Mancos - Small Town, Long Shadows.

Raised in the quiet river town of Mancos, Danielle Keller never set out to become a storyteller of the strange, but the stories found her anyway.
In this episode of The Dark Canyon Chronicles, Danielle joins the show alongside her partner Joe Nelson, owner of Ghost Walk Durango and Ghost Walk Mancos, for an intimate and unsettling journey through the haunted history of Mancos and the surrounding Four Corners region.
Danielle shares firsthand accounts and long-whispered local legends tied to familiar places, such as along riverbanks of the Mancos River near her home, where tales of La Llorona have lingered for generations. Her stories are grounded, personal, and deeply connected to the rhythms of small-town life, shaped by decades of living, working, and raising a family in the same community.
Joe adds color commentary throughout, drawing from his extensive archive of regional ghost lore and offering new stories from his personal collection, some rarely shared publicly. Together, they explore how grief, history, and place intertwine, and why certain spirits may never leave the towns they once loved.
This episode is less about jump scares and more about memory, loss, and the thin veil between past and present, where familiar streets carry unfamiliar echoes, and home is never quite as quiet as it seems.