Category: Secret Societies

A short-lived but influential British Druid order, the AAOD was founded in 1874 by Robert Wentworth Little (1840–78), an avid Freemason who also founded the…

A secret society organized and operated by the US government, the American Protective League was founded in 1917 after the American declaration of war on…

Founded at Clinton, Iowa in 1887, the APA was an anti-Catholic secret society motivated by fears that the Roman Catholic Church sought to dominate American…

A competitor to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the American Order of Clansmen was founded in San Francisco in 1915 as a “patriotic,…

In some nineteenth- and twentieth-century conspiracy theories, the name of a secret society conspiring to overthrow monarchy and private property across Europe. The name is…

Founded in 1923 in Memphis, Tennessee, the All-American Association was one of many organizations that rose in opposition to the revived Ku Klux Klan. Its…

Like other traditional societies around the world, the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa possess a rich and varied body of secret society traditions, many of which…

The forced transportation of millions of Africans into slavery in the New World set in motion an important but muchneglected tradition of secret societies. The…

The Fraternity of Saturni was an influential occult group in Germany before World War II that accepted many of Aleister Crowley’s teachings and was led…

Get to know the real Illuminati. Sorting fact from fiction to confront the truth about this secret society. The Illuminati dominates any discussion of secret…