The
Bohemian Grove is somewhere in the north of the state of
California. Every mid-summer, a group of important people in the life of the
USA gather there for a strange ritual. In front of a forty-foot tall stone
owl, a bundle of rags designated as 'the corpse of Care' is burned by a lake. The participants in this ritual carry burning torches and wear hooded robes.
So far as that description goes, it's accurate.
The
Texan talk-show host
Alex Jones maintains that the owl personates
Moloch (or
Molech), and that the bundle of rags sometimes contains a living or recently-deceased human infant. There is no evidence for this. Jones maintains that 'there is no place for this kind of thing in a
Christian country', and believes the participants at the Grove represent the
New World Order.
More rational observers maintain that while events at the Grove are distinctly weird, there's no reason why, in a
free country, people shouldn't be allowed to burn rags on their own property. Whether and to what extent such secret societies as the gatherers at the
Grove or the
Skull and Bones actually influence world affairs is unclear. They do not, and cannot, however, control them.
Alex Jones successfully infiltrated Bohemian Grove and filmed the '
owl burning' ritual. His exploits were discussed in the
Channel 4 documentary, '
The Secret Rulers of the World', and his footage is available on the
Internet.
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Newsflash:
Reuters reports that on
April 17, 2002,
Richard McCaslin, 37, was convicted at
Sonoma County Court of arson, for breaking into the
Bohemian Club's compound and setting light to a cafeteria on the premises. Reports suggest that the act was inspired by listening to 'a Texas-based radio talk show host' discussing the Grove. Although Reuters does not name this host, those familiar with the story so far will be able to make
an educated guess. Reuters names
Ronald Reagan,
Gerald Ford and
Richard Nixon as sometime members of the club, which seems to have a reasonable overlap (although Reuters, naturally, does not point this out) with the
Bilderberg Group. Thanks must go to
mkb for drawing my attention to this story.