OC
Weekly
Bohemian
Grove Exposes Itself!
OC
insider reveals dark secrets of
California
club plotting world domination
By
NICK SCHOU
Thursday,
August 31, 2006 - 3:00 pm
For
more than a century, the Bohemian Grove,
a 2,700-acre forest retreat in
Sonoma
County
, has served as the stomping grounds of
California
’s richest men. The private, all-male club, founded in
1872 by a pair of
San Francisco
journalists, has a secret membership whose ironic primary
directive is to never speak with reporters. The secrecy
surrounding the group has given rise to rumors of
homosexuality and bizarre rituals involving satanism and
human sacrifice.
There’s even speculation that the Bohemian Grove is
actually an offshoot of a secret cult stretching back
through history to ancient
Egypt
. Google the group, and you’ll find that its members have
included numerous former
U.S.
presidents and various masters of industry. Dig deeper, and
you’ll discover that it’s actually a playground for an
elite cabal plotting New World Order global domination
alongside the Elders of Zion, Knights Templar, Freemasons
and Illuminati.
The Grove’s motto—“Weaving Spiders Come Not
Here”—taken from a play by Shakespeare, was originally
intended as an admonition against members discussing
business at the club. Yet the Grove’s guest list suggests
that matters of national and even global policy are indeed
discussed there. The most famous example, privately
confirmed by Bohemian Grove members—or “Bohos” as they
refer to themselves—is the Manhattan Project, which
supposedly met there when they decided to drop the A-bomb on
Hiroshima
.
Recent guest speakers at the Grove from the current White
House alone include Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove
and George W. Bush himself. In years past, Ronald Reagan,
Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon are all
known to have attended the festivities. A highlight of the
Bacchanalia is the famed “Cremation of Care” ceremony,
where hooded priests burn a coffin-like effigy in front of a
giant stone statue of an owl. There’s also a Shakespearean
drag ensemble called the “High Jinks” and the “Low
Jinks” comedy festival involving masked performances by
giddy, inebriated politicians. “[I]t is the most faggy
goddamn thing that you would ever imagine,” Nixon later
remarked.
Few outsiders have ever violated the Grove’s heavily
guarded perimeter. The most famous infiltration occurred in
June 2000, when Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist and
Texas-based radio host, penetrated the camp with a video
camera, an episode hilariously captured by British writer
Jon Ronson in his 2002 book, Them:
Adventures With Extremists. Jones managed to film
the “Cremation of Care” ceremony, obtaining a few
minutes of grainy footage of a giant stone owl surrounded by
men in bright robes, the flames from their torches reflected
in a lake, their ominous chanting half-obscured by the
croaking of unseen bullfrogs. “The global elite that
attend the Grove have their fingers on the nuclear launch
codes,” Jones later said. “Is it not therefore in the
interest of the American people and the wider world that the
veil of secrecy which shadows the activities inside the
Bohemian Grove be brought to light and exposed for what it
is?”
In an unprecedented journalistic coup, OC
Weekly recently tracked down a former employee of
the Bohemian Grove. One of the few insiders to ever pull the
veil back from this nefarious conspiracy to enslave mankind,
the Orange County resident begged us not to identify her by
name, out of fear, we presume, that she’d be eliminated by
the secret society’s shadowy leaders.
Tell us something that
only someone who’s been inside the Bohemian Grove would
know.
That owl [statue] is plastic. It’s not a rock.
It’s like what they have at
Disneyland
. Even the rocks around the lake have speakers inside them.
The noise from these mysterious frogs that don’t seem to
get squashed on the road are really speakers. They aren’t
frogs. You go to chase the frog, and it just disappears and
the noise comes from somewhere else. Also, they have hotels
nearby where hookers stay, and members leave the camp to see
them. It’s not something that the club organizes or
condones, but it happens every year.
When did you first learn
about the Bohemian Grove?
When I was a kid, my best friend told me about
it. Both her dad and grandfather were members. She told me
her dad would come home from the Grove every summer with
funny stories about the place. They had all these musicians
up there. She said it was basically band camp for big boys,
a summer camp full of adult musicians and actors. Her family
was really artistic. These were people I had grown up
around. They used to have these singing parties all the
time.
How did you end up
getting a job there?
I went to college in
San Francisco
and didn’t know anybody up there. I met this girl from OC
who said she worked at this private men’s club in
San Francisco
. I asked which one and she said the Bohemian Club, and I
just laughed. It was such a coincidence! It’s actually
called the City Club, but it’s Bohemian. I asked my friend
if they were looking for any help and ended up getting a job
there. I was just trying to pay for college. I didn’t tell
anybody except my friend that I already knew about the
Bohemian Grove.
During the off-season, there isn’t anything happening at
the Grove, but a lot of members hang out at the City Club.
They can get keys and go up to the camp, but if they bring
female guests, they have to be off the grounds by 9 or 10
p.m. I ended up working at the Grove that summer. I rented a
place nearby because they do not provide housing for female
employees, except managers and interns. Guerneville is a gay
resort town. Everybody was really friendly there. I made a
ton of money because I was working really long days. I’d
show up at 7 a.m. and work until 8 at night. I worked in the
Dining Circle
. There was tons of produce and all the liquor in the world,
lots of wine. If someone said, “Hey, we’re out of
Maker’s Mark,” we’d send over another bottle, or 10.
Experts say the Bohemian
Grove is a secret society where world leaders plot global
domination. How exciting was it to be around global
plot-hatchers all summer?
It was just a bunch of rich guys hanging out and
partying. You have all these different camps inside with
different names like a fraternity system. They have a camp
for the guys who do the lighting for the Cremation of Care,
one for the entertainers, one for guys from Stanford. The
Cremation of Care is the kickoff ceremony and has the same
basic script every year. Care is a great big monster and the
guys try to burn Care so they can party for three weeks. And
Care says, “You can’t kill me; I’ll be back in three
weeks!” and at the end of three weeks they have to go back
to their jobs and Care returns.
Other than that, they all just spend weeks getting drunk and
playing music, drinking at the bar. It’s not as important
as everyone makes it sound. You’re working for a bunch of
old guys, and occasionally you recognize one from television
or whatever. Some famous musician might be playing at one of
the camps, and they’d listen for a while and then fall
down drunk and pass out. There are always guys walking
around pissing on trees. They have these plays where the men
dress up like women and entertain the other men.
Some of this stuff
sounds pretty homoerotic. Does the club allow gays to join?
Sure, of course. It’s an artistic club, so
that’d be hard to avoid. There are members who are less
accepting of this than others. But in general, it’s like
any club where you are asked to pay high dues. You’re
going to have more old white guys than anyone else, but
there are all kinds of other races represented too. It has
about 2,700 members. You can’t get wait-listed to join
until you’re 21 years old, but there’s a 15- to 20-year
waiting list. There’s a newsletter sent out on who wants
to join, and if three people don’t want you, you have to
reapply.
The reason people are so suspicious about the Bohemian Grove
is they don’t know anything about it and the members are
really secretive. Journalists can’t join the club. And
they don’t respond to any of the rumors because they
don’t want the attention. There are always these
protesters outside chanting “Racist, sexist and
anti-gay,” and that’s just ridiculous. As far as the
club not allowing women to join, I don’t have a problem
with that either. If you threw 3,000 women into the forest
with all these guys pissing on trees for three weeks, it’d
be chaos.
NSCHOU@OCWEEKLY.COM
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