Oh, come on; you give too much credit. Never forget Charles Forte and the Forteans.
Or, the early Fate! magazines.
Or, Long John Nebble's radio program.
You could see FIRE through it.. ( That's what always impressed ME, looking through the mica window on our oil heater as a kid.. )
"I Remember Isinglass"...maybe a title I'll use some day. Maybe not, too; using a title implies all the hard work involved in writing the stuff between said title and, "The end."
Anyway, we never had a mica window on our oil heater as a kid...because we never had an oil heater; instead, we had a cast iron wood stove, with big mica windows in the doors.
Of course, I also learned that if you put enough dry driftwood & green manzanita in a sheet-steel stove, and open the drafts, once the metal turns from cherry-red to yellowish-white, it at least looks like you can also see the flames licking inside. That is Pretty Cool, too...once.LOL
I might recommend a book, if you can find it, that is MUCH better than Von Dingalin's books: Supernature. Sorry; I forget the author's name. Excellent read, and not nearly so far out.
The book: It was Lyall Watson's first book on the subject.
SUPERNATURE: A New Look at Unexplained Phenomena
Paperback
New York: Bantam, 1974
ISBN: 553 08368 195
(In Britain, the sub title is The Natural History of the Supernatural)
Fascinating reading, and no deep-end theories to get in the way.