DragonKing Dark: Dracula

Host Karl Stern continues his Halloween season series by taking a look at the 1931 Universal Horror classic Dracula starring Bela Lugosi. Karl also discusses the first Halloween haunted attraction of the season, Arx Mortis, located in north Alabama near the Tennessee and Mississippi

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DragonKing Dark: Creepy clown hysteria

On this week’s DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at this generation’s mass hysteria that probably isn’t really happening. In the 1980s, Geraldo Rivera convinced a nation that Satanists were kidnapping our children and offering them up in ritual sacrifice. In 2016,

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DragonKing Dark: Encountering the unknown

Host Karl Stern is battling a flu of epic proportions this week, so he answers a few emails from the mailbag. Karl answers a very interesting inquiry about the definition of life, then digs into his audio archives for a show he did several years

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DragonKing Dark episode 31: Phantom memories

Karl Stern introduces this episode by answering a couple of listener emails on the topic of haunted attractions in anticipation of the upcoming Halloween season. Then the show builds into phantom or false memories, including Karl’s personal story of a phantom memory he

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DragonKing Dark: Haunted houses & horror movies

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern talks about the upcoming season of haunted attractions! Karl talks about his experiences with haunted attractions so far and what is going to be covered this year. Then, the conversation turns to horror movies and what most of them

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DragonKing Dark Episode 28: Pokemon and Godzilla

On today’s DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern turns away from the serious deep stuff of recent shows to something fun and lighthearted — the current Pokemon Go craze. Karl’s wife began playing Pokemon Go (like almost everyone else on earth apparently) and brought Karl

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DragonKing Dark Episode 27: The Bloody Benders

Recently, a listener to DragonKing Dark suggested the Bender family murders as a topic. Host Karl Stern, knowing nothing about the topic, began researching the story or the mysterious Kansas family. Then Karl received multiple emails with information about the serial killer family from

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DragonKing Dark Episode 26: The Pale Blue Dot

Exactly what is our place in the universe? That topic has been debated since the dawn of man, but unfortunately it has also gotten very muddled with politcs, religion, greed, and nationalism. Over 20 years ago the man-made object deepest in space turned its

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