Benjamin Franklin, the Occult and The Elite |
Infowars.com
January 11, 2005
A mason, Benjamin
Franklin's links to occult secret societies have long been known. In the
clip below, the History Channel talks about his involvement in the
Hellfire Club, a secret society that conducted black masses and orgies.
These bizarre, occult practices are still going on today in secret
societies like the Bohemian
club (Alex Jones infilitrated the Bohemian Grove and caught one of their
rituals on tape -- click here to go see the video).
In 1998, workmen restoring
Franklin's London home dug up the remains of six children and four
adults hidden below the home. The London Times reported on February 11,
1998:
"Initial estimates are
that the bones are about 200 years old and were buried at the time
Franklin was living in the house, which was his home from 1757 to 1762,
and from 1764 to 1775. Most of the bones show signs of having been
dissected, sawn or cut. One skull has been drilled with several holes.
Paul Knapman, the Westminster Coroner, said yesterday: "I cannot
totally discount the possibility of a crime. There is still a
possibility that I may have to hold an inquest." (Scroll down to read
the entire article)
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History Channel Clip Discussing Benjamin Franklin's Occult Elite Involvement |
Remains of ten bodies at Ben Franklin's home
WORKMEN have dug up the remains
of ten bodies hidden beneath the former London home of Benjamin
Franklin, the founding father of American independence.
The
remains of four adults and six children were discovered during the £1.9
million restoration of Franklin's home at 36 Craven Street, close to
Trafalgar Square. Researchers believe that there could be more bodies
buried beneath the basement kitchens.
Initial estimates are that the
bones are about 200 years old and were buried at the time Franklin was
living in the house, which was his home from 1757 to 1762, and from 1764
to 1775. Most of the bones show signs of having been dissected, sawn or
cut. One skull has been drilled with several holes. Paul Knapman, the
Westminster Coroner, said yesterday: "I cannot totally discount the
possibility of a crime. There is still a possibility that I may have to
hold an inquest."
The principal suspect in the
mystery is William Hewson, like Franklin a Fellow of the Royal Society,
and the husband of Polly Stevenson, the daughter of Franklin's landlady,
Mary Stevenson.
In the early 1770s Dr Hewson was
in partnership with William Hunter, who, with his brother John, was one
of the founders of British surgery. Dr Hunter and Dr Hewson ran a
school of anatomy in Soho, but after an argument Dr Hewson left to live
in Franklin's house, where he is believed to have established a rival
school and lecture theatre. Dr Knapman added yesterday: "It is most
likely that these are anatomical specimens that Dr Hewson disposed of in
his own house, but we are still not certain about the bones' exact age
or origin."
Evangeline Hunter-Jones, deputy
chairman of the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House, the charity
concerned with restoring the property and opening it to the public,
said: "The bones were quite deeply buried, probably to hide them because
grave robbing was illegal. There could be more buried, and there
probably are."
Brian Owen Smith has volunteered
to lead researches on behalf of the friends. He said yesterday: "The
discovery represents an important insight into very exciting years of
medical history. Benjamin Franklin, through his support for Polly and Dr
Hewson, socially and scientifically, was very much part of that."
To the suggestion that Franklin
might have been a grave robber, or an accomplice to Dr Hewson, Hilaire
Dubourcq, of the Friends of Benjamin Franklin House, responded: "It is
possible that he has an alibi. It seems likely that he actually let Dr
Hewson have use of the whole house for his school for a time, and went
up the street to live with Mary Stevenson. He did not necessarily know
what was happening below stairs in the house during his absence."
Dr Hewson fell victim to his own
researches at an early age. He accidentally cut himself while
dissecting a putrid body, contracted septicemia and died in 1774, aged
34.
Franklin, who wrote the opening
words to the Declaration of Independence, continued to support the
widowed Polly, and when he returned to Philadelphia he invited her there
to live as his neighbour. Both her sons became eminent medical men, as
have successive generations of Hewsons in America.
If the first Dr Hewson did
obtain bodies for his experiments and demonstrations by robbing local
graveyards, he risked the death penalty or deportation. He might have
had the help of his students in secretly burying the remains beneath the
four-storey house, where the dissections may have been performed.
It is hoped to reopen the house
to the public at the end of the year. Regular visitors during Franklin's
residency included Pitt the Elder (the Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke,
James Boswell, Adam Smith and Thomas Paine, the author of The Rights of
Man
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