News DeskJune 5, 2012 17:26

'Last Family on Earth' will award bunker to winning family

Spike TV's "Last Family on Earth" will award a bunker to the survivalist family that wins.

Last family on earth spike tv winner gets bunker

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Hungarian journalists explore a hall of the nuclear bunker about 40 meters deep underground below Budapest. Spike TV is launching a reality show called "Last Family on Earth" and the survivalist family which wins will be awarded a secret bunker. (FERENC ISZA/AFP/Getty Images)

Spike TV's "Last Family on Earth" will award a bunker to the survivalist family that wins.

In-Depth Series: Apocalypse Soon

News DeskJune 5, 2012 14:27

It's probably the end of the world. So as we count down to Dec. 21, 2012, GlobalPost is cramming in as many stories as it can. Where's the best place to watch the rapture go down? What exactly did the Mayans predict? Will this apocalypse actually happen? Here's everything you need to know about the end days.

Amy SilversteinMay 17, 2012 19:25

Bunker promoted as a safe place to stay during the apocalypse is sick of media attention (VIDEO)

The Vivos Bunker in Barstow had been heavily promoted as a safe place to crash when the world ends. But its owners are no longer interested in media attention.

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BARSTOW, CA - AUGUST 05: Lightning strikes on August 5, 2005 southwest of Barstow, California. Heavy thunderstorms which could cause flash floods and spark wildfires are predicted for southern California's mountain and desert regions this weekend. Record rainfall over the winter has resulted in a heavy growth of natural vegetation which is now being dried out by triple-digit summer temperatures, and could prove to be dangerously thick fuel for huge wildfires this season. Many fear a repeat of the devastating historic fire season of 2003. (David McNew/Getty Images)

The Vivos Bunker had promoted itself as safe place to stay when the world ends. The location had been kept secret from people who weren't paying customers. But Vivos Project officials are worried now that outsiders will try to trespass. After two years of receiving heavy publicity,Vivos Project officials have decided to no longer let media take tours of the bunker, the Desert Dispatch reported.

Stacey LeascaMay 10, 2012 15:31

New Mayan calendar discovered: world won't end in 2012

Earth has a new reason to celebrate. It's looking like we will make it past December 21, 2012.

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The Mayan sculpture 'Plaque of Venus'. Venus was one of the most important celestial bodies in the Mayan astronomical observations. (Raul Arboleba/AFP/Getty Images)

Earth has a new reason to celebrate. It's looking like we will make it past December 21, 2012.

Group claims end of the world coming June 30

Stacey LeascaMay 3, 2012 12:29

The end of the world is happening sooner than we thought. According to Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda, it's all coming to an end June 30. What gives him the authority to know our days are numbered? According to a 2007 article by CNN, Miranda claims he not only speaks to Jesus, but that he is in fact Jesus.

Meena ThiruvengadamMay 2, 2012 20:48

1 in 10 of your friends may be counting down to the end of the world

A new survey says 1 in 10 people expect the world to end in December. Russians are particularly worried.

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A man paddles a boat in the flooded town of Kadom, in the Ryazan Region, some 430 km east of Moscow, on April 23, 2012. (Andrew Smirnov /AFP/Getty Images)

Bruce Beach, the Canadian who has built the world's largest private nuclear fallout shelter and is planning for the end of the world, is not alone.

He is among an estimated one in 10 people who are counting down for the world to end in December, according to the latest survey on the world's belief in Mayan prophecy.

That survey of 16,000 people by the research firm Ipsos said more people in China —one in every five —expect the world to end this year than anywhere else in the world.

One in seven people overall believe the end is coming in their lifetime though they're not sure the Mayans will have anything to do with it.

Talia RalphApril 26, 2012 16:44

Moscow: Green clouds caused by pollen spark panic (VIDEO)

Some people in Moscow called emergency numbers in a panic, as officials explained the clouds were the result of tree pollen, not a chemical disaster.

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Belarus opposition supporters march in Minsk, on April 26, 2012, to commemorate the Chernobyl nuclear disaster victims on the 26th anniversary of the tragedy. (Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)

Green clouds hovering over Moscow had people in a panic on Thursday, as officials rushed to explain that the looming clouds were the result of birch pollen, not chemicals from an allegedly burning factory in the region, RT News reported.

"Today Muscovites felt like characters in a disaster film about an alien invasion: people living in the southwest of the city saw that the sky had been colored green," said Russia's weather service on its website, Agence France Presse reported.

Mexican vacation? Much more than beaches and violence

Matt LevinApril 26, 2012 06:00

OAXACA — This colonial Mexican city recently received a special guest. Malia Obama, the US president’s daughter, walked through the city’s elegant, ornate churches on a school field trip with 12 classmates and two dozen security guards. Their itinerary included the massive Monte Alban archaeological site and the “world’s biggest tree” El Tule. The visit caused a stir, and apparently led to a spike in American visits. One Oaxaca promoter joked the city should start its own “Malia was here” campaign. The field trip provided what Mexico craves so much right now: positive press.

Erin Conway-SmithMarch 20, 2012 15:16

'Map of heaven' drawn by South African man attracts big crowds

Sibusiso Mthembu, a self-proclaimed prophet from Mandeni, a small town near Durban, South Africa, has drawn a map of heaven on the wall of his house.

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Worshippers hold up a banner reading "B16 - Highway to heaven" as they wait for the beginning of a mass to be held by Pope Benedict XVI on the grounds of the airport in Freiburg, southern Germany, on September 25, 2011, on the last day of the Pontiff's first state visit to his native Germany. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)

JOHANNESBURG — Worried about finding your way around heaven?

A self-proclaimed prophet from Mandeni, a small town near Durban, South Africa, has drawn a map of heaven on the wall of his house.

Locals have flocked to the home of Sibusiso Mthembu, 64, to see the map, which Mthembu said he created after visiting heaven four times, the Sowetan newspaper reported.

But making things more complicated is that Mthembu said there are actually 11 heavens, and he has visited each of them.

He even met God, on his second heavenly journey, while stopped at a planet called Jadalem that is covered in water and ice.

"Jesus is white and God is greyish in complexion," Mthembu explained.

Mthembu told the Sowetan that in 1993, a white man arrived at his house and said that heaven needed him. When the white angel returned years later, he brought Mthembu to heaven.

"I was then taken to the fifth heaven, called Crista, where I met Jesus in a city called Sharomy," he told the newspaper.

Mthembu also said that Harold Camping, who predicted the end of the world in May last year, was correct, despite what you may think by, um, still being alive.

News DeskMarch 10, 2012 05:39

Harold Camping, doomsday preacher, apologizes for wrongly predicting rapture multiple times

Harold Camping, the doomsday radio preacher who has predicted the end of the world multiple times, has apologized to his followers in an open letter, admitting that he had "no new evidence" for the claims.

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Participants in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end May 21, 2011, Judgment Day, walk through the streets in New York City. The Christian based movement, which claims thousands of supporters around the country and world, was founded by the Oakland, Calif.-based Harold Camping. Camping was wrong on his prior end-of-the-world prediction in 1994, and also wrong about the rapture coming on May 21, 2011. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)