She further alleges that the tombstone is now displayed in a glass case in a room with purple walls, which belongs to a building belonging to the society and called the Tomb. The generous merchant whose philanthropy had established the college which was named after him had died in the British Isles while engaged in business. There is an even more amazing story.Alexandra Robbins alleges in her article for Atlantic Monthly that Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University, that ElihuYale’s gravestone was stolen years ago from its proper setting in Wrexham, Wales. But others belonged to a range of secret societies, from college groups to something called the 'Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo. John Kerry are not only graduates of Yale but also fellow members of the universitys. In fact, a whopping 14 presidents were Freemasons. It will be a field day for conspiracy theorists: President Bush and Sen. Wikimedia Commons A good number of US presidents have belonged to secret societies over the years. Other ghosts are said to haunt the premises but we may never know who they are because the bonesmen are sworn to secrecy. US news Skeletons in the closet While at Yale University, both John Kerry and George Bush joined an elite secret society, the Order of Skull and Bones. Updated Harry Truman (pictured) was a pretty dedicated Freemason. One of the club’s initiation rituals reportedly requires new members to kiss the skull. Legend claims that bonesmen stole the chief’s remains from his burial site at Fort Sill, Oklahoma when a group of them was stationed there during World War I. Geronimo, the Apache chief, reportedly haunts the grounds because it also rumored that the club boasts a skull claimed to be that of Geronimo. Bush (Yale 1968), his father former President George Bush (Yale 1948), and his grandfather Prescott (1917) are among the many famous people that have belonged. Legend has it that the blueprints were read backwards so that the courtyard was built in front facing the street instead of inside the structure. Construction of the windowless Greco-Egyptian style “tomb,” began in 1856 and ended with the addition of its two back towers in 1911. The “bonesmen” as they are known took the skull and the crossbones as their symbol from which they received their nickname. Yale senior William Russell founded Yale’s most famous secret society in 1832, Skulls & Bones, at 64 High Street, dedicated to Eulogia, the goddess of eloquence. The Specters of the Skull and Bones Secret Society Skull and Bones is the only secret society to have a summer home and its own private.
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