Woman drinks a Ghost. Then she notices a mysterious symbol on the can: ‘I’m scared bro’

Fitness TikToker Avak Fitness (@avakfitness0) says there's one thing about Ghost energy drinks that's worth worrying about. For that reason, she says people should put the drinks down.

The story

The content creator's video highlighting an issue with Ghost energy drinks received more than 307,000 views. The issue in question? A small symbol she found on the can.

“Guys, tell me why. Why is that on here?” she asks the camera, while panning to an alleged Illuminati symbol. “Like, you guys see that. Right? It's like the Illuminati, bro. Don't buy it. Um, okay.”

In her video, she filmed a small subsection of a blue can in detail. There, she found an eye-in-triangle floating above an unfinished pyramid, a design most Americans meet every time they pull a dollar bill from their wallet.

Ghost Energy is a Henderson, Nevada sports-nutrition brand co-founded in 2020 by Dan Lourenco and Ryan Hughes, in association with Anheuser-Busch InBev. The company's own logo leans on a stylized ghost face with two green eyes, which is somewhat similar to the can's other iconography.

The symbol Americans call the Illuminati eye has a paper trail that predates the Illuminati by several centuries.

The peanut gallery

Most commenters didn't buy the content creator's worries.

“That symbol isn't even the illuminati the symbol means god is watching over humanity,” said one person.

“It's on money too! Quick! Give me all your cash. I'll dispose of it safetly for you for your protection,” joked another commenter.

One person had a theory: “They do it for shock value. To get people talking which based off this video I'd say it works. Free promotion for them.”

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The actual history

Historians trace the eye Avak Fitness found, in its modern form, to Renaissance Christian art, where a single open eye inside a triangle stood for God the Trinity, appearing on European church altars long before Adam Weishaupt founded his Bavarian order in 1776.

The original order was a real, Enlightenment-era secret society whose goals were to resist superstition, obscurantism, and abuses of state power and religiosity.

The American debut of this eye came six years later.

The Providence Forum's history of the Great Seal quotes the June 20, 1782 Journal of Congress describing the reverse as “A pyramid unfinished. In the zenith, an eye in a triangle, surrounded with a glory proper.” Congress adopted Secretary Charles Thomson's design that same day; the seal did not migrate to the back of the $1 bill until 1935.

It's a conspiracy!

The Freemason connection is where the conspiracy holds up the worst. Per the compiled design record on the Eye of Providence, common Masonic use of the eye dates to 14 years after the creation of the Great Seal—and the only Freemason on any of the seal's design committees, Benjamin Franklin, had his ideas rejected. As for the Bavarian Illuminati themselves—the group most often invoked by Americans pointing at pyramids—Britannica records that the order “was banned by an edict of the Bavarian government in 1785,” roughly 150 years before the eye ever appeared on U.S. currency.

Of course, the eye and the Illuminati pop up in discussions about secret government malfeasance, the Trilateral Commission, and so on. The eye itself has been watching from a very long line of altars, cornerstones, and government letterhead.

Buzz News reached out to Avak Fitness and Ghost Energy via email.