Re: Red Rain

Regarding Fort's books, your comment reminds me of something a friend once
said about the book _The Secret Life of Plants_: "There's so much in it,
some of it's got to be true."

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol or John Burgeson" <burgytwo@juno.com>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 11:59 AM_
Subject: Fw: Red Rain

>>>Wow have any of you heard of this? Comments?
>
> http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=3DEducation&F=3D1&id=3D8530
> Red rain may prove life came from outer space
> 6/3/2006>>
>
> People who are amazed by this might find the books by Charles Fort,
> written about 80 years ago, of interest. Fort collected such stories;
> there are myriads (literally) of them from all over the globe. I think
> the "Fortean Society" still is in business.
>
> I have a collection of Fort's books, published in 1941 under the title
> "The Books of Charles Fort." An introduction by Tiffany Thayer then "The
> Book of the Damned*" (1919), "New lands (1923), " "Lo!, (1931)" and "Wild
> Talents" (1932). There is also an index. 1122 pages of "facts." Falling
> stones, UFOs, soot and ashes dropping from the sky, fires that consumed
> persons without damaging the surroundings, sudden cures, the strange
> recovery of Honus Wagner, the man who couldn't be hanged, sea serpents
> seen in the sky, disappearances, peach-colored rain in Giessen, Germany.
> etc. He has many instances of "red rain."
>
> Any one -- or a few -- are easily discounted as hoaxes or mistakes. I
> have always felt that Charles Fort found too many to overlook. Something
> is going on. But as to what, I have no clue.
>
> * Damned facts, not damned people. Facts that are, because they do not
> "fit," are considered "outliers" and usually ignored.
>
>
> Burgy
>
> (Sometimes wrong; never in doubt)
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 20 12:48:29 2006