I'm wondering what to make of all the accounts of "damned things" Charles Fort collected during his lifetime. ("Damned" because the scientific establishment in his day either completely ignored these events, or denied the validity of the reports.) Mostly I'm wondering why we don't hear of such things anymore. As far as I know, there's no cell phone footage of falls of fish or frogs, nor pictures of thousands of yellow and black worms upon a glacier.
(Such weird details in Fort's data, like he found multiple accounts of rains of frogs over the centuries, but never tadpoles. And lots of reports of worms on glaciers, or found after heavy snow.)
A cursory look at Youtube doesn't reveal any videos of these things actually falling from the sky, and the scientific establishment still says when it happens, it's due to waterspouts (which still doesn't answer Fort's question: why are the falls of animals always of a single species? Are the waterspouts discriminating in what they lift up?)
Fort had some odd suggestions as to why these sorts of things happened, including the possibility of "super-constructions" that periodically pass over the earth's surface and drop things. Also, that there's an area of null gravity some miles above the earth's surface, in which there are floating fields of ice and gelatin. (I do wonder how much he believed any of his own proposals; my impression is he didn't, really, but he didn't accept the received wisdom of the scientific establishment either.)
In any case, this sort of thing doesn't appear to happen much, if at all, any more. I think I know why.
Suppose the world as we know it is actually a simulation, one that has been running for a very long time. Perhaps all the unusual data Fort collected, all the "damned things" that could not be reconciled with scientific laws and known natural phenomena, were simply glitches in the simulation.
Why don't these "glitches" happen anymore? Whoever - or whatever* - is running the simulation has upgraded the system, replaced their hardware or software or both.
* Fort also wrote, "I think we're property."
