Charles Fort (1874-1932) is the American author known for popularizing the cataloging and pondering of anomalous phenomena, thereby ushering such subject matter into the public’s consciousness. His surname has even become a term to describe anomalous phenomena or its study , with “Forteana” and “Fortean” now part of the modern English language. Perhaps his most well-known book is The Book of the Damned (1919). This is the book in which he theorizes that mankind is someone’s property: “…I think we’re property. I should say we belong to something: That once upon a time this earth was No-man’s Land, that other worlds explored and colonized here, and fought among themselves for possession, but that now it’s owned by something: That something owns this earth — all others warned off…”