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DragonKing Dark: Mythos of the werewolf

Host Karl Stern continues the celebration of Halloween month with an episode about another classic monster and the lore surrounding them. This week, Karl takes a look at the mythos of the werewolf or the wolf man. Tales surrounding the werewolf are ancient. There is

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DragonKing Dark: Mythos of Dracula

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern begins prepping us for Halloween with a look at the mythos surrounding the Lord of the Vampires — Dracula. Karl discusses the gothic horror novel, what influenced the novel, the Universal horror

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DragonKing Dark: Bermuda Triangle

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern from WhenItWasCool.com explores the mythos surrounding the Bermuda Triangle. You used to hear about the Bermuda Triangle (or Devil’s Triangle) a lot back in the 1970s when Karl was a kid, but

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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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DragonKing Dark: The Baghdad Battery

It’s one of the most famous advanced artifacts in popular culture. Its past and even its discovery is shrouded in mystery. Found sometime in the early 1900s, a battery-like device appeared in a museum in Iraq. It has been replicated and tested to actually

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DragonKing Dark: Moral compass

This week on DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern talks about your moral compass. Where does it come from? What directs your ethics in life? Is religion necessary to developing one? Why do some people seem to lack one? As part of our

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DragonKing Dark: Lies

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern continues his look at the social issues plaguing the world, in particular the United States, and this episode looks at lies. The lies we are being told by the media both right and left.

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DragonKing Dark: Ninjas

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, we take a look back to the 1970s and 1980s and the fascination with ninjas. What were ninjas really? Did people really believe ninjas had supernatural powers? Were ninjas even a real thing? What did the modern

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DragonKing Dark: The fear of fear

A favorite topic of the DragonKing Dark podcast and host Karl Stern is fear. What are we afraid of and why? We have done shows about this in the past, but it seem relevant again with all the social unrest and division in

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DragonKing Dark: Winchester Mystery House

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at one of the most bizarre landmarks in America — the Winchester Mystery House. Owned originally by the Winchester firearms family and left to the widow of Mr. Winchester following his

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DragonKing Dark: Star Wars and Star Trek

Star Wars has been in the news a lot recently, so Karl Stern from DragonKing Dark reminisces on this show about how his love of Star Wars got him interested in science and astronomy. Karl also discusses Star Trek and how the two

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