seamlessly woven into the fabric of our
society and cloaked in secrecy for
centuries these secret organizations are
rumored to include the world’s most
powerful leaders among their ranks
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
explore the cryptic world of secret
societies Knights Templar the Templar
story has been told countless times and
they have been depicted in fiction as
both friends and foes in 2005’s epic
kingdom of heaven they are shown as a
fierce faction with an anti-muslim
sentiment meanwhile the 2004 Disney film
national treasure shows the Knights as
the originators of a massive treasure
that remains hidden the 2006 film
adaptation of The Da Vinci Code expands
on this theme and even connects the
Knights to the legend of the Holy Grail
in reality these representations only
borrow from the truth founded in the
years after the First Crusade the
Templars were originally charged by the
Roman Catholic Church with protecting
Christian pilgrims in the 1100s they
were skilled fighters and early bankers
and wore distinctive red crosses on
their white robes
however secrets and rumors led to their
downfall in 1307 while the Knights are
not a traditional secret society there
are enough myths legends and lore
surrounding the group to keep
storytellers interested for centuries to
come freemasons
similarly the Freemasons have a
widespread reputation that may or may
not be based in fact like the Knights
Templar the Freemasons play an important
role in the storyline of national
treasure as the keepers of the Knights
famous treasure however in the 2001
thriller from Hell the group is
connected to the tale of Jack the Ripper
while the Masons origins are set to be
in the late 16th and early 17th century
there is evidence to suggest they
existed as early as 1390 since then this
group has grown to include roughly 6
million members worldwide and these
members are upstanding citizens who tend
to engage in charity work
the Masons have had a number of
high-profile members
including President George Washington
actor Clark Gable magician Harry Houdini
and even composer Wolfgang Mozart
despite this or perhaps because of it
conspiracy theorists are quick to judge
the group and suspect them of secretly
running the world from the shadows
theeilluminati theeilluminati are
another misunderstood and misrepresented
secret society the group plays an
important and ominous role in the film
Lara Croft Tomb Raider this same trend
is seen again in the 2009 adaptation of
Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons where the
Illuminati are behind an effort to bring
down the Catholic Church it is unclear
if the group is as threatening as its
reputation founded May 1st 1776 in
Germany the Illuminati was a group of
liberal and free thinking men it is said
that the Illuminati’s main goal was
world domination a less menacing way to
describe their supposed purpose is to
say they wanted to unite the world under
one global government while the
Illuminati is said to have met its end
in 1785 some conspiracy theorists
believe the group continues to control
things behind the scenes around the
world and often claim Illuminati ties to
the President of the United States
skullenbones this is another secret
society that was dramatized on film the
2000 film the skulls depicts a similar
group found at an American University
while the 2006 film The Good Shepherd
also uses the group as a plot device in
both films the group is accurately
depicted as a grooming place for the
future elite of America factually
speaking skull and bones is found at
Yale University in Connecticut and was
formed in 1832 each year the group taps
15 students from the junior class to
join and become Bonesmen these people
are generally important figures on
campus initially just men the society
began admitting women in the 1990s it
can count a number of important American
figures as former members including
presidents George HW and George W Bush
Senator John Kerry actor Paul Giamatti
and President William Howard Taft the
group’s members have never been a huge
secret
their activities have been for example a
popular legend says the group has
possessed the stolen skulls of Martin
Van Buren Geronimo and Pancho Villa
though this remains unproven
society and cloaked in secrecy for
centuries these secret organizations are
rumored to include the world’s most
powerful leaders among their ranks
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we
explore the cryptic world of secret
societies Knights Templar the Templar
story has been told countless times and
they have been depicted in fiction as
both friends and foes in 2005’s epic
kingdom of heaven they are shown as a
fierce faction with an anti-muslim
sentiment meanwhile the 2004 Disney film
national treasure shows the Knights as
the originators of a massive treasure
that remains hidden the 2006 film
adaptation of The Da Vinci Code expands
on this theme and even connects the
Knights to the legend of the Holy Grail
in reality these representations only
borrow from the truth founded in the
years after the First Crusade the
Templars were originally charged by the
Roman Catholic Church with protecting
Christian pilgrims in the 1100s they
were skilled fighters and early bankers
and wore distinctive red crosses on
their white robes
however secrets and rumors led to their
downfall in 1307 while the Knights are
not a traditional secret society there
are enough myths legends and lore
surrounding the group to keep
storytellers interested for centuries to
come freemasons
similarly the Freemasons have a
widespread reputation that may or may
not be based in fact like the Knights
Templar the Freemasons play an important
role in the storyline of national
treasure as the keepers of the Knights
famous treasure however in the 2001
thriller from Hell the group is
connected to the tale of Jack the Ripper
while the Masons origins are set to be
in the late 16th and early 17th century
there is evidence to suggest they
existed as early as 1390 since then this
group has grown to include roughly 6
million members worldwide and these
members are upstanding citizens who tend
to engage in charity work
the Masons have had a number of
high-profile members
including President George Washington
actor Clark Gable magician Harry Houdini
and even composer Wolfgang Mozart
despite this or perhaps because of it
conspiracy theorists are quick to judge
the group and suspect them of secretly
running the world from the shadows
theeilluminati theeilluminati are
another misunderstood and misrepresented
secret society the group plays an
important and ominous role in the film
Lara Croft Tomb Raider this same trend
is seen again in the 2009 adaptation of
Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons where the
Illuminati are behind an effort to bring
down the Catholic Church it is unclear
if the group is as threatening as its
reputation founded May 1st 1776 in
Germany the Illuminati was a group of
liberal and free thinking men it is said
that the Illuminati’s main goal was
world domination a less menacing way to
describe their supposed purpose is to
say they wanted to unite the world under
one global government while the
Illuminati is said to have met its end
in 1785 some conspiracy theorists
believe the group continues to control
things behind the scenes around the
world and often claim Illuminati ties to
the President of the United States
skullenbones this is another secret
society that was dramatized on film the
2000 film the skulls depicts a similar
group found at an American University
while the 2006 film The Good Shepherd
also uses the group as a plot device in
both films the group is accurately
depicted as a grooming place for the
future elite of America factually
speaking skull and bones is found at
Yale University in Connecticut and was
formed in 1832 each year the group taps
15 students from the junior class to
join and become Bonesmen these people
are generally important figures on
campus initially just men the society
began admitting women in the 1990s it
can count a number of important American
figures as former members including
presidents George HW and George W Bush
Senator John Kerry actor Paul Giamatti
and President William Howard Taft the
group’s members have never been a huge
secret
their activities have been for example a
popular legend says the group has
possessed the stolen skulls of Martin
Van Buren Geronimo and Pancho Villa
though this remains unproven
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