Category: After Dark

On this week’s edition of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern discusses the ancient belief that it is possible to communicate with those who have died. From the Biblical Witch of Endor to the more modern Ouija Board, our ancestors have long felt that it was possible to talk to those who have passed on. Where…

On this week’s episode of DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern is joined by Tonya from When It Was Cool to discuss the new movie “Annabelle: Creation” and haunted objects. We discuss haunted dolls, haunted houses, the real world version of Annabelle, and the three movies (spoilers) which feature the haunted doll, old haunted houses,…

On this week’s episode of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at the upcoming total solar eclipse. He talks his memories of the one he saw in 1979, then discusses what a solar eclipse is scientifically and historically, plus how rare they are and when the next several will take place.…

In the 1600s in Puritan Massachusetts, the governor of the colony wrote of two UFO experiences. In the final part of our series looking at UFO sightings before the age of airplanes and man-made flying objects, we look at what the people of New England in the 1600s saw in the night sky. 

On the latest episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at a bizarre tale involving Alexander the Great. Alexander was supposedly helped out twice by UFOs. Once when he was turned away from invading India and once when he was assisted in a conquest of Tyre. But what really happened? In antiquity,…

Sitting 300 feet below the Baltic Sea is a strange, circular object about 200 feet across in size, which some explorers say cancels out radio transmissions nearby, appears to have a staircase descending down a deep black hole, and appears to be made of metal. The object certainly looks interesting, but what are its origins? Is it…

This week’s episode is another Patreon-requested topic, and we will certainly have to do more than one show on this one. I love ancient aliens. Now, mind you, I hate the television show, but I love the theory and there is some great stuff to talk about. Did mankind get a boost from extraterrestrial intervention? Did…

Image: WhenItWasCool.com Host Karl Stern and family recently traveled to Washington DC on vacation, and on this episode of DragonKing Dark, Karl takes a look at some of the various conspiracies and stories surrounding the city such as its Masonic and occult layout, symbolism, and monuments. Karl then gets into a discussion about how archeology…

Karl Stern and family are on vacation this weekend where he will be gathering information for an upcoming episode of DragonKing Dark. For this week, here is an oldie but a goody! A remixed version of one of our first and most popular shows — the tale of Aunt Jenny Johnson. She don’t like no trespassers!…

Today’s show is focused on a great topic suggestion from one of our patrons — The moral and ethical questions of contacting uncontacted peoples. While extremely rare, there are groups of people who have lived very isolated lives away from modern society. What are the ethical and moral questions about what should happen if and when these people…

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 but no nice and neat explanation. This week on DragonKing Dark, host…

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, host Karl Stern gives some real-world reasons why everything might not be…

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 the Dim Mak death touch was, perhaps, a work of fiction. On this…

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 timeline? On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern talks about…

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 to tales of woe and sadness, and perhaps even a laugh or…

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 we touch upon: The true story of the origins of Godzilla and…

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 murdered many over a span of time. What can be learned about…