You think this is a secret cult in the woods plotting world domination.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not what you think.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s worse.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But also\u2026 somehow much dumber.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bohemian Grove conspiracy sounds like peak weird conspiracies internet lore \u2014 presidents, billionaires, media titans, and captains of industry gathering in strict secrecy beneath a 40-foot owl statue in Northern California. And yes. That part is real.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But what actually happens at Bohemian Grove isn\u2019t a clean villain monologue situation. It\u2019s a chaotic mix of global power, summer camp energy, theatrical rituals, whiskey, frog skits, and the legally celebrated freedom to pee on redwood trees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Welcome to the Stupiracy podcast \u2013 presented by Carstar<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 where this week\u2019s weird history episode dives headfirst into one of the most bizarre history rabbit holes in America.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Bohemian Grove conspiracy centers on a 2,700-acre private campground owned by the Bohemian Club, founded in 1878. Every July, private jets quietly flood Sonoma County. Security locks down. And some of the most powerful men in American political and corporate history disappear into the woods.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ronald Reagan. Yes. That Jimmy Buffett. <\/p>\n And once inside? <\/p>\n They perform the Cremation of Care ceremony \u2014 a ritual where robed members gather before a giant owl statue and symbolically burn an effigy called \u201cCare\u201d to free themselves from worldly concerns. <\/p>\n That\u2019s either: <\/p>\n A sinister secret society ritual And here\u2019s where the Bohemian Grove conspiracy stops being internet lore and turns into crazy true history: <\/p>\n In 1942, a meeting at Bohemian Grove helped lay groundwork for the Manhattan Project. The atomic bomb. <\/p>\n Yes. The groundwork for one of the most world-altering weapons in human history traces back to a secretive encampment in the redwoods.\u00a0<\/p>\n So is this a shadow government summit where elite agendas are shaped?\u00a0<\/p>\n Or is it just a fraternity party for Fortune 500 executives who never emotionally left college?\u00a0<\/p>\n This episode unpacks: <\/p>\n The patron saint of secrecy with his finger to his lips We explore whether the Bohemian Grove conspiracy is one of the great debunked conspiracies\u2026 or just one of the most unbelievable historical events hiding in plain sight.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you love weird history, historical oddities, ridiculous historical facts, and history you didn\u2019t learn in school, this is your episode of Stupiracy \u2013 Presented by\u00a0CARSTAR<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 your auto body repair experts \u2013 locally owned with a nationwide guarantee. <\/p>\n This is history meets comedy.<\/p>\n This is conspiracy comedy.<\/p>\n This is a comedy history podcast asking:\u00a0<\/p>\n Is it a cult?<\/p>\n Is it a summer camp?<\/p>\n Is it both?\u00a0<\/p>\n And why is there always an owl. <\/p>\n Now listen carefully.<\/p>\n If you made it this far and you\u2019re not following the show, that\u2019s suspicious. Very suspicious. Subscribe immediately. Leave a five-star review like you\u2019ve just been invited to a secret encampment in July. The owl is watching. The redwoods are judging. And we absolutely track who refuses to click \u201cfollow.\u201d Don\u2019t make this weird. Just join the club.\u00a0<\/p>\n See Privacy Policy at https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy<\/a> and California Privacy Notice at https:\/\/art19.com\/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You think this is a secret cult in the woods plotting world domination.\u00a0 It\u2019s not what you think.\u00a0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-146304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGeorge H.W. Bush.
\nGerald Ford.
\nEisenhower.
\nRockefellers.
\nWilliam Randolph Hearst.
\nClint Eastwood.
\nWalter Cronkite.
\nJimmy Buffett. <\/p>\n
\nA theatrical arts camp fever dream
\nOr history gone wrong with a production budget\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nThe 33-year membership waitlist
\nThe owl symbolism and conspiracy stories around it
\nThe documented Manhattan Project meeting
\nThe Cremation of Care ritual
\nAnd the persistent belief that a small circle of powerful men are quietly steering history\u00a0<\/p>\n