May 16, 2025 • 58 mins
In 1980, 32-year-old Granger Taylor—a mechanical genius from Vancouver Island—left behind a note saying he was boarding an alien spacecraft for a journey "interstellar." Then, he vanished without a trace. In this episode, we dive deep into one of Canada’s most bizarre and haunting missing person cases. Who was Granger Taylor? What drove his obsession with space travel? And could he really have believed he was destined to leave Earth with extraterrestrials? We unravel the strange events leading up to his disappearance, explore the theories—from UFO abduction to tragic accident—and examine the legacy of a man who may have dreamed too big for this world. Join us as we chase the echoes of a man who may have vanished... into the stars.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everybody, join us as we delve into our favorite
dark tales and paranormal mysteries.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Venture with us beyond the safe places that exist in daylight.
As we go beyond their shadows.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
True crime, paranormal hauntings, UFOs, cryptids and unsolved mysteries, conspiracy theories,
past lives, reincarnation, and all the like are just a
few of the topics that we will tackle.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
If it haunts your fucking dreams, then it will be
on our show.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Do you know what the most in the world is?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
On the shutters where you found me?
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yet you can't see me in the deepest blacks when
your heart starbusts and then you see their cracks, all
these creepy things that wind at track well, the demens
be where the actions at. So listen enough you want it, UFOs,
all of them ghosts. We got everything that you want.
It won't Do you know what the.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Most thing in the world is?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hi, and welcome back to Beyond the Shadows Episode one
and forty two.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Welcome back Shadow People.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Just so you don't get confused and start looking to
see if you missed one is the bonus episode that
will actually be out on Tuesday, but it dropped on
Speaker Supporters Club Blast Tuesday, so we got to keep.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Him in order, right, so we think it'll come out
in order. We think we got it. We may have
screwed it up because we usually do pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So anyways, faking tech guy again, he's killing us.
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We get a nice review on Apple from plus five
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If any of you guys have not had the opportunity
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Speaker 2 (02:07):
And we'll get a request on that one for some zombies,
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Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, Yeah, we haven't covered that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, that's not one of them. And we are I know,
I say this all the time. We are in so
much desperate need for fire pits that I'm mentioning it
right now.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I don't think you've ever mentioned that before.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
No, probably not. No, people hear me all the time,
but I we're down to just a couple. Yeah, and
I don't know. I don't know what we'll do from there.
So if you guys have them and you've been sitting.
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On them, now's the time.
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We need them desperately, We really do. So we're counting
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It's all on you.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
The poll for last week's episode is not closed yet.
It's a pretty quiet response, but we did get five
votes and they are all the same everybody way that
it was Charlotte shall be. I agree, that's who I
thought it was. You guys haven't voted. Well. Actually, by
the time you hear this, it'll be too late anyway.
But we'll keep doing polls in the future. Hopefully the
turnout is a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I mean, yeah, they were before. This was probably one
of the lower one.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Me and Scott are both gonna have to talk to
our therapists about that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
This week, my therapist asked me to quick.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
All right, Uh, first up, we have police in Slide El, Louisiana,
So they responded to a call this past Sunday in
the local Low's parking lot. The call was about a
man committing lout axe. They arrived on the scene and
began searching. So they didn't even go in the store.
It's like the outdoor shed displays. That's where they look.
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So in the fifth shed, somebody was counting. In the
fifth they found a naked man laying on his back
with some vasoline beside him, and he was just tugging
himself senselessly.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
In the middle. That's that's a home depot thing, for sure.
Loads did respect is not that kind of place. He
was watching way higher class.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
He was watching porn right on his phone.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, but he was naked.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
He was naked.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I guess some people gotta uh, I don't know, get
buck as naked to rub one out.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But in his defense, so you have to see if
the shed is adequate for your if.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Your lifestyle needs. Is this ship big enough? It's only
one way to tell. I'm looking for a smack shock. Yeah,
if we can see how the old stabbing cabin is
gonna work out, pants off.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I had a double check. Make sure this Louisiana not Florida. Right, No, right,
He was booked on one count of obscenity. The dude's
not even from that town either.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, dude, you don't want to do that your own Lows.
You can't go back.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
That's that's something you do on vacation.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'm gonna go the next down over and uh, I
don't know, maybe run what rub one out of Lows jail.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
They always ask each other what they're in for. Yeah,
never mind, it doesn't matter. It's misunderstanding.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Why aren't you wearing pants?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Officials in South Carolina are investigating the death of a
man who died in Hoary County after apparently entering an
enclosure at a children's petting zoo to fight one of
the kangaroos.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'm sure the kangaroo had it coming.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Dude, kangaroos a real asshole. Fifty two year old Eric
Slate died of multiple blunt force injuries, according to the
deputy coroner. So we know who won the fight.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, dude, if you listen to it, he did this regularly. Yeah,
it wasn't just like a one time thing. Nope, it's not.
You know really, he's like, Oh, I'm gonna get over
to the pettent zoo. It's time to fight the kangaroo.
They're badasses, dude. This one was as big as him.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It was the picture of them there side by side,
like same height there. His brother Robert actually owned the establishment,
and Eric apparently loved to go inside the enclosure. Oig
scud just said in Rough Host with a particular kangaroo
named Jack, Eric was found by his brother at about
eleven pm last Friday night inside the kangaroo enclosure. It
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doesn't say anywhere in the article, but it was eleven
o'clock on a Friday night. You have to assume that
alcohol was in somewhat shape or form involved in this one.
And you know, we don't have him here in Maine,
so I don't know a shitload about him. But I'm
assuming it's a really poor idea to drink some beers
and then hopping with a kangaroo.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Did he have his pants on wastching porn? That's something
you do at home, depot right, this kangaroo porn on
his phone.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I don't know, man, that's doesn't sound like an awesome
idea to me. No, but I'm done some stupid shit.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It sounds like he did it quite regularly, and it
sounded like he loved that kangaroo. You know, if you
read this story, he really there's like a.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm not sure the feelings were mutue.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, he thought they were buddies. The kangaroo thought he
was trying to take advantage of him.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Also, last Friday, we have a forty seven year old
American who was visiting the coliseum and decided he needed
to hop a fence to get a better look.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
It's so American.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Very Instead, he fell and was impaled on the metal
bars of the fence below. Witnesses heard him screaming and
saw him bleeding profusely until he passed out. It took
authorities twenty minutes to sedate and remove the man from
the fence, and he needed eighty stitches to close the wound.
He hasn't been charged with the crime yet, but authorities
are still investigating the incident. So he was also from
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Taiwani dual citizenship, but of course they just list him
as an American.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, it makes more sense, and he's not the first
person to be How many people you think were actually
impaled in the coliseum back in the day. This guy
did it on his own.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
There's a lot of incidents there recently of people doing stupid.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean they just did that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
They've arrested a couple just caught like carving their initials
into them.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Come, I so stupid, and I bet they're.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I think some of them definitely will.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, we're the worst.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Last up, we have a company in Britain that had
a bonding activity that was meant to build camaraderie amongst
the staff. The staff at the NHS Blood and Transplant
was taking a Star Wars themed personality test when supervisor
Lorna Rook had to step away to take a phone call.
Apparently a coworker filled hers out for her, and when
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she returned, she was informed by co workers that she
tested out as Darth Vader, which is badass.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I think, right, it's way better than being fat Susie
who you're hard to understand him. So let's go to lose,
(09:03):
maybe fight again grow.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Laurena said this made her extremely unpopular and caused her
stress and anxiety. She resigned shortly thereafter, and was recently
awarded fifty thousand dollars over the incident.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That is just ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That is so incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Me and right, we're talking about this one because everybody's
just so soft anymore. Oh yeah, you know, just because
you got called darth Vader Dvader bad as I know, Ius,
she's not doing pillow talk with like James Earld Jones's voice.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I don't see the problem.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
One of her co workers filled it out obviously. She
was probably bitch.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, I'm guessing she did. She didn't like hearing it,
and she had to quit.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, I guess it was over after that.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Fifty dollars man. Anyway, that's the news for this week.
What do you got going on for a story?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'm gonna do something I haven't done before. This is
a disappearance. It's a disappearance of Granger Tail.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh nice, all right, we'll be right back, guys.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
All right. Granger Taylor grew up in the small town
of Duncan, located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
It's a peaceful, forested area surrounded by towering trees, rowing
hills in quiet farmland. In many ways, Duncan is a
kind of place where life moves slowly. People know their neighbors.
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The community is tight knit. It's beautiful, but also isolated.
Back in the nineteen fifties and sixties. When Granger was
a kid, Duncan was even quieter than it is today.
There weren't many distractions, no internet, barely any television. Most
kids spent their time outdoors, working with their hands or
tinkering in garages. That sounds awful, It sounds sounds amazing.
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The kids never get outside anymore. For someone like Granger,
who was naturally curious and mechanically gifted, it was a
perfect place to explore and build. He lived on a
remote property just outside of town, surrounded by forest. His
family wasn't rich, but they had enough space and freedom
to pursue his interest. For From a young age, he
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was fascinated by machines. While other kids played sports, Granger
was taken apart old cars, fixing engines, and eventually rebuilding
entire vehicles by himself. He taught himself everything, no formal training,
just raw talent and focus. The peaceful setting of Duncan
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allowed Granger's mind to wander. He wasn't distracted by city
noises and bustling streets. He had long stretches of time
alone with his thoughts. Lost my spot, the towering trees,
the open sky, and the silence of the wilderness around
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him likely helped fuel his obsession with space and the stars.
He was always talking about outer space. He was fascinated
with all the different universe, galaxies, all that jazz.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
When you're out in a quiet area like that, you
can see the sky so much clearer.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Can you imagine what Vancouver Island is like? I mean,
Vancouver Island's huge and not not much. I mean there
is some people living there, but not nothing. Ye, a
lot of wilderness. It's kind of like here, you know.
Even more so, imagine what the skies look like out there,
no light pollution and all that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's what I mean. When I go up to like
northern Maine for the camp or whatever, you can see everything,
even just from Southern Main and Northern Main.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It's oh, it's amazing. It's amazing. Yeah, we don't even
have that much light pollution down here, but the difference
is stunding, astounding. What the fuck some people say. The
stillness of Duncan made him feel closer to the universe
and maybe to something beyond it. Granger Taylor was a
man who stood out, not because he wanted to, but
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because he was simply different. He was quiet, brilliant and
a little mysterious. He seemed like someone born in the
wrong time or maybe the wrong world. Not to mention,
he was like six foot four and he was an
intimidating stature, but people said that he was like a
gentle giant.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Physically, he wasn't flashy or intimidating. He often wore simple clothes, jeans,
a work shirt, maybe a jacket with tools in the pocket.
He didn't care about fashion, her appearance. He was most
interested in machines, engines, and like I said, the stars.
He didn't care what anyone thought about him. His hair
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was usually uncapped. He carried himself like someone deep in thought,
always working on a problem in his mind. But what
really made Granger special was that mine. He was a
mechanical genius, even though he dropped out of school in
eighth grade. Eighth grade. From a young age, he could
fix just about anything if it was If it something
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was broken, Granger could fix it. He could figure out
how it worked and bring it back to life. People
in his own town brought him engines and machinery that
they couldn't fix. He'd returned them working better than before.
