Marcus has sent this link, very appropriate for my 666th post
from Tilling.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8217001/French-village-which-will-survive-2012-Armageddon-plagued-by-visitors.html
Here are some edited highlights;
Bugarach,population 189, is a peaceful farming village in the
Aude region, and sits at the foot of the Pic de Bugarach, the
highest mountain in the Corbières wine-growing area.
But in the past few months, the quiet village has been inundated
by groups of esoteric outsiders who believe the peak is an
"alien garage".
According to them, extraterrestrials are quietly waiting in a
massive cavity beneath the rock for the world to end, at which
point they will leave, taking, it is hoped, a lucky few humans
with them.
Most believe Armageddon will take place on December 21,
2012, the end date of the ancient Maya calendar, at which
point they predict human civilisation will come to an end.
Another favourite date mentioned is 12, December, 2012.
They see Bugarach as one of perhaps several "sacred
mountains" sheltered from the cataclysm.
"This is no laughing matter," Jean-Pierre Delord, the mayor,
told The Daily Telegraph.
"If tomorrow 10,000 people turn up, as a village of 200 people
we will not be able to cope. I have informed the regional
authorities of our concerns and want the army to be at hand if
necessary come December 2012."
Mr Delord said people had been coming to the village for the
past 10 years or so in search of alien life following a post in an
UFO review by a local man, who has since died.
"He claimed he had seen aliens and heard the humming of their
spacecraft under the mountain," he said.
The internet abounds with tales of the late President François
Mitterrand being curiously heliported on to the peak, of
mysterious digs conducted by the Nazis and later Mossad,
the Israeli secret services.
"Many come and pray on the mountainside. I've even seen one
man doing some ritual totally nude up there," said Mr Delord.
Several "Ufologists" have bought up properties in the small
hamlet of Le Linas, in the mountain's shadow for "extortionate"
prices, and locals have complained they are being priced out of
the market. Strange sect-like courses are held for up to €800 a
week. "For this price, you are introduced to a guru, made to go
on a procession, offered a christening and other rubbish, all
payable in cash," said Mr Delord.[ie not taxable.Ed.]
Valerie Austin, a retired Briton from Newcastle who settled in
Bugarach 22 years ago who said the alien watchers were spoiling
the village atmosphere.
"You can't go for a peaceful walk anymore. It's a beautiful area,
but now you find people chanting lying around meditating.
Everybody has the right to their own beliefs, but the place no
longer feels like ours." She said alien watchers planted strange
objects on the mountainside.
Recently she found a black virgin statuette cemented to the rock
face.
Although she described the alien claims as "total rubbish", she
said there was nevertheless something special about the place.
"It has a magnetic force in the scientific sense of the word.
There is a special feeling here, but if I really believed the world
were about to end, I'd have a whale of a time over the next two
years rather than look for salvation," she said.
This is not quite accurate as several of the alien watchers
hereabouts think the aliens may be landing on the mountain -
their ship left Betelgeuse some time ago - and they take the
form of giant green lizards. Locally such believers are called
the green lizard folk, among other things.
Our dear dutch friends were here for christmas, hoping for a
