Episode 100: Bohemian Grove
Once a year, America’s wealthiest and most influential men descend on a collection of cabins in the lush forests of Northern California. They claim the retreat is a break from business, meant to recharge and relax their minds. But some people believe the true plans are something more sinister. Are these titans of politics and industry meeting to perform satanic rituals in an attempt to take over the world? Or is that even necessary since they already run it? This week’s episode is Bohemian Grove.
SOURCES
Social Cohesion & the Bohemian Grove: The Power Elite at Summer Camp by G. William Domhoff, U.C. Santa Cruz: https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/bohemian_grove.html
The Bohemian Club: https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Bohemian-Club
Bohemian Grove: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove
A Guide to the Bohemian Grove. What really goes on inside the secluded Bohemian Grove, the site of the ultra-exclusive Bohemian Club’s yearly bacchanalia among the California redwoods? Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/05/bohemian-grove-guide200905
Bohemian Tragedy — Members of the ultra-exclusive Bohemian Club—2,500 of America’s richest, most conservative men, including Henry Kissinger, George H. W. Bush, and a passel of Bechtels, Basses, and Rockefellers—are known to urinate freely against the ancient redwoods that cover their 2,700-acre property. Have they been chopping down the trees as well? According to one former member turned whistle-blower, the San Francisco–based society may have logged some of its old-growth forest. Drawing on his own Ivy League ties, the author investigates, with a daring sortie into the ceremonial kickoff of the Bohemians’ annual encampment. Vanity Fair: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/05/bohemian-grove200905
Bohemian Grove Exposes Itself! OC insider reveals dark secrets of California club plotting world domination. OC Weekly: https://web.archive.org/web/20141203113054/http://www.ocweekly.com/2006-08-31/news/bohemian-grove-exposes-itself/
AROUND THE NATION; Bohemian Club Is Upheld On Refusal to Hire Women, The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/23/us/around-the-nation-bohemian-club-is-upheld-on-refusal-to-hire-women.html
Around the Nation; Bohemian Club Ordered To Begin Hiring Women, The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/17/us/around-the-nation-bohemian-club-ordered-to-begin-hiring-women.html
RETREAT MAY BE CLUB'S LAST WITHOUT WOMEN, The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/08/us/retreat-may-be-club-s-last-without-women.html
Weaving Spiders, Come Not Here: Bohemian Grove - Inside the Secret Retreat of the Power Elite (Archive of Mother Jones) https://books.google.com/books?id=teYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q&f=false
My Summer Job at the Bohemian Grove, Serving Milkshakes to the Shitfaced Global Elite: https://gawker.com/my-summer-job-at-the-bohemian-grove-serving-milkshakes-1763551409
Joe Rogan & Jon Ronson on Alex Jones Connection to Trump, Bohemian Grove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLGIzzGodrc
The Men Who Stare at Goats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Men_Who_Stare_at_Goats
The Most Secretive Club in America - Atomic bombs, giant owls and the president’s pissing tree, deep in a forest north of San Francisco, The Bold Italic: https://thebolditalic.com/the-most-secretive-club-in-america-486c7607694b
Photo of the fire ceremony: https://www.spectatornews.com/opinion/2017/09/conspiracy-theories-uncovering-americas-secrets-2/
Full text of book by Professor C.William Domhoff - https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/FC/FC8AEB056C2C32F10AFC327BA91F4A45_The_Bohemian_Grove_and_Other_Retreats.rtf.pdf
A map of Bohemian Grove, the place where masters of the universe play summer camp - A cute look at the campground conspiracy theorists are obsessed with. Vox: https://www.vox.com/2015/10/2/9439703/bohemian-grove-map
Creepy Photos: http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/bohemian-grove-conspiracy-sinister-occult-photographs-from-the-turn-of-the-20th-century/
Bohemian Grove Exposed - Photos: http://bohemiangroveexposed.com/photos/
Book: "Bohemian Grove: Cult of Conspiracy" by Mike Hanson: https://amzn.to/3uH61Vk
Open Mike: First-time author details clandestine exploits infiltrating secret society, The Gonzalez Enquirer: http://www.gonzalesinquirer.com/stories/open-mike-first-time-author-details-clandestine-exploits-infiltrating-secret-society,7453
Inside One Photographer’s Quest to Infiltrate Bohemian Grove, the Secret Annual Gathering of America’s Most Powerful Men. The near-mythical annual meeting has fascinated conspiracy theorists for years—and is the subject of a new book. ArtNet: https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/jack-lathan-parliament-owls-1610254
Secrets Members Of Bohemian Grove Don't Want Revealed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ4YGYSsVfE
Bohemian Grove, Love the Truth: http://www.lovethetruth.co.uk/bohemian-grove.html
