Probe the Unknown.
Incredible But True Stories From This Baffling World
1972--1977 Bimonthly, quarterly
Burbank, CA.
Editor: Pat Alston, Henry C. Holcomb, Han Kim.
Publisher: Dick Hennessy, Rainbow Publications.
1/1, December 1972-5/2, Spring 1977.
$6.00 for 6 issues, bimonthly; $2.50 for four issues, quarterly. 64 pp.

This was a commercial publication that covered the gamut of topics explored by the New Age and the Unexplained: meditation, Atlantis, oriental astrology, truth-finding trials by poison, fire walking, Kirlian photography, pyramid power, UFOs, Uri Geller, astral projection, Ouija boards, oil dowsing, Men-in-Black, Sybil Leek, dowsing, stigmata, time travel, Sasquatch, Hitler's use of astrology, and the Loch Ness Monster, etc., coupled with the bizarre and ridiculous ("Girl Yak Herder Attacked by Abominable Snowman"). It had contributions by Brad Steiger, Mary Margaret Fuller, Sybil Leek, Charles Berlitz, Martin Ebon, Hans Holzer, Arnold L. Kent, et al., and carried advertisements ranging from AMORC and Astara to meditation tapes, Pyramid Power, and Sister Lamar in Miami ("If you want to know if the one you love is true or false, or if a certain person is right for you, she will tell you."). The journal is to be distinguished from Probe (Rhode Island) and The Probe Report (Bristol, England), q.v. NYPL.

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