Ed Gein — The Butcher of Plainfield — is the inspiration for many horror movie archetypes such Leatherface and Psycho. Gein shocks us not just because he killed, but because he also robbed graves and had a sick fascination with wearing the skins
He is often called “America’s First Serial Killer” and his gruesome Chicago Murder Castle sounds like something straight out of a horror movie, but does reality actually compare to the narrative in the case of H.H. Holmes — serial killer? As we will
This episode is our Halloween 2017 celebration on the DragonKing Dark podcast and we take a look back at the origins of Halloween and the traditions associated with it. Surprisingly, what we now know as Halloween has its origins in numerous and varied traditions. Join host Karl
On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, #MonsterMonth continues as host Karl Stern talks about Halloween related topics, gives an update on the murder of Joe Clack, reads an email from a listener who had an otherworldly experience at one of the
On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern continues Monster Month by looking back at the famous Universal Studios monsters and their movies. The Universal Monsters included the Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The
This coming Friday is Friday the 13th, and it falling on the same month as Halloween makes this a perfect topic for #MonsterMonth on the DragonKing Dark podcast. On this episode, host Karl Stern explores the origins of Friday the 13th and how it
Joe Clack is buried somewhere down by the creek. The mill owner was given $5 to bury his body. His horse is dead in the middle of the creek. Riding back west with a suit of baby clothes retrieved from Clack are a
On this week’s episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern revisits an earlier episode on the end times. According to some, the world was supposed to end yesterday (spoiler: it didn’t), but with all the calamity in the world today it’s
This week’s DragonKing Dark podcast takes a look at our favorite time of the year — Halloween! Last year, Karl and the When It Was Cool family visited several haunted attractions, including the largest in the United States — Netherworld! We are going back
This week’s DragonKing Dark is a spoiler-free discussion of the 2017 movie based on Stephen King’s novel “It.” Host Karl Stern also watched the terrible 1990 miniseries and talks about what the 2017 movie did that was so much better. While this is a
On this week’s edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern discusses the ancient belief that it is possible to communicate with those who have died. From the Biblical Witch of Endor to the more modern Ouija Board, our ancestors have long felt that
On this week’s episode of DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern is joined by Tonya from When It Was Cool to discuss the new movie “Annabelle: Creation” and haunted objects. We discuss haunted dolls, haunted houses, the real world version of Annabelle, and
On this week’s episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at the upcoming total solar eclipse. He talks his memories of the one he saw in 1979, then discusses what a solar eclipse is scientifically and historically, plus
Continuing our theme from last week, the line between life and death gets even less clear and more strange as we look at Russian experiments from the 1940s (and as recent as 2005) where dogs were killed, then brought back to life in various
In the 1600s in Puritan Massachusetts, the governor of the colony wrote of two UFO experiences. In the final part of our series looking at UFO sightings before the age of airplanes and man-made flying objects, we look at what the people of
On today’s show, DragonKing Dark host Karl Stern continues his series of podcasts looking at UFO activity in antiquity. We examine the reports of Julius Obsequens, an AD 400 era writer who reported on unknown objects in the sky in the period leading
On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern continues his hunt for UFOs in the era before airplanes and balloons. He continues to scour history for reports of unknown objects in the sky to see if any pan out to be truly
On the latest episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at a bizarre tale involving Alexander the Great. Alexander was supposedly helped out twice by UFOs. Once when he was turned away from invading India and once when he was
Sitting 300 feet below the Baltic Sea is a strange, circular object about 200 feet across in size, which some explorers say cancels out radio transmissions nearby, appears to have a staircase descending down a deep black hole, and appears to be made of
This week’s episode is another Patreon-requested topic, and we will certainly have to do more than one show on this one. I love ancient aliens. Now, mind you, I hate the television show, but I love the theory and there is some great stuff
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