for a number of years. The simple graft to be taken from the govern ment's "initial" appropriation of $340,000 seems insufficient explanation, even with

I am the first disciple of Charles Fort. He has made a terrible onslaught upon the ac cumulated lunacy of fifty centuries. The on slaught will perish. The lunacy will survive, intrenching itself behind the derisive laughter

If it is possible to judge by appearances, the so-called "planet" Earth is not the shrink ing, shrivelling, cooling apple of the text books and never has been. All the evidence indicates that it is growing constantly larger

From September 8, 1937, to November 19, 1939, there have been 140 earthquakes (not counting multiple shocks only minutes or hours apart, but classing all such groups as part of one quake) reported to the

With the usual "up from one place down in another" explanation, the American Weekly notices (9-24-39) a shower of thousands of little frogs at Trowbridge, England, reported by a Mr. Ettles of that

A dozen fish, "apparently perch", be tween three and four inches long, fell (3-21-39) from the sky at the feet of Mrs. Iola Martin, 1122 East D Street, Ontario, Canada. Los Angeles Herald-Ex

The word "propaganda" has taken such a thorough beating in the past few years that it has lost all meaning. Harking back to its original use and digging under the layers of modern lard smeared on to dis

Astronomer Royal H. Spencer Jones, wished to prevent the B. B. C., from broadcasting horoscopes of movie stars, etc. He wrote: "Astrology is a cult entirely de void of scientific foundation, and thrives on

Probably not since the barbers were forbidden to let blood against the King's disease and falling sickness has the medical profession been caught with its collective trousers so low as they were when sulfanila

There was a noise in the sky over Brook lyn. People called (1-9-39) the police and the newspapers. It was such a noise that no listener could explain it, so the reporters called all the Curators in town from Joe

The Freeprez is tireless in its campaign to sell us the exact knowledge of Science , especially Astronomy. At regular intervals through the year "meteor showers" are an nounced as forthcoming with all the certainty

he writes: "Why are astronomers so sure about tonight? Because the earth will cross the orbit of the Giacobini-Zinner comet, which gives rise to the Draconids, a shower of meteors first observed on October 9,

One State Representative in Tennessee was smart enough (2-16-39) to introduce a bill for the repeal of that State's anti-evolution law. The rest of the Representatives were smart enough to defeat it. The sharecroppers

Grandma called it "witchcraft". "Scien tists" said it was the doings of 9 year-old Bertha Marie Sybert. Bertha said (12-24-38) she didn't have anything to do with it. The bed just bounced. Jonesville, Virginia,

Get a wand and a crystal ball for Swami Ellsworth Huntington, Yale. In his studies as chairman of the Committee on the Atmos phere and Man and the Committee on Hu man Heredity, of the National Research

October 23, 1938 the Capistrano swallows departed on schedule as they are said to have done for 162 years. March 19, 1939 they came back on time. BUT , on September 7, 1939 Father Hutchinson informed the

You'd think the Fakers would have taken a lesson from the Shiva Temple fiasco of 1937, when Harold "Lost World" Anthony of the American Museum of Natural History exploded like a balloon full of particularly

Members in good standing for 1940 will receive little pasteboards to carry in their wallets , for all the world like Elks, Masons and other respectable people. The difference between "joining" the Forteans

T. Swann Harding Author of "These National Tax-Eaters'' and "Degradation of Science" The edges of Niagara Falls turned from green to velvet red, which was said to

Typical poltergeist phenomenon is reported (6-25-39) from Port of Spain, Trinidad. Monica Huggins, 17, appears to be the agent. Stones fell inside the lobby of her father's hotel. She moved. Stones fell at the

The tenth moon of Jupiter which revolves "backwards" has been discovered again. This time it is Seth Nicholson of Mt. Wilson who announces (9-16-38) it, with an eleventh thrown in. No. 11 revolves the "right"

HOW COULD YOU? The latest dodge in the Cancer Industry is a "freezing process". With showmanship that Barnum could be proud of, it is being touted everywhere. Drives for charity funds,

The latest dodge in the Cancer Industry is a "freezing process". With showmanship that Barnum could be proud of, it is being touted everywhere. Drives for charity funds, government grants and, of course, legisla

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Glorifying the Ph. D. (and up) Dr. Charles G. Abbott, secretary of Smith sonian and W. H. Hoover, of his staff, announce an "electric galvanometer which can detect such tiny changes as one tentrillionth of an ampere of current". This

The chances are Dr. Thurlow C. Nelson, Rutgers, did not think it up all by himself, but he's the outspoken fellow who says 17,000,000 Americans have it. It's "trichin osis", a new Scientific bugaboo to scare

Strange critters will appear, so steps are "Something about the size of a Great Dane" killed (1-29-37) eighteen sheep by breaking their necks. For details write Clarence Noon, Philadelphia, New York.

The New Orleans police picked him up (10-25-37) and eventually got "his name" down on paper. It is Mailiilaigeyaeyaegyaye Edeyueayearayilo Anililiyllayio. He was booked as 63, a beggar. None could under

G. W. Pope is yawning in Tampa, Fla. A lady is yawning in Baltimore. Many more. We lost one case. Hiccoughing also continues, but we have a man in S. Had ley Falls, Mass., who can cure that. Limita

On November 3, 1937, John Heggerson, Eureka, Nevada, reported that 100 square feet of his ranch had been burning, with an oily smell and black smoke for 9 days. He doesn't know how it started. The land

For several generations "Croy Brae" in England has been a subject of controversy. There one "appears to travel uphill while one is in reality coasting down". In the course of a dozen explanations, the place

The people who live in the Brooklyn house and owned the late "Duke" say the two silhouettes of his head "just came" in the window glass where he used to sit. Three chemists from Polytech, Brooklyn,

The sea otter, considered (1916) virtually extinct was all but plentiful off California, 6-22-38. "Experts" were surprised! Two students of U. of Miami discovered (7-2-38) two trees believed to have been

LIAS COME! would be more striking: but it has in it the sureness, or the psuedo-sureness, of the crank and quack. "Good God, or Godness, or whatever it is, the people downstairs had a baby, and

Now, at last, the complete text of Charles Fort's epochmaking books: THE BOOK OF WILD TALENTS have all been brought together in a

WILD TALENTS have all been brought together in a single volume and completely, thoroughly, and exhaustively

J. David Stern Tiffany Thayer Booth Tarkington Aaron Sussman Burton Rascoe

Manly P. Hall Morris Ernst T. Swann Harding Scott Nearing Evans Fordyce Carlson

If you don't know whether you like the same kind of books such men as those prefer , send for THE BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT , complete in one volume , and see for yourself. The

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Here is the complete text of the manuscript as written, a portion of which appeared in KEN, a magazine which set out to tell the truth and changed its mind before the first issue appeared. The portion reprinted from KEN is The article was written in 1937 and the edited ver

HERE LAST MONTH "The biggest gains last month over September were recorded in building con struction, newspaper advertising and de partment store sales."

"The biggest gains last month over September were recorded in building con struction, newspaper advertising and de partment store sales." Mother! Where would the newspapers be

The Case of Princess "Cara boo" / Was She Buried at Bristol? (It is likely that this story is the direct result of Fort's request of this editor

Order your copy of THE BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT (4 volumes in 1) Indexed, with an Introduction by Tiffany Thayer . . . price $4.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. Address: The Fortean Society, Box 192, Grand Central Annex, New York City, or get it from your BOOKSELLER.

From "Popular Mechanics", December, 1939; page 807: Many Stars arc Nearer Earth Than Hitherto Believed More than 5,000 stars nearest the earth,

SPURNING BRAIN CHILD Paris, March 25, 1940 Edouard Branley, 95-year-old French physicist whose discovery of the principles of wireless teleg raphy led Marconi to develop radio, died Sunday night without a radio in his Paris

Paris, March 25, 1940 Edouard Branley, 95-year-old French physicist whose discovery of the principles of wireless teleg raphy led Marconi to develop radio, died Sunday night without a radio in his Paris "To think that I had something to do

Sir Hubert (what would we do without him) Wilkins was reported (3-26-40) by the Liverpool Daily Telegraph and Morn ing Post to be "planning an 800-mile trip down the Mackenzie River in a special

"NERVOUS diseases on wane in U.S., says expert"...............Americans are (4-8 40) becoming so accustomed to the rapid pace of modern life, says Dr. Benjamin Black of Alameda, that they are over

MADRID, MO., QUAKES (See The NOTES Of Charles Fort, in the Fortean Society Magazine, October, 1937, p. 15, (1812-Nov) where there is a typo graphical error "1911"

(See The NOTES Of Charles Fort, in the Fortean Society Magazine, October, 1937, p. 15, (1812-Nov) where there is a typo graphical error "1911"

the surface. If they were put back into Shreveport, La., March 20, (40) (AP), One of the earliest Forteans was Albert it after once emerging they died. Blackbirds by the hundreds dropped dead

Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, notified me Longport, N.J., March 20, (40) (AP), unable to form one." that my "Philosophy of Parallelism, or the This small seashore town is worrying about

Every sensible phenomenum is conceived as a symbolization or averaging process covering a background tendency from the infinitely great to the infinitely small. In reality, the Continuum is characterized as

My expression is (to use the phrasal res ervation of Charles Fort) that this book may or may not be one of the great books of the world, and that, since at the moment I am convinced that it is, it is

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The newspapers complained (9-19-41) that the cosmos had interfered with the broadcast of a baseball game. (That was the day of Aurora display.) On 9-29-41 they announced that manganese is "the

Contributed by K. W. Golde Dull Sounds Echo as Country-side (From the Buffalo, N. Y. Evening News The mysterious "Moodus noises" have returned. At irregular intervals since col

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First there are the dead sot . . . those for whom Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote: "Certitude is not the test of certainty; we have been cocksure of many things that were not so." The dead sot never shelter a doubt about anything. They kjiotu what's right

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man to the scaffold and led the assembled told that the German people then knew no more of what had happened in the Skagerrak than the loss of the cruisers Bluecher and Karlsruhe. No other news had been permitted to reach them. In Soviet land

APRIL 30, 1940: The Rev. Dr. Na than R. Melhorn editor of The Lutheran addressing Pennsylvania churchmen in Har risburg said: "The Greatness of America is drawn from its resources, its culture and

IN ^AMERICA, ROOSEVELT SAYS. "No greater thing could come to our land to day than a revival of the spirit of religion , a revival that would sweep through the homes of the nation and stir the hearts

greater thing could come to our land to day than a revival of the spirit of religion , a revival that would sweep through the homes of the nation and stir the hearts of men and women of all faiths to a re

To the Institute for Propaganda Analy sis and all the rest of those women's clubs for men endowed by the Big Dough to keep everything just as it is, add two more: 1. Society for the Psychological Study

"What We Want Is Variety/' Now comes something called Vitosophy, as set forth in a leaflet from Dr. J. V. McManis . . . The following are selected quotations:

SHOULD SPEAK And Tell Its Story What Would It Say? What would You find in the great Book of Nature if You were Able to READ IT?

And Tell Its Story What Would It Say? What would You find in the great Book of Nature if You were Able to READ IT? Would its Declarations be found to be

in connection with these notes, especially in reference to bibliographical sources. Where only abbreviations appear in the notes, the full name of the publication usually appears in the Index...................

15 Quake and sounds like can non fire, St. Andrews, Lower 18 Shocks Voss Sweden BA 54 20 Rotwill Fireball BA 60 1819 Box A - (Resumed)

If you read your Magazine for October, 1941, you will recall that Alfred H. Bar ley was quoted there on the subject of an astronomical problem: a problem, mind you, not a "theory"', which might be es

Alfred H. Barley (diagrams on wrappers and throughout) $1.50. (1927) THE ICE AGE: ITS DATE, DURATION, AND ASTRON OMICAL CAUSE, by Major R.