Despite his brilliance, he was soft spoken and shy. He
didn't talk much unless you got to know him. When
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you got to talk about topics that he loved, like
I said before, like space, aliens, ancient technology, then he'd
light up. He spent hours reading about outer space, science fiction,
and UFO sightings. He believed there was intelligent life beyond Earth,
and more importantly, he believed they were trying to communicate
with him. His personality was a mix of curiosity, sensitivity,
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and restlessness. He didn't seem totally at home on Earth.
He was kind, but distant, focused, but often in the
world of his own. His mind was always chasing something
bigger than the moment, bigger than this world. Granger didn't
have many close friends. Most people in the town respected him,
but didn't always understand him. He preferred the company of
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his tools. Some said he was eccentric, others said he
was a dreamer. His family loved him, but even they
knew he had a mysterious side. He was just different.
He didn't know, he didn't quite fit in, a part
of him that seemed to be searching for something, you know,
more than what he had. Granger Taylor was just a
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teenager when he did something that made everybody in the
town stop and stare. He rebuilt an entire car, not
with a manual, not in the fancy garage, and not
with the help of professionals. He did it completely on
his own in his backyard, using parts that he found
at junkyards and salvage shops. And the amazing part, the
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car actually ran, and it ran well. It all started
when Granger came across an old, beat up vehicle that
had been abandoned and left to rot in the woods.
Apparently there's a lot of different equipment that was left
to rot in the woods on Vancouver Island. Yeah, most
people saw a pile of rust and junk, but Granger
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saw the potential. He wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty,
and he didn't wait around for someone to teach him.
So when he saw that broken down car, he decided
it would be his next project. He dragged it home
piece by piece. I mean he literally took that car
out of the woods piece by piece, brought it back
to the house, reassembled it. All his backyard looked more
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like a mechanical playground than an actual garden. Old car
parts tools scattered everywhere, and the skeleton of the car
slowly coming to life. He just had this natural gift.
He could look at the engine and understand what it needed.
Bit by bit, he rebuilt the engine, fixing the wiring,
replacing broken parts, and restoring the body. It wasn't fast.
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It took weeks, maybe even months, but he worked out
on it patiently, sometimes laid into the night. The neighbors
would hear him clinking on the clinking the tools, and
the low hum of test runs. It was like the
car was slowly waking up from a long sleep.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's freaking impressive, man.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, this is. And at this point he's a teenager,
A young teenager. I think he's like thirteen years old
when he rebuilt his first car.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Give me a couple of weeks, I could probably change
the tires in the oil.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, I wouldn't even gotten out of the woods. I'd
have gone found in the woods and smashed the windows. Jump. Yeah.
Then one day Granger started the engine and it roared
to life. It wasn't just running, it was smooth, strong,
and completely functional. He took it for a drive around
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the neighborhood and people were stunned. A teenager had rebuilt
an entire vehicle. From the ground up with no professional help,
and even the mechanics in the area were impressed. Everyone
was shot, all his friends were amazed. This wasn't just
a hobby. It was a signal of something to come.
After Granger stunned his neighbors by rebuilding a car from scratch.
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You think that might be enough to prove his talent,
but Granger didn't stop there. Once he'd mastered cars and engines,
he set his sights on something much bigger, a steam
locomot locomotive literally found a steam engine in the woods.
It all started when Granger came across the rusty remains
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of an old steam engine sitting in a field on
Vancouver Island. It had once been part of the British
Columbia Railway system, but it had long been retired and forgotten.
Most people saw it as a piece of scrap, too big,
too broken, too far gone. But to Granger it was
a challenge. He got permission to take it and he
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started the process of bringing it back to life. So
before he could take this thing and bring it back
to life, he had to get it to the farm.
And this was in the woods, like deep into the
woods behind. So at one point Granger had found. I
don't know that. If you read the story, they're shit
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scattered everywhere in the woods in this area. I mean
there's like he found a bulldozer in those woods. He
repaired the bulldozer, fixed it, and he would use it
to help out in the neighbors and lend it to
neighbors and stuff like that. So he had this giant
bulldozer as a teenager. He's pushing his twenties or whatever.
I think he's in like eighteen nineteen. He has this bulldozer.
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He uses it to clear a path and to pull
this train out of the woods, and not like a
short distance, like a really long distance to his farm.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Took him all the way to nineteen to build his
first bulldozer. All right, it's an impressive story, but.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
On a way larger scale. This time he was still
just a young man in his late teens maybe early twenties,
like I said, And this project was massive. The engine
alone weighed tons. The parts were old, some missing entirely.
There was rust. There was rust everywhere. No instruction manuals.
Once again, no team to help him, just Granger, his
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tools and his mind. For two years he worked on
the locomotive, often by himself. He used a crane to
move the heavy parts, welding tools to reshape and repair
the metal, and his own hands to clean, fit and
rebuild every piece.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I guess I don't have to ask where you got
the crane from.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
May found it in the woods. Anyone from Vancouver Island
know all this shit you got in your woods? You
know it's funny though, but we say that if you
go through the woods here in Maine, you find shit everywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh, there's a famous two huge locomotives in the northern
main Woods that have abandoned years. Like in an area
there shouldn't even be a train, there's two of them.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, ton of trains and trolleys. Yeah, there was literally trolleys.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Everywhere still is.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And like the trail each the trail that I walk
on regularly, the hiking trail, there's a couple old cars
that are I mean they're almost completely gone now, but
they're like old uh old Chevy's not like fifty seven
but probably older, just rustling away out there.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
One of my friends here in town out of fifty
seven Chevy in the woods over by his house. When
I first saw it, when I was little. It was
still look like it probably could have been sandwiches. As
ears went by, it just fell apart. But how the
how it got out there in the first place, I
have no.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I mean, here we are like, what the hell I mean,
We're literally describing all the same shit around here, And
as some of the land I was looking at had
to bulldoze around it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So whatever, the person that the person that put it
out there, probably doesn't remember how it got there. Now
there's no road anywhere.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
A lot of it's been out there fifty sixty seventy years,
you know, all right? Where was I? And he wasn't
just tinkering. He was rebuilding it to museum qualities, and
people from around town came to see what he was doing.
Some were amazed, others thought his wasting his time. He
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didn't care. He was doing it. He wasn't doing it
for the money or fame. He did it because he
loved machines. He believed anything could be fixed if he
understood it deeply enough. When he finally finished the train,
it was fully restored, not just for display either. It
was functional. The engine worked, the wheels turned. He had
taken a rusting, useless pile of iron and turned it
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into a working piece of history. Not only did it
so when he had it, he had it on his
parents farm. He went and he built three hundred feet
of track, of actual track, and he would give the
kids in the neighborhood rides on it, like three hundred
feet down, stop, back it up and drive it back.
So I mean it was fully functional.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
He must have been a full celebrity in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Oh yeah, you know, the kids loved it. The BC
British Columbia Forrest Discovery Center, a museum in Duncan, was
so impressed that they took the locomotive and displayed it.
It still stands today as part of their collection, a
permanent tribute to Granger's genius. This wasn't just a cool project.
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It was proof that Granger wasn't an ordinary mechanic. The
steam engine was more than a machine. To Granger. It
was a message, if I can fix this, I can
fix anything. After after Granger rebuilt the car and restored
the whole locomotive, most people would have called it quits.
Not Granger. He was always looking for a bigger challenge,
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something new, something that pushed the limits of what he
could do. The next challenge came from the sky. He
decided to rebuild a World War II fighter plane. And
what do you suppose he got that?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I've got two of them.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It wasn't just any plane. It was a P forty
Kittie Hawk, a legendary fighter used by Ally forces during
the war. But the one Granger found wasn't flying. It
was a wreck, damage, stripped, forgotten, and rotten in parts.
Just like the Locomotion locomotive and the car before it,
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the plane had been abandoned and useless. But again he
saw the potential. He tracked down the parts he needed
from the scrapyards, museums and collectors. Some pieces had to
be custom made himself. Others he found after months of searching.
He didn't have access to aircraft blueprints or aviation school training.
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What he had was the brain in his hands and
unstoppable patients. You think about this, He had to get
all these Nowadays you could hop on Amazon or something
on internet to look for some of this shit. He's
on Vancouver Island, you know, so the parts he can't
find he's building.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Them, can't pop online and find a quick manual. Not
really impressive.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Granger worked on the plane for several years, completely rebuilt
its frame, restored the engine, replaced wiring, and carefully brought
it back to near original condition. Every day he worked
quietly in the makeshift hangar oft and alone, turning bolts,
standing metal, and solving complex mechanical puzzles in his head.
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To him, the plane wasn't just a machine. It was
a piece of history, and he treated it with that
kind of respect. By the time he was finished, the
Kitty Hawk looked like brand new, shiny, clean, beautifully restored.
It was a true war bird, brought back from the dead.
It was such a good restoration that it eventually ended
up on display at the Canadian National Museum of Aviation.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, and they say that it was it was fliable.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
But he never flew it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Never flew it. No, No, he drove the train. He's
not crazy for a man who never finished high school.
I mean you think eighth grade.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, Education incredigence.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Are not always no, not at all. Most people who
are super smart are bored with school, you know what
I mean. And I think that's where Granger was at.
He just didn't see anymore used to go.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That's how I felt.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
That's obviously why I did so poorly. I blew off.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Auto classes because I wasn't being challenged anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I did so poorly in school because I was too smart.
You can tell by my reading skills. People are always like,
that's God's shrew sounds. I could just get him to
read to me some more. Now, not many people could
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say they rebuilt a World War two plane with no
formal training, except for Granger. He proved again that his
talents were far beyond ordinary mechanics. He had a deep,
almost intuitive understanding of how things worked, and he had
to have I mean to just be able to look
at an engine, a giant Diesel engine or one of
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these plays engines and just no understand it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Oh that if he doesn't fly and he never flew it,
how do you even know it's functional? I mean, obviously
it was someone. Yeah, someone had to Yeah, I mean
I guess you did. I don't even fucking know, man,
I used to work on planes.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Don't fly on those planes. I don't think they If
you guys are ever out on the F fifteen, that
don't get.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They don't want you want an air Force recruitment commercial.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
That was the worst. Not only can I not read.
I was horrible at fixing an airplane. Don't ask about
my respiratory skills, all right. Like I said before, the
Granger wasn't doing any of this for fame or anything
like that. He didn't brag, he wasn't showing af He
just loved doing it. Love solving those problems. They're all
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like a giant puzzle to him. So people in Duncan
started calling him a genius, a wizard with metal, and
even a young Da Vinci. Others just called him that
strange but brilliant guy who fixed impossible things. The Kittyhawk
restoration cemented his reputation. He was a one man museum
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bringing the pass back to life. Granger has always been
like I said before, He's always fascinated without a space.
He was obsessed with the UFOs and aliens and the
idea that there might be more intelligent life somewhere beyond
the stars. Every book he could get his hands on,
he was reading it. This is also the time when
Star Wars came out. Loved the Star Wars movies. He
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was big into it. He loved books on interstellar travel,
alien technology. He would read all the time. Much information
he could take in so one day Granger started building
something in his backyard. It looked like a flying saucer
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made by two large satellite discs welded together and mounted
on stilts. And the pictures of this and I'll post
them inside. It had a bed, a woodstove, and a
few supplies. It wasn't a real spaceship in the technical sense,
but to Granger it was something more. It was like
a simulator, a quiet place where he could think, read, meditate,
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and maybe even make contact with beings from another world.
