Impress your friends and relatives as to when and how the world will end Trust us, this is information you'll want to know. You'll be the hit of cocktail parties by being in the know as to the when and how the world will end. Besides, it's so much more interesting than "When does the millennium really begin?"

It seems that all the great prophets and visionaries have their cosmic End of the World clocks set to 1999 and 2000. The good news is if Nostradamous is wrong about his July 1999 prediction, there are still plenty of other dooms and gloom scenarios that follow. So not to worry; one of these has got to pan out. And with so many different options and seers you can pick and choose your favorites!

Be sure to check back, we'll be adding astounding new prophecies as they become available.

U.S. psychic, the "celebrated"(by whom we know not) Criswell, predicts that extraterrestrials will suck the Earth's oxygen away on August 18, 1999. This from the man that said aliens would turn the citizens of Denver into jelly in 1989 (jelly flavor was unspecified but Smucker's supposedly built a Denver facility just in case).

Yes, according to New Zealander prophet, Michael Callagher, Vice President Al Gore controls a massive computer that is the Antichrist (No word on Tipper or the VP's daughters involvement). Ever the optimist, Callagher expects a nuclear war involving Europe, the United States and Israel to break out December 25, 1999. Merry Christmas.

But was Al born on February 5, 1962?
That's the date "famed" psychic Jeane Dixon predicted the Antichrist was born. She predicted that he would rise to political power in 1992.

Since the Jeovah's Witnesses were in founded in 1872, they have had eight mistaken predictions of the end of the world (1874, 1878, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975 and 1984). In 1996, The Watchtower announced they would no longer speculate on the date of Armageddon. Las Vegas breathed a sigh of relief (as did the Jeovah'sWitnesses members).

The U.S. based Photo Belt group believes that the Earth is about to swing into an enormous "energy ring" shortly before 2000. When it does, all electromagnetic machines will stop. Then, after three days of blinding light, the Earth will be "purified" and the "space brothers" will land. Have plenty of candles and sun glasses on hand.

Mr. Ziffel, the Douglases, Mr. Haney and of course lovable Arnold the pig of Green Acres apparently have convinced the Mormons that "farm livin' is the life " for them after end of the world. Anticipating the end in March 2000, they have snapped up farmland worldwide which they are cultivating in anticipation of a "day of adversity."

The Stelle Group, a small sect that lives in Illinois, is preparing for the end on either May 4th or 5th, 2000. That means building a special aircraft that will carry them to a new city which will rise out of the Pacific after the planet is swamped by earthquakes and floods.

With the arrival of the year 2000, we also welcome in the Age of Aquarius... Finally, only 31 years after the musical Hair popularized it! In astrology, Aquarius is symbolized by the water bearer who imparts personal and oceanic consciousness to cleanse humanity's dramas. His gift is that which cannot be grasped, but experienced. He is atmosphere and enlightenment. The two parallel zig zag lines that emerge from his urn represent the life force of humanity. They must forever be in balance or disaster is likely.

As such, the Age of Aquarius is said to either bring total enlightenment to man or complete insanity. Based on Hair, we expect a little of both.

No.... not an advertisement for the movie, Terminator2, but the actual end of the world. Of all the established religions, Christianity seems to be the most eager to celebrate the Year 2000 with the arrival of the Messiah. Christianity is based on a finite time horizon, beginning at Creation and ending at the millennium...possibly this millennium! One of the Biblical prophets favorite predictions in the Book of Revelations focuses on Christ's Second Coming is due at the end of this millennium, at the Year 2000. Bear in mind that previously, Christians anticipated the Second Coming would happen in 1000 A.D., and woke up the next morning alive and well. For more on what happened at 999/1000 ad look at the Past section dealing with the Last Millennium.

In the Bible, Christ is quoted in Matthew 24:4 as having said: "This gospel of the kingdom will preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations- and then the end will come." That seems to put mankind close to the end because only now, since the gospel is being preached on a global scale via television, radio, print and the Internet. Does our time draw near?

