If you waited for a flash, bang and wallop bringing death and destruction yesterday then the closest thing you could get was the large scale power cut across the island.
The end of the world did not happen and tired jokes and scaremongering were plastering Facebook with everyone competing for the funniest punchline.
Doomsday followers across the globe got ready for what they believed would be the end, filling religious and significant sites to take their final breaths, then falling flat on a rather large anti-climax.
Talk of the end of the world has been going on for months after the interpretation that the end of the 5,125-year-long Mayan calendar spelt the end of everything.
Hollywood blockbusters and a National Geographic documentary thrown in for good measure saw the hype and hysteria reach new levels.
Even the Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, got in on the action and appeared in a spoof video announcing the end of the world for a radio show.
One little village in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Bugarach, turned into a veritable Mecca for hippies after a prediction that a nearby mountain contained a mystical UFO garage that would rescue them.
In Malta, however, all seemed pretty much the same except for a group who took part in meditation and another in an ancient ritual called Agnihotra.
Yasmin Degiorgio, manager of Angka Cafe Rejuvenation Centre & Green Clinic, who hosted the event, said it entailed gathering around a fire, which is the purest element and offering up a sacrifice.
It was held in Għajn Tuffieħa.
She said they believed the end of the Mayan calendar was a new beginning that also tied in with the winter solstice.
Geraldine Fenech, a meditation instructor, believed that yesterday was the beginning of a new era “where things that were not built on the right frequency will collapse”.
She said: “Love in our hearts will reign as people will become more aware of their spiritual nature.”
No doubt, countless more predictions will be made and be proven wrong, bringing unnecessary anxiety to the more vulnerable members of society who would be much better off without the hype.