The End Is Near

A group of 30 Russians is holed up in a mountain somewhere waiting for the end of the world. It's supposed to happen in May 2008, in case you were wondering.

The leader of this group was diagnosed in the past with schizophrenia. There's a shocker.

Even more interesting though is that the ancient Mayans predicted that world would actually end on December 21, 2012.

And don't forget that in 1936 the famed psychic Edgar Cayce hinted at the world's end, or at least the end of the current age, caused by a shift in the magnetic poles, which was just recently noticed by scientists.

NASA says, however, that a pole shift will not cause the magnetic field to disappear and open the earth up to dangerous solar radiation. Do we trust NASA?

But let's not forget, these Mayans and Russians were not the first to make a prediction. According to this website, there were 15 failed predictions in 2006 and more than seven dozen in recent past.

For a more complete list of dates, check out this site with 200 and counting. Most of these dates have passed but there are few that are getting close, like Jerry Falwell's prediction that the anti-Christ is alive and well today. According to Falwell, the anti-Christ is a male Jew and will be taking over the world sometime in the next ten years (that's 10 years from 1999 when he made the prediction).

And of course we have the super volcano sitting under Yosemite National Park just waiting to blow, destroying every living creature on the face of the Earth.

Then there are asteroids zipping around the solar system just waiting to turn the lights out on our little blue planet.

The world is indeed a dangerous place and the end may indeed be near.