If for some the origin of humanity and its evolution are subjects of study, for others it is World’s End main obsession Many predictions, none of them correct (fortunately), have been released for this reason.
There are several cultures that deal with the subject of Apocalypse, the end of time, the myth of universal fire or the Eschaton, among other names. Since ancient times, the concern about an event that ends with the planet or with the main civilization of that time, is constant.
But we review some of the situations, especially in the 20th century, that predicted the end of the world. As we say, none was right.
Halley comet
It was thought, at the beginning of the 20th century, that Halley’s Comet would end humanity. Camille Flammarion, a French astronomer with tendencies towards spiritualism, dared to say that this comet would crash into the Earth, despite being seen from the year 239 BC and exhaustively analyzed in 1705 by the Englishman Edmund Halley. Obviously, the comet never passed close enough to Earth to worry, but in 1910 many thought that it would, generating a huge crisis.
Judgment Day, according to Hon-Ming Chen
The Chen tao sect, created by Hon-Ming Chen, was famous in Taiwan and the United States between 1993 and 2001. It said that on March 31, 1998, at 0:01, God could be seen on a single channel on all televisions in the United States, regardless of whether or not the viewer had cable. The prophecy was not fulfilled. In the following months, the prediction was that a war between China and Taiwan would lead to a global holocaust: it did not happen. In 2001, the group disappeared from the news, including its leader.
The code of the Pyramids of Giza
The planet Nibiru (of unknown origin) would crash into Earth on September 23, 2017: This was said by a certain David Meade, based on a strange code that he claimed to have found in the Pyramids of Giza. NASA denied it and, as we have all seen, nothing happened.
Heaven’s Gate
This sect predicted that it would be the comet Hale-Bopp the one that would finish with the Earth, but that a spaceship that was hiding in its tail would take its followers to another place in space. Marshall Applewhite, its leader, convinced 38 of his followers to commit suicide to get on the spaceship: the disastrous event occurred in 1997.
On June 6, 2006, or 6-6-6
The number of the beast in the Apocalypse of Saint John, the 6-6-6, was moved by many to June 6, 2006. That day would initiate the chaos of massive destruction. As we already know, nothing out of the ordinary happened.
The Mayan Calendar and 2012
According to this prophecy, which claimed to be based on the Mayan calendar, the date of the extinction of humanity would be November 21, 2012. Then 2021 was spoken of as the year. Neither one was fulfilled.