Top 10 Failed Doomsday Predictions
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There have been many predicted doomsday scenarios in history, but so far these have all been end of the world theories that failed. Whether it was the Prophet Hen of Leeds (a hoax where a chicken lay eggs with “Christ is coming” written on them), the theory that the world would end because Halley’s Comet was passing by, or the founder of Mormonism Joseph Smith saying that the End Times were imminent (in 1835), these are some of the dumbest doomsday theories. WatchMojo counts down ten false end of the world prophecies.
Interested in other predictions? Check out our list of the Top 10 Historical Predictions That Turned Out to be False: Top 10 Technology Predictions That Turned Out to be False: and Top 10 Entertainment Predictions That Turned Out to be False:
00:27 #10: The Prophet Hen of Leeds
01:17 #9: Wind Up in 56 Years
02:11 #8: Advent [aka Great Disappointment]
03:08 #7: Blood Moon Prophecy
04:11 #6: Joanna Southcott
04:56 #5: Halley’s Comet
05:48 #4: Planetary Alignment
06:47 #3, #2 & #1 ???
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I find it funny that the Liberals at run this s*** Channel coincidentally ignored leftist doomsday failed predictions.
overpopulation in the 1970s? Failed.
starvation in the 1970s? failed.
Global freezing in the 1970s and early 80s? Failed.
Mass acid rain destroys inner cities in the 1980s? Failed.
ozone layer Vanishing and destroying the Earth in the 1990s? failed.
global warming destroying the planet in the 1990s and early 2000s? Failed.
but I guess all these liberals got smart, for once. And have rolled all of that into a catch-all term of climate change. We will now be under the Doomsday of climate change forever and ever. amen.
now believe everything that your government God says, and pay your tax tithe like good religious sheep.
How about a top ten failed WatchMoJo video's.
i agree that 2012 was failed prediction i was freaking out until it fucking never happened nice try world fucking with all people
@1:25 Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb
So what we have determined is that there is no god and the bible is not worth the paper it is printed on.
4:58 huh? is that how it's pronounced?
5:07 nope. thanks Shinedown.
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Just trow away those old fucking books and calendars for crying out loud !
Top 10 successful doomsday predictions
I'll take guesses for top 2:
#2: Y2K
#1: 2012
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It hasn't come out yet…
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Y2K… Next to Mayan 2012. Has to be the most misinterpreted Doomsday Whump Waa of all time. Since both were expected to herald the end of the world or, AT LEAST, end of life as we know it but so far so good.
Actually Y2K really stressed people out and was a real problem. Luckily programers fixed/updated important softwares and that easily fixed the problem. People blew it way out of proportion, but it was legit.
The Mayans never predicted the end of the world but a new beginning
The so-called prophecies are money grabbing scams perpetrated by grifters. Then there's the gun nuts who use them as an excuse to stockpile weapons for their own perversion .
Once I saw a blood moon that kept getting darker until it was unseeable
Top 10 Anime doomsday predictions.
1337th like… usually I dont comment stuff like this, but thats fairly funny
I proposed to my wife at midnight during the supposed Mayan Apocalypse….with the line "if the world is to end tonight…" worked too.
You forgot the Climate Change hysteria! Back in 1970 for the first ever "Earth Day" many doomsday predictions were issued, including Harvard biologist George Wald who predicted that civilization would end in 30 years if nothing was done to prevent climate change…wrong. Paul Ehrlich predicted that in 10 years the death rate due to starvation would reach 100 to 200 million per year… wrong again. The sad part is that we've learned nothing and dire predictions of the end of the world keep coming every year.
The claim that Joseph Smith predicted the date of Christ's return isn't true. The actual quote is much more ambiguous. It basically goes that Smith was pestering God about the second coming, and God said if he lived to be eighty-five, he would see Jesus, now shut up about it. This left Smith wondering what it meant.
you' s missed Harold Camping. That guy evened rented billboard space to predict world would end in 2013.
blood moon? #bloodlustcomfirmed
The blood moon rises once again.
Sorry I had to
the Y2K bug never was gonna end Anything, except maybe for some unlucky companies on the stock exchange.
computer emergency teams where standing by, EVERYWHERE, from nuclear powerplants to fire departments. even if something happened, it would have been picked up and reacted to, immediatly.
and really, nuclear deployment.. that requires PHYSICAL keys to be turned on a terminal. the thing you see in movies on that part is not all balony. a lot is, but not everything.
you know you wouldn't be doing this list if…
So that Scripture verse of "we don't know the day or the hour", yeah, remember that folks!
Y2k had people scared there money was going to vanish
"Failed doomsday prediction" ? As opposed to what , successful doomsday predictions ?
I'm surprised catastrophic climate change wasn't up in the list. The doomsayers have been foretelling doom since the 70's. Almost fifty years have passed and nothing has happened.
IM FROM LEEDS!!!!
yeah…. that number 9 is a misexplained misquote.
so they pronounce HAILEYS COMET as HALLEY but literally put a clip of a song right after that where its pronounced HAILEYS COMET, can watch mojo get any more autistic
My prediction is #2 being 2012, and #1 being Y2K
Ok I am Mormon and have read a lot about Joseph smith and that is not true you really need to check proper sources. Like LDS.org or the Joseph Smith history
If the blood moon happens, hope it doesn't do the exact same thing as the blood moon in BOTW.I don't want to see real zombies!!!
I remember 2012 one I was in day care and everyone was scared
Great list Watchmojo!
No self-respecting so called Christian values CBN or the 700 Club
Jehovah's Witnesses sucks at predicting Armageddon
watchmojo leave the religious things alone