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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