St. Malachy (1094-1148), an Irish Archbishop, is credited with creating the list of the last 112 Popes. While on a journey to the Vatican, St. Malachy supposedly had a vision of a procession of all the Popes from his day until the end of the world. Pope John Paul II is Pope 110. According to St. Malachy's prophecy, which lay forgotten until 1595, there will be a successor to Pope John Paul II followed by a Pope named Peter who will be the final pontiff. Malachy states that " During the last persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there shall set forth Peter of Rome, who shall feed the sheep amid great tribulations, and when these have passed, the City of Seven Hills shall be utterly destroyed and the awful judge shall judge the people." However, Pope John Paul II is a big millennium fan and has every intention of celebrating the Golden Jubilee 2000 at the Vatican. So, the Pope countdown continues.

Psychic Ruth Montgomery predicts that the in the Spring/Summer of the Year 2000, earthquakes will cause the polar ice caps to shift dramatically with the "new" South Pole being located over South America and the "new" North Pole several hundred miles east of Tokyo. The shift will turn the Arctic Circle into a tropical paradise while South America would become as cold as Alaska overnight. The Mississippi could become the next Amazon, with lush Rainforest growth throughout Middle America. As Montgomery said, " Many people will not survive this shift, but others will." Because after a period of churning seas and frightful wind velocities, the turbulence will cease, and those in the north will live in a tropical clime, and vice versa.

Time to buy what may become waterfront property?

During the American Revolution, George Washing ton had a vision of the future of America. Alone, late at night, and working on military report, Washington looked up to see a vision...a woman of great beauty standing in front of him., pointing eastward. The woman said "Son of the Republic, look and learn." As these words were spoken, the walls of the room dissolved, replaced by a mist and a scene of America, Europe, Asia and Africa and all the oceans. As he watched, thousands of towns sprang up all over America, far surpassing the then 13 colonies and giving Washington a look at the growth that was to come. The next scene showed a black cloud emanating from Africa and sweeping across the entirety of America. The following scene was even more grim, showing a black cloud in each of the other countries with a red light in the center, through which Washington could see huge numbers of men crossing the oceans to engulf America completely. Filled with the shouts of millions and the sounds of war, America was devastated.

Though interpreted as being a foreshadowing of the War of 1812 or the Civil War, some believe it to represent the spread of AIDS from Africa and the first invasion of The US prior to the turn of the millennium. When George chopped down the cherry tree, he could not tell lie. Is this vision another cherry tree?

No one knows when the Great Pyramid of Cheops was built. But what we do know is that it contains a timeline which coincides exactly with certain events that have happened over the last 2,000 years of modern history. In their book Great Pyramid Passages, John and Morton Edgar hypothesize that the lengths of the passages in the center of the Great Pyramid, measured in "Pyramid inches." correlate so exactly to important historical events that the builders may have be able to "see" the future. Events include Christ's crucifixion all the way to World War I and II. However, the timeline stops at May 5, 2000 ( or is it September 17, 2001? Depends on how you are measuring your Pyramid inches.). What happens on that date? It's anyone's guess, but perhaps we should all get out our Pyramid rulers and double check those measurements just to be safe.

Many of the world's better known prophets have predicted that a number of unusually large earthquakes will occur during the Year 2000. Specifically, on May 5, 2000, all the planets will be in alignment, pulling away from the Earth on the other side of the Sun, creating the strongest possible gravitational pull on the Earth causing major quakes. Add giant tidal waves, erupting volcanoes and shifting polar ice caps, and you have the recipe for the ultimate Irwin Allen disaster movie! Here are what some others have to say:

Nostradamus: "An earthquake will be reported from the bottom of Asia...in an unstable and troubled state... (when) Mars, Mercury and the Moon are in conjunction."

