Category: After Dark

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 to find out that the joke was on him. Then we discuss…

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 to all genetic problems and the future to the health and wellbeing…

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 clues to a mystery, we might not have solved the crime —…

On this week’s edition of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, we take on one of host Karl Stern’s favorite topics — time! Specifically, we discuss whether time travel is scientifically possible and look at several papers on the subject that come to varying conclusions. The possibilities are interesting and some theories are not necessarily what you…

On this special edition of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern tells some truths which must be told. At long last, the most dangerous weapon is exposed. If you have ever wondered why things are the way they are. If you have ever wondered how people are being manipulated to believe and passionately defend…

On this edition of DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern talks about beliefs that are against the mainstream and discusses what the logical approach to them is, why they exist to begin with, and searches for the truth behind illogical beliefs such as the Earth is flat, anti-vaccinators, and other extreme conspiracy beliefs.

On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at a leading hypothesis about how Earth’s larger-than-average Moon was formed. Does the formation of Earth’s Moon also offer an explanation of how all the essential ingredients for life arrived here when the rest of our solar system appears barren? Or are the first…

It came from outer space. Like, literally, outer, outer space. Oumuamua made the news last year as the first observed body from interstellar space that had been seen in our solar system. And then it got weird. It was like nothing we ever saw before. It was neither astroid nor comet. It also seemed to accelerate…

On this milestone edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern concludes his “curses” series with a look at one of the most famous — the curse of King Tut’s tomb. Egyptian archeology was in its golden era in the early 1900s, and the unearthing of an intact, treasure-filled tomb of a Pharaoh was the talk of the…

We continue our series of podcasts looking at various curses on this episode, with host Karl Stern taking a look at a supposed cursed painting called “The Hands Resist Him.” Now, mind you, this painting is creepy enough of its own accord, but supposedly those who have owned the painting have been met with misfortune. The painting…

On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, we continue our look at various curses and tales of ill fate. This week’s tale is one of the more well known ones because it has a television reality show attached to it. The Oak Island Money Pit is located in Canada, and for over the last…

Welcome to 2019 on DragonKing Dark. This year, host Karl Stern is going to examine some tall tales, curses, and popular culture you might have heard of but might not believe. Whether true or not, they are interesting. This week, we look at the tale of James Dean’s cursed car. Dean was an icon of…

It’s episode 146 of the DragonKing Dark podcast — and this is the last episode of 2018. On this episode, host Karl Stern from When It Was Cool takes a look back at some odd and weird news stories from 2018 that we might have missed on a variety of topics, including UFOs, true crime,…

This week, whether secular or religious, many people in the world will celebrate Christmas. But what are the real origins of Christmas? Is December 25 really Jesus’ birthday? Is Christmas a re-appropriated pagan holiday? Is it a modern creation? What about Santa Claus? Kris Kringle? St. Nicholas? Why the Christmas tree? This week on DragonKing Dark, we…

We have more discussion this week about the hot topic of artificial intelligence and the problems we may, or may not, be facing in the future from machines that can think for themselves. In other recent news we take a look at more recent UFO sightings, and reports that a portal to another dimension opened up…

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at stories in the news — including a story about how young people today are turning off the news in large numbers because they don’t trust it. Plus, the Mars rover has found a shiny rock that has everyone talking, and what…

Ghosts, the paranormal, UFOs, religious experience — is it all just in our heads? Everything we experience and perceive is literally just our brains interpretation of input from our senses. People with certain mental disorders and illnesses like dementia seemingly experience real events in the their minds that aren’t actually happening in the real world,…

Is technology bad for us? In so many ways, technology has helped mankind and advanced us to live longer and healthier lives. But it has come with a cost. While tech has opened up the world and given us instant access to information we previously had to manually search out, there are more and more…

Two weeks ago we had another very well received episode of the DragonKing Dark Podcast called “Are you being controlled?” Following the feedback to that episode I have recorded a part two to the conversation. No matter what name you give to “them,” there does seem to be a powerful elite controlling the course of…

This week on DragonKing Dark, we take another look at what the Bible has to say about topics of the paranormal. Many of the supernatural elements in paranormal belief are not only in the Bible but originate there. Obviously, things like angels, demons, and miracles, but the very idea of the occult has it’s origins…