TL;DR: We expose the Forbes family, including their activities and connections to the Salem Witches. The connection is not the usual run, so try this one out even if it seems boring at first.

Some conspiracy theorists like to say they are “going down the rabbit hole” researching some idea, but that’s typically the opposite of what’s going on. Rather, they are crawling their way out of Plato’s Cave. Most often, the sunlight becomes so blinding they turn back. The Salem Witches are standing around the mouth of the cave laughing, so let’s go outside and say hello. We had to begin with the slime in the furthest dank corner of Plato’s Cave:

John Kerry, we hardly knew ya: Salem Witches, the Vietnam reverse-o, opium, and aliens in Antarctica (conspiracies.win 8/15/2025)

My point isn’t to slam Kerry, but to highlight that since we have a prominent character on the world stage, we know that we are as far from the action as we can get. Now we can begin to work our way back up the cave towards the light.

You see, John Kerry’s political speeches and policies and all the rest of that are—to my way of thinking—essentially meaningless. He’s just a puppet and a spokesman for larger forces, and in this case that would be the Forbes family.

Thinking back, I can’t recall any conspiracy theorists discussing this subject when Kerry was running for President or when he was Secretary of State, so that in itself tells you something about the state of conspiracy theory, does it not? This is where we touched on his family before:

The Salem Witches: Official Opium Sponsors of the Chinese Empire (plus another Parker) (conspiracies.win 8/8/2025)

I greatly underestimated the role of the Forbes—even just involving opium—so we need to take a closer look. There, I mentioned only that Francis Blackwell Forbes (1839-1908) worked with Warren Delno Jr. for Russell and Company running the opium trade, and that outfit was a successor to Perkins and Company. Much more to say.

The first thing to say is that I didn’t link you to a wiki page for Perkins and Company because no wiki page exists. We should stop to note that. Apparently, they are to be stricken from the record. This is how the Memory Hole really works: not so crude as a chute to the incinerator, just history that goes from “no one has ever heard of it” to ”doesn’t come up in Google so it does not exist”. But a bit still exists about Perkins and Company, such as in this book:

America's First Adventure in China: Trade, Treaties, Opium, and Salvation (John R. Haddad 2013)

Parker and Forbes made themselves useful on the Niantic. When the captain and half the crew fell seriously ill early in the voyage, Parker treated the sick while Forbes, an experienced captain, took the helm.

C’mon folks, yet another Parker, halfway around the frigging world? Are we all getting the idea about these people at this point? Do you know how wiki describes all this?

The Boston trading firm Perkins & Company sent many young men of their extended family to participate in their business activities abroad. Ralph Forbes being married to Margaret Perkins, their children were encouraged in the business.

That’s like saying:

The Mexican cartels sent many young men of their extended families to participate in non-traditional occupations including agriculture and entrepreneurialism. Pablo Escobar Jr. being married to Margarita Chapo, their children were encouraged in the business.

If you look in the “Family tree” and “Associates” sections of the wiki, you can see all the intermarriage with the Perkinses. The same goes for all the various business ventures and organizations listed on their page. You can consider all of them tainted by the Salem Witches.

Speaking of the Salem Witches, though, you may be wishing to see how they are connected to the Forbes. I’ll give you two levels of that. The first level is “mainstream conspiracy” and is nearly handed to us by wiki:

The Forbes family has a link to the Dudley–Winthrop family directly from Thomas Dudley (1576–1653), father of Anne Bradstreet (1612–1672), the first English-language female poet from America.

Well, what they leave out about Anne Bradstreet, as if it is literally unremarkable, is that she was the mother-in-law of Anne Wood Price Bradstreet (1650-1707):

Dudley Bradstreet was accused of witchcraft after he refused to issue warrants for accused witches. Anne and her husband fled the area to avoid arrest.

Also not to be missed is the Winthrop connection. That refers ultimately to the Winthrop Fleet of 1630, which got the whole Massachusetts Bay Colony kicked off.

The other connection to the Salem Witches runs deeper even than all this, and involves what I teased as the “hidden aristocracy”. This next section is going to sound like a ton of genealogical trivia until it all comes together, so bear with it for a minute.

You could start at the Geni link for John Forbes Kerry. His mother, Rosemary Isabel Kerry (1913-2002), is the Forbes connection, so go there.

Then it’s straight up the Forbes line until you hit aristocracy, starting with William Forbes, 5th of Newe (1640-1689). Four more generation back and you have Alexander Forbes, 1st of Newe (d1561). A couple of generations past that and we have Alexander Forbes, 2nd of Pitsligo (1428-1477).

At the start of this post, you might have thought, “Oh, I know, ‘Forbes’, like Forbes magazine, right?” In it’s heyday, that publication was run by Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990), very prominent in his time (think, IDK, Bill Maher famous), and he is of the Forbes family of publishers. They declare:

This article is about the Forbes family associated with Forbes magazine. For information about the Forbes family related to US Secretary of State John Kerry, see Forbes family.