DURATION, AND ASTRON OMICAL CAUSE, by Major R. A. Marriott, Lieutenant Colonel T. C. Skinner, R. E. (Retired), Fellow Royal Meteorological So

OMICAL CAUSE, by Major R. A. Marriott, Lieutenant Colonel T. C. Skinner, R. E. (Retired), Fellow Royal Meteorological So ciety, and others, including D.

A. Marriott, Lieutenant Colonel T. C. Skinner, R. E. (Retired), Fellow Royal Meteorological So ciety, and others, including D. W. Horner, F.R.A.S., Sir Wm.

After Admiral de Horsey, came Major Marriott, who applied Drayson's work to the problem of dating "the" Ice Age: THE GLACIAL EPOCH The Date and Duration of the Last Ice

The Date and Duration of the Last Ice (This inset is brought to the notice of the readers of this issue of the "Pro ceedings," not with the intention of en dorsing the views therein stated, but out

Certainly the most active and acute, and probably the most effective, of Dray son's adherents since de Horsey was A. H. Barley, elder son of Hildyard Barley and his wife Emma; born Stoke Newington,

FORT ON THE AIR When The Books °f Charles Fort was published last May, Mr. Joseph T. Shipley gave it this send-off over Station WEVD, Among the dreams of living are a good

When The Books °f Charles Fort was published last May, Mr. Joseph T. Shipley gave it this send-off over Station WEVD, Among the dreams of living are a good many things commonly accepted as fact.

a stage in your awakening from the school-day of acceptance of what the teach er says are the laws of science to an ex citing watching of a challenging and my sterious world.

Here we have an account of what pur ports to be the "first Attempt of this Kind" to determine the true figure and dimen sions of the earth. The following quota tion is from A New and Comprehensive

January, 1942 Degrees, there will be 90 times 60, or 5400 geographical Miles; and this will be the Case, with regard to a Quadrant of the Equator, which therefore will con

on Charles Fort Mr. Powys, author of Wolf Solent, In Defense of Sensuality, The Meaning of Cul ture, The Enjoyment of Literature, and many, many other books, is now living in

I read this vigorous and astonishing book straight through, and then re-read it for the pleasure it gave me in the way of its writing and in the substance of what it told. . . Retort must be left to the out

POISONED WORLD Read what other famous writers say about THE BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT 1151 j PAGES, INDEXED, INCLUDING THE COMPLETE TEXTS OF:

Read what other famous writers say about THE BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT 1151 j PAGES, INDEXED, INCLUDING THE COMPLETE TEXTS OF: THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED

1151 j PAGES, INDEXED, INCLUDING THE COMPLETE TEXTS OF: THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED WILD TALENTS

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(Mr. Markham has been working for several years on Fortean data of "mari time vanishments" and has arrived at some quasi-conclusions which he asks the Sec retary to withhold temporarily as possibly

STOCKHOLM, DEC 31 1933 SWEDISH ARMY AVIATORS HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO CHASE A MYS AIRPLANE WHICH HAS BEEN SIGHTED FOR MANY WEEKS

SWEDISH ARMY AVIATORS HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO CHASE A MYS AIRPLANE WHICH HAS BEEN SIGHTED FOR MANY WEEKS OVER LAPLAND.

BEEN ORDERED TO CHASE A MYS AIRPLANE WHICH HAS BEEN SIGHTED FOR MANY WEEKS OVER LAPLAND. IT IS BELIEVED

AIRPLANE WHICH HAS BEEN SIGHTED FOR MANY WEEKS OVER LAPLAND. IT IS BELIEVED TO LAND AMONG THE MOUNTAINS,

BEEN SIGHTED FOR MANY WEEKS OVER LAPLAND. IT IS BELIEVED TO LAND AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, MAKING FLIGHTS AT NIGHT.

OVER LAPLAND. IT IS BELIEVED TO LAND AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, MAKING FLIGHTS AT NIGHT. THE PILOT WAS RECENTLY HEARD

IT IS BELIEVED TO LAND AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, MAKING FLIGHTS AT NIGHT. THE PILOT WAS RECENTLY HEARD FLYING TOWARD NORWAY IN A

TO LAND AMONG THE MOUNTAINS, MAKING FLIGHTS AT NIGHT. THE PILOT WAS RECENTLY HEARD FLYING TOWARD NORWAY IN A HEAVY SNOWSTORM. IT IS THOUGHT

MAKING FLIGHTS AT NIGHT. THE PILOT WAS RECENTLY HEARD FLYING TOWARD NORWAY IN A HEAVY SNOWSTORM. IT IS THOUGHT HE IS A SMUGGLER ....

THE PILOT WAS RECENTLY HEARD FLYING TOWARD NORWAY IN A HEAVY SNOWSTORM. IT IS THOUGHT HE IS A SMUGGLER .... TIMES 1-10 (11:1)

FLYING TOWARD NORWAY IN A HEAVY SNOWSTORM. IT IS THOUGHT HE IS A SMUGGLER .... TIMES 1-10 (11:1) STOCKHOLM JAN 9 1934

HE IS A SMUGGLER .... TIMES 1-10 (11:1) STOCKHOLM JAN 9 1934 A MYSTERIOUS AIRPLANE VARIOUSLY SAID TO BELONG TO NARCOTIC

TIMES 1-10 (11:1) STOCKHOLM JAN 9 1934 A MYSTERIOUS AIRPLANE VARIOUSLY SAID TO BELONG TO NARCOTIC SMUGGLERS, JAPANESE SPIES AND

A MYSTERIOUS AIRPLANE VARIOUSLY SAID TO BELONG TO NARCOTIC SMUGGLERS, JAPANESE SPIES AND RUSSIAN SPIES WAS REPORTED TODAY OVER WESTERBOTTEN IN

SAID TO BELONG TO NARCOTIC SMUGGLERS, JAPANESE SPIES AND RUSSIAN SPIES WAS REPORTED TODAY OVER WESTERBOTTEN IN NORTHERN SWEDEN.

SMUGGLERS, JAPANESE SPIES AND RUSSIAN SPIES WAS REPORTED TODAY OVER WESTERBOTTEN IN NORTHERN SWEDEN. THE SWEDISH AIRFORCE HAS AL

OVER WESTERBOTTEN IN NORTHERN SWEDEN. THE SWEDISH AIRFORCE HAS AL READY LOST TWO AIRPLANES, WITH OUT LOSS OF LIFE, IN EFFORTS TO

THE SWEDISH AIRFORCE HAS AL READY LOST TWO AIRPLANES, WITH OUT LOSS OF LIFE, IN EFFORTS TO LOCATE THE BASE OF THE STRANGE PLANE. CONCERN IS NOW FELT FOR

READY LOST TWO AIRPLANES, WITH OUT LOSS OF LIFE, IN EFFORTS TO LOCATE THE BASE OF THE STRANGE PLANE. CONCERN IS NOW FELT FOR LT WANBERG WHO DISAPPEARED ON

OUT LOSS OF LIFE, IN EFFORTS TO LOCATE THE BASE OF THE STRANGE PLANE. CONCERN IS NOW FELT FOR LT WANBERG WHO DISAPPEARED ON A SCOUTING EXPEDITION ON FOOT

PLANE. CONCERN IS NOW FELT FOR LT WANBERG WHO DISAPPEARED ON A SCOUTING EXPEDITION ON FOOT ON CHRISTMAS, AND FOR A PARTY OF THREE SKIERS FORMING A RES

A SCOUTING EXPEDITION ON FOOT ON CHRISTMAS, AND FOR A PARTY OF THREE SKIERS FORMING A RES CUE PARTY. MILITARY HEADQUAR REPORTED TODAY THAT

ON CHRISTMAS, AND FOR A PARTY OF THREE SKIERS FORMING A RES CUE PARTY. MILITARY HEADQUAR REPORTED TODAY THAT SEARCH FOR THE FOUR ALONG THE

OF THREE SKIERS FORMING A RES CUE PARTY. MILITARY HEADQUAR REPORTED TODAY THAT SEARCH FOR THE FOUR ALONG THE NORWEGIAN BORDER HAD BEEN

CUE PARTY. MILITARY HEADQUAR REPORTED TODAY THAT SEARCH FOR THE FOUR ALONG THE NORWEGIAN BORDER HAD BEEN TIMES 1-13-34 (3:3)

REPORTED TODAY THAT SEARCH FOR THE FOUR ALONG THE NORWEGIAN BORDER HAD BEEN TIMES 1-13-34 (3:3) HELSINGFORS 1-12-34

SEARCH FOR THE FOUR ALONG THE NORWEGIAN BORDER HAD BEEN TIMES 1-13-34 (3:3) HELSINGFORS 1-12-34 FINNISH EXPORT: NOT "GHOST" FLY

TIMES 1-13-34 (3:3) HELSINGFORS 1-12-34 FINNISH EXPORT: NOT "GHOST" FLY ERS SMUGGLING, BUT RUSSIANS WHO ARE USING A MOTHER SHIP IN THE

TIMES 1-13-34 (3:3) HELSINGFORS 1-12-34 FINNISH EXPORT: NOT "GHOST" FLY ERS SMUGGLING, BUT RUSSIANS WHO ARE USING A MOTHER SHIP IN THE

FINNISH EXPORT: NOT "GHOST" FLY ERS SMUGGLING, BUT RUSSIANS WHO ARE USING A MOTHER SHIP IN THE "AVIATORS, WHO HAVE BEEN, EXPLORING A NEW AND IMPORTANT

ERS SMUGGLING, BUT RUSSIANS WHO ARE USING A MOTHER SHIP IN THE "AVIATORS, WHO HAVE BEEN, EXPLORING A NEW AND IMPORTANT AIR ROUTE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND

ARE USING A MOTHER SHIP IN THE "AVIATORS, WHO HAVE BEEN, EXPLORING A NEW AND IMPORTANT AIR ROUTE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE ATLANTIC ..."

EXPLORING A NEW AND IMPORTANT AIR ROUTE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE ATLANTIC ..." THE CZARIST GOVERNMENT WAS, DURING THE WORLD WAR, ANXIOUS

AIR ROUTE BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE ATLANTIC ..." THE CZARIST GOVERNMENT WAS, DURING THE WORLD WAR, ANXIOUS TO ESTABLISH SUCH A ROUTE BUT

THE CZARIST GOVERNMENT WAS, DURING THE WORLD WAR, ANXIOUS TO ESTABLISH SUCH A ROUTE BUT FAILED. THE EXPERT SUGGESTED THE PROPOSED RUSSIAN ROUTE LIES

DURING THE WORLD WAR, ANXIOUS TO ESTABLISH SUCH A ROUTE BUT FAILED. THE EXPERT SUGGESTED THE PROPOSED RUSSIAN ROUTE LIES BETWEEN LENINGRAD, ARCHANGEL,

TO ESTABLISH SUCH A ROUTE BUT FAILED. THE EXPERT SUGGESTED THE PROPOSED RUSSIAN ROUTE LIES BETWEEN LENINGRAD, ARCHANGEL, .. . ...... .

FAILED. THE EXPERT SUGGESTED THE PROPOSED RUSSIAN ROUTE LIES BETWEEN LENINGRAD, ARCHANGEL, .. . ...... . MURMANSK AND THE ATLANTIC.

THE PROPOSED RUSSIAN ROUTE LIES BETWEEN LENINGRAD, ARCHANGEL, .. . ...... . MURMANSK AND THE ATLANTIC. TIMES 1-29-34 (6:1)

BETWEEN LENINGRAD, ARCHANGEL, .. . ...... . MURMANSK AND THE ATLANTIC. TIMES 1-29-34 (6:1) SWEDISH AIRFORCE STILL TRYING

.. . ...... . MURMANSK AND THE ATLANTIC. TIMES 1-29-34 (6:1) SWEDISH AIRFORCE STILL TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE "PHAN

TIMES 1-29-34 (6:1) SWEDISH AIRFORCE STILL TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE "PHAN TOM" PLANES. NATIONALITY OF THE KNOWN, BUT IT IS BELIEVED THEY

SWEDISH AIRFORCE STILL TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE "PHAN TOM" PLANES. NATIONALITY OF THE KNOWN, BUT IT IS BELIEVED THEY

TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE "PHAN TOM" PLANES. NATIONALITY OF THE KNOWN, BUT IT IS BELIEVED THEY ON SOVIET TESTFLIGHTS TO ARCTIC ICEBREAKERS.

