[SCREAMING] NARRATOR: For centuries,
mankind has watched the chilling prophecies of Nostradamus come
true before our very eyes. Nostradamus is known as the
prophet of doom and gloom. He saw all of these
horrible things. NARRATOR: His
doomsday predictions have foretold of bloody wars-- We're gonna see the whole
world come to its knees. NARRATOR: --warned of
threats from above-- MAN: He's talking about
a mountain falling out of the sky. NARRATOR: --and
death from below. WOMAN: In an instant, a great,
scattered flame will leap up. This clearly refers to
enhanced volcanic activity on the planet. NARRATOR: As ancient prophecy
and modern science collide-- If a super
volcano went off, it would be the end of the
world as we know it. NARRATOR: --people around
the world are preparing. We're a normal
American family, and we're putting an
underground shelter in our yard. WOMAN: Nostradamus could
not see to the end of time, but he could see to
the end of the world. [THEME MUSIC] NARRATOR: This is
"Countdown to Apocalypse." Since the dawn of reason,
self-proclaimed prophets have warned that the end of
the world is approaching. While many have claimed to
foresee what horrors lie ahead, no one has seen
them more clearly than the world's most
famous prophet, Nostradamus. About 2/3 of the
prophecies of Nostradamus have already come to fruition. That's why people keep
looking to them for truth. NARRATOR: Nostradamus has
successfully predicted countless historical events-- the rise of Hitler
and World War II, the assassination
of John F Kennedy, the atomic bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But his most
chilling predictions are those which have
yet to come to pass. Nostradamus has predicted
earthquakes, famine, war, everything that can
wipe out humanity. We're living in
an age where we will see the fulfillment
of the remaining 1/3 of his prophecies. Nostradamus saw all of
these things happening, and that's just what he wanted
to warn us about, that We were heading down into a terrible
time that could destroy the world. NARRATOR: But who was
the man behind these kind of cataclysmic prophecies? Michel Nostradamus
was one of the most enigmatic and interesting
men in history. He was a man of
science and intellect, but he was also a man
of great mysticism. He was an apothecary,
a prophet, an astrologer, and an alchemist. Nostradamus was a stargazer. He had a passion for
celestial mysteries, and he used them to build a
structure of the repetitions of history using astrology. NARRATOR: Nostradamus'
supernatural visions have elevated him into
the realm of legend, and a look at his early
years may shed light on how a prophet is born. Basic history records
Nostradamus as having been born in Saint-Remy Province
in France in 1503. He grew up in a Jewish family. They were forced to
change to Catholicism during the Inquisition,
so they became what was known as Jewish-Christians. So even though
he didn't want to, the whole family had to
say they were Catholic. This influenced Nostradamus
the rest of his life, because he had an actual
hatred of the Catholic Church. NARRATOR: At age 19,
young Michel de Nostredame set out for the
University of Avignon in France, where he studied
medicine, and quickly made an impression among his peers. He was way ahead of
his time, so they began to have spies watching him. The other doctors
were very jealous. How was he doing these things? He must be working
with the devil. If he had never written
a single prophecy, he would have gone
down in history as one of the great healers
of the 16th century. NARRATOR: Nostradamus would
soon test his medical aptitude when the bubonic
plague, or Black Death, broke out across
medieval France. Nostradamus developed a
method of treating patients of the plague by
developing a rose pill, which helped
build immunities. He became very famous
for his rose pill. NARRATOR: Many believe
that Nostradamus' cutting-edge medical
techniques were not simply a result of his
heightened intellect, but rather a gift that
bordered on the supernatural. We think the
advanced techniques he was using in medicine he
learned from seeing the future. That was why they
were different. NARRATOR: Nostradamus achieved
great levels of success, and was hailed as one of the
most renowned specialists of his time. Then tragedy struck at home. When he came back, his
wife and two children had died of the plague. He wasn't able to
heal his own family, so he walked away from
the medical profession for a long time
and actually turned inward toward spiritual studies. So fate dealt him a hand
that changed his whole future. NARRATOR: Grief-stricken
after the death of his wife and children in 1534,
Nostradamus mysteriously disappeared. And he began to wander. And it's always been a
mystery, where did he go? NARRATOR: Although
