A Chicago housewife, Mrs. Marion Keech, had mysteriously been given messages in her house in the form of "automatic writing" from alien beings on the planet Clarion, who revealed that the world would end in a great flood before dawn on December 21. The group of believers, headed by Mrs. Keech, had taken strong behavioral steps to indicate their degree of commitment to the belief. They had left jobs, college, and spouses, and had given away money and possessions to prepare for their departure on the flying saucer, which was to rescue the group of true believers.
Well, the world didn't end on December 21, (1954). So Mrs. Keech and her friends recognized the error of their ways, begged their spouses to take them back, and went looking for new jobs? Not exactly.
Afternoon, December 21. Newspapers are called; interviews are sought. In a reversal of its previous distaste for publicity, the group begins an urgent campaign to spread its message to as broad an audience as possible.The year, I repeat was 1954 -- not 33 AD. And the gathering took place in Mrs. Keech's house in Chicago, not in an upper room in Jerusalem.
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