SCOUT· 60%56m·2026-08-17·True CrimeLeaving Earth to Join the Aliens: North Cowichan Municipal Forest Reserve
In November 1980, Granger Taylor vanished after leaving a note claiming he was departing on a 42-month journey aboard an alien spacecraft and was never seen again. What followed sparked decades of theories and left many unanswered questions, the most important of which was - is Granger still out there somewhere on a…
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“Canadian here! I think it's funny you mentioned how you didn't think the Canadian government was as messed up 🤣 because before you said that, I thought "I wonder if the American FBI came across the border and took care of things for their…”
“The government could have also recruited him but he wanted to make his departure seem more magical so he came up with the alien vacay storyline. He could have negotiated that as part of the deal. The government could have set up his “death”…”
“I suspect it was suicide. The UFO fantasy he was escaping to was becoming more vivid, and the real world wasn’t cutting it for him. He might have never even acknowledged to himself what he was doing. He just told himself he was doing an exp…”
“I choose to believe Granger really went into the cosmos”
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