scholars still debate the lost
years of Nostradamus, one thing is certain-- he left home as a famous doctor,
a man of science and medicine, and returned over a decade
later as a seer and a weaver of prophecy. And it was at this time that
he wrote his first almanacs. And the almanacs that
he published also had prophecies in them. NARRATOR: But while
prophecies would bring him fame and immortality,
his pension for looking into the future challenged
the status quo and put him at great risk. One thing you have to
understand about the prophecies is, this is material that could
cost Nostradamus his life. It was a very
dangerous undertaking to go against the Church and
actually be called a prophet. The Church defined the prophets. NARRATOR: But
despite the dangers, Nostradamus persevered and
published his masterwork "The Prophecies" in 1555. In it, he provides
hundreds of predictions, which have proven strikingly
accurate over the years. The book is considered one of
the greatest works of prophecy in human history. Nostradamus wrote each
prophecy in four line stanzas called quatrains, using a
combination of coined words, coded language, and symbolism. He tells us that he wrote his
quatrains under a cloud of veil in order to make it a little bit
more difficult to understand, but he tells us that
people of good intelligence should be able to comprehend
what it is that he was trying to say. NARRATOR: While some believe his
quatrains are vague and can be interpreted in many ways,
what is beyond dispute is that these prophecies
have stood the test of time. People are always
intrigued by a puzzle. That's why his works
survived for 500 years. People are still trying
to figure them out. What is this man
trying to tell us? NARRATOR: Scholars have
studied Nostradamus' prophecy since the 16th century, and
have identified many quatrains suggesting a looming apocalypse
is in store for mankind. After the series
of catastrophes that Nostradamus has
prophesied for us, we will have to reassess
our place on the Earth, and how we live on it,
and what we do to survive. NARRATOR: One of Nostradamus'
most horrific predictions involves a threat
from the heavens, and if it comes to pass,
could extinguish life on Earth in an instant. This is century
one, quatrain 69. READER: "The great mountain,
seven stadia in circumference, after peace, war, famine,
flooding, the impact will spread far, drowning great
countries, even antiquities and their mighty foundations." So he's talking about a
mountain about a quarter mile in circumference
falling out of the sky. NARRATOR: Is Nostradamus
referring to an interstellar impact? Similar to the one that killed
the dinosaurs 65 million years ago? There is also
another quatrain that suggests this extinction level
disaster could happen again. Quatrain 3-6 says-- READER: "And the sky
will be seeing great fire dragging a trail of sparks." He forecast a great comet
that would pass through our part of the universe, causing
great cataclysmic changes on the planet. NARRATOR: But what does
modern science think about this medieval prophet's
celestial predictions of doom? We know that there are large
numbers of objects that are in Earth-crossing orbits. Any object that is
more than a mile across and is on an orbit that
crosses the Earth's orbit is a potential threat. These objects can sneak into
the solar system unobserved. They may come in, in the
future, and we may not have very much warning. NARRATOR: If Nostradamus'
visions of a great fire dragging a trail of sparks
and a great mountain falling from the sky are accurate,
it may not simply be a warning but a death
sentence for mankind. With the countdown to
apocalypse foretold and Nostradamus' cataclysmic
prophecies in full swing, everyday families are becoming
increasingly desperate to protect themselves. Some are even preparing
to move underground. Radius Engineering is an
engineering and manufacturing firm. We engineer and manufacture
composite underground shelters. We're a normal
American family, and we we're here in Texas
looking at the possibility of putting an underground
shelter in our yard, to be prepared and be safe. I think it's a
very valid thought. Wow. Here at Radius, what we do
is supply underground shelters to protect people
from everything. These are very
high-tech structures. They're not your
typical structure. There's a fuel pump here to
circulate the diesel fuel. This is a composite material. This is very, very tough stuff. This is about
20-fold stronger than what you'd have in
the hull of a boat. Here's an Earth Com 32, 32-foot
span where the living space is in the center. Here's an Earth Come 32 where
the living space and all the condos are off on one side. And then we have fuel
tanks and greenhouse trays. So when you're inside
and you look out, you see all growing
