Sitting in Mid-America is a landlocked state with no big cities nestled between the Mississippi river and the plains of Texas and Oklahoma. Arkansas is a beautiful state filled with flat farmland, plentiful forests, and the scenic Ozark mountains. It is also oddly home

It’s the DragonKing Dark podcast, your weekly dose of the odd, strange, and unusual brought to you by Karl Stern of When It Was Cool and F4WOnline.com, and on this episode we dive back into topics in the news. A variety of dark themed

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern continues his state oddities series by taking a look at California! California has it all when it comes to landscapes. Deserts, mountains, oceans, forests — California has all the bases covered. So,

On this week’s DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at a couple of Presidential coincidences and tries to determine if these are fact, fiction, or just fun? We take a look at the supposed connections between Presidents Kennedy and Lincoln,

Image: Karl Stern On this episode of DragonKing Dark, we take a look at one of Karl Stern’s favorite states — Arizona. Arizona has many well known tourist attractions that are well worth visiting, but on this episode we are going off the beaten

This week on DragonKing Dark, I take on another society related topic: what happens when our idols fall. We have seen much of this over the years with Chris Benoit, Superfly Snuka, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, politicians, church leaders, and other entertainers frequently

This week on DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes us to Alaska to take a look at the weird, odd, and unusual stops in the northern most of the United States. From Santa Claus’ literal home to the Wizard Oz, Alaska has some odd

The Dragon King himself Karl Stern is back this week with a new DragonKing Dark Podcast beginning a new occasional series looking at odd, weird, and interesting places across the world. We begin in his home state of Alabama with such curiosities as

There is a major crisis happening all around us and most people are completely oblivious to it. Should this crisis come to fruition, the food chain will collapse. Over half of the foods stocked in your local grocery store will disappear. Your fruits

On this edition of DragonKing Dark podcast, we take a look at two famous hoaxes of science. First we journey back to the 1700s — where a respected professor was convinced that he had found fossils made by the hand of God himself, only

Genetic editing is all over the news lately — and many laymen are wondering what exactly is CRISPR? Is it some biblical monstrosity where man is now playing God? Is it a way to create supermen and women? Or is it the answer

On this weeks edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern discusses the reality of alien life. Not science fiction, not speculation, but the solid facts about what we have and have not discovered so far in our search for extraterrestrial life. Like seeking

On this week’s edition of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, we take on one of host Karl Stern’s favorite topics — time! Specifically, we discuss whether time travel is scientifically possible and look at several papers on the subject that come to varying conclusions.

On this special edition of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern tells some truths which must be told. At long last, the most dangerous weapon is exposed. If you have ever wondered why things are the way they are. If you have

On this edition of DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern talks about beliefs that are against the mainstream and discusses what the logical approach to them is, why they exist to begin with, and searches for the truth behind illogical beliefs such as the Earth

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at a leading hypothesis about how Earth’s larger-than-average Moon was formed. Does the formation of Earth’s Moon also offer an explanation of how all the essential ingredients for life arrived here when

It came from outer space. Like, literally, outer, outer space. Oumuamua made the news last year as the first observed body from interstellar space that had been seen in our solar system. And then it got weird. It was like nothing we ever saw

On this milestone edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern concludes his “curses” series with a look at one of the most famous — the curse of King Tut’s tomb. Egyptian archeology was in its golden era in the early 1900s, and the unearthing

We continue our series of podcasts looking at various curses on this episode, with host Karl Stern taking a look at a supposed cursed painting called “The Hands Resist Him.” Now, mind you, this painting is creepy enough of its own accord, but supposedly those