TOM" PLANES. NATIONALITY OF THE KNOWN, BUT IT IS BELIEVED THEY ON SOVIET TESTFLIGHTS TO ARCTIC ICEBREAKERS. TIMES 2-4-34 (9:2)

ON SOVIET TESTFLIGHTS TO ARCTIC ICEBREAKERS. TIMES 2-4-34 (9:2) HELSINGFORS 2-3 CONTINUED NIGHT FLIGHTS OVER NORTHERN FINLAND SWEDEN AND

TIMES 2-4-34 (9:2) HELSINGFORS 2-3 CONTINUED NIGHT FLIGHTS OVER NORTHERN FINLAND SWEDEN AND NORWAY BY SOCALLED "GHOST"

CONTINUED NIGHT FLIGHTS OVER NORTHERN FINLAND SWEDEN AND NORWAY BY SOCALLED "GHOST" AVIATORS, WHICH HAVE CAUSED SUCH APPREHENSION HERE AS TO

AVIATORS, WHICH HAVE CAUSED SUCH APPREHENSION HERE AS TO PROMPT THE GENERAL STAFF TO ORGANIZE RECONNOITERING ON A WIDE SCALE BY ARMY PLANES ALL

SUCH APPREHENSION HERE AS TO PROMPT THE GENERAL STAFF TO ORGANIZE RECONNOITERING ON A WIDE SCALE BY ARMY PLANES ALL OVER NORTHERN FINLAND, STILL

OVER NORTHERN FINLAND, STILL REMAIN A DEEP MYSTERY. MANY EYEWITNESSES HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO IDENTIFY THE PLANES. MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS OVER HEL

REMAIN A DEEP MYSTERY. MANY EYEWITNESSES HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO IDENTIFY THE PLANES. MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS OVER HEL SINGFORS AND VIBORG HAVE CAUS

EYEWITNESSES HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO IDENTIFY THE PLANES. MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS OVER HEL SINGFORS AND VIBORG HAVE CAUS ED ALARM. LAST NIGHT AT LEAST

TO IDENTIFY THE PLANES. MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS OVER HEL SINGFORS AND VIBORG HAVE CAUS ED ALARM. LAST NIGHT AT LEAST ONE LARGE, UNIDENTIFIED AIR

MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS OVER HEL SINGFORS AND VIBORG HAVE CAUS ED ALARM. LAST NIGHT AT LEAST ONE LARGE, UNIDENTIFIED AIR PLANE WAS SIGHTED OVER EAST

SINGFORS AND VIBORG HAVE CAUS ED ALARM. LAST NIGHT AT LEAST ONE LARGE, UNIDENTIFIED AIR PLANE WAS SIGHTED OVER EAST ERN FINLAND, CLOSE TO THE RUS

ED ALARM. LAST NIGHT AT LEAST ONE LARGE, UNIDENTIFIED AIR PLANE WAS SIGHTED OVER EAST ERN FINLAND, CLOSE TO THE RUS SIAN BORDER, EVIDENTLY SCOUTING

ONE LARGE, UNIDENTIFIED AIR PLANE WAS SIGHTED OVER EAST ERN FINLAND, CLOSE TO THE RUS SIAN BORDER, EVIDENTLY SCOUTING THE DISTRICT.

PLANE WAS SIGHTED OVER EAST ERN FINLAND, CLOSE TO THE RUS SIAN BORDER, EVIDENTLY SCOUTING THE DISTRICT. AS THE AUTHORITIES ARE EX

ERN FINLAND, CLOSE TO THE RUS SIAN BORDER, EVIDENTLY SCOUTING THE DISTRICT. AS THE AUTHORITIES ARE EX TREMELY RETICENT, THE NEWS

SIAN BORDER, EVIDENTLY SCOUTING THE DISTRICT. AS THE AUTHORITIES ARE EX TREMELY RETICENT, THE NEWS PAPERS HAVE INTERVIEWED AVIA

THE DISTRICT. AS THE AUTHORITIES ARE EX TREMELY RETICENT, THE NEWS PAPERS HAVE INTERVIEWED AVIA TION EXPERTS, WHO STATE THE

AS THE AUTHORITIES ARE EX TREMELY RETICENT, THE NEWS PAPERS HAVE INTERVIEWED AVIA TION EXPERTS, WHO STATE THE MYSTERY FLIERS SHOW EXCEPTION

TREMELY RETICENT, THE NEWS PAPERS HAVE INTERVIEWED AVIA TION EXPERTS, WHO STATE THE MYSTERY FLIERS SHOW EXCEPTION AL SKILL, UNDOUBTEDLY SUPERIOR

PAPERS HAVE INTERVIEWED AVIA TION EXPERTS, WHO STATE THE MYSTERY FLIERS SHOW EXCEPTION AL SKILL, UNDOUBTEDLY SUPERIOR TO THAT OF THE NORTHERN EU

TION EXPERTS, WHO STATE THE MYSTERY FLIERS SHOW EXCEPTION AL SKILL, UNDOUBTEDLY SUPERIOR TO THAT OF THE NORTHERN EU ROPEAN AVIATORS ACCORDING TO

AL SKILL, UNDOUBTEDLY SUPERIOR TO THAT OF THE NORTHERN EU ROPEAN AVIATORS ACCORDING TO ONE EXPERT'S THEORY, THE FIRST OF THE "GHOST" AVIATORS WAS A

TO THAT OF THE NORTHERN EU ROPEAN AVIATORS ACCORDING TO ONE EXPERT'S THEORY, THE FIRST OF THE "GHOST" AVIATORS WAS A JAPANESE SCOUTING THE ARCTIC

ROPEAN AVIATORS ACCORDING TO ONE EXPERT'S THEORY, THE FIRST OF THE "GHOST" AVIATORS WAS A JAPANESE SCOUTING THE ARCTIC REGIONS WHOSE ACTIVITIES CAUSED

OF THE "GHOST" AVIATORS WAS A JAPANESE SCOUTING THE ARCTIC REGIONS WHOSE ACTIVITIES CAUSED THE SOVIET DISPATCH AIRPLANES TO WATCH THE JAPANESE. THE

REGIONS WHOSE ACTIVITIES CAUSED THE SOVIET DISPATCH AIRPLANES TO WATCH THE JAPANESE. THE AUTHORITIES, REFUTE THIS THEORY.

THE SOVIET DISPATCH AIRPLANES TO WATCH THE JAPANESE. THE AUTHORITIES, REFUTE THIS THEORY. THE APPEARANCE OF A MYSTERI

TO WATCH THE JAPANESE. THE AUTHORITIES, REFUTE THIS THEORY. THE APPEARANCE OF A MYSTERI OUS AIRPLANE OVER LONDON HAS

REFUTE THIS THEORY. THE APPEARANCE OF A MYSTERI OUS AIRPLANE OVER LONDON HAS STRENGTHENED THE BELIEF THAT THE FLIGHTS CONSTITUTE AN EX

THE APPEARANCE OF A MYSTERI OUS AIRPLANE OVER LONDON HAS STRENGTHENED THE BELIEF THAT THE FLIGHTS CONSTITUTE AN EX TENSIVE SCHEME TO EXPLORE THE

OUS AIRPLANE OVER LONDON HAS STRENGTHENED THE BELIEF THAT THE FLIGHTS CONSTITUTE AN EX TENSIVE SCHEME TO EXPLORE THE AVIATION POSSIBILITIES FOR A FU

STRENGTHENED THE BELIEF THAT THE FLIGHTS CONSTITUTE AN EX TENSIVE SCHEME TO EXPLORE THE AVIATION POSSIBILITIES FOR A FU (REPORTS ON THESE "GHOST FLI

THE FLIGHTS CONSTITUTE AN EX TENSIVE SCHEME TO EXPLORE THE AVIATION POSSIBILITIES FOR A FU (REPORTS ON THESE "GHOST FLI ERS" APPEAR TO STOP SHORT AT

TENSIVE SCHEME TO EXPLORE THE AVIATION POSSIBILITIES FOR A FU (REPORTS ON THESE "GHOST FLI ERS" APPEAR TO STOP SHORT AT ABOUT THE TIME OF INFERIOR CON

(REPORTS ON THESE "GHOST FLI ERS" APPEAR TO STOP SHORT AT ABOUT THE TIME OF INFERIOR CON JUNCTION OF VENUS (FEB 5, '34) - ALSO NOTE THAT IN THIS SAME PERIOD, THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT

ERS" APPEAR TO STOP SHORT AT ABOUT THE TIME OF INFERIOR CON JUNCTION OF VENUS (FEB 5, '34) - ALSO NOTE THAT IN THIS SAME PERIOD, THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT IS REPORTED FROM NEW YORK

ABOUT THE TIME OF INFERIOR CON JUNCTION OF VENUS (FEB 5, '34) - ALSO NOTE THAT IN THIS SAME PERIOD, THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT IS REPORTED FROM NEW YORK CITY.): TIMES 12-27-33

JUNCTION OF VENUS (FEB 5, '34) - ALSO NOTE THAT IN THIS SAME PERIOD, THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT IS REPORTED FROM NEW YORK CITY.): TIMES 12-27-33 WITH NEW YORK BLOTTED OUT

PERIOD, THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT IS REPORTED FROM NEW YORK CITY.): TIMES 12-27-33 WITH NEW YORK BLOTTED OUT FROM ABOVE BY THE SNOWSTORM

IS REPORTED FROM NEW YORK CITY.): TIMES 12-27-33 WITH NEW YORK BLOTTED OUT FROM ABOVE BY THE SNOWSTORM YESTERDAY AN AIRPLANE WAS RE

CITY.): TIMES 12-27-33 WITH NEW YORK BLOTTED OUT FROM ABOVE BY THE SNOWSTORM YESTERDAY AN AIRPLANE WAS RE PORTED WANDERING BLINDLY ABOVE

WITH NEW YORK BLOTTED OUT FROM ABOVE BY THE SNOWSTORM YESTERDAY AN AIRPLANE WAS RE PORTED WANDERING BLINDLY ABOVE THE TOWERS OF PARK AVENUE AND

FROM ABOVE BY THE SNOWSTORM YESTERDAY AN AIRPLANE WAS RE PORTED WANDERING BLINDLY ABOVE THE TOWERS OF PARK AVENUE AND HARLEM'S TENEMENTS. ALTHOUGH

YESTERDAY AN AIRPLANE WAS RE PORTED WANDERING BLINDLY ABOVE THE TOWERS OF PARK AVENUE AND HARLEM'S TENEMENTS. ALTHOUGH MANY HEARD, OR THOUGHT THEY

PORTED WANDERING BLINDLY ABOVE THE TOWERS OF PARK AVENUE AND HARLEM'S TENEMENTS. ALTHOUGH MANY HEARD, OR THOUGHT THEY HEARD, AN AIRPLANE ENGINE, NO

THE TOWERS OF PARK AVENUE AND HARLEM'S TENEMENTS. ALTHOUGH MANY HEARD, OR THOUGHT THEY HEARD, AN AIRPLANE ENGINE, NO ONE REPORTED SEEING THE PLANE

MANY HEARD, OR THOUGHT THEY HEARD, AN AIRPLANE ENGINE, NO ONE REPORTED SEEING THE PLANE THE FIRST CALL CAME FROM C N GEDROYCE, OWNER OF A RADIO

HEARD, AN AIRPLANE ENGINE, NO ONE REPORTED SEEING THE PLANE THE FIRST CALL CAME FROM C N GEDROYCE, OWNER OF A RADIO January, 1942

