If you guys believe in the doomsday prophecy that the world would come to an end on Friday a
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Everyone, that is, but for the lucky few who happen to be in Bugarach at the time.
Because this small village — two streets, one shop, two restaurants (one advertising a €30 four-course ‘fin du monde’ party on December 21), one tiny church, one bar (closed), dozens of circling eagles and a population of just 179 — is the only place in the world that will be saved. Its salvation centres round a 4,000 ft mountain.
The geology of the Pic de Bugarach — with the rocks at the top older than the ones at the bottom — has earned it the description of ‘the upside-down mountain’. Its numerous caves are said to have to inspired Jules Verne’s Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. It’s also said to attract UFOs, to cause compasses and cameras to jam, and to emit shafts of light at night.
Indeed, according to enthusiasts and many who should know better, the Pic de Bugarach is actually home to an enormous hidden UFO garage (‘un garage a ovnis’, as they call it here) in which aliens
Everyone, that is, but for the lucky few who happen to be in Bugarach at the time.
Because this small village — two streets, one shop, two restaurants (one advertising a €30 four-course ‘fin du monde’ party on December 21), one tiny church, one bar (closed), dozens of circling eagles and a population of just 179 — is the only place in the world that will be saved. Its salvation centres round a 4,000 ft mountain.
The geology of the Pic de Bugarach — with the rocks at the top older than the ones at the bottom — has earned it the description of ‘the upside-down mountain’. Its numerous caves are said to have to inspired Jules Verne’s Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. It’s also said to attract UFOs, to cause compasses and cameras to jam, and to emit shafts of light at night.
Indeed, according to enthusiasts and many who should know better, the Pic de Bugarach is actually home to an enormous hidden UFO garage (‘un garage a ovnis’, as they call it here) in which aliens
are sitting patiently waiting for Friday, December 21, when they’ll scoop up all human ‘future survivors’ nearby and beam them off to safety .
On Wednesday, he will close the village for five days to anyone who doesn’t live here or isn’t already booked to stay, and draft in hundreds of police, military, firemen and Red Cross to ban any gatherings, shut off the mountain and arrest anyone silly enough to try flying over it.
‘What if tens of thousands of people turn up?’ he says, throwing his arms up in the air. ‘I have no way of knowing what will happen. I have no crystal ball! I don’t care if people want to chant naked or talk to the trees, but I have to protect my villagers. I am responsible for them.’
For centuries, historians have been aware that the 5,125-year calendar of the ancient Mayan civilisation, which was settled predominantly in Central America, is due to run out this December 21.
Bugarach’s involvement, however, dates back just two years — to late 2010, when a beady-eyed villager spotted a ‘Bugarach and the end of the world’ prediction online and mentioned it to Delord.
He, in turn, raised it at a special village council meeting and proposed special security measures to handle the massive influx. Someone told the local Press and, within weeks, the story went global. Soon film crews were jetting in to admire the eagles and gnomes and look for UFOs. By the end of 2010, there were more than 2.5 million websites referencing Bugarach as a ‘Doomsday Destination’, as CNN put it. The number of ramblers climbing the mountain doubled, the village sign has been stolen three times, and the rumour mill has gone into overdrive.
There are reports of hippy cults living in makeshift bunkers dug beneath the village; €800 ‘cash only’ residential courses where ‘believers’ would meet a guru and parade up the mountain in white robes; and UFO spotters arriving from around the world on one-way tickets.
House prices in the village also rose, and rooms, sofas and lawns (for camping) were being offered out for rent at astronomical prices — €500 for B&B and €400 to pitch a tent on December 20th and 21st.
And M. Delord was besieged with mad letters from would-be ‘future survivors’ from all around the world.
‘There were hundreds of them!’ he says. ‘Some were offering to organise end-of-the-world parties. Some were very scary, threatening me, or the villagers, even themselves. These people are CRAZY! Many I handed straight to the police. All these beliefs attract very vulnerable people.’
Which is why the French government’s dedicated sect watchdog, Miviludes, began monitoring the situation to prevent a repeat of the 1995 disaster, when the doomsday predicted by the Order of the Solar Temple in the Alps failed to take place, and 74 bitterly disappointed members killed themselves.
On Wednesday, he will close the village for five days to anyone who doesn’t live here or isn’t already booked to stay, and draft in hundreds of police, military, firemen and Red Cross to ban any gatherings, shut off the mountain and arrest anyone silly enough to try flying over it.
‘What if tens of thousands of people turn up?’ he says, throwing his arms up in the air. ‘I have no way of knowing what will happen. I have no crystal ball! I don’t care if people want to chant naked or talk to the trees, but I have to protect my villagers. I am responsible for them.’
For centuries, historians have been aware that the 5,125-year calendar of the ancient Mayan civilisation, which was settled predominantly in Central America, is due to run out this December 21.
Bugarach’s involvement, however, dates back just two years — to late 2010, when a beady-eyed villager spotted a ‘Bugarach and the end of the world’ prediction online and mentioned it to Delord.
He, in turn, raised it at a special village council meeting and proposed special security measures to handle the massive influx. Someone told the local Press and, within weeks, the story went global. Soon film crews were jetting in to admire the eagles and gnomes and look for UFOs. By the end of 2010, there were more than 2.5 million websites referencing Bugarach as a ‘Doomsday Destination’, as CNN put it. The number of ramblers climbing the mountain doubled, the village sign has been stolen three times, and the rumour mill has gone into overdrive.
There are reports of hippy cults living in makeshift bunkers dug beneath the village; €800 ‘cash only’ residential courses where ‘believers’ would meet a guru and parade up the mountain in white robes; and UFO spotters arriving from around the world on one-way tickets.
House prices in the village also rose, and rooms, sofas and lawns (for camping) were being offered out for rent at astronomical prices — €500 for B&B and €400 to pitch a tent on December 20th and 21st.
And M. Delord was besieged with mad letters from would-be ‘future survivors’ from all around the world.
‘There were hundreds of them!’ he says. ‘Some were offering to organise end-of-the-world parties. Some were very scary, threatening me, or the villagers, even themselves. These people are CRAZY! Many I handed straight to the police. All these beliefs attract very vulnerable people.’
Which is why the French government’s dedicated sect watchdog, Miviludes, began monitoring the situation to prevent a repeat of the 1995 disaster, when the doomsday predicted by the Order of the Solar Temple in the Alps failed to take place, and 74 bitterly disappointed members killed themselves.
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