10 End-Of-The-World Prophecies That Didn't Come True

2. Every Cult, Every Year

Manson is just one example of something that's carried throughout almost all cults, and that is that they love making predictions for the end of the world. They practically live for them! Or, as is more often the case, they die for them. In horrific ways. It was a belief the world was about to end that caused Jim Jones' followers to down poison Kool-Aid. Dorothy Martin, leader of UFO cult Brotherhood of the Seven Rays said a flood would consume the globe in 1954, and the Heaven's Gate cult claimed a spacecraft was trailing the Comet Hale-Bopp and argued that suicide was "the only way to evacuate this Earth" before it was destroyed in 1997. Then there's Hon-Ming Chen's cult God's Salvation Church in Texas, who first claimed God was going to appear on Channel 18 on every TV set in the US after flying down on a UFO to kick start the armageddon on March 25, 1998, before updating their schedules claiming nuclear war would claim the Earth between October 1 and December 31, 1999.