Mesa Verde National Park
National park in Montezuma County, ColoradoWikipedia
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Sep 18, 2026
Benjamin PaulidesGUEST
And there are things in our documentary that haven't been covered in any other things that pertain to some of these missing people.
Benjamin PaulidesGUEST
And another family is the Stelling family who went missing, or Deneen Stelling, her husband went missing out of Mesa Verde National Park.
Benjamin PaulidesGUEST
2013 and we we actually went with them to the spot where Dale was last seen Dale being the husband and interviewed them there and now I mean these are the hardest interviews I've ever been a part of I know I'm guessing my dad has ever been a part of and I mean they're just heart-wrenching to hear and I think the hardest part is that they don't have any closure whatsoever
SariahHOST
right right Okay, so what about, you also have on, who's the survivor guy?
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David PaulidesGUEST
Well, uh, no, not on this.
SariahHOST
Okay, not
David PaulidesGUEST
on this one? There was something, I mean, there's been a lot of unusual things that have happened to the film crew and Ben and I while we've been out, but one of the more unusual ones happened when we were at Mesa Verde Park.
David PaulidesGUEST
Ben, you want to talk to him about that?
Steve StocktonHOST
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Steve StocktonHOST
Mitchell Dale Stalling On June 19, 2013, Mitchell Dale Stalling, known to most as Dale, his wife, Deneen, and his parents went to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, USA.
Steve StocktonHOST
The 51-year-old Dale decided to go for a hike by himself to the Spruce Tree House ruins.
Steve StocktonHOST
The Spruce Treehouse Ruins is the third largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde and was actually constructed between 1211 and 1278 AD by the ancestors of some of the Pueblo people of the Southwest.
Steve StocktonHOST
This amazing dwelling contains about 130 rooms and eight kivas, which are chambers where the ceremonies of the Pueblo people were held.
Steve StocktonHOST
This dwelling wasn't discovered until 1888 when two ranchers were trying to find some cattle that had gone astray and accidentally stumbled upon this beautiful piece of history.
Steve StocktonHOST
Dale and his family left their home in Goliad, Texas in a camper trailer and headed west to Colorado, a place Dale had always wanted to see and explore.
Steve StocktonHOST
He was an experienced outdoorsman and loved to camp and hike and was also a very avid gardener and was known to spend hours alone at home just spending time and tending to his many plants.
Steve StocktonHOST
Mitchell Dale Stalling.
Steve StocktonHOST
On June 19th, 2013, Mitchell Dale Stalling, known to most as Dale, his wife Dineen, and his parents went to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, USA.
Steve StocktonHOST
The 51-year-old Dale decided to go for a hike by himself to the Spruce Tree House Ruins.
Steve StocktonHOST
The Spruce Tree House Ruins is the third largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde and was actually constructed between 1211 and 1278 AD by the ancestors of some of the Pueblo people of the Southwest.
Steve StocktonHOST
This amazing dwelling contains about 130 rooms and eight kivas, which are chambers where the ceremonies of the Pueblo people were held.
Steve StocktonHOST
This dwelling wasn't discovered until 1888 when two ranchers were trying to find some cattle that had gone astray and accidentally stumbled upon this beautiful piece of history.
Steve StocktonHOST
Dale and his family left their home in Goliad, Texas in a camper trailer and headed west to Colorado, a place Dale had always wanted to see and explore.
Steve StocktonHOST
He was an experienced outdoorsman and loved to camp and hike, and was also a very avid gardener, and was known to spend hours alone at home just spending time and tending to his many plants.
Vic VelaHOST
Ben to Brooklyn for the Colorado Capitol News Alliance.
Vic VelaHOST
The iconic Mesa Verde National Park plans to return thousands of cultural artifacts and the remains of dozens of indigenous people back to the tribes.
Vic VelaHOST
Park officials say this would be the largest return of Native American property ever for the area known for its historic cliff dwellings and ancient ancestral sites.
Vic VelaHOST
More than 4,000 items found with the remains of dozens of Native Americans could be connected to death rituals among Colorado tribes.
William R. HandleyGUEST
And it was in part because the vanishing American became thought of as the first American, a culture that had left an ancient civilization that American nativists could, oddly enough, identify with.
William R. HandleyGUEST
And this began in the 1870s with the discovery of the cliff cities in Mesa Verde by white people.
William R. HandleyGUEST
It becomes fascinating how a people consigned to a kind of prehistory become active in the living presence.
William R. HandleyGUEST
So indigenous Americans are trapped in different models of time.
Linda BallouGUEST
They vanished at around 1250.
Linda BallouGUEST
And they didn't have physical structures like the Mesa Verde or Chaco.
Linda BallouGUEST
They were hunter-gatherers, but they did have some agriculture.
Linda BallouGUEST
They grew maize and corn.
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
There are a few cliff dwellings in the United States that I don't know about as well as their original inhabitants did.
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
The Vatican, Mesa Verde, all the big ones.
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
Most of the little ones.
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
They're quite interesting.
Simon Solis-CohenGUEST
So we had Tangerine Teton, Strawberry Sequoia, and Mango Mesa.
Simon Solis-CohenGUEST
She had Mesa Verde National Park, Sequoia National Park, everyone knows, and the Grand Tetons.
Simon Solis-CohenGUEST
And so I thought that was cute.
Simon Solis-CohenGUEST
And so what we did was our original designer, Hallie, who did these Just stunning, stunning illustrations.
Kit DeslauriersGUEST
Yes.
Kit DeslauriersGUEST
And I was just thinking about this memory of going through Mesa Verde with my family when I was, like, preteen or something, and, um, the rock work at Mesa Verde and the stories of the indigenous people who built it, the, and the beauty of it really spoke to me.
Kit DeslauriersGUEST
And I ne- I never lost it, and, uh, I've, I have a creative side.
Kit DeslauriersGUEST
Like, I love to build with things.
Bree DaviesHOST
I'm Brie Davies, and here's what Denver's talking about.
Bree DaviesHOST
So today we're talking about the ups and downs of downtown and will it ever see a vibe shift, Mesa Verde's massive repatriation project, and so much more.
Bree DaviesHOST
Westward co-founder and editor emeritus, Patti Calhoun, hello.
Bree DaviesHOST
Hello.
Bree DaviesHOST
Good morning.
Bree DaviesHOST
Good morning.
Bree DaviesHOST
Okay, let's start with Mesa Verde because I found this story to be really interesting.
Bree DaviesHOST
So the TLDR is, as reported by Sam Tabachnik at the Denver Post, that Mesa Verde National Park has identified the remains of 85 indigenous people and more than 4,300 cultural objects that could be returned to Native American tribes.
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