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DragonKing Dark: Curses

Host Karl Stern is back with a fresh edition of DragonKing Dark, taking a look at 10 interesting curses in both history and popular culture. Are there any that actually pass the slightest bit of inspection and make you go, “hmmm?” From obvious ones

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DragonKing Dark: Witch Hunt and The Weapon

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern digs into the DragonKing Darker archives and deconstructs two Rush songs of interest to fans. First is the atmospheric and dark Witch Hunt, which may be one of the most frightening songs ever because

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DragonKing Dark: Oddities of Connecticut

DragonKing Dark Podcast continues its journey across America exploring strange, odd, and out of the way places. We stop in Connecticut, which harbors a fairly high number of bizarre places. It is a hotbed of paranormal spots due, in part, to the Warren family

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DragonKing Dark: Dark superhero movies

Recently at WhenItWasCool.com we took a look at the 100 Greatest Superhero Movies of All Time. This week on DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a deeper dive into the list to pick out the movies which have more of a horror or

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DragonKing Dark: Oddities of Colorado

On this week’s DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl from WhenItWasCool.com takes a look at the weird places, odd stops, and strange attractions in the state of Colorado. We love Colorado and have been there a few times and have even seen a few

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DragonKing Dark: The curse of the Poltergeist movies

I continue my look at various curses in pop culture and on this new edition of DragonKing Dark, I examine all the strange and tragic events surrounding the Poltergeist series of movies. A young star died of an unexpected health emergency, another was murdered, and

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DragonKing Dark: Oddities of Arkansas

Sitting in Mid-America is a landlocked state with no big cities nestled between the Mississippi river and the plains of Texas and Oklahoma. Arkansas is a beautiful state filled with flat farmland, plentiful forests, and the scenic Ozark mountains. It is also oddly home

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DragonKing Dark: The curse of playing Superman

This week on DragonKing Dark, I take a look back at the supposed curse of Superman as tragedy and misfortune have been linked to appearing as the iconic DC Comics character. From the strange and controversial death of George Reeves to the tragic injury

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DragonKing Dark: Oddities of California

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern continues his state oddities series by taking a look at California! California has it all when it comes to landscapes. Deserts, mountains, oceans, forests — California has all the bases covered. So,

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DragonKing Dark: Odd coincidences

On this week’s DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at a couple of Presidential coincidences and tries to determine if these are fact, fiction, or just fun? We take a look at the supposed connections between Presidents Kennedy and Lincoln,

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DragonKing Dark: Oddities of Arizona

Image: Karl Stern On this episode of DragonKing Dark, we take a look at one of Karl Stern’s favorite states — Arizona. Arizona has many well known tourist attractions that are well worth visiting, but on this episode we are going off the beaten

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DragonKing Dark: When Idols Fall

This week on DragonKing Dark, I take on another society related topic: what happens when our idols fall. We have seen much of this over the years with Chris Benoit, Superfly Snuka, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, politicians, church leaders, and other entertainers frequently

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DragonKing Dark: Oddities of Alaska

This week on DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes us to Alaska to take a look at the weird, odd, and unusual stops in the northern most of the United States. From Santa Claus’ literal home to the Wizard Oz, Alaska has some odd

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DragonKing Dark 160: The Oddities of Alabama

The Dragon King himself Karl Stern is back this week with a new DragonKing Dark Podcast beginning a new occasional series looking at odd, weird, and interesting places across the world. We begin in his home state of Alabama with such curiosities as

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DragonKing Dark: The bees are dying

There is a major crisis happening all around us and most people are completely oblivious to it. Should this crisis come to fruition, the food chain will collapse. Over half of the foods stocked in your local grocery store will disappear. Your fruits

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DragonKing Dark: Lying stones and CERN

On this edition of DragonKing Dark podcast, we take a look at two famous hoaxes of science. First we journey back to the 1700s — where a respected professor was convinced that he had found fossils made by the hand of God himself, only

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DragonKing Dark: CRISPR and gene editing

Genetic editing is all over the news lately — and many laymen are wondering what exactly is CRISPR? Is it some biblical monstrosity where man is now playing God? Is it a way to create supermen and women? Or is it the answer

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DragonKing Dark: Reality of alien life

On this weeks edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern discusses the reality of alien life. Not science fiction, not speculation, but the solid facts about what we have and have not discovered so far in our search for extraterrestrial life. Like seeking

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