The world seems to be full of unusual religious groups and all kinds of strange beliefs, to

the point that it's often hard to keep up.

Today we're going to point our skeptical eye at one in particular whose name keeps coming

up, but which I never really knew anything about, the rose accrucians.

Who are they, where they come from, and what do they believe?

The truth about the rose accrucians is today on Skeptoid.

Hey everyone, Brian here, a quick favor, we are conducting an audience survey.

We'd be really grateful if you could take just a few minutes and answer our survey.

This is the kind of thing that's sort of an engineering and marketing necessity to make

the whole free podcast ecosystem flourish, so please check it out.

Also surveys are fun, you get to talk about yourself.

Please visit survey.prx.org slash Skeptoid to take the survey today.

That's survey.prx.org slash SKEPTOID.

Thanks.

You're listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

What's up with the rose accrucians?

What do you get when you mix alchemy, the DaVinci code, Nazis, Christianity, mysticism, the

Knights Templar, Shakespeare, The Secret, and Ancient Egypt?

No, not a bad movie about Ben Stiller working late at a museum, you get the rose accrucians.

Who are they, what are they up to, what do they believe, and what the hex the deal with

all the historical imagery?

In San Jose, California, stands an Egyptian obelisk covered in hieroglyphics.

...