In Tomb Raider, the bad guys were this secret society of people called the 'Illuminati' who wanted to control time and control the world. Well, it turns out there might actually be an 'Illuminati' society after all.
Robert Gillette has spent more than 35 years studying this group, who he thinks wants to just take over the world - no mention of controlling time. He has some pretty interesting ideas and lots of links to other sites who have different opinions than him. I haven't decided what I think yet (I have yet to get through all of this), but since I do think that there are alot of secret handshake groups out there, none of this would really surprise me.