To be clear, Edgar Cayce wasn’t your run-of-the-mill strip mall psychic. According to Lethbridge News Now, he gave over 14,000 readings throughout his life and grew to public fame and acclaim within the United States. He had a particular interest in diagnosing illness and was apparently pretty accurate at it. He claimed to get many of his visions, insights, prophecies, what have you in his sleep, which earned him the nickname “The Sleeping Prophet.” He would also sleep, as Eightify says, on top of books to purportedly psychically soak up their knowledge. He also ignited interest in the lost civilization of Atlantis and related mystical like that of Indigo Children, per the Christian Research Institute. And of course, because no psychic resume would be complete without it, he made some predictions about the end of the world.

In Cayce’s case, his apocalypse of choice boiled down to magnetic pole shifts. Forbes says that Cayce envisioned a 16- to 20-degree shift in the poles. The north and sole poles sit at 90 degrees away from each other on opposite ends of Earth, so a shift like the one he describes wouldn’t be a “flip” so much as it would be a “slip,” like your foot slipping on ice. And what would the slip cause? A simultaneous volcano explosion: Mt. Etna volcano in Italy and Mt. Pelee in Martinique. This volcano would then send floods crashing against coastlines. Bye bye, people.

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