{"id":11082,"date":"2011-06-18T10:28:32","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T17:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/?p=11082"},"modified":"2011-06-29T10:44:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T17:44:30","slug":"will-2012-apocalypse-spare-this-french-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/will-2012-apocalypse-spare-this-french-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Will 2012 Apocalypse Spare This French Town?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French government is monitoring the hordes of New Age tourists in the tiny French hamlet of Bugarach, considered by some to be the only site on earth to survive a 2012 apocalypse.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A report published Wednesday said the village should be watched over until Dec. 21, 2012, when<a href=\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/2012-is-there-any-reason-to-fear-the-end-of-the-world\/\"> Mayan prophecy claims the world will end<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bugarach&#8217;s picturesque scenery has made it the subject of legend for centuries, however an influx lately of wild-eyed Doomsday fanatics is unnerving the French government. In fact, members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramtha%27s_School_of_Enlightenment\" class=\"broken_link\">American Ramtha School of Enlightenment<\/a> have invaded the area and set up six settlements.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we need to be careful. We shouldn&#8217;t get paranoid, but when you see what happened at Waco in the United States, we know this kind of thinking can influence vulnerable people,&#8221; Georges Fenech, president of sect watchdog Miviludes told Reuters, according to Yahoo!.<\/p>\n<p>The village features an &#8220;upside-down mountain,&#8221; with the top rock layers being older than the lower ones, lending the town a mystical feel. Many people are looking to the town as the only refuge from the 2012 apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p>The French government is facing a tough challenge in policing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/the-end-of-the-world\/\">2012 apocalypse<\/a> believers invading the sleepy town. Most of the visitors are probably people who are not easy to reason with. As long as they are non-violent, however, the authorities likely cannot force them to leave.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bugarach_apocalypse.jpg\" title=\"Bugarach Apocalypse Town\" class=\"alignnone\" width=\"620\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.gather.com\/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979458249\">SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French government is monitoring the hordes of New Age tourists in the tiny French hamlet of Bugarach, considered by some to be the only site on earth to survive a 2012 apocalypse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[406,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-406","category-fringe"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.survival-spot.com\/survival-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}