3/08/2012

March 8: Class Epp, Jr. and Vincent Price

Two dates to note for March 8:

In 1889, the Russian Mennonite cult leader Claas Epp, Jr. predicted Christ would return to Earth. With some sixty families of followers, he had moved to the Russian hinterlands to await it. When the day came and went without evidence of a Second Coming, Epp claimed his calculations had been thrown off by a leaning clock, and that Jesus would appear in 1891. Epp later claimed that he was himself Jesus' son, but his following nonetheless dwindled until his death in 1913.

In 1964, the Vincent Price film The Last Man on Earth appeared. This was the first of four film adaptations that would be made of Richard Matheson's apocalyptic 1954 novel I am Legend.