Time travel, UFOs, enigmatic planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, enormous footprints, and bizarre rains of fish and frogs are just a few of the strange phenomena described in Charles Fort's Book of the Damned that have largely eluded modern science nearly a century after its initial publication. Fort captures the imagination while revealing the shortcomings of prevalent scientific explanations through meticulous investigation and a funny, caustic attitude. Because he was an ardent collector, almost all of his information was gathered and documented from reports published in credible journals, newspapers, and magazines. Charles Fort, who led a rather reclusive lifestyle, spent the most of his free time studying these bizarre occurrences and gathering these accounts from periodicals brought to him from all over the world.