Suspicion toward secret groups is nothing new. Moments of political upheaval have repeatedly sparked claims that unseen ...

The ivy-covered walls of America's oldest universities hold more than lecture halls and libraries. They conceal secrets. For centuries, exclusive and clandestine organizations have operated just ...

Belief that a ‘corrupt elite is secretly running the world’ is one of the longest-running and most widespread conspiracy theories of our time ...

The Max documentary 'Bama Rush' sheds light on the secretive University of Alabama society, The Machine Lynsey Eidell is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her ...

In the fall of 1875, a convention met in Raleigh, North Carolina, intending to gut the state's 1868 Reconstruction constitution. The convention's Democratic majority would have preferred to repeal the ...

In the first episode of The Bruno Brief’s series on myths at Brown, Elysee Barakett, Bruno Brief producer and staff writer, and Daphne Dluzniewski, producer and senior staff writer, talk about their ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The authors both wrote novels about secret societies, and the similarities don't end there. They sat down to talk about why we find the ...

Yale has Skull and Bones. Dartmouth has Sphinx. Harvard has the Porcellian Club. And for more than half a century, MIT had Osiris. “We meet in the name of Osiris.” With these words, solemnly intoned, ...

On the storied ivy-laden, well-manicured grounds of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., something secretive is going on. Granted, this cradle of American intellectualism has long been the keeper of ...