The world didn't end on May 21st. It didn't end in 2000, in 1999, 1997 or even 1666. No supervolcano has blown off, swine flu didn't wipe out half of the Earth's population, Christ has not returned and even Rome is, stubbornly, still standing. What is wrong with all the Doomsday predictions? Why they never come true and yet people still get excited by them? What are the most ridiculous or most tragic prophecies made so far? Join me in search for answers to those and other questions.

A key record from the apocalypse era of the new millennium is this from Robert Scott, who tells of the effect that the series of natural disasters had on Western Europe and how survival skills helped him combat the darkest period since antiquity.

Well, it has been stated by Harold Camping that the world is to come to and end on May 21, 2011. So, if you are not ready to meet your maker, get ready. In 1958, after managing a construction business, Camping, along with two others, formed the non-profit ministry of Family Stations, Inc., a Christian educational network. In 1961, Family Radio began the Open Forum program, a live weeknight call-in program hosted by Camping, and broadcast on the more than 140 stations owned by Family Radio in the U.S., and heard worldwide via shortwave and a network of AM/FM stations.