With the combination of secrecy, power, and an elite bias, the Bohemian Grove has been a target for protest for many years. Specifically, the Bohemian Grove Action Network organizes protests and has aided journalists who wish to penetrate the secrecy surrounding the encampment. Over the years, individuals have infiltrated the Grove then later published video and claimed accounts of the activities at Bohemian Grove.
On
July 15,
2000,
Austin,
Texas-based journalist and filmmaker
Alex Jones and his cameraman, Mike Hanson, became the first people to successfully infiltrate the Grove and make it out with documented evidence. With hidden cameras, Jones and Hanson were able to film the
Cremation of Care ritual. The footage was the centerpiece of Jones' documentary, Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove. Jones states that a large number of men were in attendance during an "ancient
Canaanite,
Luciferian,
Babylon mystery religion ceremony" involving a 45-foot statue of an
owl which he named
Moloch.
A fellow
British journalist,
Jon Ronson of
Channel 4, documented his view of the ritual in his book,
Them: Adventures With Extremists. Ronson's interpretation of the ritual was more sanguine; he felt it was a startlingly immature and weird way for world leaders to behave on their summer vacation, but did not see evidence of covert
Satanism.
In the summer of 2005 , a Grove employee named "Kyle" clandestinely shot more revealing footage and sent it to Alex Jones, who made it the centerpiece of a sequel, The Order of Death, which was released in 2005. This new footage reveals the Owl statue is hollow with a stone exterior. The Grove's public address system is controlled from within the statue, which is also apparently used as a storage area. Various effigies of Care were also found here. "Kyle" was also able to obtain two brochures about the festivities and a membership list.
Also filmed for The Order of Death was Jones' return to the entrance of the Bohemian Grove in 2005 where he filmed a protest organized by the Bohemian Grove Action Network that took place at the Grove's entrance on Bohemian Highway, only to discover a majority of the protestors engaging in an "occult counter-ritual", supposedly a counter-ritual against the "Cremation of Care".
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Actor/writer
Harry Shearer (
This is Spinal Tap,
Saturday Night Live), who has attended at least one Bohemian Club event, wrote and directed
The Teddy Bears' Picnic, a
parody of the Bohemian Grove conspiracy.
The Bohemian Grove was also cited in John W. DeCamp's book The Franklin Coverup. Copy of the account straight from the pages of the book can be found here:
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