DragonKing Dark: Gloria Ramirez aka ‘The Toxic Lady’

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 which caused multiple hospital employees to pass out with one even ending up in the ICU.

We discuss this bizarre true story on this week’s DragonKing Dark.

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DragonKing Dark: Finding ‘off-world vehicles not made of this Earth’

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 what does that mean? What material is it? Where did it come from? Is it just media hyperbole or is this more prepping by the government to finally revel that we are not alone?

Join us as we take a look at who made the statement, when, and in what context on this week’s DragonKing Dark.

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DragonKing Dark: A look at HBO Max’s ‘Alabama Snake’

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 case of an Alabama snake handling preacher who used a rattlesnake to try and murder his wife.

It’s a heck of story so let’s get into it on this week’s DragonKing Dark.

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DragonKing Dark: ‘We interrupt this program…’

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 some of them) are real?

Do the government and the military have knowledge that we aren’t alone in the universe?

We used to hear that they couldn’t tell the public for fear of our reaction. As it turns out, that reaction seems to be apathy so what’s going on?

Let’s stop ignoring it: UFOs are real so let’s talk about them on this week DKD.

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DragonKing Dark: The crystal skulls

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 of those tales about an intriguing object that popular culture latched onto for some reason.

On this week’s DragonKing Dark, let’s discover the true story of the crystal skulls.

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DragonKing Dark: The Baltic Sea anomaly

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 that are talked about, this one has gone under the radar but one that I find the most fascinating.

It certainly appears as though there is a crashed UFO under the Baltic Sea.

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DragonKing Dark: The Pyramids

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 is still much that isn’t known about them and much that is still debated. It’s not only one of the most grand structures in history but one of the most mysterious as well.

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DragonKing Dark: Masks

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: the hockey mask, the medical mask, the decorative mask, movie monster mask, the lucha libre and wrestling mask, and masks used for crime.

This week on the DragonKing Dark Podcast, I look at humanity’s fascination with masks.

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DragonKing Dark: The amazing story of James Dean’s cursed car

On this edition of the DragonKing Dark Podcast, we continue our look at objects of mystery and power and dig into a legend of Americana: the car in which actor James Dean was killed in.

As the legend go, he wasn’t the last person killed by the car as parts from it were used in other cars in which people died. Even the tow truck driver couldn’t escape its wrath. Also, where is the car now?

This week, let’s get into the the incredible story of the death car of James Dean.

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DragonKing Dark: Dr. Strange’s Eye of Agamotto

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 travel allows? The Eye of Agamotto can help. Need to open a gate to another dimension? The Eye of Agamotto can help. Need an answer to an unanswerable question? Banish a monster? Cast an illusion? To all of those, the Eye of Agamotto is the answer.

Let’s look at this special fictional artefact on this week’s Dragon King Dark.

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DragonKing Dark: The Ancient of Days

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 Biblical Exodus.

One author believed the device to be a machine which produced manna. He then built a working model based on the text and produced food with it.

What is the strange Ancient of Days? Let’s discuss on this week’s DragonKing Dark.

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DragonKing Dark: The Shroud of Turin

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 is somehow visible on it with evidence of injuries to the areas one would expect from a man that was crucified.

However, there is conflicting evidence concerning the dating of the shroud and the Catholic Church, despite revering it, has yet to officially venerate it.

This week, let’s examine the Shroud of Turin.

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DragonKing Dark: Dendera light

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 curiosities and let’s examine this seemingly out of place artifact and let’s try to determine what is really going on here.

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DragonKing Dark: The Helmet of Fate

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 his mystical helmet reflect other stories from literature and tells us something about a world beyond our ability to see.

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DragonKing Dark: The Antikythera Mechanism

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 earlier with hugely complicated gears and switches that track celestial movements, eclipses, and more — sometimes down to the very hour.

The lost wisdom of our ancestors is astonishing and this artifact seems out of place in the timeline, so let’s talk about it.

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