Ben Franklin, inventor, founder, and...saucy man? The second part of our pilot episode features the story of one of our nation's beloved sons, who also was (maybe?) in a sex cult called the Hellfire Club.

What is the https://rallyshoplocal.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/the-hellfire-club-and-benjamin-franklin/ (Hellfire Club)?

The Hellfire Club invited high-society rakes in Britain and Ireland to attend exclusive meetings and, dare we say it, engage in immoral acts. Our story focuses on Sir Francis Dashwood's Order of the Friars of St. Francis of Wycombe. Shrouded in mystery, not all members are exclusively known. Our episode investigates the engagement of Benjamin Franklin in these meetings.

Our Takeaways

Benjamin Franklin occasionally attended the club's meetings in 1758 during his time in England. Records of the club were burned in 1774, leaving no records. Members are assumed and/or linked by letters they exchanged with one another.

Benjamin Franklin stayed in Dashwood's home prior to the American Revolution. Franklin praised not only the house but Sir Francis Dashwood, “who,” he said, “having kept the best company in the world, is himself the best existing.” This evidence strongly presents the case that our Bennie boy engaged in immoral acts while staying there.

Ben Franklin attended several meetings in 1758 and had an https://hauntedwalk.com/news/sandwiches-for-satan-the-story-of-the-hellfire-club/ (entire cave named after him)!

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