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In 2010, journalist Tea Krulos— author of American Madness: The Story of The Phantom Patriot and How Conspiracy Theories Hijacked American Consciousness—met Richard McCaslin, a conspiracy theorist who gave called himself “The Phantom Patriot.” McCaslin, inspired by Alex Jones, conducted a costumed, armed raid on a secret club for the elites, the Bohemian Grove. This talk will discuss McCaslin and his introduction to the fascinating and bizarre history of the Bohemian Club, a breeding ground for conspiracies and a place President Herbert Hoover called the “Greatest Men’s Party on Earth.” McCaslin viewed himself as the Phantom Patriot, a “Real-life Superhero.” The government saw him as a “domestic terrorist.” This talk will reveal the Richard McCaslin Krulos knew: a lonely man obsessed with comic books, who snapped after a dark period in his own life.