Forty-in-Fanamana is one name for many of the strange and mysterious subjects we talk

about here on Skeptoid, ghosts, UFOs, psychics, and other mysteries.

They're named after the early 20th century author, Charles Fort.

But for as familiar as many of us might be with Forty-in-Fanamana, how many of us know

anything about the man himself?

Charles Fort is coming up next on Skeptoid.

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Who was Charles Fort?

This podcast would have never gotten very far off the ground if it wasn't for the perpetual

public interest in the strange.

And by extension, part of that credit must go to Charles Fort, the author who's

eponymous with what's known as Forty-in-Fanamana, strange things, weird things, things not

explained by science.

They go bump in the night, they zoom through our skies, they breathe life into

the inanimate.

Fort's books and the early 1900s were not the first to talk about such things, but they

were arguably the most influential.

But Fort himself was an enigma.

Was he a true believer in the things he wrote about?

Was he a clever satirist?

Or was he putting us all on with some gigantic joke?

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