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According to Monthly Weather Review, May 1878, a barn and a horse were “carried completely away” in a Wisconsin tornado on May 23, 1878. Neither the horse nor the barn, the report says, were ever found, either in whole or in part.
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 88-89 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
Scientific American, 45-337, records the fall of a substance in the latter part of October 1881 in Milwaukee, Green Bay, Vesburge, Fort Howard, Sheboygan and Ozaukee, Wisconsin. It was described as “cobwebs.” “‘In all instances,’” Fort records the source as saying, “’the webs were strong in texture and very white.’ The Editor says: ‘Curiously enough, there is no mention in any of the reports that we have seen, of the presence of spiders.’”
–Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p62 (The Complete Books of Charles Fort, Dover, c1974).
