The followers of the New Age faith believe that mountainous village of Bugarach would be spared in the 2012 apocalypse. Bugarach is located at the foot of Pic de Bugarach, a 1,230-meter (4,040 ft) ...

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 ...

Believers in the Mayan apocalypse who think the world will end on Dec. 21, 2012, can cross the Pic de Bugarach off their list of refuges after the mayor of nearby Bugarach, France, said he’s blocking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 are convinced it is the only place on Earth that will be spared ...

Up in the foothills of the Pyrenees, in a tiny village nestled amid breathtaking landscapes and eagles in flight, a man in a woolly hat pushes a wheelbarrow up a narrow street whistling to himself as ...

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, ...

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.

Rumours the tiny French hamlet of Bugarach will be spared by a looming Apocalypse sparked a storm of media interest, with journalists flocking in search of Doomsday believers who had proven few and ...