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I was the first journalist to contact or speak with Harold Camping after the end-of-days scenario he predicted failed to materialize. I rang his doorbell just before 10 a.m. on Sunday. He answered and stepped outside. He appeared troubled and was not dressed in his standard uniform of a suit and tie.
"I’m in shock, I’m totally bewildered," he told me. "I have no answers." When I asked him if he thought the members of his congregation would show up for church in the next hour, he said, "I hope not, they all know we weren’t having a meeting today." Then he went back inside.
All images by Brandon Tauszik/Sprinkle Lab

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