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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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DragonKing Dark: Examining true crime

True crime podcasts and television are very popular. Entire TV channels are devoted to the genre and true crime podcast series often reside near the top of the podcast charts. What is our morbid fascination with murder? Why do we gawk at the

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DragonKing Dark: ‘The Led Zeppelin Curse’

A great show for you today as Karl reviews the book “The Led Zeppelin Curse” by Lance Gilbert. The book explores Jimmy Page and his involvement with the occult and especially his ownership of the Boleskine House manor on the shores of Loch Ness

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DragonKing Dark: The history of tarot cards

Tarot cards evoke images of the esoteric and the occult, and sporting names like “The Devil”, “The Hanged Man”, “The Tower”, and “Death”, it’s not hard to understand why they stoke the imagination. While decks of cards have been used for millennia for divination,

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DragonKing Dark: Mailbag and your feedback

On this week’s DragonKing Dark, I have a rare mailbag and feedback show as my recent shows on society and fear have generated a lot of conversation among you. Despite these seemingly dire times, there is hope and we hear from a number

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DragonKing Dark: The anger within us

I can feel the temperature rising, can’t you? You can’t escape the images of anger and violence in today’s society, but what are we all so mad about? It turns out that there are plenty of reasons: both real and imagined. Periodically, humans

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