- This week on BuzzFeed Unsolved
we're covering the Illuminati.
Is is a real thing?
What the hell is it?
- It's not a thing.
- Alright, approach it with an
open mind, let's get started.
- Great.
- [Ryan] Shockingly,
the Illuminati actually
has a very real historical foundation.
In 1776, in Bavaria, Germany,
Adam Weishaupt, a German professor,
inspired the ideal of French philosophy.
Mainly secularism and rational thought,
decided to form an organization
to protect those beliefs.
Adam Weishaupt considered
joining the freemasons
to help propagate his
views but unfortunately,
could not afford the admission fee.
(laughter)
So instead, Weishaupt formed
a secret group of his own.
He called it, The Order of the Illuminati.
I don't think they met by the train tracks
it was probably a
basement, kinda like this.
It was probably something like this.
- Yeah, well we'll bet yeah.
- I don't know why I'm holding that, okay.
The Illuminati had an
anti-religious stance
and focused on the
goals of self-knowledge,
self-improvement, social
reform and free thought.
Naturally, conservatives
considered this a threat to
the church and by the mid to late 1780s,
the Illuminati was stopped
and the active recruiting
people into secret
societies, was criminalized.
However, Weishaupt and the Illuminati
would go Kobe in the fourth quarter.
And continue to push on,
persisting with meetings
and eventually spreading to France
before disappearing into obscurity.
But, some people believe, they survived.
Here's part of an interview
I had with an expert.
- Well they believe that the
core group was formed back then
and has evolve and so back in the 1920s,
there were some fascists who
believed that the Illuminati
were a group of Jews who
controlled the world.
Right after World War II,
extremist anti-communists
believed that the Illuminati
were a group of communists
who controlled the world and most recently
the Illuminati conspiracy
theorists believe that
the Illuminati are part
of the New World Order.
- [Ryan] Many people
believe the Illuminati
seeked to make a dominant one
world totalitarian government,
referred to as the New World Order.
In fact, in a 2013 national
poll by public policy polling,
28 percent of voters poll believe
in the possibility of a New World Order.
Some people believe that the
influence of the Illuminati
and the New World Order, goes as high as
the president of the United States.
Here's an eerie clip from an old
George H.W. Bush speech
when he was in office.
- We have before us,
the opportunity to forge
for ourselves and for future generations,
a New World Order, a world
with the rule of law,
not the law of the jungles,
governs the conduct of nations,
when we are successful and we will be.
We had a real chance at
this New World Order.
An order in which a
credible United Nations
can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill
the promise and vision
of the UN's founders.
- [Ryan] All this begs the question,
what is the New World
Order and what will it do?
Assuming the Illuminati
and the New World Order
are one in the same, let's
hop down the rabbit hole
and take a look at some of the theories
as to who is in the New World Order.
This first theory is from
a man named Mark Koernke.
AKA "Mark from Michigan."
A right wing militia
activist and propagandist
who believes that the New World Order
is made above the U.S. Government, the UN
and various other organizations
pushing an international agenda.
He believes this organization
will take away American's
rights, form an all
powerful government and put non-Illuminati
members in camps run by F.E.M.A.
The second theory is from David Icke
who believes that world leaders
including Queen Elizabeth,
President Barack Obama and the Clintons
are actually shape shifting wizards.
These lizard elite, are behind
the freemasons and the Illuminati.
The lizard race feeds off the human race
and occasionally demands human sacrifices.
In fact, the same 2013 national poll image
an earlier reveal that four
percent of voters polled
believe that, "Lizard people
control our societies."
The third theory is
that the New World Order
is connected to the anti-Christ
because the Illuminati are Satanists.
Pat Robertson, a conservative Christian
wrote a book on the New World Order,
that claims the group is responsible
for the French Revolution, the writing of
the Communist Manifesto
and the creation of
the Federal Reserve, all
in the service of making,
"A new order for the human
race under the domination
of Lucifer and his followers."
The fourth theory is from Donald Marshall
who believes that the Illuminati
are killing celebrities
and replacing them with clones,
used to brainwash society.
I'll fuckin' look it up right here.
- Look up Dolly the sheep.
- Alright fine I'll look it up
and did she start off
as a little baby sheep?
- Yes.
- Whatever, okay, apparently
there was a sheep clone.
- Oh, apparently.
- [Ryan] Purported celebrity
clones outed by internet
(mumbles), include
Beyonce, Eminem, Al Roker.
And many more, but clone theorists
also believe they have video evidence.
- Marshall Mathers, some of
you may know him as Eminem
but he's gonna join
the Saturday night crew
with a music intro starting
next Saturday night
but folks I wanna take
you the world premier...
Marshall are you okay?
- Yeah sorry--
(laughter)
Live TV freaks me out a little bit.
- Well there you go, live TV
freaks him out a little bit.
- Well, here's Al Roker's clip.
Notice what she's says,
and then notice what his face goes to.
- [Shane] Why is this a code word.
- Some people believe maybe
it's like a trigger sequence
where his brain's now receiving
instructions and being mind control.
- Al Roker's the Manchurian candidate
and he's gonna kill the president.
- (laughs) Yeah.
- Like they say in Catholic school,
leave room for the holy ghost.
(mystery music)
- The expression he has on
his face when he's frozen,
is so fuckin' funny to
me, every time I watch it
'cause I don't know what
it is, it's like look.
- [Shane] You know what actually,
he looks like he just pooped his pants.
(laughter)
Who's next?
- This is Beyonce, by the way,
she did this for so long, I
had to speed up the video.
There she is going and then I
fast forwarded the video here.
She's in some weird trance,
I actually don't know what she's doing.
- [Shane] She's writing
Lemonade in her head right now.