plants from each condo. NARRATOR: Although underground
bunkers are now designed to protect from almost
any known threat, some, like the massive
asteroid impact predicted by Nostradamus, may test
even the sturdiest disaster strategy. Modern scientists are convinced
that a celestial impact has caused mass extinctions
in the past, including the annihilation of
the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The crater is just off the
coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. This sounds like a Hollywood
spectacular scenario, but at least one mass
extinction was definitely caused by an extraterrestrial impact. NARRATOR: And the great
seer Nostradamus foretells of a similar extinction
event in our near future. Nostradamus is one
of the few prophets that gives a very clear
description of what comes out of the sky, and where,
and what does it do. So it's a huge disaster. NARRATOR: While we might hope
that modern technology could avert this catastrophe, it
may be only wishful thinking. As recently as may
2012, NASA announced that roughly 4,700 potentially
hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, could pose a threat to
our planet in the future. More frightening still,
they may catch us completely by surprise. We don't even discover them
until they start getting heated up by the sun, so they really
start shining and glowing. Then you get to find out if it's
going to intersect the Earth's orbit on a collision
course or not. And that is really too late
to do anything about it. NARRATOR: If a large space
object does collide with Earth, the result will be
global ruin, exceeding the darkest imagination
of science fiction. People just have no conception
of the amount of energy that asteroids and comets have. We're talking about 50 or 100
times faster than a bullet. NARRATOR: And when a large comet
or asteroid does collide again with our planet, the magnitude
of the chain reaction it sets off will easily exceed
that of the initial impact. You can pick your poison. Most people think about a
giant crater and an explosion, like a kind of a mushroom cloud. Anything that can see that
made of almost anything-- wood, shrub, grass,
or whatever-- is immediately ignited. You could be hundreds
of miles away and find yourself in a
firestorm, possibly for months. I mean, the amount of soot
just completely blocks all the light. And it's not just you
that can't see anything. It's the plants, photosynthesis. It can all be shut down as
a byproduct of this impact. NARRATOR: Will humanity go
the way of the dinosaurs, validating Nostradamus'
celestial predictions in the process? As a noted astronomer
and astrologer, it is no surprise
that Nostradamus looked to the heavens to
foretell humanity's fate. But his dark visions
do not end there. His prophecies also speak
of a danger boiling below, a sleeping giant ready
to explode and to blanket our world in ash and fire. Century 1, quatrain 87-- "Earth-shaking fire of Neptune
from the center of the Earth--" READER: "Will cause the towers
around the new city to shake. Two great rocks for a
long time will make war. And then Arethusa shall
color a new river red." Century 6, quatrain 97, "at
45 degrees, the sky will burn." READER: "Fire to approach
the great new city. In an instant, a great
scattered flame will leap up." This clearly refers to
enhanced volcanic activity on the planet. NARRATOR: Is
Nostradamus predicting an apocalyptic
volcanic eruption? And could fire from
the center of the Earth truly end life on the
planet once and for all? There's a quote that says
that civilization exists by geological consent, subject
to withdrawal at any time. That means, occasionally things
get destroyed by earthquakes or by big volcanic eruptions. NARRATOR: In
antiquity, ancient man believed that volcanoes were
gateways to the underworld. But modern science reveals
their true purpose. Now as we see things
in a modern light, we know that that's how
Earth loses its heat. Volcanoes are
where magmas erupt. Where there's heat down beneath
the Earth, rocks are melting, and those melts rise and
come to the Earth's surface. NARRATOR: One of the most
legendary volcanic eruptions occurred 2,000 years ago,
when Mount Vesuvius suddenly erupted, blanketing the
ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in a thick
sheet of volcanic ash. Anyone who's seen the pictures
of Pompeii and Herculaneum knows what can happen
during a volcanic eruption, that people can
die in an instant from these hot pyroclastic
flows that come through, and their bodies are
buried in some of the ash. NARRATOR: Even small
eruptions have leveled cities in the past, but there
are a few volcanic systems with the potential to set off a
chain of destruction that could engulf the entire planet. These cataclysmic disasters
are called super-eruptions. A super-eruption is when
