REDEMPTION OF THE DAMNED, VOLUME 2:
SEA & SPACE PHENOMENA
A Centennial Re-evaluation of Charles Fort’s ‘Book of the Damned’
by Martin Shough with Wim van Utrecht

Charles Fort published his first and most influential book, The Book of the Damned, a century ago in 1919, collecting together many historical reports of strange phenomena in the sky, in space and in the sea. Since the birth of the UFO controversy in 1947, Fort’s writings have been cited in countless books and web pages. Yet this is the first time in a hundred years that researchers have systematically verified the sources and content of every one of these oft-recycled stories, correcting many errors, placing each case in its historical context, and submitting it to a careful scientific investigation in an attempt to find a conventional answer. What were these phenomena?
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