The Bohemian Grove Hoax

A documented case of Satanic false flag

My latest article on unz.com, built from my two recent Substack posts (“Belzebuth for Dummies” and “The Satanic False Flag”) generates disappointing commentaries. Some try to put me in one box or another, because I’m trying to think out of the Christian box. Some think I’m attacking Jesus because I’m saying that the Christian God is the Jewish God (which is perfectly orthodox). Some throw at me some Jesus’s words, as if I had ever disparaged Jesus’s wisdom (and what does that have to do with the Trinity?) Some call me an atheist, because they think God is a Christian concept, and you are either a Christian or an atheist. Most commentaries seem to come from people who believe—as I did not so long ago—that Western civilization needs Christianity, and who cannot begin to consider the possibility—which I am now arguing and will continue to argue—that Jewish Power has needed Christianity to conquer Western civilization, and that Christianity has blinded us to the devilish nature of the Jewish God.

And of course, many feel that questioning the concept of Satan is proof of complicity with Satan. Some confuse Satan with demons (the Greeks had no concept of Satan yet were aware of demons). Some think I’m trying to minimize the problem of elite pedophilia. No. What I’m saying is (to quote from my conclusion):

As a fast-growing number of people discover that the government, media and financial world in the U.S. are controlled by Zionists, who has an interest in making as much noise as possible with the alternative message: “The government, media and financial world in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation”? Who has benefited from that operation? Has Donald Trump, by the way, dismantled the Satan-worshipping elite pedophile ring? Is John Podesta in prison? No, but Netanyahu is a regular guest at the White House, and he is allowed to commit the biggest child-sacrifice in history, with Trump’s blessing. QAnon and its SWP mythology has created a smokescreen to conceal from the view of religious-minded patriots Israel’s takeover of the American government.

Perhaps I should have started with a concrete example of what I mean. So here is a textbook case. This is an extended version of a section of my article “Dark Pill” published on unz.com in September 2024.

Alex Jones and the dark secret of the Grove

Alex Jones is famous for his stubborn refusal to even consider the role of Israel in 9/11, the Kennedy assassinations, or any other attack on Western Civilization. He is Mister Inside Job. His rants are replete with “CIA”, “Deep State”, “New World Order”, “Military-Industrial Complex”, “Bilderberg”, “Trilateral Commission”, and other trigger-words calling attention exclusively to the parts played by American Gentiles in the betrayal and destruction of their own country.

One of his early and most influential scoop was his documentary Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove, released twenty-five years ago. The underlying theory of this documentary has two levels. On the one hand, Jones claims that Bohemian Grove is one of the places where the New World Order is being planned in the utmost secrecy. On the other hand, Jones claims that Bohemian Grove is the site of a thousand-year-old satanic cult dedicated to the bloodthirsty god Moloch, involving the sacrifice by fire of a human effigy and “perhaps” actual human sacrifices. This theory has benefitted from an immense circulation worldwide, and has largely contributed to Jones’ reputation. It is still widely taken as serious reporting. Very recently, I was saddened to hear Ken O’Keefe endorse it on X.

I will show you why Jones’ film should normally have ruined his reputation as a trustworthy investigator, and classified him once and for all as a charlatan. Obviously I invite you to watch the film by yourself to form your own opinion (if you have watched it before, watch it again with a critical mind). If you don't want to spend an hour and a half on it, skip the preparations for the expedition (Jones takes his car, Jones checks into a hotel, etc.), the interviews with locals who don't seem to understand what he's talking about, his casual arrival in the club shuttle, and his wanderings through the Grove to avoid security. Go straight to the Cremation of Care ceremony, about an hour into the video.

Here is some information to provide a little context, and allow you to judge the value of Alex Jones’s reporting.

The Bohemian Grove is an estate of redwood forest of some 2,700 acres in Monte Rio, California, belonging to the men-only Bohemian Club of San Francisco (who also owns a six-story clubhouse in downtown San Francisco). Twice every summer, in June and July, hundreds of members and guests gather there for a two-week encampment. On July 15, 2000, Alex Jones and his cameraman, Mike Hanson, infiltrated the Grove and filmed part of the opening ceremony, called “The Cremation of Care”. The grainy video footage was the centerpiece of the above-mentioned documentary. Jones claimed that “The Cremation of Care” was an “ancient Canaanite, Luciferian, Babylon mystery religion ceremony,” which may involve human sacrifice.

The claim is based first and foremost on an exaggeration of the “secrecy” surrounding the Bohemian Grove. Let’s first clarify that Jones and Hanson entered the Bohemian Grove through the main gate, took the club’s shuttle bus to the opening ceremony and then left in the same way, without being searched.

Nor were Jones and Hanson the first journalists to have sneaked into Bohemian Grove. Philip Weiss did so in 1989, and much more successfully, since he came and went there for several days and was able to talk to many of the guests. He wrote in his article, “Inside Bohemian Grove,” published by Spy magazine in November 1989:

Though I regularly violated Grove rule 20 (“Members and guests shall sign the register when arriving at or departing from the Grove”), I was never stopped or questioned. (Another rule forbade cameras outside one’s own camp. I waited till my last day to bring one in.) Indeed, I was able to enjoy most pleasures of the Grove, notably the speeches, songs, elaborate drag shows, endless toasts, prebreakfast gin fizzes, round-the-clock “Nembutals” and other drinks—though I didn’t sleep in the any of the camps or swim naked with like-minded Bohemians in the Russian River at night.

