Case file · High strangeness
Bugarach and the 2012 doomsday
In December 2012, rumours that the Pic de Bugarach in the Aude would shelter believers from the 'Maya apocalypse' brought hundreds of journalists; the prefect closed access to the peak.
2012 CE · 42.86, 2.38 · status: claim
The account
The mountain had long attracted New Age stories of an alien base or hidden 'mothership' inside it.
The sceptical view
Nothing happened on 21 December 2012; reporters greatly outnumbered believers.
Connections in the atlas
- 2012 doomsday proponents: Predicted that 21 December 2012, the end of a cycle in the M