The village of Bugarach in southern France doesn’t feel as if it’s braced for the end of the world. Christmas decorations are twinkling, the birds are singing and an alarming number of garden gnomes ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The mayor of a French village has threatened to call in the army to seal it off from an influx of New Age fanatics and UFO watchers, who ...

Police in France have blocked Doomsday followers from reaching a ‘mystical mountain’ which they believe will be the only place to be saved when the world ends tomorrow. Thousands of devotees have ...

A tiny French hamlet is expected to be inundated with mystics and news crews ahead of today's rumoured Mayan apocalypse. Hundreds of new age fanatics, sightseers and media crews are expected to ...

BUGARACH, France — The peacefulness of the Sals River Valley at the foothills of the Pyrenees in France belies its violent, enigmatic history. Once the place of ancient marauding Visigoths, its small ...

The farming village is in the region of the Cathar castles, situated on spectacular rocky outcrops. Regarded as heretics by the Catholic Church, Cathars sought refuge in these castles in the 13th ...

An onslaught of 200 journalists has temporarily doubled the population of the French doomsday village of Bugarach. But with only one “prophet of doom” in town, the wait for the apocalypse on December ...

French authorities have pleaded with New Age fanatics, sightseers and media crews not to converge on Bugarach, the tiny village some believe will be one of the few places spared when the world ...

reporting from Bugarach, France – In the shadow of France's most mysterious mountain lies the village of Bugarach, which doomsayers claim will be the only plot of land to be spared when our world ...

“I am making an appeal to the world – do not come to Bugarach.” Not the kind of pro-tourism message you’d expect from a mayor. But pity poor Jean-Pierre Delord of Bugarach in France, who is putting ...

A French village is preparing for an influx of mystical groups who are convinced they will escape the end of the world in 2012. Rumours have been circulating since 2010 that the village of Bugarach, ...