While most adults in town didn't understand what he was doing,
there was one person who listened, a young teenager named
Robert Keller. Granger Taylor met Robert when he was just
a young teenager growing up in the same small town.
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Curious about machines and drawn to Granger's reputation as a
local genius, Robert often wandered over into a Granger's workshop
to watch him work. Instead of brushing him off like
many adults, Granger welcomed the boy's interest and began teaching
him about engines, tools, and even theories about space and
alien life. They shared fascinations and about the unknown, quickly
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turning into a unique friendship. See Grainger and Robert became
close friends despite their age difference, and there was quite
an age difference. So one thing about Robert is he
dropped out of school in eighth grade. And Robert's father
was a friend of Granger. Not like a close friend,
but they were acquaintances. And it sounded like, if you
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go back and see, like some of the interviews, Robert's
dad was a piece of fucking word. He really was. Ah.
So he didn't treat he didn't treat Robert great. So
Granger was kind of like a role model to Grainger.
Robert was someone curious and open minded, someone who didn't
laugh at his ideas. And to Robert, Granger was a
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role model, the kind of genius who treated him like
an equal. They'd sit for hours talking about space, the technology,
and Grainger's belief that aliens were communicating with him telepathically.
Granger told Robert that he believed he had made contact
with extraterrestrials. Not only that, but he said that they
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had offered to take him on a trip through the
stars to show him how their ships worked and teach
him the knowledge beyond anything humans had yet discovered. Robert
later said that Grainger was completely serious, not joking or
making it up. He spoke like someone preparing for a
real journey. Granger even invited Robert into the spaceship simulator.
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Inside they would read books and talk about the future.
Robert remembered Grainger as a kind, gentle and brilliant, but
also deeply restless, like a man waiting for something big
to happen. Granger was known for his brilliant, mechanical mind
and general personality, but in the years leading up to
his disappearance, he also began experimenting with psychedelic drugs, which
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could explain a lot of this right absolutely, particularly la
People close to him, including his friend Robert, later mentioned
that Grainger had had been using acid during this time,
not recreational but more like a tool for exploration. Granger
believed LSD could help him expand his mind, connect with
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higher intelligence, and possibly communicate with extraterrestrial beings. He was
deeply curious about the nature of reality, and the drug
seemed to fuel both his obsession with space and his
belief that he was being contacted by aliens. So I
him and Robert used to sit in this simulator. It
was just a UFO looking it's like a it's like
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a his little clubhouse type thing really, and they sit
around they would smoke weed and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But you want to go back and get fucked up.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And there was a big age difference between him too. Yeah,
come on, let's go get high in the UFO. But
I mean, this is the time where LSD was. You know,
LSD was a pretty big thing, And it depends on
who you talk to. Like Robert Knew said that he
did use it, but he wasn't using it that much.
But if you Granger had other siblings, and if you
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go through the thing, one of his brothers or his brother,
I think he had a brother and sister and said
that he was like dropping ridiculous amounts of LSD.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
This is Granger, Robert.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
This is no, this is Granger's brother. Said no, not Robert.
They never said that Robert was doing the LSD. And
Robert you can see, do some interviews and he loved Granger.
You could tell. But uh yeah, I mean you think
about it. A lot of people think if you get
into like some of these psychedelic drugs, a lot of
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people they really truly believe that they see beans it's ayahuasca. Yeah,
with ayahuasca, people claim to see the same beans. Like
if you and I were to have a trip and
go really deep on ayahuasca, would we would Some say
I have never done it, but they say that we
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would see the same being. It would describe the same
thing that another person had never heard of. You know,
So I don't know different levels of consciousness, but yeah,
a lot of people believe that's how you get to
you know, I don't know. I don't know what. I
guess it would be dimensions.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Right, you'd think right, almost has to be.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well. Granger was never violent or out of control. Those
around him noticed that his drug use may have deepened
his sense of a detachment from the world. You know,
other than Robert, there wasn't a lot of people around him.
He was kind of a lonely dude. I mean, he
kept busy with his projects, and then when Roger and
when Robert was there, he had him around, but there
wasn't a lot of other people in his life. He
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spoke more and more about leaving Earth and less about
mechanical projects. Some I'm worried that the combination of his isolation,
his obsessive thinking, and the effects of psychedelics might have
blurred his lines between reality and imagination. In the bots
leading up to his disappearance, Granger believed in his believed
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in his alien contact grew even more into His belief
in his alien contact grew even more intense. One particularly
strange moment came during the Storm of the Century, a
fierce storm that battered Vancouver Island in the winter of
nineteen eighty. Granger told his family and friends that the
storm was more than just bad weather. According to Grainger,
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the storm marking the arrival of something much bigger. He
claimed that the alien beings he had been in contact
with would come for him. During the storm, he said
that they would take him on a journey beyond Earth,
and that he was ready to leave. This wasn't the
first time he spoken about leaving for the stars, but
it was the first time he seemed certain that the
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time had come. So he didn't just come out and say, oh,
there's a big storm tonight that they're coming to get me.
He said way prior, like a month from now. He gave.
He gave I don't know if he gave a date,
but he gave a time that he said there's a
major storm coming, like the storm of the century. It's
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going to be the biggest storm that Vancouver has ever seen.
And the reason is because the aliens were going to
do that, you know, so that they could their ship
could people wouldn't see their ship and their noises. Yeah,
for cover exactly, except when that night, this storm that
nobody knew was going to happen actually happened. So this
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storm that he had predicted a month before actually happened
this night.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
After some of the shit this guy's already done, I
wouldn't have left at anything he's said. For real, He's
pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
On November twenty ninth, nineteen eighty, Granger Taylor's final days
on Earth was marked by a series of liberate actions,
when pieced together, seemed to tell the story of a
man who was ready to embark on a journey he
had long anticipated. The day became. The day began with
Granger leaving behind a note for his parents, a cryptic
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message that would become the key to understanding his disappearance.
The note read, dear mother and father, I have gone
away to walk aboard in alien spaceship. I am not dead.
I will be back in forty two months. He also
left a will, though, and in the will where it
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said was it death or whatever, he crossed it out
and wrote departed or something along those lines. But the
forty two month timeframe was significant. It wasn't just a
random number. Granger had mentioned on several occasions that he
believed the aliens he had been in contact with would
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take him on a journey that would spend exactly forty
two months. So this wasn't the first time he spoke
spoke of leaving, but specifically of the number gave in
a sense of finality. He wasn't running away, he wasn't escaping.
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He was leaving on a mission, one that he believed
was meant to happen. Before he disappeared, Granger took the
time to visit a few people close to him, as
if preparing for the next phase of his life. One
of the last stops he made was to Robert Keller.
You know, Robert Keller, who was his friend, had become
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very close to him. Over the years. Robert had listened
to Granger talk about all these beliefs in the alien
life and his desire to connect with these extraterrestrial beings.
On this day, Granger calmly told Robert that he was
about to leave Earth to meet those beings. The conversation
was understated, without any signs of distress. Granger explained that
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he would be gone for forty two months and that
he wouldn't be returning to Earth for that entire period.
But Robert believed that the forty two months Granger mentioned
in his note might not be the full length of
his absence. Robert had listened closely to Grainger's theory about
space travel, and he thought that the journey might take longer,
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and by the way Granger talked to him, he made
it seem like it was truly going to be longer
than the forty two months. Given the nature of interstellar travel,
Grainger often spoke about the vast distances between stars and
the unknown aspects of alien technology, leading Robert to think
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that time could be experienced differently through such a journey. Robert,
who had always been open minded about Granger's belief, wasn't
certain about the specifics, but he felt that space travel
might stretch time ways humans couldn't even comprehend. He thought
it was possible that Granger's absence could be much longer
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than expected due to the realities of traveling beyond Earth.
So if you travel at the speed of light, you've
all heard how if you're traveling at the speed of light,
time goes by slower for you and faster for the
people on Earth.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Yet forty months for him on the spaceship could be
drastically different than time on Earth.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Robert made it sound like when he said that he'd
come back that he would basically be visiting his grandkids.
Not Robert himself, but his grandkids. So, after saying goodbye
to Robert Greener, Robert's dad said, go ahead and take
Robert with him. Remember I told you he should just
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take him with him when he left. So after saying
is given by his Robert, Granger went to the local
diner for a quiet meal. A staff at the diner
recalled seeing him there, sitting calmly at the counter, eating
his food and chatting with a few familiar faces. It
was an ordinary scene, but for those who knew Granger,
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it felt strangely final. He wasn't in a rush, he
wasn't nervous. It was as though he was preparing for
a journey that he had expected for some time. When
he finished eating He paid his bill and quietly left
the diner, heading towards his truck. Granger's departure that night
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seemed peaceful, almost as if he were simply setting off
on an adventure. With his truck packed, he drove off
into the Storm of the Century, a severe weather system
that was battering the island that evening, and he was
never seen again. Now this storm was a huge storm.
It was a violent as hell. The wind was terrible.
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It was like, like he said, the Storm of the Century,
which he predicted a month before it happened, at least
a month before it happened. As the forty two month
mark passed, people in Duncan eagerly awaited Granger's return. His family, friends,
and even locals who had heard about his disappearance believed
that he would come back, just that he promised. His
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note had been so definite, I'll be back in forty
two months. For many, the passes of time was like
waiting for the fulfillment of a strange, yet hopeful promise.
Some people held out hope that Grainger was truly off
on an interstellar journey, believing that aliens he had talked
about would honor their word and bring him back exactly
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as he had said. A lot of people thought he
was playing a prank. However, not everybody was so convinced.
They were those who thought Granger was simply pulling an
elaborate prank. They believed that he would had staged his
disappearance and was like eying low somewhere, perhaps even planning
a dramatic reappearance after the forty two months had passed.
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These skeptics questioned the validity of his alien beliefs, dismissed
them as fantasies, fuels by his eccentric personality and his
growing isolation. And you know, maybe that LSD.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
But nothing in the story indicates this guy is a
prank pulling type nange.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
But not at all, No, Nope. They speculated that Granger
was simply having fun with the town, making up a
story that would keep people guessing along after he was gone.
Despite these doubts, as the forty two month mark came
and went without any sign of Granger, the mood in
the community switched. It shifted from anticipation to confusion and concern.
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Granger had always been a mysterious figure, but this was different.
His family had tried to remain optimistic hoping that somehow,
some way he would return has promised, But as we
turned into months and months into years, the possibility that
Granger might never return began to settle in the mysterious.
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The mystery surrounding his disappearance only deepened, leaving a community
haunted by the question of whether he had truly left
for the stars or if something far more tragic had happened. So,
you know, at this point, it's been what three and
a half years and no sign of Granger. But they
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did do some searching for him, stuff like that, But
how much do you search for a person that literally
said they're going to be gone for forty two forty
two months, right, and there's no sign of his truck.
His truck was gone. There was no sign of it.
