Skull and Bones, which dates back to 1832, said in its note to students that the prank caller was exploiting the society’s “mysterious nature” and encouraged people who received such calls to report the incident to Yale police or their college dean. Christie's estimates the skull will sell for 10,000 to. “I figured it was a prank since I hadn’t heard about them calling like this,” Addonizio said. A human skull that apparently was turned into a ballot box for Yale's mysterious Skull and Bones society is going on the auction block. He played along and handed his phone to his brother, who was asked inappropriate questions. Some students described an anonymous caller who instructed them to hand their phones to somebody nearby and that asked that person questions about the student’s sex life.Ĭole Addonizio, a Yale junior, said he suspected it was a prank soon after he received a call from somebody who said it was the start of the “tap” process. The Yale police department has received three complaints of harassing phone calls from somebody claiming to be from Skull and Bones, according to university spokesman Tom Conroy, who said the cases remain open. “While famously its mantra has been ‘Never respond, never explain,’ because it doesn’t see itself as a public organization, in today’s climate to have allowed that to happen could conceivably damage the society’s reputation,” Richards said. The note sent out to members of Yale’s junior class through the student government was a rare public statement, according to David Alan Richards, author of “Skulls and Keys: The Hidden History of Yale’s Secret Societies.” Yale's secret Skull and Bones society could be exposed Over 1,000 pages of documents relating to Yale University’s Skull and Bones could be released this summer shedding new light on the secretive society.
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