--- title: David Meade Says the World Will End in October description: David Meade says he got the date wrong for when the world will end. He now says Nibiru will crash into either in October canonical: https://time.com/4955640/doomsday-world-end-david-meade/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-25T15:51:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:34:52.764Z article:section: Science og:title: The Man Who Said the World Would End in September Predicts a New Doomsday Date og:description: He says it's all over in mid-October og:url: https://time.com/4955640/doomsday-world-end-david-meade/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde90f85fe8d8dc7d/6988df3a0a4a22514f9d00d0/earth-nasa-nibiru.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Earth From One Million Miles og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Man Who Said the World Would End in September Predicts a New Doomsday Date twitter:description: He says it's all over in mid-October twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde90f85fe8d8dc7d/6988df3a0a4a22514f9d00d0/earth-nasa-nibiru.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # David Meade Said the World Was Going to End Last Weekend. Now He Says It's Really Happening in October by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 25, 2017 3:51 PM UTC  Earth as seen from a distance of one million miles by a NASA scientific camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft on July 6, 2015. Earth as seen from a distance of one million miles by a NASA scientific camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft on July 6, 2015.Handout—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 25, 2017 3:51 PM UTC Despite conspiracy theorist David Meade’s claims that the [world would end on Sept. 23](http://time.com/4948315/nibiru-end-of-the-world-2017-theory/), Earth appears to be spinning on just fine. But don’t worry — Meade says he just got the date wrong: Doomsday will actually happen in October. Writing on his [website](http://writers-web-services.com/), Meade, whose claims have no scientific basis, said his original prediction about the world ending on Sept. 23 actually marked a day that would set into motion a series of catastrophic events that will eventually lead to Earth’s demise. Now, he says the real “action” will start on Oct. 15. According to Meade’s initial prediction, a rogue planet called Nibiru or Planet X — kept secret by NASA — would collide with Earth on Sept. 23\. Meade based his prediction on Bible verses and codes that showed Sept. 23 as a significant date. But once nothing happened on that day, Meade asserted that the real trouble would actually start next month. “Nothing is expected to happen in September,” he wrote. “It is possible at the end of October we may be about to enter into the 7-year Tribulation period, to be followed by a Millennium of peace.” But while some may be fearful of Meade’s latest end-of-the-world claims, TIME science writer Jeff Kluger says there’s not much to fear when it comes to Nibiru destroying Earth. Both Kluger, and NASA, have [already debunked Meade’s theory](http://time.com/4948315/nibiru-end-of-the-world-2017-theory/) and pointed out that Nibiru is not a real planet. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4955640/doomsday-world-end-david-meade/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4955640/doomsday-world-end-david-meade/"},"headline":"David Meade Said the World Was Going to End Last Weekend. 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