They didn't find it any not. At this point, they
hadn't found his truck. And uh, four years from the
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time where he almost three and a half and then
when they started looking, you know, they weren't finding anything
at all. So about six years later after he had disappeared,
something strange was found on top of Mount Provost Prevost,
not far from from his hometown. It was nineteen eighty
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six and A group of loggers were working in the
area when they came across what looked like the remains
of an explosion. There was metals scattered all over, broken glass,
and even pieces of bone. It looked like something or
someone had blown up there. The police were called in
to check it out. As they looked closer, they realized
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the metal parts were from a pickup truck, even though
the blast had messed it up pretty badly. They figured
out it was a nineteen seventy two dots In pickup truck.
Does that sound familiar? That was my first truck in
nineteen seventy two Dots and it was awesome. That thing
was so much fun. Blow up came close, So this
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was the same kind of truck Granger had been driving
when he vanished. Some of the serial numbers matched his
vehicle too. They also found signs of dynamite at the scene,
which made sense because Granger had worked with machinery and
would have known how to get his hands on explosives.
To be honest, they had said that he had he
had some dynamite at the house and he would use
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it on occasion to blow stumps and stuff. He did
when he removed that locomotive from the woods and stuff
like that. So he wasn't a stranger to dynamo.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
I would assume a guy with that talent level could
manufacture his own if he wanted to.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
Probably so.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
So Granger had worked with machineries and would have known
how to get his hands on explosives, and he did.
He had some. He had some at his house after
he was gone. The human bone fragments were too small
and damaged to confirm anything for sure, but they matched
someone about Granger's size and age. Even with all that,
no one say, one hunder that it was him. There
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wasn't DNA testing like we have now. Some people accepted
that it was likely how Granger. It was how Granger
had died, he went up there and ended his life
with dynamite, but others weren't so sure. After all, he'd
left a note saying he was going to space with aliens,
and he'd be gone for forty two months. So when
they found the wreckage it didn't exactly tie things up.
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It just made the mystery deeper. Did he die there
or was there something else? People still wonder. So the
bones that they found there was no DNA testing in
that back in that day, so could they test him
Now the bones are gone, the bones are missing, they disappeared.
Robert says specifically, when they found this truck, this truck
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was blue Robert's truck. I mean, I'm Granger's truck. Robert
remembers specifically, him and Granger painted it Pepnobismo pink, and
he would drive it around town. They would drive around
all the time. People knew that his truck was pink.
The truck that they found in this spot, whether there
was an explosion, was not pink. There was no signs
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of pink. It was blue. So during the explosion did it.
There's some things that did not line up with this,
But I mean, there's a lot of stuff that says
this is s Granger's truck, but there's never been any
proof to this day that they can actually say without
a doubt that it was his truck.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Could ever would have the pink paint washed away in
the six.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Years maybe what he was, Yeah, and that that's what
I wonder possible, right, I mean, it could have maybe
the blast was so hot that it melted. I don't know,
the other paint was still there. Yeah, And maybe when
he painted it pink, it wasn't actually automotive paint.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Maybe it.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Or something, you know, but the truck, Robert specifically and everybody,
there's a lot of people around town that remember the
truck being pink.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Well you got to think a guy who can rebuild
a fucking locomotive know how to paint his truck.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Probably, right, Yeah, well then likely, especially if he restored
these like it clearly what he's doing. Yeah, So him
and Robert painted it pink. The truck that they found
was not pink, but it did have cerial numbers off
Robert's truck. It did. It was the same type of
I read some stuff. This ha had serial numbers that match,
and I read other things. There's a lot of different
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you know.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
How far is this from his host? Roughly? And we're
talking miles and miles or the same name.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
No, it's not that far. I'm thinking within fifty miles
of where he was. So, and he went into that storm.
He did no dynamite, He did use it. It was
blown up, but it was majorly blown up. This truck.
They found one of the wheels like thirty feet in
a tree, but there was very little left of the truck.
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It had been blown to smithereens. I mean, and the
all they found was really tiny bone fragments.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
The odds are it's probably the same truck.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
I would say it's him, but there's a a lot
of people Robert doesn't believe it was him. Robert, if
you look at his interviews, and he was obviously he's
still a teenager at the time. He believes Granger's left.
He believed he's gone.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
Maybe maybe that's what he wants to be.
Speaker 1 (50:14):
Maybe, yeah, for sure, he loved him now. But also
you could look at it as Granger did go, and
they blew up his truck, you know, to cover up
you know, maybe this UFO blew up the truck to
keep it from But I mean, it was dynamite.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
When he first said they found his truck on the mountaintop.
I'm thinking of this guys thinks he's being picked up
by aliens. That's a logical spot to drive you truck, right.
Why he would have blown it up, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
And then if you Robert says he wasn't doing a
lot of LSD. His brother says he was doing a
ship ton. But then there's a question where was he
getting all this LSD? You know, this is a small
town in Vancouver.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
But it was a helicopter full of it in the woods.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Right, he found an old military bunker that from the
CIA that he restored it in all the content, he
probably made it himself. He's smart enough. But yeah, so
the uh, I would believe that it's that it was
his remains. It only makes sense.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
But that's a depressing end of that story though, because
all the stuff the guy could do, you want to
believe that he really did get picked up by an alien.
So a story like that to end in a possible
probable suicide.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
If they had never found that, if they'd never found
his vehicle, the story would a vehicle, The story would
be even you know, where did he go? Where the
hell is no sign of him at all?
Speaker 2 (51:34):
All right? So what one to ten on the likelihood
that that's his truck and his body on that mount?
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (51:40):
I put it in like a seven or eight? But
there is some questions. I mean, Mike, I don't think
the alien stock him, but who knows?
Speaker 2 (51:51):
But so was he full of shit the entire time?
Speaker 1 (51:53):
I think the LSD. I think he was using the
LSD to open his mind, where you know, and a
lot of people did that. But I believe he probably
got really addicted to the whole situation, and he truly,
I bet he truly believed he was and maybe he
thought he had to die to maybe get to that
other plane, that other level. I don't know. Maybe he
blew himself up on purpose. Maybe it wasn't suicide, but
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maybe it was because he believed the only way to
get to where the aliens were at he had to die.
I mean, if you look at what's that cult that
I've mentioned before, the ones that all the hail Bob, oh,
hell Bob, the hail Bob cult, that they all committed
suicide on the day that the comet came by Evan's Gate. Yes,
uh right, that was hail Bob comment. Right, Yeah, so,
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I mean they believed that they had to be dead
to catch their ride. On that comment, I'm not to
look into that story more.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
I may have just No, you're right, I remember that
Heaven's Gate was the hill Heaven's Gate.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Yeah, so, I mean maybe he believed that.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
Who knows, maybe the aliens changed their mind when they
saw how fucked up he was. Right, I can't go
home now, it's just.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
A Yeah, we'll put that up in the poll. What
do you think actually happened to Grainger? But I don't know.
I think I think he blew himself up, but I
don't know that it was on purpose, or maybe it
was you know.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Maybe really thought they were coming and he was just
trying to destroy the truck.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
Yeah, it could be that. But there was some fragments
of bone that they believe were human, but they're they're gone.
You can't even you can't test them now because they're missing.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
Big ass storm. It's not impossible the dynamite touched off accidentally.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
And that's the thing. He could have got hit by
lightning and it could have blown up his That's happened before.
But where was that going? I can't remember. But anyways, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
That was a good story.
Speaker 1 (53:45):
I like that something different.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
It was very, very different, but it was entertaining. That
guy is really impressive really.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
To be able to do that, no doubt. Yeah, because
I mean, like we said, you come across something in
the woods, it's not those things aren't just like a
little rusted or a little one down there's there's most
of it rusted away.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
At no point would my mind be like, oh ship
I'm gonna story.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
I'm gonna think how I can blow it up. Me
and Grange are a little different. He wanted to put
things together. I wanted to tear them apart and maybe
go to Low's and find a nice shed.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
It's a really good story, but I like to We're
gonna head over to the firepit, guys, catch you over.
Speaker 4 (54:28):
There, all right.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
So before we do the fire pit, we could ask
one more time. Like Scott said, we're running crazy low
on fire pits, he said, he says it every week
he does, but this time it's absolutely true. We have
one or two left and then that's that is it.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
Yeah, we're critically low. Guys.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
Send them into be on the shadows two o seven
at Gmail or any of our socials. So this week's
firepit comes to us from Sherry. She sent a good
one before. This is her second. In my hometown, a
hospital for the mentally ill sits perched on the top
of the highest hill, overlooking the city below. The building
and grounds are a marvel of RedBrick, marble and wood.
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It no longer serves in this capacity, having closed in
the mid nineties. Its purpose has transitioned from warehousing the
mentally ill to a thriving center for career training. At
its zenith, the hospital housed hundreds and provided a range
of training programs for the residents. After the final residents
had left, and before it was repurposed, an auction sale
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was scheduled. From soup to nuts, everything that had a
value that could be recouped was put up for bid.
The sale drew a large crowd, from potential buyers to
curiosity seekers and former staff. Up forbid that day was
everything from janitorial equipment, kitchen equipment, furniture, farming tools, office
odds and ends, to list a few. One item of
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interest was a particularly beautiful table. The tap was a
thick slab of gray blue marble that was held up
by thick, curvy wooden legs. This was a large piece,
the tap being five feet in width and the length
easily stretching to eight feet. The slab itself was a
minimum of eight inches in thickness. When this item came
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up for bid, one woman at attendance was struck by
its natural beauty. She vigorously matched every new bid, having
decided that she must be the owner of this antique table. Finally,
no new bids landed and she was the winner. She
gleefully shared with everyone near her how excited she was
and how stunning this table was going to look in
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her living room. That's when laughter could be heard from
the back of the room. It was an uneasy laugh
mixed with disbelief. When asked what the joke was, the
reply hit like hold water to the face. The men
standing at the back of the room were formal former
hospital staff. This beautiful marble and wood table that her
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friends and family would someday gather to eat at, was
the hospital's morgue and was used for autopsies.
Speaker 1 (57:15):
Oh it's an autopsy table.
Speaker 2 (57:17):
If you should find yourself invited for dinner and you
notice that distinct slab of gray blue marble, get your
dinner to go. Oh wow, that was an awesome story.
Speaker 1 (57:29):
Yeah, that is awesome, really good story. I thought it
was gonna be like too heavy to haul it out
of there.
Speaker 2 (57:33):
That's a huge pie, no ship.
Speaker 1 (57:36):
Oh man, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (57:38):
I yeah, it doesn't say what she paid. It wouldn't
have mattered. There's no fucking way I would have brought
that home, Like, here's your check.
Speaker 1 (57:44):
Keep you what do I say you don't bring furniture
into your house. Don't bring how many dead bodies have
been on that damn thing?
Speaker 2 (57:53):
Wow, the guy from episode six would have had his
fucking kids sleep on it. Al This Meecher family right, Yes,
Alker that Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (58:04):
Yes, there was a table in their basement that the
kid got on and they spun him around on it.
Speaker 2 (58:10):
Kids was seeing too much ship, so he took out
the light bulbs. Now you're not seeing anything.
Speaker 1 (58:14):
Take that go to bed of the year.
Speaker 2 (58:19):
Thanks again, Sherry, that was an awesome story. Please send
in yours guys.
Speaker 1 (58:23):
Yep Beyond the Shadows two o seven at gmail dot com.
Desperate ne guys, desperate need keep us going and we
will catch you in the next one Later, guys,
Hey, everybody, join us as we delve into our favorite
dark tales and paranormal mysteries.
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Venture with us beyond the safe places that exist in daylight.