(laughter)
- [Ryan] Whether or not people
believe this clone theory,
many conspiracy theorists agree,
that major celebrities
are in the Illuminati.
They point at clothing
choices and hand gestures.
Mainly that of a pyramid, which is seen
as an Illuminati symbol, as proof that
certain celebrities are in the Illuminati.
Beyonce and Jay-Z have been known
to make a pyramid like
symbol with their hands.
Although, this is also
similar to the symbol
for Jay-Z's label, Rockefeller Records.
- Right (laughs).
- But the flip on that,
perhaps there's a reason
why he chose that symbol,
see what I just did there?
- Yeah, you did it right.
- [Ryan] I did it.
The name of their child, Blue Ivy,
has been interpreted to stand for,
born living under evil,
Illuminati's very youngest.
(laughter)
- Wow, I can't believe they
would name her something
with so obvious of a
secret message in there.
- [Ryan] However, both stars have denied
their affiliation with
the Illuminati in songs.
Here's a excerpt from Beyonce's Formation,
"Y'all haters corny with
that Illuminati mess,"
and here's excert from Jay-Z's
verse in a song Free Mason,
"I said I was amazing,
not that I'm a mason
I'm red hot, I'm on my third six,
but a devil I'm not."
Other celebrities include Kanye West,
who owns a necklace containing the symbol
of the eye of Horus,
which is associated with
the Illuminati and also
seen on the dollar bill.
Which by the way, the Fed, dollar bill,
there it is right there,
it's pretty obvious.
Kayne's interruption of Taylor Swift
at the 2009 video music
awards was said to be
a method of initiating Taylor Swift into
the Illuminati by
humiliating or hazing her.
However, here's a quote from
Kanye on the Illuminati,
"I'm tired of people pinpointing
musicians as the Illuminati.
That's ridiculous.
We don't run anything; we're celebrities."
Other celebrities that have been accused
of being in the Illuminati include
Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Madonna and Katy Perry
just to name a few.
She what you just did.
- Jesus Christ.
(laughter)
I'm sorry Kobe.
- The whole room is shaking right now.
Oh my God, I think we
just had an earthquake.
- I'm sorry Kobe.
- [Ryan] Keep in mind
that it's pretty easy
to make a claim that somebody
is in the Illuminati.
Hell, quickly perusing my co-worker
Quinta Brunson's Instagram feed,
I could see several
references to the Illuminati.
- [Shane] Really?
- [Ryan] Just looking
through the pictures.
Yeah, there's even a
picture where I myself
make the Rockefeller sign,
in one of her pictures
and it was quickly
called out by a comment,
Illuminati confirmed.
She also seems to be absent
from her desk quite frequently.
Perhaps to attend to Illuminati affairs.
What if you're in the Illuminati?
- Look, I am not in the Illuminati.
- Wink.
- I am not in the Illuminati,
Quinta's not in the
Illuminati, you may be.
- It is pretty hard to get into.
And on that note, I'd like
to point to a website called
IlluminatiOfficial.org and on that site,
there's a page called join the Illuminati.
A very fascinating proposition indeed.
So I reached out for an interview
and here's what I got back from
their public relations director.
Here's what the alleged
Illuminati PR director
wrote back in response
to my interview request,
"Unfortunately members
of the Illuminati are not
currently available for
on camera interviews."
She also mentioned, "There
are many misconceptions
about my client's organization,"
and referred me to the
website's beliefs section.
Which, is abstract and quite
interesting to say the least
but let's visit the
professor one more time.
I guess the last question would be,
what percentage would you put on
that the Illuminati is
actually a real thing.
- Well it was a real thing, back in 1780
but it's not a real thing anymore.
I would say 100 percent,
it's not a real thing.
Most of the conspiracy
theories make this crazy leap
at some point, where you're
following the trail of evidence
and it makes sense and it
makes sense and it makes sense
and suddenly, it's crazy.
- I could see a world where
sometimes things go beyond
science or fact, that leap of faith is
what you need to make,
to get to the truth.
Maybe that's just the
crazy person inside me.
(laughter)
- I like how you just
out yourself as one of
the crazy people that
she finds exhausting.
- Here's the thing, I
saw the look on her face
when I mentioned that, she
did not looked pleased.
Am I gonna say outright the
Illuminati is a real thing?
No, I'm not gonna say
that but, is it possible?
Yeah, it's possible, why not?
The fact that there could be some,
all knowing organization under everything.
- Are they Skyping, how are they meeting,
where are they meeting?
They're like, oh let's just
meet in Toledo this year
(laughter)
at the Radisson.
- We've angered them again.
- Yeah.
- Don't talk about Toledo.
(laughter)
The point I'm saying is,
nothing's impossible.
Sometimes you just gotta look at something
with an open mind, it may
seem crazy on the surface
and I will admit, this all looks crazy.
- So it is possible that
there's an organization
founded by lizard people,
who regularly abduct
and clone celebrities.
- I'm not saying saying there's lizard,
ah fuck that is what I'm saying.
- Say lizard people out loud.
- [Ryan] No.
- Yeah.
- No (laughs).
- Own it Ryan, say lizard people out loud.
- We could sit here and
talk about this all day
but regardless, the existence of
the Illuminati will remain unsolved.
- Well let us know in the comments
if you think Ryan's in the Illuminati
'cause now I'm sold.
- (laughs) Okay.
The good news is, you made
it through this episode.
The bad news is, this is the
last episode for this season
of BuzzFeed Unsolved
however, double good news,
(laughs) Double good news.
- Double good news is--
- Double good news is
there's a new season kids.
And if I'm still alive in October,
the new season will begin.
So hopefully I'll see you
there and I'll be breathing.
If you aren't murderer and all
the people that I've slided
haven't killed me, the
Zodiac or the Men in Black
or the Illuminati or of
course, Quinta Brunson.
