February 2, 1996: Mayan Calendar - Krsanna Duran

Krsanna Duran, author and researcher of crop circles, UFOs, and the Mayan calendar, joins Art Bell to explore the ancient Mayan timekeeping system and its prophetic implications. Duran explains how the Mayan calendar operates on a base number of 52, with a 260-day sacred calendar and a 360-day civil calendar synchronizing every 52 years. She traces the calendar's origins back to 3113 B.C. and references Zecharia Sitchin's theory that the Egyptian deity Thoth brought the system to Mesoamerica.

Duran describes discovering that two major U.S. crop circles from 1993 formed a perfect triangle with the Sun and Moon Pyramids near Mexico City, with each leg measuring exactly 2,160 miles. She connects a 52-day cycle to lunar eclipses, earthquake patterns along specific longitude lines, and the Shoemaker-Levy comet collision with Jupiter. Duran shares predictions she made for storms, volcanic eruptions, and power failures that she says came true on the dates specified.

Art Bell connects Duran's theories about magnetic and electromagnetic shifts to his own observations about what he calls the quickening. They discuss increasing UFO activity over Mexico City dating to the 1991 eclipse, the HAARP project, and the calendar's end date of December 2012 when all numbers reset to zero.