Now We Know That Snowmen Exist

Written by Michael Spencer

 

Five women go camping in a remote mountain range. None return.

 

Susan, Chloe, Hayley, Rachel and Lisa. Each has their own reasons for needing to get away. But what starts as a camping trip takes a dark turn when they start to question if they’re really alone on the mountainside. Each has heard the Legend of the Snowmen, but what really awaits the girls outside the relative safety of their tent - and more importantly, do they really know who’s inside it?

 

Based upon the real events of the Dyatlov Pass Incident this psychological horror transfers events to the modern day, but explores the mysteries that have remained unsolved since the 1950s. Why was the tent cut open form the inside out? Why were the bodies partially dressed in each others’ clothing? And what was meant by the group’s chilling final journal entry; 

 

‘We know now that snowmen exist’

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About the Authors

 

Michael Spencer is a northern writer based in Carlisle, Cumbria. His work for the stage includes the one act plays Unholy Congregation and A Feast of Stephen (Regional tours 2012),  and full length plays Being the Times, Self’Ish, Through Broken Windows, The Very Edge of Heaven, Time Will Tell, and an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. His monologues have featured in productions at The Southwark Playhouse and the St James Theatre, London.

 

Radio scripts include Final Midnight and Traditional Heresy, a sitcom pilot adaptation of Behind the Times, and murder mystery Dead Air for BBC Radio Cumbria.

 

Michael is Murderer-in-Chief for Highly Suspect Murder Mysteries and has created and scripted 15 original murder mysteries for performance across the country in such diverse venues as Durham Cathedral and Manchester Central Library. He has just completed his debut novel Broken Reflection.

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