Parker Listeners, I'm thrilled to tell you about another fantastic show of innocent. I are hosting called secret societies every Thursday catch a glimpse inside the world of assassin groups powerful cabal and about your as high society clubs, if you're a fan of cults or serial killers, you'll love, discovering the diabolical beliefs and radical actions. You were never supposed to know about ready to find out more enjoy this exclusive clip from the first episode on yells, mysterious skull and bones fraternity. If you want to listen to the full episode, follow secrets free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast, something to note about secret societies. All of the groups covered This show operate in secret. The detail

included in this episode are based on extensive research, but ultimately can never be one hundred per cent verified except by society, members themselves for every kernel of truth, there's a swathe of misinformation strategically crafted by each group to protect their true goals and practices. In April of nineteen, sixty six sophomore student drawn Rosenbaum walked home to his yield. Dorm with his friend MIKE was the middle of the night after two a m when they passed the skull and bones to a looming. Windowless structure MIKE suddenly stopped he grabbed runs arm and pointed to the front door. Something sat on the doorstep, a white baton in the gloomy. Darkness. It was a long bone of femur. Probably

IRAN who was already turned off by the skull and bones difficult, took a step back and whispered to MIKE come on. Let's just go to his horror MIKE bounded up the tomb steps and scooped up the white bone. Then he stepped even closer to inspect the triple padlock on the front door. Ron felt every hair stand up on the back of his neck. He called out again MIKE, don't suddenly the triple padlocks click, click click, the iron door opened and a hand shot out from the darkness it wrenched the bone out of MIKE's grasp then disappeared just quickly the heavy door slammed shut that the locks clicked back into place still caught in a confusing cocktail of fight or flight. Mike slowly retreated back down

steps wrong. Just shook his head to flustered to speak to overwhelmed for an, I told you so neither was quite sure what date intruded on just that was a secret one. They would never be invited to understand on that run. Rosenbaum would spend the rest of his life trying to expand hi, I'm Vanessa Richardson on Gregg pulsing, and this is secret societies a park hast original every Thursday we examine history most exclusive organizations from around the world and try to In a light on the truth, behind these mysterious groups from Illuminati to the black hand, to the oars of the nine angles will explore how much impact

secret society actually had on the way world around them in our first episode, will give you the facts at least all the facts. We can verify why each group was found did how they recruited new members. There now creation rituals and the secret me behind their symbols, known only to the loyal in part two. Examined. Some of the alleged actions of each group will try to part What's real from what's rumour as we explore some of the most popular theories surrounding each secret society today were taking a deep dive into the skull and bone society, did at Yale University in eighteen. Thirty, two previous members include titans of industry, business, elite and world political leaders in including three? U S president's with such a distinguished membership, lest many believe that the skull and bones aside

He is committed to creating a new world order through a vast connection of well placed bones. Men will explore this next week as well as but the other theories about their actions, such as their lead, involvement in the creation of the CIA. The skull and bones are unique from more conventional secret societies. The rest of these goods see or Illuminati easier Freemasons. Your triads are forced to bread in the shadows because of their high stakes, supposedly world altering agendas, but the skull and bones. On the surface there, just a group of college kids, basically fraternity So where do these accusations of attempted world domination come from? It has more to do with what

when men do after they leave Yale bondsmen, have infiltrated the financial sector, mass media, higher education, public policy, think tanks, business industry and all three just at the? U S: government, when you examine the roster skull and bones you'll find that members come from somebody oldest wealthiest families in the nation and go on to fill some of the most prominent public roles of power, as Doktor Antony See sudden author of America's secret establishment questioned, they swear to take care of each other's interests and they Do it that in the normal conduct of life, is probably okay, but when one of them becomes the president of the United States it's time to ask questions. What have use, worn to do for your brother's. If the members of a go and bones are trying to implement some kind of vast conspiracy. There certainly well placed to do so. They could ostensibly idea

fine issue in the business sector device a piece of public policy, the legislation lobby it through the government then spend their own reporting through the news media through the chain of bones men. Every area could be connected, but is it all just coincidence members, insist that if bones men are well positioned in the world after graduation, it simply means that they inducted the best candidates. Yale had offer men who were already destined for greatness. Then why keep everything shrouded in secrecy? Bondsmen more publicly acknowledge their membership, which is lifelong and I supposed to leave the room. If someone so much as mentions the group, they won't revealed, anyone what goes on in their headquarters and none

members are strictly forbidden from entering their tomb, and some people believe that their impenetrable iron curtain is a safety measure to protect their true goals from public knowledge. However, that portion of the bones Those might actually be explained by yields own history, There are several secret societies at Yale, Bow and bones as the oldest stand. Arguably the most storied were these societies emerged out of the schools, long history of organised, delete, ism and rigid culture of classes inside Nineteen o one Yale college was the Third university established in the United States, it was initially founded as a ministerial school tasked with training ministers for the State of Connecticut, who would then serve as them. World leaders of their communities at the time,