They don’t come out and say there’s no relation, do they? You just automatically conclude that “fact” and go on your way. Well, there’s a lot to sort out but that “fact” may not be a fact.

Let me throw a few supposedly unrelated items into the mix, and I say supposedly because apparently no one but me thinks they might be connected to all this: the Forbes baronets, particularly the Forbes baronets of Newe (1823), and Lord Forbes of the Peerage of Scotland, particularly Lord Forbes of Pitsligo.

Now, I’m not going to sort out every detail because any one of the numerous aristocracy nerds should have already done so, and the first thing I would point out there is that for some reason none of them ever have in literally centuries.

The overall point, though, is that is you take the names from John Kerry’s genealogy, you can find close matches in the Forbes baronets of Newe and the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo. The years are sometimes off a bit but someone else can sort that out. As for Malcolm Forbes, his genealogy is vaporized after a couple of generations, but it’s enough for me personally to see that the current holder of the title Lord Forbes is… another Malcolm Forbes.

So I’m claiming that Forbes baronets = Lords Forbes = Malcolm Forbes = all these other Forbes = John Forbes Kerry, and that all this has been hidden from us. You’re reading it here first, correct? You may be thinking all of this is a witch hunt and a huge reach, but I’m going to wrap it right back around to the Salem Witches. At the top of the wiki for the Baronets of Newe, you’ll see that most recent creation was:

… on 4 November 1823 for Charles Forbes, a merchant in Bombay, India. He was a Member of Parliament for Beverley and then Malmesbury.

Uh, a merchant named Forbes in India? Yeah, this scumbag was overseeing opium production for export to China. More interesting, though, is that he was the MP for the constituency of Beverley, based around the town of Beverley in Yorkshire, UK. Name sound familiar at all?

Beverly, Massachusetts was named after it, which is immediately north of Salem and east of Salem Village (modern-day Danversport). In fact, Beverly was part of Salem itself until 1668. Enough of a connection?

Further, I believe there’s a key observation to be made. You see, when they set up Essex MA, they replicated a bunch of the place names from Essex UK. In this New England—or so to speak—the new Beverly has pride of place in relation to Salem, but back in Regular England, Beverly is 125 miles from the edge of Essex. You have to think They attached some importance to Beverly, right?

They did it yet again with Beverly Hills, CA, naming it after the Beverly in MA. Mere coincidence? I don’t think so.

Directly north of Beverly Hills is Franklin Canyon. Laurel Canyon is the next one east, so Dave McGowan may have been off by one. Bathsheba Folger, primary witness at the Salem Witch Trials, was the maternal aunt of Benjamin Franklin. If at this point you really think all this is a reach, then let me really wrap it back around.

Now, Santa Monica Blvd connects Beverly Hills to Silver Lake, and just north and parallel to it is Franklin Avenue. That street came up as the location of the residence of the Black Dahlia murderer. It is even speculated that the ritualistic murder may have taken place there:

I plucked the Black Dahlia and found a coverup that began with a generational Satanist and continues to this day. We’ll discuss that coverup why it’s so important. (conspiracies.win 10/4/2024)

You’ll see that at that time I knew it was generational Satanists, but I had not yet connected them to the Salem Witches. Live and learn! In any case, in unpublished followups to that post, I covered what They may have been telling us in the film, Under the Silver Lake. (No, I’m not talking about that scene where the old guy claims he wrote all the popular songs, it was the other scene no one seems to talk about.)

Franklin Avenue leads to the Franklin Hills area, on the north side of Silver Lake. The road ends at the Shakespeare Bridge, although we’re never told why a town all about motion pictures has a bridge named after a playwright.

On the far side of the country, a block away from the Capitol and kitty-corner to the Supreme Court, is the Folger Shakespeare Library. Do you know what Ben Franklin’s mother’s maiden name was? She was Bathsheba’s sister so her birth name was Folger too, of course.

Bonus: On the Winthrop Fleet page, you’ll see mention of a guy named Thomas Mayhew. Go to his page and you’ll see he worked with a guy named Matthew Cradock. I think this is the original reference for the fake name “Thomas Matthew Crookes”.

Bonus #2: Also on the Winthrop Fleet page, you’ll read:

A complete list of passengers is maintained by The Winthrop Society, a hereditary organization of descendants of the Winthrop Fleet and later Great Migration ships that arrived before 1634.

As I have noted a number of times, the bulk of the generational Satanists arrived in 1635. Odd where the Winthrop Society cutoff came, isn’t it?

Bonus #3a: Major Theodore Woolsey Winthrop was one of the first Union officers killed in the Civil War. He was aide-de-camp to Major General Benjamin Franklin Butler.

Bonus #3b: Butler, Pennsylvania is named after General Richard Butler. I suspect he is a relative of Benjamin Franklin Butler. General Richard’s mother was a Parker.

What strange trips these are. Thanks for reading!