NEW YORK - We are still here, the world has not ended and there is no explanation yet from Harold Camping.
The California radio evangelist attracted the worldwide following proclaiming that the apocalypse would come Saturday.
Some of Camping's followers gave away all their worldly possessions in anticipation of the biblical rapture.
In Oakland, California a group of onlookers poking fun at the predictions gathered outside Camping's radio station to countdown to the deadline.
Camping predicted an apocalypse once before in 1994 and said it was a "miscalculation."
In New York City, 60-year-old retiree Robert Fitzpatrick was also a believer of Camping's prediction.
Fitzpatrick said he was expecting a natural disaster. "We'll I expected the earth quake to begin, right around 6:00."
"I don't understand it. Obviously I haven't understood it correctly because we are still here," Fitzpatrick said to the Associated Press.
Fitzpatrick is the author of, "The Doomsday Code," and spent more than $140,000 of his retirement savings on ads about the end of the world.
He was also there when it did not end.
"I don't understand it. Obviously I haven't understood it correctly because we are still here," Fitzpatrick said to the Associated Press.
There were sounds of cheers in Times Square at 6 p.m. on Saturday, when the world did not end. Most of the people who gathered in Times Square were not believers.