There are reports of hippy cults living in makeshift bunkers dug beneath the village €800 ‘cash only’ residential courses where ‘believers’ would meet a guru and parade up the mountain in white robes and UFO spotters arriving from around the world on one-way tickets. The number of ramblers climbing the mountain doubled, the village sign has been stolen three times, and the rumour mill has gone into overdrive. By the end of 2010, there were more than 2.5 million websites referencing Bugarach as a ‘Doomsday Destination’, as CNN put it. Soon film crews were jetting in to admire the eagles and gnomes and look for UFOs. Someone told the local Press and, within weeks, the story went global. He, in turn, raised it at a special village council meeting and proposed special security measures to handle the massive influx. It’s also said to attract UFOs, to cause compasses and cameras to jam, and to emit shafts of light at night.īugarach’s involvement, however, dates back just two years - to late 2010, when a beady-eyed villager spotted a ‘Bugarach and the end of the world’ prediction online and mentioned it to Delord. Its numerous caves are said to have to inspired Jules Verne’s Journey To The Centre Of The Earth. The geology of the Pic de Bugarach - with the rocks at the top older than the ones at the bottom - has earned it the description of ‘the upside-down mountain’. Its salvation centres round a 4,000 ft mountain. Taking refuge: Bugarach, a small village in France with a population of only 179, has been earmarked by doomsday cults as the only place in the world that is going to survive Armageddon on December 21 this yearĮveryone, that is, but for the lucky few who happen to be in Bugarach at the time.īecause this small village - two streets, one shop, two restaurants (one advertising a €30 four-course ‘fin du monde’ party on December 21), one tiny church, one bar (closed), dozens of circling eagles and a population of just 179 - is the only place in the world that will be saved.
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