Paranormal Magazine

*Paranormal Magazine*
Editor	Brian J Allan
Former editors	Allison Jordan, Richard Holland
Categories	Paranormal Ghosts UFOs Cryptozoology Magic Folklore
Frequency	Monthly
Year founded	2005
Company	Jazz Fashion Publishing Ltd
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Website	Official home page

Paranormal Magazine is a monthly digital magazine devoted to the subject of supernatural phenomena. The periodical's slogan is: "Exploring the world of the unexplained." It is sold online through digital distributor MagazineCloner.com.^[1]

Publishing history

An independently published magazine entitled Paranormal was first published in November 2005 under the editorship of Allison Jordan. This publication folded after 26 issues. A few months later the title was acquired by Jazz Fashion Publishing Ltd. Richard Holland took charge as editor for the new launch of Paranormal Magazine in August 2008.,^[2] and the magazine was published first that month. This new incarnation moved away from the previous emphasis on spiritualism and its reliance on celebrity mediums and writers associated with TV ghost-hunting programs such as Most Haunted.

According to the publisher's website, Paranormal Magazine had a circulation of 14,280 copies per month.^[3]

Jazz Publishing ceased publication of Paranormal Magazine at the end of 2011 with issue number 56. Healings of Atlantis publishing group next acquired the magazine and published issues 57 through 63.^[4] Beginning with issue 64, Paranormal Magazine ceased association with Healings of Atlantis and formulated its new mission statement of "explor[ing] areas of the paranormal that have been seldom tackled so far."^[5]

General content

The subjects covered by Paranormal Magazine include, but are not limited to the following:

The magazine encourages readers to submit accounts of supposed supernatural experiences for publication. The magazine also includes a news and sightings section devoted to reported paranormal happenings worldwide.

Contributors

Contributors to Paranormal Magazine have include David Clarke, Lionel Fanthorpe, Richard Freeman, Nick Redfern, Leo Ruickbie, Karl Shuker, Brad Steiger, Nigel Watson, as well as organisations such as The Fortean Picture Library and the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena.

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