Cremation of Care
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Oct 19, 2026
Ken HudnallHOST
How they placed the executives of corporations and so on and so forth.
Ken HudnallHOST
He also confirmed the use of rituals, most notably a mock cremation called the Cremation of Care, where they burned an effigy in front of a 40-foot-tall statue of an owl.
Ken HudnallHOST
Weiss didn't see the evidence that these men were meeting in secret to lay out policy, plan wars, or hatch giant mergers.
Ken HudnallHOST
More like a laid-back oddball networking event.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
Because on the first night of camp, these men, the men who run the world, put on robes and hoods, carry a coffin through the dark, and burn human-shaped effigy on an altar in front of a 40-foot concrete owl.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
They call it the cremation of care.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
They've been doing it since 1881.
Tanner JohnsonHOST
The club says it's just theater, just a play, just a fun way to forget your worries for the summer.
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And sometimes the resemblance is less metaphorical than we'd like to believe.
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Take the infamous gathering at Bohemian Grove, a giant stone owl presiding over a mock sacrifice called the Cremation of Care.
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the attendees, US presidents, CEOs, military strategists, the most powerful men on Earth.
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They call it art, tradition, satire.
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Look closely and the signs are often performed, ritualized as spectacle.
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Take Bohemian Grove.
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There, a towering stone owl presides over a mock sacrifice known as the Cremation of Care, a ritual in which the spirit of compassion is symbolically burned.
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This is not fringe conspiracy.
Jason BermasGUEST
I think my oldest one is, like, from 1903, okay? And I'm pretty sure that's the one that has Bromley in his, like, high priest outfit.
Jason BermasGUEST
So Bromley, actually, if you go back prior to the owl, okay, as the deity, as the mascot, you can find pictures of a giant Buddha statue and the Grove members in little druidic outfits like you see during the cremation of Care.
Jason BermasGUEST
If you find those pictures, you'll see the person in the center with the big headdress.
Jason BermasGUEST
That is Uncle George Bromley.
Jason BermasGUEST
One's the music of Bohemian Grove, and it c- if you've got the, the actual thing, it comes in a case, and it actually has a double CD.
Greg CarlwoodHOST
Okay.
Jason BermasGUEST
So you, like, actually have Walter Cronkite doing the cremation of Care in audio, and then you get some of-
Greg CarlwoodHOST
Wow
Alex NewmanGUEST
Uh, a guy I know actually snuck in and got some marvelous video of one of the rituals they do there.
Alex NewmanGUEST
It's called the Cremation of Care.
Alex NewmanGUEST
Uh, it's about a 20-minute video.
Alex NewmanGUEST
You can find it on YouTube.
David GergenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I like the, uh, the folks who come there, and, uh, it's really inappropriate for me to, uh, talk about a, uh, uh, the group beyond that.
Alex NewmanGUEST
Thank you.
Alex NewmanGUEST
Have you been there for the ceremony with, uh, the Cremation of Care?
David GergenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, frankly, that's, uh, that, uh, I don't think that's something I need to talk to you about.
StevenHOST
Um, here it says, uh, some of the rituals that they do here.
StevenHOST
[laughs] The Cremation of Care, which is an opening night theatrical ritual where robed participants burn a mock effigy in front of a 40-foot stone owl statue.
StevenHOST
Theatrical and musical shows, members produce original music, musical comedies, and revenues known as the High Jinks or the Low Jinks.
StevenHOST
Uh, the Lakeside Talks, which is daily talks and lectures delivered by prominent figures on public affairs, science, and poli- uh, policy.
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StevenHOST
What's going on, everybody? Uh, yeah, mock effigy.
StevenHOST
Yeah, the, yeah.
StevenHOST
Yeah, Contemplative said mock effigy, and that's, uh, under the context of the Bohemian Grove when they would actually do what's called the cremation of care, where they would burn an effigy in front of this owl.
StevenHOST
Everybody's kind of seen the Alex Jones footage, right? But Alex Jones is someone who's actually a, a, uh, you know, partaking in the externalization of the hierarchy.
Alex NewmanGUEST
He snuck through the forest [laughs] and, uh, recorded one of their rituals.
Alex NewmanGUEST
It's called the Cremation of Care.
Alex NewmanGUEST
So they have a 40-foot stone owl- The owl is their symbol, and of, and of course, there's a lot of occult significance to that.
Alex NewmanGUEST
But they have this 40-foot stone owl, uh, right by a little pond or a little lake, and they do-- o- one of, one of the rituals they do there is called the Cremation of Care, where they say they're burning up their care.
Alex NewmanGUEST
But, uh, Alex Jones was able to film this ritual.
Alex NewmanGUEST
He posted it online, and so you can see these guys, again, some of the most powerful men in the world.
Jason BermasHOST
And I, I told her that, you know, they kick this thing off in this very odd ceremony where they get into druidic ritualistic grove, or, uh, uh, robes and garb, and they have this, you know, deity behind them.
Jason BermasHOST
But it's called the Cremation of Care, and it's...
Jason BermasHOST
I mean, anybody can go listen to it, read it.
Jason BermasHOST
It is a ritual about sacrificing your conscience on behalf of this larger agenda, of this club.
Jason BermasHOST
... that are involved in the artwork.
Jason BermasHOST
They're heavy on the paintings and the drawings and the sketches and that sort of thing.
Jason BermasHOST
Uh, but there's one that's heavy on the music, and it kind of comes in this secondary case where the other ones don't, and it actually has a double CD of the audio of the Cremation of Care, of some of the happy little show tunes that they do, and all that kind of stuff.
Jason BermasHOST
Uh, so, so these things have always been, you know, pretty enthralling to me.
Dawn MartinGUEST
Alex Jones went there he got to witness something that everybody speculated on it's called the It's a ceremony.
Dawn MartinGUEST
It's called the Cremation of Care Ceremony.
Dawn MartinGUEST
And this is weird.
Dawn MartinGUEST
This is where it gets weird.
Dawn MartinGUEST
It's a very powerful secret society, if you will, of just secrets.
Dawn MartinGUEST
You cannot talk about anything that goes on here, and you'll find out why.
Dawn MartinGUEST
the cremation of care, you will see members that are wearing cloaks and they have their hats on during the ceremonies.
Dawn MartinGUEST
They're carrying around their torches.
Steve StocktonHOST
There's a lot of strange stuff there.
Steve StocktonHOST
Again, the owl, the giant owl, uh, the cremation of Care is the, the ceremony there where they burn, uh, uh, the mock, uh, the, the effigy of, of a human.
Steve StocktonHOST
It's, it's, it's very strange.
Steve StocktonHOST
Now, they try to play it off as it's just, you know, uh, having fun or just, uh...
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