As we go beyond their shadows.
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True crime, paranormal hauntings, UFOs, cryptids and unsolved mysteries, conspiracy theories,
past lives, reincarnation, and all the like are just a
few of the topics that we will tackle.
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If it haunts your fucking dreams, then it will be
on our show.
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Do you know what the most in the world is?
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On the shutters where you found me?
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Yet you can't see me in the deepest blacks when
your heart starbusts and then you see their cracks, all
these creepy things that wind at track well, the demens
be where the actions at. So listen enough you want it, UFOs,
all of them ghosts. We got everything that you want.
It won't Do you know what the.
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Most thing in the world is?
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Hi, and welcome back to Beyond the Shadows Episode one
and forty two.
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Welcome back Shadow People.
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Just so you don't get confused and start looking to
see if you missed one is the bonus episode that
will actually be out on Tuesday, but it dropped on
Speaker Supporters Club Blast Tuesday, so we got to keep.
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Him in order, right, so we think it'll come out
in order. We think we got it. We may have
screwed it up because we usually do pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
So anyways, faking tech guy again, he's killing us.
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We get a nice review on Apple from plus five
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If any of you guys have not had the opportunity
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And we'll get a request on that one for some zombies,
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Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yeah that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah, Yeah, we haven't covered that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Yeah, that's not one of them. And we are I know,
I say this all the time. We are in so
much desperate need for fire pits that I'm mentioning it
right now.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I don't think you've ever mentioned that before.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
No, probably not. No, people hear me all the time,
but I we're down to just a couple. Yeah, and
I don't know. I don't know what we'll do from there.
So if you guys have them and you've been sitting.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
On them, now's the time.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
We need them desperately, We really do. So we're counting
on you, guys. Don't let us down, no pressure put
It's all on you.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
The poll for last week's episode is not closed yet.
It's a pretty quiet response, but we did get five
votes and they are all the same everybody way that
it was Charlotte shall be. I agree, that's who I
thought it was. You guys haven't voted. Well. Actually, by
the time you hear this, it'll be too late anyway.
But we'll keep doing polls in the future. Hopefully the
turnout is a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
I mean, yeah, they were before. This was probably one
of the lower one.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Me and Scott are both gonna have to talk to
our therapists about that.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
This week, my therapist asked me to quick.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
All right, Uh, first up, we have police in Slide El, Louisiana,
So they responded to a call this past Sunday in
the local Low's parking lot. The call was about a
man committing lout axe. They arrived on the scene and
began searching. So they didn't even go in the store.
It's like the outdoor shed displays. That's where they look.
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So in the fifth shed, somebody was counting. In the
fifth they found a naked man laying on his back
with some vasoline beside him, and he was just tugging
himself senselessly.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
In the middle. That's that's a home depot thing, for sure.
Loads did respect is not that kind of place. He
was watching way higher class.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
He was watching porn right on his phone.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Yeah, but he was naked.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
He was naked.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
I guess some people gotta uh, I don't know, get
buck as naked to rub one out.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But in his defense, so you have to see if
the shed is adequate for your if.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Your lifestyle needs. Is this ship big enough? It's only
one way to tell. I'm looking for a smack shock. Yeah,
if we can see how the old stabbing cabin is
gonna work out, pants off.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
I had a double check. Make sure this Louisiana not Florida. Right, No, right,
He was booked on one count of obscenity. The dude's
not even from that town either.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Well, dude, you don't want to do that your own Lows.
You can't go back.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
That's that's something you do on vacation.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I'm gonna go the next down over and uh, I
don't know, maybe run what rub one out of Lows jail.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
They always ask each other what they're in for. Yeah,
never mind, it doesn't matter. It's misunderstanding.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Why aren't you wearing pants?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Officials in South Carolina are investigating the death of a
man who died in Hoary County after apparently entering an
enclosure at a children's petting zoo to fight one of
the kangaroos.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
I'm sure the kangaroo had it coming.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Dude, kangaroos a real asshole. Fifty two year old Eric
Slate died of multiple blunt force injuries, according to the
deputy coroner. So we know who won the fight.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, dude, if you listen to it, he did this regularly. Yeah,
it wasn't just like a one time thing. Nope, it's not.
You know really, he's like, Oh, I'm gonna get over
to the pettent zoo. It's time to fight the kangaroo.
They're badasses, dude. This one was as big as him.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It was the picture of them there side by side,
like same height there. His brother Robert actually owned the establishment,
and Eric apparently loved to go inside the enclosure. Oig
scud just said in Rough Host with a particular kangaroo
named Jack, Eric was found by his brother at about
eleven pm last Friday night inside the kangaroo enclosure. It
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doesn't say anywhere in the article, but it was eleven
o'clock on a Friday night. You have to assume that
alcohol was in somewhat shape or form involved in this one.
And you know, we don't have him here in Maine,
so I don't know a shitload about him. But I'm
assuming it's a really poor idea to drink some beers
and then hopping with a kangaroo.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Did he have his pants on wastching porn? That's something
you do at home, depot right, this kangaroo porn on
his phone.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I don't know, man, that's doesn't sound like an awesome
idea to me. No, but I'm done some stupid shit.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
It sounds like he did it quite regularly, and it
sounded like he loved that kangaroo. You know, if you
read this story, he really there's like a.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
I'm not sure the feelings were mutue.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
No, he thought they were buddies. The kangaroo thought he
was trying to take advantage of him.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Also, last Friday, we have a forty seven year old
American who was visiting the coliseum and decided he needed
to hop a fence to get a better look.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
It's so American.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Very Instead, he fell and was impaled on the metal
bars of the fence below. Witnesses heard him screaming and
saw him bleeding profusely until he passed out. It took
authorities twenty minutes to sedate and remove the man from
the fence, and he needed eighty stitches to close the wound.
He hasn't been charged with the crime yet, but authorities
are still investigating the incident. So he was also from
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Taiwani dual citizenship, but of course they just list him
as an American.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, it makes more sense, and he's not the first
person to be How many people you think were actually
impaled in the coliseum back in the day. This guy
did it on his own.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
There's a lot of incidents there recently of people doing stupid.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
I mean they just did that.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
They've arrested a couple just caught like carving their initials
into them.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Come, I so stupid, and I bet they're.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I think some of them definitely will.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, we're the worst.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Last up, we have a company in Britain that had
a bonding activity that was meant to build camaraderie amongst
the staff. The staff at the NHS Blood and Transplant
was taking a Star Wars themed personality test when supervisor
Lorna Rook had to step away to take a phone call.
Apparently a coworker filled hers out for her, and when
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she returned, she was informed by co workers that she
tested out as Darth Vader, which is badass.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
I think, right, it's way better than being fat Susie
who you're hard to understand him. So let's go to lose,
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maybe fight again grow.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Laurena said this made her extremely unpopular and caused her
stress and anxiety. She resigned shortly thereafter, and was recently
awarded fifty thousand dollars over the incident.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
That is just ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
That is so incredible.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Me and right, we're talking about this one because everybody's
just so soft anymore. Oh yeah, you know, just because
you got called darth Vader Dvader bad as I know, Ius,
she's not doing pillow talk with like James Earld Jones's voice.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I don't see the problem.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
One of her co workers filled it out obviously. She
was probably bitch.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Yeah, I'm guessing she did. She didn't like hearing it,
and she had to quit.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, I guess it was over after that.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Fifty dollars man. Anyway, that's the news for this week.
What do you got going on for a story?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
I'm gonna do something I haven't done before. This is
a disappearance. It's a disappearance of Granger Tail.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Oh nice, all right, we'll be right back, guys.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
All right. Granger Taylor grew up in the small town
of Duncan, located on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
It's a peaceful, forested area surrounded by towering trees, rowing
hills in quiet farmland. In many ways, Duncan is a
kind of place where life moves slowly. People know their neighbors.
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The community is tight knit. It's beautiful, but also isolated.
Back in the nineteen fifties and sixties. When Granger was
a kid, Duncan was even quieter than it is today.
There weren't many distractions, no internet, barely any television. Most
kids spent their time outdoors, working with their hands or
tinkering in garages. That sounds awful, It sounds sounds amazing.
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The kids never get outside anymore. For someone like Granger,
who was naturally curious and mechanically gifted, it was a
perfect place to explore and build. He lived on a
remote property just outside of town, surrounded by forest. His
family wasn't rich, but they had enough space and freedom
to pursue his interest. For From a young age, he
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was fascinated by machines. While other kids played sports, Granger
was taken apart old cars, fixing engines, and eventually rebuilding
entire vehicles by himself. He taught himself everything, no formal training,
just raw talent and focus. The peaceful setting of Duncan
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allowed Granger's mind to wander. He wasn't distracted by city
noises and bustling streets. He had long stretches of time
alone with his thoughts. Lost my spot, the towering trees,
the open sky, and the silence of the wilderness around
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him likely helped fuel his obsession with space and the stars.
He was always talking about outer space. He was fascinated
with all the different universe, galaxies, all that jazz.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
When you're out in a quiet area like that, you
can see the sky so much clearer.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Can you imagine what Vancouver Island is like? I mean,
Vancouver Island's huge and not not much. I mean there
is some people living there, but not nothing. Ye, a
lot of wilderness. It's kind of like here, you know.
Even more so, imagine what the skies look like out there,
no light pollution and all that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That's what I mean. When I go up to like
northern Maine for the camp or whatever, you can see everything,
even just from Southern Main and Northern Main.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
It's oh, it's amazing. It's amazing. Yeah, we don't even
have that much light pollution down here, but the difference
is stunding, astounding. What the fuck some people say. The
stillness of Duncan made him feel closer to the universe
and maybe to something beyond it. Granger Taylor was a
man who stood out, not because he wanted to, but
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because he was simply different. He was quiet, brilliant and
a little mysterious. He seemed like someone born in the
wrong time or maybe the wrong world. Not to mention,
he was like six foot four and he was an
intimidating stature, but people said that he was like a
gentle giant.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Physically, he wasn't flashy or intimidating. He often wore simple clothes, jeans,
a work shirt, maybe a jacket with tools in the pocket.
He didn't care about fashion, her appearance. He was most
interested in machines, engines, and like I said, the stars.
He didn't care what anyone thought about him. His hair
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was usually uncapped. He carried himself like someone deep in thought,
always working on a problem in his mind. But what
really made Granger special was that mine. He was a
mechanical genius, even though he dropped out of school in
eighth grade. Eighth grade. From a young age, he could
fix just about anything if it was If it something
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was broken, Granger could fix it. He could figure out
how it worked and bring it back to life. People
in his own town brought him engines and machinery that
they couldn't fix. He'd returned them working better than before.
Despite his brilliance, he was soft spoken and shy. He
didn't talk much unless you got to know him. When
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you got to talk about topics that he loved, like
I said before, like space, aliens, ancient technology, then he'd
light up. He spent hours reading about outer space, science fiction,
and UFO sightings. He believed there was intelligent life beyond Earth,
and more importantly, he believed they were trying to communicate
with him. His personality was a mix of curiosity, sensitivity,
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and restlessness. He didn't seem totally at home on Earth.
He was kind, but distant, focused, but often in the
world of his own. His mind was always chasing something
bigger than the moment, bigger than this world. Granger didn't
have many close friends. Most people in the town respected him,
but didn't always understand him. He preferred the company of
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his tools. Some said he was eccentric, others said he
was a dreamer. His family loved him, but even they
knew he had a mysterious side. He was just different.
