Is there really a secret society called...?

Question

Skulls and Bones? I read somewhere they only exist at Yale University. Anyone who went there or heard of this please respond. Even better if actual members tell me.

Answer 1

Yes, but it's not really a society. It's kind of a ritualistic club that is only relevant to those still at Yale.    

Answer 2

it really dose exist but like a lot of the "secert society" they get a lot of hype for no good reason the don't control the world or plot the course of the goverment just a bunch of rich kids with there on little frat no one else can join

Answer 3

Skull and Bones was formed in 1832 as a result of a dispute among Yale's debating societies, Linonia, Brothers in Unity, and Calliope over the Phi Beta Kappa awards.

It was once referred to as The Brotherhood of Death, but a more common alternative name was Eulogia. The only "chapter" of Skull and Bones created outside Yale was a chapter at Wesleyan University in 1870. That chapter, the Beta of Skull & Bones, became independent in 1872 in a dispute over control over creating additional chapters; the Beta Chapter reconstituted itself as Theta Nu Epsilon. By reputation, "Bonesmen" tapped the current football and heavyweight rowing captains, as well as notables from the Yale Daily News, Yale Lit, and eventually the Yale Political Union. The group's decision, after much dispute, to admit women helped diversify the membership to reflect current undergraduate demographics. Numerous undergraduate constituencies are better represented among the recently tapped membership compared to the Skull and Bones "cohorts," or "delegations," that included later Presidents of the United States William H. Taft, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.[citation needed]

Members meet in the "tomb" on Thursday and Sunday evenings of each week over the course of their senior year. As with other Yale societies, the sharing of a personal history is the keystone of the senior year together in the "tomb".

Members are assigned a nickname. “Long Devil is assigned to the tallest member; Boaz (short for Beelzebub) goes to any member who is a varsity football captain. Many of the chosen names are drawn from literature (Hamlet, Uncle Remus), from religion, and from myth. The banker Lewis Lapham passed on his name, Sancho Panza, to the political adviser Tex McCrary. Averell Harriman was Thor, Henry Luce was Baal, McGeorge Bundy was Odin.” George H. W. Bush was Magog, a named reserved for a member considered to have the most sexual experience. George W. Bush, unable to decide, was temporarily called Temporary, and the name was never changed.

Answer 4

What?

Answer 5

Yes there is such a "club" at Yale...

Doubt you will find any of the members trolling the Y!A boards though lol.

Answer 6

Believe it or not, there is. My friend kept going on about it at a dance party once and said something like people believing that they controlled the light switch to the world lol. It has an article on Wikipedia about this mumbo jumbo. It sounds dumb though.

Answer 7

Well if they tell you it wouldn't be a secret, would it?

Answer 8

Noone tries to deny that they exist or that powerful people belong to it-the question is whether it's a motivating force-any club with members like that is going to draw suspicion...

Answer 9

It's a "secret society" which has lost its way and lost any trace of philosophy.

It's only aim is to perpetuate it's own existence.

Boaz is not an abbreviation of Be-elzebuth. It is a totally different biblical name which is given to one of the two pillars in Freemasonic philosophy.

Answer 10

NO ssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!