So here's a story that my first response to was pretty much just: "wat?"
Hundreds of people who are convinced the world will end on December 21 are flocking to a supposedly mystical mountain in Serbia.
Hotels at the base of Mount Rtanj are being inundated with booking requests from believers of the Mayan prophecy.
Doomsday cultists believe the area has mysterious powers that will save those who live there from the apocalypse.
Followers of the end-of-the-world scenario think the 5,100ft-high (1,554m) mountain, part of the Carpathian range, conceals a pyramidal building inside, left behind by alien visitors thousands of years ago.
They believe that it emits special energy that could be channelled to protect them from the end of life as we know it.
"In one day we had 500 people trying to book rooms. People want to bring their whole families," The Daily Telegraph reported hotel manager Obrad Blecic as saying.
Predictions of an apocalypse are linked to the fact that the 5,125-year-old calendar of the ancient Mayans, who dominated large stretches of southern Mexico and Central America centuries ago, comes to an end on December.
Internet speculation had initially identified the village of Bugarach in France as the only place that would survive the apocalypse.
However, the mayor announced that over 100 police officers will seal off the village From December 19 to 23 to keep out Doomsday groups.
Source: http://news.sky.com/story/1024497/doomsday-cultists-flock-to-serbian-mountain
What are the Escapist forum goer's thoughts on this? Secret underground alien pyramids with mystic powers that can be channelled into warding off an apocalypse predicted by an ancient people.
To me it sounds like borderline, if not total, insanity but I admit that I'm totally wishing that I owned property in the area. Not because I think it'd save me or that I'm under threat but because I'd be making an absolute killing in rates.
I can see, in the second part of the story, that village being "sealed off" by police getting real ugly though as scared people try and get to "safety".