When the stories proclaiming the apocalypse the Mayans foretold would coincide with the winter solstice of 2012 first began to circulate, I wrote them off as hysterical nonsense. Anyone investigating the claim would soon realize the Mayans had several calendars that made up their Long Count calendar, and just like the calendar we use today, when one ends, the next one begins. Therefore, there was absolutely no reason to believe that when the current Long Count calendar came to an end that the