So let me get this straight. The male members of America's rich and powerful elite gather yearly in a grove in California and prostrate themselves before a giant stone owl before ritually enacting a mock sacrifice...and I'm only finding out about this now?

Ladies and gentlemen, Bohemian Grove.



In addition to the heads of various corporations, attendees include every Republican president since Coolidge, Henry Kissinger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dick Cheney, Alan Greenspan, Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, Nelson Rockerfeller, Alexander Haig, James Baker III, Bob Novak...

Wikipedia
HierarchyPedia (which includes a list of attendees)
Article in the Sacramento News and Record
Dissertation from UC-Davis on Who's Who in the Bohemian Club
Article from FAIR
Bohemian Grove Action Network
Google Search (Warning: This gets extremely tinfoil-hatty almost immediately -- we're talking "They're all Reptile People from Outer Space!" crazy.)

Write off entirely the nutty tinfoil-hat paranoia and focus just on what's actually been documented...and this is still pretty weird. And it's actually true.