Can we tell if doomsday predictions are real or fake? Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” Stevie, what are you telling us? It’s a little conceptual, it’s a little confusing. So, I have a list- Good. Of historical doomsday predictions. And you’re guessing whether they’re real or fake. Not whether or not they happened. Exactly. Because none of them happened. Did this prediction take place or was it written, a scenario written by one of our writers? I think it’ll become clearer as we get through. Was it? Well, no. Was it predicted? Yes, but that’s where- Was the prediction actually predicted? Was the prediction, what is the prediction? Was this predicted? Predicted? Yes! Yes, yes. Okay. That’s where we’re at. So, okay, I’m gonna just, here’s the first one. In 1806- And Stevie. Yes, yes. I just wanna go ahead and tell you. Okay, uh huh. Every time you’re asking the question, I’m gonna tighten my Kegel. Okay. The entire time you’re asking the question, and then I’m gonna release it when you’re done. That’s a good practice, it’s a good practice. Okay, here I go. In 1806, a hen in England appeared to lay eggs inscribed with the message “Christ is coming.” Many people reportedly visited the hen and began to despair of the coming judgment day. It was soon discovered, however, that the eggs were the work of their owner who had been writing on the eggs in corrosive ink, and reinserting them into the hen’s body. Okay, first of all, there’s no way you held it that long. It’s not good for you to hold it that long. You couldn’t do it anymore. I don’t wanna keep doing it. It’s not sustainable. Hmm. So, if it’s real, it’s a real hoax. So, it’s kind of like “Charlotte’s Web”, but with eggs. People love to do this kind of thing because you know what? If you’re not getting a, if you’re currently not getting attention, there’s one way you can get attention. And that’s to have a hen that lays eggs that says “Christ is coming.” You know, like if you’re struggling for attention, that’ll do it every time. And so- But then they were redirecting it to Jesus. Yeah, well, maybe. Was each egg a letter? Like C-H-R-I-S-T? That’s a lot of eggs. It doesn’t sound that way. It sounds as if this was a phrase that was written on every single one. You said in corrosive ink? And I thought you were gonna say in cursive. I know. Well, of course. I thought you mispronounced cursive. God would probably write in cursive. I don’t even know, like ink that, I don’t, I don’t know what that means. Maybe it eats away at the enamel of the egg? Oh yeah, it’s like embossed. It embosses the egg. So, it’s like doing a little acid. I think embossing adds something, I think. A corrosion is more like an etching. This is 1806, too. This is- 1806. Well, no, if you, I almost got an embosser. It’s a stamp that you take a piece of paper and you put in there and it stamps down and it just puts an imprint on it. Imprint. So, it’s like basically taking it and pressing it down in certain places so the parts that didn’t get pressed down are like pressed up. Oh. So. I think this is real. Definitely real. And I think it’s very well-meaning. And I want to see these chickens. You’re right. Yes. I guess I’m, yeah. One, it doesn’t specify if all the eggs said, it was just laying “Christ is coming” eggs, or if it was laying C-H eggs. And also, how he was taking the eggs, shoving ’em back inside the hen, and then being like, “Come watch my hen. I have a feeling a Christ egg is coming out of it.” Right. But then someone you caught him early and was like- You’d show up for that. Get outta that hen. I’d show up for that, especially in 1806. What else you got to do? You don’t even have electricity. No cars. All you got’s books, you know, and it’s like, you can get words on eggs. Speaking from experience, you can’t get an egg to go back up into a chicken. Right, yeah. Like, I’ve worked with chickens. Mm hm, yep. It just doesn’t go that direction. And you’ve tried this. Well, I have experience with chickens, but I didn’t want to insinuate that I’ve tried to put an egg back up into a chicken. Well, that was what you insinuated. Well, I don’t- Because if you go back in time. I didn’t mean to do that. What you said was “Speaking from experience, you can’t put a egg back into chicken.” Which makes it seem like that’s what you’re trying to say. I’ve just worked with chickens. Okay. Okay? Right. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. I just don’t think you can get a, I mean, the Kegel power of a chicken. Okay, so the real miracle here is the guy got those eggs back in those chickens. I don’t- Maybe Christ is coming. I think that he would probably just put it underneath the hen and it would just be there. I don’t think that people were visibly watching it come out. Oh, I think B, for sure, he was stickin’ em. Dude, I’m not saying you should try it, and I’m not saying you should try to see it if it can happen or that you ever did. But I’m saying that this man in 1806, he was stuffing eggs back in chickens. Google it. 100%. Can you get an egg back up in a chicken? If it can come out, it can go in. Well, the Kegels though. It’s like if a kid sticks its head into one, in a banister. Yeah, yeah. Well, sometimes the fire department does have to show up. So you’re right. Exactly, see. See? I think you can get it in there. I’m waiting for a summary- If you try hard enough. Of the Googling of that that I did not do on my own computer. It looks