Since the dawn of recorded history, humans have been predicting the end of the world.

Practically not a year goes by without some group claiming that it is the year of the apocalypse.

But the 2012 apocalypse, claimed by some to coincide with the turnover of the Mayan calendar,

has left all the others in the dirt for notoriety and wide public belief.

The 2012 apocalypse is coming up next on Skeptoid.

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Apocalypse 2012.

Abandon all your possessions and run for the hills. It has been foretold

that the world is coming to an end sooner than you think in the year 2012.

It seems you can't pick up any newspaper or magazine without reading that the apocalypse

is almost upon us.

What really is going to happen in 2012?

Well, asteroid 433 Eros is going to pass within 17 million miles of the earth in January.

The United States will hand over control of the Korean military back to the Koreans in April.

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