about 1,000 cubic kilometers of volcanic debris is
spat out during one very, very large volcanic event. NARRATOR: 70,000 years
ago, a supervolcano erupted at Lake Toba in what
is now Sumatra, Indonesia. Scientists believe that the
eruption created an ash cloud resulting in 1,000
year cooling cycle. People think that it
affected the climate so much that the human
population was really impacted. And there's some theories
that it really dwindled down to tens of thousands. NARRATOR: The Toba supervolcano
changed the face of the planet, and super-eruptions will
doubtlessly happen again. But where? We could in the future,
I believe as a geologist, have hotspots and supervolcanoes
erupting at places that we wouldn't even predict. NARRATOR: While modern
scientists resist predicting the time and location of
the next super-eruption, the great Nostradamus
may provide the answer. And if he's correct,
none of us will be safe. The great seer Nostradamus
wrote in his book "The Prophecies"
of volcanic fire from the center of the
Earth, causing tremors around the new city. Scholars believe
he was referring to a devastating
supervolcano eruption. Not only that, but hidden
within his prophetic words, he may have also revealed
where it would strike. It was interesting that
the phrase "the new city" also appears in this prophecy. The new city is an
allusion to the New World. So we have a prediction
pertaining to volcanic activity in the United States. NARRATOR: If Nostradamus
has predicted a super volcanic eruption
in the United States, there is one location that tops
experts' list of suspects-- Yellowstone National Park. Nestled among the pine forests
and bubbling hot springs sits one of the largest
and most volatile supervolcanoes in the world. Yellowstone is a very
active volcanic system. It's been active for the
last two million years. There have been some very
large eruptions at Yellowstone. These eruptions had huge
consequences to the globe. NARRATOR: Yellowstone National
Park may seem an unlikely site for a geothermal timebomb,
but looks can be deceiving. When we see the boiling
waters, the hot springs, the mud pots, the amazing
things that you see are a reflection of the
magma that's down below, only a few miles
beneath your feet. NARRATOR: Unlike other
more typical volcanoes, Yellowstone is a sleeping
giant hiding in plain sight. When most people
think of volcanoes, they think of beautiful cones. But those systems tend to erupt
smaller amounts of magmas. Yellowstone is a caldera
system, and a caldera is formed through the evacuation
of a large reservoir of magma beneath the surface. This happens when you have
a really big eruption. NARRATOR: If the Yellowstone
caldera erupted tomorrow, it could bury the
entire state of Texas under five feet of ash,
killing thousands and consuming civilization in fire. One of the things that happens
during these big eruptions is that you get
pyroclastic flows. These are generally
ground-hugging supersonic flows of ash and very
hot gas and rocks that are blown out
of the vent, moving at very high speeds, hundreds
of miles per hour in some cases. The pyroclastic flows
generally incinerate everything that they come in contact with. NARRATOR: Only a few volcanic
systems around the world earn the title of supervolcano. These, such as the
Yellowstone caldera, are defined not
only by their size but by their volcanic
explosivity index, or VEI. Volcanic Explosivity
Index is a scale that allows us to put a number
on an individual volcanic event. When you go from a 1 to a 2,
it's 10 times more material, all the way up to a VEI-8, which
is about 1,000 cubic kilometers of material erupted
in a single event. Yellowstone has had
two VEI-8 eruptions. The most recent one being
about 640,000 or so years ago. And some people have
suggested, well, it erupts at a supervolcano level
once every 600,000 to 700,000 years or so. So think about logically the
last one was maybe 640,000 years ago, are we on course
for it to erupt again? NARRATOR: As the geothermal
countdown keeps ticking away, one question remains-- when will we see the
realization of Nostradamus' deadly prediction? Geologists have generally
believed that a supervolcano needs to stew for up to 200,000
years before an eruption. But recently scientists
have shortened the fuse. These late recent
studies are showing that these magmatic systems can
wake up and erupt more quickly than we had originally thought. NARRATOR: Since 2004, scientists
have observed the ground above the Yellowstone
caldera bulge 10 inches, as the magma pocket
expands below. These volcanic
systems, they're big and they do what they
do on a huge scale when they want to do them. And at this point
in time, humans don't have a really obvious
way of changing the game. NARRATOR: With the Yellowstone
