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,

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

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

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

Did you know that The Bible actually talks about ghosts? No, really, it’s not something you were probably taught in Sunday school — and I don’t mean it in the sense of the resurrected dead either. I mean there are literally multiple scenes

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern revisits the Satanic Panic series to answer listener questions about the time in the 1970s and 1980s when everybody was afraid the devil was out to get you. Satan was in the music, in

It’s one of the most famous advanced artifacts in popular culture. Its past and even its discovery is shrouded in mystery. Found sometime in the early 1900s, a battery-like device appeared in a museum in Iraq. It has been replicated and tested to actually

This week on DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern talks about your moral compass. Where does it come from? What directs your ethics in life? Is religion necessary to developing one? Why do some people seem to lack one? As part of our

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern continues his look at the social issues plaguing the world, in particular the United States, and this episode looks at lies. The lies we are being told by the media both right and left.

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, we take a look back to the 1970s and 1980s and the fascination with ninjas. What were ninjas really? Did people really believe ninjas had supernatural powers? Were ninjas even a real thing? What did the modern

A favorite topic of the DragonKing Dark podcast and host Karl Stern is fear. What are we afraid of and why? We have done shows about this in the past, but it seem relevant again with all the social unrest and division in

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at one of the most bizarre landmarks in America — the Winchester Mystery House. Owned originally by the Winchester firearms family and left to the widow of Mr. Winchester following his

Star Wars has been in the news a lot recently, so Karl Stern from DragonKing Dark reminisces on this show about how his love of Star Wars got him interested in science and astronomy. Karl also discusses Star Trek and how the two

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast from WhenItWasCool.com, host Karl Stern takes a look at the Grand Illusion. What is that? It was a song by Styx in the 1970s, but it is so very relevant today. The media, especially social media, has

There is a book on the subject, and Johnny Cash even sang about it, but what is the real truth behind the White Witch of Rose Hall, Jamaica? As it turns out, there is some truth and a lot of fiction behind the

There is a real problem rising in society that the news — nor the courts — are fully ready for: evidence manipulation. In an age where even a novice with a computer can Photoshop pictures, produce near professional quality video and special effects, and then

After the landmark and record setting past three episodes of the DragonKing Dark podcast, as you might imagine, host Karl Stern has gotten a ton of feedback. On this episode, we work through some of the email responses to the past three shows which,

Life is weird sometimes…obviously. You are listening to a show that airs on the Dark Matter Radio Network so, of course, you know this. Following on the heels of two of our most popular shows ever, we slow down this episode for a