Most shows are prepared and acted by members and guests on the several stages set up in the Grove, and the idea is to have some fun. Speaking of “drag shows”, here is an idea of what it means. Pretty silly, I give you that!

In terms of the “religion” practiced in the Grove, here is all Philip Weiss has to say: “The religion they consecrate is right-wing, laissez-faire and quintessentially western, with some Druid tree worship thrown in for fun.” Or:

You know you are inside the Bohemian Grove when you come down a trail in the woods and hear piano music from amid a group of tents and then round a bend to see a man with a beer in one hand and his penis in the other, urinating into the bushes. This is the most gloried-in ritual of the encampment, the freedom of powerful men to pee wherever they like, a right the club has invoked when trying to fight government anti-sex-discrimination efforts, and one curtailed only when it comes to a few popular redwoods just outside the Dining Circle.

Far from being as secret as Jones claims, the Bohemian Club’s activities are described in several serious works, such as William Domhoff’s Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness (HarperCollins, 1975). Lists of members and guests are readily available.

Founded in 1872, the club began as a gathering for journalists, intellectuals and artists. Jack London and Mark Twain hung out there.

However, the Bohemian Club gradually evolved into a country club for the rich and powerful (famous is optional). Membership costs around $25,000, and the waiting list is very long. Some wait thirty years to get admitted

Members and guests find there an opportunity to socialize in an unformal and bucolic context, without their wives or mistresses (a few prostitutes set up shop in hotels in the neighboring town of Monte Rio, where escapades are always possible). In the Grove, members and guests are divided, according to affinity (and social status), into different camps of varying standards, each with its own identity, name, traditions, history, and, of course, staff.

The Bohemian Grove retreat is punctuated by various outdoor theatrical performances written especially for the occasion and typically involving dozens of members as actors or extras (as only men are accepted into the club, female roles are played by men). Professional entertainers are often invited to share their talents (free of charge).

One of the club’s mottos is borrowed from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: “Weaving spiders come not here.” As Domhoff writes, “It is supposed to warn members not to discuss business and worldly concerns, but only the arts, literature, and other pleasures, within the portals of Bohemia.”[1] No doubt the rule is often infringed: “politicians say there is no place like the Grove to help get a campaign rolling,” writes Philip Weiss. Still, the rule is there. “All play and no work” is the idea.

Another important rule is that whatever is said within the Club is strictly off the public record. It is easy to understand that people tracked by journalists who will not hesitate to make public their private conversations, feel a need for such an environment. Understandably, this rule also generates controversy, as when in 1971, President Nixon, a regular member, was pressured to renounce attending during his presidency. Here he is in 1967, sharing a table with Ronald Reagan, also a long-time member.

The opening ceremony, entitled “The Cremation of Care”, is a theater play with Wagnerian-style orchestra music performed since 1880 (but rewritten several times), including a procession attended by members and guests. “Dull Care”, an expression borrowed from an old English ditty (Begone Dull Care), symbolizes “the concerns and woes that important men supposedly must bear in their daily lives.” During the retreat, Bohemians are invited to “cast your grief to the fires and be strong with the holy trees and the spirit of the Grove.”[2] The performance takes place around the “Great Bohemian Owl”, a 40-foot tall concrete statue, that is the totem of the club. At its feet, Dull Care’s effigy is burned in a coffin by “the Eternal Flame of Fellowship”.

This is a playful form of paganism, a little old-fashioned. No Satanism there, unless you want to call any un-Catholic ritual “satanic”. The Owl is a reference to Greek civilization, being a symbol of Athens from very ancient times. Alex Jones’s claim that the Owl represents the god Moloch is totally groundless. So is, of course, the rumor of human sacrifices; Jones said they “cannot be ruled out”,[3] but the same can be said of unicorns, since you cannot prove a negative. (Ironically, the god Moloch was originally identical with Yahweh, as discussed in my article “The Devil’s Trick: Unmasking the God of Israel”.)

Hanson’s verdict, that “the men who meet here deep in the woods are involved in a vast conspiracy that has but one ultimate aim: global domination,” or his suggestion that the Grove is “a dark conspiracy fueled by the power of, and adoration for, an ancient dark owl God,” are no more than incantations meant to conjure up images in the minds of believers.[4]

The fake rumor of Satanism (or Molochism) at Bohemian Grove simply illustrates the slippery slope of our tendency to view the super-rich and super-powerful as inherently evil and perverse, and to accept without reservation all rumors about them. The more horrific these rumors are, the more credible they seem, and we dispense with looking for any evidence whatsoever.

More importantly, Alex Jones’ Bohemian Grove hoax is a case in point of what I am trying to document: the fabrication of a mega-conspiracy theory that will distract the masses from understanding and reacting to the very real and very ancient conspiracy against Western civilization, that is now reaching its final stage.

Ronald Bernard and the bankers’ black masses

Here is, as an aside, another case in point, which I find useful for training our critical mind.