![]() ![]() Or, what if Dauphin was actually innocent, and it was all a frame, because he knew too much? Check out this commenter at the Yale Herald:Ĭonspiracy theorists, start your engines. (Little known hazing task: Destroy the economy of a third-world nation of your choosing.) Then all we have to do is nuke the tomb, and radical Islam will go away. Unless, of course, Dauphinish is actually a 58-year-old Syrian, which could actually be a good thing: If the Skull & Bones mythos has reached the Muslim world, perhaps we can convince them that the failed international policies of the Presidents Bush were not symptomatic of an actual strain of political thought in America, but some peculiar Skull & Bones mating ritual. Who was the Dauphin, anyway? Did his paranoid Yale fantasies exist before he got there? And, does admissions screen for that? ![]() His YouTube upload was on December 4, 2009. The Dauphin's identity was never confirmed or made public. He also showed them books he had stolen from Scroll and Key and had chalked the word "Dauphin" on walls throughout Yale's campus. Those who considered the student a friend said he told them he had broken into the tomb of Skull and Bones and shown them video footage to prove it. A Yale Daily News article from November 2007 says a mysterious Branford frosh-thought to be responsible for vandalism, death threats, and vehicular assault-"withdrew from the University for medical reasons." This paragraph, however, becomes the money shot, in retrospect: Dauphinish has tracked his video with what can only be described as conspiracy theory electronica:īut here's the rub: Though Dauphinish claims he is a 58-year-old Syrian, he sounds an awful lot like a certain Yale frosh who used to call himself the Dauphin. (Yalies, take a stab in comments?) There are gothic arches, dust, skull imagery, and a stray coffin lying around. Unfortunately, vaunted secret societies don't really have publicists, so it's hard to confirm. The video, uploaded by new YouTube user Dauphinish and caught first by IvyGate, looks like it could belong the vaunted secret society that counts three generations of Bushes as its members. Among his rumored loot: Secret society video footage, which has since surfaced on YouTube. It still can't ward away campus rumors of the skull appearing in the society's nocturnal initiation rites, staring hollowly at the future rulers of the nation whose expansion he fought so fiercely.A Yale freshman who called himself the Dauphin is believed to have terrorized his peers with death threats, ritualistic vandalism, and a hit and run accident. ![]() ![]() A flurry of law suits to retrieve Geronimo's skull followed, but have been deflected by the Skull and Bones, which denies possession of the Apache's remains. The second "tomb" mentioned presumably refers to the society's windowless, red stone edifice in New Haven. is now safe inside the tomb and bone together with his well worn femurs, bit and saddle horn." Skull and Bones wax seals circa 1865.jpg 500 × 193. A letter written by one of the member's of the society in 1918 was brought to light by a New Haven-based researcher four years ago: "The skull of the worthy Geronimo the Terrible," it read, "exhumed from its tomb at Fort Sill by your club. Media in category 'Skull and Bones' The following 23 files are in this category, out of 23 total. Bush, allegedly dug up Geronimo's grave while serving as army volunteers in Oklahoma during World War I. captivity in 1909: Six members of Yale's Skull and Bones secret society, including Prescott Bush, grandfather of 43rd President George W. For those who believe these are the bones of Mary. and Mexican troops for nearly three decades until his capture in 1886.īut, as the story goes, the legendary rebel was not allowed to lie in peace after his death in U.S. The facial reconstruction is based on computer modeling of the skull and depicts a woman with a pointed nose, high cheekbones, and a round face. The Apache warlord Geronimo, part-guerrilla, part-shaman, launched raids across the Southwest and harried and evaded U.S. It's a strange fate that the bones of one of America's most fearful enemies have come to define one of its most hallowed institutions of power. ![]()
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