What if ghosts aren’t just about where someone died, but about who or what can become a ghost? This week on The Dark Canyon Chronicles, Stephen and Mark explore ghost stories from America’s national parks and monuments, from the ancient landscapes of Mesa Verde and Hovenweep to the canyons of the Southwest. Along the way, they tackle a strange question: Why don’t we ever see the ghosts of dinosaurs, wolves, bearsor any other creatures that once roamed these places? Maybe the strangest part of a ghost story is what’s missing from it.
Mark Little has lived here in Southwest Colorado since 2002. His love of mysterious beings and Unknown Phenomena began way back around age 5 in the hills and hollers of the Eastern Ozarks (Mizz er ah'). Watching lights zigging and zagging in the night sky set Mark on a path of curiosity, fear, excitement, and awe. He loves myths and legends related to the Natural World. When not at work, Mark can be found hiking, looking under rocks, taking pictures, reading, telling stories, looking up at the night sky, and hanging out with his family of cats.
Before co-hosting The Dark Canyon Chronicles, Stephen hosted a paranormal radio show in the Seattle area called The Other Side Chronicles. His fascination with the unexplained began while roaming the haunted hollers of the Ozark Mountains in southern Missourah or Missouri, as the northerners call it. There, old folk tales weren’t just stories told to scare children but as he grew older, Stephen began to discover that many of those yarns were rooted in real events, and in time, he found himself experiencing some of them firsthand.