Topic: Science Town

Gordon White names Charles Fort’s "Book of the Damned" as his number two pick, identifying Fort as the "fountainhead" of high strangeness studies. Fort collected "damned facts"—anomalous events that science could not explain—to argue that the scientific paradigm is as limited as the religious one it replaced. White praises Fort’s 1919 writing style as brilliant, funny, and foundational for the entire paranormal genre.