Doomsday cult claims stray seal as savior of humanity
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KOFU -- The convoy of white-garbed Panawave Laboratory cult members entered the Yamanashi Prefecture district of Hakushu late Tuesday, promising to vacate the area no later than 3 a.m. Wednesday, before their predicted end of the world on May 15.
Sources said Panawave members believe that "rescuing" Tama-chan (the seal) would spare mankind from certain destruction on May 15 -- the day when a massive earthquake triggered by the tilting of the Earth's axis will devastated the planet, according to cultist publications.
Tensions are rising in Oizumi, where cult members have constructed dome-shaped structures, which they claim to be resistant to any kind of natural disaster, in preparations for doomsday.
The Panawave facility also has two makeshift swimming pools, apparently built to house the wandering seal.
A senior Panawave member who built the structures had told Oizumi officials that his fellow members would not come because there is "too much electromagnetic wave activity (that they believe to be harmful)." However, Chino's statement confirmed the cult's determination to find a shelter there.
Man, what happened to all those "good" cults that had mass suicides, so they could go to their version of heaven? Those are the best ones because they don't stick around too long.
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