Category: After Dark
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DragonKing Dark: UFOs, planet Nibiru, new Bigfoot video
Host Karl Stern is back for this week’s episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast — once again talking news and notes from recent weeks. Karl continues to follow the story and fallout of the revelation of the government’s former UFO program with new commentary by scientists and why they, admittedly, don’t care. Then, a website…
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DragonKing Dark: In the news this week
On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at weird and odd stories in the news. This week we again seek out UFO sightings in the news, there is now evidence that a disease killed off the Aztecs, and if you enjoyed our episode on Russian experimentation on zombie…
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DragonKing Dark: In the News
On this episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes the show back to its origins with “what’s in the news?” This week we have two UFO stories, including a video from Mexico of a vertical UFO. We discuss the recent video of the ghost of a hanged man in the UK and,…
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DragonKing Dark: Karl opens the mailbag
On the first DragonKing Dark podcast of 2018, host Karl Stern cleans out the mailbag which features a variety of topic requests for the new year and several questions and even accusations! We talk UFOs, Karl is accused of being a conspiracy theorist, how skeptics have hijacked that name, and the one supernatural or unexplained…
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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 was on the brink of World War, and you hate me and…
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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 announcement or revelation? On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern…
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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, natural disasters, and more, it seems this year was a real bumpy…
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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 two of them could understand and made a pact to never speak…
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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 ideas? How many people did Jack the Ripper actually kill and why is…
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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 that claim) seems suspect at best, but even if he wasn’t he…
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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 of the dead. Listener discretion is advised.
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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 see, the H.H. Holmes story didn’t really need embellishment to be horrific…
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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 Stern as he explores the Celtic, European, American, and Christian origins of…
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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 most evil places on Earth, and discusses his trip last night to…
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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 Wolfman, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and their respective spinoffs and…
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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 may, or may not, have come to be known as an unlucky…
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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 family of southern Union sympathizers. On today’s new edition of DragonKing Dark,…
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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 easy to see why some might think it would. ow bad are…
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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 this year, plus there’s discussion of all the wonderful things that make Halloween…
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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 spoiler-free discussion of the movie, it does contain a general breakdown of…