STRANGE DAYS VOLUME #10

TITLE - STRANGE DAYS VOLUME #10 | SUMMER 2022

CREATED BY - ANDREW JUHL

GENRE - FORTEANA/UFOs/CRYPTIDS/PARANORMAL PHENOMENA/HIGH STRANGENESS/WEIRD SH*T

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN - USA 

7"x5"/BLACK & WHITE/44 PAGES/PERFECT-BOUND 

PRICE - £9.18 + SHIPPING FROM STRANGE DAYS ETSY STORE

Born during the lockdown/quarantine of 2020, "Strange Days" came into being when creator Andrew Juhl started telling friends, quite rightly as it turned out, that they were living in “strange days”. Upon realising that, in fact, the planet Earth has always been strange, and full of strange events, he sat down to collate some of the weirdest stories he could find and created the first issue of this zine in a single afternoon while sitting on his couch. Now on issue 10, aptly featuring a big X on the cover, “Strange Days” the zine, like the high strangeness the world has lived through the past couple of years, shows no signs of stopping.

Still in its surprisingly tactile pocket-sized format, volume 10 kicks off with a classic UFO story from the United Kingdom which was the source of an infamous photograph of an alleged alien craft which has been dubbed the "best UFO photo ever taken". The story involves government cover-ups, secret projects and high-level shenanigans. There's a heart-warming but no less strange story about a lady who received postcards from her deceased mother 60 years after they were posted, and tantalising videos of one of the hot topics of the moment, UAPs, shadowing planes at air shows in the US and UK. Elsewhere, the sighting of a bizarre werewolf-like creature in Amarillo echoes the appearance of a similar beastie in Texas in 1971, the sight of which caused one man to have a heart-attack (he survived though). Amongst the other stories, guest writer Jon McEdward's piece explores how randomising your research can often lead to serendipitous discoveries in the rabbit holes of the internet, a scary story about a sleep paralysis encounter (which I can relate to), a brief history of the mysterious Georgia Guidestones, which were recently significantly damaged and are now pretty much gone, studies of cryptids and Native American mythology and the Tarot card is the 3 of Cups.

One welcome aspect of "Strange Days" is that creator Andrew Juhl rarely makes firm judgements on the stories he features, preferring instead to encourage the reader to seek them out and decide for themselves. The content is varied and engaging, and the print and photography is clear throughout. "Strange Days" offers a condensed dose of weirdness and will appeal to fans of the Fortean Times and the paranormal.