On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, we continue our look at various curses and tales of ill fate. This week’s tale is one of the more well known ones because it has a television reality show attached to it. The Oak

Welcome to 2019 on DragonKing Dark. This year, host Karl Stern is going to examine some tall tales, curses, and popular culture you might have heard of but might not believe. Whether true or not, they are interesting. This week, we look at

It’s episode 146 of the DragonKing Dark podcast — and this is the last episode of 2018. On this episode, host Karl Stern from When It Was Cool takes a look back at some odd and weird news stories from 2018 that we

This week, whether secular or religious, many people in the world will celebrate Christmas. But what are the real origins of Christmas? Is December 25 really Jesus’ birthday? Is Christmas a re-appropriated pagan holiday? Is it a modern creation? What about Santa Claus? Kris Kringle?

We have more discussion this week about the hot topic of artificial intelligence and the problems we may, or may not, be facing in the future from machines that can think for themselves. In other recent news we take a look at more recent

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

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

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

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,”

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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