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Uncovering Mysterious Sites, Symbols, and Societies


The doors of some of the world's best-hidden places and most secretive organizations have now been thrown wide open! Some of the names are familiar: Area 51, Yale's Skull and Bones, Opus Dei, the Esalen Institute. Others are more obscure, hidden by fate or purposeful deception, such as the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center, the super-secure facility where Vice President Dick Cheney was secreted after the 9/11 attacks, and Germany's Wewelsburg Castle, which was intended to become the mythological centerpiece of the Nazi Regime. Readers can take an unprecedented look deep inside the off-the-map military installations and shadowy organizations that operate in the murkiest corners of our world.





Archive for December, 2009
December 31st, 2009

Our sources revealed (some of them anyway)

With the passing of the old year and the arrival of 2010, Gerald and I have decided to fess up. Given the clamor from friends and foes about the nature of the sources we used in the research phase of our book, we have decided to provide some detail below. (Fussy antiquarians will recall that, [...]

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December 10th, 2009

Noble powder of Jacobites, Despised by tyrants

Your evocative illustration of Gawith’s snuff on your last post and reference to “clouds of snuff” took me back nostalgically to my own snuff-taking days. For anyone interested in the lore of this form of self-indulgence, the virtually unobtainable volume Snuff Yesterday and Today, by C W Shepherd is a vade mecum. Published in London [...]

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