A 40-minute podcast tour of the Masonic Capitol cornerstone (1793), L'Enfant's plan, the 'pentagram' streets, the Federal Triangle and Ovason's Virgo thesis, the Washington Monument's proportions and memorial stones, the Apotheosis of Washington, and the House of the Temple. The host debunks the pentagram himself; the public Masonic ceremonies and buildings are real and openly documented.
Claims in this source
Each claim is graded on its own; this source is not graded.
| Claim | Verdict | At | Relation |
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| 22 of the Washington Monument's memorial stones are Masonic | Unproven | | asserts |
| Albert Pike was reinterred at the House of the Temple in 1944 | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| Andrew Ellicott prepared L'Enfant's plan of Washington, D.C. for engraving; Thackara and Vallance engraved it (1792) | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| Buzz Aldrin was a 33rd-degree Freemason | Unproven | | asserts |
| Cleopatra's Needles stand in two former British colonies | Unproven | | asserts |
| Congress hoped to place George and Martha Washington's remains in a space beneath the Capitol Crypt; they stayed at Mount Vernon | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| George Washington laid the Capitol cornerstone in a Masonic ceremony on September 18, 1793 | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| In 1800 Benjamin Latrobe proposed a pyramid mausoleum for George Washington to the congressional joint committee honoring his memory | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| L'Enfant was accepted by Holland Lodge No. 8 on 17 April 1789, entered as an Apprentice on 5 June 1789, and never advanced further | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| L'Enfant was dismissed in 1792, died broke in 1825, and was reburied at Arlington in 1909 | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| The Apotheosis of Washington fresco was painted by Brumidi in 1865 and covers 4,664 square feet | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| The Federal Triangle and other DC landmarks align with the constellation Virgo, per Ovason's thesis | Unproven | | asserts |
| The House of the Temple has 33 columns 33 feet tall and sphinxes by Adolph Weinman | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| The House of the Temple was designed by John Russell Pope, built 1911-1915, and modeled on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| The National Park Service lists about 190 memorial stones in the Washington Monument | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| The Washington Monument's aluminum apex weighs 100 oz and is inscribed 'Laus Deo' | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| The Washington Monument's height of 555 feet 5-1/8 inches equals 6,660 inches | Unproven | | asserts |
| The Washington Monument's proportions were revised based on George Perkins Marsh's input | Documented · occurred | | asserts |
| The silver plate from the 1793 Capitol cornerstone ceremony has never been found | Documented | | asserts |
| Theodore Roosevelt was a 33rd-degree Freemason | Unproven | | asserts |
| Washington, D.C.'s streets form a pentagram | Unproven | | asserts |
| William Thornton designed the U.S. Capitol | Documented | | asserts |
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