Fate (magazine)

March 1948 issue of Fate.

Fate is a U.S. magazine about paranormal phenomena. Fate was co-founded in 1948 by Raymond A. Palmer (editor of Amazing Stories) and Curtis Fuller. Fate magazine is the longest-running magazine devoted to the paranormal. Promoted as "the world's leading magazine of the paranormal", it has published expert opinions and personal experiences relating to UFOs, psychic abilities, ghosts and hauntings, cryptozoology, alternative medicine, divination methods, belief in the survival of personality after death, Fortean phenomena, predictive dreams, mental telepathy, archaeology, warnings of death, and other paranormal topics.[1]

Though Fate is aimed at a popular audience and tends to emphasize personal anecdotes about the paranormal, American writer and frequent Fate contributor Jerome Clark says the magazine features a substantial amount of serious research and investigation, and occasional debunking of dubious claims.[2] Subjects of such debunking articles have included Atlantis,[3] the Bermuda Triangle,[4] and the Amityville Horror.[5]

  1. ^ Steiger, Brad (1976). Psychic City: Chicago. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
  2. ^ Clark, Jerome (2005). Among the Anomalies. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Volume 19, Number 4.[unreliable source?]
  3. ^ David Henry, "No room for Atlantis," Fate, November 1975, p.32–38.
  4. ^ Larry Kusche, "The Bermuda Triangle and other hoaxes," Fate, October 1975, p.48–56.
  5. ^ Rick Moran and Peter Jordan, "The Amityville Horror hoax," Fate, May 1978, p.43–47.