2026 is already off to a pretty glum start, and as various fears about World War III are heightened by certain world leaders gunning for Greenland, was anyone really surprised that the Doomsday Clock ticked closer to midnight than ever before?
Last year was dominated by an artificial intelligence boom, continued nuclear threats, and volcanic eruptions.
Although Baba Vanga's many apocalyptic foreshadowings didn't come true, there was plenty of misery to wade through.
The Doomsday Clock is now sitting at 85 seconds to midnight, marking an unprecedented four-second jump compared to an already miserable 2025. Predictions from the likes of Baba Vanga and Nostradamus have the future of the human race mapped out for thousands of years, but adding to the pile, did another revered messiah reveal our potential doom 121 years ago?
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As shared by the Daily Mail, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad wrote a poem back in 1905, which warned of mass destruction and ground-shattering earthquakes across the globe. Also known as the Promised Messiah and the Imam Mahdi, his Urdu poem mentioned a 'calamity' befalling the Czar of Russia – which could be interpreted as Vladimir Putin and his continued tensions with other world powers. Then again, others have pointed out that Russia doesn't have a Czar anymore.
In general, some are viewing the poem as a prediction of World War III.
The Promised Messiah wrote: "A sign will come some days hence, which will turn over villages, cities and fields. Wrath of God will bring a revolution in the world, the undressed one would be unable to tie his trousers."
Away from actual earthquakes, it's possible that these could be reinterpreted as devastating nuclear weapons being dropped on us: "Suddenly, a quake will severely shake, mortals, trees, mountains and seas, all. In the twinkling of an eye, the land shall turn over, streams of blood will flow like rivers of water."
With the potential of futuristic weapons ballooning the death toll of a fictional World War III, the idea of blood flowing like 'rivers of water' isn't hard to imagine.
Aside from founding the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam and defending it from Christianity, Ahmad is remembered for his supposedly divine revelations.
His most devout followers maintain he was divinely appointed as their leader in the Islamic End Times prophecies.
Writing in The Philosophy of Divine Revelation, Ahmad claimed a terrible earthquake was coming, adding: "There will be death on such a large scale that streams of blood will flow. Even birds and grazing animals will not escape this death.
"Those days are near, indeed they are at the door, when the world shall witness the spectacle of a doomsday."
The outlet goes on to speculate that his mentions of 'mighty assaults' from God and heaven also fit the bill of missiles raining down on us from above.
Following his death in 1980, the Ahmadiyya movement split into the differing branches of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement.
Both suggest that his 'earthquake' prophecy has already come true, with the Ahmadiyya movement maintaining he was describing major seismic events in India, and the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement thinking he was a little early for World War I's outbreak in 1914.
Still, with the geopolitical climate being the way it is, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's poem has returned with a vengeance in 2026.