Over the centuries there has been a host of self-proclaimed prophets, astrologers, scientists, and cranks who have predicted the end of the world.

Some of them have been extremely precise in when they predicted the world would end.

But spoiler, to date, none of the end of the world predictions have come true.

Learn more about end of the world predictions and how people who believed it reacted

when it didn't happen on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The history of the end of the world goes back about 2,000 years to the beginning of Christianity,

although early Christians were certainly not the only group who engaged in

apocalyptic predictions. What is meant by the end of the world or the

apocalypse can vary from person to person. It could mean the

literal destruction of the earth or it might mean some religious revelation or as

is more common nowadays the visitation of aliens. Even if the person making the prediction doesn't literally mean the end of

all life on Earth, they are almost certainly referring to something happening which would

be the end of the world as we know it. Q the REM music. To be fair, the end of the world as we know it certainly

did happen to many people in history, in very localized cases. If a city was sacked by

Gingas Khan, for example, it might very well have been the end of the world for them.

Most of the predictions that I'll be talking about were religious in nature.

All three of the main Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism have some sort of apocalyptic

tradition. Christianity it comes from the Book of Revelations, in Islam it can be found

in the Hadith and in Judaism it can be found in the Talmud. The word apocalypse has come to mean a

cataclysm or catastrophe in English. However in the original Greek the word simply means

a revelation. In early versions of the Bible the book of Revelations is actually called the Book of the Apocalypse.

In the Coptic Orthodox Church, the evening of Good Friday is known as Apocalypse Night.

Some of the earliest apocalyptic predictions came from an early Christian

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