supervolcano on a hair trigger, global disaster may
be close at hand. If the Yellowstone
supervolcano were to erupt, just imagine one
giant cloud, and not dissipating, not moving
on, not breaking up nearly so easily as normal clouds do. Imagine also everyone under that
cloud having trouble breathing because of the ash and
the particulate matter that is flying around. This particulate matter,
incredibly fine particles, would ultimately settle out
as this dust around the world. Breathing it would be horrible. People could literally
die from breathing it. A massive volcanic
eruption is going to be similar to
a nuclear winter. It will block enough sunlight
to change the weather patterns globally. NARRATOR: The aftermath
of a super-eruption would ultimately create a
desolate, uninhabitable planet. I feel comfortable saying
if a supervolcano went off, Yellowstone, for instance, it
would be the end of the world as we know it. NARRATOR: And with the risk
of this world-ending disaster on the horizon, the Feeney
family of Denver, Colorado, living in the shadow of
the Yellowstone caldera, do not want to take any chances. We live in Colorado, and
we're in the blast zone for the supervolcano
out of Yellowstone. Let's just say
that it did erupt. What kind of protection
would this provide for us? All of our shelters come
with what's called an MCAS air filtration system, multiple
chamber air sterilization. So we can filter
out heavy fallout from a volcano or
a nuclear weapon, and we've got enough earth
over the top for fires. You can have fire directly
burning on top of the hatch, on top of the shelter. All the shelters on the inside
are protected from that heat with 8 and 1/2 feet of earth. But this would be
at the ground level. And this is what should actually
open to go into the shelter. It's important that people come
in and feel what the shelter is, because the
images are great, and the photos are
great, but there's no substitute for being here and
getting a feel for the inside. Right now, it's 105 degrees in
here, because it's in the shop. But normally you're going to be
about 60 degrees underground. So if there were a volcanic
eruption in Yellowstone, how long would we need to
be in a shelter like this? If the volcano throws up
a lot of ash, a lot of it comes down early, which
is heavy, a lot of it comes out light, you
might be able to come out of your shelter
in a week or two. But during that week or two,
It could be pretty devastating for people on the outside. Because you won't be able to
breathe, and there probably won't be electricity and so on. Our model for the company
is, the future belongs to those who plan. We hope that everybody
will get prepared for any situation that may
come, no matter what it may be. NARRATOR: In a world of
seemingly endless threats to our safety and well-being,
concerned citizens and scholars are looking to past
prophecy for answers. In century 1, quatrain
87, Nostradamus writes-- READER: "Earth-shaking fire
of Neptune from the center of the Earth will cause the
towers around the new city to shake. Two great rocks for a
long time will make war, and then Arethusa shall
color a new river red." NARRATOR: Many believe
this quatrain signals a looming super-volcanic
eruption at Yellowstone National Park, bringing
instant death to thousands, who are burned, suffocated,
or crushed by up to 1,000 cubic kilometers of ash. But those around the world who
survive the initial eruption may end up envying the dead. Any time a supervolcano in
the world erupts and sends ash, it affects us. It would be far more dangerous
if it buried the breadbaskets of the world, the grain
fields of America and Canada in ash, because
then you would have a breakdown and
great global famines, which are one of the constant
themes of Nostradamus' prophecies. NARRATOR: In century 1, quatrain
67, Nostradamus writes-- READER: "The great famine
which I sense approaching will often turn, then
becomes world-wide. It will be so vast and
long-lasting that they will grab roots from the trees and
children from the breast." And then he describes it as
being so terrible that people would eat bark off trees and
take babies from the breast-- cannibalism. NARRATOR: Was Nostradamus
terrorized by visions of a global famine
perhaps set off by a super-volcanic eruption so
severe that humanity would feed on itself just to survive? Now he described
in another prophecy, and there would be
mountains of grain when man ate his fellow man. Imagine 16th century, when
agriculture was marginal, and to see some of the grain
mills around the United States, where literally a like 100-foot
high mountain of grain standing there. If you saw a vision of
that from the 16th century, how could you reconcile
that with cannibalism across the world and man
eating his fellow man? NARRATOR: In 2012, the UN's Food