He didn't know, he didn't quite fit in, a part
of him that seemed to be searching for something, you know,
more than what he had. Granger Taylor was just a
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teenager when he did something that made everybody in the
town stop and stare. He rebuilt an entire car, not
with a manual, not in the fancy garage, and not
with the help of professionals. He did it completely on
his own in his backyard, using parts that he found
at junkyards and salvage shops. And the amazing part, the
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car actually ran, and it ran well. It all started
when Granger came across an old, beat up vehicle that
had been abandoned and left to rot in the woods.
Apparently there's a lot of different equipment that was left
to rot in the woods on Vancouver Island. Yeah, most
people saw a pile of rust and junk, but Granger
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saw the potential. He wasn't afraid to get his hands dirty,
and he didn't wait around for someone to teach him.
So when he saw that broken down car, he decided
it would be his next project. He dragged it home
piece by piece. I mean he literally took that car
out of the woods piece by piece, brought it back
to the house, reassembled it. All his backyard looked more
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like a mechanical playground than an actual garden. Old car
parts tools scattered everywhere, and the skeleton of the car
slowly coming to life. He just had this natural gift.
He could look at the engine and understand what it needed.
Bit by bit, he rebuilt the engine, fixing the wiring,
replacing broken parts, and restoring the body. It wasn't fast.
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It took weeks, maybe even months, but he worked out
on it patiently, sometimes laid into the night. The neighbors
would hear him clinking on the clinking the tools, and
the low hum of test runs. It was like the
car was slowly waking up from a long sleep.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
That's freaking impressive, man.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, this is. And at this point he's a teenager,
A young teenager. I think he's like thirteen years old
when he rebuilt his first car.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Give me a couple of weeks, I could probably change
the tires in the oil.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, I wouldn't even gotten out of the woods. I'd
have gone found in the woods and smashed the windows. Jump. Yeah.
Then one day Granger started the engine and it roared
to life. It wasn't just running, it was smooth, strong,
and completely functional. He took it for a drive around
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the neighborhood and people were stunned. A teenager had rebuilt
an entire vehicle. From the ground up with no professional help,
and even the mechanics in the area were impressed. Everyone
was shot, all his friends were amazed. This wasn't just
a hobby. It was a signal of something to come.
After Granger stunned his neighbors by rebuilding a car from scratch.
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You think that might be enough to prove his talent,
but Granger didn't stop there. Once he'd mastered cars and engines,
he set his sights on something much bigger, a steam
locomot locomotive literally found a steam engine in the woods.
It all started when Granger came across the rusty remains
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of an old steam engine sitting in a field on
Vancouver Island. It had once been part of the British
Columbia Railway system, but it had long been retired and forgotten.
Most people saw it as a piece of scrap, too big,
too broken, too far gone. But to Granger it was
a challenge. He got permission to take it and he
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started the process of bringing it back to life. So
before he could take this thing and bring it back
to life, he had to get it to the farm.
And this was in the woods, like deep into the
woods behind. So at one point Granger had found. I
don't know that. If you read the story, they're shit
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scattered everywhere in the woods in this area. I mean
there's like he found a bulldozer in those woods. He
repaired the bulldozer, fixed it, and he would use it
to help out in the neighbors and lend it to
neighbors and stuff like that. So he had this giant
bulldozer as a teenager. He's pushing his twenties or whatever.
I think he's in like eighteen nineteen. He has this bulldozer.
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He uses it to clear a path and to pull
this train out of the woods, and not like a
short distance, like a really long distance to his farm.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Took him all the way to nineteen to build his
first bulldozer. All right, it's an impressive story, but.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
On a way larger scale. This time he was still
just a young man in his late teens maybe early twenties,
like I said, And this project was massive. The engine
alone weighed tons. The parts were old, some missing entirely.
There was rust. There was rust everywhere. No instruction manuals.
Once again, no team to help him, just Granger, his
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tools and his mind. For two years he worked on
the locomotive, often by himself. He used a crane to
move the heavy parts, welding tools to reshape and repair
the metal, and his own hands to clean, fit and
rebuild every piece.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I guess I don't have to ask where you got
the crane from.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
May found it in the woods. Anyone from Vancouver Island
know all this shit you got in your woods? You
know it's funny though, but we say that if you
go through the woods here in Maine, you find shit everywhere.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh, there's a famous two huge locomotives in the northern
main Woods that have abandoned years. Like in an area
there shouldn't even be a train, there's two of them.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Yeah, ton of trains and trolleys. Yeah, there was literally trolleys.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Everywhere still is.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
And like the trail each the trail that I walk
on regularly, the hiking trail, there's a couple old cars
that are I mean they're almost completely gone now, but
they're like old uh old Chevy's not like fifty seven
but probably older, just rustling away out there.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
One of my friends here in town out of fifty
seven Chevy in the woods over by his house. When
I first saw it, when I was little. It was
still look like it probably could have been sandwiches. As
ears went by, it just fell apart. But how the
how it got out there in the first place, I
have no.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
I mean, here we are like, what the hell I mean,
We're literally describing all the same shit around here, And
as some of the land I was looking at had
to bulldoze around it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
So whatever, the person that the person that put it
out there, probably doesn't remember how it got there. Now
there's no road anywhere.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
A lot of it's been out there fifty sixty seventy years,
you know, all right? Where was I? And he wasn't
just tinkering. He was rebuilding it to museum qualities, and
people from around town came to see what he was doing.
Some were amazed, others thought his wasting his time. He
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didn't care. He was doing it. He wasn't doing it
for the money or fame. He did it because he
loved machines. He believed anything could be fixed if he
understood it deeply enough. When he finally finished the train,
it was fully restored, not just for display either. It
was functional. The engine worked, the wheels turned. He had
taken a rusting, useless pile of iron and turned it
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into a working piece of history. Not only did it
so when he had it, he had it on his
parents farm. He went and he built three hundred feet
of track, of actual track, and he would give the
kids in the neighborhood rides on it, like three hundred
feet down, stop, back it up and drive it back.
So I mean it was fully functional.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
He must have been a full celebrity in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Oh yeah, you know, the kids loved it. The BC
British Columbia Forrest Discovery Center, a museum in Duncan, was
so impressed that they took the locomotive and displayed it.
It still stands today as part of their collection, a
permanent tribute to Granger's genius. This wasn't just a cool project.
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It was proof that Granger wasn't an ordinary mechanic. The
steam engine was more than a machine. To Granger. It
was a message, if I can fix this, I can
fix anything. After after Granger rebuilt the car and restored
the whole locomotive, most people would have called it quits.
Not Granger. He was always looking for a bigger challenge,
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something new, something that pushed the limits of what he
could do. The next challenge came from the sky. He
decided to rebuild a World War II fighter plane. And
what do you suppose he got that?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I've got two of them.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It wasn't just any plane. It was a P forty
Kittie Hawk, a legendary fighter used by Ally forces during
the war. But the one Granger found wasn't flying. It
was a wreck, damage, stripped, forgotten, and rotten in parts.
Just like the Locomotion locomotive and the car before it,
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the plane had been abandoned and useless. But again he
saw the potential. He tracked down the parts he needed
from the scrapyards, museums and collectors. Some pieces had to
be custom made himself. Others he found after months of searching.
He didn't have access to aircraft blueprints or aviation school training.
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What he had was the brain in his hands and
unstoppable patients. You think about this, He had to get
all these Nowadays you could hop on Amazon or something
on internet to look for some of this shit. He's
on Vancouver Island, you know, so the parts he can't
find he's building.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Them, can't pop online and find a quick manual. Not
really impressive.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Granger worked on the plane for several years, completely rebuilt
its frame, restored the engine, replaced wiring, and carefully brought
it back to near original condition. Every day he worked
quietly in the makeshift hangar oft and alone, turning bolts,
standing metal, and solving complex mechanical puzzles in his head.
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To him, the plane wasn't just a machine. It was
a piece of history, and he treated it with that
kind of respect. By the time he was finished, the
Kitty Hawk looked like brand new, shiny, clean, beautifully restored.
It was a true war bird, brought back from the dead.
It was such a good restoration that it eventually ended
up on display at the Canadian National Museum of Aviation.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Yeah, and they say that it was it was fliable.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
But he never flew it.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Never flew it. No, No, he drove the train. He's
not crazy for a man who never finished high school.
I mean you think eighth grade.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Yeah, Education incredigence.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Are not always no, not at all. Most people who
are super smart are bored with school, you know what
I mean. And I think that's where Granger was at.
He just didn't see anymore used to go.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
That's how I felt.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
That's obviously why I did so poorly. I blew off.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Auto classes because I wasn't being challenged anymore.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I did so poorly in school because I was too smart.
You can tell by my reading skills. People are always like,
that's God's shrew sounds. I could just get him to
read to me some more. Now, not many people could
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say they rebuilt a World War two plane with no
formal training, except for Granger. He proved again that his
talents were far beyond ordinary mechanics. He had a deep,
almost intuitive understanding of how things worked, and he had
to have I mean to just be able to look
at an engine, a giant Diesel engine or one of
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these plays engines and just no understand it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Oh that if he doesn't fly and he never flew it,
how do you even know it's functional? I mean, obviously
it was someone. Yeah, someone had to Yeah, I mean
I guess you did. I don't even fucking know, man,
I used to work on planes.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Don't fly on those planes. I don't think they If
you guys are ever out on the F fifteen, that
don't get.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They don't want you want an air Force recruitment commercial.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
That was the worst. Not only can I not read.
I was horrible at fixing an airplane. Don't ask about
my respiratory skills, all right. Like I said before, the
Granger wasn't doing any of this for fame or anything
like that. He didn't brag, he wasn't showing af He
just loved doing it. Love solving those problems. They're all
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like a giant puzzle to him. So people in Duncan
started calling him a genius, a wizard with metal, and
even a young Da Vinci. Others just called him that
strange but brilliant guy who fixed impossible things. The Kittyhawk
restoration cemented his reputation. He was a one man museum
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bringing the pass back to life. Granger has always been
like I said before, He's always fascinated without a space.
He was obsessed with the UFOs and aliens and the
idea that there might be more intelligent life somewhere beyond
the stars. Every book he could get his hands on,
he was reading it. This is also the time when
Star Wars came out. Loved the Star Wars movies. He
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was big into it. He loved books on interstellar travel,
alien technology. He would read all the time. Much information
he could take in so one day Granger started building
something in his backyard. It looked like a flying saucer
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made by two large satellite discs welded together and mounted
on stilts. And the pictures of this and I'll post
them inside. It had a bed, a woodstove, and a
few supplies. It wasn't a real spaceship in the technical sense,
but to Granger it was something more. It was like
a simulator, a quiet place where he could think, read, meditate,
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and maybe even make contact with beings from another world.
While most adults in town didn't understand what he was doing,
there was one person who listened, a young teenager named
Robert Keller. Granger Taylor met Robert when he was just
a young teenager growing up in the same small town.
