ZetaTalk
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ZetaTalk is a website that was started in 1995 by self-proclaimed contactee Nancy Lieder, who claims to channel messages from extra-terrestrials who refer to themselves as the Zetas (from the Zeta Reticuli star system; see Betty and Barney Hill) through an implant in her brain. Lieder states she had been chosen to warn mankind about Planet X, which would sweep through the solar system in May 2003, causing a pole shift that will destroy most of humanity. The pole shift itself is told to be caused by magnetic attraction between the earth's core and the magnetism of the passing planet. This magnetic disruption of the Earth's core and subsequent displacement of the crust of the Earth is told to be the actual passing of the event Christians refer to as the biblical Armageddon.
This conspiracy theory fuses elements from the various "Planet X" hypotheses that have emerged within the last century with the "Earth Chronicles" mythology of Zecharia Sitchin's The 12th Planet, in which, according to Sitchin's reading of Sumerian religious texts, a giant planet (Nibiru) with a 3600-year orbit occasionally passes by Earth and allows its sentient inhabitants to interact with humanity. Sitchin disagrees with Leider's claim of impending global catastrophe.
Lieder's Planet X received wider recognition when Mark Hazlewood, a former member of the ZetaTalk community, took her claims and published them in a book: Blindsided: Planet X Passes in 2003. Leider would later accuse him of being a confidence trickster [1].
ZetaTalk continues to exist despite the failure of Lieder's predictions. She subsequently claimed that the May 2003 date was merely a "white lie" to confuse the elites. Lieder still insists that Planet X is coming, but now refuses to give a date.
Hazlewood also still maintains that Planet X is due, and published a new book last year [2] The theory is still very prevalent on the internet, and many sites still claim that "Planet X" is on its way to destroy Earth. The date most often cited is 2012, which is the end of the current cycle (baktun) in the long count in the Mayan calendar.
