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DragonKing Dark: A.I. glitches and alien rocks

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at stories in the news — including a story about how young people today are turning off the news in large numbers because they don’t trust it. Plus, the Mars

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DragonKing Dark: All in Your Head

Ghosts, the paranormal, UFOs, religious experience — is it all just in our heads? Everything we experience and perceive is literally just our brains interpretation of input from our senses. People with certain mental disorders and illnesses like dementia seemingly experience real events

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DragonKing Dark: Is tech bad for us?

Is technology bad for us? In so many ways, technology has helped mankind and advanced us to live longer and healthier lives. But it has come with a cost. While tech has opened up the world and given us instant access to information

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DragonKing Dark: Are you being controlled?, pt. II

Two weeks ago we had another very well received episode of the DragonKing Dark Podcast called “Are you being controlled?” Following the feedback to that episode I have recorded a part two to the conversation. No matter what name you give to “them,”

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DragonKing Dark: The Bible and the paranormal

This week on DragonKing Dark, we take another look at what the Bible has to say about topics of the paranormal. Many of the supernatural elements in paranormal belief are not only in the Bible but originate there. Obviously, things like angels, demons,

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DragonKing Dark: Are you being controlled?

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at the news, current events, modern politics, and asks the very valid question — Are you being controlled? For hundreds of years there has been talk of an Illuminati

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DragonKing Dark: Modern horror icons

As Halloween approaches this week, we have spent the month talking about archetype monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein — but the monsters of the modern era are even more intense and frightening. Freddie Kruger, Jason Vorhees, Leatherface, Michael Myers, Pennywise, and the other

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DragonKing Dark: Mythos of the Mummy

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern continues the march towards Halloween by examining the lore surrounding mummies — the specially wrapped and prepared Egyptian dead. Ancient Egypt includes all sorts of supernatural and macabre elements including a great collection

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DragonKing Dark: Mythos of the werewolf

Host Karl Stern continues the celebration of Halloween month with an episode about another classic monster and the lore surrounding them. This week, Karl takes a look at the mythos of the werewolf or the wolf man. Tales surrounding the werewolf are ancient. There is

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DragonKing Dark: Mythos of Dracula

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern begins prepping us for Halloween with a look at the mythos surrounding the Lord of the Vampires — Dracula. Karl discusses the gothic horror novel, what influenced the novel, the Universal horror

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DragonKing Dark: Bermuda Triangle

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern from WhenItWasCool.com explores the mythos surrounding the Bermuda Triangle. You used to hear about the Bermuda Triangle (or Devil’s Triangle) a lot back in the 1970s when Karl was a kid, but

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DragonKing Dark: Magic

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern talks about magic. Not the stage show kind or what Penn and Teller are doing — but the belief that by spells or incantation, people can affect the future or events in

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DragonKing Dark: Pressed by The Beast

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern tells us two tales of odd and unusual tombstone inscriptions. The first, located in Salt Lake City, Utah ascribes the death of a local elderly lady to The Beast — 666.  We

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DragonKing Dark: Haunted architecture

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern talks about the draw and allure of old buildings. There is something haunting about about buildings that outlive multiple generations of people. We take a look old homes, mansions, cathedrals, castles, and more. Karl discusses

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DragonKing Dark: Dark tourism

There is a series on Netflix called “Dark Tourism” where a host takes you to various taboo hotspots around the world where a tourism industry has sprung up. On this week’s DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern talks about the allure of seeing places

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DragonKing Dark: El Santo

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at Mexican lucha libre legend El Santo — wait, what? Why are we talking pro wrestling on DragonKing Dark? Because El Santo transcended pro wrestling into movies where he fought vampires, werewolves,

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DragonKing Dark: Giants

On this week’s DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at giants. Since the dawn of time, there have been legends, myths, and eyewitness reports of giants on Earth. But where are the remains? Make no mistake, there have actually been

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DragonKing Dark: The future is wrong

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern talks about why it is virtually impossible to predict the future. Chaos takes the future in unforeseen directions. Trends we think will lead to future tech often fizzle out or go in previously unconsidered

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DragonKing Dark: Nothing left standing

Karl Stern takes a look back to April 4, 1974 on episode #125 of the DragonKing Dark podcast. He was just a young kid, but there are faint memories etched in his mind of a night that killed many, forever changed the landscape

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