It is one of the most famous incidents of possible paranormal manifestation known in modern popular culture. A group of Russian hikers turn up dead with mysterious circumstances and clues as to what happened. Decades later, there are many ideas about what happened

Another listener and supporter suggested a topic based on the Missing 411 book series and movie for this week’s episode. But before we can discuss that, we need to take a cold, hard look at the reality of the situation. In this episode,

Requested by one of our patrons at WhenItWasCool.com, this episode looks at the mystic martial arts scams and cons of the 1970s into the era of UFC and mixed martial arts where the general public finally learned how real fighting works and that

Have you ever remembered something vividly only for it to turn out to be false? This happened to me once. But what if a huge group of people remember events that didn’t actually happen or remember actual events wrong? A glitch in the Matrix? An alternate

Two of our previous most popular shows featured old obituaries from the late 1800s and early 1900s where people gave a little too much information about their departed loved ones. We sat down again this week with God’s holy death angel to listen

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern answers questions from the mailbag dealing with past episodes. Topics include — hollow Earth, Godzilla, King Kong and the Kong: Skull Island movie, the atomic bomb, and much more! A few of the topics

Is there true evil in the world? Can a person be born evil? What is evil? On today’s episode, host Karl Stern talks about despots who murdered thousands, even millions of people, mass killers who killed several to dozens at once, and serial killers who

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at another archetype of monster lore — The Mummy! The Mummy was one of the 1940s Universal Monster movies, a Marvel Comics character, and more! Why would we be afraid of

On this week’s episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern relates his personal experience of surviving not one, but two, historic tornado outbreaks. First Karl talks about the 1974 Super Outbreak which destroyed the town of Guin, Alabama and killed one of his relatives.

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern switches back over to a science and history-based episode to discuss the most powerful weapon ever created, a weapon that killed almost 100,000 in one terrible moment — the atomic bomb. On this episode we

The number of the beast. The Biblical book of Revelation warns believers of a coming anti-Christ and of a beast who is given a specific number — 666. Who or what is the beast? Why should you care (even if you aren’t a

Over the last few years we have heard more and more stories in the mainstream media about the possibility that we are living in either a holographically projected universe or even possibly a total computer simulation. On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl

Host Karl Stern took a look at the hollow earth theory last week, considering underground seas, life, and even civilizations. This week, Karl looks at an antiquated theory that has seen new life in recent years — that the planet Earth is actually flat

We know more about what’s beyond us than what is below us. Great books and movies have speculated about underground worlds and civilizations. There is even a long-running theory that the world is hollow with its own inner sun and civilizations. What is

After last week’s show talking about the fear in the world we live in we received some feedback we would like to share before moving on to a new topic next week. Again, one of our more popular shows, has generated some food

The entire DragonKing Dark series has been predicated on fear. What do we then do about the world we live in today? A world full of, well, fear? Today, more than ever before, it seems we are a nation, perhaps even a world, on edge.

On this final episode of our series on the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, we take a detailed look at the man himself, the cause of all the buzz, the accuser — Satan. He probably isn’t who you thought he was. Who is

Host Karl Stern has been building up to this episode for several weeks now, and it is finally time for the full out Satanic Panic of the 1980s show. The decade of the 1980s was full of “the Devil’s gonna get you” moments, some

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern follows up last week’s episode about satanic backwards masking of rock music with his story about the time in the 1980s that his church decided they were going to church the devil’s music out