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About Doomsday

Doomsday is a catalog of failed prophecies — the dated end-times predictions and apocalyptic movements whose followers gave away possessions, gathered to wait, and woke to an unchanged world — each autopsied from the prophecy to the disappointment, including the rare cases where the delusion turned deadly.

What you'll find here

The scale, the believers, and how it ended — stated up front, never buried
A documented timeline, a three-act account, and exactly five contributing factors
The mechanism of the delusion: what made ordinary people believe and act
Transferable lessons, and real references from historians, investigators, and named press

Doomsday is part of The Delusion Index — a reference network of collective delusions, told as clinical dossiers: cults, manias, panics, and failed prophecies. The real people harmed are treated with gravity, never as spectacle.

The rest of The Delusion Index

The Flock Documented groups, from the first belief to the end. Mania Documented bubbles, from the first belief to the end. Hysteria Documented panics, from the first belief to the end.