Believers feel that the mountain is home to aliens who will save those gathered there and take them to a new, safer civilization. An estimated 20,000 people are currently camped out awaiting the impending apocalypse. French officials are in fear of a mass suicide...
The mountain, aside from being an "upside down" mountain has the unique feature of having the rocks at its peak being older than those at its base... scientists say that at one point when the mountain erupted its peak flipped upside down before crashing down in its current position.