Living peer · 1943–2017
Jim Marrs
Journalist who traced modern secret societies back to the Ancient Mysteries.
Connector and scene collaborator — a working journalist who brought investigative credibility to secret-society history and the ancient-astronaut thesis; a frequent guest in the broadcast tradition, including Freeman Fly's show.
Jim Marrs brought a journalist’s instinct to territory most reporters wouldn’t touch. A former newspaper reporter and university lecturer in journalism, he turned the same investigation-and-source discipline that produced his JFK study Crossfire onto secret-society history — and the result was Rule by Secrecy, a book that traces a continuous line from the Ancient Mystery schools through the Templars, Rosicrucians, and Freemasonry to the Bilderberg Group and Council on Foreign Relations. Marrs also wrote on ancient astronauts and the Anunnaki, locating the origins of elite power in pre-Flood Sumer. He was a regular presence in the alternative-broadcast world — including appearances on Freeman Fly’s show — functioning as a credentialed connector between academic-adjacent history and the symbol-control tradition’s wider claims.
Core claims
- Marrs traced a hidden history connecting modern power structures — the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission — back to the Ancient Mysteries and secret-society networks.
- Marrs wrote on ancient astronauts, the Anunnaki, and Sumer and Egypt as the deep roots of elite institutional power and symbolic control.
Key works
- Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy · 1989
- Rule by Secrecy · 2000
- The Rise of the Fourth Reich · 2008
Signature decodes
- Rule by Secrecy: a historical throughline from the Knights Templar and Rosicrucians to the modern Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group, argued as a continuous hidden governance structure.
- The Anunnaki connection: Marrs drew on Zecharia Sitchin's ancient-astronaut thesis to place the origins of elite power and symbolism in pre-Flood Mesopotamia.
Influenced
Status Deceased (December 5, 1943 – August 2, 2017). His books remain in print; he appeared frequently on alternative media including Freeman Fly's broadcasts.