Tag: DragonKing Dark

We begin a new series this week on DragonKing Dark: The 100 darkest moments in pop culture history. These aren’t ranked in any particular order because, how could you, but when this series is completed, it will comprise a new “The 100” list at WhenItWasCool.com. The 1955 Le Mans race in France stands as the…

It sounds like urban legend and surely, the details of the story must be exaggerated. But as it turns out, there was a lady in California named Gloria Ramirez who showed up to the emergency room who was very sick and appeared to have a crystal type substance in her blood. She then radiated fumes…

This week on the DragonKing Dark Podcast, host Karl Stern takes a look at a March 20202 statement from a U.S. defense contractor that made news last year. A defense contractor, who was also a consultant for the Pentagon UFO program, said they had come into possession of “off-world vehicles not made on this Earth.” But…

This special episode of the DragonKing Dark Podcast combines true crime with religion and backwoods strangeness. There is a documentary on HBO Max that, I suppose, is their answer to the insanely popular Tiger King called Alabama Snake which takes place just up the road from me. Tony from WhenItWasCool.com joins me to discuss the…

We once again visit our museum of curiosities on DragonKing Dark and on this episode…wait, no we don’t. Stop, just stop. Why are we all ignoring the fact that seemingly every week for the last couple of years, both the media and government seem to be prepping us to finally admit that UFOs (at least…

Multiple crystal carved stones are discovered throughout Mexico and South America — both a staple of popular culture and a fun story. Known as the crystal skulls, the thirteen of them supposedly have mystical powers and perhaps are tied to extraterrestrials. Any or none of this may be true, but the story of the skulls is one…

We enter our mythical museum of curiosities again as this time, we travel beneath the Baltic Sea to find something very strange. This object isn’t a work of fiction, nor is it something ethereal. It is a real existing thing that can be studied… but what is it? Of all the structures of unusual nature…

This week we enter our mythical museum of curiosities to examine one of the oldest and largest structures on planet Earth — the Great Pyramid. For over 3000 years the Great Pyramid at Giza was the tallest structure on the planet. Despite the fact we can still see and study these massive structures today, there…

One of the most ancient rituals mankind still engages in is the creation and wearing of masks. Since the oldest civilizations, humans have concealed their identities for rituals, for war, to commit crimes, and for celebrations and sports. In today’s society, we wear masks for health purposes. But we also use them in other ways:…

In the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Marvel Comic universe, there exists an esoteric object of incredible magical power: the Eye of Agamotto. Possessed by Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme Dr. Strange, the Eye of Agamotto is a storytelling device which offers up a solution to many problems. Need to get to another location quicker than conventional…

We return to our metaphorical museum of curiosities this week for a very curious object indeed. Spoken about in passing in the Bible but discussed in greater detail in Kabbalah literature, we examine The Ancient of Days, a device of some sort which had to be assembled and cleaned in a specific manner during the…

This week on Dragon King Dark, we enter our mythical museum of curiosities and find a real object that can be periodically seen and studied: the Shroud of Turin. Over the centuries, many Christians have revered this cloth as the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. The reason? A faint, but distinct image of a man…

There is a carving in the ancient Egyptian temple of Dendera that seems, on first sight, to show an Egyptian holding a giant light bulb. The image is striking and begs the question: What were the ancient Egyptians doing with an electric light bulb? Is the explanation that simple? Come inside the DragonKing Dark museum of…

We return to our mythical museum of curiosities again, looking at objects of mystery and power. This time, we examine the Helmet of Fate. Though the helmet is a fictional object of comics and television, it tells us something about our fascination with magic, ancient Egypt, and forbidden knowledge. The stories of Dr. Fate and…

Join host Karl Stern as we open the museum of curiosities again this week and pull out an actual real artifact. This is one that you can really see in a museum, study it, and make models of it: the Antikythera Mechanism. It’s a vastly complex analog computing device dating to presumably 200 BC or…

DragonKing Dark returns, relaunched and rebranded with a new focus. It’s DragonKing Dark 2.0 and we are now curators of a massive and mythical museum of curiosity. Some items are real, some imagined, and some are something in between. But, all the items and objects we will study tell us something about who we are,…