like we’re the first people to ever ask this question. Yes! We’re not finding any answers. Yes. I know. I think it was a stuffing. I think it was a full stuffing. It’s not, it was just, they were just putting it in the nest. That’s no fun though. It’s a hoax. But think about how amazing it would be if you saw it come out of the chicken. You’d be like, “Hold up.” You can’t see it come out of the chicken because- But no. It’s resting on a roost. If I’m trying to manipulate people with this, I’m showing up. You’re showing up to my house. I’ve got a little bed for the chicken, there’s no eggs. I got a chicken, no eggs on the chicken. Yeah. I set it down, we wait. Christ is coming. You’re like, “There’s no way that’s not real.” But it also didn’t give a date. It was just like a billboard for the returning. You gotta give a date. Oh no, it’s like, it’s 1806. No, no, yeah. It was just warning in general Christ is coming. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah. Joshua Reisman, a Joshua Tree National Park ranger. So, not the cooking guy? Okay, hold on. This, lemme just, lemme just say if this isn’t made up, if this is made up by the writers, let me just give a couple of- Oh, Very close. First of all, you said Joshua Reisman, which rhymes with Joshua Weissman, which is a fellow creator. And you said Joshua from Joshua Tree. Yeah, Joshua Reisman from Joshua Tree. So, I’m gonna say- A lot of Joshuas, a lot of suspicion. Before I hear the rest of it, I’m locking in that this is not real. So, change my mind. He burned you. He burned you, writers. But do you wanna hear the rest of it? Yeah. Okay. He got stranded in the desert for two days in the summer of 2007. Once rescued, he said he had a vision that the world would erupt in flames on August 23rd, 2010. You didn’t change my mind. Didn’t change my mind. Yeah. Yeah, he got you guys. Joshua Reisman. From Joshua Tree. From Joshua Tree. Go on, what’s gonna be next. What were you thinking? What were you even thinking? God… Please, don’t actually apologize. Dan from Danville, Virginia. Dan and Phil from Danville, Virginia. Oh, there we go. Let’s get back to the 1800s. Oh, Dan and Phil in Virginia from Danville, Virginia? Yes. You also don’t know who Dan and Phil are either. Carney, you know who Dan and Phil are? Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Okay. 1813. Joanna Southcott. Ring any bells? Nope, and she’s not a creator. She’s not a creator. Great. Announced that in the following year, she would give birth to the second Messiah, whose arrival would signal the last days of the Earth, despite being 64 years old, and as she told her doctors a virgin. She died before a baby could be born. She died within like two weeks? So, she wasn’t actually pregnant, is what you’re saying. I’m trying to figure out what I’m saying. Hmm. Now that would be a good story, let’s just say that, a 64-year-old virgin, being pregnant. You talkin’ about- That would be a miracle. The second Messiah? What is the, what is a second Messiah? Is that what you said? Mm hm. So, not the second coming of the Messiah. Oh, it’s another Messiah. It’s the second Messiah, that’s not a thing. It’s, no, it’s a backup. It’s a just in case situation. It’s redundancy. I’ve just never heard of the concept of a second Messiah. I mean, people will say they’re Jesus, but they won’t say I’m the new Jesus. People probably would. Yeah, people will say anything. People say a lot of things. But will it get traction? In the 1800s? Nope. I think yeah. I think this happened. Yeah, this happened. It happened. It said, when I dug a little bit, just the tiniest bit deeper, it said that she had predicted a bunch of stuff, and she wrote a bunch of books and it said that she had like 100,000 followers. Which I don’t know how you count. On Instagram. Yeah. But because some of the stuff that she had predicted over the last 20 years of her life, some of it had become true. People were convinced that this was gonna be true. You do make me think when you’re like in 1800, it was like had 100 followers. The nomenclature of followers on social media is not a healthy term, because it gives everybody a temptation for a Messiah complex. “I have followers.” Yeah. What’s another word we can come up with? Just fake friends? Lurkers. Watchers. Watchers. Watchers, you have 100,000 watchers. Followers. Followers sounds pretty religious. I can’t come up with anything better. Any ideas? What about Joshua Christman? What are all the platforms other than subscribe? I think everybody’s simplified. Are we having this talk right now, okay? It’s kinda late to have it, isn’t it? Yeah. Followers, yeah. In the scheme of social media. Of course, I learned a lot about TikTok today. Yeah, there’s, hey, there’s still a lot to learn. There’s a lot to learn. If you know where to look. Right. I don’t think we should call ’em followers. This, you know, this new thing that they’re being called. Next one. 1948, an anti-war activist named William Walker said that he received a vision from God that the third World War was only three years away, and it would mark the destruction of the world. And if every country didn’t come together to agree upon a set of rules that would prevent it from happening. Those prediction only ever made waves in local news. In 1949, when the Geneva Convention took place, he said that this was the solution God was looking for. This guy is not famous. He’s covered in local news. He said there needed to be- He really needed social media. He said there needed to be a list of rules that everybody agreed to. And then, it basically came true in the Geneva Convention. That’s what she said. That’s what she said. I had said it, I emphasized it differently, but that’s what she said. Because it is what she said. Right. I was just making sure I understood. That is what she said. No, this didn’t happen. William Wagner? William Walker. I mean, just, he’s just a dude. An anti-war activist. Yes, yes. He did it. Nope. Okay, a win for the writers somewhat, somewhat. Redeemed a little. Oh, because I fell for it? