🎙️ Episode Notes: Canadian Creepies Edition – Grainger Taylor

Due to unexpected technical difficulties behind the scenes, this week’s episode of Down the Crooked Path is taking a brief detour. But don’t worry! We’re still serving up something eerie, enigmatic, and deeply Canadian.

This week, we’re featuring a special segment from our sister podcast, Canadian Creepies, where every Tuesday we explore supernatural stories from across the country in our recurring series: Down the Crooked Path.

Today’s tale? The haunting disappearance of Grainger Taylor—a mechanical prodigy from Vancouver Island who claimed he was leaving Earth aboard an alien spacecraft. He vanished without a trace in 1980, leaving behind a note, a homemade spaceship, and decades of speculation. Was it a tragic accident, a hoax, or something truly otherworldly?

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In this episode of Down the Crooked Path, we walk the blood-soaked fields of Gettysburg.

Beneath the monuments and manicured grass lies a battlefield imprinted with grief, rage, and unfinished stories.

We explore the psychological theory of trauma-imprinted landscapes and ask: what does it mean for a place to remember? From phantom regiments seen at twilight to whispered names in the fog, Gettysburg remains one of the most persistently haunted sites in North America.

Through historical accounts, environmental cues, and folklore passed down through generations, we trace the line between residual hauntings and intelligent presences. Is the land itself grieving—or are the dead still trying to speak?

🔍 In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• The emotional architecture of Gettysburg’s most haunted locations
• The difference between trauma residue and active hauntings
• A few ghost stories in between,

A man writes a word. Crosses it out. Hours later, he’s found naked, dying in the passenger seat of his own car. He says four men were with him—but no one else is there.

In this episode, we unravel the haunting final hours of Günther Stoll, a food engineer from West Germany whose death in 1984 remains one of the country’s most baffling unsolved cases. At the center of it all: a cryptic note—YOGTZE—a string of letters that may be a call sign, a food additive, a Hebrew word, or nothing at all.

We explore:

• The psychological unraveling that preceded his disappearance
• The eerie collapse at a pub hours before his death
• The forensic contradictions at the crash site
• Theories of espionage, paranoia, and symbolic closure
• Why the word YOGTZE still resists translation—and resolution

This is not just a mystery. It’s a study in fractured meaning, in how language can become a final act of desperation. And how a single word can outlive the man who wrote it.