Sacred text banned from the Bible could reveal location of religious 'prison'

An ancient text that wasn't included in the Bible could point towards a 'prison' underneath Antarctica where angels are kept, and if you believe that then jolly good for you.

In what sounds like the rejected pitch for an Indiana Jones movie (or the unrejected pitch for a Dan Brown book) this old text called the Book of Enoch has fuelled the theory that something quite apocalyptic is on the way.

The titular Enoch is supposed to be the great-grandfather of Noah, that chap who built a very large boat and herded some animals onto it, but this stuff doesn't make it into the Bible because it's not scripture.

The sort of people who think there's a prison with angels trapped in the Antarctic ice claim that passages which refer to 'chambers of cold' on the 'ends of the earth' mean our poles.

As for why these angels are meant to be in prison, they abandoned their posts and started slumming it with humans and got in a lot of trouble for it.

This is the Book of Enoch, which says angels got imprisoned for ditching their duties and making giant, terrifying children (Public Domain)

They created giant creatures called 'Nephilim' that 'consumed all the acquisitions of men', and then when people ran out of things to feed them with they 'devoured mankind'.

One wonders how we managed to make it this far considering we were devoured.

Then these Nephilim ate each other and drank each other's blood, hungry bunch that they were, and the surviving ones were set against each other in battle in the sort of story designed to make it clear you should stick to your job and not go off to have giant, violent cannibal kids.

The idea there's text omitted from the bible that holds such secrets makes good fodder for conspiracy theorists who say there's evidence buried beneath the Earth and knowledge being kept from us.

These angels apparently have to spend 10,000 years imprisoned and will come out for the day of judgement.

Conspiracy theorists think 'chambers of cold' at the ends of the world mean a prison in Antarctica (Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Unfortunately when certain groups of people get hold of these texts they really focus on the 'end of days' aspect and think that the final moment where it all comes crashing down is here.

Last year a worrying number of people thought it was the prophesized end of the world as we know it, and they sold their houses and left instructions for those they believed would be left behind.

Others who were sure the end was nigh and that they were among the chosen few who'd been virtuous enough to be raptured up to heaven, which is quite presumptuous of them, quit their jobs and sold their cars.

So if you're reading something which says the world will end when angels imprisoned for 10,000 years are freed then take it with pinch of salt, and don't sell your house.