The year was 1999 and the closer it got to December 31, the crazier people got. The doomsday scenarios people were coming up with were the end of humanity as we know it and a computer virus that would crash the banking system, so people had stocked up on canned food and built shelters to prepare for the worst. Then, when the clock struck midnight around the world, very few problems happened. Governments worked normally, money was readily available at ATM machines, and some crazy people had a lot of canned goods to eat. Basically, all the worry about Y2K was for nothing.
While it has been 14 years since the turn of the millennium, there are still a few people out there who think the world will be ending soon. One of them is Brent Bruns who is building a castle with his 10 children to shelter his family deep in the forests of South Carolina. This month, National Geographic Channel (NGC) features Bruns and his family on Doomsday Castle.
Unsurprisingly, the castle actually began as a bunker in 1999. Since Y2K passed with little trouble, Bruns is now focused on what he believes will be the apocalypse—an electromagnetic burst which will cause power failure across the US and send everyone back to the Dark Ages. On the show, Bruns wants his family prepared for anything and everything, so he launches fake tear gas attacks on them and has trainers come to teach them survival and sniper skills. Will the family survive the craziness of their father and finish the castle, or will they run away to be normal kids? Find out on NGC's Doomsday Castle. |
