8 Insane Doomsday Predictions That (Unsurprisingly) Didn't Happen

1. Chen Tao (True Way)

The True Way movement is a Taiwanese religious cult that is a positive smorgasbord of doomsday cliches. It's got everything: A bit of god, a bit of aliens and, of course, a whole lot of doom and gloom.

It's essentially a mixture of Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and UFOlogy and, like any cult worth its salt, it had its own apocalypse scenario.

Kicked off by the religious leader Hon-Ming Chen, it was believed that on March 31st, 1998, God would be seen on a single television channel all across North America (regardless of whether the person had cable, which was nice of him), and announce that he would descend to the Earth in a form that, oddly enough, would be identical to Hon-Ming Chen himself. In preparation, roughly 160 members of the cult relocated to Garland, Texas, because the name sounded like "God Land", dressed in white suits and cowboy hats and set about being generally weird.

When God failed to appear, Chen then predicted that the following year, millions of devils would descend onto Earth, accompanied by massive flooding, but the faithful would be spared if they bought their tickets to spaceships disguised as clouds that were sent by god to rescue them.

Weirdly, we haven't heard much from them since.

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