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@daily-fort
A local and coinciding whirlwind
The Dublin Daily Express reported that small masses of damp hay fell at Monkstown, Ireland, on July 27, 1875. Dr. J.W. Moore explained it away as the result of a nearby whirlwind that coincided with the fall. Scientific American reported a similar fall near Wrexham, England, two days before.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 254 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)
Advantage of proximity is taken to send a message
According to Phil. Trans., 50-500, after an earthquake in Cornwall on July 15, 1757, marks "like hoof prints, except they were not crescentic" were found on the sands of Penzance over an area of more than 100 square yards.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 246 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)
Visitors
On July 28, 1860, according to an account in the Canadian Institute Proceedings, 2-7-198, the Deputy Commissioner of Dhurmsalla reported the fall of a meteorite coated in ice. Within a few months of this fall, the Deputy Commissioner noted these events occurred: a fall of live fishes at Benares, a shower of red substance at Furruckabad, a dark spot observed on the disk of the sun, and earthquake, "an unnatural darkness of some duration," and a luminous appearance in the sky like an aurora borealis.
In the evening after the fall, the Deputy Commissioner saw lights in the sky that moved like fire balloons, but that he was sure "were neither fire balloons, lanterns, nor bonfires, or any other thing of that sort, but bona fide lights in the heavens."
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 245-246 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)
Or let it be that we have data of many dark bodies--still do we incline almost irresistibly to think of one of them as the dark-body-in-chief. Dark bodies, floating, or navigating, in inter-planetary space--and I conceive of one that's the Prince of Dark Bodies: Melanicus. Vast dark thing with the wings of a super-bat, or jet-black super-construction; most likely one of the spores of the Evil One.
Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 209 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)
Two shining objects
During the total eclipse of July 29, 1878, two astronomers, one in Rawlins, Wyoming and the other in Denver, Colorado, reported sighing two shining objects at a considerable distance from the sun. These were reported in Nature, Sept. 18, 1878, and Observatory, 2-161. Lockyer, in Nature, Aug. 20, 1878, wrote, "There is little doubt that an Intra-Mercurial planet has been discovered by Prof. Watson."
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 205ff (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)
Thunder was heard
Symons' Met. Mag., 43-154, records that on July 2, 1908, at Braemar, flat pieces of ice fell. The sky overhead was clear and the sun was shining, but thunder was heard.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 187 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)
Not found near Palestine
Sergeant W.H. Perry of the Signal Corps reported in Monthly Weather Review, July 1888, that common water-worn pebbles fell at Palestine, Texas on July 6, 1888. These were a formation not found near Palestine.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 176 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)
Can be seen at the Kilburn Times office
On July 7, 1877, according to the Kilburn Times, about two bushels of clinkers (cinders) fell during a storm. The pieces, ranging in size from a walnut to a man's hand, were on display at the Kilburn Times office.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 111 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974)
Stunned by a fall
During a heavy shower on July 3, 1860, in South Granville, NY, a man heard "a peculiar sound at his feet." Looking down he saw a foot long gray snake, "lying as if stunned by a fall. It then came to life." This was recorded in Scientific American, 3-112.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 93 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
This was his error
On July 8, 1886, according to Science Gossip, 1886-238, a land species of small snails fell during a heavy thunderstorm near Redruth, Cornwall. The number of them was so great that they were gathered up by the hatful, a species unknown in that district. A correspondent writing in the same issue said they must have been on the ground in the first place, and that "astonished rustics had jumped to the conclusion that they had fallen." He met one person who said he had seen the snails fall, but "this was his error," the investigator said.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 92 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
On the tops of haystacks
On July 25, 1850, at Rajkote, India, according to All the Year Round, 8-255, after one of the heaviest rainfalls on record, the ground was found "literally covered with fishes." Apparently some of the fish were found on "the tops of haystacks."
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 87 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Anybody who lost a pond would be heard from
Fort records that on July 30, 1838, according to Notes and Queries (8-7-437), little frogs were found in London after a heavy storm. The explanation for such phenomenon is that the frogs were scooped up by a whirlwind. His commentary: "In the exclusionist-imagination there is no regard for mud, debris from the bottom of a pond, floating vegetation, loose things from the shores--but a precise picking out of frogs only. Of all instances I have that attribute the fall of small frogs or toads to whirlwinds, only one definitely identifies or places the whirlwind. Also, as has been said before, a pond going up would be quite as interesting as frogs coming down. Whirlwinds we read of over and over--but where and what whirlwind? It seems to me that anybody who had lost a pond would be heard from."
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 82-83 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Seventeen tiny coffins
The London Times, in its July 20, 1836 edition, as well as the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquarians of Scotland, 3-12-460, reported that boys searching for rabbits' burrows at Arthur's Seat near Edinburgh found some thin sheets of slate in the side of a cliff. When they pulled them out, they found a little cave, within which were seventeen tiny coffins, three or four inches long. Inside the coffins were miniature wooden figures, each dressed differently.
The coffins had been "deposited singly...and at intervals of many years." The older ones, in a bottom tier of eight, were "quite decayed, and the wrappings had moldered away." The middle tier, also of eight coffins, did not appear quite as old, while the one on top, starting a new tier, was "quite recent-looking."
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 169 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Burning bituminous matter
During a thunderstorm in July 1681 near Cape Cod, "burning, bituminous matter" fell on the deck of the English ship Albemarle, according to the Edin. New Phil. Jour., 26-86.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 74 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Rhythm of reassurances
During a storm, a brownish substance fell at Luchon on July 28, 1885. It was "very friable, carbonaceous matter" than when burned, "gave out a resinous odor." From Comptes Rendus, 103-837.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 74 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Lumps of jelly
A fall of a gelatinous substance occurred after the explosion of a meteorite near Heidelberg in July 1811, according to Chladni's account in Annals of Philosophy, n.s., 12-94.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 50 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Other concomitants of black rains
A rumbling, "as of wagons, heard for upward of an hour without ceasing," occurred on July 16, 1850, at Bulwick Rectory, Northampton, England, according to Timb's Year Book, 1851-270. Three days later, a black rain fell.
--Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p.31 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).