Parkers listeners. We realise that there is a lot of hard cash shows tissues from each day and sometimes not enough time to sort through them. All. That's why we introduced park ass daily, where we filtered through all of your favorite parka, shows too high Might one timely and relevant episode preparing each day? Today's episode, park. Ass daily covers bohemian grove, a campground said to attract more than just go stories and small yours. If you show on time and still want her daily dose of park. Follow Park, ass, daily free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast. In January, two thousand to one and set out to accomplish, with no other person, had managed to do before exposed the truth of the bohemian club. A secluded

highly secretive men only club with headquarters in the redwoods of California on his quest, he bounded through the forest, his moniker, the Phantom Patriot, was painted in red across his chest. He wore a rubber skeleton mask to protect his identity, to protect his life he wore a bullet proof vast. He was expecting resistance. He carried a shot assault rifle hybrid, a sword, a pistol across bow a knife and a homemade bomb launcher. What he wasn't prepared for was the dark. When his flashlight went out. There was a reason the club made their home on a twenty seven hundred acre highly protected private parcel.

The redwoods. They don't want to be found. But when morning came the phantom Patriot couldn't believe where he was in the heart of the grove a thirty foot. Stone owl stood before him. It was the sin of their ceremonies, what atrocities were plotted or committed on these grounds, the blueprints for the atomic bomb strategy for a new world order, pagan rituals, child abuse and human sacrifice. They had to be stopped. So the Phantom Patriot said fire to their recall. He was arrested shortly after and his bail was set at five hundred thousand dollars his real name, Richard Mc Caslon,

The thirty seven year old told reporters exactly what he was hoping to achieve. I felt if physical damage was inflicted upon them and it got enough attention. The american people would rise welcome to conspiracy theories apart, cast original everyone's we dig into the complicated stories behind the world's most controversial events in search for the truth, I'm Carter and I Molly Brandenburg can, and neither of us are conspiracy theorists, but we are open, minded skeptical and curious. Dont get us wrong. Sometimes the official version the truth. Sometimes it's not. You can find episodes of conspiracy theories and all other Parkhurst originals for free,

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will also examine those men and women who continue to protest. The clubs existence as well as the journalist and reporters who have desperately trying to gain entrance next week will discuss some conspiracy theory surrounding the bohemian club, where they responsible for the Manhattan project which develop the atomic bomb. Are they creating a new world order for a global dominance, and today actually practice human sacrifice The signs are posted everywhere: private property, no trespassing security, cameras line, the trees, metal gates, block the road guardsman, the outposts. All hours the bohemian club has made one thing crystal clear: if you work on their land. They will have you arrested.

And under United States law. They have every right to do so, but it's exactly this level of security and secrecy that has given rise to suspicion. What happens inside the bohemian grove? More importantly, why don't they want the world to know? here is what we can say for sure the bohemian Grove is located in Monterrey, YO, California, just a couple miles north San Francisco, it serves is home to the bohemian club more than one hundred and fifty year old, secret fraternity, the property spans twenty seven honey acres and is located in the heart of the redwood forests. More than one hundred different campsites on the grounds, all of which situated around a central feature: a man, made lake, watching

over the lake is a shrine depicting a thirty foot stone owl weathered from age. It sits, atop, a giant stone. Staircase nested in the trees and looms over an impressive fire pit. If you want to see their grounds for yourself. Have your pocketbook ready, because joining the bohemian club is cheap. The initiation fee alone was twenty five thousand dollars in two thousand nine, and that's before your annual dues. But alone won't gain you entry in order to be considered. You must be right amended by a number of its members. Lester Be relegated to the White list, which is rumoured to be fifteen years along and, of course, you're going to need to be

a man today there are somewhere around two thousand five hundred members, some of which are allowed to bring guests of note. We think you'll be familiar with me, the clubs, members and guests names on the list include Hearst, Roosevelt Eastwood TWAIN, Bush, Cronkite, Cheney, Crosbie, London Reagan, Nixon Ford, Mirror Powell, Rumsfeld, Schwab, Hoover, Scalia and Kissinger membership is so difficult to secure that rumor has it even our current sitting, President Donald Tromp has never been invited in order to get a sense of just how far the club has come. Let's travel back to its founding in

