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The Book of the Damned is a book by Charles Hoy Fort, first published in 1919. This is the first of Fort’s four books, followed by New Lands (1923), Lo! (1931) and Wild Talents (1932) - all of which focuses on “anomalous phenomena”, which were frequently misunderstood and misrepresented by “Dogmatic Science” of that period. The title of this book - “damned” - refers to “damned” or excluded data that Fort collected.
This work deals with various types of anomalous phenomena, including what we now refers to as UFO, strange creatures, unexplained disappearances, odd weather patterns, and so forth. All of these strange phenomena led him to conclude that the Earth is a “possession” of something, by saying “I think we’re property”.
The book can be read on Sacred Texts website or on Internet Archive.