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DragonKing Dark: Universal Monsters

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

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DragonKing Dark: Friday the 13th

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

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DragonKing Dark: The Booger Tree

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

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DragonKing Dark: End Times revisited

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

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DragonKing Dark: Halloween is coming!

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

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DragonKing Dark: It

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

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DragonKing Dark: Communing with the dead

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

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DragonKing Dark: Haunted dolls and Annabelle

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

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DragonKing Dark: Total solar eclipse

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

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DragonKing Dark: Zombie dogs

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

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DragonKing Dark: The first American UFO

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

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DragonKing Dark: The Baltic Sea Anomaly

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

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DragonKing Dark: Ancient aliens

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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DragonKing Dark: Washington DC

Image: WhenItWasCool.com Host Karl Stern and family recently traveled to Washington DC on vacation, and on this episode of DragonKing Dark, Karl takes a look at some of the various conspiracies and stories surrounding the city such as its Masonic and occult layout,

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DragonKing Dark: Aunt Jenny Johnson revisited

Karl Stern and family are on vacation this weekend where he will be gathering information for an upcoming episode of DragonKing Dark. For this week, here is an oldie but a goody! A remixed version of one of our first and most popular shows

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DragonKing Dark: Uncontacted Peoples

Today’s show is focused on a great topic suggestion from one of our patrons — The moral and ethical questions of contacting uncontacted peoples. While extremely rare, there are groups of people who have lived very isolated lives away from modern society. What are the ethical

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DragonKing Dark: Dyatlov Pass

It is one of the most famous incidents of possible paranormal manifestation known in modern popular culture. A group of Russian hikers turn up dead with mysterious circumstances and clues as to what happened. Decades later, there are many ideas about what happened

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