ONE REPORTED SEEING THE PLANE THE FIRST CALL CAME FROM C N GEDROYCE, OWNER OF A RADIO January, 1942

THE FIRST CALL CAME FROM C N GEDROYCE, OWNER OF A RADIO January, 1942 STORE AT 1755 PARK AVENUE AT

GEDROYCE, OWNER OF A RADIO January, 1942 STORE AT 1755 PARK AVENUE AT 122ND STREET. HE SAID HE HEARD

January, 1942 STORE AT 1755 PARK AVENUE AT 122ND STREET. HE SAID HE HEARD THE ENGINE FIRST ABOUT 9:30 AM

122ND STREET. HE SAID HE HEARD THE ENGINE FIRST ABOUT 9:30 AM AND AT INTERVALS FOR THE NEXT HOUR. IMPRESSED WITH THE PLIGHT OF THE PILOT HE TELEPHONED TO

THE ENGINE FIRST ABOUT 9:30 AM AND AT INTERVALS FOR THE NEXT HOUR. IMPRESSED WITH THE PLIGHT OF THE PILOT HE TELEPHONED TO THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING COM

AND AT INTERVALS FOR THE NEXT HOUR. IMPRESSED WITH THE PLIGHT OF THE PILOT HE TELEPHONED TO THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING COM PANY. AN ANNOUNCEMENT OVER

HOUR. IMPRESSED WITH THE PLIGHT OF THE PILOT HE TELEPHONED TO THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING COM PANY. AN ANNOUNCEMENT OVER THE RADIO BROUGHT OTHER CALLS

OF THE PILOT HE TELEPHONED TO THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING COM PANY. AN ANNOUNCEMENT OVER THE RADIO BROUGHT OTHER CALLS FROM PARK AVENUE FURTHER

PANY. AN ANNOUNCEMENT OVER THE RADIO BROUGHT OTHER CALLS FROM PARK AVENUE FURTHER SOUTH, AND FROM RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND HARLEM. EVIDENTLY THE PIL

THE RADIO BROUGHT OTHER CALLS FROM PARK AVENUE FURTHER SOUTH, AND FROM RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND HARLEM. EVIDENTLY THE PIL OT WAS CIRCLING IN AN ATTEMPT

FROM PARK AVENUE FURTHER SOUTH, AND FROM RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND HARLEM. EVIDENTLY THE PIL OT WAS CIRCLING IN AN ATTEMPT TO FIND OUT WHERE HE WAS. US

SOUTH, AND FROM RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND HARLEM. EVIDENTLY THE PIL OT WAS CIRCLING IN AN ATTEMPT TO FIND OUT WHERE HE WAS. US ING SHORT WAVE, THE BROADCAST

AND HARLEM. EVIDENTLY THE PIL OT WAS CIRCLING IN AN ATTEMPT TO FIND OUT WHERE HE WAS. US ING SHORT WAVE, THE BROADCAST COMPANY SENT OUT. A MESSAGE, ON

OT WAS CIRCLING IN AN ATTEMPT TO FIND OUT WHERE HE WAS. US ING SHORT WAVE, THE BROADCAST COMPANY SENT OUT. A MESSAGE, ON THE CHANCE THE FLIER HAD A RE

TO FIND OUT WHERE HE WAS. US ING SHORT WAVE, THE BROADCAST COMPANY SENT OUT. A MESSAGE, ON THE CHANCE THE FLIER HAD A RE CEIVING SET, INFORMING HIM OF

ING SHORT WAVE, THE BROADCAST COMPANY SENT OUT. A MESSAGE, ON THE CHANCE THE FLIER HAD A RE CEIVING SET, INFORMING HIM OF HIS APPROXIMATE POSITION AND

COMPANY SENT OUT. A MESSAGE, ON THE CHANCE THE FLIER HAD A RE CEIVING SET, INFORMING HIM OF HIS APPROXIMATE POSITION AND GIVING HIM THE WIND DIRECTON.

THE CHANCE THE FLIER HAD A RE CEIVING SET, INFORMING HIM OF HIS APPROXIMATE POSITION AND GIVING HIM THE WIND DIRECTON. ALL AIRPORTS WERE NOTIFIED,

CEIVING SET, INFORMING HIM OF HIS APPROXIMATE POSITION AND GIVING HIM THE WIND DIRECTON. ALL AIRPORTS WERE NOTIFIED, AND AT NEWARK AIRPORT THE

ALL AIRPORTS WERE NOTIFIED, AND AT NEWARK AIRPORT THE RADIO OPERATORS FROM THE DE PARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND AIR LINES JOINED IN OFFERING WHAT

AND AT NEWARK AIRPORT THE RADIO OPERATORS FROM THE DE PARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND AIR LINES JOINED IN OFFERING WHAT HELP THEY COULD. BEACONS ON

PARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND AIR LINES JOINED IN OFFERING WHAT HELP THEY COULD. BEACONS ON THE FIELD WERE LIGHTED AND SEARCHLIGHTS FLASHED THROUGH

LINES JOINED IN OFFERING WHAT HELP THEY COULD. BEACONS ON THE FIELD WERE LIGHTED AND SEARCHLIGHTS FLASHED THROUGH THE WHITE SMOTHER OF SNOW.

HELP THEY COULD. BEACONS ON THE FIELD WERE LIGHTED AND SEARCHLIGHTS FLASHED THROUGH THE WHITE SMOTHER OF SNOW. AN HOUR AFTER THE FIRST MAN

THE FIELD WERE LIGHTED AND SEARCHLIGHTS FLASHED THROUGH THE WHITE SMOTHER OF SNOW. AN HOUR AFTER THE FIRST MAN HATTAN REPORTS, DWELLERS IN

THE WHITE SMOTHER OF SNOW. AN HOUR AFTER THE FIRST MAN HATTAN REPORTS, DWELLERS IN JERSEY CITY NOTIFIED THE NEW ARK AIRPORT THAT THEY HAD

AN HOUR AFTER THE FIRST MAN HATTAN REPORTS, DWELLERS IN JERSEY CITY NOTIFIED THE NEW ARK AIRPORT THAT THEY HAD HEARD THE PLANE. AT THAT TIME

HATTAN REPORTS, DWELLERS IN JERSEY CITY NOTIFIED THE NEW ARK AIRPORT THAT THEY HAD HEARD THE PLANE. AT THAT TIME THE VISIBILITY OVER NEWARK AIR

ARK AIRPORT THAT THEY HAD HEARD THE PLANE. AT THAT TIME THE VISIBILITY OVER NEWARK AIR PORT HAD INCREASED SLIGHTLY WITH A CEILING OF PERHAPS 500

HEARD THE PLANE. AT THAT TIME THE VISIBILITY OVER NEWARK AIR PORT HAD INCREASED SLIGHTLY WITH A CEILING OF PERHAPS 500 FEET. PILOTS GROUNDED THERE BY

THE VISIBILITY OVER NEWARK AIR PORT HAD INCREASED SLIGHTLY WITH A CEILING OF PERHAPS 500 FEET. PILOTS GROUNDED THERE BY THE STORM WATCHED IN VAIN FOR

PORT HAD INCREASED SLIGHTLY WITH A CEILING OF PERHAPS 500 FEET. PILOTS GROUNDED THERE BY THE STORM WATCHED IN VAIN FOR THE MYSTERIOUS FLYER.

WITH A CEILING OF PERHAPS 500 FEET. PILOTS GROUNDED THERE BY THE STORM WATCHED IN VAIN FOR THE MYSTERIOUS FLYER. A CHECK OF THE VARIOUS CALLS

FEET. PILOTS GROUNDED THERE BY THE STORM WATCHED IN VAIN FOR THE MYSTERIOUS FLYER. A CHECK OF THE VARIOUS CALLS INDICATED THE FLYER HAD GONE

THE STORM WATCHED IN VAIN FOR THE MYSTERIOUS FLYER. A CHECK OF THE VARIOUS CALLS INDICATED THE FLYER HAD GONE AS FAR AS 72ND STREET, CIRCLED

A CHECK OF THE VARIOUS CALLS INDICATED THE FLYER HAD GONE AS FAR AS 72ND STREET, CIRCLED ABOVE CENTRAL PARK, AND THEN PROCEEDED NORTH TO THE VICIN

INDICATED THE FLYER HAD GONE AS FAR AS 72ND STREET, CIRCLED ABOVE CENTRAL PARK, AND THEN PROCEEDED NORTH TO THE VICIN ITY OF 231-STREET AND SEDWICK

AS FAR AS 72ND STREET, CIRCLED ABOVE CENTRAL PARK, AND THEN PROCEEDED NORTH TO THE VICIN ITY OF 231-STREET AND SEDWICK AVENUE, THE BRONX.

ABOVE CENTRAL PARK, AND THEN PROCEEDED NORTH TO THE VICIN ITY OF 231-STREET AND SEDWICK AVENUE, THE BRONX. FOR A TIME NO FURTHER REPORTS

PROCEEDED NORTH TO THE VICIN ITY OF 231-STREET AND SEDWICK AVENUE, THE BRONX. FOR A TIME NO FURTHER REPORTS CAME IN, BUT ABOUT 2:25 PM THE

ITY OF 231-STREET AND SEDWICK AVENUE, THE BRONX. FOR A TIME NO FURTHER REPORTS CAME IN, BUT ABOUT 2:25 PM THE SOUND OF A MOTOR WAS REPORTED

AVENUE, THE BRONX. FOR A TIME NO FURTHER REPORTS CAME IN, BUT ABOUT 2:25 PM THE SOUND OF A MOTOR WAS REPORTED OVER RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND 155TH

FOR A TIME NO FURTHER REPORTS CAME IN, BUT ABOUT 2:25 PM THE SOUND OF A MOTOR WAS REPORTED OVER RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND 155TH STREET. AT THAT TIME SEVERAL

CAME IN, BUT ABOUT 2:25 PM THE SOUND OF A MOTOR WAS REPORTED OVER RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND 155TH STREET. AT THAT TIME SEVERAL AIRPORTS ANNOUNCED VISIBILITY

OVER RIVERSIDE DRIVE AND 155TH STREET. AT THAT TIME SEVERAL AIRPORTS ANNOUNCED VISIBILITY OF A MILE AND PILOTS SAID THAT, IF HE HAD WISHED, THE UNKNOWN

STREET. AT THAT TIME SEVERAL AIRPORTS ANNOUNCED VISIBILITY OF A MILE AND PILOTS SAID THAT, IF HE HAD WISHED, THE UNKNOWN FLYER COULD HAVE FOUND A SAFE

AIRPORTS ANNOUNCED VISIBILITY OF A MILE AND PILOTS SAID THAT, IF HE HAD WISHED, THE UNKNOWN FLYER COULD HAVE FOUND A SAFE LANDING IN NEW JERSEY OR LONG

OF A MILE AND PILOTS SAID THAT, IF HE HAD WISHED, THE UNKNOWN FLYER COULD HAVE FOUND A SAFE LANDING IN NEW JERSEY OR LONG ALL FIELDS IN THE METROPOLI

IF HE HAD WISHED, THE UNKNOWN FLYER COULD HAVE FOUND A SAFE LANDING IN NEW JERSEY OR LONG ALL FIELDS IN THE METROPOLI TAN DISTRICT REPORTED THERE

FLYER COULD HAVE FOUND A SAFE LANDING IN NEW JERSEY OR LONG ALL FIELDS IN THE METROPOLI TAN DISTRICT REPORTED THERE HAD BEEN NO FLYING DURING THE

LANDING IN NEW JERSEY OR LONG ALL FIELDS IN THE METROPOLI TAN DISTRICT REPORTED THERE HAD BEEN NO FLYING DURING THE DAY, AND NO STRAY PLANE HAD

ALL FIELDS IN THE METROPOLI TAN DISTRICT REPORTED THERE HAD BEEN NO FLYING DURING THE DAY, AND NO STRAY PLANE HAD DROPPED DOWN FROM THE SNOWY

TAN DISTRICT REPORTED THERE HAD BEEN NO FLYING DURING THE DAY, AND NO STRAY PLANE HAD DROPPED DOWN FROM THE SNOWY BLIMP WRECK SEARCH VAIN