and Agriculture Organization forecast a record-breaking
increase in world grain production, but over a billion
people around the world are undernourished, and
it's about to get worse. In July of 2012, the US
Department of Agriculture declared the largest
natural disaster in the history of
the United States. Roughly half of the country
is stricken with drought due to scorching
weather conditions, pushing corn prices
to an all-time high. Many attribute the
changing weather conditions to global warming, a term
first used in the 1970s. Amazingly, 400 years
earlier, Nostradamus was already on the trail
of this global threat. Nostradamus wrote quatrains
predicting global warming and the changing of the
climates of the world. And we're seeing this now,
that seasons would blend and we would no
longer be able to tell one season from another. NARRATOR: While some may
question the relationship between human activity
and global warming, what is beyond dispute is that 9 out
of the 10 hottest years ever recorded have taken place
since the year 2000. And this trend shows
no sign of letting up. We might push the
temperature of the Earth up to about 100 degrees
Fahrenheit or 40 degrees Centigrade, which would probably
make it uninhabitable to most people. So that's the concern is,
that we'll lose control of the climate system
and we won't know it until it's too late. NARRATOR: The spring of 2012
was the warmest ever recorded in America, and the resulting
droughts and wildfires have cost lives and
billions of dollars. And for some island nations,
even a modest continuation of warming trends could cause
them to be wiped off the map. There's lots of signs
of global warming. Glaciers are melting
around the world. Sea levels are rising. Climatic zones are changing. Life cycles of
organisms are changing, or they going extinct,
in some cases. NARRATOR: Two of the most
worrisome effects of climate change are the rise of sea
levels and escalating ocean temperatures. And Nostradamus predicted both. In quatrain number 2-3,
Nostradamus is clearly referring to global warming. He states that because of
the solar heat on the sea, from Negroponte, the
fish is half-cooked. READER: "The local people will
eat them when food will fail in Rhodes and Genoa." This quatrain refers to
the effect of solar heat upon the sea and other lethal
toxins that are affecting the temperature of the oceans. We are seeing the
death of our oceans. We are seeing the death of coral
reefs, entire schools of fish washing ashore,
dead and diseased. NARRATOR: In January 2012,
20 tons of dead herring wash ashore in Norway. In 2011, millions of fish float
belly-up in the Chesapeake Bay. The same as occurred
in Brazil, New Zealand, and in other coastal
regions around the world. Are these chilling
examples of a prophecy unfolding before our very eyes? Another related
prophecy that came to pass involved
one of the deadliest storms in American history-- Hurricane Katrina. Quatrain 948 says-- READER: "The great city
of the maritime ocean, surrounded by a
swamp of crystal, in the winter solstice
and the spring will be tried by terrible wind." When he describes
crystals in a swamp, I think of the shapes
of downtown skyscrapers in New Orleans at night. The footage when Hurricane
Katrina was coming into the city literally
sat in a swamp, in a low-land in the
Mississippi Delta, being beset by Hurricane
force winds, terrible winds. NARRATOR: As global warming
has increased the strength and frequency of
natural disasters, preparations are being made to
seek shelter from the storm, and also from perhaps the
greatest destructive force of all-- humankind. As numerous threats
predicted by Nostradamus jeopardize our future,
more and more concerned citizens are taking action. If you don't store
food and you don't have the proper supplies and
shelter and protection, it's not going to look
very good for you. There is going to be a lot of
people who are in the same boat as you are. And they're going to be
looking to take what they need from others. Faced with these threats,
some families, like the Feeneys from Colorado, are
taking the extreme step of moving underground,
helping the doomsday shelter business grow exponentially. But now entire communities
are being created to prepare for the apocalypse. In Western Florida,
Billy Carson, co-founder of Fort Terra
Nova, provides a safe haven for people interested in joining
an entire co-op community of underground shelters. We're creating two
underground communities-- one in Northwest Georgia,
and one in Oklahoma. Both communities will
be approximately 400,000 square feet. They'll house 360 people
to help as many people as I possibly could have the
safety and security of knowing that them and their
family members can survive local, regional,
and global disasters. Hi, Jay Rios.
