The books of Charles Fort "It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damned; that salvation only precedes perdition. The inference is that some day our accursed tatterdemalions will be sleek angels. Then the sub-inference is that some later day, back they'll go whence they came."
Thanks for remining me of Charles Fort, its been a long time ago but I remember reading about him and how he collected newspaper articles and such about various odd and inexplicable occurances and he had some kind of fire at his place and much of his library was lost.