One wild theory that has surfaced on social media claimed that the eclipse will cover the entire earth and last up to five days.
While this is clearly not true, other conspiracy theorists have pointed to verses in the Bible when discussing bogus claims about the eclipse.
On TikTok, it was claimed that the solar eclipse will pass through seven or eight US cities named Nineveh, which is the name of a city in Iraq that was described as “evil” in the Bible.
The Book of Jonah described how God demanded he “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it because its wickedness has come up before me.”
The bizarre claims have been repeated in videos online with people insisting that the eclipse passing over eight cities named Nineveh was a message representing a new beginning or “born again” event.
The idea went viral on social media and one person on X (formerly Twitter) posted scriptures from the Book of Luke to back up their claim.
“Oh, did you know there was a total eclipse the very day Jonah preached a warning to Nineveh? Nineveh repented. Will America?” they wrote.
Some have attributed the eclipse to helping the city of Nineveh to receive Jonah’s message, like the blog The Tribe of Christians.
However, only two cities named Nineveh are in the path of totality. Other cities with the name will only get a glimpse of the total eclipse.