How are you? Billy Carson. One out of every five Americans
feel that there's something getting ready to happen soon. Well, I mean, I'm no
different than the average guy. You look at the news. You see what's happening,
you look at the scenarios. And then you realize, wait a
minute, this is not a what-if. This is more like a what-when. Mm-hmm. I mean, what are some of the
specific things that I can turn around and tell my wife
and kids, don't worry, that's covered. The first line of
defense is stealth. Not knowing, not seeing, not
even having the slightest clue that below your feet there's
380 people walking around alive. OK. We also have, inside
of the community itself, two security
specialists, former military. When things get really bad,
unfortunately human beings get really bad. If you can go underground into
a secure location, first of all, you're going to protect
yourself from people who are on the move, looking
to, hate to say it, but rape, pillage,
steal, rob, whatever resources you may have. Wireless camera system. Yeah, that's going
to be wired up on the outside of the community,
see what the land looks like above us, so we can find
out if it's safe to go outside. I can't control what's
coming down the pike, but I can control
what I do about it. I can control where I go. I can control, to some degree,
the security for my family. NARRATOR: Nostradamus
has predicted dangers from the heavens
and the Earth's core, as well as cataclysmic
climate change, all of which leading to a breakdown
of civilization itself. [SHOUTING] According to the prophet, in
the face of global turmoil, the very embodiment of evil
will arise, a leader bent on the ultimate
destruction of mankind. There have been many tyrants
throughout history that have created global discord,
but Nostradamus anticipated the rise of not one, but
three political figures that would lead the world to ruin. In quatrain number
160, Nostradamus writes that an emperor
will be born near Italy-- READER: "Who will cost
his empire greatly. They will say when they see
his allies that he is less a prince than a butcher." This is very clearly a
prediction about Napoleon Bonaparte of France. He had no problem sending
large numbers of people off to their deaths
for his glory. NARRATOR: Some historians
put the death toll on the Napoleonic Wars
as high as 7 million, including civilians. Although Napoleon's
conquests devastated Europe, his savagery was easily outdone
by the second Antichrist foretold by Nostradamus. In quatrain 335,
Nostradamus wrote, "from the depths of
the West of Europe, a young child will be
born of poor people." READER: "He who by his tongue
will seduce a great troop. His fame will increase towards
the realm of the East." [SPEAKING GERMAN] NARRATOR: When Hitler
rose to power in 1933, few fully grasped the impact
he would have on the world. But Nostradamus penned warnings
about this tyrant's reign centuries earlier. Each Antichrist in
Nostradamus's vision seems to take us a step
closer to the abyss. Napoleon introduced modern
warfare, large-scale armies. Hitler, of course, was
responsible for killing 50 to 60 million people in the
six years of the Second World War. NARRATOR: What does this promise
for the third Antichrist when he arrives? The third Antichrist
will have to be worse than all the others. NARRATOR: But who could
this fiendish leader be? Although many names
have been discussed, the true identity of the
third and final Antichrist is still shrouded in mystery. He's like the spider, waiting
for his time behind the scene. He will take advantage
of the world situation to make his move for
power, and he will succeed. In quatrain number
10-10, Nostradamus wrote-- READER: One worse than
his grandfathers, uncles, or fathers, in steel, fire,
waters, bloody and inhuman. NARRATOR: Like the
two who came before, it is believed that the
third Antichrist will plunge the world into devastating
global conflict. When the third
Antichrist takes power and he starts World
War III, we're gonna see the whole
world come to its knees. So due to technology,
the third Antichrist will have a greater killing
capacity than either Napoleon or Hitler. NARRATOR: As technology
has progressed, the killing power of weapons of
war has increased dramatically. In World War II, we had
weapons that had the energy of about 15,000 tons of TNT. A modern weapon
nuclear submarine is about 150 kilotons. So they're about 10 times more
powerful than the one that was dropped on Hiroshima. NARRATOR: When the United States
bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final stages
of World War II, the world reacted with horror. The fear of a nuclear
conflict has gnawed at mankind ever since. Despite the collapse
of the Soviet Union, some experts believe
the risk of nuclear war has never been higher
than it is today. There is no question that
we would have a much higher concern about a nuclear
conflict now because of all the new states
with nuclear weapons. If Nostradamus could see
us at this point right now, he would say we're
teetering on the edge. NARRATOR: Nostradamus
has successfully predicted many events that
have already come to pass, cementing his legacy
as the greatest prophet in human history. But as wars erupt,
political powers shift, and great changes bombard
mother nature's balance, scholars fear that the ultimate
realization of Nostradamus' dark visions may be
just around the corner. Nostradamus gave us
the doomsday death toll. Out of three people you
know, two will not survive. He says 2/3 of the
human race will fail, will disappear from all of this. So what I think we need to
do, wherever you are in life, you need to snap to the fact
that these predictions are true. So the compelling question
is, can we change our destiny, or are we locked
into what Nostradamus says is going to happen? Everything bad that can wipe
out humanity Nostradamus has predicted. The way that we react
to these will perhaps be a key to our survival. NARRATOR: And the
people who will survive have already begun to prepare
for when Nostradamus's remaining prophecies come true.
