You know you are truly crazy when you stage your own doomsday prophecy. That is exactly what Shoko Asahara, born Chizuo Matsumoto in 1955, attempted to accomplish on March 20th, 1995. In 1984, he established the Aum Shinrikyo religion, a combination of Asahara's personal interpretations of yoga, aspects of the Buddhism, Christianity, and the writings of Nostradamus. The name Aum Shinrikyo comes from the Japanese word "Supreme Truth". In Asahara's book, published in 1992, he declared himself "Christ" and the "Lamb of God". He proposed that his mission was to liberate the sins of the World and carry the burden of their sins onto himself. Asahara believed that he could take away the sins and bad Karma of the people by exchanging with them his spiritual power. Drinking his bathwater and blood was something that Asahara claimed that his followers should do. He believed that the world would end in a World War III kind of scenario. Asahara prophesied that Mount Fuji would erupt and that there would be a gas attack on Tokyo. Perhaps to expedite his claims, Asahara and a few of his 40,000 followers released Sarin gas into three subway lines in Tokyo Japan. Four people died immediately and 5,500 people were injured. Japanese authorities arrested Shoko Asahara two days after the gas attack and over a decade later in February 24th he was sentenced to death.
Heaven's Gate, a cult founded in the early 1970s in Texas, was lead by Marshall Applewhite. They believed that the "Level Above Human", a variation of Heaven, could be reached when a spaceship came and saved the true believers from doomsday. In 1997, when the comet Hale-Bopp was visible from Earth, Heaven's Gate predicted that some mysterious object was in the comets tail. Heaven's Gate soon prepared for boarding the UFO that was come to save them. The Californian police entered Heaven's Gate's compound to find 39 dead bodies, dressed in black tunics. They had committed a mass suicide via deathly tonics or suffocation.
You know you are truly crazy when you stage your own doomsday prophecy. That is exactly what Shoko Asahara, born Chizuo Matsumoto in 1955, attempted to accomplish on March 20th, 1995. In 1984, he established the Aum Shinrikyo religion, a combination of Asahara's personal interpretations of yoga, aspects of the Buddhism, Christianity, and the writings of Nostradamus. The name Aum Shinrikyo comes from the Japanese word "Supreme Truth". In Asahara's book, published in 1992, he declared himself "Christ" and the "Lamb of God". He proposed that his mission was to liberate the sins of the World and carry the burden of their sins onto himself. Asahara believed that he could take away the sins and bad Karma of the people by exchanging with them his spiritual power. Drinking his bathwater and blood was something that Asahara claimed that his followers should do. He believed that the world would end in a World War III kind of scenario. Asahara prophesied that Mount Fuji would erupt and that there would be a gas attack on Tokyo. Perhaps to expedite his claims, Asahara and a few of his 40,000 followers released Sarin gas into three subway lines in Tokyo Japan. Four people died immediately and 5,500 people were injured. Japanese authorities arrested Shoko Asahara two days after the gas attack and over a decade later in February 24th he was sentenced to death. 
Heaven's Gate, a cult founded in the early 1970s in Texas, was lead by Marshall Applewhite. They believed that the "Level Above Human", a variation of Heaven, could be reached when a spaceship came and saved the true believers from doomsday. In 1997, when the comet Hale-Bopp was visible from Earth, Heaven's Gate predicted that some mysterious object was in the comets tail. Heaven's Gate soon prepared for boarding the UFO that was come to save them. The Californian police entered Heaven's Gate's compound to find 39 dead bodies, dressed in black tunics. They had committed a mass suicide via deathly tonics or suffocation.
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