HAD BEEN NO FLYING DURING THE DAY, AND NO STRAY PLANE HAD DROPPED DOWN FROM THE SNOWY BLIMP WRECK SEARCH VAIN TIMES 10-12-31 (23:5)

DROPPED DOWN FROM THE SNOWY BLIMP WRECK SEARCH VAIN TIMES 10-12-31 (23:5) POINT PLEASANT, W. VIRGINIA. 10-11 SEARCH FOR A BLIMP REPORTED TO

BLIMP WRECK SEARCH VAIN TIMES 10-12-31 (23:5) POINT PLEASANT, W. VIRGINIA. 10-11 SEARCH FOR A BLIMP REPORTED TO HAVE CRASHED AND BURNED IN

TIMES 10-12-31 (23:5) POINT PLEASANT, W. VIRGINIA. 10-11 SEARCH FOR A BLIMP REPORTED TO HAVE CRASHED AND BURNED IN THE HILLS SOUTH OF THIS CITY

SEARCH FOR A BLIMP REPORTED TO HAVE CRASHED AND BURNED IN THE HILLS SOUTH OF THIS CITY WAS ABANDONED TONIGHT AFTER A FRUITLESS ALLDAY SEARCH AFOOT

WAS ABANDONED TONIGHT AFTER A FRUITLESS ALLDAY SEARCH AFOOT AND IN THE AIR. Scanned by Bob Rickard 2018 The Fortean

A FRUITLESS ALLDAY SEARCH AFOOT AND IN THE AIR. Scanned by Bob Rickard 2018 The Fortean

AND IN THE AIR. Scanned by Bob Rickard 2018 The Fortean

Scanned by Bob Rickard 2018 The Fortean

WITNESSED THE ACCIDENT DES CRIBED THE BLIMP AS PLUNGING TO THE GROUND IN FLAMES, MEN LEAPING FROM IT IN PARACHUTES AS IT FELL. (????) NO REPORTS ON

CRIBED THE BLIMP AS PLUNGING TO THE GROUND IN FLAMES, MEN LEAPING FROM IT IN PARACHUTES AS IT FELL. (????) NO REPORTS ON A MISSING BLIMP WERE RECEIVED

TO THE GROUND IN FLAMES, MEN LEAPING FROM IT IN PARACHUTES AS IT FELL. (????) NO REPORTS ON A MISSING BLIMP WERE RECEIVED FROM ANY SOURCE, HOWEVER.

LEAPING FROM IT IN PARACHUTES AS IT FELL. (????) NO REPORTS ON A MISSING BLIMP WERE RECEIVED FROM ANY SOURCE, HOWEVER. TIME 10-11-31 (26:7)

AS IT FELL. (????) NO REPORTS ON A MISSING BLIMP WERE RECEIVED FROM ANY SOURCE, HOWEVER. TIME 10-11-31 (26:7) POINT PLEASANT, W. VA., 10-10-31

A MISSING BLIMP WERE RECEIVED FROM ANY SOURCE, HOWEVER. TIME 10-11-31 (26:7) POINT PLEASANT, W. VA., 10-10-31 A SEARCHING PARTY ORGANISED BY

FROM ANY SOURCE, HOWEVER. TIME 10-11-31 (26:7) POINT PLEASANT, W. VA., 10-10-31 A SEARCHING PARTY ORGANISED BY PORT PLEASANT POLICE TONIGHT

TIME 10-11-31 (26:7) POINT PLEASANT, W. VA., 10-10-31 A SEARCHING PARTY ORGANISED BY PORT PLEASANT POLICE TONIGHT STARTED TOWARD HILLS BACK OF

A SEARCHING PARTY ORGANISED BY PORT PLEASANT POLICE TONIGHT STARTED TOWARD HILLS BACK OF GALLIPOLIS FERRY, W. VA., BEHIND WHICH A BLIMP WAS REPORTED TO

PORT PLEASANT POLICE TONIGHT STARTED TOWARD HILLS BACK OF GALLIPOLIS FERRY, W. VA., BEHIND WHICH A BLIMP WAS REPORTED TO HAVE FALLEN IN FLAMES.

STARTED TOWARD HILLS BACK OF GALLIPOLIS FERRY, W. VA., BEHIND WHICH A BLIMP WAS REPORTED TO HAVE FALLEN IN FLAMES. ROBERT P. HENKE, HIS WIFE, AND

WHICH A BLIMP WAS REPORTED TO HAVE FALLEN IN FLAMES. ROBERT P. HENKE, HIS WIFE, AND DR AND MRS CLAUDE CARTER OF GALLIPOLIS, SAID THEY SAW THE

ROBERT P. HENKE, HIS WIFE, AND DR AND MRS CLAUDE CARTER OF GALLIPOLIS, SAID THEY SAW THE BLIMP CROSS THE OHIO RIVER AND THAT IT FELL WHILE HENKE WAS

GLASSES. HENKE SAYS THE BLIMP WAS BETWEEN 100 AND 150 FEET LONG, AND FLYING AT AN ALTI TUDE OF ABOUT 300 FEET WHEN IT BURST. A MOMENT BEFORE IT FELL

GLASSES. HENKE SAYS THE BLIMP WAS BETWEEN 100 AND 150 FEET LONG, AND FLYING AT AN ALTI TUDE OF ABOUT 300 FEET WHEN IT BURST. A MOMENT BEFORE IT FELL

WAS BETWEEN 100 AND 150 FEET LONG, AND FLYING AT AN ALTI TUDE OF ABOUT 300 FEET WHEN IT BURST. A MOMENT BEFORE IT FELL HE SAW SOMETHING WHITE, WHICH

LONG, AND FLYING AT AN ALTI TUDE OF ABOUT 300 FEET WHEN IT BURST. A MOMENT BEFORE IT FELL HE SAW SOMETHING WHITE, WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN A PARACHUTE,

TUDE OF ABOUT 300 FEET WHEN IT BURST. A MOMENT BEFORE IT FELL HE SAW SOMETHING WHITE, WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN A PARACHUTE, FLOATING DOWNWARD.

BURST. A MOMENT BEFORE IT FELL HE SAW SOMETHING WHITE, WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN A PARACHUTE, FLOATING DOWNWARD. DR CHAS E. HOLZER OF GALLI

HE SAW SOMETHING WHITE, WHICH MAY HAVE BEEN A PARACHUTE, FLOATING DOWNWARD. DR CHAS E. HOLZER OF GALLI POLIS, OHIO, WHO OWNS THE AIR

MAY HAVE BEEN A PARACHUTE, FLOATING DOWNWARD. DR CHAS E. HOLZER OF GALLI POLIS, OHIO, WHO OWNS THE AIR PORT THERE, AT DAWN WILL SEND

DR CHAS E. HOLZER OF GALLI POLIS, OHIO, WHO OWNS THE AIR PORT THERE, AT DAWN WILL SEND AIRPLANES ... TO SEARCH FOR THE . . . DIRIGIBLE.

POLIS, OHIO, WHO OWNS THE AIR PORT THERE, AT DAWN WILL SEND AIRPLANES ... TO SEARCH FOR THE . . . DIRIGIBLE. SAME PAPER:

PORT THERE, AT DAWN WILL SEND AIRPLANES ... TO SEARCH FOR THE . . . DIRIGIBLE. SAME PAPER: AKRON OHIO, OCT 10: U.S. NAVY

AIRPLANES ... TO SEARCH FOR THE . . . DIRIGIBLE. SAME PAPER: AKRON OHIO, OCT 10: U.S. NAVY OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS OF THE

AKRON OHIO, OCT 10: U.S. NAVY OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS OF THE SAID TONIGHT THAT THE U.S. AK RON AND THREE BLIMPS BELONG ING TO THE GOODYEAR ZEPPELIN

OFFICERS AND OFFICIALS OF THE SAID TONIGHT THAT THE U.S. AK RON AND THREE BLIMPS BELONG ING TO THE GOODYEAR ZEPPELIN COMPANY, WERE SAFE IN THEIR

RON AND THREE BLIMPS BELONG ING TO THE GOODYEAR ZEPPELIN COMPANY, WERE SAFE IN THEIR HANGERS. THE AKRON RETURNED THIS EVENING AFTER PASSING OVER

ING TO THE GOODYEAR ZEPPELIN COMPANY, WERE SAFE IN THEIR HANGERS. THE AKRON RETURNED THIS EVENING AFTER PASSING OVER SANDUSKY, TOLEDO AND OUT OVER

COMPANY, WERE SAFE IN THEIR HANGERS. THE AKRON RETURNED THIS EVENING AFTER PASSING OVER SANDUSKY, TOLEDO AND OUT OVER TIMES 12-30-32 (18:21)

HANGERS. THE AKRON RETURNED THIS EVENING AFTER PASSING OVER SANDUSKY, TOLEDO AND OUT OVER TIMES 12-30-32 (18:21) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., 12:29:

THIS EVENING AFTER PASSING OVER SANDUSKY, TOLEDO AND OUT OVER TIMES 12-30-32 (18:21) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., 12:29: A REPORT THAT A TRIMOTORED AIR

SANDUSKY, TOLEDO AND OUT OVER TIMES 12-30-32 (18:21) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., 12:29: A REPORT THAT A TRIMOTORED AIR PLANE HAD BEEN FORCED DOWN

TIMES 12-30-32 (18:21) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., 12:29: A REPORT THAT A TRIMOTORED AIR PLANE HAD BEEN FORCED DOWN IN THE WOODS EIGHT MILES WEST

TIMES 12-30-32 (18:21) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., 12:29: A REPORT THAT A TRIMOTORED AIR PLANE HAD BEEN FORCED DOWN IN THE WOODS EIGHT MILES WEST

A REPORT THAT A TRIMOTORED AIR PLANE HAD BEEN FORCED DOWN IN THE WOODS EIGHT MILES WEST OF HERE CAUSED SQUADS OF STATE POLICE TO MAKE A SEARCH LATE

PLANE HAD BEEN FORCED DOWN IN THE WOODS EIGHT MILES WEST OF HERE CAUSED SQUADS OF STATE POLICE TO MAKE A SEARCH LATE TONIGHT, BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS,

IN THE WOODS EIGHT MILES WEST OF HERE CAUSED SQUADS OF STATE POLICE TO MAKE A SEARCH LATE TONIGHT, BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS, FOR TRACES OF THE SHIP. ALL

OF HERE CAUSED SQUADS OF STATE POLICE TO MAKE A SEARCH LATE TONIGHT, BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS, FOR TRACES OF THE SHIP. ALL PLANES AT THE NEWARK, HADLEY

POLICE TO MAKE A SEARCH LATE TONIGHT, BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS, FOR TRACES OF THE SHIP. ALL PLANES AT THE NEWARK, HADLEY AND NEW BRUNSWICK AIRPORTS

TONIGHT, BUT WITHOUT SUCCESS, FOR TRACES OF THE SHIP. ALL PLANES AT THE NEWARK, HADLEY AND NEW BRUNSWICK AIRPORTS WERE ACCOUNTED FOR. PRACTICAL

FOR TRACES OF THE SHIP. ALL PLANES AT THE NEWARK, HADLEY AND NEW BRUNSWICK AIRPORTS WERE ACCOUNTED FOR. PRACTICAL LY ALL PLANE SCHEDULES HAD

PLANES AT THE NEWARK, HADLEY AND NEW BRUNSWICK AIRPORTS WERE ACCOUNTED FOR. PRACTICAL LY ALL PLANE SCHEDULES HAD BEEN CANCELED BECAUSE OF FOG

AND NEW BRUNSWICK AIRPORTS WERE ACCOUNTED FOR. PRACTICAL LY ALL PLANE SCHEDULES HAD BEEN CANCELED BECAUSE OF FOG AND CLOUDY WEATHER.

