August 18, 1999: Criswell Predicts the End of the World
In his book Criswell Predicts From Now to the Year 2000
(published 1968), the American psychic Criswell predicted that the end
of the world would occur on August 18, 1999. The end would come by means
of a "black rainbow" that would remove the oxygen from the earth's
atmosphere "through some mysterious force beyond our comprehension." The
only survivors would be the handful of colonists living in space
stations. Criswell was known for his "wildly inaccurate predictions" (as
wikipedia puts it).
Criswell himself did not make it to 1999. He died in 1982.
Damien's note: My favorite Criswell facts are that he was Mae West's personal psychic and that he played himself in the Ed Wood classic, Plan 9 from Outer Space. It was, I fear, the role he was born to play, serving as a sort of opening and closing Greek chorus to what is generally considered the worst motion picture ever made. And if you have seen other Ed Wood productions, you know that saying this is the worst is saying something.
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