Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-12265996-20141202030018/@comment-25762639-20141221053022

ok, im going to share some random facts here that could provide some pointers.

 - in McGucket's memories, he says that he was assisting a VISITING researcher, aka, not a long term resident of Gravity Falls, and a human at that, ruling out Bill

- I don't think it was Stanford, because he had to rediscover two of the journals, and he had been looking for them for at least thirty years, and if he'd written them then he could've just gone back to the hiding places long before Gideon and Dipper found them. 

 - It couldn't have been Quentin Trembley because he was encased in a solid block of peanut brittle during the timline of the Author. 

I have nothing to say against the Stanley or Future Dipper theories, but we need to keep in mind a few things when looking at this... 

1. The Author had access to the Mystery Shack, and must have lived there for sometime to build to Universe Portal. (possibly staying in the Carpet Diem room?)

<span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt;">2. The Author was good at construction (he built the bunker and the Universe Portal)

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:17.45pt;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt;">My theory is that Stanford, Stanley and McGucket wrote one journal each (there are three of them after all). Stanford wrote Journal 1, McGucket wrote Journal 2 and Stanley wrote Journal 3. While gathering materials for the Universe Portal, Stanford is arrested in Columbia and McGucket and Stanley return to Gravity Falls, where they realise the portal is too dangerous and hide their journal's. Stanley takes up residence in the bunker (which he designed in his journal, number 3) and McGucket forms the SotBE. Stanley leaves Gravity Falls at some point and either starts or returns to a family, while McGucket goes crazy due to overuse of the memory eraser. Stanford returns to Gravity Falls and continues building the Universe portal.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:17.45pt;"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0pt;">Sorry if that was long, I'm just bored c: