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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)
The elite's fascination with the occult is hidden
in plain view everywhere you look. Movies like National
Treasure openly remind us of this fascination,
while prominent members of society, like Pat
Robertson, use public venues and publications to
signal their illuminati allegiance. (In the photo
to the left, Robertson uses the masonic
Lion's Paw sign)
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Remains of ten bodies at Ben Franklin's
home
THE
SUNDAY TIMES, FEBRUARY 11, 1998
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.
ORIGINAL
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A
mason, Benjamin Franklin's links to occult
secret societies have long been known.