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yep. Okay. Didn’t get me though. It was too boring to disagree with. Put it to you that way. Well, the fact that it actually came true. Oh, I like that part of it. Yeah. Seems a little too convenient. All right. Johannes Stoffler, a German mathematician and astronomer, predicted a world cataclysm on February 20th, 1524. He said a flood was going to engulf the world. Boat businesses boomed as the most popular pamphlets carried Stoffler’s message. When the day arrived, it began to drizzle. And in Germany, people rioted as they tried to board a three-story arc that had been built on the Rhine. Hundreds were killed. What? Okay, I feel like I would know about this. So, he fomented a boat boom. Yeah, he was a boatman. And then people, and then a lot of people died. How again? They, when it started to drizzle outside, they were convinced that was the beginning of the flood. Oh, like a stampede. And so, they were like, “Get me on that boat.” Can you do me a favor and read only the words that are hard to say? Stoffler. Cataclysm. Pamphlet was hard for me. Yeah. Yeah. That pamphlet was hard. I didn’t see it coming. Stoffler, pamphlet, cataclysm. I didn’t see it coming, pamphlet, because I’m not reading these ahead. You know, reading out loud and you don’t see pamphlet coming, it’s just a little much. Yeah, blindsided. A pamphlet will sneak up on you. Yeah, yeah. On the page and in the world. I think that this is real and I’m very interested in hearing more about it. It’s, I hope it’s real, but sadly I’m intrigued. It is real. Good work. And to the thing about more about it, sure. Because there’s another arc. That’s wild. Let me see if, I don’t know. People started buying- Oh, it says, after the disaster, Stoffler. Stoffler. Reportedly called for a mulligan saying his calculations were incorrect. The correct end of the world, again, due to a massive flood, would be 30 years later. But of course, he was wrong then, too. Yeah, wrong again. Keep your boats, keep ’em maintained and I’ll sell you the stuff to do it. Yeah. Okay, one more? Yes. 1965, I hope there’s no hard words in this. A farmer in Colorado named Lloyd Olson beheaded a chicken for dinner. We’re back to chicken here. Yes. Only it didn’t die. The chicken carried on with its life for another 12 days before succumbing to its injuries. Olson took this to mean the world would end in 12 years and spent the remainder of his life warning his community and trying to earn his way into heaven. So, I definitely know that there’s a story about somebody trying to behead a chicken and it being a headless chicken. Well, there’s a saying. For a while. Running around like a chicken with his head cut off. No, no. So, you know, even in short term. I’m not talking about that. I’m saying there is a story about a chicken that lived for an extended period of time. With no head. With no head. And I think it was much longer than 12 days in the version that I’ve heard. It was multiple years. Now, why would that mean anything about 12 years ’til the end of the world is beyond me. I think the only thing you could really learn from it is chickens don’t need heads. Right, but I’m gonna go with yay. Me too. In the end, the writers win. The writers win! Hold on, but we gotta hear about the headless chicken, ’cause it did happen. We had, that’s the last thing we had. He’s reaching for his phone. We gotta go away with that because- Which means he can say anything he wants. Mike, the headless chicken was a Wyandotte rooster. Say it again. Why and don’t. Wyandotte. Wyadote, why-a-dot? Why don’t you say it again. Rooster who lived for 18 months after being nearly decapitated by a farmer in 1945. Nearly decapitated. Yeah, but. So it was dangling on. No, no. He survived because the ax missed the jugular vein leaving most of his brainstem and one ear intact. And there’s a picture of this thing right here. What? Yeah, right there. Look at that thing, it doesn’t have a head. Mike, the headless chicken. Oh my God. 18 months. Look at that. There’s no head on that chicken. Oh my God. That’s when he had a head. Oh. That’s when he didn’t have a head. Ugh. Mike is his name. But it’s got an ear and a brainstem? And they would put little corns and stuff in there in a little hole. Oh God. Why? Why did, why did you make, why did you continue to do that? Because I wanted to make sure I wasn’t going crazy. The writers had won. We interrupt with breaking news. With just two days until their mission to rescue Earth from the incoming asteroids, space-stronauts Rhett and Link are reportedly crying like little baby boys, scared they don’t have what it takes. To that, this newsman says, “Suck it up and grow a pair. You’re our only hope.” Join us this Thursday at 10:00 PM Eastern, 7:00 PM Pacific on “Good Mythical Evening: Sloshed in Space.”