and Francisco in eighteen. Seventy two in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century bohemianism. Was trending in a big way about human lifestyle, means taking pleasure in art, revelry and hedonism, and is often associated with frugality impoverishment and an anti establishment world view. The bohemian were actors, writers paint There's an musicians who prided themselves on being until her to worldly possessions, some might call them hipsters or hippies. In theory, bohemians were often spiritual in practice. However, if they worshiped indulgence In eighteen, seventy two and dimly lit room in San Francisco, a group of bohemian journey. Must begin hosting gatherings for other, like minded men interested in the arts, but it was

mostly an excuse to imbibe, while raging against the conservative politics. The day it wasn't, law before their revelry caught the attention of other Borgo orders, men who suffer good time. They were having and asked to partake, though these new ten, these love teen ism. They shared little else with the bohemians. Air pockets were lined with money, but why turn them away, especially if they are going to foot the bill? The bohemian artists dub their new friends, men of use and referred to themselves as men of talent, the name seem to suggest a hierarchy of priorities. Talent came first, money was

systemic convenience and they were happy to manipulate the system, but whatever their priorities were they seem to shift the bohemians realise just how much money can actually by their party became more lavish and, in turn, more desirable and nothing fuels desire more than exclusivity. You always want what you can't have so the club became more selective and raise their barrier for entry time around eighteen, eighty seven entrance fee, were set at one hundred dollars a person the equivalent of around twenty Seven hundred dollars today monthly dues, where the equivalent of ninety dollars the club seem should all of their bohemian ideals except one ideals except one, their love of partying and by hundred ninety three, they started renting a portion

The redwood forest from the Sonoma Lumber Company to use as a gateway eighteen o one they purchased a hundred and sixty acres- that power Of land would eventually expand to the twenty seven hundred acres than it is today. That's four point: square miles more than three times the size of New York Central Park, as did within those four did acres or a number of different sub camps. The most important are the in gathering areas. The grove stage a two thousand seed outdoor amphitheatre, the campfire circle, a large fire pit, surrounded by benches carved from redwoods the clubhouse, a multi purpose, entertainment and dining facility. He and, of course, the heart of it all the owl shrine and the lake the these only account for a small portion of the groves land member,

and gas are free to Rome about the forested grounds and lose themselves amongst the trees there within the freedom of the forest. Far from witness or worry, the Debaucheries bohemian club could become legend and as the myths grew it peak. The interest and some powerful figures in the early twentieth century, attendees started, to include men like President Herbert Hoover and as more attention was paid to the grove, the clubs, privacy measures only increased the press became a distinctly unwelcome, gassed all forms of cameras, videos or tape recordings. Were and everything that happened in the grove went entirely off the record. Its members and guest were sworn to secrecy by nineteen. Thirty eight

total media blackout began, and even the official story becomes hearsay, except for financial records. Thing to the group status as a five or one c, seven social organisation Meaning there actually exempt from federal taxes, their finances have to be available to the public and those records highlight the irony of the group's bohemian routes. As we ve said, the entrance fee is currently set to twenty five thousand dollars, but in two thousand seventeen, the Bohemia clubs total revenue was just shy of ten million dollars. Their total Sets where more than twenty million and that's what was reported to the IRS? It's interesting to note that their numbers have remained suspiciously consistent over the years into

thousand eleven. Their total revenue was ten million dollars in their assets were eighteen million dollars. You'd expect peaks and dips as the economy flow is an ebbs bad. The bohemian clubs official holdings in suspiciously, steady and when see, owes CFO in financial executives like billionaire Chow Schwab, are members of the club some question: what wealth the boat he means are hiding overseas or what tax breaks their able to secure after all, for them helped pen the laws. Apart from these financial records, everything else we know is thanks to a few brave men and women who risked their freedom to infiltrate the bohemian grove and some have faced dire consequences for uncovering the secrets,

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