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DragonKing Dark: The crystal skulls

Multiple crystal carved stones are discovered throughout Mexico and South America — both a staple of popular culture and a fun story. Known as the crystal skulls, the thirteen of them supposedly have mystical powers and perhaps are tied to extraterrestrials. Any or none

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DragonKing Dark: The Baltic Sea anomaly

We enter our mythical museum of curiosities again as this time, we travel beneath the Baltic Sea to find something very strange. This object isn’t a work of fiction, nor is it something ethereal. It is a real existing thing that can be

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DragonKing Dark: The Pyramids

This week we enter our mythical museum of curiosities to examine one of the oldest and largest structures on planet Earth — the Great Pyramid. For over 3000 years the Great Pyramid at Giza was the tallest structure on the planet. Despite the

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DragonKing Dark: Masks

One of the most ancient rituals mankind still engages in is the creation and wearing of masks. Since the oldest civilizations, humans have concealed their identities for rituals, for war, to commit crimes, and for celebrations and sports. In today’s society, we wear

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DragonKing Dark: Dr. Strange’s Eye of Agamotto

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Marvel Comic universe, there exists an esoteric object of incredible magical power: the Eye of Agamotto. Possessed by Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme Dr. Strange, the Eye of Agamotto is a storytelling device which offers up a solution

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DragonKing Dark: The Ancient of Days

We return to our metaphorical museum of curiosities this week for a very curious object indeed. Spoken about in passing in the Bible but discussed in greater detail in Kabbalah literature, we examine The Ancient of Days, a device of some sort which

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DragonKing Dark: The Shroud of Turin

This week on Dragon King Dark, we enter our mythical museum of curiosities and find a real object that can be periodically seen and studied: the Shroud of Turin. Over the centuries, many Christians have revered this cloth as the burial shroud of

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DragonKing Dark: Dendera light

There is a carving in the ancient Egyptian temple of Dendera that seems, on first sight, to show an Egyptian holding a giant light bulb. The image is striking and begs the question: What were the ancient Egyptians doing with an electric light bulb?

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DragonKing Dark: The Helmet of Fate

We return to our mythical museum of curiosities again, looking at objects of mystery and power. This time, we examine the Helmet of Fate. Though the helmet is a fictional object of comics and television, it tells us something about our fascination with

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DragonKing Dark: The Antikythera Mechanism

Join host Karl Stern as we open the museum of curiosities again this week and pull out an actual real artifact. This is one that you can really see in a museum, study it, and make models of it: the Antikythera Mechanism. It’s

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DragonKing Dark: The Ark of the Covenant

DragonKing Dark returns, relaunched and rebranded with a new focus. It’s DragonKing Dark 2.0 and we are now curators of a massive and mythical museum of curiosity. Some items are real, some imagined, and some are something in between. But, all the items

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DragonKing Dark: Near death experiences

Before next week’s DragonKing Dark relaunch with a new theme and idea, we present an episode of our sister podcast Those Who Wander where I am joined by Tonya from When It Was Cool to discuss near death experiences and how they have

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DragonKing Dark: Night of the Bullshido

We continue our countdown to episode 250 of DragonKing Dark where we will be starting a new fresh season of our podcast. This week, we present a special edition called Night of the Bullshido where I take a look into the fictional world of

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DragonKing Dark: The seven deadly sins, part 3

We conclude our seven deadly sins series by examining gluttony and the sin that I think is the most sinister of them all: pride. Are these “sins” simply religious dogma or is there honest truth in avoiding them? We examine these questions and

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