DISAPPEARANCE: What happened to Granger Taylor?

Five years ago...

There’s a new documentary about this guy

He was doing a lot of acid and committed suicide by dynamite. Probably the same night he vanished.

Even though there’s no definitive evidence, it’s pretty much a no-brainer. Sound mind or not, he found a way to off himself and his car with no trace (probably easier in 1980). The willing alien abduction is a nice fantasy though.

Gay hookup gone bad

But there were traces. Fragments of bone and shirt were found, which are presumed to be his. He blew himself up.

I thought I read the bone and car fragments were not positively identified

Some people believe in things like Bigfoot or UFOs so badly, are obsessed for so long, they eventually fake elaborate evidence just for a strange psychological satisfaction. This was his way of doing that.

He was really good with machines I think he concocted a way to make sure the car was destroyed and never found, and ran away to start a new life somewhere far away. Then something happened to him and he wasn’t able to be identified.

He came out to his parents and they were so horrified they killed him. Then they concocted this wacky story to cover their tracks. Fooled everyone!

Not definitively, R7, as they didn’t have DNA testing back then. But if it looks like a duck...

Fallon Carrington Colby was also abducted by aliens...then the storyline was dropped! WTF?

He ran away and joined the Heaven’s Gate cult

Well obviously, the alien months are much longer than Earth month, he’ll be home soon OP!

This reminds me of Mysterious Skin, where the one boy thought he was being abducted by aliens, but he was really being molested. Has the local priest been questioned yet?

The mother saying she recognized a shred of the clothing as a piece she mended for him, so many years later, does fit the pattern of a grieving elderly parent wanting some sort of closure, willing to see something not exactly there or lie to themselves to get it.

Combined with the friend saying it couldn’t be his truck because it was blue not pink. Doesn’t add up 100%.

I don’t disbelieve in aliens and UFOs, but this is the laziest case of faked alien abduction ever.

Hi, I’ve spent the last year taking LSD several times a day and building fake ufos in my parents’ back yard. Well I’m about to be abducted by aliens and travel the farthest of space and time. Goodbye, here’s a hand-written note.

If friends are saying it couldn’t be his car and bone fragments, can investigators or anyone pin the accident remains on another person or construction company or something that would be using equipment like that in the area at the time?

This isn't a missing persons case as much as it's a case of someone losing their minds. Or maybe it's a missing persons case. Sort of.

Well, consider how long The Minnow’s “three hour tour” lasted. Things happen sometimes to throw off the schedule.

Maybe he couldn’t read the return schedule correctly?

According to OP's link:

"A report by the B.C. Coroners Service obtained this past week by the Times Colonist includes confirmation that the vehicle identification number of the truck parts found off Satellite Road near Mount Prevost, where Taylor was reportedly headed on the night of Nov. 29, 1980, matched that of Taylor’s truck."

He tried fisting Anthony Hamilton, only to disappear up that ravenous hole.

Calling occupants of interplanetary craft....

I wrote that same note to a grinder hook up and sent it in a text.

And then I realized, I never had the grinder app!!!!!

This article from 2012 is pretty extensive, and also says the color of his car being pink is, "inaccurate." Says it was blue, matching the 1986 police report. But the very recent article in OP's link describe it as pink.

If there wasn't the UFO angle, his case wouldn't have been re-hashed through several decades of alien conspiracy theory books and magazines, and now the internet, and a tv show. It would have been forgotten as a mostly-solved missing persons case, lost to time.

There’s a Reddit thread on this case where they’ve pulled up all the weather reports for the specific area on that day, to try and find inconsistencies in the various stories. You have to admit sometimes the internet is impressive.