12 Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Prove The Illuminati Is Real

12. Once Upon A Time There Was A Real Illuminati

A long time ago back in 1776 a young upstart in the world of 18th century philosophy named Adam Weishaupt did indeed establish a secret group in Germany known as the Order of the Illuminati or the Bavarian Illuminati.

But though the group was organised kind of like the Freemasons, at least in terms of its secrecy and rituals, the ideas the OG Illuminati practiced – secularism, freethought and reason, gender equality – were by no means nefarious and in fact form the basis of most civilised societies today.

Initially just a handful of dudes, the Illuminati’s membership grew to several thousand but unfortunately for Weishaupt and his comrades its existence would be short-lived as less than ten years after its founding a new law was introduced that prohibited all secret societies including the Illuminati.

Weishaupt fled Bavaria settling in Gotha, Germany where he lived in relative obscurity until his death in 1830 and with him the bona fide Illuminati as history remembers it.