Top 10 Dumbest End Of World Predictions
The end of the world. Its a pretty common phrase. You hear it in songs, movies and TV
shows but so far, everyone has been wrong. Otherwise I wouldnt be making this video.
However, some people are a lot more wrong than others, some predictions are just so
strange, you wonder how anyone believed them at all. My name is Danny Burke and this is
the top 10 dumbest end of the world predictions.
At number 10 now were gonna start with one a lot of you guys might remember. 2012. December
21st 2012 was the day that the anicnet Mayan calendar would end and a new one would begin.
Some people took this to mean there would be a spiritual transition for the world - others
thought it would mean the literal end of it. The theories ranged from giant tidal waves
to earthquakes to crust shattering earthquakes. There was also the belief that the Earth was
going to collide with a mysterious Planet or that the magnetic poles would shift. Crazy
stuff but it caught on so much that they even made it into a movie called 2012. Doesnt really
have the same appeal now that we all survived it …
Coming in at number 9 now we have The Prophecy Hen Of Leeds. Back in 1806, in the city of
Leeds in England - a lot of people were convinced the world was gonna end. They thought this
because it was written on the freshly laid eggs of some hens. This is true. People from
all over went to visit Mary Batemen whos hens were said to be laying eggs with the phrase
‘Christ is coming’ on them. People believed that this was a prophecy of Doomsday, that
Jesus was going to come back and start the end times. Well, 1806 came and went and the
eggs words didnt come true. Thats because Mary Batemen had faked them. She would write
the messages on the eggs and then insert them back into the hens. I don't think the victims
in this were the ones who believed all this - I think its the poor hens ...
Coming in at number 8 we have Y2K. A lot of you guys may be too young to remember this
but in the run up to the New Millennium in 1999 - a lot of people were scared of Y2K.
Experts had pointed that a lot of computers in the world werent programmed to handle the
change in date from 1999 to 2000. Sounds stupid but its true. Some people thought that this
would bring about the digital age before it had even begun - that computer systems all
over the world would break down - that Y2K would cause a virus fatal to every computer
and pretty much send us back to the stone age. In the end, some computers did break
or display the wrong date - but we got past it. Now weve just gotta hope we fix this before
the year 3000. Weve got time.
Next up at number 7 we have Heavens Gate. Now, this one is dumb but its also pretty
sad. See what you guys make of it. In 1997, the hale bopp comet appeared in the night
sky for the first time in thousands of years. A cult sprang up in San Diego who believed
that an alien spacecraft was travelling behind the comet and that they had to get on board
because the Earth was about to be wiped clean. The only way to do that was to leave their
current vessels behind - their bodies. On March 26th 1997, 39 members of the cult drank
poison and died. The leader of the cult was obviously a mentally ill psychopath who made
a dumb prediction - I just feel bad for the people who went along with it.
Next up at number 6 we have The Jupiter Effect. In the mid 1970s, some people believed that
the world was going to end on March 10th 1982. This would be the date when all the planets
would perfectly align on the same side of the sun - even Pluto. They thought the gravitational
effect of this would affect Earth - leading to huge storms as well as Earthquakes and
Volcanoes the like of which we have never seen before … the end of the world. It all
came from a book called The Jupiter Effect - the author of which went on to say he was
sorry he ever had anything to do with it. As you can probably tell from todays date,
the world did not end in 1982.
Moving on to number 5 we have Robert Fitzpatrick. This man belonged to an evangelical group
who believed that the world was going to end on May 21st 2011. They had got this information
from certain bible passages and Robert decided he wanted to share this with everyone. He
spent 140 thousand dollars travelling around America to warn people that on this judgement
day, the Earth would be swalled up by fires, earhquakes and tsunami. Only the -righteous-
would survive by being sucked up into heaven. Robert gained quite a bit of fame in the lead
up to the day and decided to prove everyone wrong by spending the last hour in times square.
Of course, when it didnt happen, he was mercilessly mocked by the crowd around him. He just flicked
through his Bible and kept saying he didnt understand why it didnt happen. This is another
one where I feel kinda sad because this guy obviously had a serious disconnect from reality
...
Coming in at number 4 we have Obama is The Anti Christ. A lot of people really liked
President Obama, some didnt - but I think everyone can agree he was a human. Well, not
everyone. In 2008, when Obama was first elected, a email chain started spreading. It said that
according to the bible -the antichrist will be a man in his 40s of Muslim descent who
will deceive the nations with persuasive language and have a massive christ like appeal! The
prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false home and world peace
and when he is in power he will destroy everything - is it Obama?- … amazingly, a sizeable
amount of people believed this rubbish and actually thought that Obama was the anti christ
who would destroy the world. What a sad thought.
Next up at number 3 we have the Black Rainbow. Jeron Criswell Konig was a a popular American
psychic who died in 1982. Throughout his life, he made a lot strange predictions. He predicted
cannibalism in Pennsylvania and that a great drought would leave New York in ruins. But
perhaps his strangest prediction was the black rainbow. Criswell said that on Wednesday,
August 18th 1999 - every point on Earth will be covered by a black rainbow - the darkest
black you can imagine. The black rainbow will they start sucking the oxygen from our atmosphere
like a huge snake suffocating its prety. For the next few hours, we will all grow weaker
as we cant breath. And then we will -all go silently, gasping for breath and there will
be only silence on the Earth- … lovely stuff. Well, I had my birthday not long after that
and I remember the oxygen levels were fine. Nice cake too.
Moving on to number 2 we have Baba Vanga. This Bulgarian woman who died in 1996 at the
age of 95 had the catchy name of -Nostradamus from the Balkans- … she made a bunch of
different predictions but one in particular stood out - WW3. She even gave the year - 2016.
She said the continent of Europe would be left -almost empty- after being turned into
a nuclear wasteland almost entirely devoid of any form. I mean, with the way the past
few years have been going, a nuclear war hasnt seem quite so crazy as it used to be - hopefully
if youre watching this years from now, things will have calme down a bit. But still, she
said 2016 so she was wrong. Sorry Baba.
And finally at number 1 we have Pat Robertson. He is an American minister who is known for
his Evangelical Christian TV shows. One of his shows was called The 700 Club and in late
1976, he made a doomsday pediction. He said that in October or November 1982, the world
would end. 4 years later he clarified this by saying -I guarantee you by the end of 1982
there is going to be a judgment on the world- … obviously, lke everything else on our
list, he was sorely mistaken. But it wasnt all doom and gloom, in 2011, Robertson and
other people who incorrectly predicted the end of the world were awarded the Ig Nobel
Prize for teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations.
Ouch. Bit of a burn there.
Well, I predict this video is over. Thats right. I make very safe predictions. Make
sure you guys let me know what you wanna see next on Most Amazing. My name is Danny Burke,
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