Minus the trappings of wealth, privilege and power, Skull and Bones could be a laughably juvenile club for Dungeons-and-Dragon geeks. Even CNN has done a segment on the Prescott grave-robbery saga. It's been aped in bad teen horror films and satirized along with fellow conspiracy-group targets the Freemasons and the Illuminati in The Simpsons. The group has been blamed for everything from the creation of the nuclear bomb to the Kennedy assassination. that has served as the group's headquarters since its founding in 1832.Ĭonspiracy theories about the Skull & Bones Society are almost as old as the society itself. The society allegedly put the remains on display at the 'The Tomb,' an imposing, windowless crypt in New Haven, Conn. Bush dug up Geronimo's grave in 1918 with the help of several other 'Bonesmen,' as members of the society are known, and stole the warrior's skull, two bones and some riding gear from his grave at Fort Sill, Okla.

Bush and grandfather to President George W. Bush the father of President George H.W. 'I believe strongly from my heart that his spirit was never released,' Geronimo's great-grandson Haryln Geronimo, 61, told the National Press Club.Īs legend has it, Prescott S. 17, the 100th anniversary of Geronimo's death, descendants of the Apache warrior filed a federal lawsuit against the secretive Skull and Bones society of Yale University demanding that the group which it claims is in possession of Geronimo's remains return them to his family.

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