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Curious about machines and drawn to Granger's reputation as a
local genius, Robert often wandered over into a Granger's workshop
to watch him work. Instead of brushing him off like
many adults, Granger welcomed the boy's interest and began teaching
him about engines, tools, and even theories about space and
alien life. They shared fascinations and about the unknown, quickly
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turning into a unique friendship. See Grainger and Robert became
close friends despite their age difference, and there was quite
an age difference. So one thing about Robert is he
dropped out of school in eighth grade. And Robert's father
was a friend of Granger. Not like a close friend,
but they were acquaintances. And it sounded like, if you
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go back and see, like some of the interviews, Robert's
dad was a piece of fucking word. He really was. Ah.
So he didn't treat he didn't treat Robert great. So
Granger was kind of like a role model to Grainger.
Robert was someone curious and open minded, someone who didn't
laugh at his ideas. And to Robert, Granger was a
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role model, the kind of genius who treated him like
an equal. They'd sit for hours talking about space, the technology,
and Grainger's belief that aliens were communicating with him telepathically.
Granger told Robert that he believed he had made contact
with extraterrestrials. Not only that, but he said that they
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had offered to take him on a trip through the
stars to show him how their ships worked and teach
him the knowledge beyond anything humans had yet discovered. Robert
later said that Grainger was completely serious, not joking or
making it up. He spoke like someone preparing for a
real journey. Granger even invited Robert into the spaceship simulator.
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Inside they would read books and talk about the future.
Robert remembered Grainger as a kind, gentle and brilliant, but
also deeply restless, like a man waiting for something big
to happen. Granger was known for his brilliant, mechanical mind
and general personality, but in the years leading up to
his disappearance, he also began experimenting with psychedelic drugs, which
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could explain a lot of this right absolutely, particularly la
People close to him, including his friend Robert, later mentioned
that Grainger had had been using acid during this time,
not recreational but more like a tool for exploration. Granger
believed LSD could help him expand his mind, connect with
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higher intelligence, and possibly communicate with extraterrestrial beings. He was
deeply curious about the nature of reality, and the drug
seemed to fuel both his obsession with space and his
belief that he was being contacted by aliens. So I
him and Robert used to sit in this simulator. It
was just a UFO looking it's like a it's like
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a his little clubhouse type thing really, and they sit
around they would smoke weed and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But you want to go back and get fucked up.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
And there was a big age difference between him too. Yeah,
come on, let's go get high in the UFO. But
I mean, this is the time where LSD was. You know,
LSD was a pretty big thing, And it depends on
who you talk to. Like Robert Knew said that he
did use it, but he wasn't using it that much.
But if you Granger had other siblings, and if you
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go through the thing, one of his brothers or his brother,
I think he had a brother and sister and said
that he was like dropping ridiculous amounts of LSD.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
This is Granger, Robert.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
This is no, this is Granger's brother. Said no, not Robert.
They never said that Robert was doing the LSD. And
Robert you can see, do some interviews and he loved Granger.
You could tell. But uh yeah, I mean you think
about it. A lot of people think if you get
into like some of these psychedelic drugs, a lot of
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people they really truly believe that they see beans it's ayahuasca. Yeah,
with ayahuasca, people claim to see the same beans. Like
if you and I were to have a trip and
go really deep on ayahuasca, would we would Some say
I have never done it, but they say that we
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would see the same being. It would describe the same
thing that another person had never heard of. You know,
So I don't know different levels of consciousness, but yeah,
a lot of people believe that's how you get to
you know, I don't know. I don't know what. I
guess it would be dimensions.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Right, you'd think right, almost has to be.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Well. Granger was never violent or out of control. Those
around him noticed that his drug use may have deepened
his sense of a detachment from the world. You know,
other than Robert, there wasn't a lot of people around him.
He was kind of a lonely dude. I mean, he
kept busy with his projects, and then when Roger and
when Robert was there, he had him around, but there
wasn't a lot of other people in his life. He
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spoke more and more about leaving Earth and less about
mechanical projects. Some I'm worried that the combination of his isolation,
his obsessive thinking, and the effects of psychedelics might have
blurred his lines between reality and imagination. In the bots
leading up to his disappearance, Granger believed in his believed
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in his alien contact grew even more into His belief
in his alien contact grew even more intense. One particularly
strange moment came during the Storm of the Century, a
fierce storm that battered Vancouver Island in the winter of
nineteen eighty. Granger told his family and friends that the
storm was more than just bad weather. According to Grainger,
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the storm marking the arrival of something much bigger. He
claimed that the alien beings he had been in contact
with would come for him. During the storm, he said
that they would take him on a journey beyond Earth,
and that he was ready to leave. This wasn't the
first time he spoken about leaving for the stars, but
it was the first time he seemed certain that the
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time had come. So he didn't just come out and say, oh,
there's a big storm tonight that they're coming to get me.
He said way prior, like a month from now. He gave.
He gave I don't know if he gave a date,
but he gave a time that he said there's a
major storm coming, like the storm of the century. It's
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going to be the biggest storm that Vancouver has ever seen.
And the reason is because the aliens were going to
do that, you know, so that they could their ship
could people wouldn't see their ship and their noises. Yeah,
for cover exactly, except when that night, this storm that
nobody knew was going to happen actually happened. So this
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storm that he had predicted a month before actually happened
this night.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
After some of the shit this guy's already done, I
wouldn't have left at anything he's said. For real, He's
pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
On November twenty ninth, nineteen eighty, Granger Taylor's final days
on Earth was marked by a series of liberate actions,
when pieced together, seemed to tell the story of a
man who was ready to embark on a journey he
had long anticipated. The day became. The day began with
Granger leaving behind a note for his parents, a cryptic
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message that would become the key to understanding his disappearance.
The note read, dear mother and father, I have gone
away to walk aboard in alien spaceship. I am not dead.
I will be back in forty two months. He also
left a will, though, and in the will where it
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said was it death or whatever, he crossed it out
and wrote departed or something along those lines. But the
forty two month timeframe was significant. It wasn't just a
random number. Granger had mentioned on several occasions that he
believed the aliens he had been in contact with would
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take him on a journey that would spend exactly forty
two months. So this wasn't the first time he spoke
spoke of leaving, but specifically of the number gave in
a sense of finality. He wasn't running away, he wasn't escaping.
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He was leaving on a mission, one that he believed
was meant to happen. Before he disappeared, Granger took the
time to visit a few people close to him, as
if preparing for the next phase of his life. One
of the last stops he made was to Robert Keller.
You know, Robert Keller, who was his friend, had become
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very close to him. Over the years. Robert had listened
to Granger talk about all these beliefs in the alien
life and his desire to connect with these extraterrestrial beings.
On this day, Granger calmly told Robert that he was
about to leave Earth to meet those beings. The conversation
was understated, without any signs of distress. Granger explained that
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he would be gone for forty two months and that
he wouldn't be returning to Earth for that entire period.
But Robert believed that the forty two months Granger mentioned
in his note might not be the full length of
his absence. Robert had listened closely to Grainger's theory about
space travel, and he thought that the journey might take longer,
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and by the way Granger talked to him, he made
it seem like it was truly going to be longer
than the forty two months. Given the nature of interstellar travel,
Grainger often spoke about the vast distances between stars and
the unknown aspects of alien technology, leading Robert to think
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that time could be experienced differently through such a journey. Robert,
who had always been open minded about Granger's belief, wasn't
certain about the specifics, but he felt that space travel
might stretch time ways humans couldn't even comprehend. He thought
it was possible that Granger's absence could be much longer
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than expected due to the realities of traveling beyond Earth.
So if you travel at the speed of light, you've
all heard how if you're traveling at the speed of light,
time goes by slower for you and faster for the
people on Earth.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Yet forty months for him on the spaceship could be
drastically different than time on Earth.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Robert made it sound like when he said that he'd
come back that he would basically be visiting his grandkids.
Not Robert himself, but his grandkids. So, after saying goodbye
to Robert Greener, Robert's dad said, go ahead and take
Robert with him. Remember I told you he should just
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take him with him when he left. So after saying
is given by his Robert, Granger went to the local
diner for a quiet meal. A staff at the diner
recalled seeing him there, sitting calmly at the counter, eating
his food and chatting with a few familiar faces. It
was an ordinary scene, but for those who knew Granger,
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it felt strangely final. He wasn't in a rush, he
wasn't nervous. It was as though he was preparing for
a journey that he had expected for some time. When
he finished eating He paid his bill and quietly left
the diner, heading towards his truck. Granger's departure that night
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seemed peaceful, almost as if he were simply setting off
on an adventure. With his truck packed, he drove off
into the Storm of the Century, a severe weather system
that was battering the island that evening, and he was
never seen again. Now this storm was a huge storm.
It was a violent as hell. The wind was terrible.
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It was like, like he said, the Storm of the Century,
which he predicted a month before it happened, at least
a month before it happened. As the forty two month
mark passed, people in Duncan eagerly awaited Granger's return. His family, friends,
and even locals who had heard about his disappearance believed
that he would come back, just that he promised. His
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note had been so definite, I'll be back in forty
two months. For many, the passes of time was like
waiting for the fulfillment of a strange, yet hopeful promise.
Some people held out hope that Grainger was truly off
on an interstellar journey, believing that aliens he had talked
about would honor their word and bring him back exactly
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as he had said. A lot of people thought he
was playing a prank. However, not everybody was so convinced.
They were those who thought Granger was simply pulling an
elaborate prank. They believed that he would had staged his
disappearance and was like eying low somewhere, perhaps even planning
a dramatic reappearance after the forty two months had passed.
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These skeptics questioned the validity of his alien beliefs, dismissed
them as fantasies, fuels by his eccentric personality and his
growing isolation. And you know, maybe that LSD.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
But nothing in the story indicates this guy is a
prank pulling type nange.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
But not at all, No, Nope. They speculated that Granger
was simply having fun with the town, making up a
story that would keep people guessing along after he was gone.
Despite these doubts, as the forty two month mark came
and went without any sign of Granger, the mood in
the community switched. It shifted from anticipation to confusion and concern.
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Granger had always been a mysterious figure, but this was different.
His family had tried to remain optimistic hoping that somehow,
some way he would return has promised, But as we
turned into months and months into years, the possibility that
Granger might never return began to settle in the mysterious.
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The mystery surrounding his disappearance only deepened, leaving a community
haunted by the question of whether he had truly left
for the stars or if something far more tragic had happened. So,
you know, at this point, it's been what three and
a half years and no sign of Granger. But they
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did do some searching for him, stuff like that, But
how much do you search for a person that literally
said they're going to be gone for forty two forty
two months, right, and there's no sign of his truck.
His truck was gone. There was no sign of it.
They didn't find it any not. At this point, they
hadn't found his truck. And uh, four years from the
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time where he almost three and a half and then
when they started looking, you know, they weren't finding anything
at all. So about six years later after he had disappeared,
something strange was found on top of Mount Provost Prevost,
not far from from his hometown. It was nineteen eighty
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six and A group of loggers were working in the
area when they came across what looked like the remains
of an explosion. There was metals scattered all over, broken glass,
and even pieces of bone. It looked like something or
someone had blown up there. The police were called in
to check it out. As they looked closer, they realized
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the metal parts were from a pickup truck, even though
the blast had messed it up pretty badly. They figured
out it was a nineteen seventy two dots In pickup truck.
Does that sound familiar? That was my first truck in
nineteen seventy two Dots and it was awesome. That thing
was so much fun. Blow up came close, So this
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was the same kind of truck Granger had been driving
when he vanished. Some of the serial numbers matched his
vehicle too. They also found signs of dynamite at the scene,
which made sense because Granger had worked with machinery and
would have known how to get his hands on explosives.
