On 31 December 1999, Pamela Jones watched TV while she waited to see if the world would end. She had been born into a cult based in Mexico, and ever since she was a child, Jones had been taught that the millennium would lead to an apocalypse.

As far back as the 1980s, leaders of her breakaway Mormon sect – the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Time – had been preparing for this night. “They were dehydrating eggs and storing them,” she recalls. “Up in caves in the mountains, they had barrels of corn and wheat, because their grandpa had a revelation that the United States was going to be destroyed.”

California would sink under the ocean and surviving Americans would travel south, where they would be fed and become members of the cult. New Feature

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