WERE ACCOUNTED FOR. PRACTICAL LY ALL PLANE SCHEDULES HAD BEEN CANCELED BECAUSE OF FOG AND CLOUDY WEATHER. THE REPORT WAS TELEPHONED TO

LY ALL PLANE SCHEDULES HAD BEEN CANCELED BECAUSE OF FOG AND CLOUDY WEATHER. THE REPORT WAS TELEPHONED TO THE STATE POLICE BARRACKS AT

BEEN CANCELED BECAUSE OF FOG AND CLOUDY WEATHER. THE REPORT WAS TELEPHONED TO THE STATE POLICE BARRACKS AT MILLTOWN ABOUT 11 30 PM BY TONY

AND CLOUDY WEATHER. THE REPORT WAS TELEPHONED TO THE STATE POLICE BARRACKS AT MILLTOWN ABOUT 11 30 PM BY TONY TRAFICANTE OF 29 REDMOND

THE REPORT WAS TELEPHONED TO THE STATE POLICE BARRACKS AT MILLTOWN ABOUT 11 30 PM BY TONY TRAFICANTE OF 29 REDMOND STREET, WHO SAID HE SAW THE

MILLTOWN ABOUT 11 30 PM BY TONY TRAFICANTE OF 29 REDMOND STREET, WHO SAID HE SAW THE PLANE, WITH ITS MOTORS SHUT OFF AND ITS LIGHTS BLINKING, DISAP

TRAFICANTE OF 29 REDMOND STREET, WHO SAID HE SAW THE PLANE, WITH ITS MOTORS SHUT OFF AND ITS LIGHTS BLINKING, DISAP PEAR BEHIND THE WOODS AS HE

STREET, WHO SAID HE SAW THE PLANE, WITH ITS MOTORS SHUT OFF AND ITS LIGHTS BLINKING, DISAP PEAR BEHIND THE WOODS AS HE -........... ................ ....

AND ITS LIGHTS BLINKING, DISAP PEAR BEHIND THE WOODS AS HE -........... ................ .... WAS DRIVING NEARBY.

PEAR BEHIND THE WOODS AS HE -........... ................ .... WAS DRIVING NEARBY. TIMES 12-6-31 (31-A:3)

-........... ................ .... WAS DRIVING NEARBY. TIMES 12-6-31 (31-A:3) HAMMONTON, N.J. 12-5

TIMES 12-6-31 (31-A:3) HAMMONTON, N.J. 12-5 STATE TROOPERS, LOCAL FIRE COM SEARCHED TONIGHT THROUGH THE FOLSOM SWAMP HERE, ONE OF THE

STATE TROOPERS, LOCAL FIRE COM SEARCHED TONIGHT THROUGH THE FOLSOM SWAMP HERE, ONE OF THE DENSEST SECTIONS OF BOG, QUOGMIRE AND WOODLAND IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE,

SEARCHED TONIGHT THROUGH THE FOLSOM SWAMP HERE, ONE OF THE DENSEST SECTIONS OF BOG, QUOGMIRE AND WOODLAND IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE, FOR AN AVIATOR REPORTED BY RESI

SEARCHED TONIGHT THROUGH THE FOLSOM SWAMP HERE, ONE OF THE DENSEST SECTIONS OF BOG, QUOGMIRE AND WOODLAND IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE, FOR AN AVIATOR REPORTED BY RESI

FOR AN AVIATOR REPORTED BY RESI DENTS TO HAVE FALLEN INTO IT IN A PARACHUTE. THE SEARCH BE GAN SHORTLY AFTER FIVE O'CLOCK TONIGHT WHEN ELMER CRAIG, A

DENTS TO HAVE FALLEN INTO IT IN A PARACHUTE. THE SEARCH BE GAN SHORTLY AFTER FIVE O'CLOCK TONIGHT WHEN ELMER CRAIG, A RESIDENT OF THIS VILLAGE, AND

IN A PARACHUTE. THE SEARCH BE GAN SHORTLY AFTER FIVE O'CLOCK TONIGHT WHEN ELMER CRAIG, A RESIDENT OF THIS VILLAGE, AND RESIDENTS OF WEYMOUTH, ON THE

GAN SHORTLY AFTER FIVE O'CLOCK TONIGHT WHEN ELMER CRAIG, A RESIDENT OF THIS VILLAGE, AND RESIDENTS OF WEYMOUTH, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SWAMP, IN

TONIGHT WHEN ELMER CRAIG, A RESIDENT OF THIS VILLAGE, AND RESIDENTS OF WEYMOUTH, ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SWAMP, IN FORMED TROOP A OF THE STATE

FORMED TROOP A OF THE STATE POLICE HERE OF SEEING THE AVIA TOR FLOAT INTO ITS DEPTHS FROM A HIGH ALTITUDE. NONE SAW THE PLANE, BUT IT WAS POINTED OUT

POLICE HERE OF SEEING THE AVIA TOR FLOAT INTO ITS DEPTHS FROM A HIGH ALTITUDE. NONE SAW THE PLANE, BUT IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT IT COULD HAVE DROPPED

TOR FLOAT INTO ITS DEPTHS FROM A HIGH ALTITUDE. NONE SAW THE PLANE, BUT IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT IT COULD HAVE DROPPED PREVIOUSLY.

A HIGH ALTITUDE. NONE SAW THE PLANE, BUT IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT IT COULD HAVE DROPPED PREVIOUSLY. EVERY AVAILABLE TROOPER WAS

THAT IT COULD HAVE DROPPED PREVIOUSLY. EVERY AVAILABLE TROOPER WAS PRESSED INTO SEARCH, TO BE JOIN ED BY CHIEF HENRY M. PHILLIPS

PREVIOUSLY. EVERY AVAILABLE TROOPER WAS PRESSED INTO SEARCH, TO BE JOIN ED BY CHIEF HENRY M. PHILLIPS AND 20 MEMBERS OF THE HAMMON

EVERY AVAILABLE TROOPER WAS PRESSED INTO SEARCH, TO BE JOIN ED BY CHIEF HENRY M. PHILLIPS AND 20 MEMBERS OF THE HAMMON TON FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH

PRESSED INTO SEARCH, TO BE JOIN ED BY CHIEF HENRY M. PHILLIPS AND 20 MEMBERS OF THE HAMMON TON FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH LIGHTING APPARATUS.

ED BY CHIEF HENRY M. PHILLIPS AND 20 MEMBERS OF THE HAMMON TON FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH LIGHTING APPARATUS. NEARBY RESIDENTS FAMILIAR

AND 20 MEMBERS OF THE HAMMON TON FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH LIGHTING APPARATUS. NEARBY RESIDENTS FAMILIAR WITH THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE

TON FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH LIGHTING APPARATUS. NEARBY RESIDENTS FAMILIAR WITH THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE MILES OF MORASS, ALSO JOINED THE

LIGHTING APPARATUS. NEARBY RESIDENTS FAMILIAR WITH THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE MILES OF MORASS, ALSO JOINED THE HUNT, BUT WHEN DARKNESS FELL

NEARBY RESIDENTS FAMILIAR WITH THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE MILES OF MORASS, ALSO JOINED THE HUNT, BUT WHEN DARKNESS FELL NO TRACE OF THE MAN HAD BEEN

WITH THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE MILES OF MORASS, ALSO JOINED THE HUNT, BUT WHEN DARKNESS FELL NO TRACE OF THE MAN HAD BEEN THE SEARCH WAS CENTERED BE

NO TRACE OF THE MAN HAD BEEN THE SEARCH WAS CENTERED BE TWEEN SECOND AND THIRD ROADS, PATHS CUT THROUGH THE JUNGLE LIKE SECTION ONE MILE APART, IN

THE SEARCH WAS CENTERED BE TWEEN SECOND AND THIRD ROADS, PATHS CUT THROUGH THE JUNGLE LIKE SECTION ONE MILE APART, IN THE VICINITY OF 9TH STREET, A

TWEEN SECOND AND THIRD ROADS, PATHS CUT THROUGH THE JUNGLE LIKE SECTION ONE MILE APART, IN THE VICINITY OF 9TH STREET, A TWO-MILE AREA. BUT PROGRESS WAS

PATHS CUT THROUGH THE JUNGLE LIKE SECTION ONE MILE APART, IN THE VICINITY OF 9TH STREET, A TWO-MILE AREA. BUT PROGRESS WAS SLOW, SINCE MEMBERS OF THE

LIKE SECTION ONE MILE APART, IN THE VICINITY OF 9TH STREET, A TWO-MILE AREA. BUT PROGRESS WAS SLOW, SINCE MEMBERS OF THE SEARCHING PARTY HAD TO PICK

SLOW, SINCE MEMBERS OF THE SEARCHING PARTY HAD TO PICK AND CUT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE UNDERBRUSH, SKIRITING NUM EROUS DANGEROUS AREAS. THE

AND CUT THEIR WAY THROUGH THE UNDERBRUSH, SKIRITING NUM EROUS DANGEROUS AREAS. THE SEARCH WOULD CONTINUE ALL NIGHT, HOWEVER, UNLESS THE AVI

THE UNDERBRUSH, SKIRITING NUM EROUS DANGEROUS AREAS. THE SEARCH WOULD CONTINUE ALL NIGHT, HOWEVER, UNLESS THE AVI ATOR WAS FOUND OR ACCOUNTED

EROUS DANGEROUS AREAS. THE SEARCH WOULD CONTINUE ALL NIGHT, HOWEVER, UNLESS THE AVI ATOR WAS FOUND OR ACCOUNTED FOR, OFFICIALS DECLARED.

NIGHT, HOWEVER, UNLESS THE AVI ATOR WAS FOUND OR ACCOUNTED FOR, OFFICIALS DECLARED. .... THE SWAMP, SAID TO BE ONE OF THE MOST TREACHEROUS

ATOR WAS FOUND OR ACCOUNTED FOR, OFFICIALS DECLARED. .... THE SWAMP, SAID TO BE ONE OF THE MOST TREACHEROUS IN THE STATE, CONTAINS AREAS

FOR, OFFICIALS DECLARED. .... THE SWAMP, SAID TO BE ONE OF THE MOST TREACHEROUS IN THE STATE, CONTAINS AREAS NEVER PENETRATED BEFORE EX

.... THE SWAMP, SAID TO BE ONE OF THE MOST TREACHEROUS IN THE STATE, CONTAINS AREAS NEVER PENETRATED BEFORE EX CEPTING BY INDIANS, ACCORDING

ONE OF THE MOST TREACHEROUS IN THE STATE, CONTAINS AREAS NEVER PENETRATED BEFORE EX CEPTING BY INDIANS, ACCORDING TO THE POLICE ....

IN THE STATE, CONTAINS AREAS NEVER PENETRATED BEFORE EX CEPTING BY INDIANS, ACCORDING TO THE POLICE .... TIMES 12 7-31 (4:6)

NEVER PENETRATED BEFORE EX CEPTING BY INDIANS, ACCORDING TO THE POLICE .... TIMES 12 7-31 (4:6) HAMMONTON, N.J.

CEPTING BY INDIANS, ACCORDING TO THE POLICE .... TIMES 12 7-31 (4:6) HAMMONTON, N.J. AT DUSK TODAY NO TRACE OF

TO THE POLICE .... TIMES 12 7-31 (4:6) HAMMONTON, N.J. AT DUSK TODAY NO TRACE OF MAN OR PARACHUTE HAD BEEN

TIMES 12 7-31 (4:6) HAMMONTON, N.J. AT DUSK TODAY NO TRACE OF MAN OR PARACHUTE HAD BEEN FOUND. THE SEARCH WAS DROPPED.

