DragonKing Dark: Magic

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern talks about magic. Not the stage show kind or what Penn and Teller are doing — but the belief that by spells or incantation, people can affect the future or events in

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DragonKing Dark: Pressed by The Beast

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern tells us two tales of odd and unusual tombstone inscriptions. The first, located in Salt Lake City, Utah ascribes the death of a local elderly lady to The Beast — 666.  We

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DragonKing Dark: Haunted architecture

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern talks about the draw and allure of old buildings. There is something haunting about about buildings that outlive multiple generations of people. We take a look old homes, mansions, cathedrals, castles, and more. Karl discusses

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DragonKing Dark: Dark tourism

There is a series on Netflix called “Dark Tourism” where a host takes you to various taboo hotspots around the world where a tourism industry has sprung up. On this week’s DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern talks about the allure of seeing places

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DragonKing Dark: El Santo

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,

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DragonKing Dark: Giants

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

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DragonKing Dark: The future is wrong

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

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DragonKing Dark: Nothing left standing

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

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DragonKing Dark: Ghosts in the Bible

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

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DragonKing Dark: Devil in the Details

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

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