The only other ministerial school in New England was Harvard, but a group of puritan leaders felt that the education style air was becoming to modern and string too far from the orthodoxy Oh, they founded Yale Ass, a more traditional conservative institution Yale men were therefore expected to follow strict guidelines of conduct. They were forbidden from Lee their dorm rooms without proper attire from speaking superior without first being spoken to from running in the quad. The list goes on and on the students are. Also bound by a rigid social hierarchy. As Alexander Robins detail, in her book on the skull and bones secrets of the tomb students were linked by their social cash, not their academic performance. She explained student at the top of the class had fathers who held high civil office at the bottom were sons of farmers, merchants, mariners and artisans.

Ranking, determined every aspect of a student's life at Yale, from where they sat in class to where they were housed in what order they were announced at graduation? It was pre determined before a student stepped foot. Campus and was nearly impossible to improve. Beyond that All freshmen were seen as the lowest of the low, with the most rules to follow. They couldn't wear hats or carry canes both status symbols of the time they couldn't adjust. Senior students, by any kind of familiar name only as sir, this rigid caste system and courage, rampant hazing on campus, two as trimming the upper classmen believed it was their duty to improve the lowly freshmen and mould them into proper Yale man. Any freshmen found in violation of any rule could be trimmed by an upper classes.

In any manner that they deemed fit of a university approved trimming until the mid eighteen hundreds seeing it as an effective method of enforcing their strict code, conduct. One administrators said that if trimming was abolished, the new freshmen would subject the higher classes to cars. In scurrility lessen their manhood and dignity, reduce all to an equal rudeness. And render Yale a mere common school, of course. With any hazing practice, this power was often abused in one story, a freshman was report Lee dragged from his dorm and out into the woods, stripped naked covered in paint and forced to have his head shaved in this culture of fear and systemic oppression low rankings. Didn't look for opportunities to distinguish themselves academically, thereby

engendering some loyalty, respect and ideally, protection from the upper class men in the late seventeen hundreds students found these opportunities and literary societies. These open groups held weekly meetings. Students gave speeches recited poems performed, plays and debated topics of the day, but over time The campus was overrun by these societies. Nearly every student was a member of at least one. They lost any feeling of specialness. If anyone could join what was the point, so some of the groups went underground, forming the first secret societies at EL. By limiting the membership, it gave students a place to establish themselves, as even Are there above yields? Elite students, the elite of the elite, would be secret clubs, undoubtedly inspired by other real secret societies of the era groups like the

minority and Freemasons were well known, and the United States by as we said earlier, that secret nature of these groups was born out, of necessity to their cause, This wasn't the case at all. At Yale, their secrecy was motive did by Ellida, some sociologist and we similar road extensively about secret keeping and secret societies. He found that secrets tap into a crime or human need for information. If something is being kept, a secret it subconsciously index to us that the information is valuable. Therefore, the secret keeper. Are in possession of something worthy of coveting cereals secret societies, which were really no more than study groups with a secret handshake manufactured value by operating in secret, the secret societies quickly overtook all other groups and prestige. Simply by closing their doors and shuddering their blinds being

and the secret became the new indicator of your social status. But in eight, in twenty six public opinion of grid societies in America, dramatically turned with the kidnapping and ledged murder of a man named William Morgan, he threatened to expose the rich. Tools and secrets of the Freemasons in a book after he was denied. Entry at his local Masonic Lodge Sue after the announcement he vanished public assumed that members of the Freemasons killed Morgan to keep him quiet as the story gain traction Morgan's publisher decided to go ahead with the release of the Look exposing the Mason secrets. The best selling book, combined with Morgan's death, sparked a widespread anti masonic damn lodges. All over New England were shuddered in eighteen. Twenty eight

the Anti Masonic Party was founded as the first single issue. Third party political faction in the: U S by eight. In thirty two, this outrage trickled down to the collegiate level the Yale administration singled out the most popular and most exclusive secret society on campus, five beta, kappa, very forced pay, bouquet reveal their membership lists, the ritual practices and the meanings behind their symbols likely unmask king of the great powerful OZ, when the mystery behind the group was stripped of ay, so was their prestige. First several years. P B K disappeared entirely from Yale Campus and in this way, You, the skull and bone society was born

in short order. It became the most influential organization on campus to find out what happens next: listen to secret societies, free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.