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The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

March 23, 2014 — Phyllis Galde and Jerome Clark

The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio

The Paracast Company

News, Society & Culture, Science

3.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2014

⏱️ 160 minutes

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Summary

Presenting a special episode profiling the oldest U.S. magazine about the paranormal — Fate — founded in 1948 by Ray Palmer and Curtis Fuller. It has gone through several ownerships, and has a long, storied history of presenting articles about the strange and the unknown to a general audience. This episode features Phyllis Galde, the editor and publisher, and UFO historian Jerome Clark, a former editor of Fate. You'll learn about the highlights over the years, and how the magazine is coping with the new online technologies.

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0:48.9

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

0:54.6

We're on the Paracast this week, and our co-host, Chris O'Brien, is on special assignment,

1:01.1

so he won't be with us, but next week tentatively, we'll do a special episode about his new book called Stalking the Herd.

1:09.8

Okay? That's going to be a fascinating discussion. This is over

1:14.3

565 pages exploring the cattle mutilation phenomenon. Now we have two guests today. I'm not going to

1:23.1

get into that topic except in so far as it's covered in a certain magazine they both have or now

1:29.8

do represent. And that is Fate Magazine. Fate Magazine is, I guess, the longest surviving

1:36.6

publication about the paranormal going back to like 1948. And the people joining us this week,

1:42.9

Phyllis Galdi, who's the editor-in-chief and publisher,

1:46.4

and my old friend Jerome Clark, who actually worked at fate for a number of years.

1:52.7

It's kind of interesting, Jerry, how you and I went into journalistic-related career paths

2:00.6

after we finished school, and I presume we're almost nearly

2:04.4

the same age, which will not be mentioned on the air because nobody normally counts that high.

2:10.2

But with me, after going to school, I went into radio and began to specialize in journalism.

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