AT DUSK TODAY NO TRACE OF MAN OR PARACHUTE HAD BEEN FOUND. THE SEARCH WAS DROPPED. A CHECKUP AT NEARBY AIRPORTS ACCOUNTED FOR ALL PLANES AND

FOUND. THE SEARCH WAS DROPPED. A CHECKUP AT NEARBY AIRPORTS ACCOUNTED FOR ALL PLANES AND

A CHECKUP AT NEARBY AIRPORTS ACCOUNTED FOR ALL PLANES AND

ACCOUNTED FOR ALL PLANES AND

(This was Ben Hecht's "review" of The Booths of Charles Fort, in P. M. last May, It has since been reprinted in the book 1001 Afternoons in New Yor^.) This month our master, Charles Fort,

Several members have enquired if cer tain feature columns in the Magazine Cor onet are written by Your Secretary. It is pointed out that these draw heavily upon the books of Charles Fort for much of their

Our valued correspondent and Fortean to the last gene, Frederick S. Hammett, Scientific Director of the Lankenau Hos pital Research Institute, formerly on Cape Cod and now at the Fiddlers Point Station,

Now that the United States Navy is so well represented in the South Pacific Ocean, Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan may turn up any day. Your Secretary has never lost. hope for the lives of those two people nor

Pope Pius gave Harlow Shapley (the Pope of Astronomy at Harvard) a prize of 50,000 lire, worth about $2500 in U. S. paper money, for his studies of nebulae, at the recent session of the Pontifical Aca

CAUSE, by Major R. A. Marriott, Lieuten ant Colonel T. C. Skinner, R. E. (Retired), Fellow Royal Meteorological Society, and others, including "D. W. Horner, F.R.A.S., Sir Wm. Salmond, Alfred H. Barley and

Too late to insert in the October issue of the Magazine in connection with the strange phenomena attendant upon the New Madrid, Missouri, quakes contributed Time sent in by Norman MacBeth. The

A shower of stones fell ^?) shortly after 8 p.m., in Philadelphia, according to the Evening Ledger (7-26-41). Houses were bombarded before and after dark. One per son was struck, others escaped "narrowly".

Standing (3-5-40) beside a partly de composed creature on the beach near Van couver, a creature ten feet long, "with a horse-like head. . . bulbous nostrils. . . cartilege instead of bone in skull . . . the

The account in the London, Ontario, Free Press is not specific as to time, but the story is that (probably) Sunday (7-T141) morning the level of the water in Lake Huron dropped two and a half feet in a few minutes. It rose again, somewhat more

When Forteans move, they sometimes neglect to inform the Secretary of their new address and so miss out on special notices, issues of the Magazine, etc. . . . PLEASE remember to inform us of every

where the following appears almost verbatim. T.T.) Persecuting Flames/ see Dec. 1904/ November 14, 1870 (or 1890 T.T.) (reverse) (p.) 198/

noise" said been subterranean , but lumps of ice, and quake (reverse) or hailstones some weighing 10 ounces each fell , No, first a luminous meteor

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Our valued member, ABRAM BROOKS, has supplied the Society with data on a score of subjects recently, including: intelligent horses time lapses

The indefatigable BART REAGAN has enriched the Archives since the last writ ing with data on practically every subject of Fortean interest: "dust" storms

A new member, MORRIS RONYON, would like to champion the late Professor A. A. Michelson's figures and experimental methods for finding that old cosmic yard stick "the velocity of light". Does any

would like to champion the late Professor A. A. Michelson's figures and experimental methods for finding that old cosmic yard stick "the velocity of light". Does any member have the time to take the young

LETTER FROM letter has arrived from a Fortean in the British Army with its seal unbroken. No censor read it. This is what got by: Things worsening this side. The

letter has arrived from a Fortean in the British Army with its seal unbroken. No censor read it. This is what got by: Things worsening this side. The forces of reaction are closing their ranks.

Perhaps no other member has laid the Society under greater obligation for his general, informed usefulness, and for data and books contributed, recently, than has DON BLOCH, moving spirit of the Na

French scientists who have been cc ducting experiments in East Greenland say there is a layer of ice in the air over the polar regions. This ice ceiling (con gealed atmosphere a million times finer

And the AP despatch from London, 827-35 credits Professor E. V. Appleton, Chairman of the British National Committee for Radio Telegraphy, with the theory "that in the upper atmosphere encompassing the earth there is a vast layer of intense heat

And the AP despatch from London, 827-35 credits Professor E. V. Appleton, Chairman of the British National Committee for Radio Telegraphy, with the theory "that in the upper atmosphere encompassing the earth there is a vast layer of intense heat

And the AP despatch from London, 827-35 credits Professor E. V. Appleton, Chairman of the British National Committee for Radio Telegraphy, with the theory "that in the upper atmosphere encompassing the earth there is a vast layer of intense heat

Now you can go back to sleep: 44 inmates of the Oregon State Hospital (for the insane) died (11-19-42) after eat ing scrambled eggs, which were of the

The physicists' union, like Poe's raven, still is sitting, still is sitting, since May 1940, on a source of atomic energy one pound of which is equal to the "power output of 5,000,000 pounds of coal or 3,000,000 pounds of gasoline". What the

Bees killed a female bee-keeper in the N. Y. Times 10-4-41. . . . Elsewhere here in, note a fire department called out to stop them. . . . And a team of horses was stung to death on a ranch near Live Oak, Calif.,

Before Fort, any fiction making more or less free with "Science" was classified al ways, as of the Jules Verne school, and there wasn't a great deal of it, but in the past twenty years, what its exponents and ad

Another leader in the field, Arthur Louis Joquel II, addressed the Los Angeles Sci ence Fantasy Society, 1-14-43, on The Re searches of Charles Fort, "especially men tioning Fort's influence on current litera

The coincidence in this case is that the Society received the following notices all the same day: From L. F. BAIN, the account of Al len M. Small ae 82, found dead in his

Maybe it wasn't Adam and Eve after all , nor even a seed from space falling into the ooze on the shore of that first prim ordial sea. Maybe life originated in vol canos! At least, A. L. Herrera, Mexican

In common with all other possible means to suppress native intelligence, Religion has been given a shot in the arm by Washing ton, and in advertising, planned short stor ies, specially designed movies etc., etc., we

SHOULD READ All Forteans will find a great deal of interest in these five periodicals, all pub lished in New York City: The CALL (weekly)

All Forteans will find a great deal of interest in these five periodicals, all pub lished in New York City: The CALL (weekly) 303 Fourth Avenue

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167 West 12th St. $1.00 a year Your Secretary regrets that he cannot steer you to an honest daily. He has tried to find one. How he has tried! ... . . In

Two young men, Donald Lee Cyr and Lawrence W. Smith, descendants, it seems, of Isaac Newton Vail, are carrying his labors forward in a workmanlike manner. The Society has already acknowledged

Pursuing the Society's labors in behalf of the Drayson Problem, which inquiry we fell heir to on the untimely death of Alfred Henry Barley, certain members were asked to check learned societies and public librar

31st March 1891 20, Ashburton Road Dear Mrs. Moore: I have to thank you for a copy of your clear logical lecture on Keely's discoveries,

(A) "The record is very peculiar," said Rev. Michael J. Ahearn. S. J., of Weston College, (Mass.), after two quakes had wiggled his seismograph for fifteen min utes. (AP, 1-15-43).

TO CURE SULFA No Fortean can ask a Science reporter to go further with frankness than this: "A possible long step forward in com batting poisonous effects of sulfa drugs is

No Fortean can ask a Science reporter to go further with frankness than this: "A possible long step forward in com batting poisonous effects of sulfa drugs is seen in experiments recently reported by the

Gray snow fell in Basle, Switzerland, 27-42. Orthodox explanation: "caused by an oily substance of the nature of soot pro duced by combustion at some great dis tance." ... As far away as Mars perhaps? Your Secretary, Tiffany Thayer

AND CHURCHILL Suit has been filed (4-19-43) in Pueblo, Colorado, federal district court, charging that President Roosevelt "resorted to every available device to involve the United States

Suit has been filed (4-19-43) in Pueblo, Colorado, federal district court, charging that President Roosevelt "resorted to every available device to involve the United States in the European War". A "private treaty"

Your Secretary was delighted to see Herr Doktor Kaempffert's column in the Times 3-14-43 featuring the Butterfly Map of For tean B. J. S. Cahill. This projection has been before the learned of three or four

HE'S ASLEEP Edgar Cayce, of Virginia Beach. Va., goes to sleep. In that state he diagnoses Cases and prescribes remedies. A steno graphic record of over 12,000 cases in

Edgar Cayce, of Virginia Beach. Va., goes to sleep. In that state he diagnoses Cases and prescribes remedies. A steno graphic record of over 12,000 cases in which he has helped people, ill or in trouble,

To the citizens of Buffalo, N. Y.. the death (2-7-43) of John Kocemba, 18, in a police cell, means the opportunity to get , at least temporarily, a better police ad ministration .... To the local press it af

HARRY LEON WILSON JR., was reported (3-18-43) to have been arrested for failing to report for army induction. . . . He was a librarian in Monteagle, Tennessee. According to the UP story he "carried his case as a conscientious objector to President

The essence of what follows was written to Mr. DaGosta Williams M.F.S., about a year ago. Mr. Williams was at that time a practicing Astrologer in Titusville, Penna. At last accounts he was in uniform, un

to chart the space spots by reference to their star charts and so predict such epidemic conditions, warn the people and perhaps prevent all the sniffling and coughing which causes so much misery.

FORGIVE YOURSELF IF YOU DO NOT READ THE MACHIAVELLIANS Defenders of Freedom AUTHOR OF THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION

IF YOU DO NOT READ THE MACHIAVELLIANS Defenders of Freedom AUTHOR OF THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION This book is a study of the laws of

THE MACHIAVELLIANS Defenders of Freedom AUTHOR OF THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION This book is a study of the laws of politics. The study is carried out, in the

Defenders of Freedom AUTHOR OF THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION This book is a study of the laws of politics. The study is carried out, in the first place, through a clear and extended

AUTHOR OF THE MANAGERIAL REVOLUTION This book is a study of the laws of politics. The study is carried out, in the first place, through a clear and extended exposition of the leading ideas of the

This book is a study of the laws of politics. The study is carried out, in the first place, through a clear and extended exposition of the leading ideas of the great Machiavellian tradition of political

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TH£'*PRlNCCS no spots in their own states, or in fact any spot anywhere in this wide country worth living in many months of the year? During the strenuous labours of a session of the

no spots in their own states, or in fact any spot anywhere in this wide country worth living in many months of the year? During the strenuous labours of a session of the Chamber of Princes over the period of a

Old institutions in time yield their place to new. But when the change is the result of violence alone, the institutions, may soon find a new lease of life under new names. Disappearance is definite only when an in

Volunteer translators are called for! . . . Although this volume is an attack upon us, the passage of the years has rendered their own words the best ammunition against the dogmatists of that day. As Fort had it:

I. Pyrrho was 4 citizen of Elis, and the son of Pleistarchus, as Diodes informs us, and, as Apollodorus in his Chronicles asserts, he was originally a painter. II. And he was a pupil of Bryson, the son

FATHER AND SON The Forteanism of Harry Leon Wilson is exemplified in one of his best characters, Dave Cowan, the tramp printer, in The Wrong Twin.

The Forteanism of Harry Leon Wilson is exemplified in one of his best characters, Dave Cowan, the tramp printer, in The Wrong Twin. " . . . a gay and gallant figure in his

IN "NEW LANDS" The eagle eye of H. W. GILES, M.F.S., has detected a place in New Lands where words are missing . . . The sense somehow carries over the gap, but not rhetorically.

