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3 Oct 1988. Edgar C. Whisenant. Whisenant predicted in his book 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988 that the rapture of the Christian Church would occur between September 11 and 13, 1988. After his September predictions failed to come true, Whisenant revised his prediction date to October 3.
- The Mayan Calendar
- Camping and The Rapture
- The Black Hole from Geneva
- Y2K and The Millennium Bug
- Nostradamus and The King of Terror
- The Great Flood and The Flying Saucer
The end of the world was predicted to occur on December 21, 2012, when one of the great cycles in the Mayan calendarcame to an end. In the run-up to the day, the internet abounded with predictions about an apocalypse happening on “12/21/12”. Faced with the wealth of alarmist information available on the World Wide Web, even NASA was compelledto pub...
The world was also supposed to end on October 21, 2011. American radio host Harold Campinghad arrived at the date for the apocalypse through a series of calculations that he claimed were based on Jewish feast days and the lunar calendar. In addition to his claims about the end of the world, he also predicted that on May 21, 2011, at precisely 6:00 ...
Scientists use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)near Geneva, Switzerland, to set up controlled collisions of particles at very high speeds. The experiments have caused some to believe that the energies set free by the collisions will form a black holepowerful enough to consume Earth and all life on it. No such black hole has been sighted yet, and sev...
Toward the end of the second millennium, people around the world feared that the world would end simultaneously with the beginning of the year 2000, or Y2K. This prediction was based on the practice followed by computer programmers of abbreviating year numbers with two digitswhen developing software. For instance, “1999” would be coded as “99.” At ...
Renowned seer Nostradamus prophesied 250 years ago that a “king of terror” would come from the sky in 1999. Austrian geologist and Nostradamus buff Alexander Tollmann decided to play it safe by sitting it out in a self-built bunker in Austria. Tollmann was convinced that the apocalypse was to come early in August, a fear that was consolidated by th...
Chicago housewife Dorothy Martin (a.k.a. Marion Keech) claimed to have received a message from planet Clarion in the early 1950s: the world was to end in a great floodbefore dawn on December 21, 1954. Martin and a group of followers were convinced that a flying saucer would rescue the true believersbefore the inevitable destruction of Earth. The be...
May 20, 2022 · Still, between 2021 and the end of times, Nostradamus predicted a lot of terrible things: wars, the coming of three Antichrists, and many plagues and pestilences, as related by The Sunday Post of Glasgow. Many of these will leave the world in worse shape than it was before them, but not necessarily end it.
May 27, 2021 · Perhaps the doomsday prognostications of Einstein, Snow, Weizenbaum, Morgenthau, and others were “self-defeating prophecies” that, by virtue of foregrounding the worst-case outcomes, led to actions that saved humanity. Many people accused Sagan of alarmism about nuclear weapons.
Jan 23, 2023 · It remained at that position in 2021 and 2022 only to move 10 seconds closer in 2023, where it stayed in 2024. ... Even if the Doomsday Clock moves no closer to midnight in the next update, we ...
Jun 30, 2021 · And this perception played a major role in the Bulletin ‘s experts placing the hand closer to midnight in 2020 than ever before—100 seconds—an assessment that was also affirmed in the 2021 revision of the clock. A clock not without its critics. Nevertheless, the Doomsday Clock has also attracted a great deal of criticism.
Dec 14, 2012 · Doomsday prophecies have a rich history, and believers tend to overlook the scientific evidence that disproves them. In this case, the doomsdayers fail to take into account the intricacies of Maya ...
