just last month in a secluded property in the woods, where people have come to join the grand dragon stephen howardfor what they call a cross lighting. >> america is in turmoil and we're lighting crosses to let people know that america is in turmoil right now. >> reporter: this klansman, who asked we not show his face for fear he'd be fired from his job, starts to get ready for the evening's rituals. you are wearing the robes of traditional terrorists, of traditional haters -- >> that's just the outlook that they want to give you. that ain't true. not everybody is like that. >> reporter: so, you think this is what a good christian man does? >> yeah. this is our christianity. that's just plain and simple. >> reporter: howard says he's allowed us to come here to show us the new klan is neither hate-filled nor violent. yet, what we heard and saw during our time with them suggests otherwise. >> black people and white people are nowhere related. in my opinion, i think black people evolved from animals, i believe that we need to be separated. whites and blacks need to be separated. i don't agree with rac