Unlike every other organization examined in this series, the Bilderberg Group has never stopped meeting: every year since 1954, roughly 120 to 150 sitting political leaders, business executives, and academics from Europe and North America have gathe…
In 1614, an anonymous pamphlet began circulating in the German lands announcing the existence of a secret brotherhood of enlightened alchemists possessing hidden knowledge of medicine, nature, and the universe, and within years the claim had trigger…
Skull and Bones, Yale University's oldest and most famous secret society, has produced three U.S. presidents, multiple CIA directors, and generations of American financial and political leaders since two students founded it in 1832, and unlike t…
The Bavarian Illuminati existed for barely nine years, never had more than a few thousand members, and was crushed out of existence by the Bavarian government in 1785, yet it has been blamed for the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the ass…
The Freemasons are, by most measures, the least secret secret society in the world: their lodges are listed in phone books, their buildings display Masonic symbols on the front door, and roughly three million members worldwide will happily tell you …
For roughly four centuries, mostly poor, mostly female peasants across southern Italy believed that the bite of a local wolf spider could trigger a slow, agonizing death, and that the only cure was to dance, sometimes for days at a stretch, to a spe…
On June 20, 1899, a single Washington Post story about a handful of unexplained bites at a local emergency hospital introduced America to the "kissing bug," and within weeks more than sixty newspaper articles across the country were report…
On October 13, 1917, somewhere between 30,000 and 100,000 people gathered in a muddy field in Fátima, Portugal, after three shepherd children predicted the Virgin Mary would perform a miracle there, and according to a huge number of witnesses, inclu…
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