num_pages: 400
description: Did you know? Freemasonry's first American lodge included a young Benjamin Franklin among its members. The Knights Templar began as impoverished warrior monks then evolved into bankers. Groom Lake Dreamland Homey Airport Paradise Ranch The Farm Watertown Strip Red Square The Box are all names for Area 51.An indispensable guide Cults Conspiracies and Secret Societies connects the dots and sets the record straight on a host of greedy gurus and murderous messiahs crepuscular cabals and suspicious coincidences. Some topics are familiarthe Kennedy assassinations the Bilderberg Group the Illuminati the People's Temple and Heaven's Gateand some surprising like Oulipo a select group of intellectuals who created wild formulas for creating literary masterpieces and the Chauffeurs an eighteenth-century society of French home invaders who set fire to their victims' feet.
language: English
title: Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World Order, and many, many more
publisher: Vintage