I know :P
They said the world was gonna end in 2000, too.
This one, though, I'd call "unique" 'cause they actually found a [somewhat] good excuse using the Mayan Calendar...
But that's like saying it's the end of the world because your 2007 (2006, whatever year you pick) calendar is about to end.
But if this WAS true, we should've died 7 months ago anyway; the Mayans didn't account for leap year.