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1. The eschatological '80s started with a whimper in 1982 when this planetary alignment failed to bring about the world-shattering disasters its authors had predicted. What was this apocalyptic non-event called?
2. According to New Age guru José Arguelles, in 1987 the Earth was in danger of slipping off its "time beam" (whatever that was) and spinning off into space! This could only be avoided if millions of people around the globe gathered together and put their collective psychic powers to work against this looming catastrophe. What was this event of cosmic proportions, held on 16th and 17th of August, 1987?
3. Retired NASA engineer Edgar Whisenant caught many people's attention with his book predicting the sudden disappearance of 144,000 true believers for September 11th - 13th, 1988. Unsurprisingly, people stubbornly refused to disappear. What was the event Whisenant had predicted?
4. Rounding out the decade, Elizabeth Claire "Guru Ma" Prophet urged her followers to join her in the wilds of Montana, where they'd be safe on her 63,000 acre compound. What was the Guru Ma's apocalypse that didn't come to pass on April 23, 1990?
5. In 1992 another rapture-ready prophet made the headlines. The members of a large Korean evangelical movement were thrown into a frenzy of preparation by 12-year-old Bang-Ik Ha, who predicted that the Rapture would occur on October 28th of that year. Thousands of members around the world quit jobs, abandoned homes, and cancelled life insurance policies in preparation for the big day. By 12:15am on October 29th, many in the pews began to suspect that maybe...just maybe...something wasn't quite on the up-and-up. What was the name of this Korean evangelical movement?
6. In May of 1993 an astronomical event scheduled for the next year prompted "Sister" Marie Gabriel Paprocski to take out full-page ads in many major newspapers predicting dire consequences for the Earth. What was the cosmic kerfuffle that so upset Sister Marie?
7. Psychic Sheldon Nidle predicted a doozy of an apocalypse for December 17th of 1996. What was the End That Didn't Come?
8. In 1998 the Taiwanese "God's Salvation Church" traipsed halfway around the world to Garland, Texas to await a very significant event. What were they waiting for?
9. New Age writer Eileen Lakes predicted a 1999 phenomenon that would cause the Earth to "...turn very suddenly 90 degrees to the right". (Of what?) This would set off all the usual floods, earthquakes, tidal waves and other assorted natural disasters. What was Eileen's world shaking non-event?
10. Everyone remembers the Y2K scare. But that was nothing compared to William Cooper's prediction of world wide Armageddon. What did William think was going to kick off The End in 2000?
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AlanSmithee
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