This week on The Dark Canyon Chronicles, host Stephen takes listeners from the haunted streets of Santa Fe to the misty hills of Ireland, exploring stories where history and the supernatural intertwine.
After a few weeks in Santa Fe, Stephen reflects on the city’s rich and restless past — a place where, as he puts it, “the history doesn’t rest easy here.” In this special episode, The Dark Canyon Chronicles wanders through stories of lingering spirits, haunted inns, and sacred spaces where the past still stirs beneath the adobe walls.
Listeners are guided through tales from some of Santa Fe’s most storied corners — the Grant Corner Inn, where guests report strange noises and sudden blasts of cold air, and the Mission of San Miguel, the oldest church in the United States still in use, said to echo with the footsteps of spirits who refuse to rest. There’s also the Laguna Pueblo Mission, where a coffin was said to rise again and again from beneath the chapel floor, and the La Fonda Hotel, where a tragic act of jealousy left a ghostly figure pacing its courtyard to this day.
Through it all, Stephen weaves together history and folklore with the kind of warmth and wonder that The Dark Canyon Chronicles is known for — a reminder that ghost stories are also human stories about love, loss, and the traces we leave behind.
After his time in Santa Fe, Stephen turns to a chilling tale from across the Atlantic — the legend of Abhartach, the Irish vampire. Long before Bram Stoker penned Dracula, Irish folklore spoke of this bloodthirsty figure who could not be kept in the grave. Listeners learn how the legend evolved through centuries of Celtic storytelling — and how it may have inspired one of literature’s most famous monsters.
In his trademark style, Stephen mixes humor and history, musing about ancient Druids, haunted missions, and even his fondness for Milk Duds. Between ghost lights and vampire lore, this episode captures both the eerie and the playful — the sense that storytelling itself keeps old spirits alive.
As Stephen says, “Maybe ghosts are less about fear and more about persistence — the pieces of life that remain when everything else has changed.”
Whether you believe in ghosts or just love a good story, this week’s Dark Canyon Chronicles offers a journey through the places and legends that refuse to fade. From the haunted plazas of Santa Fe to the shadowed hills of Ireland, these tales remind us that history lives on — sometimes quietly, sometimes with footsteps in the dark.
