Category File
Apocalypticism
7 documented theories filed under this subject.
- The Deagle Population ForecastA late-2000s and 2010s theory built around a forecast published on the Deagel military-data website claiming that the U.S. population would fall dramatically by 2025. In conspiracy form, the forecast was read not as speculative modeling but as advance knowledge of a coming engineered depopulation event, often imagined as famine, financial collapse, or a coordinated social breakdown.
- The FEMA Camp Panic of 2009A major post-crash conspiracy wave claiming that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or related emergency planning around recession and unrest, secretly funded internment camps for political dissidents. The theory fused older militia-era FEMA camp lore with Obama-era stimulus politics, producing one of the most visible domestic-detention rumors of the period.
- The Banking Debt-WipeA hopeful Y2K-era theory claiming that the millennium bug might erase or corrupt credit-card, mortgage, and banking records badly enough to free ordinary people from debt. In this reading, the year rollover was imagined not just as a threat but as a possible popular reset in which computerized ledgers would fail and creditors would lose the ability to prove what was owed.
- The John Titor Time TravelerA famous early-internet legend built from faxes, IRC chats, and forum posts—often popularly associated with 1999 but actually spanning late 1998 through 2001—in which a supposed American soldier from 2036 claimed to be traveling back in time to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer and to warn of a post-Y2K U.S. civil war. The story became one of the first major web-native prophecy myths.
- The Martial Law DrillsA late-1999 panic theory claiming that Y2K preparations were not only about keeping power and banking systems running, but about rehearsing domestic emergency rule. In this reading, warnings about outages and social disruption were used to justify military-style drills, emergency logistics, and fears that black helicopters, FEMA forces, or even UN-linked units would appear in American cities during the rollover.
- Y2K Pre-GameA late-1990s countdown theory claiming that 1995 was the year the Y2K “timer” was effectively set: not because the bug began then, but because the problem acquired a stable name, a visible countdown mentality, and the first broad movement from buried date logic into organized remediation and social expectation. In conspiracy form, 1995 becomes the hidden launch year of the millennium panic architecture.
- The Computer (ENIAC) as The BeastAn apocalyptic-technology theory claiming that the first large electronic computers, especially ENIAC, were not only mathematical machines but instruments used to calculate prophetic timelines, nuclear judgment, and even the date of the world’s end. The story grew from ENIAC’s wartime origins, its early thermonuclear calculations, its public reputation as a “Giant Brain,” and later Christian and eschatological fears that computers would become the logic-engine of the Beast.