Case file · Anomaly hotspot
Keith Reinhard, Pendleton Mountain
A 50-year-old sportswriter on leave in Silver Plume, Colorado, set out to hike Pendleton Mountain on 7 August 1988 and vanished.
1988 CE · 39.69, -105.73 · status: unexplained
The account
Keith Reinhard of the Chicago-area Daily Herald was living in Silver Plume and writing a novel about another man who had disappeared near Rocky Mountain National Park the year before. He went for a hike on the mountain above the town and did not return. A week-long search, in which a search pilot was killed in a crash, found nothing. The case is open with the Clear Creek County Sheriff and on Colorado's cold case list. His closest friend believes he fell and is still on the mountain.
The sceptical view
Old mine workings and steep talus on the mountain offer many places to fall unseen.