We have had hikers vanish without a trace in the Bob Marshall to hunters whose gear is found but bodies never are. Maybe that’s why the story of Virgil “Wade” Tackett, a 17-year-old from Ohio who vanished in Alaska in 1986, hits close to home. Wade had flown north for what he thought would be a deckhand job on a friend’s fishing boat. What followed was part mystery, part folklore, part fever dream: psychics, politicians, tabloid sightings, even whispers of him living under another name in Canada. And if that all sounds a little far-fetched, well, that’s the thing about missing-person stories in places like Alaska or Montana.