To be honest, they had said that he had he
had some dynamite at the house and he would use
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it on occasion to blow stumps and stuff. He did
when he removed that locomotive from the woods and stuff
like that. So he wasn't a stranger to dynamo.
Speaker 2 (46:34):
I would assume a guy with that talent level could
manufacture his own if he wanted to.
Speaker 4 (46:38):
Probably so.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
So Granger had worked with machineries and would have known
how to get his hands on explosives, and he did.
He had some. He had some at his house after
he was gone. The human bone fragments were too small
and damaged to confirm anything for sure, but they matched
someone about Granger's size and age. Even with all that,
no one say, one hunder that it was him. There
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wasn't DNA testing like we have now. Some people accepted
that it was likely how Granger. It was how Granger
had died, he went up there and ended his life
with dynamite, but others weren't so sure. After all, he'd
left a note saying he was going to space with aliens,
and he'd be gone for forty two months. So when
they found the wreckage it didn't exactly tie things up.
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It just made the mystery deeper. Did he die there
or was there something else? People still wonder. So the
bones that they found there was no DNA testing in
that back in that day, so could they test him
Now the bones are gone, the bones are missing, they disappeared.
Robert says specifically, when they found this truck, this truck
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was blue Robert's truck. I mean, I'm Granger's truck. Robert
remembers specifically, him and Granger painted it Pepnobismo pink, and
he would drive it around town. They would drive around
all the time. People knew that his truck was pink.
The truck that they found in this spot, whether there
was an explosion, was not pink. There was no signs
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of pink. It was blue. So during the explosion did it.
There's some things that did not line up with this,
But I mean, there's a lot of stuff that says
this is s Granger's truck, but there's never been any
proof to this day that they can actually say without
a doubt that it was his truck.
Speaker 2 (48:28):
Could ever would have the pink paint washed away in
the six.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Years maybe what he was, Yeah, and that that's what
I wonder possible, right, I mean, it could have maybe
the blast was so hot that it melted. I don't know,
the other paint was still there. Yeah, And maybe when
he painted it pink, it wasn't actually automotive paint.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
Maybe it.
Speaker 1 (48:49):
Or something, you know, but the truck, Robert specifically and everybody,
there's a lot of people around town that remember the
truck being pink.
Speaker 2 (48:56):
Well you got to think a guy who can rebuild
a fucking locomotive know how to paint his truck.
Speaker 1 (49:01):
Probably, right, Yeah, well then likely, especially if he restored
these like it clearly what he's doing. Yeah, So him
and Robert painted it pink. The truck that they found
was not pink, but it did have cerial numbers off
Robert's truck. It did. It was the same type of
I read some stuff. This ha had serial numbers that match,
and I read other things. There's a lot of different
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you know.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
How far is this from his host? Roughly? And we're
talking miles and miles or the same name.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
No, it's not that far. I'm thinking within fifty miles
of where he was. So, and he went into that storm.
He did no dynamite, He did use it. It was
blown up, but it was majorly blown up. This truck.
They found one of the wheels like thirty feet in
a tree, but there was very little left of the truck.
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It had been blown to smithereens. I mean, and the
all they found was really tiny bone fragments.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
The odds are it's probably the same truck.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
I would say it's him, but there's a a lot
of people Robert doesn't believe it was him. Robert, if
you look at his interviews, and he was obviously he's
still a teenager at the time. He believes Granger's left.
He believed he's gone.
Speaker 2 (50:12):
Maybe maybe that's what he wants to be.
Speaker 1 (50:14):
Maybe, yeah, for sure, he loved him now. But also
you could look at it as Granger did go, and
they blew up his truck, you know, to cover up
you know, maybe this UFO blew up the truck to
keep it from But I mean, it was dynamite.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
When he first said they found his truck on the mountaintop.
I'm thinking of this guys thinks he's being picked up
by aliens. That's a logical spot to drive you truck, right.
Why he would have blown it up, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
And then if you Robert says he wasn't doing a
lot of LSD. His brother says he was doing a
ship ton. But then there's a question where was he
getting all this LSD? You know, this is a small
town in Vancouver.
Speaker 2 (50:54):
But it was a helicopter full of it in the woods.
Speaker 1 (50:56):
Right, he found an old military bunker that from the
CIA that he restored it in all the content, he
probably made it himself. He's smart enough. But yeah, so
the uh, I would believe that it's that it was
his remains. It only makes sense.
Speaker 2 (51:15):
But that's a depressing end of that story though, because
all the stuff the guy could do, you want to
believe that he really did get picked up by an alien.
So a story like that to end in a possible
probable suicide.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
If they had never found that, if they'd never found
his vehicle, the story would a vehicle, The story would
be even you know, where did he go? Where the
hell is no sign of him at all?
Speaker 2 (51:34):
All right? So what one to ten on the likelihood
that that's his truck and his body on that mount?
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (51:40):
I put it in like a seven or eight? But
there is some questions. I mean, Mike, I don't think
the alien stock him, but who knows?
Speaker 2 (51:51):
But so was he full of shit the entire time?
Speaker 1 (51:53):
I think the LSD. I think he was using the
LSD to open his mind, where you know, and a
lot of people did that. But I believe he probably
got really addicted to the whole situation, and he truly,
I bet he truly believed he was and maybe he
thought he had to die to maybe get to that
other plane, that other level. I don't know. Maybe he
blew himself up on purpose. Maybe it wasn't suicide, but
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maybe it was because he believed the only way to
get to where the aliens were at he had to die.
I mean, if you look at what's that cult that
I've mentioned before, the ones that all the hail Bob, oh,
hell Bob, the hail Bob cult, that they all committed
suicide on the day that the comet came by Evan's Gate. Yes,
uh right, that was hail Bob comment. Right, Yeah, so,
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I mean they believed that they had to be dead
to catch their ride. On that comment, I'm not to
look into that story more.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
I may have just No, you're right, I remember that
Heaven's Gate was the hill Heaven's Gate.
Speaker 1 (52:52):
Yeah, so, I mean maybe he believed that.
Speaker 2 (52:56):
Who knows, maybe the aliens changed their mind when they
saw how fucked up he was. Right, I can't go
home now, it's just.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
A Yeah, we'll put that up in the poll. What
do you think actually happened to Grainger? But I don't know.
I think I think he blew himself up, but I
don't know that it was on purpose, or maybe it
was you know.
Speaker 2 (53:17):
Maybe really thought they were coming and he was just
trying to destroy the truck.
Speaker 1 (53:21):
Yeah, it could be that. But there was some fragments
of bone that they believe were human, but they're they're gone.
You can't even you can't test them now because they're missing.
Speaker 2 (53:29):
Big ass storm. It's not impossible the dynamite touched off accidentally.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
And that's the thing. He could have got hit by
lightning and it could have blown up his That's happened before.
But where was that going? I can't remember. But anyways, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (53:45):
That was a good story.
Speaker 1 (53:45):
I like that something different.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
It was very, very different, but it was entertaining. That
guy is really impressive really.
Speaker 1 (53:52):
To be able to do that, no doubt. Yeah, because
I mean, like we said, you come across something in
the woods, it's not those things aren't just like a
little rusted or a little one down there's there's most
of it rusted away.
Speaker 2 (54:04):
At no point would my mind be like, oh ship
I'm gonna story.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
I'm gonna think how I can blow it up. Me
and Grange are a little different. He wanted to put
things together. I wanted to tear them apart and maybe
go to Low's and find a nice shed.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
It's a really good story, but I like to We're
gonna head over to the firepit, guys, catch you over.
Speaker 4 (54:28):
There, all right.
Speaker 2 (54:42):
So before we do the fire pit, we could ask
one more time. Like Scott said, we're running crazy low
on fire pits, he said, he says it every week
he does, but this time it's absolutely true. We have
one or two left and then that's that is it.
Speaker 1 (54:55):
Yeah, we're critically low. Guys.
Speaker 2 (54:57):
Send them into be on the shadows two o seven
at Gmail or any of our socials. So this week's
firepit comes to us from Sherry. She sent a good
one before. This is her second. In my hometown, a
hospital for the mentally ill sits perched on the top
of the highest hill, overlooking the city below. The building
and grounds are a marvel of RedBrick, marble and wood.
(55:21):
It no longer serves in this capacity, having closed in
the mid nineties. Its purpose has transitioned from warehousing the
mentally ill to a thriving center for career training. At
its zenith, the hospital housed hundreds and provided a range
of training programs for the residents. After the final residents
had left, and before it was repurposed, an auction sale
(55:43):
was scheduled. From soup to nuts, everything that had a
value that could be recouped was put up for bid.
The sale drew a large crowd, from potential buyers to
curiosity seekers and former staff. Up forbid that day was
everything from janitorial equipment, kitchen equipment, furniture, farming tools, office
odds and ends, to list a few. One item of
(56:07):
interest was a particularly beautiful table. The tap was a
thick slab of gray blue marble that was held up
by thick, curvy wooden legs. This was a large piece,
the tap being five feet in width and the length
easily stretching to eight feet. The slab itself was a
minimum of eight inches in thickness. When this item came
(56:28):
up for bid, one woman at attendance was struck by
its natural beauty. She vigorously matched every new bid, having
decided that she must be the owner of this antique table. Finally,
no new bids landed and she was the winner. She
gleefully shared with everyone near her how excited she was
and how stunning this table was going to look in
(56:48):
her living room. That's when laughter could be heard from
the back of the room. It was an uneasy laugh
mixed with disbelief. When asked what the joke was, the
reply hit like hold water to the face. The men
standing at the back of the room were formal former
hospital staff. This beautiful marble and wood table that her
(57:08):
friends and family would someday gather to eat at, was
the hospital's morgue and was used for autopsies.
Speaker 1 (57:15):
Oh it's an autopsy table.
Speaker 2 (57:17):
If you should find yourself invited for dinner and you
notice that distinct slab of gray blue marble, get your
dinner to go. Oh wow, that was an awesome story.
Speaker 1 (57:29):
Yeah, that is awesome, really good story. I thought it
was gonna be like too heavy to haul it out
of there.
Speaker 2 (57:33):
That's a huge pie, no ship.
Speaker 1 (57:36):
Oh man, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (57:38):
I yeah, it doesn't say what she paid. It wouldn't
have mattered. There's no fucking way I would have brought
that home, Like, here's your check.
Speaker 1 (57:44):
Keep you what do I say you don't bring furniture
into your house. Don't bring how many dead bodies have
been on that damn thing?
Speaker 2 (57:53):
Wow, the guy from episode six would have had his
fucking kids sleep on it. Al This Meecher family right, Yes,
Alker that Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (58:04):
Yes, there was a table in their basement that the
kid got on and they spun him around on it.
Speaker 2 (58:10):
Kids was seeing too much ship, so he took out
the light bulbs. Now you're not seeing anything.
Speaker 1 (58:14):
Take that go to bed of the year.
Speaker 2 (58:19):
Thanks again, Sherry, that was an awesome story. Please send
in yours guys.
Speaker 1 (58:23):
Yep Beyond the Shadows two o seven at gmail dot com.
Desperate ne guys, desperate need keep us going and we
will catch you in the next one Later, guys,
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