The eagle eye of H. W. GILES, M.F.S., has detected a place in New Lands where words are missing . . . The sense somehow carries over the gap, but not rhetorically. The blunder occurs on page 423 of The

Ryerson Laboratory, Chicago, was squawkin (7-19-35) for more dough to continue the experiments of the late A. A. Michelson. The "initial" funds provided by Martin A. Scanned by Bob Rickard 2018 December of the year 13 F.S.

in Pasadena, Drs. C. W. Potapenko and D. F. Folland had a "special" short wave radio set aimed (2-14-36) at a point in the sky "between the constellations Sagittarius and Ophiuchus," which is the center of the milkyway galaxy of which Sol is a part. Their

too small to be noticed on any map in the Society's possession, but news of Ringold comes from Pasco, which is near Walla Walla. "Citizens of high repute" in the Ringold district report a mysterious light,

clankings, moanings "and other eerie sounds" emerge, it is said, apparently from the ocean floor over a 75-mile area of the Pacific Ocean, extending from San Clemente to Oceanside, Calif. . . . "Starting at 11 A.M.,

the moon is full do the fruits, male and female, of this plant (a brown, flat, ribbon like sea-weed) ripen, "according to Prof. W. D. Hoyt, Washington & Lee, who has been verifying (12-20-36) the matter for

With the utmost regret we are forced to record the passing of two fine Forteans . . . Abe Merritt, long-time editor of the American Weekly, and a member of the Society almost from its founding . . . And of Edward Peters,

Weekly , $2.50 per year Teeney Building Madison, Wisconsin And, if you can master the lingo, here is a daily which will tell you what is really

Daily except Sunday, $20.00 a year. It is not easy reading because it is written (as RollsRoyce advertising used to be) in the fifth You will also do well to subscribe to the CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR, 2 Stone Street, N.Y.C. It is only 50c a year . . . Take

Street, N.Y.C. It is only 50c a year . . . Take And you will find real meat in RETORT, "a quarterly of social philosophy and the arts", printed by young, eager, willing hands. Holley JL Cantine, Jr., is the very moving

2422 North Halsted Street Chicago, Ill. $1.50 per year of Charles Fort Continued from Number 7 of the For

Scanned by Bob Rickard - Sept 2018 FORTEANA IN THE EMPAH from Eric Frank Russell Our Worshipful Brother Russell of Liver pool comes through again in his best vein

from Eric Frank Russell Our Worshipful Brother Russell of Liver pool comes through again in his best vein , with a grist of data that should put many local correspondents to shame. . . . "The first

If it be mitigation of a platitude to state that Plato wrote it, then, 'twas he, or Cicero, perhaps, who enjoined , "Pass on thy lamp!", advice which has been followed by most Forteans, before Fort and since: ad

That intrepid "scientist and explorer" , Sir Hubert (What-would-we-do-withouthim!) Wilkins, turned up again 11-7-43 in that old favorite exploring ground of his, the columns of the New York Times. He was photgraphed (it seems needless to say)

Members are urged to write "their" Con gressmen letters protesting the abandonment of that Alaskan Highway to nowhere. In its conception the whole project had every desideratum of armed conflict without any

The Society has belatedly come upon the Giannini Universe, through the courtesy of its creator, Francis Amodeo Giannini, who recently joined us. Its details, to be found in MSS only, were "first presented in 1927",

The clipping comes from our Worshipful Sister, GERTRUDE HILLS, long-time For tean, bibliophile, book cataloguer and Steven son expert. She took it from the Publisher's Weekly of 10-31-42. . . .Nine thousand

Tobey is the publisher of Astro-Statistics, a paper which essays to keep tabs on astrol ogy and, by "scientific" methods, to establish the study on as firm a footing (academ ically, economically and legally) as that en

In another slather of data from Brother GILES we find that something is or was collecting houses. . . . On April 6, 1931, Meyer Harrison told Denver, Colorado, policy that his frame dwelling had dis;

When we published the guess of A. L. Herrera, that life may have come from volcanos, James BLISH, M.F.S., was re minded of data in his possession. writes: "Since Emil Fisher most of the

Who buys the "lie-detectors" which keep popping into the news? By what authority and at whose instigation are these inquisi torial gadgets available and waiting in police stations and court rooms?

Dead sheep and lambs in such numbers as to raise the wrath of farmers in "many parts" of England against "killer dogs" were reported by Tom Elsonder, M.F.S., 4-10-43, and an almost identical datum comes 1017-43 from Curtis Cramer, M.F.S., in which

The Conscientious Objectors of Civilian Public Service Camp 37 issue a magazine too. It's called "Sage Opinon" and the August, 1943, issue is fairly dominated by the work of W. L. Janney, C.O., M.F.S.

Those cave-crawlers, led by Don Bloch, M.F.S., have issued "Bulletin Number Five", October, 1943, at $1.00. Order through the This is a valuable number, if you care for caves. It contains twelve double-column,

"PENICILLIN" 60 YEARS AGO George Starr White, M.D.,, one of the M.D.'s who has been harried by organized medicine all his professional life, but man aged to get along very well outside the doc

George Starr White, M.D.,, one of the M.D.'s who has been harried by organized medicine all his professional life, but man aged to get along very well outside the doc tor's union, states that he has talked and

"A loud report with attendant vibration" was heard 10-23-43, in the Park Slope sec tion of Brooklyn. The police searched for the site of an explosion but found nothing, and now ignore all questioning on the sub

This may be only a rumor. Will members who %noiv please communicate the facts? The story is that a Catholic priest has "blessed" Gargantua, the gorilla, and his mate. Whether the shennanigan took the

In an ad for a book by Mary Alice Jones , ''Tell Me About God", advertised by Rand-McNally, a review is quoted . . . The review appeared in the Christian Herald . . . "A nationally-famous expert in religious ed

Although possibilities of further appeal have not been entirely exhausted, at the moment of going to press Bertrand Russell has won his suit against Dr. Albert C. Barnes for back pay in an allegedly breached

*"Atomic Theory" Crehore 1942. "The Crehore Atom" Crehore 1943. NOT THIS CALENDAR The new Fortean calendar is not to be confused with the so-called "World" calen

The new Fortean calendar is not to be confused with the so-called "World" calen dar put forward by Elisabeth Achelis, in her book, The Calendar for Everybody. If that book, containing more platitudes than Bart

The case of Tom Lilley, the man who cannot sink in water, was reported from Philadelphia 3-8-42, in the Record . . . Lilley, ae 76, claims that he doesn't know why he is a human cork, that the extraor

In this publication (No. 7) June, 1943, Your Secretary proposed that the Astrologers take the common cold in hand since he thought it probably originated in interplan etary; space. Since then , in Newsweek,

Attention is called to the work of Harry Benjamin, M.D., M.F.S., on the sex life of soldiers. See our new book circular. Dr. Benjamin is the celebrated gland man who attempts to retard the ravages of time on

Doc (Edward Spencer) Cowles, the Body and Mind Foundation man, who has been the victim of persecution by organized medi cine ever since his psychiatric praxis ex posed the fraud inherent in most psycho

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the Year 14 F.S. (Continued from front cover) Keep this issue handy. Date your letters and legal documents, checks et al two ways, temporarily. The sooner you start, the sooner

The Literature is FREE. Prominent users , besides Eastman Kodak Fuller Brush Company Western Clock Company Bauer & Black

The coals had scarcely hopped back into the scuttle, the books had only just ceased to smoulder, and likely the masked stranger was still on the premises, at Wild Plum School, North Dakota, when the Fortean

TECTOR, by Alva Johnston. The Post, which has always been one hell-bender for Con stitutional Government, announced the series thus: "The rubber hose and the third degree , traditional means of wringing confessions

While all the world else was seeking , overturning Newton, kicking Einstein down the backstairs, stumbling after Planck and a thousand more, seeking that universal yard stick, the Cosmic Constant, Frank S. Lone

In 1911, 1914 and 1915 A.D., one M. P. Maker was writing and publishing philo sophical works of distinct originality, in sev eral California cities, San Francisco, Fresno, and elsewhere. Fie signed his works "St.

Abram's cousin Andrew went to bed. A stinging pain in his leg wakened him. He turned on the light and saw a deep flesh wound, too deep to have been inflicted by finger- or toe-nails. He was alone in the

Checking the suggestion that Astrology be called upon to eliminate the common cold, since the Medicine Men are so powerless to do so, and, further, checking the word from Sweden's Upsala that "flu" may come from

A new type of criticism of so-called "exact sciences" and of their effect upon our everyday life is advanced by MFS Charles F. Dilks, C.E. Mr. Dilks founds his philosophy upon a

FINDS NEW VOICE Many younger Forteans will not remember when Scott Nearing was , in effect , fired from the faculty of the U. of Pennsylvania in 1915. He was the "Bertrand Russell" of

Many younger Forteans will not remember when Scott Nearing was , in effect , fired from the faculty of the U. of Pennsylvania in 1915. He was the "Bertrand Russell" of that day, and the cause of academic free

125 Fifth St. N.E. Washington 2, D.C. GHOSTS ACTIVE The usual series of antics attributed to spirits of the departed have been reported

The usual series of antics attributed to spirits of the departed have been reported from several quarters recently. 5-43. Knocking, etc., in West 45th Street, N.Y.C. Reported by many. Still unexplained.

A "miniature" twister wrecked 5-25-43 telephone and power equipment and lines in the northeast section of Kokomo, Ind. Oil was sprayed over houses and gardens "like rain". Lacking any better explanation, the

Remember the black rains of Slains, Scot land? Fort got most of his data on them from Reverend James Rust, "Minister of Slains." Now MFS Tom Elsender, Gates head, Tyne, England, whose data have

A related topic (to that just above) is the subject of another fascinating volume, this from the library of the late Alfred H. Barley, ,donated to the Society by his widow, LMFS Annie Barley . . . On the title page we read

N. Meade Layne What has become of the problem of "Vitic" or "carbon force"? This subject was dis cussed by Brian Brown some 20 years ago, in his Dynamic Power of the Inner Mind

At the diet of Grodno in 1688, the bishop of Potsdam, accused Cassimir Liszinski a Polish gentleman, of atheism; and an order was given to search to house for proofs in support of the accusation. Some manuscripts

Let "Can. Pk." stand for Canoga Park, California, where E. V. Johnson does heavy pamphleteering under the name and style of The Resolutionary Educational Movement. General Director Johnson quotes Einstein

GETS TWO YEARS The Conscientious Objector son of For tean Founder Harry Leon Wilson, was sen tenced to two years on McNeil Island, Puget Sound. His correspondents are limited to

The Conscientious Objector son of For tean Founder Harry Leon Wilson, was sen tenced to two years on McNeil Island, Puget Sound. His correspondents are limited to seven but we can convey your congratula

That young kinsman of the heterodox Isaac Newton Vail, Master Donald Lee Cyr, continues to flaunt his Orthodoxy by way of publication. The latest to hand is Life on Mars, a pretty little brochure and well

Orthodoxy is not united in this, but a sufficient majority of Scientists employ these twin conventions to make the two assump tions rules in their respective fields, devia tion the exception.

A sea monster with "zig-zagging move ments, covered with grey-green scales and having a head as big as a horse but only one eye" was reported 9-19-42 near Fredrikstad, Norway. Credit Giles.

A book, under the title of Unheard oj Curiosities, by one James Gaffarel, was pub lished at Hamburgh in 1678-8, 2 vols. I2mo. It treats chiefly of the different sorts of talismans; some of which the author admits

Space limitations crowd out much of meteorological interest from England. Tom Elsender correlates very diverse data from January 15th, old style, and American mem bers are asked to scan their local presses for

CASE OF PETER VESEY Carl Payne Tobey Let the industry of the man who watched a nova for 15 years be commemorated in stone! Let bronze tablets be raised to the

Carl Payne Tobey Let the industry of the man who watched a nova for 15 years be commemorated in stone! Let bronze tablets be raised to the intrepid astronomers who carry the Word

A. P. Herbert, the British Lloyd C. Doug las, has issued a book in England, in spite of the paper shortage, advocating the re naming of the stars. The title is A Better Shy; and who's to deny the suggestion?

Observations and data relative to a transit of Mercury on or about November 12, 1940, are urgently solicited. If you you live near an observatory or know any honest astrono mers, learn all you can about the transit and

An enterprising new member has under taken the task of checking the references in Charles Fort's NOTES as printed in the Magazine, especially and primarily, those gathered from the Reports of the British

"I shall see to the growth oj the country, considering it always as 'God.' Whatever Law there is here, and whatever is dictated polity, I will act according to. 'I shall never act arbitrarily.' This is the ideal oj the Reign

Max Sherover, published by the Free Press League, 1569 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1914 and 1915. At that time the indictment for criminal libel was still pending against the editors of The Masses.

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