YEAR IN REVIEW 2011: The man who cried end of the world

May 21st, 2011 was supposed to be the end of the world. Almost seven months later we’re still here.

So who cried wolf? Radio preacher and Evangelist Harold Camping. He claims to have calculated the date of the rapture through numbers and dates found in the Christian bible.

About 5-thousand billboards were posted all around the U.S. announcing the end of the world. Many of his followers gave away their entire life savings before the alleged doomsday.

But, what did not happen on May 21st was the end of the world.

What did happen on May 21st? The eruption of Grimsvoetn, a volcano in Iceland. It spewed out a 20 kilometer smoke column. Luckily, the area is mostly unpopulated.

The cried wolf problem got worse when Camping revised his predictions. He set the new rapture date for October 21. When that prediction failed Camping apologized and resigned from his radio job.