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66. Vanished While Writing (Rocky Mountains, Colorado)
Silver Plume, Colorado—a sleepy, semi-ghost town nestled in the Rockies, once a mining hub, now a place people visit to disappear...or vanish. In the summer of 1988, a seasoned sportswriter took a sabbatical and moved here with dreams of writing a novel and rediscovering himself. He rented a little antique shop in the same building where the previous owner had mysteriously disappeared a year earlier. While on a hike, he vanished too, just like the previous owner. This is one of Colorado’s most bizarre missing person’s cases.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Plume,_Colorado
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaho_National_Forest
https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/keith-reinhard#google_vignette=
https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/coldcase/casedetail.html?id=307
https://unsolved.com/gallery/keith-reinhard/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Keith_Reinhard
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