The much hyped and much ridiculed end-of-days prophesy ended in wild parties across the globe on Saturday leaving Radio entrepreneur Harold Camping and his followers humiliated.

As the clock rang out and the deadline of the so-called "Rapture" ended, a large crowd gathered at the Family Radio's headquarters near the Oakland airport to party and poke fun at Camping and his followers.

Ed Holmes, who claimed to be a bishop in the satirical group First Church of the Last Laugh, organised one of the many Amrageddon countdowns-cum parties, as people drank liquors, drank and released helium balloons symbolizing the "millions of soul that would go to heaven come judgment day," as predicted by Camping.

The Internet was more brutal in ridiculing Camping's prophesy. Some Twitter blogs suggest laying out old clothes and shoes on pavements, outside houses and on the streets to give impression that their bodies were indeed beamed up. Some even suggested released inflatable dolls into the sky, representing the people who were beamed.

Other nonbelievers are offering to buy anything from people who believe they would go to heaven.

"We're hoping people look at this and learn to use their brains ... so we don't have an occurrence of this in 2012," when some believe the Mayas predicted the Earth's demise, said David Silverman, president of a US-based Atheist group.

The 89-year-old Camping predicted the end of the world on Saturday beginning with massive earthquakes. He and his followers ran a multi-million dollar advertising campaign across the globe to proclaim his prophecy.

He used thousands of billboards and distributed millions of pamphlets to announce that Judgment Day would come at 6pm on May 21, 2009.

As his day of prophesy came, his Family Radio reported large donations and Camping used the fund to spend more on advertising.

Camping has since 'camped out' somewhere and has not returned any calls for comments. He promised to make an announcement on Monday.