The old Sloss Furnace steel mill in Birmingham, AL was a brutal place to work. While the steel industry built Birmingham it wasn't an easy life and many died working in the horrible conditions there. Several TV shows and documentaries have covered Sloss Furnace as one of the supposed most haunted places in America. Karl and Tonya from When It Was Cool traveled there on a stormy night and this is what they found.

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DragonKing Dark Podcast - Sloss Furnace One of America's Most Haunted Places - Episode 241

True Crime podcasts and television are very popular. Entire TV channels are devoted to the genre and true crime podcast series often reside near the top of the podcast charts. What is our morbid fascination murder? Why do we gawk at the misfortune of others, often forming our opinion based less on fact than on entertainment? Millions of untrained people are fed the most sensational aspects of a story and willingly sit and devour that information for their own entertainment. Join us as host Karl Stern examines True Crime entertainment.

DragonKing Dark Podcast - Examining True Crime - Episode 240

This week on the DragonKing Dark Podcast we have two retro TV reviews for you of very differing types. Pulled from our Patreon archives at WhenItWasCool.com host Karl takes a look at one of his favorite TV shows, the gothic vampire soap opera Dark Shadows.  Then Karl is joined by Tonya from When It Was Cool to discuss the witch themed sitcom Bewitched! Two very different shows and both with Halloween themes!

DragonKing Dark Podcast - Dark Shadows and Bewitched - Episode 239

A great show for you today as Karl reviews the book The Led Zeppelin Curse by Lance Gilbert exploring Jimmy Page and his involvement with the occult and especially his ownership of the Boleskine House manor on the shores of Loch Ness previously owned by the occultist Alister Crowley. Did Jimmy Page's dabbling in the dark arts bring doom down on the band? Did a curse placed on Jimmy Page by an occult film director cause his downfall? What is the real story of Boleskine House and it's history? (It's burned down twice). Plus wizards, a fatal church fire, and more!

DragonKing Dark Podcast - Led Zeppelin Curse - Episode 238

Tarot cards evoke images of the esoteric and occult. With names like "The Devil", "The Hanged Man", "The Tower", and "Death", it's not hard to understand why tarot cards stoke the imagination. While decks of cards have been used for millennia for divination, the Tarot's antiquity is someone in question. While they have been linked to ancient Egypt the evidence is somewhat questionable. Never the less, the Tarot are imaginative, interesting, and somewhat scary. Let's look at the Tarot cards. 

DragonKing Dark Podcast - Tarot Cards - Episode 237

NoFriender continues his ongoing series into the origins and evolution of thrash style heavy metal music. After a series of guitarists, 17 year old Bobby Gustafson joins the band Overkill and the band completes its transformation from metal cover band to original thrash metal band.

Thrash Metal Show Podcast 090 (Long Form History of Overkill Part 6)

If we have learned anything about people over the years it is that there is a segment of us that seek out the most dangerous and extreme. So, it should come as no surprise that in the area of the occult and esoteric there are those who seek out the "most evil" and "most terrifying" book.  Several years ago, people searching for just such a book on the internet began being directed to a vague page about a documentary for the most evil book ever discovered. A book which, after reading, people went mad. What is the true story of the Oriuago?

DragonKing Dark Podcast - Do Not Read This Book - Episode 236

NoFriender continues his deep dive look into the history of the thrash metal band Overkill. On this episode - finding a guitarist. The Thrash Metal Show podcast is a documentary style podcast exploring the origins and evolution of thrash style heavy metal music featuring such bands as Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, and other highly influential thrash bands such as Overkill and more. The Thrash Metal Show Podcast is part of the When It Was Cool Podcast Network.

Thrash Metal Show Podcast - Long Form History of Overkill Part 5 - Finding a Guitarist - Episode 89

A rare mailbag and feedback show for DragonKing Dark Podcast but recently our shows on society, social unrest, and fear have generated a lot of conversation and host Karl Stern is going to share that with you. Despite these seemingly dire times, there is hope and we hear from a number of people this week one topics ranging from masks to social unrest and more. I hope you enjoy hearing from other listeners of the show!

DragonKing Dark - Mailbag and Feedback - Episode 235

NoFriender returns with the Thrash Metal Show Podcast to continue his long form history of the band Overkill. In this episode he talks Virgin Killers and the birth of Overkill. When he can bothered to do a show, NoFriender, the enigmatic host of the Thrash Metal Show Podcast covers the origins and evolution of thrash style heavy metal often with the speed of a sloth and the grace of gazelle.

Thrash Metal Show Podcast - Long Form History of Overkill Part 4 - Episode 88

The Devil and Father Amorth is a 2017 documentary film directed by William Friedkin showing the ninth exorcism of an Italian woman in the village of Venafro referred to as "Cristina", this time performed by Father Gabriele Amorth.  William Friedkin was, of course, the director of The Exorcist in 1973 and he wanted to see an actual exorcism, so he finally got to and filmed it for us all to see. What did an actual exorcism look like? Did it make me a believer? What can we make of exorcisms and demonic possession? Join me as we examine The Devil and Father Amorth.

DragonKing Dark Podcast - The Devil and Father Amorth - Episode 234

I can feel the temperature rising, can't you? You can't escape the images of anger and violence in today's society, but what are we all so mad about? Turns out, there are plenty of reasons real and imagined.  Periodically, humans seem to lose sight of all reason and embark on witch hunts. Even a cursory study of history shows over and over again we collectively need to hunt and burn perceived evil and impose our vision of good... and we seem to be doing it again. Let's talk about it.

DragonKing Dark Podcast - The Anger Within Us - Episode 233

I'm sure you've noticed... we are having a hard time getting along with one another lately. Even the simplest of things seem to trigger people. One would think simply asking the public to wear a mask to slow the spread of a disease would be met with, "Oh sure, that's easy." Instead it's been met with wild eyes, slobber, and the insinuation that this easy request is an act of humiliation and enslavement. Seems like there's something deeper to it. And there is. There is a reason that Karen is going nuts in Walmart, there is a reason people are destroying property and burning cities, there is a reason we distrust even the mildest things the government asks and are now turning on each other. We've been conditioned to do it.

DragonKing Dark Podcast - Distrust of Government and Each Other - Episode 232

NoFriender is joined on this edition of the Thrash Metal Show Podcast by Howard H. Smith to continue our look at the history of Acid Reign and the process of putting a band together. The diabolical duo conclude by singing Vio-lence’s opus Kill On Command a cappella. The origins and evolution of thrash heavy metal continue on the NoFriender Thrash Metal Show Podcast from When It Was Cool.

Thrash Metal Show Podcast - Howard H. Smith (Acid Reign Part 3) - Episode 87

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