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

1. Jehovah's Witnesses Think Armageddon Is Constantly Coming

The Jehovah's Witnesses are really burying the lede when they come knock and the door and interrupt you from the very important daytime TV watching you're doing. Instead of asking whether you believe in God or anything like that, they'd enlist way more followers if they told them just how obsessed they are with the end times and the Biblical rapture. That's not an extrapolation, just a solid gold fact: Jehovah's Witnesses have been making claims that the end of the world is just around the corner from as far back as 1878. That's the year they predicted the €œend of the harvest€, when God would finally show up again and choose his best worshippers, or whatever. They changed the date of that a couple of times since, reckoned that humans would cease to rule the world and be replaced by the almighty in 1914, that 1918 is when a bunch of fallen angels would take the bad believers to Hell and let everyone else ascend, and that 1975 would herald the second coming of Christ and the damning of all unbelievers. Since that last one didn't happen they changed their prediction so that it was going to happen the next year, then sometime in the 20th century at least, and now they just silently stand on street corners offering copies of The Watchtower so they've given up.