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';< ;:><6=.0D '52;=62> E Top 5 Conspiracy the time and are closely monitored by America Research Institute, said in a statement. Theories About 2012! astronomers. So the chances of a giant asteroid “This new evidence suggests that the 13 bak’tun going unnoticed and killing us in our sleep is date was an important calendrical event that about 100 to one outnumbered. would have been celebrated by the ancient BoldSky 4. Travelling To The Centre Of The Galaxy: Maya; however, they make no apocalyptic prophecies whatsoever regarding the date.” There is a bizarre conspiracy theory that says December 21, 2012 just happens to fall Conspiracy theories range from being totally that the Earth will move to the centre of the at the end of the 13th bak’tun, which is the crazy to slightly over the top. But no one can Milky Way Galaxy which is a melting pot of 144,000-day cycle the Mayan calendar was deny that these Top rated conspiracy theories heat. Now we are just about 30,000 light-year divided into. December 21 marks what the make interesting topics of discussion. The latest away from the galactic centre. So, can someone Maya would have seen as a full cycle of obsession of all conspiracy theorists is the please explain how will we get there before this creation. impending doomsday or the end of the world. year ends? That date has had doomsday believers in Love them or hate them, but you cannot ignore a tizzy, but up until now only one reference had them 5. Anti-Christ & Illuminati: Religious been found, an inscription on a monument doomsday mongers have coined this top-notch dating back to around 669 A.D. in Tortuguero, 1. The Mayan Calendar: The much talked conspiracy theory that the Anti-Christ (a devil Mexico. about Mayan calendar ends on December 21, who is an anti-thesis of Christ, the saviour) will The second reference to December 21, 2012. So, it is being believed that the world will rise and take over the world. This conspiracy 2012 was found in the Mayan ruins of La come to an end on this day. Now just because theory is linked to the secret society Illuminati Corona in Guatemala on a stairway block ancient Mayan priests did not extend their that holds the key to over throwing the Church's carved with hieroglyphs. LiveScience reports calendar beyond 2012, we will all die? This power over the world. Now, lets get real; how that the carvings commemorated a visit from conspiracy theory forgets to take into account much power does the Church exercise on the Yuknoom Yich’aak K’ahk’ of Calakmul, a an important fact; the Mayans became extinct world anyway? Moreover, the possibility of powerful Mayan ruler also known as Jaguar centuries ago, so they are not too good at one-world-order itself is impossible. We live in Paw, in 696 A.D. predicting their own doomsday! a world were people speaking two dialects of The date came up when the king tied his the same language can't stand each other, so lets reign with another 13th cycle—the 13th bak’tun 2. Planetary Collision: According to many just forget about unification! [] of December 21, 2012. conspiracy theorists, the planetary alignment of “What this text shows us is that in times the sun and all the 9 planets is going to change Doomsday All Over of crisis, the ancient Maya used their calendar to in 2012. This will result in indiscriminate promote continuity and stability rather than planetary collisions that will destroy life on the Again? Second ‘End Date’ predict apocalypse,” Canuto told LiveScience. Earth an all other planets. Fortunately, the The 22 carved stone steps this end date astronomers from NASA see this conspiracy Reference Discovered in was found on were uncovered in 2010 near a theory as totally baseless. First of all, there is Mayan Text building that had been damaged by looters. The going to be no realignment in planetary orbits stones have 264 hieroglyphs that chronicle the for years to come. And even there was a political history of La Corona, making the steps realignment of planetary orbits why would it the longest known Maya text in Guatemala, make the planets collide when they are so far Indian Country Today reported LiveScience. off! Recent Mayan discoveries have been Recently a second Mayan text has been found plentiful. In May, we talked about doomsday 3. Giant Asteroid Theory: The only top that reveals an “end date,” for the Mayan prophecies being busted when a team of conspiracy theory that makes any sense calendar, but don’t schedule your doomsday archaeologists found a Mayan calendar in the whatsoever is the one about a giant asteroid party just yet. This end date doesn’t refer to the Guatemalan jungle that looked 7,000 years into hitting the Earth. That is a possibility that we end of the world. the future. And earlier this month scientists cannot deny scientifically but it has nothing to “This text talks about ancient political reported finding an impressive dam in the do with 2012. Small asteroids hit the Earth all history rather than prophecy,” Marcello Canuto, ancient Mayan city of Tikal, also in Guatemala. the director of Tulane University Middle