
Astonishing Legends Charles Fort - Our Supernatural Father Part 2
Apr 10, 2022
02:02:39
Childhood Escape Plan Foiled
- Charles Fort and his brothers plotted a dramatic escape to Upper Burma as elephant drivers at age 13.
- Their friend Biff Allen tricked them into hoarding canned goods instead, revealing youthful mischief.
Canned Goods for Escape Plan
- Fort and his brothers stole cans for their planned escape, hiding them in a friend's place.
- Their youngest brother longed to join but was deemed too young for the adventure.
Defiant Return Home Incident
- After being locked out past curfew, Fort smashed a stained glass window to enter.
- His defiance led to harsh isolation within his family home, foreshadowing estrangement.
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Introduction
00:00 • 6min
The Last Parter on the Supernatural Father of Our Show, CHARLES FORD
05:58 • 2min
The Midnight Library - Season Six
07:39 • 2min
Slash Absurd Legends - Part Two of Our Special Series on Charles Fort's Father
09:26 • 3min
The Story of Charles Fort - Part Two
12:26 • 3min
You Don't Get Any Better Answers the Further and the Longer You Go, the More You Ask
15:42 • 5min
Jean La Fort, Alias Liberte, Was a French Huguenot Protestant, Not a Dutchman
20:18 • 2min
What's the Connection to Forts Ferry Road?
22:19 • 3min
Crazy Horse - The Last Battle of Little Big Horn
24:54 • 2min
Wonder Am Two Tat - Get Your First Year for 99 Dollars Now!
26:36 • 2min
Mint Moble Plans Start at Just 15 Bucks a Month
28:10 • 2min
The Story of Peter Van Frankin Fort
29:42 • 6min
Is That the House They Lived In?
35:20 • 3min
A Father's Dream, a Collector by Nature
38:40 • 4min
The Little Boys of Kafiristan
42:50 • 4min
Why Do You Do These Bad Things?
46:49 • 4min
The Torment at Home Continues On
50:38 • 3min
The Power of Writing
53:21 • 5min
John Hoy's Influence on Charles Fort
57:54 • 2min
Quip Electric Tooth Brush - The Healthy Habit Oral Care Collection
59:42 • 2min
Get Quip Dot Com - Slash Legends, the Good Habits Company
01:01:29 • 2min
Slash a L Go to and Claim a Free Indoor Security Camera Plus 20 % Off With Interactive Monitoring
01:03:41 • 4min
The Little Kid, a Revolver and a Gun
01:07:48 • 2min
What Happened to Riday?
01:09:49 • 3min
Getting the Fliers in Bubabla
01:12:59 • 2min
The Book of the Damned by Theodore Dreiser
01:14:49 • 3min
The Trial of Lincoln
01:17:51 • 2min
Fort, the Inferior Man's Reasons for Hating Knowledge
01:19:57 • 2min
Isn't an Ism, but an Imm?
01:22:24 • 2min
The Book of the Damned by H G Wells
01:24:12 • 2min
A Space Odyssey by Stanley Coberk Ot The
01:26:32 • 2min
I Love It, but No Tansos
01:28:07 • 2min
He Gets It Tuesdays, Wednesdays
01:29:38 • 2min
The Book of the Damned by Jim Steinmir
01:32:00 • 2min
Taking Back Control of Your Mental Well Being With Cerebral
01:33:48 • 2min
Square Space Analytics and Marketing Tools Work for Any Kind of Business
01:35:32 • 2min
Square Space Dot Com Slash Legends for Your Free Trial and Save Ten % Off Your First Purchase of a Web Site or Domain
01:37:42 • 2min
Fortin W Fort's Society of the Damned
01:39:42 • 4min
Book Review - Cloud Kendall
01:43:35 • 2min
The Death of Charles Hoy Fort
01:45:07 • 3min
14 Times - A History of the Society
01:47:41 • 2min
Wen Star, Part One - Is This What We're About?
01:49:46 • 2min
Is Fort a Satirist or a Humorist?
01:51:55 • 4min
What Do You Think About a Modern Writer?
01:56:10 • 3min
Are You Considering Fiction or Non Fiction?
01:58:43 • 2min
Charles Fort and the Philosophy of Science
02:00:48 • 2min
The Science of Anomalies
02:02:51 • 2min
Fort's Pseudo-Scepticism
02:04:33 • 2min
Fortianism - A Brief History
02:06:47 • 4min
The Fittest Survive
02:11:13 • 2min
Fort's Philosophy
02:12:57 • 3min
Astonishing Legends Podcast
02:15:39 • 2min
In the second part of our series on Charles Hoy Fort, we first return to the formative events of his adolescence that shaped his personality, career, and personal philosophies. Fort chronicled anecdotes from his youth in an unpublished manuscript titled Many Parts, written while in his 20s and of which only fragments remain. What can be gleaned from tales of his boisterous boyhood adventures, punctuated by harsh punishments from a strict father, is that it all instilled in Fort defiance of rules, dogma, and the expectations of hallowed establishments. He struggled to make sense of a childhood world that seemed rife with capricious events and outcomes, much as he later struggled to make sense of an adult world peppered with anomalous occurrences and their close-minded dismissal. We then examine Fort's journey from middle age to the end and his mindset towards and relationship with strange evidence. Just as he had been since he was a kid, Fort remained a collector. First of birds and rocks, then later stories of things that shouldn't happen yet still seemed to. And just as he had lost interest in labeling his natural finds in his teens, Fort perhaps lost interest in defining the enigmas he gathered and instead focused not on the labels and definitions but on the meaning and mechanics behind them. As much as Fort proved to be a "fly in the ointment" to hubristic scientists, critics, and clergy alike, his point was that the events themselves remained even more problematic, or as he wrote, "They will march." We must accept that the weirdness of our reality defies absolute conclusions. As we've also found with our research, any judgments on the impossible essentially boil down to belief. Or, as Fort summed up, "Here are the data. Make what you will, yourself, of them. . . . We have expressions: we don't call them explanations. We've discarded explanations with beliefs." If there is any conclusion we perhaps share with Charles Fort, it is this: if the paranormal and the supernatural genuinely exist, it certainly doesn't care what anyone believes.
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