This guy............who all he did supposedly was to visit libraries in New York City......im in 2025.........again, i truncated this a lot............making it less of an internet hog.

Charles Fort

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Charles Hoy Fort
Fort in 1920
Born	Charles Hoy Fort August 6, 1874 Albany, New York, USA
Died	May 3, 1932 (aged 57) The Bronx, New York, USA

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Charles Hoy Fort (August 6, 1874 – May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. The terms Fortean and Forteana are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena. Fort's books sold well and are still in print. His work continues to inspire admirers, who refer to themselves as "Forteans", and has influenced some aspects of science fiction.

Fort's collections of scientific anomalies including The Book of the Damned (1919) influenced numerous science fiction writers with their iconoclastic skepticism and as sources of ideas. "Fortean" phenomena are events which seem to challenge the boundaries of accepted scientific knowledge, and the Fortean Times (founded as The News in 1973, and renamed in 1976) inv