there was a time, when i was a boy, i used to get frightant by those hoaxes about the end of the world on a partitular day - now, some years later, it's nothing but funny- whenever people gets crazy over something like this, i just feel pity for them... and as for the automatic writing you've mentioned somewher in the bigining, some people use the same method to deceit people claiming that they are some kind of medium in whom 'spirits of the dead ones' comes and write stuff through them!