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Serbs cashing in on 'Doomsday' mystical mountain
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December 20, 2012, Thursday
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IF doomsday really falls tomorrow, the residents of the Serbian mountain region of Rtanj are cashing in while they can.
"We're booked out December 20-23. We have a New Age convention and guests are coming because of the end of the world," said Nebojsa Gajic, manager of the 160-bed Millennium Hotel on the slopes of Mount Rtanj.
The region is selling itself as the best place to survive the looming apocalypse, which will fall on December 21, according to mystics whose calculations depend on the ending of an era in the 5,125-year-old Mayan calendar.
It is basing its promise on the mystical powers that locals say have flooded the area since its pyramid-shaped mountain swallowed a castle belonging to a well-to-do sorcerer, trapping him inside.
Mount Rtanj is part of the Carpathian range and famed in Serbia for its herbal tea, pristine nature and clean air.
Rtanj is offering salvation from tomorrow's cataclysm and safe passage into a golden age.
Residents say they have been inundated with enquiries from Serbia and abroad.
"We're booked out," said Darko Jovic, manager of the Balasevic Hotel. "People were even calling from the United States and we had to say 'No'. I couldn't even get a room for my own mother and sister."
The Serbian daily Blic reported the going rate for private accommodation had shot up to 500 euros (US$660) per night.
Bulldozers were clearing the roads of snow in preparation for the expected influx.
Locals say the sorcerer still lives in the mountain and that there have been sightings of fireballs hovering above Rtanj's foggy peak. Serbian media reports say physicists have recorded magnetic anomalies in the area, which is riddled with abandoned coal-mine shafts dating from the 19th century.
Retired show-business promoter Dragan Milenkovic, 65, said the mountain, with its striking pyramid shape, was built by aliens who would return tomorrow.
"On Friday, on the summit of Rtanj, we'll see a beautiful violet and red light that will engulf the planet for about five seconds and they (the aliens) will come," he said. "That will mark the beginning of a golden era that will last 1,345 years."
"We're booked out December 20-23. We have a New Age convention and guests are coming because of the end of the world," said Nebojsa Gajic, manager of the 160-bed Millennium Hotel on the slopes of Mount Rtanj.
The region is selling itself as the best place to survive the looming apocalypse, which will fall on December 21, according to mystics whose calculations depend on the ending of an era in the 5,125-year-old Mayan calendar.
It is basing its promise on the mystical powers that locals say have flooded the area since its pyramid-shaped mountain swallowed a castle belonging to a well-to-do sorcerer, trapping him inside.
Mount Rtanj is part of the Carpathian range and famed in Serbia for its herbal tea, pristine nature and clean air.
Rtanj is offering salvation from tomorrow's cataclysm and safe passage into a golden age.
Residents say they have been inundated with enquiries from Serbia and abroad.
"We're booked out," said Darko Jovic, manager of the Balasevic Hotel. "People were even calling from the United States and we had to say 'No'. I couldn't even get a room for my own mother and sister."
The Serbian daily Blic reported the going rate for private accommodation had shot up to 500 euros (US$660) per night.
Bulldozers were clearing the roads of snow in preparation for the expected influx.
Locals say the sorcerer still lives in the mountain and that there have been sightings of fireballs hovering above Rtanj's foggy peak. Serbian media reports say physicists have recorded magnetic anomalies in the area, which is riddled with abandoned coal-mine shafts dating from the 19th century.
Retired show-business promoter Dragan Milenkovic, 65, said the mountain, with its striking pyramid shape, was built by aliens who would return tomorrow.
"On Friday, on the summit of Rtanj, we'll see a beautiful violet and red light that will engulf the planet for about five seconds and they (the aliens) will come," he said. "That will mark the beginning of a golden era that will last 1,345 years."
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