Saucerian
Better not touch the hull pal, it's still hot.
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On the Doomsday/Apocalypse thread, I mentioned hearing from the kids at school and a teacher about a woman who was predicting the End of the World, or Doomsday, for March 16, 1965, which was reported on
the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.
All thru the years since then, I have never been able to find out anything about this woman.
Well, finally, I found a newspaper article about this woman and her followers.
It is from the Indianapolis News of March 16, 1965. There obviously is a lot more to find out of the story behind this forgotten incident, and I will pursue it further time permitting.
And, meanwhile, anyone else who has the access to old newspapers and wants to find out more, please do so, and post your findings so that I, and other interested board members can learn more.
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 prohecy 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."
the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.
All thru the years since then, I have never been able to find out anything about this woman.
Well, finally, I found a newspaper article about this woman and her followers.
It is from the Indianapolis News of March 16, 1965. There obviously is a lot more to find out of the story behind this forgotten incident, and I will pursue it further time permitting.
And, meanwhile, anyone else who has the access to old newspapers and wants to find out more, please do so, and post your findings so that I, and other interested board members can learn more.
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 prohecy 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."