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Contact with the Old Ones
By Lucious Farish
FATE :: September 2001

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, I read several very interesting science fiction stories in issues of various magazines, all by the same author. As this author often made references to Charles Fort in his stories, I decided to write to him and see if perhaps he had been a member of the Fortean Society. He replied, stating that although he had never joined the society, he had “always been fascinated by the man’s works and [I] feel he’s very near the truth in a great part of it.” As I mentioned my interest in UFOs and Forteana in my letter to him, he proceeded to tell me the following story:

“I once knew a man, way back in the ’30s (and he was about 80 then, an old sailing boat skipper who had participated in the great grain races around the Horn) who called himself only ‘Harmonious.’ We used to sit around on the beach and listen while he told us, quietly and without affectation, of his meetings with his astral friends high atop Mt. Shasta (many years later the first UFOs were sighted near that spot) and of his many trips throughout this system and others. He was bearded, never seemed to change from one year to the next; a vegetarian, and a gentle soul. His description of the vehicle used for flight very closely resembled certain other descriptions now in common usage—all this long before the huge UFO scare. Harmonious was last seen in the late ’50s—and looking exactly as he had 30 years before. Ageless, apparently, and a man curiously untroubled by the opinions of his listeners, who unanimously labeled him a harmless nut. He never attempted to capitalize on his experiences, unlike certain self-styled contactees with us today.” 

Intrigued by this story, I promptly wrote back to the author, asking for more details on Harmonius. In his second letter, he gave the requested data, but asked that the material be kept in confidence. However, since it is now almost 40 years later and I am purposely omitting the author’s name, I can see no harm in sharing this most interesting information ...

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