11 Facts About Leland Jensen

Opal was the valedictorian and Leland Jensen graduated with distinction.

Leland Jensen was among the members elected in 1963, and in 1964 he left the group during a time of disputes among the members and moved to Missoula, Montana with his wife where they opened a chiropractic clinic.

Leland Jensen himself set two of the dates, while Chase set the other 18.

Leland Jensen began teaching as early as 1971 that in 1980 the world would be cleansed of evil by a nuclear holocaust.

In 1979, approximately 6 years after being released from prison, Leland Jensen began teaching his followers that on 29 April 1980 a nuclear holocaust would kill a third of the world's population, and that over the next twenty years, the planet would be ravaged until in the year 2000 "God's Kingdom" would be established and a thousand years of peace would follow.

The disconfirmed prophecy resulted in Leland Jensen losing several contingents of adherents, and his response was that he was right all along.

Leland Jensen's followers had made substantial commitments to the prophecy, building shelters, writing letters to government agencies and newspapers, and distributed thousands of leaflets urging fellow Missoulians to build fall-out shelters.

Leland Jensen later said that the massive earthquakes were fulfilled by a "spiritual earthquake" when one of his important followers defected and left him.

Leland Jensen based these predictions on Biblical or Hopi prophecies, planetary conjunctions, dreams, or Nostradamus.

Leland Jensen's followers consisted of roughly 150 people leading up to 1980, but declined in size following the disconfirmed prophecy, with almost all of the believers outside of Montana eventually rejecting Leland Jensen's teachings.

Leland Jensen began hinting that Neal Chase might be the next Guardian before he died in 1996.