Category: Miscellaneous

For close to two centuries, if not longer, initiation into fraternal secret societies has been described throughout the English-speaking world as “riding the goat.” The…

The rise of the Whiteboys movement in southern Ireland in the late eighteenth century inspired Irish farmers and labourers throughout the island to consider secret…

(Latin, “King God.”) According to recent speculative literature, the title held by a group of European aristocratic families allegedly descended from the family lines of…

German singer, journalist, Freemason and secret society founder, (1855–1923). Born in Augsburg, the son of an innkeeper, he began a musical career as a vocalist…

One of the primary methods used by secret societies to conceal their actual origins, retrospective recruitment was defined and satirized by a famous passage in…

One of the features of the 1980s UFO scene was a series of attempts to categorize the entities reported by people who had encountered UFO…

A small village in the hills of southern France, located between the walled medieval city of Carcassonne to the north and the slopes of the…

The precise equivalent of religious heresy in today’s secular scientific culture, the field of rejected knowledge consists of all those beliefs, ideas, and systems of…

At the extreme end of the contemporary alternative-realities spectrum is the claim that an ancient Martian city, made of multicoloured plastic blocks, lies hidden somewhere…

The basic structure of political secret societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the cell system was pioneered by Italian secret societies in the very…