Tag: After Dark
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DragonKing Dark: The line between life and death
The line between life and death is a favorite topic of host Karl Stern and today he discusses the Victorian fascination with death and how even today we still do not yet understand it. On today’s show you’ll hear the story of a woman who was dead for almost twelve hours but was brought back…
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DragonKing Dark: The first American UFO
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.
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DragonKing Dark: Julius Obsequens and the Greco-Roman UFOs
On today’s show, DragonKing Dark host Karl Stern continues his series of podcasts looking at UFO activity in antiquity. We examine the reports of Julius Obsequens, an AD 400 era writer who reported on unknown objects in the sky in the period leading up to the birth of Christ. Can he be trusted? Do his writings…
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FREE DragonKing Dark: Charlemagne and his UFOs
On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern continues his hunt for UFOs in the era before airplanes and balloons. He continues to scour history for reports of unknown objects in the sky to see if any pan out to be truly unanswerable. This week, Karl takes a look at Charlemagne, King of the Franks,…
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DragonKing Dark: Alexander the Great and his UFOs
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,…
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DragonKing Dark: The Baltic Sea Anomaly
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…
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DragonKing Dark: Ancient aliens
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…
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DragonKing Dark: Washington DC
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…
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DragonKing Dark: Aunt Jenny Johnson revisited
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!…
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DragonKing Dark: Uncontacted Peoples
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…
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DragonKing Dark: Dyatlov Pass
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…
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DragonKing Dark: Missing
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…
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DragonKing Dark: Bullshido
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…
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DragonKing Dark: The Mandela Effect
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…
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DragonKing Dark: Old timey obituaries resurrected
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…
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DragonKing Dark: Karl Stern answers your questions
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…
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DragonKing Dark: Serial Killers
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…
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DragonKing Dark: The Mummy
On this episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern takes a look at another archetype of monster lore — The Mummy! The Mummy was one of the 1940s Universal Monster movies, a Marvel Comics character, and more! Why would we be afraid of a 5000 year old dead body? We discuss why! Topics covered on…
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AD: Monsters and mysteries of Iowa!
After Dark Radio with Bryan Alvarez is back today with a look at the monsters, mysteries, hauntings and assorted paranormal activity of the great state of IOWA! We continue our journey across the nation, and it’s a fun show as always so check it out~!
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DragonKing Dark: Into the Storm
On this week’s episode of DragonKing Dark, host Karl Stern relates his personal experience of surviving not one, but two, historic tornado outbreaks. First Karl talks about the 1974 Super Outbreak which destroyed the town of Guin, Alabama and killed one of his relatives. Then he talks about one of the most destructive storm days in…