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James Francos TikTok: Alien Garage Claims Alarm Fans

A frantic James Franco claimed an alien was in his garage in a series of alarming videos which have caused confusion.Franco, whose Hollywood career was derailed...

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June 16, 2026

A frantic claimed an was in his garage in a series of alarming videos which have caused confusion.

Franco, allegations nearly 10 years ago, joined earlier this month with cryptic claims 'some serious s**t' was going on.

Wearing a tattered blue T-shirt with handwritten scrawling and two pieces of tape, Franco, 48, begged fans to follow him and insisted the video was not the workings of nor a hoax.

Over the course of the next few days, he proceeded to post more videos expressing fear he was being surveilled yet never clarified what exactly was causing him concern.

Finally, Franco alleged he saw a non-human being in his garage with 'glowing eyes' that was not an animal.

'That's my garage,' he said in a video, pointing to the space outside. 'That's normally where I paint. I was going out there, it was night. I was going to do night painting and I go inside and before I even turned the light on, I heard something, I thought it was an animal or something like that. And it wasn't, it wasn't a raccoon... I saw eyes, I saw glowing eyes and hand.

A frantic James Franco claimed he saw an alien in his garage in a series of paranoid videos which have caused alarm and confusion

'I don't know how many fingers, but hand, and speaking. I don't know, something, coming out of... And that was it. I ran, I have not gone back in there, but I'm going to go.... I'm going to show you.'

On Monday, Franco promised to show what he saw in his garage to followers but never did. 'It’s an ALIEN!!!!' he captioned the video.

The TikTok posts showed a frenzied Franco, clad in a tattered shirt, expressing fears he was being surveilled

Insisting the video was not AI, he wrote out his TikTok handle on a piece of paper

'Look, this is serious. I can't, I just don't even know if people are watching me or listening to me,' he said in one video. 'I want to show you, I want to show you. I just don't even know who's following.

'Anybody could be following. That's how they do it. They know it's me, they follow, I say the thing... and then, you know, if I disappear, you know what happened. Maybe I just say that - if anything happens to me right now, you'll know what happened.'

Franco's return to TikTok comes after he vanished from the limelight back in 2019, following explosive allegations from five women.

He was accused and sued by five students that attended his film school, Studio 4, for behaving inappropriately and sexually towards them – one accused him of forcing her to perform oral sex.

Franco's attorney denied the allegations at the time, and eventually he settled the suit.

Franco's Hollywood career was derailed following sexual misconduct allegations nearly 10 years ago

In a previous interview on The Jess Cagle Podcast with Julia Cunningham, Franco reiterated his belief that any sexual contact between him and his students had been consensual.

'Over the course of my teaching, I did sleep with students, and that was wrong,’ he said.

He also said he could 'never be faithful to anybody' before he met now-girlfriend Pakzad.

The star blamed his past infidelities and inappropriate behavior on sex addiction, which he turned to after quitting alcohol as a teen.

'It's such a powerful drug,' he explained. 'I got hooked on it for 20 more years. The insidious part of that is that I stayed sober from alcohol all that time.'

'And I went to meetings all that time. I even tried to sponsor other people. So in my head, it was like, "Oh, I'm sober. I'm living a spiritual life," where on the side, I'm acting out now in all these other ways, and I couldn't see it.'

Franco has been slowly resurfacing in Hollywood ever since, and last month attended the Cannes Film Festival with girlfriend Izabel Pakzad, 30

The scandal also cost him his friendship with Pineapple Express co-star Seth Rogen, who publicly cut him off following the allegations.

Having previously played leading roles in the likes of Spider-Man, Pineapple Express and 127 Hours, Franco was once a regular at parties alike.

In 2024, Franco said he was a changed man, stating that the scandal caused him to reconsider his priorities.

'Being told you’re bad is painful,' he told Variety in an extensive interview. 'But ultimately, that’s kind of what I needed to just stop going the way I was going.'

'Whatever had been going on with me before, I had to change my whole way of life.' he contended.

'So I am proud of the kind of work I did during that time. And yeah, I wasn’t working in movies, but I certainly was doing a lot of work to change who I was.'

'I don’t want it to sound like platitudes, but honestly, this is my experience. Sometimes life delivers things to you, and the delivery system is so painful. It really hurts,' the 127 Hours star admitted.

'But ultimately, from the big picture that I’m talking about, maybe it’s for the best. Who am I to say?'

The embattled star has since tried to repair his career, laying low while continuing to take on minor roles.

He most recently starred in the 2025 thriller Bunny-Man directed by Alessandra Starr Ward.

He is also set to play former Cuban President Fidel Castro in Miguel Bardem's upcoming biopic Castro's Daughter, which is currently in post-production.

James Francos TikTok: Alien Garage Claims Alarm Fans

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