Marrs: Now, I don’t want anybody [to] get the wrong idea… I’m not saying that all Masons are sinister conspirators- it’s not the case at all. But what Masonic historians and authors have made very, very plain is that within Freemasonry there is a small inner core, an inner circle if you will, of people who have some knowledge of the true agenda, and then you have a huge outer circle that basically doesn’t even know the inner circle exists.  

Narrator: Who are the handful of men inside this so-called inner circle? To find the answer, conspiracy advocates point to one secret society in continuous existence since 1832.

Marrs: Skull and Bones is a springboard for a young man to be brought in, trained, conditioned, imbued with these doctrines, and then placed into positions of power to carry out the agenda of the older secret societies. Icke: The ratio of Skull and Bones members who go on to significant positions of power either in front of the camera or behind it is enormous. The Skull and Bones society does not operate in isolation; it is a strand within the greater web, and an important one in America. Presidents are not elected by ballot; they are selected by blood.

Narrator: When we continue, the bizarre rituals of the Skull and Bones society and the elite membership that performs them. Rosenbaum: You were supposed to be able to hear screams, blood-curdling screams, coming out of The Tomb of the Skull and Bones.

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Narrator: The Skull and Bones society is founded in 1832 by 15 seniors at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. They establish a secret society with rules and rituals that remain unchanged to this day.

Rosenbaum: Secrecy has always been extremely important to Skull and Bones but there’s been a schizophrenic kind of aspect to it. For instance, you know, throughout the early 1900s the New York Times would often publish, sometimes on the front page, the names of the new Skull and Bones initiates. And the Yale classbooks, would, up unto the 1960s, publish the names of each class of Skull and Bones. Still, even though their identities were known, what they did inside the Tomb was still supposed to be top secret.

Narrator: The Tomb is the Skull and Bones clubhouse, a 3 story almost windowless brownstone on High Street.

Rosenbaum: When I was an undergraduate, I lived next to it. It’s a very spooky kind of place, and you could project all sorts of fantasies about what sort of spooky and horrific things were going on inside, just from the sense it gave, of the intimidating kind of aura it had.

Narrator: Ten years after he graduates in 1968, Ron Rosenbaum sets out to penetrate the confines of this secret society.

Rosenbaum: You would hear all sorts of stories about the initiations that went on, the kind of horrific psychodramas that they would put the initiates through. You were supposed to be able to hear screams, blood-curdling screams, coming out of The Tomb of the Skull and Bones. And there were tales of strange sexual confession encounter groups, guys lying naked in coffins, wrestling in mudpiles….

Narrator: Rosenbaum attempts to interview the Bonesmen themselves, but most refuse. Instead, he gathers information from people close to the members, particularly girlfriends who have been given secret information and some of whom had even been allowed inside. They describe an interior with all the