In 1989, Wayne Bent formed the Lord Our Righteousness Church.

They alleged that a close encounter with an undiscovered 10th planet would lead to catastrophic natural disasters and the destruction of humankind.

In the fall of 2008, pastor Ronald Weinland announced that the final seventh seal referenced in the Book of Revelation had been opened, signaling the start of a countdown to end times.

She founded The Church Universal and Triumphant and encouraged her followers to dig fallout shelters to prepare for nuclear war in the late-1980s.

In 1995, Hon-Ming Chen founded a UFO cult in Taiwan.

Throughout the mid-1980s and ‘90s, Di Mambro and Jouret convinced followers that the apocalypse was near—but salvation could still be found.

While on a nature walk in his native France, 27-year old Claude Vorilhon saw a small, alien spacecraft land in front of him. A four foot tall affable humanoid named Yahweh emerged and told Vorilhon to relay the encounter to all mankind…

He controlled the most notorious American cult of all time: the Peoples Temple. In 1978, Jim Jones’ leadership brought on the largest mass suicide and cult murder in modern history, where over 900 people died.

She says she developed a sixth sense after traumatic brain injury—leading Erika Bertschinger to change her name to Uriella and start Fiat Lux, a UFO cult that believed the end of the world was coming… in 1998.

David Koresh, born Vernon Wayne Howell, became an international name in 1993 as he led many of his followers in The Branch Davidians, and himself, to violent deaths after a 51-day standoff with the FBI.