Recently we’ve been digging through Newspapers.com doing some history research. Searching for old family members, the history of our town, and more. Reading newspapers from the 1800s through the 1940s over and over again makes you realize that we aren’t so special here

This week on DragonKing Dark from the WhenItWasCool.com Podcast Network, host Karl Stern goes to Newspapers.com to search for murders that happened on Halloween. It’s true crime meets Halloween with stories from the early 1900s when, apparently, Halloween could get pretty rough. From

Have you caught the news lately? You know that I usually advise against that, but in this instance, I’m making an exception. There has been a lot of talk about UFOs and aliens recently with snake-like UFOs, hints by NASA that something is

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern helps get you prepared for Halloween season with a dark music playlist. These songs are especially chosen for those fans of paranormal and horror type shows and include music recommendations by artists like Black Sabbath,

We return to an early classic DragonKing Dark podcast theme: old-timey obituaries, a topic so popular that it spawned multiple follow-ups. On this show, I take a look at some colorful and bizarre obituaries from the Victorian age of newspapers into the early

Idaho is more than just potatoes! Yes, they even tout their famous potatoes on their car tags — but I was pleasantly surprised they have quite a few interesting oddities, roadside attractions, and weird places too. Come on a road trip with Karl

This week’s episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast is another in our look at society and fear and might be our most frightening one yet. We are at war. You might not think so but we are. American society is being manipulated and

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at one of the favorite vacation destinations in the world — Hawaii! Karl looks at some of the more strange, odd, and weird places in this tropical paradise that is rich

On this edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at the scariest books ever written. We look at the opinions of many experts and try to find out what books dealing with horror, the macabre, and strange are really worth the

On episode 180 of the DragonKing Dark podcast, I visit the neighboring state of Georgia to seek out its oddities and bizarre places including another doll’s head trail near Atlanta. I then get into the story of my visit to the Georgia Guidestones with our