THE ILLUMINATI: REAL HISTORY AND THE CONSPIRACY THAT NEVER DIED
Episode 10 | History's Mysteries — Secret Societies & Conspiracies
In this Mystery episode we focus on the Illuminati — a Bavarian secret society founded in 1776 with five members, shut down by the government ten years later, and supposedly still controlling the world today.
This episode tells both stories: the real Illuminati — Adam Weishaupt's Enlightenment reading club that lasted a decade and achieved nothing — and the mythology that has absorbed every generation's anxieties since, from the 1797 pamphlets that blamed the French Revolution on Masonic scheming to the social media claims…
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