Post by Billy A. Anderson on Oct 21, 2018 9:35:31 GMT -5
Back on the old ZAQB, I mentioned this Doomsday Prophecy I had heard the kids and one teacher at school talking about, but had never known any of the details, other than that a woman had said she had gotten The Word from God Himself, that the end of the world would occur ion March 16 of 1965.
I got Zero replies to my post on the old board.
Well, I have finally found a newspaper article on this failed prophecy, and it has enough details to lead to more newspaper stories and more investigation and more details about this episode, which I cannot understand why it was not better remembered and on the many lists of of failed doomsday prophecies.
From the Indianapolis News, March 16, 1965
CHURCH WAITS
'Doomsday' Is Delayed
HUNTINGBURG, Ind. (AP)
The world has survived yesterday's ides of March, and
the Huntingburg Pentacostal Church congregation still
awaits word from its members on when to seal itself in
an abandoned coal mine
The old mine near St. Anthony has been furnished for
weeks with food, water, sleeping accommodations, a
hand-powered ventilator and a big concrete block for
closing the 4-foot entrance.
Eight families of the congregation are planning to
retire to the man-made cave for two weeks whenever
they are convinced that "great disasters" are at hand.
"We don't know the nature of the disasters," said Mrs.
Chester Tedrow, "and we never have known exactly when
they would come. He will tell us."
Mrs. Tedrow's daughter, Juanita Coomer, 29, made the
first prophecy last year.
Similar visions were reported later by the Rev. Ted
Kendall, pastor of the church, and Hazel Grooms, a
member of the congregation.
The early published accounts of the congregation's
preparations gave today as the probable day disaster
would strike the world.
"That was wrong," Mrs. Tedrow said today.
"We never have been told the time, and we understand
there will be a series of great destructions.
"We have been bothered so much the last few days by
people wanting to know when we were going into the
mine that I haven't had any sleep."
I got Zero replies to my post on the old board.
Well, I have finally found a newspaper article on this failed prophecy, and it has enough details to lead to more newspaper stories and more investigation and more details about this episode, which I cannot understand why it was not better remembered and on the many lists of of failed doomsday prophecies.
From the Indianapolis News, March 16, 1965
CHURCH WAITS
'Doomsday' Is Delayed
HUNTINGBURG, Ind. (AP)
The world has survived yesterday's ides of March, and
the Huntingburg Pentacostal Church congregation still
awaits word from its members on when to seal itself in
an abandoned coal mine
The old mine near St. Anthony has been furnished for
weeks with food, water, sleeping accommodations, a
hand-powered ventilator and a big concrete block for
closing the 4-foot entrance.
Eight families of the congregation are planning to
retire to the man-made cave for two weeks whenever
they are convinced that "great disasters" are at hand.
"We don't know the nature of the disasters," said Mrs.
Chester Tedrow, "and we never have known exactly when
they would come. He will tell us."
Mrs. Tedrow's daughter, Juanita Coomer, 29, made the
first prophecy last year.
Similar visions were reported later by the Rev. Ted
Kendall, pastor of the church, and Hazel Grooms, a
member of the congregation.
The early published accounts of the congregation's
preparations gave today as the probable day disaster
would strike the world.
"That was wrong," Mrs. Tedrow said today.
"We never have been told the time, and we understand
there will be a series of great destructions.
"We have been bothered so much the last few days by
people wanting to know when we were going into the
mine that I haven't had any sleep."