LO!

In Lo! Charles Fort writes about the kind of things—teleportation, spontaneous combustion, the “hive mind”—that have more recently been employed as themes in the Fox television series Fringe. To say Fort writes about “freak occurrences” seems like a misnomer; here he has collected so many report......more

I read this decades ago. It was thought provoking at the time. Probably not so much now. My rating is in the context of when it was published.......more

A very odd and interesting book! We only recently became aware of this writer, Charles Fort, but plan to read more of his books. The epistemic paradigm this guy was operating in is amazing for its time: hyper skepticism, scurrilous contrarianism and rigorous rationality ever vigilant against ratioci......more

In this book"," Charles Fort examines extreme phenomena"," and the mysterious forces behind them. His musings suggest that the universe is a much stranger place than anyone imagines"," and that even scientists may not know what is going on.While some of his ideas are crazy"," which he admits"," they......more

A vast compendium of unexplained, mysterious, and downright bizarre events collected by Charles Fort. Fort's dedication to recording and sharing reports of unexplained phenomena, combined with his innate distrust of scientific establishment and his tongue-in-cheek humorist style, garnered him a loya......more