Tag: After Dark

  • DragonKing Dark: Time

    DragonKing Dark: Time

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: The Most Dangerous Episode Ever

    DragonKing Dark: The Most Dangerous Episode Ever

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: Flat Earth, anti-vaxx, conspiracies

    DragonKing Dark: Flat Earth, anti-vaxx, conspiracies

    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.

  • DragonKing Dark: Theia — or how the Moon was born

    DragonKing Dark: Theia — or how the Moon was born

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: Oumuamua Alien Probe

    DragonKing Dark: Oumuamua Alien Probe

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: Curse of King Tut’s Tomb

    DragonKing Dark: Curse of King Tut’s Tomb

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: The Hands Resist Him

    DragonKing Dark: The Hands Resist Him

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: Oak Island Money Pit

    DragonKing Dark: Oak Island Money Pit

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: James Dean and the cursed car

    DragonKing Dark: James Dean and the cursed car

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: Weird and odd news of 2018

    DragonKing Dark: Weird and odd news of 2018

    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,…

  • DragonKing Dark: What is the origin of Christmas?

    DragonKing Dark: What is the origin of Christmas?

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: Artificial intelligence, UFOs, portals

    DragonKing Dark: Artificial intelligence, UFOs, portals

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: A.I. glitches and alien rocks

    DragonKing Dark: A.I. glitches and alien rocks

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: All in Your Head

    DragonKing Dark: All in Your Head

    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,…

  • DragonKing Dark: Is tech bad for us?

    DragonKing Dark: Is tech bad for us?

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: Are you being controlled?, pt. II

    DragonKing Dark: Are you being controlled?, pt. II

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: The Bible and the paranormal

    DragonKing Dark: The Bible and the paranormal

    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…

  • DragonKing Dark: Are you being controlled?

    DragonKing Dark: Are you being controlled?

    On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at the news, current events, modern politics, and asks the very valid question — Are you being controlled? For hundreds of years there has been talk of an Illuminati type organization pulling the strings on world events and while that may…

  • DragonKing Dark: Modern horror icons

    DragonKing Dark: Modern horror icons

    As Halloween approaches this week, we have spent the month talking about archetype monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein — but the monsters of the modern era are even more intense and frightening. Freddie Kruger, Jason Vorhees, Leatherface, Michael Myers, Pennywise, and the other slasher killers play on a newer type fear. On this edition of…

  • DragonKing Dark: Mythos of the Mummy

    DragonKing Dark: Mythos of the Mummy

    On this edition of the DragonKing Dark podcast, host Karl Stern continues the march towards Halloween by examining the lore surrounding mummies — the specially wrapped and prepared Egyptian dead. Ancient Egypt includes all sorts of supernatural and macabre elements including a great collection of gods, an elaborate afterlife ritual, and magnificent structures. It also came…