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DragonKing Dark: Karl rants about 2017

It’s the last day of the year! 2017 is gone and in the words of Yoda, “not short enough was it.” 2017 will be long remembered as the year no one could get along with each other, every politician was evil, the world

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DragonKing Dark: UFOs in the news

UFOs are in the news after newly-released footage of a Navy encounter with an Unidentified Flying Object. Plus, the Pentagon finally admits there was a program in recent history to study UFOs. Is NASA preparing for something? Are we being conditioned for a bigger

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DragonKing Dark: 2017 was a bad year

No, this isn’t a year in review, though we do talk about some of the events that took place in 2017. 2017 wasn’t the best year ever for most. Certainly not for the United States. With social upheaval, division, a country deeply divided,

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DragonKing Dark: The Silent Twins

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at the strange case of the Silent Twins. Two twin sisters who lived in the UK isolated themselves from others to the point that they developed a secret language only the

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DragonKing Dark: Jack The Ripper

On this week’s edition of DragonKing Dark, we continue our serial killer series with probably the most infamous serial killer in all of history — the Victorian-era murderer Jack the Ripper.  Who was Jack the Ripper? Does anyone know? Does anyone even have any good

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DragonKing Dark: Dr. Thomas Neill Cream

On this week’s edition of DragonKing Dark, we continue our serial killer series with a man who “may” have claimed to be Jack the Ripper — Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. His claim to have been Jack the Ripper (if he even actually made

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DragonKing Dark: Ed Gein

Ed Gein — The Butcher of Plainfield — is the inspiration for many horror movie archetypes such Leatherface and Psycho. Gein shocks us not just because he killed, but because he also robbed graves and had a sick fascination with wearing the skins

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DragonKing Dark: H.H. Holmes

He is often called “America’s First Serial Killer” and his gruesome Chicago Murder Castle sounds like something straight out of a horror movie, but does reality actually compare to the narrative in the case of H.H. Holmes — serial killer? As we will

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DragonKing Dark: Halloween

This episode is our Halloween 2017 celebration on the DragonKing Dark podcast and we take a look back at the origins of Halloween and the traditions associated with it. Surprisingly, what we now know as Halloween has its origins in numerous and varied traditions. Join host Karl

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DragonKing Dark: Netherworld Haunted House

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, #MonsterMonth continues as host Karl Stern talks about Halloween related topics, gives an update on the murder of Joe Clack, reads an email from a listener who had an otherworldly experience at one of the

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DragonKing Dark: Universal Monsters

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern continues Monster Month by looking back at the famous Universal Studios monsters and their movies. The Universal Monsters included the Phantom of the Opera, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The

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DragonKing Dark: Friday the 13th

This coming Friday is Friday the 13th, and it falling on the same month as Halloween makes this a perfect topic for #MonsterMonth on the DragonKing Dark podcast. On this episode, host Karl Stern explores the origins of Friday the 13th and how it

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DragonKing Dark: The Booger Tree

Joe Clack is buried somewhere down by the creek. The mill owner was given $5 to bury his body. His horse is dead in the middle of the creek. Riding back west with a suit of baby clothes retrieved from Clack are a

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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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