animal mutilations and attacks on people, strange swarming of balls, the emergence of various strange people (the famous cases of Princess Caraboo and Kaspar Hauser), and the mysterious disappearances of others (including the diplomat Benjamin Bathurst, and vessels such as the Mary Celeste, Carroll A. Deering, and , presaging later interest in the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon). He writes a chapter on the winter of 1904–1905 in Britain, when a widespread religious revival in England and Wales coincided with numerous other strange occurrences: the appearances of ghosts, poltergeists, a few purported cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion, and a ravenous predator mutilating sheep and other farm animals in Northumberland. Fort believed that all of these anomalous phenomena can be explained by his teleportation theory—though he later apparently retracts this theory to an extent in his final book, Wild Talents. Part Two: Astronomy Fort was sceptical of Albert Einstein's theories of relativity and the claim that these could be confirmed by a transit of the Sun. He was sceptical of the accuracy of the mathematics and the observations involved, and pointed out seeming contradictions and anomalies in scientists' statements to the press. Publication Lo! was pubiished in February 1931. It received positive reviews in both the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune and quickly went into a third printing. Availability The book was re-released in a paperback version in the 1990s, and is also included in The Complete Works Of Charles Fort with Fort's other paranormal writings. See also Charles Fort Tiffany Thayer External links Edited and Annotated Online Version https://web.archive.org/web/20120203115215/http://www.forteans.com/ The homepage of the International Fortean Organization (INFO) References Books by Charles Fort Pseudoarchaeological texts 1931 non-fiction books