On This Day in Weird, February 9...
1931: Claude Kendall of New York published the first edition
of Charles Fort's Lo! This, Fort's third nonfiction work—and, by most
accounts, his most popular—detailed a vast range of unusual phenomena and
presented his theory of a "cosmic joker" at work behind such diverse
events as strange disappearances, "monster" sightings, unexplained
sky-falls of anomalous objects, and spontaneous human combustion. The volume
also includes Fort's widely ridiculed attack on mainstream astronomy,
suggesting that Earth hangs stationary in space, surrounded by a solid shell
somehow invisible through telescopes, yet "not unthinkably far away."
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