You might remember that in 2020, a global pandemic has claimed lives and crippled economies,

while wildfires have ravaged the landscape in various locations.

Political and social chaos has consumed nations and floods, earthquakes, explosions, and oil spills

have caused destruction the world over.

And things just kept getting worse after that.

But as bad as the recent years might seem,

it ain't got nothing on the year 536.

So strap in and let's rewind the clock almost 1,500 years

to a truly hellish year where summer never came.

You're listening. You're listening.

You're listening.

You're listening.

You're be amazed.

What would you do if you woke up one morning, pulled back the curtains, and despite it being daytime in the middle of summer, the sky was dark. Not only that, but the usual

warmth of summer has been replaced by bitter cold. And what if this coldness had caused much of

the year's harvest to fail completely, leaving people starving to death in the streets?

On top of that, a deep fog is gathering everywhere you look, and rumors are

steering of a horrendous, highly infectious sickness killing people without mercy.

Depending on what kind of person you are, you might think the end times have come. That's what

many people living in the year 536 of the Common Era, otherwise known as 536 AD, concluded

when they observed the things I just described.

The inexplicable darkness and the famine and pestilence that soon followed were seen as

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