Blackthorn
Published November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026
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December 12, 1986. Thomas Reed, a reporter for the Spokane Ledger, drives into Blackthorn, a small timber town in the mountains. Eighteen years earlier, seventeen people from the town vanished in what was called an avalanche. No bodies were ever found. A month ago someone mailed Reed a photograph of three of the missing, dated nine years after they died.