APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies

APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
APOCALYPSE PICTURES: 10 Failed Doomsday Prophecies
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The extremely bright comet Hale-Bopp, discovered in 1995, last buzzed Earth in March 1997 (above, the tail seen over Stonehenge on March 28)--but its appearance was met with tragedy.

Thirty-nine people, part of a religious group called Heaven's Gate, committed suicide in California when the comet was at its closest. The group believed that a UFO riding the comet's wake would rescue them from a doomed Earth.

The followers thought that Lucifer controlled the Earth and that humans "were about to perish in apocalyptic flames," according to the book Apocalypses.
—Photograph by Alastair Grant, AP
 

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