‘Ghostbuster II’ psychic predicted Feb 14, 2016 is end of the world

It was supposed to be the end of the world yesterday, Feb 14, 2016 – according to a psychic in “Ghosbusters II.” The cinematic prophesy obviously did not take place, but the world continues to be fascinated by apocalyptic warnings even if forecasts of the future are unreliable.

In part II of the blockbuster movie, shown in 1989, Peter Venkman, played by lead actor Bill Murray, is host of a TV show titled “World of the Psychic.” He has two guests who were asked to predict when the world would end.

New Year’s Eve – a popular end-of-the-world date similar to the Y2K scare, or the Millenniun Bug on Jan 1, 2000 – was the prediction of the first psychic. The second psychic, Elsa, played by actress Chloe Webb, citing her sources, said it would be on Valentine's Day 2016, reports The New York Daily News.

In response, Venkman utters, “Valentine’s Day. Bummer.” Elaine says the information came from an alien who gave it to her while Elsa was alone at the bar of Paramus Holiday Inn, having a drink. But she tells Venkman, when the hosts asks if the alien had a room at the hotel, that it “might have been a room on a spacecraft made up to look like a room at the Holiday Inn,” quotes NJ.com.

The video of the scene, posted on V-Day 2014, has gone viral with more than 300,000 hits. Venkman ends the show with a comment that since Elsa could not verify the alien’s existence, it confirms observation that information coming from aliens are difficult to trust.

Such too was the case in 2012 when wrong interpretation of the end of the Mayan Calendar had doomsayers falsely warning of scenarios found in the last book of the Christian bible. About a month ago, doomsday prophets also raised the spectre of an Apocalypse, following the discovery by scientists of a ninth planet, speculated to be Planet X or Nibiru, a giant, rogue planet speculated would crash Earth.