By Henry Samuel, The Daily Telegraph December 21, 2010 Comments (54)
The mayor of Bugarach, Jean-Pierre Delord, poses on December 14, 2010 in front of a road sign, marking the entrance of the village of 200 under the 1,231 meter high peak of Bugarah, the culminating point of the Corbieres range in southwestern France.
The mayor of Bugarach, Jean-Pierre Delord, poses on December 14, 2010 in front of a road sign, marking the entrance of the village of 200 under the 1,231 meter high peak of Bugarah, the culminating point of the Corbieres range in southwestern France.
Photograph by: PASCAL PAVANI, AFP/Getty Images
The mayor of a French village has threatened to call in the army to seal it off from an influx of New Age fanatics and UFO watchers, who are convinced it is the only place on Earth that will be spared Armageddon in 2012.
Bugarach, population 189, is a peaceful, picturesque farming community in the Aude region of southwestern France and sits at the foot of the Pic de Bugarach, the highest mountain in the Corbieres wine-growing area.
But in the past few months, the quiet village has been inundated by groups of esoteric outsiders who believe the peak is an "alien garage".
According to them, extraterrestrials are quietly waiting in a massive cavity beneath the rock for the world to end, at which point they will leave, taking, it is hoped, a lucky few humans with them.
Most believe Armageddon will take place on December 21 2012, the end date of the ancient Maya calendar, at which point they predict human civilization will come to an end. Another favourite date mentioned is December 12 2012. They see Bugarach as one of perhaps several "sacred mountains" that will be sheltered from the cataclysm.
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