An estimated 20,000 New Age believers who say the "upside down" mountain is home to aliens who will rescue them from an impending apocalypse have saturated a small French commune near the foot of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The mayor of a French village has threatened to call in the army to seal it off from an influx of ...

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 ...

Believers in the 2012 Mayan doomsday prophesy are heading for the hills. Dec. 21 marks the end of the Mayan the 5,125-year Long Count calendar. While some think this date signifies the beginning of a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bugarach, population 189, is a peaceful farming village in the Aude region, southwestern France and sits at the foot of the Pic de Bugarach, the highest mountain in the Corbières wine-growing area.