American psychic, Edgar Cayce, with many correct predictions to his credit, said that the British Isles and Western Europe will be rocked by quakes towards the Year 2000. Japan will disappear. Many portions of the East Coast will be submerged, as well as the West Coast. New York City and Connecticut will disappear along with South Carolina and Georgia. The waters of the Great Lakes will empty onto the Gulf of Mexico.

And tabloid psychic Jeanne Dixon pinpoints the spring and fall of 2000 for the quakes to hit. There will be omens in the Spring, and extraordinary changes there after, reversals of nations and mighty earthquakes...with a great movement of the globe in October, such that one will think the Earth has lost its natural gravitational movement and that it will be plunged into the abyss of perpetual darkness. Clearly all the fun of an amusement park ride out of control!

As we approach the Year 2000, the "optimistic" Cayce foresaw devastating earthquakes, world war, global epidemic s and the end of the world as we know it. After a series of powerful earthquakes in which California finally slides into the Pacific, Cayce predicts a world drought and horrifying epidemic that kills hundreds of millions of people, and a massive hole in the ozone layer that will open up over Europe, causing a terrifying and unprecedented plague of skin cancer killing millions more.

In 1999, nuclear war will breakout in the Middle East prompting US intervention. During the war, a powerful alliance led by China defeats the US led forces.

And more good new, the Earth's axis will shift turning the tropics frigid.

On December 31, 1999, the world ends the result of a nuclear holocaust with Christ returning at the End predicts to Cayce for the ultimate New Year's Eve Party.

How accurate was Cayce with past predictions? He predicted Atlantis resurfacing off the Bahamas in 1969, so his millennium timing might be slightly off.

The 16th century's Nostradamus, perhaps the best known prophet and widely read has alluded to bad things happening in 1999 in one of his quatrains:

The year 1999, seventh month,
A great king of terror will descend from the skies,
To resuscitate the great king of Angolmois,
Around this time Mars will reign for the good cause

The various interpretations of this quatrain could fill a book--indeed, they have. A meteor? A nuclear bomb? The Antichrist? Countless experts (usually self-appointed) have analyzed what Nostradamus meant to say about 1999 and, as you might guess, they are none too cheery.

A few examples:

• In Doomsday: 1999 A.D., Charles Berlitz writes that "The possibility of the earth being struck by a gigantic heavenly body" which he believes could refer to a comet, planetoid, or giant meteor.
• In Dr. M. Nostradamus, Nicholas E. Boyer connects the "great king" of Angolmois to the rise of a Mongolian Antichrist who will attack Western Europe from the sky.
• In 5/5/2000, Richard W. Noone claims Nostradamus was predicting the beginning off a new ice age, resulting in a polar shift and earthquakes which will devastate the planet.

It would be easy to laugh at such predictions. But it would be foolish to underestimate the hold Nostradamus has on the popular imagination.

For example, in 1988, a "mini-crisis" in California occurred when a documentary hosted by Orson Welles--The Man Who Saw Tomorrow--predicted a terrible earthquake for that year. Reportedly, so many celebrities left town that good tables at Hollywood restaurants could be secured.

In 1995, a headline in The Sun--always one of the most far-fetch of the gossip sheets--read: "Nostradamus Prophecy: Meteor Shower in 1999 Signals the Glorious Return of Jesus Christ."

The article by Charles Barnett--"an expert on the prophecies of Nostradamus"--confirms the bad news: a deadly flotilla of asteroids will strike Earth in 1999, climaxing on December 24, 1999. The next day, Barnett believes Christ will appear.

According to Barnett, Nostradamus' other predictions for the years remaining until 2000 include the following:

1996: Researchers discover a machine that will induce the body to heal itself of any physical and mental illness.

1997: One of every three people report having an encounter with an angel. The angelic apparitions are a signal of the Second Coming.

1998: America, Europe and Russia will pool national and private resources to house and feed the poor.

1999: The Virgin Mary will appear simultaneously to every human in the world.